So the last one was a little cheesy but it is my personal opinion that cheese is good for you in small doses. Anyway, here is more story.
Skulduggery and Valkyrie must have been good enough people to understand that Kia needed some space after they took her father to jail because they didn't come back for the next two days. Or at least that was what Kia thought before finding out what acutally happened. During those two days Kia began to wonder whether she should also practice her magic so that she would not repeat her father's mistake or keep pushing it away as she had been. Which would be the better solution in this case? Kia spent hours getting distracted at school and getting kicked in the face at the gym because she could not stop thinking about it and her father. Just when she had resolved to never think about magic again, Skulduggery and Valkyrie appeared on her doorstep again.
"What do you want?" she asked.
They both stayed silent. That was not a good sign even though Kia had met them only once before it had become very apparent to her that Skulduggery was a man who liked his own voice very much and Valkyrie was not exactly the silent type either.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Your father is dead," Valkyrie said. Her eyes begged her not to freak out. Kia didn't listen.
"You killed him?" she shouted. Skulduggery and Valkyrie stepped past her and Skulduggery shut the door.
"No, we did not. We were on our way to the Sanctuary and we were attacked by vampires."
Kia froze mid thought. She hadn't known what she was going to say but she was sure that it no longer applied.
"Uh...ah...um...vampires?" she asked, not sure whether this was all a bad joke or not and desperately wishing it was.
"Yes, vampires. We were just driving along and we were attacked. It was late last night and vampires, well, they don't really like us so we were attacked and we did your best to defend your dad but there were four of them and that's a lot for us to defend against. Look here we got injuries too and--"
Kia couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Are you insane? There is no way you were attacked by vampires. Vampires don't exist, they aren't real."
Kia was going to keep rambling but she felt something invisible hit her chest and push her up against the wall. She saw Valkyrie with her hand spalyed out in front of her. Skulduggery clicked his fingers and fire appeard in his palm. This wasn't a small flame like the one he had shown her before. This was a roaring inferno.
"Vampires exist. Magic exists and you, you are now in the middle of it. I made a promise to your father to protect you and then he died because I wasn't able to protect him so now I will do everything in my power to make sure that you are safe and happy. Okay? But to do this I need you to believe that everything that is going on is real," Skulduggery's voice was soft but ragged as if he didn't want to be saying what he was saying. He blinked at her twice and then touched his collar bones so that his face melted off and left just a skull. Kia didn't scream. She was too startled to scream. She was too startled to do anything but stare. The skull watched her intently as if waiting to see what she would do. Kia looked back and then began to breathe. A couple months back, she had gotten into a fight with a street gang. She had seen them trying to take a girl somewhere against her will. Kia didn't want to think about what they might have done to her but seeing the girl squirming against their strong grips and their gleeful sneers had made her really, really angry. Kia had proceeded to beat the guys till they had to be sent to the hospital. Afterwards she had felt so guilty that she said she would give up martial arts but her teacher told her that she was being stupid.
"If you get angry enough you will find a way to hurt people and maybe next time instead of using you bare hands, you will use a metal pipe or a broken bottle. To help out the people that you think are in danger, that is an honorable way to fight but to lose yourself in the process is not good. I can teach you to calm your mind so that this will not occur again if you want." Her master had taught her various breathing techniques and thinking patterns so that if she got into a situation like that again, she would be able to react calmly.
Now, staring up into the holes where the skeleton's eyes would have been, she used every single technique he taught her. She forced her breathing to come out in long steady gusts, she forced her thoughts to turn to a calm, slow river, and she forced every muscle in her body to relax. These exercises were focused on taking away the emotions that would have forced her to attack or, in this case, scream until she fainted. In a matter of seconds, her fear, anger and sadness of her father's death seemed to be in the background. Kia looked at everything with a toughtful and analitical eye. There was a skeleton staing in front of her. She was being pressed up against the wall by some invisilble force, she had seen fire spring up into the man's hands with a click of his fingers and two days before, she had seen her father's eyes turn black. Not to mention, her own newly developed powers. If all of this existed, vampires could exist and they could have killed her father.
"Okay, sorry," she said to the skeleton. "I'll believe you."
He touched the marks on his collarbones and the fake face slid back up to cover his bones. He looked relieved that Kia had calmed down but there was something else there. Concern maybe? There was no reason for him to be concerned though. Kia was totally calm.
"What will you teach me?" she asked him still in the totally calm mode.
"I will teach you how to control your powers and about the magical world. I'll make sure that you are safe and protected and that no one around you gets involved."
