TOURBILLION
The Introduction to the story:
Pandora's Box:
In the beginning of time, a war broke out between the two creators. Yin and Yang, Good and Evil, Dark and Light; they have been called a lot of names. But the only name that we should remember them by is Lux and Nox. A struggle for power went between them as Nox was consumed with his greed. Lux, concerned, sealed both of them in a realm they created eons ago to protect their living creations: humans and fauna alike. Now, a fallen tribe has risen and desired a change for their community, and so they decided to summon a deity to help them. Unbeknownst to them, they were using the wrong enchantment.
Whirlwind Children: The Inspiration and Real Story :
A nine-year old Chinese girl was playing in Songjian near Shanghai, in July 1992 when she was carried off by a whirlwind and deposited unhurt in a treetop almost two miles away. According to a wire report from May 1986, a freak wind lifted up 13 children in the oasis of Hami in Western China and deposited them unharmed in sand dunes and scrub 12 miles away.
Whirlwind Children: OUR Story :
A powerful yet calm tourbillion abducted 7 children away from their current location and carried them off to different countries. Why? Nobody knows, except for the entity who carried them. Are they connected? Maybe, maybe not. . .
Myths:
"A myth, in its simplest definition, is a story with a meaning attached to it other than it seems to have at first; and the fact that it has such a meaning is generally marked by some of its circumstances being extraordinary, or, in the common use of the word, unnatural." John Ruskin, in 1869, in The Queen of the Air.
Some say that Myths aren't true, then, are these entities not a part of legendary myths? Because they seem pretty true, judging by the fact that one of them is standing right in front of them.
~G
I'd Like to think I was a good person, before it all began.
I didn't cheat on tests, or steal. But throughout my entire life, I was treated if I were a monster. At the age of five, after several agonizing tests, I was diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder. But not even that title could describe just how strange I was. When another kid got hurt, I would cry. Whenever someone else was told a funny joke, I would laugh hysterically. People looked at me as if I were crazy- and for while I agreed with them.
That was until I, Caddie Jones, was exiled to Nox Haven Academy, a school for truly special kids. Not the mentally ill, psychotic kind of special but the magical kind. Like witches, vampires, fairies and werewolves. Call me crazy if you want, you wouldn't be the first. But the stories are all true. The supernatural did exist and I was one of them. Life there was cool until suddenly, I was faced with two-faced witches, egotistical princes, hormone driven werewolves, and an army of evil warlocks who were threatening to destroy the world.
... Maybe Nox Haven was a school for psychos after all.
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Highest Rank: #2 in Paranormal
1st Place winner of The Night Shift's Killer Competition 4/10/16
Illustration by: Stephanie Pitino (www.ClairObscur.fr)
(1st book in series)