Well, when I was a freshman, I started writing a story just out of pure boredom, I did about a chapter and a half, then got writer’s block. Guess it was because I was trying to twist reality with fantasy, something I do quite often in more ways than one.
Either way, writing it was awesome, even if the material did suck, and it was entirely spontaneous, and somewhat childish. I haven’t gone back to read it, but I figure I’ll read it after I post it up here. I really think that in some ways, it probably shows what was going on in my mind at that point of time. Characters were undoubtedly based off of some people I know, with my own mental alterations of situations and what not.
If you can’t tell, this is when I was in my magical powers phase (Which I still haven’t quite grown out of, I’m telling you there’s something magical about me, I just don’t know what yet)
Anyways, it’s part of my identity so I figured I’d put it out there
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Chapter One
The Bringer of Good News
It had been an ordinary day in the city of Gadsden, Alabama. Just as usual, nothing amazingly extra-ordinary had happened, but what was to be expected? It was Gadsden after all. The city could be very much boring at times, so boring a person could just sleep all day. CRASH!! Of course, that was simply until something or another would wake the poor soul up. A teenage boy jumped up in his bed, startled more than a bit by the unsuspected sound. Slowly, his head turned around the room to a digital clock which read out 11:47. “Whoa,” The boy whispered to himself. “I’ve been sleep for like 3 hours then.” He took his right hand and ran it through the tangles of hair on his head. CRACK!! Another unusual sound, maybe this place wasn’t so boring after all. The boy got up and slowly proceeded towards his bedroom door in the dark, attempting to make as little sound as possible (which proved to be difficult with all the dirty clothes and random sheets of paper scattered here and there). A soft, slow series of thumping sounds began to increase in volume, only while decreasing in speed, but this did not stop the boy from reaching for the door knob…
Meanwhile, several miles away a similar incident was occurring in the house of a young blond. The girl sat straight up in her bed and nervously glanced around the room. It was her first time spending the night home alone, and even worse she had school in the morning. She was now much too terrified to lay back down and attempt to sleep, so she pulled her knees up to her chest and kept her eyes wide open, glancing around very slowly. Another sound came, this time from her closet. She held back a shriek and stared straight at the door, waiting for the first sign of movement. Then she got an idea, she reached her hand under her pillow and began pressing buttons, oh how she wished they were the right ones.
“DON’T STOP SUCKING ME IN, MAKING ME COME BACK TO YOU, NO ONE WILL EVER COMPARE, WILL EVER BE BETTER THAN YOU…” The song began playing and a light began to shine six feet away. “Shit…” the male muttered, quickly backing away from the door after unlocking it. He made a quick dash for the phone before running into the darkest corner of the room. A bright flash temporarily blinded the boy as he moved at the speed of light across space.
He glanced at the girl who had a finger held tightly against her lips. Then it came, another thud from the closet, followed by the scraping of several nails against the ground. Neither of the two teenagers dared speak a word, the only sounds in the room were those coming from the closet, and the soft footsteps of the boy approaching the bed to be near his best friend.
Before anything could be done, it happened. It was as though the floor of the room had been a battle field for more than a year, things were scattered everywhere by a giant gust of wind. The boy simply blinked his blue eyes at a dull flash of red as his hair was blown back. He reached out to grab his friend and make sure she didn’t fly away or anything, but the breeze was gone just as soon as it had came. The blond spoke first.
“Raine,” she started “What…The freak… Just happened?” She asked before making an attempt to fix her hair.
“I really don’t know,” Raine responded still partially in a state of shock. “Hayden, you know babe I was freaking horrified when you called, I would’ve simply answered, but I didn’t quite have time.” He started explaining the story as he climbed onto the bed with her. Ten minutes later, the two had completely forgotten about the mess left on Hayden’s bedroom floor.
“So, you heard these loud noises and they woke you up?” Hayden questioned around five minutes later.
“Yeah, that’s about right.” Raine responded thoughtfully.
