A legacy is born....
Indigo shifted a bit in the bed, Starfall was there, she felt his presence. He had told her goodbye. She understood what that ment. He knew the time was coming, and she felt the storm brewing outside. In her mind the voices grew in time with the storm outside. She felt like she was drowning words caught in her throat, she gasp for breath and then everything was dark. She felt herself flailing in the dark she could feel things nipping at her like fish in a dark ocean.... she couldn't scream because if she did the cold would sink into her lungs....
Everything stoped... she felt everything slow down she say eyes in the cold and in the dark. All of them looking at her- reds blues greens and oranges, all cold and inhmane, and she felt the cold breathing of things on her neck, her feet finally seemed to touch the ground, but in the dark she could not see. Her skin cold to the touch and she shivered and at once thousands of voices were heard in her head, "We can stop the cold, stop the pain.... stop fighting...." The pain of everything in her mind at once made her crumple to the ground. She held her head and screamed, trying to fight back against the voices, to make her leave her be, but the voices continued, "Everything will be better soon- you'll see....." She wanted to pain to stop, she wanted the darkness to wash over her to make her forget eveything, but she couldn't. She clawed at her skin the pain of her flesh ripping brough her back to her senses. "No..... I don't want to be part of you..... leave me alone!" Her voice echoed in the dark off of unseen walls. She thought she saw the eyes closing and the dark receding.... she thought for a moment everything was over..... then she heard it behind her, the snicker snacking of jaws and the clacking of claws on the ground, she had barely enough time to duck as a long neck and jaws snapped right where her head should have been.
She screamed in terror and moved to flee, but the jaws were too close and the claws were just so.... she turned to face it... and for the first time she saw it; the thing she called the Jabberwocky- the thing she had called into existance unknowingly....
It's voice was like a thousand knives.... "Join me... serve me.... and I will make you whole..... " So many emotions that she just wasn't sure of bubbled to the surface and she closed her eyes. When she opened them again the Jabberwocky no longer looked like an evil Bandersnatch, but a normal man, standing before her. "Walk with me.... I will show you things.... " She was confused this new thing the dark had never done it was evil and inhumane nothing in the dark took human shape.... she took a few steps with the now man, and it spoke again this time, "You are part of us now... you can never leave and never turn back... they will hunt you and kill you... only if you work with me can I save you from all of the people that want to hurt you." She watched the man and she sighed nodding hr head to his words, knowing that what he said was true... she watched the scenery around them, not sure when it appeared but he showed her images of other Magi hunting her following her rooting her out.... putting her on trial... all for the simple process of existing... and she shook her head.... she didn't want to believe... but she had seen so many die.... so many get killed just for being something the Magi didn't like... and his ploy... it almost worked... for a split second as he was droning on she almost gave in, she almost let the dark touch that part of her soul that it never had before.... she had almost given into the dispare that it was showing her.
She almost let it take her hope. Her hope that she would be okay, that she could stand against all of this- and in that moment the man/Jabberwocky knew.... he knew his failure and he was enraged the face of the man slipped away and he was once again the Bandersnatch- she had seen throught his disguise his trik and now he hated her even more, with his long neck and teeth he lashed out riping at the flesh of her shoulder, she screamed in pain, but took that moment to lash out against him for the first time she struck back against the demon.... and a sword appeared in her hand and a shield at her arm, and she fought against it, at first merely deflecting it's anger and madness, it drove her back into the dark where it was stronger the images and dreamscape fading.... finally she started fighting dealing blow for blow and in the last moments of the battle she could see the creatures watching in the distance coming closer.... she would be over run... after this battle there would be many many more.... so many more, she put down the sword looking to the near defeated Jabberwokcy, that looked back at her now with her face.
Had she been running from herself this whole time? Her own corruption... her own darkness? She couldn't kill another part of her soul... but looked into her own dark eyes with the sword in one hand and her eyes locked onto her own, she made a decision.... she had to accept this part of her soul, as tainted and corrupted as it was, as twisted and as dark, so that she could fight the others in the dark.... to make herself more complete to accept the darkness and use it to her ends, she took the defeated part of herself, the corruption that she now controled and it was no more....
