the Ebon Ring

It was an unusually eerie night, one that was perfect for taking dark photos. Tonight my partner and I are going into forest, we usually go to a park, or a field, but the forest is the best place to take pictures. My name is Coex. My partner is Nightshade, we just graduated from high school.  Nightshade was the star right tackle. He still talks about how he won “The Great Game,” against the IX Cyborgs.  At this point he has added so much to the tale you would think it was the only player on the field, but I love hearing about it non-the-less.

The year is 3045;  and it would seem that everything has been invented, they even found about a fifth force in the universe scientist call it Fay. Most, myself included, call it magic, then there are those few who call it a hoax created to make more money. And I do not like any of the above, the human race, (its just us on earth) still cannot control this new force. It tends to blow up in our faces. That is why I use a digital camera, most true photographer will not use the Fay powered ones.  And I agree, digital camera takes the best pictures ever.  Even though the Fay powered camera are smaller, and the pictures are interactive,  I like the color, and steadiness of real digital photos.  Nightshade, on-the-other-hand is fine with magic and his camera is one of those fay powered toys.

I turned on my phone to call Nightshade and ask him where to meet.

“Nightshade, where do you want to meet up?”

“WHAT! WHAT DO MEAN!? Hmm. Sorry for yelling, but I think I am missing something, why are we meeting up?”

Ugh. Nightshade can be so clueless sometimes.

“Tonight is beautiful, so I thought we could meet up later, we discussed this last week!”

“Ohhh. I guess by the bridge.” he replied

“Okay see ya there!”

          YES! The bridge is the best place to go to take pictures! I have to run and grab my camera.        

Nightshade is always late when we go out to take pictures, I had to wait there for like an hour, thankfully, the bridge is huge, so I just walked around taking pictures. Finally he arrived “Nightshade, you’re finally here. What took you so long?”

“I figured that we would be out here for a long time so I packed for the trip.”

"what did you bring?"

"extra parts for your suckey camera if it breaks, and my magic book in case my camera breaks."

"why did that take so long?"

"I don't carry around parts for your camera"

“Alright then, let’s go” I said

          We started to walk down the path taking pictures here and there, my camera being loud, and Nightshades was quiet, but he just kept "oohing" and "ahhhing" at the 3D pictures he was taking. finally I had had enough of him and suggested we split up. “Let’s keep each other in touch by calling every 20 minutes, okay?”

“Sure.” He said in passing me.  I took about 100 to 150 pictures.  My camera is a 150MegaPixel but I have a 1Terabite flash card, so I was not worried about filling it up.  Then just before the first 20 minutes I got a call from Nightshade.

“Get. over. here.”

he was speaking in a low voice as if he was watching something, or being watched. 

“ Where are you?”

“Over by the old Birch tree.” He told me in a shaky whisper