“Well, basically the same thing happened to me”
“Oh really now? I take it that’s why you called then. Hoping I was awake, then you could talk to me until you stopped hearing things, right? Or if not, then I could just come check on things since I’m nice like that.”
“Gosh bud, what makes you think I wasn’t calling because I missed you?” Hayden sighed. “I haven’t talked to you all day since we got out of school, I’ve just been tired and had to do chores and haven’t got the chance to call you, I just kinda fell asleep.”
“Babe, it’s alright don’t worry about it, I didn’t call you for the very same reason, of course I still never finished any of mine, we both know I never do before 4:00.” A small smile began to tug at the corners of his mouth as he gazed into her green eyes.
“Well yeah, but now mine’s missing…” Hayden commented, finally acknowledging the mess in her room. How would she ever explain this to her parents, it would be simply impossible.
“Guess we better get to finding it then,” Raine pulled his phone out of his pocket and glanced at the time. 12:27, how time flew when you thought you ran the risk of being attacked, murdered, kidnapped, or anything under the sun for that matter, and your best friend suffered the same occurrence.
After another half hour, the two were asleep next to each other, lying on top of the covers. The whole room was spotless, just as it was before the whole thing happened. This thing though, what was it, and I were these two best friends disturbed from their original slumbers, though surely they weren’t the only ones. Were they?
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There she was, walking all alone, her long blond hair flowing with the gentle breath of the wind, a magical glow surrounding her body as though she was an apple, ever so lightly coated in caramel. The abnormal, yet delightful energy made her all the more tempting. She was wearing a nice blue tank-top, along with some of the most appealing soffee shorts he’d ever seen. They were gray, and appeared to have been rolled up a good bit, you could nearly see the bottom of her butt. The boy simply couldn’t resist, he walked over to her, his hands going into the pockets of his shorts. Maybe a black t-shirt wasn’t the brightest move after all, it was a hot enough day as it was, and what he was about to do was not making it any cooler.
Raine quickened his pace until he was right behind the girl. “Hayden?” He said her name, slightly nervous for one of the few times he had been in his life. She glanced back over her shoulder and stopped walking to talk to him.
“Hey bud!” she greeted him flashing one of her beautiful smiles. “What’s up?” She asked as she looked up into his face in attempt to block out a bit of the sun.
“Oh nothing really,” the boy responded with a shrug, he noticed she was looking up at him. He wanted to make eye contact, he wouldn’t make eye contact…He made eye contact. They were so beautiful, just the most perfect green he’d ever seen. He was starting to feel like a loser, he noticed he was staring at her and there was an awkward silence, Raine was beginning to sweat more, he felt as though his shirt was sticking to him when actually, he wasn’t sweating all that much, it was a hot day of course he was sweating.
“You’re awfully quiet,” Hayden commented as though she wasn’t at all surprised by it and had actually been expecting it. She was smiling, she had to have known what was coming.
“Hayden, will you go out with me?” Raine said it clearly so he wouldn’t have to repeat it a second time.
She smiled up at him and reached out to grab his hands, leaving a few seconds of silence. “Yes!” She finally exclaimed before pulling her once BFF, now BF into a tight hug.
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It was now 6:25 and Raine awoke with a smile on his face, he had the most interesting dream, but he knew that was just exactly what it was, a dream. Nothing of the sort would ever happen. As he recollected his senses, he found is arm wrapped around something smooth and round. Slowly, he let his eyes open and found her right there with him, his arm around her. A wide smile was spread across her face Hayden Rhea…but that was only a dream, the two were best friends, and that was all they’d ever be, and besides she had a boyfriend anyway.
He tried to pull his arm away without waking her up, but she was right on top of it. “Hayden?” He whispered quietly in attempt to wake her up. He noticed her eyelids begin to flutter apart, just the same way as a butterfly’s wings flutter as it prepares for flight.
“Mmhmm?” She gave him his attention, though she was barely awake.
“Get up, we’ve got school….” He told her in a quiet, soft tone.
