Elemental Eclipse

🌻Chapter One; Part One: Open Enrollment🌻

(This got really long so I'm gonna make it two parts)

She raced through the forest the wind blowing through her hair and chilling her skin to the touch. Her choice of a leather jacket starting to seem like less of a good idea and more of a poor stylistic choice. Though she didn't really have time to scold herself seeing as she was currently running from a giant smoke monster.

It roared as she snaked her way through the dense dark forest that was only lit by a harsh red light from the moon. The power in just the creatures voice alone was enough to shake the ground beneath her. She wobbly tried to keep her balance, but to no avail tripped over her own feet and fell into a pool of dark black water. It was such a clear cut color that her reflection shown in it. Though her reflection didn't look like her...

Well, it did. But not the perky her she was used to seeing. This version of herself was much more disheveled and pale with platinum blonde, almost white hair. So different looking to the point where she wasn't even sure it was her.

"Come on, get up. Keep moving!" She says out loud to herself, as she struggles to get back up. Her fingers digging into the damp soil beneath her, pushing herself back onto her feet and sprinting towards a nearby mirror. "Just...a little...further!"

She came within a few feet of the mirror when the shadowy-smoke monster came crashing through the trees behind her and she rolled onto the ground landing on her back. With no options left she threw her hands in the air admitting a strange light and power from the tips of her fingers. "Yueguang Trabem!"

Elidi quickly, sat upright in her bed, breathing heavily as the residual fears of her nightmare washed over her. "That...that felt so real..."

She collapsed back into her pillows nuzzling up to them before her attention was drawn to her phone buzzing on her nightstand. When she picked it up she immediately sat up, throwing herself out of her bed. It was her alarm, she's late for school. Not even reasonably late she'd slept through her alarm for the past two hours. "Shit! I'm gonna be late for that meeting with my advisor!"

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Elidi stood in front of her bathroom mirror, after her advisory meeting where she had been intending to drop out of her stupid college, which did not happen because apparently she was just going through a "phase". She wasn't going through a phase she knew that. Something was out there waiting for her, something better than anyone at this stuffy college could comprehend. Not that she knew what that something was though.

Sighing at herself she looked at her reflection, intending on giving herself a bit of a pep talk. "I know you belong somewhere. I know there's more to you than this."

The lights flickered in the room and she brushed it off as just her imagination looking around just in case. Until something caught her eye in the mirror. She sighed at herself when she realized it was just her reflection, but it wasn't her reflection. It was the same version of herself she had seen in her dream earlier.

"Thats's-That looks like my face, but different..." Elidi raised a hand to her hair seeing as it looked white in her reflection, but it didn't mirror her actions.

She froze in place just staring at it for a moment. It was almost shimmering like summer sunshine beaming off a lake.

"Am I still dreaming?" Elidi questions, raising a shaking hand to the mirror's glass, but her hand never comes in contact with it. Instead her hand passed through it like liquid. She tried to pull her hand out, but it wouldn't budge. "Holy shit!"

Her hand was already through the glass and her arms started to follow until it pulled her entire body through. "Wait!"

She was pulled into what felt like water as it pulled and pushed her around, forcing her to close her eyes and hold her breath.