The stars shone brightly through the oak window illuminating the room in its glow. The ticking of the clock was the only sound anyone could here within the confinements of the room itself. Clothes were strewn about everywhere, the bed was hastily made, and the TV was flickering softly in the corner. A PS2 hooked up to it hummed softly nearby.
The shouting downstairs disturbed the peaceful silence and the person who occupied this room stormed in. Her bright blue gray eyes showing hostility and the creases in her brow proved only her anger. “I swear that woman just WANTS to piss me off so she can keep me grounded,” the girl spoke vehemently pulling her dark brown hair into a messy bun. “Saying I need to go out and have my social skills advanced. Tch! If anyone needs them it’s her.”
She flopped down in her beanbag chair in front of her TV. The chair itself was sinking under her weight. Closing her eyes softly and sighing, she tried in vain to stop the throbbing headache in her frontal lobe. “Come on (Your Name). Pull yourself together. Don’t let her push you like this.” And yet the comment did nothing to stop or slow down her headache from getting slightly worse. “Argh! This sucks! I need something to do!”
Opening one eye and scanning her room, (Your Name)’s eye landed upon her game console. “Hmm…that actually may work…” Getting up onto her knees, she made her way over to the cabinet under the TV. “Now…let’s see what we have…Dragon Ball Z? No…Star Wars Episode III? Nah…Xenosaga? Nuh uh….Kingdom Hearts? Oh yeah.” (Your Name) hugged the game to her chest smiling happily. This game always left her enough room to keep on improving and able to kick heartless baddies asses.
Quickly getting into the game, (Your Name) almost completely forgot that she was upset. This game usually held that effect; much to her parental unit’s displeasure. This only moved the teen to play more just to see what the reaction would be. Snickering to herself softly, (Your Name) defeated yet another swarm of Heartless in Hallow Bastion. “Yup, I would just love to see that…”
A few hours past and a soft knocking was heard on her bedroom door. “Who is it?” (Your Name) demanded, unhappy that her game was disrupted.
“It’s Dad, may I come in?” the voice spoke from the other side of the door.
“Yeah, Help yourself,” she grunted pausing her game fully as her father opened the door and stepped inside.
“Your mother told me what happened tonight.” He stated softly leaning against the doorframe.
(Your Name) frowned again. “Why are you bringing this up once more? As I’ve said before, I don’t care what you say anymore.” Her dad’s eyes hardened into unquestionable anger, fire starting to burn in his chocolate brown depths. But what he failed to notice, however, was that (Your Name) was not mad at him. She was only mad at the situation and the words spoken to her. “But whatever, I’m not going out and that’s that. End of story.” She added as an after thought.
Her father crossed his arms and his eyes started to narrow. “Don’t you ever talk to your mother or me like this. It’s very disrespectful. Don’t do it again.”
(Your Name) turned to him and eyed him coolly, “It’s not like it really matter’s Dad. I already know I’m going to be grounded. So just do it and get on with your life.”
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Yeah. That was just a few hours ago too. (Your Name) was indeed grounded and forced to go out to dinner with them. It was pure torture. Wearing a dress for four hours straight and having to meet her father’s business partners nearly made her want to run home and burn the stupid thing. Not only did she have to put on the sweet girl act but she also had to me her “boyfriend” for the first time. That was set up courtesy of her father and mother put together. It was only when they started to walk home did she have a weird experience.
She was walking behind her parents down the sidewalk in Downtown Seattle when a store’s window caught her eye. A lady dressed in a long, blood red cloak down to her ankles and a blind fold over one eye was standing in a pool of black water. Creatures that looked like dead trees standing behind her wrapped some of their thin branches around the lady’s shoulders. Within her grasp she held a long, jagged dagger dripping blood into the black foams of the water.
“Intriguing picture isn’t it?” an old lady suddenly spoke next to the girl startling her out of her wits.
“Watch it lady! It’s not good to sneak up on people like that!” (Your Name) spat pulling on her coat tighter around her shoulders.
“Now, now child. This picture holds many secrets that most do not know of. Be warned young one. Strange happenings are coming and darkness is going to fall on this world. It would be best to leave what you hold dear to your heart for it is going to be the only way that will allow you to survive.” (Your Name) looked down at the lady only to find her gone. The only thing left was the warmth that was slowly dissipating into the cool air of the city. It made her wonder if the lady truly existed at all or if it was just her imagination.
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(Your Name) sighed into her pillow trying in vain to allow sleep to take her into the world of dreams. But the words spoken to her by the old lady were still very fresh in her mind. ‘What did she mean?’ the girl thought while putting her hands behind her head.