“What time is it?” She asked, still not quite understanding the situation.
“I don’t know, move your head and maybe I can see” Raine replied, making it clear to her just the way things were.
“Holy freaker!” Hayden exclaimed as she hopped out of the bed, ripping Raine’s arm from around her. “What the heck do you think you’re doing?” She folded her arms across her chest and gave him a questioning look.
“I guess I fell asleep last night,” Raine responded.
“You fell asleep in my bed with me in it!” Hayden shrieked.
“I’m sorry, it was a long night, and after cleaning I didn’t quite have the energy to leave, but whatever, I’m out of here, see you at school.” Raine ended the conversation as quickly as possible, he rose from the bed and started to proceed towards Hayden’s closet. “Shoot…” he muttered as he came to a stop. Neither of the two had ventured into the closet at all during their cleaning experience, they had no idea what had occurred in there, or whether or not it was safe to enter.
“Six Forty-three,” Hayden spoke to break the silence. “See you at school.”
Raine walked back over to the bed, and forced his way under it, attempting to get into the darkest spot he possibly could. A bright flash covered his vision, and then it was gone, he was in total darkness. He turned to his right and began walking until he reached a door, he spent only a few moments searching for the knob. He exited his closet and surveyed his bedroom, all had been just as he left it, with the exception of several claw marks scattered throughout his beige carpet and his bed. Everything else, the pink ceiling, the wooden walls, the dresser, all left without a mark. Raine was now confused much more than he’d ever been in his life. He surveyed the room a second time before going over to one of the three baskets he kept his clean clothes in and pulled some out as he prepared for the day
“Let’s assume I’m always right” he read aloud, the shirt would have to do, he was too tired and confused to find another one. It was now time for a shower, Raine walked over to the door, and turned the knob, it was locked. Apparently he still hadn’t remembered that he needed to unlock it before it would open.
Twenty minutes later, Raine was sitting in the car, waiting for his little sister and his mother. Kelly was actually indeed Raine’s twin, only younger by a matter of minutes, but of course he wanted to call her little every chance he got. She, like him had blue eyes, though hers were a nice dark blue, and his were pale. A car door opened behind him, and his sister climbed in, her wavy blond hair hardly shining.
“Looks like you had a rough night, sis” Raine announced with a smirk.
“Couldn’t sleep, all kinds of crazy crashes and stuff,” Kelly informed her brother, for some reason or another, she had an air of superiority in knowledge surrounding her, this Raine could very much feel from her voice.
“So,” Kelly brought her voice down to a whisper. “Where’d you get it?” She asked curiously.
“Where’d I get what?” Raine asked, his alertness was its peak, his sister had stayed home last night when he hadn’t, that’s why she felt more knowledgeable.
“The cat,” Kelly responded simply. “The one that was breaking everything and in your room last night,” she added.
“We’ll talk about it later, mom’s coming.” A woman was walking towards the car, her own black hair going down only to her shoulders, she was shorter than her two children. She was wearing nice black heels, her shoes accented with bronze streaks here and there, causing her tan legs to become only more noticeable. Her white blouse hung just an inch below the top of her denim skirt. They were a family of three, just Raine, Kelly, and their mother. Over the course of their lives, the two children had spent very little time with their father, the parents had been divorced before they were old enough to remember, not a single memory of their dad would ever pop into their heads
Four hours later, the twins were done with their last day of school, and they were sitting along the front steps, along with Hayden, and Cindy.
Cindy was a brunette, her face covered with freckles, naturally she had brown eyes, but she chose to cover them with dark blue contacts. They were darker than Kelly’s.
“Cindy! Enjoy your last day of school?” Kelly asked, extremely cheerful that it was only noon and she still had several hours to entertain herself for the day.
“Yeah, it was pretty action-packed,” Cindy replied, reaching her hand up and moving a stray strand of hair behind her ear. “What’d you think Hayden?” She put the group’s attention on the other blond in the group, who was awkwardly sitting slightly distanced from Raine, the two were usually right next to one another to the point that you had to use a magnifying glass to find the space between them.