"Okay," Kia said. She caught the look of confusion that flashed across Valkyrie's features and wondered what about her words had spiked it.
"Well, then okay," Skulduggery said, in the same way you would fill the silence after an awkward coversation. "I'm going to take you to the Sanctuary now."
Kia nodded and followed Skulduggery as he walked out the door. A flash of sadness made its way through the wall of calm she built around her mind and she staggered. Close eyes, deep breath. She was back in control.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Shockwave 3
The room fell dead silent at his declaration. What had he just said? Her father was kind and gentle despite his appearance. There was no way what he said was true. Kia began to tremble and she stepped away from her father.
"What?" Skulduggery asked as politely as he could.
"I was scared and I reacted. Some kids walked up to me on the street and tried to mug me. He had a gun and I... I just reacted. I felt this magic in my eyes and I looked at him and I saw his mind and I saw everything he was thinking and I decided that I never wanted him to think again and the next thing I knew he dropped to the ground. I checked his pulse he was dead."
Kia's father dissolved into tears.
"Dad, it was just an accident. You didn't mean to."
Skulduggery looked at Kia gently.
"I'm afraid that I'm going to have to arrest you for that. Even in the magical world, murder is illegal."
"What? No!" Kia shouted. "You can't!"
Kia's father looked at him with calm, clear eyes.
"I will go to jail with you. I know that I deserve it even if I didn't understand my magic back then, I still killed the man and I am guitly."
Skulduggery moved forwards and pulled handcuffs out of his pocket.
"I am arresting you by the power invested in me by the Irish Sanctuary."
"No!" Kia shouted and she jumped in front of her father putting her hands up in front of her like a boxer. "You can't take him away from me."
Her father placed his large hand on her shoulder and stepped around her.
"I'm sorry honey. I'm very, very sorry,"he said and he held his wrists out in front of him and allowed Skulduggery to cuff him.
"Dad!" Kia yelled again but he just turned away.
"I need you to promise me something," he said, looking directly at Skulduggery. "Promise me that you will take care of her and make sure that she doesn't lose control like I did."
Kia looked at her father in desperation but she could see that he had made up his mind. As soon as she realized that, her whole mind cleared and she stood up straight again. This was his decision and he was doing it partly for her sake. It was because of his honor and his pride that he made that decision so she would just let him go. She felt more than saw Skulduggery look at her and he nodded.
"Okay, I promise. I will look after her."
Kia looked at her father again. He looked proud despite the handcuffs on his hands. His green eyes, the only trait Kia had inherited from him, stared anywhere but at her.
"Come home soon," was all that she said before she turned away and walked towards the stairs to her room. As she tried to keep herself from crying, she almost missed the last words she would ever hear him say.
"I love you Kia."
"What?" Skulduggery asked as politely as he could.
"I was scared and I reacted. Some kids walked up to me on the street and tried to mug me. He had a gun and I... I just reacted. I felt this magic in my eyes and I looked at him and I saw his mind and I saw everything he was thinking and I decided that I never wanted him to think again and the next thing I knew he dropped to the ground. I checked his pulse he was dead."
Kia's father dissolved into tears.
"Dad, it was just an accident. You didn't mean to."
Skulduggery looked at Kia gently.
"I'm afraid that I'm going to have to arrest you for that. Even in the magical world, murder is illegal."
"What? No!" Kia shouted. "You can't!"
Kia's father looked at him with calm, clear eyes.
"I will go to jail with you. I know that I deserve it even if I didn't understand my magic back then, I still killed the man and I am guitly."
Skulduggery moved forwards and pulled handcuffs out of his pocket.
"I am arresting you by the power invested in me by the Irish Sanctuary."
"No!" Kia shouted and she jumped in front of her father putting her hands up in front of her like a boxer. "You can't take him away from me."
Her father placed his large hand on her shoulder and stepped around her.
"I'm sorry honey. I'm very, very sorry,"he said and he held his wrists out in front of him and allowed Skulduggery to cuff him.
"Dad!" Kia yelled again but he just turned away.
"I need you to promise me something," he said, looking directly at Skulduggery. "Promise me that you will take care of her and make sure that she doesn't lose control like I did."
Kia looked at her father in desperation but she could see that he had made up his mind. As soon as she realized that, her whole mind cleared and she stood up straight again. This was his decision and he was doing it partly for her sake. It was because of his honor and his pride that he made that decision so she would just let him go. She felt more than saw Skulduggery look at her and he nodded.
