Post by Darkie on Jul 25, 2009 21:14:44 GMT -5
I flipped through the pages of my Warriors book, drowning out the noise of the kids on the playground equipment.
Alice sat next to me, reading the book over my shoulder.
" Which one is this?" she asked.
Alice wasn't as avid a fan of Warriors as I was, but she enjoyed reading the books with me when she had nothing else to do.
" It's the fifth one in the Power of Three, Long Shadows," I replied.
She grinned, " Nice!"
As I read along the lines, a slight presence tugged on me, it urged me to the tree that Alice and I were sitting under.
I tried to ignore it, and focused on reading.
But it lingered, becoming more and more nagging until finally I decided to do what it was trying to tell me to do.
I glanced up at the tree, and looked in over.
For a minute, I didn't see anything, until a faint gleam caught the corner of my eye.
A necklace hung on the end of one branch, and strangely, I could see a faint, golden aura around it, calling me to it.
Alice seemed a tad bit distracted, as she had taken the book right out on my hands while I was distracted and was skimming over the pages with her grey-blue eyes.
At this time, I wrapped my hands around the tree trunk like a pair of cat paws, and began climbing.
Alice didn't even know I was gone until she finally tore her eyes away from the book and looked over to where I had been, then up at the tree, and saw me clinging onto the branch, making my way towards the odd glowing necklace.
" Alexa!" she shouted, " What the heck are you doing?!"
I didn't answer, and wrapped my hand around the tangled chain that hung on the very tip.
Alice was pacing back and forth rapidly, her face filled with concern.
I reached over to pull the chain off the branch, when, I lost my grip for one second, and just barely managed to grip the branch with my one free hand to prevent me from falling to my doom.
Now I was hanging with my feet about a few feet off the ground, one hand gripping the branch, and the other hand with the necklace in it's grasp.
Lifting the necklace to my face, I saw it had a strangely carved dragon charm with two darkly colored green jems for eyes.
The eyes flashed for a moment, and what seemed like a movie came into my head.
White fog swirled around a dark mouth of a tunnel that seemed to be laden with moss and lichens.
Small stalagmites were forming, and occasionally, a puff of warm air would rush out of the cave, sounding as if some massive creature was exhaling.
I screamed and backed up as a white dragon poked it's head out of the cave, and stared at me with it's deep blue eyes.
Unfortunately, much to my horror, during that temporary moment of panic, I had lost my grip onto the tree branch, and the breath was knocked out of my lungs as I fell 5 feet below onto hard ground.
Pain jolted up my back, and I didn't even cry out, just lay there, limbs sprawled out and staring up into space.
The last things I saw and heard were the kids gathering around me and Alice running off, screaming at the top of her lungs for help before everything faded to black.
Alice sat next to me, reading the book over my shoulder.
" Which one is this?" she asked.
Alice wasn't as avid a fan of Warriors as I was, but she enjoyed reading the books with me when she had nothing else to do.
" It's the fifth one in the Power of Three, Long Shadows," I replied.
She grinned, " Nice!"
As I read along the lines, a slight presence tugged on me, it urged me to the tree that Alice and I were sitting under.
I tried to ignore it, and focused on reading.
But it lingered, becoming more and more nagging until finally I decided to do what it was trying to tell me to do.
I glanced up at the tree, and looked in over.
For a minute, I didn't see anything, until a faint gleam caught the corner of my eye.
A necklace hung on the end of one branch, and strangely, I could see a faint, golden aura around it, calling me to it.
Alice seemed a tad bit distracted, as she had taken the book right out on my hands while I was distracted and was skimming over the pages with her grey-blue eyes.
At this time, I wrapped my hands around the tree trunk like a pair of cat paws, and began climbing.
Alice didn't even know I was gone until she finally tore her eyes away from the book and looked over to where I had been, then up at the tree, and saw me clinging onto the branch, making my way towards the odd glowing necklace.
" Alexa!" she shouted, " What the heck are you doing?!"
I didn't answer, and wrapped my hand around the tangled chain that hung on the very tip.
Alice was pacing back and forth rapidly, her face filled with concern.
I reached over to pull the chain off the branch, when, I lost my grip for one second, and just barely managed to grip the branch with my one free hand to prevent me from falling to my doom.
Now I was hanging with my feet about a few feet off the ground, one hand gripping the branch, and the other hand with the necklace in it's grasp.
Lifting the necklace to my face, I saw it had a strangely carved dragon charm with two darkly colored green jems for eyes.
The eyes flashed for a moment, and what seemed like a movie came into my head.
White fog swirled around a dark mouth of a tunnel that seemed to be laden with moss and lichens.
Small stalagmites were forming, and occasionally, a puff of warm air would rush out of the cave, sounding as if some massive creature was exhaling.
I screamed and backed up as a white dragon poked it's head out of the cave, and stared at me with it's deep blue eyes.
Unfortunately, much to my horror, during that temporary moment of panic, I had lost my grip onto the tree branch, and the breath was knocked out of my lungs as I fell 5 feet below onto hard ground.
Pain jolted up my back, and I didn't even cry out, just lay there, limbs sprawled out and staring up into space.
The last things I saw and heard were the kids gathering around me and Alice running off, screaming at the top of her lungs for help before everything faded to black.