“Pretty good, pretty good,” the girl replied with a shrug. Raine noticed that she seemed to be pretty out of it, though he knew aside from the hour or so that she was awake, she had a full night’s sleep. He tried to avoid staring at her, but he found himself gazing at her in search of answers. Once he realized this, he quickly added to the conversation. “Well, my last day was pretty boring, no one was as easily amused as usual, so I didn’t acquire too many laughs, but other than that I guess it could be considered good. I’m just glad it’s over for a few months,” he said, letting everything go out at once.
“Mom’s here, gotta go!” Cindy jumped to her feet as she spoke, after grabbing her backpack, she quickly departed, leaving the three alone.
“I’m just going to take this as an opportunity to finish our conversation from earlier, dear brother.” Kelly said, deciding she would take the conversation into her own hands. “You weren’t home last night, so when and where did you get it?” Her eyes narrowed as she spoke, going from round blue marbles to sheets of thin blue fabric
“Kelly, I have no idea at all,” Raine responded honestly, not sure whether or not his sister would believe him. “I woke up from the noises, and then I was about to go check on things, and heard footsteps coming towards my room, then my phone rung, so I went to see what was going on.”
“So, basically you just left me there, with whatever had been making the noise, and you forgot about me?”
“No, Kelly that’s not it I was going to come back and make sure you were alright, but I–I–Fell asleep….” He admitted with a sigh, giving his sister an apologetic glance.
“It’s alright, Raine gosh I’m alive” Kelly responded with a smirk, not only did she enjoy making her brother feel bad, but she enjoyed making it obvious as well.
“So, there was a cat in my room?” Raine asked for reassurance.
“Yeah, I didn’t get a good look, but its eyes were definitely a cats, I could see them peeping out at me, and I heard a soft meow.”
“That’s…pretty awesome,” he couldn’t think of anything better to say. “Now, the hard part’s making mom let us keep it.”
“You idiot, you haven’t even seen the cat yet, how do you know you want it?”
“If it has four legs and is a cat, it’s worth keeping.” Raine said simply as attempt to end the conversation.
It had been 15 minutes sine Hayden had last spoken. Her unusual silence was really getting to both of the twins, Raine especially. “Hayden, I need to talk to you,” he said the words hesitantly at first, though he quickly gained courage. “Kelly, wait here, alright?”
“Why do I have to–“
“Shut up, just wait,”
Kelly growled, but Raine chose to ignore it and simply started walking away, hoping Hayden would follow. He went and sat down in the shade, under a large tree. After a few seconds, he heard someone sit down on his right, he glanced over to find Hayden next to him, just as far away as she’d been before on the steps.
Raine wasted no time in starting the conversation. “What’s wrong?” He asked, hoping her answer wouldn’t be what he thought it was.
“Mark and I broke up,” she announced with a sigh, her eyes were beginning to water.
“Why….when?” He was thoroughly confused, this wasn’t quite what he expected, and he didn’t expect her to be so sad about it either. The wind released a much larger breath as the two continued their conversation.
“Today at lunch, because he likes another girl he’s been seeing for four weeks, and he wanted to spend all summer with her without having to worry about me.”
“And you guys were going out for…..five weeks?” Raine pondered aloud. “I’m definitely going to have to beat him up for you, don’t worry about it, you don’t need guys babe, you’ve got your best friend here, and that’s about all you need, besides you didn’t like him that much anyways”
“I know I didn’t like him, but it’s just that he didn’t like me enough either, so he cheated on me and then left me for her,” she sighed and shuddered.
The wind released yet another suddenly large breath, before once again resuming to its normal pattern of occasional small breezes.
“Oh well babe, you don’t have to worry about it anymore, just forget about it and cheer up, you’re not nearly as cute when you’re sad” he said with a smile as he rose to his feet.