"Okay, I promise. I will look after her."
Kia looked at her father again. He looked proud despite the handcuffs on his hands. His green eyes, the only trait Kia had inherited from him, stared anywhere but at her.
"Come home soon," was all that she said before she turned away and walked towards the stairs to her room. As she tried to keep herself from crying, she almost missed the last words she would ever hear him say.
"I love you Kia."
Shockwave 2
Since, I haven't written here in a while so I will continue to write a lot today. Yay!
"Magic?" Kia asked skeptically.
"What's your explanation?" the tall, thin man asked.
Kia fell silent because she had no explanation.
"You are unfortunately part of a recent wave of normal people who randomly developed magical powers. As far as we know this has never ever happened before and we are still trying to find the cause but in the meantime we are trying to teach the people who gained these powers how to control them."
Kia looked at him.
"I don't need your help." Her eyes became steel. "I only used it once and never again. Okay? I don't want it and I won't use it."
The tall man looked at her in surprise. Kia realized, for the first time that his blue eyes were a little unfocused.
"That's funny."
Kia started.
"What do you mean that's funny? I'm serious."
"Oh, I get that, I get that. It's just we've visited tons and tons of other people and to think that out of all of them, the one that would turn down their magic was a teenaged girl. Valkyrie, she is a lot more responsible than you are."
Valkyrie huffed.
"You're forgetting something Skulduggery," Valkyrie said.
"Am I?"
"We have a magical reading for this house that is very recent. There is no way that this girl hasn't been using it. This house is covered in magical leftover. That's how we found her."
"Ah, that's true. So you were lying. You have used your magic recently."
Kia shook her head.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I actually haven't used it in two weeks."
"Do you live alone?"
"No, I live with my dad."
Kia froze.
"Wait, you think my dad can do magic?"
Skulduggery looked at Kia with raised eyebrows.
"Well, I don't know anything," she said. "Please leave."
Skulduggery didn't do anything for a second and then proceeded to walk into her house.
"So, what time will your father be coming home?"
Kia barred his way.
"None of your business. Please get out."
"Well, you see I can't do that. We really do need to make sure your father isn't running amok with his magic so we will wait for him here."
"No, you won't. Get out of my house."
Skulduggery tried to step around Kia and she grabbed his wrist and twisted it quickly so that Skulduggery was forced to his knees. Valkyrie stepped forward to help out but seemed to think better of it.
"Well, I didn't expect that," Skulduggery said as he gently twisted himself out of her grip. He watched with half amused expression as Kia slipped into her martial arts defensive position.
"Look, we really don't want to hurt you," he said. He put his hands out in front of him to show that he had no tricks up his sleeve. Kia took that opportunity and slipped forward, quickly and smoothly, and grabbed his wrist and sent him flying across the room. He hit the other wall and slid down. Valkyrie, deciding that it was up to her to finish the fight, dove at Kia from behind and managed to slip her into a headlock just as a large man's frame filled the doorway.
"Get your hands off of my daughter," the man said and he stepped into the light. Kia's father was an impressive man. He stood about 6' 4", and had a serious face which was now contorted into anger.
"Dad!" Kia called out and grunted as Valkyrie shifted her weight causing Kia's neck to twist at an even stranger angle.
"I don't want to have to repeat myself," Kia's dad said.
"Valkyrie, let her go," Skulduggery said. Valkyrie, seeming to resent it a little, let Kia go.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?"
"We are people here from the Irish Sactuary to talk to you about your new abilities."
"It didn't really look like you were talking." Anger filled the man's voice and his eyes turned black. Literally. Not only his normally green irises but even the whites of his eyes had turned black.
"Dad!" Kia shouted as her father raised his hand and pointed at Skulduggery.
"Get out of my house," he yelled.
"Sir, we don't want to hurt you. All we want to do is help you control your powers. Is that so difficult?"
"I-I-I'm sorry," he said and his eyes regained their normal color.
"Dad!" Kia yelled again. She wasn't sure whether she was feeling disappointed or happy that he had let it go. She ran to his side and clutched at his large arm. Standing next to such a big man made her seem a lot younger than sixteen.
"I'm fine," he said. Then turning to Skulduggery. "Can you really teach me how to control my powers?"
"I can teach both of you," he said calmly.
"Both of us? Kia don't tell me you can do the same thing as me."
"Well, not the same thing I don't think. I mean my eyes don't turn black, I think but I can do some magic."
Kia's father lowered his head.
"Will you train her here or what?"
