Monday, August 20, 2007

   Second page of my story! Spirit World-Fierce's Story: Chapter 1- Life, Death, and Love: Part 2
Bringing myself back to the real world, I forced myself to speak. “Where are we?” I asked as I now looked around the building. It was very dirty. It reminded me of a dark, black hole that sucked up everything in its path. Random odds and ends were placed here and about.
“We are in an abandoned orphanage,” she explained, “Well, the attic at least.” It made sense, although, I didn’t feel quite right. It felt like there was a presence of something strong.
“Where was that place just now?” she asked, breaking my trance.
“Umm, well, I’m not supposed to tell you… But I will anyway… As thanks for saving me,” I replied. I couldn’t lie to her, and she did help me. My mind was pondering once again, uncontrollably. 'Just tell her then kill her!' One thought said. Another one said, 'No wait, she could be your human! Just tell her!' It was like the devil and the angel those silly humans made up sitting on your shoulders, arguing at you, telling you to do one good thing and one bad thing at the same time. 'I can’t decide, sorry!' I said to myself in my mind.
After a long period of silence, she asked again, “Where was that place just now? C-can you tell me? If you don’t want to tell me, y-you don’t have to, you know.” She was so nervous; I wanted to cry for her. I felt like I could tell her anything.
“That place was Spir--” I started to say, but stopped, feeling drowsy. 'Those damn spirits better not have drugged me again,' I thought to myself, but didn’t really have much time to think about it. Before I knew it, I fell into a deep and dark, dreamless sleep.
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When I awoke, I was in a different room of the orphanage, I think. There were rows and rows of beds. I was on one of them. The girl was on the one next to me, sleeping like a baby. My cuts and gashes were all nicely bandaged with bloodstained sheets of medical cloth. 'I’ll have to thank her later...' I said in my mind. I was feeling a lot better, but I was starving.
I decided to walk around and take a look at the rest of the orphanage, hoping to find some food. I went down the stairs and I looked straight ahead, wide-eyed. There was the kitchen. I checked the pantry, the refrigerator and the cupboards. 'No food,' I thought, hungrily.
I walked towards a door that led outside. The outside nighttime view was beautiful. Trees glistened green colors, smoke rose from the neighboring chimneys and the starry night sky. There was a full moon, too.
“Pretty, huh?” A voice said behind me. I turned around. It was that same girl. “Do you want to go and walk outside?” She asked. I nodded. I really did want to see what the human world was like. I’ve only seen pictures of it in books and I’ve heard of it from my classmates.
We started walking down the road. I was beginning to feel uncomfortable. I wondered 'What if someone sees us?' The girl seemed to act like nothing wrong was going on, like this was normal. 'Maybe it is…' I stupidly imagined. Of course it wasn’t normal. I wasn’t supposed to be here and no one was supposed to see me. As we walked in silence, I began to question myself why I was doing this in the first place. Then my mind started wandering toward the girl. 'What is her past like? Why is she not freaking out? And what in the world is her name?' I couldn’t bring myself to ask these questions as we took a sudden turn.
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