“It’s not like I’m cute anyways,” Hayden grinned and gave Raine a playful wink. “I’m freaking irresistible” she laughed and took his hands which he had extended to help her up from the ground.
“Need a piggy back ride back over there?” Raine asked, “or are you sane enough to walk, I don’t want you running in front of any cars or anything.” He looked down into her eyes, to be sure that all the tears were gone, as were all other signs of her unhappiness. They were all replaced with signs of utmost happiness, she couldn’t keep a smile off her face, and her eyes were as bright as ever.
“No, I’m way too much of a fatty for you to be carrying me around,” she playfully pushed him as her way of telling him to start walking.
“Are you saying I’m too weak to carry you?” He raised his eyebrows as he took his first few steps forward.
“I might be, if I am what are you gonna do about it, bud?”
Raine took a step back, grabbed Hayden’s shoulders, and playfully pushed her towards the street, then pulled her right back. “I just might actually let you go next time,” he playfully suggested.
A large truck passed by the two, along with the largest wind they’d felt all day,
“You know, it’s been pretty windy today,” Raine commented. “Sorry about last night, I didn’t mean to–“
“Oh shut up, it’s alright, you just fell asleep,” Hayden said with a shrug. “Sorry I was so fussy this morning, I was a bit tired” she interrupted him with her own apology.
“Well, next time you start acting like that with me, I’m totally going to beat you up,” Raine grinned and pulled Hayden into a tight hug. “Of course you know I love you though,” he added
Hayden rolled her eyes and playfully punched him on the shoulder. “Yeah, sure you do,” she walked back to the steps and retook her seat, the Caeruleus twins took a seat on either side of her. Raine being extremely close of course. After 10 minutes of conversation about nothing, Hayden’s dad finally arrived.
“See ya later Hayden!” Both twins called at once
“Bye y’all!” She waved as she got into the car.
Kelly then grabbed her brother by the arm and began dragging him down the street, towards their home.
“Kelly! What the crap are you doing?” He asked
“I’m getting you home, because I feel like going home, and don’t want to make up some random place to tell mom where you are,” she said as she let go of his arm.
“Care for a piggy back ride, little sis?” Raine offered teasingly, enjoying the opportunity to make fun of his sister for being a few minutes younger.
“You know, a piggy back ride would be great, thanks!” Kelly smirked and jumped onto her brother’s back.
Raine growled and grudgingly began the walk home, it was only 3 blocks, but it seemed like much longer while carrying Kelly.
Kelly reached over her brother’s shoulder to open the front door, and then jumped down from his back and took a step inside. He followed her in, and immediately began tickling her sides.
“There’s my revenge for making me carry you!” He informed her before quickly running up the stairs, and into his room. Raine couldn’t help but remember that his sister had told him there was a cat in here the previous night, that couldn’t be. There was no way for one to get in the house. But then again, those were human footsteps he heard approaching his door, he was sure of it. Last night, he heard human footsteps, then his phone rung, and he traveled through the shadows to see what was going on.
“Kelly!” He yelled down the stairs for his sister who quickly came running up.
“Yeah?” She stood impatiently in front of him, wondering what he could possibly want after tickling her.
“Come in here for a sec,” he pulled his sister into the room, and gazed into her eyes. “You know that little thing I can do?” He started, “You know, the one mom doesn’t know about…”
Kelly nodded her head, not quite sure whether or not her brother was simply rubbing it in that he was older and had an extraordinary ability.
“I started that when we were 12, right?” He asked
Kelly took a moment to ponder this and then nodded once again. “Yeah, so what?” She asked, preparing herself for a fight.
“Have you ever tried it?” He asked her, still looking right into her eyes.
“Yeah….” She admitted with a sigh “but, I couldn’t.”
“Is mom home?” He glanced around the room, then down at the carpet, then at the bed, all the places with claw marks.
“No, she’s not, why?” Kelly was now getting curious. CRASH!!