"Well up to this point, we have taken people to the Irish Sactuary for a while so that they can get used to their powers and once they are able to control them, we send them back home. We can change that system though, since both of you use magic and there's no one at the house to hide your powers from."
"Take her and leave me here," Kia's father said.
"What?" Kia shouted, jumping away from her father. "You're sending me away too? You're just like mom."
That last statement seemed to hit Kia's father harshly and his face contorted.
"I killed someone," he shouted and his voice filled the room.
"I killed someone."
"Magic?" Kia asked skeptically.
"What's your explanation?" the tall, thin man asked.
Kia fell silent because she had no explanation.
"You are unfortunately part of a recent wave of normal people who randomly developed magical powers. As far as we know this has never ever happened before and we are still trying to find the cause but in the meantime we are trying to teach the people who gained these powers how to control them."
Kia looked at him.
"I don't need your help." Her eyes became steel. "I only used it once and never again. Okay? I don't want it and I won't use it."
The tall man looked at her in surprise. Kia realized, for the first time that his blue eyes were a little unfocused.
"That's funny."
Kia started.
"What do you mean that's funny? I'm serious."
"Oh, I get that, I get that. It's just we've visited tons and tons of other people and to think that out of all of them, the one that would turn down their magic was a teenaged girl. Valkyrie, she is a lot more responsible than you are."
Valkyrie huffed.
"You're forgetting something Skulduggery," Valkyrie said.
"Am I?"
"We have a magical reading for this house that is very recent. There is no way that this girl hasn't been using it. This house is covered in magical leftover. That's how we found her."
"Ah, that's true. So you were lying. You have used your magic recently."
Kia shook her head.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I actually haven't used it in two weeks."
"Do you live alone?"
"No, I live with my dad."
Kia froze.
"Wait, you think my dad can do magic?"
Skulduggery looked at Kia with raised eyebrows.
"Well, I don't know anything," she said. "Please leave."
Skulduggery didn't do anything for a second and then proceeded to walk into her house.
"So, what time will your father be coming home?"
Kia barred his way.
"None of your business. Please get out."
"Well, you see I can't do that. We really do need to make sure your father isn't running amok with his magic so we will wait for him here."
"No, you won't. Get out of my house."
Skulduggery tried to step around Kia and she grabbed his wrist and twisted it quickly so that Skulduggery was forced to his knees. Valkyrie stepped forward to help out but seemed to think better of it.
"Well, I didn't expect that," Skulduggery said as he gently twisted himself out of her grip. He watched with half amused expression as Kia slipped into her martial arts defensive position.
"Look, we really don't want to hurt you," he said. He put his hands out in front of him to show that he had no tricks up his sleeve. Kia took that opportunity and slipped forward, quickly and smoothly, and grabbed his wrist and sent him flying across the room. He hit the other wall and slid down. Valkyrie, deciding that it was up to her to finish the fight, dove at Kia from behind and managed to slip her into a headlock just as a large man's frame filled the doorway.
"Get your hands off of my daughter," the man said and he stepped into the light. Kia's father was an impressive man. He stood about 6' 4", and had a serious face which was now contorted into anger.
"Dad!" Kia called out and grunted as Valkyrie shifted her weight causing Kia's neck to twist at an even stranger angle.
"I don't want to have to repeat myself," Kia's dad said.
"Valkyrie, let her go," Skulduggery said. Valkyrie, seeming to resent it a little, let Kia go.
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?"
"We are people here from the Irish Sactuary to talk to you about your new abilities."
"It didn't really look like you were talking." Anger filled the man's voice and his eyes turned black. Literally. Not only his normally green irises but even the whites of his eyes had turned black.
"Dad!" Kia shouted as her father raised his hand and pointed at Skulduggery.
"Get out of my house," he yelled.
"Sir, we don't want to hurt you. All we want to do is help you control your powers. Is that so difficult?"
"I-I-I'm sorry," he said and his eyes regained their normal color.
"Dad!" Kia yelled again. She wasn't sure whether she was feeling disappointed or happy that he had let it go. She ran to his side and clutched at his large arm. Standing next to such a big man made her seem a lot younger than sixteen.
"I'm fine," he said. Then turning to Skulduggery. "Can you really teach me how to control my powers?"
"I can teach both of you," he said calmly.
"Both of us? Kia don't tell me you can do the same thing as me."
"Well, not the same thing I don't think. I mean my eyes don't turn black, I think but I can do some magic."
Kia's father lowered his head.
"Will you train her here or what?"