It would be best to leave what you hold dear to your heart for it is going to be the only way that will allow you to survive. “Tch. Old bat. She doesn’t know what she’s saying.” (Your Name) muttered pulling the covers over her head and finally allowing sleep to take her. Little did she know, just outside her window another star in the sky fell and beady, bright yellow eyes started to pop up out of the ground. The people of her world had no idea what was going to come for them in the dead of night.
Within (Your Name)’s room, her PS2 hummed.
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Darkness started to illuminate and grow within each home, the silky hands of the misty blackness covering the forms of people in the millions. It consumed them, destroyed them, all until nothing was left. Not even the person’s steady beating heart. The shadow’s chirped in silent glee, their yellow eyes shining in silent mirth as they slithered into each home. Nobody was spared. No child or adult, male or female. All was lost within the chaos. Silently they made their way into the home that (Your Name) slept in, creeping through the cracks of the windows, doors, mirrors. Nothing could escape them. Nothing would be saved.
(Your Name) shifted in her sleep, turning over onto her side towards her door, unknowing of what was coming to play. The shadows slowly came out of the ground, blinking as they got intrigued by the small, bright green and blue light shining from her PS2. One such curious one hobbled over to it and poked a button, earning a hit on its head when the machine opened to reveal what it hid inside. The shadow hissed and scratched at it, very unhappy that it was in pain, but the scratching noise gave off enough sound to wake up the sleeping girl.
Opening her eyes blearily, (Your Name) came into focus on her surroundings. The shadows quickly dispersed into the ground, hiding until their prey went back to dream land. Sitting up and looking around her room, (Your Name) could have sworn that something was in here making noise. She looked to her closet, her door, and even her computer to find nothing. Sighing in relief, she went to lay back down when she noticed that her PS2 was open. Confusion and slight annoyance flitted across her eyes as she got up out of bed to check on it. Who the hell would be in her room at this time of night to play video games? Surely not her mother or father. Heaven forbid that they would sit down and play games when they were too busy with work and other things.
Her feet padded across her carpet towards her PS2 and the open disc space that held her game. Twitching while pushing the button to close it, (Your Name) really wanted to hurt something, ‘And I didn’t even get to save it. The person who just opened it is going to pay.’ Little did she know that the person was not a person and that the “person” was actually something much more deadly, more sinister and that something was starting to come up out of the carpet again and moving with a natural creepy grace that only it could muster. The one who got hit in the head hissed highly at her, raising itself to full height, intent on bringing down its prey.
(Your Name) halted in getting up. Something was in the house and that something was moving right behind her. Standing up slowly, fear slowly taking over the anger in her eyes, she turned her head half way around to see what was behind her. Upon seeing nothing she sighed in relief. ‘Good, nothing’. That feeling didn’t last as she turned around fully. Shock jolted through her entire being along with fear. The shadow hissed again and swiped at her. Pain immediately seeped into her arm as the attack didn’t hit its intended target of her heart and instead hit her upper arm close to her shoulder.
‘What the hell!!!!
’ she thought as she backed away from the creatures in her room, ‘These guys don’t exist!!!’ Bolting out the door once it swung open, (Your Name) ran as fast as her legs could carry her to her parent’s room. Horror took over at her parent’s mangled bodies laying there in bed, hearts torn out and a blackish hue seeping into their skin. The hissing kept following her, adding her horror and fueling her desire to escape from this hell.
‘I don’t want to die…I don’t want to die…I don’t want to die,’ she screamed in her head as she sprinted out the door and into the hellish black sky. The evil surrounding the planet had turned the once peaceful blackish blue sky into a mixture of red inferno. Tears started to pour out of her eyes as the shadow’s slithered out of the houses, growing larger as they took more hearts. Where ever she turned more of them came at her, staring her down with their eyes, as if branding her, studying her, and intimidating her.
She couldn’t find a way out. She couldn’t find a place to hide. In a matter of seconds the shadows had surrounded her, hissing and scratching. Her clothes were torn; blood flowed freely from her wounds. Searing pain started to consume her senses as she began to lose consciousness from the lack of blood.
‘I don’t want to die….I don’t want to die….’
’ she thought as she backed away from the creatures in her room, ‘These guys don’t exist!!!’ Bolting out the door once it swung open, (Your Name) ran as fast as her legs could carry her to her parent’s room. Horror took over at her parent’s mangled bodies laying there in bed, hearts torn out and a blackish hue seeping into their skin. The hissing kept following her, adding her horror and fueling her desire to escape from this hell.