The two twins exchanged a look, and then slowly worked their way down the stairs. This time there was something Raine knew that Kelly didn’t, and that was the fact that if they were in danger, he wasn’t going to be able to get them both out, there wasn’t anywhere dark enough, and never had he traveled with another person anyways. There were only a handful of times that he’d done it before last night anyways, of course Kelly assumed that it was something he did regularly. The truth was it often terrified him, unless he did it without thought as he did last night. Last night marked the second round trip, but the fourth and fifth times he’d traveled that way. The first time got him out of the bathroom when the power went out, the second got him back in, and then one time he used it to get home from school. He was always afraid he’d go to the wrong place and end up somewhere odd.
The two were downstairs in time to feel the remnants of a breeze flow through the dining room. Right there, on the table, they both saw it. There was an orange cat, it simply sat there, glancing from twin to twin, its eyes were blue as well, a bright blue like Kelly’s, rather than the pale of her brother’s.
“I come here, on behalf of the League of Shadows,” the cat started speaking, just as though it were human. “I am Devan, the League’s messenger,” the cat went on, ignoring the shocked stares from the two twins. “First off, I would like to apologize for the messes I’ve made, last night, and now of course,” Devan raised a paw and pointed it towards a pile of shattered glass on the floor. “I’ve been finding it hard to travel as a cat, but I’m managing, give it some time, you’ll get used to it.” The cat went on talking, not realizing how strange it must be for the teenagers. “Anyways, it will be just a moment,” a great gust of wind came, and then there was another cat on the table, this one red.
Raine turned his head to his right to find Hayden standing right next to him. “Ok, now what’s going on?” He asked, this whole thing was getting a bit odd, even for him.
“This is my assistant, Benny,” Devan announced, gesturing a paw towards the second cat.
“We’re here on behalf of the League of Shadows, the three of you have all been chosen to come and further develop your talents during nights over this summer.
“What talents?” The two blonds said in unison, though Raine had a feeling he knew what was going on. Something about his little talent he’d used last night, but what talents did Hayden and Kelly have he wondered. He chose to answer himself. “Some kind of ability like mine, I suppose…Hayden, you can’t travel through shadows, can you?” He asked curiously. “Kelly’s tried before, so I know she can’t”
Devan chose to take the conversation back into his own hands.
“These two young ladies both have their own form of the talent, you’ll have to learn about them on your own time.”
The trio exchanged glances from one another as if waiting for someone to announce it being merely a joke. Kelly nodded her head, admitting to her talent, which she had only done once, but she figured it was her imagination. Hayden was simply bewildered, nothing at all came to mind for her when a ‘special talent’ was mentioned.
“So, at nights, Benny and I will be coming to pick you up, we’ll be moving through the shadows to our secret base in North Ontario, Canada. You’ll be attending classes for three hours a night Sunday to Thursday, from nine until midnight, and five hours a night Friday and Saturday.” Devan informed the group, before taking a pause to groom his fur. “So, we’ll be by to get you tomorrow, just thought we’d give a day’s notice, any objections?”
The group stood silent, half from shock of the talking cats, half from the shock of being told that they’d be going to Canada every night. The strange thing though, is the three all mentally agreed on one thing: That this could be the best day of their lives
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Anyone that read all of that have anything to say? From my quick scan through it, it seems like my undying Our Lady Peace obsession stuck through in bits, such as the chapter title. If you know what Naveed means, then it’s pretty obvious. Then there’s the last sentence and that’s paraphrasing an OLP line….and then the rest was basically life + fantasy = story. Blah, not sure exactly how the story went, but it looks kinda weird to me. Don’t think I could write anything much better now though. Anyone think I should try some day?
I guess there’s not much to learn from this post, or anything I’ve posted recently, I definitely have to say that this blog has begun to be more about me, which…isn’t a bad thing. The lack of reader input just kinda pushed me more towards using it to help myself since I didn’t know what people wanted to read or what they thought about my posts. Either way, input still welcome!
P.S. Anyone want me to post what I did of the next chapter?
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