"Well up to this point, we have taken people to the Irish Sactuary for a while so that they can get used to their powers and once they are able to control them, we send them back home. We can change that system though, since both of you use magic and there's no one at the house to hide your powers from."
"Take her and leave me here," Kia's father said.
"What?" Kia shouted, jumping away from her father. "You're sending me away too? You're just like mom."
That last statement seemed to hit Kia's father harshly and his face contorted.
"I killed someone," he shouted and his voice filled the room.
"I killed someone."
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Shockwave
Hey there world!!! I am now officially starting a new fan-fiction. Like the last one, it will probably suck but that's okay because no one reads this blog anyway. YAY!!! (I just made myself a little sad). I'm actually just writing here on this blog to improve my writing so I actually don't care how bad it is as long as it's better than last time. So here I go. (I apologize beforehand for any typos I may make. I' actually really bad at typing)
PS: Anything in this story that belongs to Derek Landy, does not belong to me because it belongs to him. I am not trying to steal his characters, just trying to use them to move my story along.
Kia was just a normal girl. True, she was a black belt in two different martial arts and was on her way for a third and, yes, she could beat up most of the guys in her grade without getting a scratch but that didn't mean she wasn't normal. Right? No one seemed to think so. She had plenty of friends at school and no one really hated her (as far as she knew) but no one thought she was normal. They would often tease her, that is after they realized that she wouldn't punch them if she did. It did made getting a date a little difficult if the guy thought that she would throw him over her shoulder if he said something wrong but Kia was getting used to that. There were plenty of guys at the martial arts clubs who were more than willing to go out with her. And just to clarify, Kia wouldn't do that. While she could throw them across the room easily, she had just a little more self control than that. Just because she did martial arts didn't mean that she was a violent person. To her it was just a sport like any other. So, while Kia wasn't unpopular at school, she was still not treated like a normal person. People would come up to her and ask her to do things for them like protect them from bullies or dogs and stuff but Kia always turned them down. Just because she was strong didn't meant that she had to protect everyone. Those people should learn to protect themselves. So she did manage to gather a small amount of resentment from the bully victims at school but she didn't mind. They weren't her problem after all. She just wished that they would treat her like any other girl at school. So, that was why, when she gained that new ability, she tried her best to ignore it. She managed well for the first two weeks or so but when the tall, thin man in the hat and the dark eyed girl visited her, there was nothing she could do to ignore it anymore.
She had just been sitting in her living room, eating a mini pizza and watching a TV show about vampires which she could have cared less about. Really, the TV was just on so that the house wouldn't be totally silent. Her mother and father had separated five years back. Kia lived with her father butthe man was always working, leaving the house at 6 and getting back around 9. It's not like they really needed the money. They actually lived more than comfortably in their 4 bedroom house and Kia, at 17 owned her own car. No, they didn't need the money but Kia had the sneaking suspicion that her father couldn't look at her anymore without seeing her mother. So, she was home alone at 8 o'clock when the man and the girl knocked on the door. Since she had gotten home from training at 6:30, her hair was still damp from her shower and she was in her pajamas, a large t-shirt and some boxer shorts. She looked towards the door and sighed irritatedly, pulling on a sweater to seem a little decent. When she opened the door she froze because the first thing she was was a really tall guy in a suspicious-looking overcoat. Immediately all of her defenses went up and as a martial artist that meant that she was ready to beat the hell out of the guy as soon as he tried something funny. Then, Kia caught sight of the dark eyed girl next to him. She was probably only a year older than Kia, dressed from head to toe in black, and she moved in a way that Kia recognized all too well. This girl, whoever she was, knew plenty of martial arts as well.
"Can I do something for you?" Kia asked.
"Yes, we came to investigate something," the tall man said in a velvety voice.
"What?"
"What, what?"
"What did you come to investigate?"
"Oh, you know, just something."
Kia raised her eye brows incredulously.
"Look, sir. I don't know who you are or what you want but can you please leave?"
"She's turning us away," he said to his partner.
"Yes, she is," the girl replied a little dryly as if she didn't really want to play along with this charade.
"Why do you think she's doing that?" he asked.
"She probably thinks that you're a bad guy. You do look really suspicious."
"What about you? You look like an assassin or something."
The girl rolled her eyes and pushed the guy back so that she was standing face to face with Kia.
"We have come to talk to you about that new ability that you recently developed."
Kia froze. She had only used it once, by accident, two weeks before. How did they know about it?
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kia replied, deciding to play dumb.
"She's lying," the tall man said from behind his partner.
