Authors Note/ Beginings
I always felt I didn't fit into the technical reality. And Quoting my dear
dear English/art teacher of a few good years. "Get your head out of Science
Fiction!!!" And to the dear man's horror, i never have in the 2 years I've
known him. To relive some of my Sci Fi addiction I wrote this, using friends
and a family members in my "horror" story. It all started when I was driving
some friends up the wall, online that is. But as always, I can confess that
none of this ever really happened, only in my lil mind anyway. Just their
names and personalites, heck they donÕt really look like them anyway.
I was never pretty, nor I believe will I ever be pretty. So it was no surprise
when I started making friends online. God had made up for my... As I say,
short, cubby and cute, state. But the friends I made online, quickly came
over to Real life friendships, and teasingly family. Though I don't know
to who's bigger surprise, mine or theirs.
I had as I said made them in to Real life (or RL) friends. I had taken a
three month "vacation" to Michigan. That is of course where I met Suzi, Matt,
Jim, Kitty and Derrick. (Well Technically I didn't meet Kitty and Derrick
seeing as they take up 50 other people I know.) I laugh at the thought, we
kept up in Email.
I had been innocently role playing with a few close friends online. When
I jumped up and hit my head on the lamp. Danny and three of the most loudest,
ape males came into the house. I love them deeply, but they drive me up the
walls and clinging to the ceiling.
I once more am ahead of myself, ah well my computer, live with it. Let me
see, how to explain the boys? Ah yes... They were my "brothers" though only
one by blood. Confused? don't be my dear computer, I have made a long journey
and my poor mind wanders...
Danny, the brat brother. He is my only true 100% brother, thank god. He was
always trying to follow me around in the normal little brother fashion. But
then when he became older he stopped following and instead started Telling.
I laugh even now, of the times we tried to kill each other and drove our
dear parents bonkers. One of the hardest heads, and one of the softer hearts.
Though his temper scares most females away, that our his lovely man smell
of sweat. To this day I still can remember getting hit by the stench of his
room.
Scott, one of my closest and favorite brothers. Also my elder by a few months.
And in many ways my senior. SO it was natural for him to be come a leader
of our small band of pain in the neck children. His honor code was a mystery,
yet those who witness his wraith learned NOT to cross my friend. For often
I was on the side of the wraith one didn't want to be on.
Robert and Mike, my "twin" brothers. They are so cute. But they aren't brothers
in blood. I meant Twins, because both drove me to the point of tearing out
my hair. Robert, at one point long ago, I had a major crush on. Lucky we
found out we did better as friends then girlfriend and boyfriend. Mike though
had a cat and a litter of kittens to boot when we did it to him. You'd think
he had been the one I had broken up with.
The are twin's only in the respect of A) driving me Nuts B) Driving everyone
else Nuts and C) politics. Yes you heard right. Politics. But that s another
story....
One would think those four would dominate the girl... Well in some ways they
do, but in others I do as well. So it worked out I grew up to be a tom boy.
though by seventh grade it was showing there was no way in heck I was going
to LOOK like a boy. As I said before, short, cubby and a big too girlish
in the chest. But I could run, dodge and cause havoc with the boys.
I'm sorry, wandering again aren't I? Memories suck... The past hurts and
so will the future. And I can even now hear Ken, that English teacher of
mine asking, "how long have you been suicidal?" I laugh even now. I am not,
nor do i plan on leaving this adventure world of ours.
I remember the day I first entered Harpea... The terror, and yet fascination
of the world... Wait let me tell you of the time I left into Harpea. Scott,
Robert, Danny, Mike and I all meet at the park to celebrate the yearly Water
balloon fight. This year Danny was 16. I was 17, and Scott was to turn 18
in two weeks. The rest to turn 17 in the few months to follow...
Prologue.
The Ties that Bind
I had just circled around the school building, dawn's light casting strange
shadows onto the play ground. My eyes darted left and right for Mike and
Danny's huge super soaker. I had no intention of getting soaked so early
on in the battle. I lightly grasped the water balloon in my right hand. I
had no fear of popping it, for unlike some girls I had NO nails. I bit them
off to the point of pain.
My heart was beating in time with the spring birds. Thanks to California
heat it was starting out to be a nice day. I tried not to laugh as I sent
the water balloon speeding at Robert's back. I never felt sorry for hitting
a man in the back. I turned right into Danny's super soaker. Mike grinned
and I "died" in a sense.
Water dripped off my nose and I cursed my hearing for not hearing Mike sneak
up behind me. Scott came out of no where and pegged me. He hadn't meant to...
He had been aiming for Mike, but Mike with his laughing smirk dodged lightly
out of the way.
Robert and I grinned and started throwing water balloons at Mike and Scott.
Soon we were all soaked through and through. "Joy?" gasped Scott looking
at me with twinkling hazel eyes. "Where's Danny? He went after you when you
left to give you a few more water balloons..." Scott's voice sailed out of
range as I took off on angelÕs wings to find Danny.
