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Prologue
It was meant to be a normal weekend. It was supposed to be a fun time, a little break in the summertime. When seven friends got together and decided to go from their homes in London to spend the remainder of their summer in Bedford they imagined it as the best summer of their lives. Amelie, Charlotte, Keira, Laura, Edward, Aidan and Elliott were planning to go to the house that was near the Forest of Marston Vale, which was owned by Amelie and Laura’s parents. They arrived all eager and awaiting the thrill of a new place, and of exploring unknown territory. At first, it was everything they had imagined and more, but quickly they realized that something just wasn’t right about the place. At nighttime, odd sounds could be heard, as if someone was walking through the halls whispering much to quickly for anyone to understand. The whispering was always loudest in the room of the youngest of the seven, Laura. When the noises had begun but three nights after arriving at the house Laura had been petrified saying she always heard the noises in her closet. She hadn’t dared go near it, not even to unpack her clothes.
That’s when her fear left. Nobody really understood what had made the little eleven year-old girl stop fearing the whispers that were heard in the dark, when most of the older kids were still terrified. In fact, Laura’s personality had greatly changed when she finally summoned up the courage to open the door to her closet and found a small box. It was very similar to an antique music box that the girl had seen in pictures before. When she opened it however, music did not leave it. Oh no, instead a large shadowy figure flew out and into a corner of the room as sounds became louder. Loud cracks, and snaps, and spine-chilling sounds could be heard as the shadow began to take shape. The poor girl was about to let out a blood-curdling cry of fear when the creature took the shape that would resemble “Big Foot”. It had a humanoid shape but its features were pure animalistic, it had large black eyes and razor-sharp teeth. Brown and gray colored fur covered his entire body, and on his hands were claws that could cut like a knife.
Before her voice could leave her lips to call for help the creature lunged at Laura and knocked her out against the bedpost of her bed. He prodded her mouth open and opened his mouth and let out a long, thick, almost snake like tongue go down her throat and began to suck out her soul. If she had been conscious, Laura would have been screaming in pain as her life left her. Once she was basically dead, the creature injected his seed in her via his gruesome tongue. He brought his tongue out of her body and closed his mouth. He then turned back into the shadow form he had been when he escaped from the box. Laura was dead, but his minion had just been born. Laura had died when her soul had been sucked out of her body by that creature, but when he injected her with his seed, the creature had turned her into someone like him.
No one knew what had happened. Laura had become emotionless and cold and extremely over protective about the box that she had discovered. Her older sister, Amelie just became more and more worried as time went on. After about a week of her little sister acting like that, Amelie decided to have a talk with Laura and see what was wrong. She was about to knock on the door when she noticed it was opened a crack. Amelie was about to call out to Laura when she heard the whispering. Her eyes widened in curiosity as she looked down at her watch. It was still midday; the sounds usually didn’t come until late at night. She peaked in through the crack to see what was going on and what she saw changed her entire life. Laura, though it wasn’t really Laura, was standing in front of the most terrifying figure Amelie had ever seen in her life. Yet, Laura didn’t seem to be afraid. She, in fact, had a dazed look in her eye as she bowed her head in respect to the creature!
Amelie listened as quietly as she could in shock and horror. Laura wasn’t human anymore, Amelie wasn’t even sure if the girl she was looking at was Laura! She began trembling with fear as she listened. Laura was speaking to the creature; she called him ‘Master’. They were speaking about plans, plans to regain their lost land. What was scaring Amelie though was that the land they were talking about was practically all of Europe! Suddenly, they both stopped. And Amelie realized that the door had opened wider to reveal that she had been listening to their conversation. “GET HER!” the creature roared and Laura moved quickly towards her “sister”. Amelie was in shock but knew that she had to run. Her eyes landed on the box, the music box that Laura had been obsessed about. She knew that it held the key to saving her sister; it held the key to stopping the creature. Amelie quickly ran into the room and grabbed the box and ran outside as fast as her legs would allow her.
She ran outside and bumped into her other friends with tears streaming down her face. She told them they had to run, she frantically explained everything to them as she ran passed them. Laura soon appeared at the doorway looking as innocent as could be. Her eyes though told a completely different story. They held anger, and malice, and just about every evil emotion that existed. Amelie ran into town, her friends running after her asking her to explain calmly what had happened. When they arrived in the town Amelie shakily explained everything. She told them what she had seen, and that the music box must have had something to do with everything. And they had to find out what was going on.
The group of now six people found out what had happened many years before them, and how the creature, which was a stealer di anima, or soul stealer, killed his victims and made them serve him for all eternity. They found out how to use the music box and trap the creature once again. They also found that they had to make the hardest decision of their lives. They also had to seal away Laura, so that she couldn’t free her master. With tears in their eyes they watched her scream in rage at them, cursing them for doing this to her as they sealed her away in a music box of her own.
Now, in the year 2056 history is about to repeat itself.
 iLurk · Sat Sep 09, 2006 @ 04:09am · 0 Comments |
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