Winterspell

Darkness...

Why do I feel so empty?

Something important...

I feel so, empty and hollow. Why?

An ink black, nothingness and void had swallowed me.

Am I...

No, I'm thinking and I can still feel even though I don't know where I am.

How long will I be here?

I want to cry out for help but I can't, I don't know why.

I don't understand. I don't understand at all.

{you seem fearful, little human}

A voice, deep almost like a growl reverberated in the solid blackness

Grabbing and holding my attention.

Who?

{I am the light that will guide you back to the world of the living. I heard your wish, live and apologize, it's not too late, follow me}

But... This is punishment... I deserve this.

{Do they mean so little to you that you would die without letting them know your true feelings?}

N-no... But...but...

{There's more to it than just an apology right?

Then live, the rest will fall into place.}

Slowly the blackness leaked away revealing a dragon of massive proportions, it's sail like wing slowly and gently pulling me towards the it's body. It's amber scales shone brightly as if polished.

Warm...

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I opened my eyes to a blurred reality, my eyes focused and blurred then focused.

I was in a tent.

My lips were dry but the air was still cold, it seemed someone took the liberty of getting me dressed. I raised myself up bracing with my arm.

The tent seemed fairly new and had a long case to off to one side, I tried getting up. My knees shook and almost buckled.

I moved the entrance and with my hand moved the flaps.

The bright light temporarily blinded me, squinting I stood up and looked around with my recovering vision. Trees surrounded the little clearing in which the tent was pitched at the center of.

The sky was cloudy but at the same time bright, as if the sun was right behind the clouds that hung lazily in the sky. The ground was littered with small piles of snow and seemed somewhat muddy, that's how I realized I wasn't wearing any shoes. But it didn't worry me in the slightest. What had me worried was the fact that I keep waking up in stranger places and the fact that my stomach had probably started eating itself.

At any rate, I need to get away from here those men'll probably com back soon.

I looked a full circle.

A gust of wind blew at my hair.

No-one.

This is my chance!

I started in a brisk walk looking left and right gradually increasing my pace as i did within seconds I was in a full out run, i even surprised myself at how fast I was running given how tired I was a minute ago. Between trees, over bushes and moss-covered logs, down steep slopes and over small hills. Run I told myself, and that I did, I ran and ran until I came to a river.

I was smiling like a maniac, I had escaped! And now I could go home...

I simply needed to know which direction home was...

Maybe I could follow the stream, it probably went under a bridge somewhere and if it did, I could probably find my way home by following that road until I found someone who could help.

I was still breathing pretty hazardously from running so hard. My chest hurt and as soon as I remembered, I pulled up my shirt and sweater.

A thick band of gauze had been wrapped around me under my breasts and over my wound.

"Nice rack you've got there," someone said suddenly.

I jerked my head up and pulled down my clothes in reflex. Standing on a log was a guy seemingly my age, wearing a smug grin. I felt naked like my clothes no longer existed and all I had on was my birthday suit.

My face felt hot and I wasn't even sure why.

"And now your blushing,talk about cute," he noted.

He was slim and wore a brown sweater and blue jeans. He didn't even seem dangerous but for some reason all I wanted to do was attack him. I mean not only did he 'look' at me, he also had the audacity to look smug about it. That peeping Tom, you jerk aren't you gonna appologize?

He said nothing. We'll he couldn't read my mind. That was one thing I was sure of. Suddenly I turned and started running in the opposite direction.

Then my situation came back in vivid colors, I wanted to hit him with a brick but he could probably help me find my way home.

I stopped and turned around.

"Huh? Where'd he go?" He was gone and so was my chance to get help.

Maybe he went back to the trees, "hey! Perv!" I shouted.

No response.

"You know responding is the least you could do after I flashed you," the fact that I was being ignored by that pervert really annoyed me.

Maybe that smug grin of his was just a cover for his lack of balls.

I winced as the pain came back with razor sharpness.

This time, it's intensity grew so much so that it was all I could do to fall to the ground on my knees instead of my face.

I clutched my chest it felt as if something were shredding my body from the inside.

My world swam in and out of focus.

I can't pass out here...

I fell to my side. The sound of the river seemed so far now, like it had decided to be quiet to see what would happen to me.

I can't pass out, not here...

I wanna go home, I...

Once again, I was swallowed by ink black nothingness.

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Tess...

She had just left school, clubs had finally let-out. She took out her cell as soon as she left the school compound.

"but I charged it this morning!" She said to herself before dropping it back into her bag.

The sky seemed upset and mumbled to it self in the distance. But this didn't seem to bother her, she simply took out her umbrella and readied herself for rain.

Before long, rain started coming down in heavy sheets however Tess had not even opened her umbrella, she simply stood on the side walk her expression that of fear.

Ahead of her was a man his apparel full black and if he seemed like anything it would have been a ninja. If it wasn't for what he did she would have thought he was just a cosplayer. But he wasn't, he was the real deal.

His eyes were blood red and his nose and mouth were hidden by a black mask with painted teeth on it...

Slowly he approached her at the same time reaching for something on his back and pulling up.

The Silver glinted while crying softly until the man had in his hands a deadly katana.

Tess couldn't move, she was completely paralyzed. The man walked towards her and placed the tip of his blade to her throat.

And then "You're coming with me."

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