The Void

Checkmate

Sparky: my fire in the raging dead beat storm  allow me to thank you👇👇

The breeze bit into her bare arm or should I say a sore covered arm?Trees swayed from left to right as they whistled a comforting tune into the night.The gibbous moon cast its beams of light on her half hidden face;as if exposing her vulnerable self.Few stars could be seen twinkling,adding a most undeserving beauty to the night..Sitting on a huge rock she was,her back hunched,her silvery eyes forever fixed on the ground...She clenched her fists in frustration until her knuckles were a shade lighter than purple...Truly, she was greatly disturbed more than she would ever show...All along she had hidden it perfectly behind the mask of oblivion but not tonight. It had finally got to her.

Memories of what she could have had but lost flooded her mind.Her heart throbbing and aching she furiously wiped away the stinging tears welling up in her eyes.She was fed up of it all and did not want any of it.Tonight,the tower she had built strongly round herself was threatening to crumble or had it already started?Her name was Reana...
Not that it really mattered anyway. She had started getting used to be uuum... a passing shadow.

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Mogan ,a youthful looking man,slammed the door to his cottage shut.From the looks of things he was restless. He paced back and forth,kicking away anything that blocked his path as if doing so would enable him get rid of thoughts (those he preferred to keep burried).Pacing he did as he tried to put his mental shutters back on.Mogan then decided to venture into the night.

In darkness we hold secrets,mysteries,evil,regrets and the past's haunting screams.

Everything was silent apart from the occasional hooting of the night owl.The young man unsure of what he was doing,trudged on.The hatred he felt burned inside him-pain that was too much to withhold.The need to belong ate him up.Unwanted is what many called him and others saw him as such-he had started believing that himself.He could pretend he was okay when he was around human habitation but on this particular night he couldn't help but feel vulnerable.

Leaves and branches brushed past him as he walked further into the clearing.The night was creepy and horrifying but the young man had learnt not to care or atleast pretend not to.An eerie feeling was giving him the creeps as his guts told him he wasn't alone.Something just wasn't right.Some sort of pull forced him to look further ahead and there she was.Mogan stumbled and fell as flashes of his past overwhelmed him.What the hell was she doing here?

He crawled to where 'she' was for his knees had already given way to gravity.All this while he felt like he was dreaming.He tried to be silent as much as he could when all he wanted was to scream his lungs out.The hair he so much dreaded was exactly as he remembered it--midnight black and its bewitching waves fell perfectly as ever on her small back which he once fondled.He reached out and that's when she turned...

Her silvery eyes startled him to the point he fell down with uuum...a mixture of pain and relief.it wasn't her-Bleeh but why the startling resemblance?The girl here had silver for eye colour while Bleeh's was lapis blue.By this time Reana was seething with fury under the scrutinizing gaze of Mogan.Why in the world could she not have some peace?Were the fates so cruel that she couldn't just be alone?Here was another sicko' staring at her like fresh meat.Well,she was long gone fed up being a victim and tonight wouldn't change anything or would it?

Things are not always as they seem.
For the first time in like forever Mogan felt a glint of compassion for the girl glaring at him until a moment later when a blow to his temple drew him back to his world of preservation.The hatred in him reigned supreme as he gathered strength and got up...This girl was no Bleeh.What had made him think she would view him differently?

He was after all an outcast,a monster of his own kind.He walked away from the hunched girl,taking deep breaths to compose himself.He had walked on for a while when he decided to turn back and put the girl in her place...after all the cursed forest was his territory.Mogan,now strode back to where she was and let out an ominous chuckle just to scare the hell out of Reana and that's when all hell broke loose.In a flash,Reana had stood,twirled and was about to throw a dagger when she was taken a back.Things had gone so fast that Mogan's face expressed shock and amusement.She looked mighty fine her hand poised in mid air like a tigress ready for its kill.

"What do you think you were doing mister!Stalking me?"
"Ha!I was minding my own business and well...saw you"

"Go back to whatever you were doing"Reana said in a throaty voice.She had not talked to anyone for a couple days and it must have sounded like a growl

"What if i don't? This is no one's property you know."
"You leave me no choice then but to..."Reana murmured as she aimed once again.

"Go on kill me.oops! the mighty tigress is after all a scaredy cat."

With that mockery came many others that had been stashed up in her heart.She was simply tired of being treated as  a wimpy person.Was it wrong to yearn and wish to be treated as a person with her own stand for once?She searched for a word to term the roaring rage but couldn't place any.With a mighty throw the dagger hit Mogan's side as he cursed really loud..

"There you go,wish granted mate."Reana said as she shot to the forest.She wanted out of that place and to some place far,some place she would belong.

No matter how major and dangerous a war,its end must come for there will always be seasons.

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Well, I love sunny days. Okay okay I lied I prefer windy ones.hope you on edge as you devour this first of the many more chapters coming up..

Love J..