"I can see that," she said. "Look we just want to help you."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kia repeated.
"Wow, she's a good liar. I almost believed it that time," the tall man.
"Yeah," the dark eyed girl just watched her.
"Please can you go," Kia said, not sure why she was still trying to be polite.
"We know, okay? We know that you developed a new, strange ability and we want to help you."
Kia shook her head. This wasn't happening. These people were probably in the government. They would probably lock her up and send her off to some lab if they knew about what she could do. Just as Kia was contemplating running, the tall man stepped forward again and snapped his fingers. Kia expected a large number of fully armed guards to burst in from all over the place but instead, a small flame appeared in the man's palm.
"We have strange abilities too. Please, we are just trying to help."
Kia stared at the flame in his palm.
"How?" she asked.
"Magic."
PS: Anything in this story that belongs to Derek Landy, does not belong to me because it belongs to him. I am not trying to steal his characters, just trying to use them to move my story along.
Kia was just a normal girl. True, she was a black belt in two different martial arts and was on her way for a third and, yes, she could beat up most of the guys in her grade without getting a scratch but that didn't mean she wasn't normal. Right? No one seemed to think so. She had plenty of friends at school and no one really hated her (as far as she knew) but no one thought she was normal. They would often tease her, that is after they realized that she wouldn't punch them if she did. It did made getting a date a little difficult if the guy thought that she would throw him over her shoulder if he said something wrong but Kia was getting used to that. There were plenty of guys at the martial arts clubs who were more than willing to go out with her. And just to clarify, Kia wouldn't do that. While she could throw them across the room easily, she had just a little more self control than that. Just because she did martial arts didn't mean that she was a violent person. To her it was just a sport like any other. So, while Kia wasn't unpopular at school, she was still not treated like a normal person. People would come up to her and ask her to do things for them like protect them from bullies or dogs and stuff but Kia always turned them down. Just because she was strong didn't meant that she had to protect everyone. Those people should learn to protect themselves. So she did manage to gather a small amount of resentment from the bully victims at school but she didn't mind. They weren't her problem after all. She just wished that they would treat her like any other girl at school. So, that was why, when she gained that new ability, she tried her best to ignore it. She managed well for the first two weeks or so but when the tall, thin man in the hat and the dark eyed girl visited her, there was nothing she could do to ignore it anymore.
She had just been sitting in her living room, eating a mini pizza and watching a TV show about vampires which she could have cared less about. Really, the TV was just on so that the house wouldn't be totally silent. Her mother and father had separated five years back. Kia lived with her father butthe man was always working, leaving the house at 6 and getting back around 9. It's not like they really needed the money. They actually lived more than comfortably in their 4 bedroom house and Kia, at 17 owned her own car. No, they didn't need the money but Kia had the sneaking suspicion that her father couldn't look at her anymore without seeing her mother. So, she was home alone at 8 o'clock when the man and the girl knocked on the door. Since she had gotten home from training at 6:30, her hair was still damp from her shower and she was in her pajamas, a large t-shirt and some boxer shorts. She looked towards the door and sighed irritatedly, pulling on a sweater to seem a little decent. When she opened the door she froze because the first thing she was was a really tall guy in a suspicious-looking overcoat. Immediately all of her defenses went up and as a martial artist that meant that she was ready to beat the hell out of the guy as soon as he tried something funny. Then, Kia caught sight of the dark eyed girl next to him. She was probably only a year older than Kia, dressed from head to toe in black, and she moved in a way that Kia recognized all too well. This girl, whoever she was, knew plenty of martial arts as well.
"Can I do something for you?" Kia asked.
"Yes, we came to investigate something," the tall man said in a velvety voice.
"What?"
"What, what?"
"What did you come to investigate?"
"Oh, you know, just something."
Kia raised her eye brows incredulously.
"Look, sir. I don't know who you are or what you want but can you please leave?"
"She's turning us away," he said to his partner.
"Yes, she is," the girl replied a little dryly as if she didn't really want to play along with this charade.
"Why do you think she's doing that?" he asked.
"She probably thinks that you're a bad guy. You do look really suspicious."
"What about you? You look like an assassin or something."
The girl rolled her eyes and pushed the guy back so that she was standing face to face with Kia.
"We have come to talk to you about that new ability that you recently developed."
Kia froze. She had only used it once, by accident, two weeks before. How did they know about it?
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kia replied, deciding to play dumb.
"She's lying," the tall man said from behind his partner.
"I can see that," she said. "Look we just want to help you."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Kia repeated.
