Hello everyone!
I am so sorry for the lack of updating. I think I mentioned this before but I was at the end of a College semester and was having to deal with everything from projects to speeches to exams in the span of a couple of weeks! What a way to end a semester!
It also didn't help that this summer, my computer broke. I'm avoiding using it in case it falls completely apart on me. Again, I apologize for the lack of updating.
Anyway, Melancholy has returned and is up to Chapter 10. I'll try to update daily for now (and I will be on vacation come July 6 so it'll be questionable when I can continue after that). For now, please enjoy the continuation of Melancholy!
Alice felt that if she hadn't put on a couple of pounds since arriving at the bed and breakfast, she probably would have been blown away by the winds alone. She shielded her eyes from the rain. A small part in the back of her mind called her an idiot for taking up the task. Just walking from the front door to the wagon was a battle within itself. Somehow, she reached it. Relief washed over her as she moved to the front and reached under the main seat to pull out a small bag filled with medicine. She smiled triumphantly.
She pocketed the treasure and turned to head back in. Despite the pouring rain, she heard a loud crash and a scream somewhere to her left. Alice squinted. There was an alleyway not too far off, she knew. Blinded still by the rain, she took off running. The ground was slick and made it hard for her to turn into the alleyway without sliding all over the place.
"I have got to be in some twisted dream," she thought. In front of her, maybe five or ten feet back into the alley was a large dark figure. It was hunched over but she could clearly see that it could stand taller than the buildings around it. Something moved behind it. It was a shadow-tail, she realized. It hadn't heard her, the rain drowned out her sound, so quickly, she backed out of the alley way and turned to run back to the store.
Or not. Something wrapped around her ankle, preventing her from running. Alice fell with a heavy thud into the ground. She was lifted and hung upside down. The creature raised her to eye level and gave a hiss. She felt that the world was going to spin away and she would wake up in the afterlife.
"Please God," she cried, "I'm not ready to die!" The creature gave a smirk.
"You think your horrible God will save you?" Ice traveled down Alice's back. The thing could talk? What in the world? It hissed again and lunged to bite her face. Alice closed her eyes. She braced herself for the pain that she knew was about to follow.