This is a story of an average person becoming more than they dreamed, or hoped, of being.
Their name is Autumn. She is the average middle schooler, 15 years old and already has some of her future planned out. She's the one that sits in the back of the crowd and keeps silent, but can be outspoken and loud when she has a strong will to be. Gets good grades, has a dark sense of humor and few friends, but she is happy with the ones she has. She isn't exactly a social person, and has been since she started going to Halition schools in 3rd grade when she was 10.
Thinking that life wouldn't get any better until she gets out of school and goes to college, she spends her time counting down the days until summer vacation, the years until graduation, and forgets to count the fun moments school and her few friends bring. She's sees school and life in general as something dull and plain, something she has to "get over with."
Her views on these subjects quickly change, when she accidentally stumbles onto an old willow tree deep in a forest in her very backyard. She becomes something without little warning that has yet been seen by monster, man, or creature in hundreds of years, that only few posses the abilities to be; a dragon slayer.
Her arrival stirs much attention and excitement. Only few have been born strong enough to have the potential of becoming a dragon slayer, and even less actually becoming one. Dragon slayers were believed to be extremely powerful, because it's believed if the person could defeat a dragon, they could fight practically anything.
Her strong presence stirs more than mortal beings, which you probably already guessed.
Dark and weary shadows rise from the depths of despair, regret, and the forgotten, for that's what they are made of.
They wish to take back what used to be theirs. Blood, flesh, a body of their own. Happiness, love, joy they wish they possessed, but nothing bright shines in the pit of dread and inside their empty heads.
They are what they feared most in their past, which will make you wish for the grasp of Death.
Being awoken from their long slumber by a strong, powerful soul, they terribly wish to be whole, not a terrifying memory of what they used to be. They will even go as far as ending someone else's to renew their own.
They will pull your being from your fleshy weak body, your soul, to be used as payment to be reborn again, for they are dead and soulless, nothing but broken memories.
It's up to Autumn and a few close friends, both magical and non-magical, to get to the source of the problem, for the dead memories had quickly begun to take their first victims, before too many souls are pulled away.
These dead beings have gained many names in the past, but, these dead walking memories, who wish to be alive again, are best known as The Cowardly.
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The Life of a Teenaged Dragon Slayer
Fantasy(Rated PG-13 for violence) This is a story of an average person becoming more than they dreamed, or hoped, of being. Their name is Autumn. She is the average middle schooler, 14 years old and already has some of her future planned out. She's the one...