"Wow, she's a good liar. I almost believed it that time," the tall man.
"Yeah," the dark eyed girl just watched her.
"Please can you go," Kia said, not sure why she was still trying to be polite.
"We know, okay? We know that you developed a new, strange ability and we want to help you."
Kia shook her head. This wasn't happening. These people were probably in the government. They would probably lock her up and send her off to some lab if they knew about what she could do. Just as Kia was contemplating running, the tall man stepped forward again and snapped his fingers. Kia expected a large number of fully armed guards to burst in from all over the place but instead, a small flame appeared in the man's palm.
"We have strange abilities too. Please, we are just trying to help."
Kia stared at the flame in his palm.
"How?" she asked.
"Magic."
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Kali Fanfiction 6
Kali recoiled and felt anger burn though the mist in her mind.
"What the hell?" she yelled at him and was about to slap him back when she registered the clarity of mind that she was experiencing. The symbol above her head was still as bright as before but now Kali could think clearly. She concentrated and calmly brought the world around her to a stop. She gently grabbed Alec's wrist and allowed the magic to flood over him so that he could be part of the time stop.
"So what do we do now?" Alec asked.
"What I should have done the first time," she said, grabbing one of the vampire's knifes and meticulously slicing each and every one of their throats. Alec helped. After having killed each of the vampires, Kali turned to her uncle and froze. Every memory of him flashed before her eyes. The good memories while her parents were still alive, the terrible memories of that night, and the memories of all the times that he had helped her since then. Without meaning to, Kali had not only begun to trust him but also care about him in a strange messed-up way.
"What's wrong?" Alec asked.
"I can't do it. I can't kill him. He made my life hell and I can't even hurt him," Kali yelled at him, tears streaming down her face.
"May I?" Kali nodded and closed her eyes as Alec cut his throat.
The moment Kali heard the soft snick of Alec's knife sliding into her uncle's chest, she allowed time to continue at it's own pace. All around her, vampires exploded into blood, and though her uncle called out to her time after time, Kali kept her eyes stubbornly shut until his cries and whispers stopped cutting straight through her heart.
"Let's go," she said to Alec and walked out.
I know, it was a sucky ending but I lost interest so it wasn't going to get better. Maybe if I regain interest I'll come back and edit it or something. Anyway, it's over. THE END.
"What the hell?" she yelled at him and was about to slap him back when she registered the clarity of mind that she was experiencing. The symbol above her head was still as bright as before but now Kali could think clearly. She concentrated and calmly brought the world around her to a stop. She gently grabbed Alec's wrist and allowed the magic to flood over him so that he could be part of the time stop.
"So what do we do now?" Alec asked.
"What I should have done the first time," she said, grabbing one of the vampire's knifes and meticulously slicing each and every one of their throats. Alec helped. After having killed each of the vampires, Kali turned to her uncle and froze. Every memory of him flashed before her eyes. The good memories while her parents were still alive, the terrible memories of that night, and the memories of all the times that he had helped her since then. Without meaning to, Kali had not only begun to trust him but also care about him in a strange messed-up way.
"What's wrong?" Alec asked.
"I can't do it. I can't kill him. He made my life hell and I can't even hurt him," Kali yelled at him, tears streaming down her face.
"May I?" Kali nodded and closed her eyes as Alec cut his throat.
The moment Kali heard the soft snick of Alec's knife sliding into her uncle's chest, she allowed time to continue at it's own pace. All around her, vampires exploded into blood, and though her uncle called out to her time after time, Kali kept her eyes stubbornly shut until his cries and whispers stopped cutting straight through her heart.
"Let's go," she said to Alec and walked out.
I know, it was a sucky ending but I lost interest so it wasn't going to get better. Maybe if I regain interest I'll come back and edit it or something. Anyway, it's over. THE END.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Kali Fanfiction 5
Alec looked around, panicking. He was struggling to think straight but he could barely register the sounds and images that his mind took in through the fog that surrounded his thoughts. He looked around wildly, noticing that everyone else was doing the same. He thought desperately but none of the ideas or images could find each other as if they were stumbling blindly through a thick haze. Then he saw Kali slump into the Grand Mage's arms. Her eyes rolled back into her head as if she had passed out and Alec saw the symbol above his head dim, though it did not disappear. The Grand Mage looked surprised by her faint and frowned. Alec understood immediately and tried to catch another person's eyes. As soon as he was sure the young woman in front of him understood what he was trying to say, he allowed himself to slip into the fog in his mind hoping that the person would follow.