Robert, Mike and Scott looked at each other and shrugged. They knew I was
very protective of all of them. The took of jogging after me, their wet clothes
hanging off them in a soggy mess.
My feet pounded as I rounded a corner, to bump face to face with a large...
Man? I screeched like an owl as he turned his gruesome face to me. More demons
surrounded a figure and two held his arms. "Danny!" I cried. Danny chose
that moment to start giving those demons pain pills. He did a round house
into one, and punch combination into another.
I looked at the other boys as they quickly neared us. Their faces mirrored
my own, except they didn't screech like I did. The demon I had run into turned
and I bit back a scream. This was no time to panic. I thought looking at
the huge demon towering over me. I quickly did the one thing I have never
done in a play fight or any real one... hit the demon right below the belt.
I ducked and dodged, seeing the boys did the same. But then one of them quickly
hit me in the stomach, letting the air be sucked between my lips. It grabbed
my arms, fury written in it's face. I struggled to get out of it's grip.
Soon all of us humans were held in grips of iron.
I desperately wished form a weapon or something to fight back with. Without
my knowledge green brown fire started to flare around my arms. Soon it engulfed
me in it's fury. The demon who had been holding me disappeared with a scream
of pain. I smiled over at the boys, who smiled back and were engulfed by
other such fires as mine.
Danny's fire danced midnight blue and black as he stepped forward to finish
off the demon who had held him. Scott did the same with a finger breath away
from his demon. It was engulfed with the blue green flames, it's scream echoed
by the others as we destroyed those who could had destroyed us. Robert's
fire flickered a few times but soon it became as strong as the rest of ours,
Crimson black surrounded the demon who had held him by sword point. Mike's
fire echoed Robert's crimson but instead of Black it was blue.
My fire flared up and engulfed me with it's fury and power once more. When
it faded I stood in a long, hunter green dress, with two slits up the sides
for movement. A brown cloak adorned my shoulders. My short reddish brown
hair in French braid. A sword strapped to my back, a dagger in each of my
thigh high boots. I looked around carefully, my head pounding as if I was
standing next to a waterfall.
Danny, my handsome young brother stood regally in armor. It's black and Midnight
blue hues setting off his wonderful dusty blond hair, and twinkling green
gold eyes. His tall frame holding the armor like it was meant to BE there.
A sword was also at his waist completing his outfit. His boots were knee
high, showing off his leg muscles of those years of walking home.
I looked over at Scott, his armor like Danny's, but it's colors were blue
and green. His smiling face was brilliant to my eyes as he looked at himself
and then at everyone else. He had a sword at his waist, and another in his
hands. I chuckled thinking, armed to the teeth, was a understatement.
Robert and Mike both wore armor like Danny and Scott, the black and crimson
of Robert's and Mikes crimson and blue set off their best features. I noted
Scott and Mike still and their hats, but Mike's long hair was tied back for
once. Mike held a deadly battle axe in one hand and leaned against it lightly.
Robert had a quiver of arrows strapped to his back and a bow in his hands.
I smiled at the boys, who stared at me.
I looked behind me just in time to see a portal open with a hiss. The back
of my neck prickled up. Something was wrong, and both the boys and I, felt
it. The boys drew their weapons and I did the same. Something started coming
though the portal. Something I didn't like, not one bit...
A woman, tall and widowly, stepped though the portal. She smiled at us. I
shivered, as she stepped forward, toward Danny and Scott. I struggled with
invisible bonds to raise my sword. She stepped closer, and the boys just
stood there, like in a siren's enchantment. I screamed at the top of my lungs
and struck the woman in the back, as I said before I have no qualms about
such things.
She collapsed and the boys shook out of it. Danny and Scott stepped to the
portal and looked inside. Robert and Mike stepped behind them. I looked up
and cleaned my sword of the woman's blood. Holding back the vomit I felt
at killing the woman and the demons. I thought I heard something a turned
toward the woman's body.
She stood and laughed, "You dared to strike me, just like your mother!" Her
laughter turned shill in my ears. The boys whipped around just in time to
dodge a pair of hands reaching though the void. the reached again and grabbed
Danny and Scott. Who was once again under the sirens spell.
Robert and Mike soon to fell though the portal. I looked at the woman, fury
reaching beyond the deepest of my soul. She smiled,"You'll know how I felt
when you and your's banished me to a life without your father or my children!
You brought this on your self! Your other friends, the one's in Michigan
are next, soon my family will be together once more!" and with that I was
pushed into the void, 4 crescent marks, where she had grabbed me to throw
me in, dripped blood and so I made a blood oath, not meaning to.
"I vow to save my friends and family, no matter what cost it is to myself.
We will be free once more." I cried as I lost to the darkness of oblivion
It wasn't until a year later I for filled part of that vow...
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