Scrying with Blood

Written in Blood

*crack*crash*

A young girl shot up in a panic. Her blue eyes were wide with fear and her golden hair was dripping fresh blood. "W-where am I? What happened?" She clutched her head in pain as she looked around at the area she was in and wiped away some blood from the whisker marks on her cheek ...

It was a forest ... she was in an ancient forest. The trees were massive. Far bigger than anything she had ever seen in the village. A soft crackling sound caught her attention and she turned to see a branch smoldering on the ground.

*crack*boom*

The small blonde yelped and looked up at the dark sky above her ... storms clouds ... furious black storm clouds hung in the sky ...

The young girl shivered and hugged her small frame for warmth as she looked for a way back to the village. For a second it looked like the very tall grass was moving in front of her, but something about it was weird ... the pattern of grass was too regular ...

*hissssss*

She froze. "H-hello? I-Is someone there? My name is Naruko ... h-hello?" She got a sinking feeling in her stomach. The grass like pattern closed in and something came out of the trees ...

*hissssss* It was a massive green snake! The serpent was easily big enough to swallow the girl whole and it slithered towards her. Naruko turned to run, but found that she was surrounded by the snake's long body. There was nowhere for her to run.

Naruko backed away from the snake's mouth, "Help! Help! Someone help me ... please help!" She started crying as she backed away from the deadly fangs. She knew no one cared enough to come even if they heard her cries. The villagers probably dumped her here so she would die ...

The mouth of the snake opened wide. Naruko slipped in the puddle of her own blood and stared up at the serpent in fear ... the snake shot towards her and she screamed ...

Suddenly the ground beneath her feet began to glow and she looked down ... it was a glowing red circle with beautiful patterns inside it. The circle was so odd that even the snake paused in its attack to watch it, but only for a second. The snake got bored and turned back to its little blonde meal. It reared its head and opened its mouth again ...

*boom* Naruko couldn't believe her eyes. Everything happened so fast. She was watching the snake come for her. Then the blood beneath her feet came to life and created sharp spikes that impaled the snake. The little girl ran out of the way to avoid being crushed by the serpent's dead body as it hit the ground.

"I ... how did I do that? ... I can think about it later. How do I get out of here?" wondered Naruko as she slowly began to calm down. The body of the snake was 7 feet thick and very smooth so she couldn't just climb out. The only way out was to climb up the snake's head. Her heart raced as she hesitantly approached the snake ...

The head of the snake hung limply on its side over its coils with its bloody mouth hanging open. One of the dead lifeless eyes were shredded opened and gushing blood from one of Naruko's blood spikes, which have all dissolved mixing her blood with that of the serpent's. After carefully poking the snake a couple times to confirm its dead she stepped forward and waded through the blood to get to the mouth, but when she accidentally swallowed a few drops of the blood she was nearly knocked over as images assaulted her mind ...

She was high up and twisting her way through this very forest until she came upon a fence ...

The image of a chain link fence surrounding this very forest, but she was inside the fence watching two men drag something into the forest ...

A spark of curiosity that wasn't her own could be felt and she twisted her way through the trees ... a moment later she saw the men drop something on the ground ... it was her! She was looking at herself lying on the forest floor ...