The lead vampire watched in anger as one by one, the people before him passed out. Each time one of them dropped, the symbol that had been forming above them, dimmed and as the last person fainted, it disappeared altogether. He felt the magic in the symbols in his arms dissipate. He growled deep in his throat, and the other vampires flinched as it become a sound of extreme frustration and anger.
"Wake them up," he barked at his minions. They stumbled over each other to obey.
Kali awoke abruptly to a harsh stinging on her left cheek. A snarling vampire stood over her. Reflexively, Kali kicked the vampire in the knees and heard a satisfying cracking sound but before she could do anything else, she was surrounded by three other vampires, who grabbed her arms and pinned them to her sides as they hauled her to her feet. Kali stopped struggling and they let her go. Then, they spread out and activated the symbols on their arms again. Kali felt the pressure return to her mind and she struggled to push away the white fog in her mind. She looked at Alec desperately and he slapped her.
The lead vampire watched in anger as one by one, the people before him passed out. Each time one of them dropped, the symbol that had been forming above them, dimmed and as the last person fainted, it disappeared altogether. He felt the magic in the symbols in his arms dissipate. He growled deep in his throat, and the other vampires flinched as it become a sound of extreme frustration and anger.
"Wake them up," he barked at his minions. They stumbled over each other to obey.
Kali awoke abruptly to a harsh stinging on her left cheek. A snarling vampire stood over her. Reflexively, Kali kicked the vampire in the knees and heard a satisfying cracking sound but before she could do anything else, she was surrounded by three other vampires, who grabbed her arms and pinned them to her sides as they hauled her to her feet. Kali stopped struggling and they let her go. Then, they spread out and activated the symbols on their arms again. Kali felt the pressure return to her mind and she struggled to push away the white fog in her mind. She looked at Alec desperately and he slapped her.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Kali's Fanfiction 4
"Nice try, pretty girl," the vampire leered at Kali. She just calmly glared back doing her best not to display the burning emotions in her gut. Her uncle's hand was firm on her back. He was right. She had begun to trust his even though she had promised herself she never would. He had not tried to help when her parents were killed, and he had personally killed her best friend but there was something about his charisma that kept her from hating him. Even now, as he gripped her tightly from behind, his soft smile and kind eyes made it nearly impossible for her to even dislike him.
"So you have decided to help us. How kind of you. Continue with the procedure," the lead vampire commanded and all the other vampires followed. Together, the vampires spread out into a circle around the twenty-four people standing there. Gently, they tapped a few symbols in the crook of their arms. Beams of light from the symbols flew out to the people in the circle. As one beam hit her, Kali felt a soft pressure in her mind that gently and carefully tried to blank out all her thoughts. It spread outwards and kept her from thinking clearly. Everything seemed blurred and annoying as she tried with all her might to concentrate. The beams of light grew larger, brighter and stronger and another symbol started to form above the group gathered below.
"Yes, people think, think with all you might. Your minds will power this machine and soon we will rule over everything," the vampire laughed maniacally. Then, Kali realized what she had to do. She imagined the emptiness in her mind to be coming from a soft, white light.Kali walked towards the light and relaxed into it. The light didn't bother her eyes or hurt her at all as Kali surrendered. Then, there was nothing. No thought, no sight, no feeling. It was as if everything in the world had ceased to exist and even her own consciousness was no longer there. The only thing that was left, was a vague idea of the person Kali.
"So you have decided to help us. How kind of you. Continue with the procedure," the lead vampire commanded and all the other vampires followed. Together, the vampires spread out into a circle around the twenty-four people standing there. Gently, they tapped a few symbols in the crook of their arms. Beams of light from the symbols flew out to the people in the circle. As one beam hit her, Kali felt a soft pressure in her mind that gently and carefully tried to blank out all her thoughts. It spread outwards and kept her from thinking clearly. Everything seemed blurred and annoying as she tried with all her might to concentrate. The beams of light grew larger, brighter and stronger and another symbol started to form above the group gathered below.
"Yes, people think, think with all you might. Your minds will power this machine and soon we will rule over everything," the vampire laughed maniacally. Then, Kali realized what she had to do. She imagined the emptiness in her mind to be coming from a soft, white light.Kali walked towards the light and relaxed into it. The light didn't bother her eyes or hurt her at all as Kali surrendered. Then, there was nothing. No thought, no sight, no feeling. It was as if everything in the world had ceased to exist and even her own consciousness was no longer there. The only thing that was left, was a vague idea of the person Kali.
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