And at once the darkness screamed and it bit at her heels- but now she could twist it on itself... it knew it had lost... this battle.
Everything stoped... she felt everything slow down she say eyes in the cold and in the dark. All of them looking at her- reds blues greens and oranges, all cold and inhmane, and she felt the cold breathing of things on her neck, her feet finally seemed to touch the ground, but in the dark she could not see. Her skin cold to the touch and she shivered and at once thousands of voices were heard in her head, "We can stop the cold, stop the pain.... stop fighting...." The pain of everything in her mind at once made her crumple to the ground. She held her head and screamed, trying to fight back against the voices, to make her leave her be, but the voices continued, "Everything will be better soon- you'll see....." She wanted to pain to stop, she wanted the darkness to wash over her to make her forget eveything, but she couldn't. She clawed at her skin the pain of her flesh ripping brough her back to her senses. "No..... I don't want to be part of you..... leave me alone!" Her voice echoed in the dark off of unseen walls. She thought she saw the eyes closing and the dark receding.... she thought for a moment everything was over..... then she heard it behind her, the snicker snacking of jaws and the clacking of claws on the ground, she had barely enough time to duck as a long neck and jaws snapped right where her head should have been.
She screamed in terror and moved to flee, but the jaws were too close and the claws were just so.... she turned to face it... and for the first time she saw it; the thing she called the Jabberwocky- the thing she had called into existance unknowingly....
It's voice was like a thousand knives.... "Join me... serve me.... and I will make you whole..... " So many emotions that she just wasn't sure of bubbled to the surface and she closed her eyes. When she opened them again the Jabberwocky no longer looked like an evil Bandersnatch, but a normal man, standing before her. "Walk with me.... I will show you things.... " She was confused this new thing the dark had never done it was evil and inhumane nothing in the dark took human shape.... she took a few steps with the now man, and it spoke again this time, "You are part of us now... you can never leave and never turn back... they will hunt you and kill you... only if you work with me can I save you from all of the people that want to hurt you." She watched the man and she sighed nodding hr head to his words, knowing that what he said was true... she watched the scenery around them, not sure when it appeared but he showed her images of other Magi hunting her following her rooting her out.... putting her on trial... all for the simple process of existing... and she shook her head.... she didn't want to believe... but she had seen so many die.... so many get killed just for being something the Magi didn't like... and his ploy... it almost worked... for a split second as he was droning on she almost gave in, she almost let the dark touch that part of her soul that it never had before.... she had almost given into the dispare that it was showing her.
She almost let it take her hope. Her hope that she would be okay, that she could stand against all of this- and in that moment the man/Jabberwocky knew.... he knew his failure and he was enraged the face of the man slipped away and he was once again the Bandersnatch- she had seen throught his disguise his trik and now he hated her even more, with his long neck and teeth he lashed out riping at the flesh of her shoulder, she screamed in pain, but took that moment to lash out against him for the first time she struck back against the demon.... and a sword appeared in her hand and a shield at her arm, and she fought against it, at first merely deflecting it's anger and madness, it drove her back into the dark where it was stronger the images and dreamscape fading.... finally she started fighting dealing blow for blow and in the last moments of the battle she could see the creatures watching in the distance coming closer.... she would be over run... after this battle there would be many many more.... so many more, she put down the sword looking to the near defeated Jabberwokcy, that looked back at her now with her face.
Had she been running from herself this whole time? Her own corruption... her own darkness? She couldn't kill another part of her soul... but looked into her own dark eyes with the sword in one hand and her eyes locked onto her own, she made a decision.... she had to accept this part of her soul, as tainted and corrupted as it was, as twisted and as dark, so that she could fight the others in the dark.... to make herself more complete to accept the darkness and use it to her ends, she took the defeated part of herself, the corruption that she now controled and it was no more....
And at once the darkness screamed and it bit at her heels- but now she could twist it on itself... it knew it had lost... this battle.