It was just another average day in the village. Me and the five others I call friends, had been sent to get water because Wu had destroyed yet another crop of grain. (>.< Why... why do we all always get punished for Wu's messups...) We eventually took a break on the hill just outside town, I was exhausted carrying as much water as the others, I'm just a single scrawny girl. *pouts*
Anyways Benji saw smoke coming from the north, everyone thought it might be a forest fire, but it looked so far away from the trees I was sure it would just die out & I said so too >.>;;; but, then I heard Rhia & Wy talking about something to the south a skeletal figure, something about a scythe and a floating skull... was so creepy. I so didn't wanna go. Then, the others decided that we were going to check it out, & I followed behind them. What we found was a skeleton, a warning to anyone not to go deeper into the woods. Tal said it was someone from the village, or was it Benji.. I don't know who but someone did.
If that wasn't bad enough there were tracks going deeper into the forest we were told not to go into, to stay away from. Again I didn't want to go, but yet I didn't want to be left alone either so again I followed behind everyone, the whole time thinking that my friends were nuts. Especially when the tracks began to become bloody and the leaves falling from the trees were turning colors & withering before they hit the ground. I looked up and the trees were knitting together, as if they were becoming like one organism at their tops and we had walked right into that monstrous creature. I was nearly scared out of my mind.
Then we hit the clearing, seeing more bodies seemingly at a disheveled & ransacked campsite, I began to dread the decision to come into this evil place. I wanted to run away, to hide under my bed... but there... there were these creatures darting through the trees with glowing green eyes, I wanted to shoot at them, to wish this were all just a dream, that I had never been born... But, they started to talk to us. At first I was too paniced to listen, but after not being attacked for moments I settled a bit, began to listen, and asked a stupid question, to which Wu answered with another & cost us 2 of our suppossed questions. (So wish I hadn't done that, I am such a dunce x..x). But at least we found out that the villagers were hiding something because of it. We also heard about the treaty that suppossedly allows us to pass through this god forsaken place.
After this disturbing event, we all decided we should head back to the village. We gathered our water buckets at the hillside (we had ummms left them behind <.<;), and headed back to the village. Which upon entry we found it in heavy activity, people worried about the fires, which turned out to be an attack on another village. There was a boy & Elder Joshua out in the open, and we eventually settled on going to the Elder's cabin (after Wu had knocked him over, & I helped him there ugh). Once inside we were told that the Elder had been lying to everyone he had found a stockpile of... books O.O. He gave us one in particular which Tal grabbed and opened to an inserted bookmark. This thing (which Tal said was bound in human skin... again Totally Creepy!!!) we found out about a group of heros who had fought valiantly against an ancient evil, and had locked it away by locking away their power. We didn't find out who they were but we did find out where it was with a map (also on human skin Ewwwwwwwwww) & everyone decided to go in search of the tomb of "Hidden Power". Some in hopes of finding our memories, some in hopes of finding power, & yet more just for excitement or curiosity. (I was of the First & Second groups >.>.)
So we left and trekked back through the forest, which yet again disturbed the hell out of me, but we made it to a bright clearing, where the sun shined through the trees. Here we found ruins, with writing that Tal wondered over, & a door that Wu knocked on... & that then came to life. The fgure set 2-Dimensionally nto it picked up swords and threatened us if we didn't answer a riddle. I was the first to answer it ^_^, (The answer was a hole <.<;;;) The answer unfortunatly caused the door to explode, and covered us in dust. It also cut some of us, namely Rupper & Tal, but especially Wu. But hey, I escaped just by rolling away. We ventured inside and using flashlights, got hit with spores o.o. Me & Tal passed out from it, damn my weak tolerance. I was awoken to water splashing on my face because of Rhia, and then a deep burning sensation, which caused me to scream and cry the gunk nearly exploding on my face. (I don't blame her, it wasn't her fault, because she had no idea that would happen, but my face was singed pretty badly.)
Again we headed inside and again there were more spores. But, this time I was prepared, having Rhia's scarf covering my face as we went deeper. Sawu told me about the diffrent things happening around us, having hidden inside my sash (sleeping as usual, lazy spider). He told me there were only three ways into this place, a vent on the cieling, a pathway of water, and the way we came. Apparently the others figured out there was a pathway of water on their own & spoke about it, and we were going to go through it with Rhia's swimming skill leading the way.
When we all got through to the room we... well not all of us since Rhia hadn't been covered in dust, we started burning from the dust covering us and it exploded giving us even more heavy damage. I sobbed more, the pain was excruciating, and I ended up curling in a ball next to Wu, who tried to endure the pain. Slowly I started propping myself up as the others were deciding something, I saw a purple hole and instinctively went towards it putting my arm through (I wonder who made a hole that was just the right size for my arm). The lacerations and burns from the exploding caused my arm to ache in the hole and I couldn't pull my arm back out, I had to endure it as throbbing energy came surging into my body, the strongest sensations I'd ever felt, and my own memory nearly blanking me out.
I saw me in a school office... the office of a Dean.. a Dean of a school.. and and... then this woman came through the door. It felt like I had never seen her before that memory, but yet... something was so familiar about her. She explained that she was my mother my REAL mother, and that I had a duty... To her and to the world, I hadn't lived up to her expectations, but she still expected so much of me, to carry the weight of divine blood...
Soon, it subsided nothing more than a memory and I was able to pull my arm out, just like the others. It was now dark and the walls started making wierd noises like they were going to crumble at any moment, I stumbled around unable to see, barely able to keep my footing even with Sawu's guidance, and then I bumped into someone. It was Rhia I grabbed hold of her and we all started to evacuate, even carrying this wierd woman, who spoke in what sounded like Spanish, I still have no idea what either of them said. Then she & Benji passed out as we were going up the stairs, I left them to rush outside, Wu grabbing Benji, & Rupper grabbing Tal.
Hey, we made it outside, all of us in better or worse shape, escaped alive even the wierd latin girl, But didn't the book say that giving up these powers sealed away an ancient evil... And didn't the girl wake up when we got our powers back? Then could she be the evil spoken about? or was it the monsters who in their rage destroyed the other village? After stating she could very well be the evil, and some of the others questioning her, Wu snapped at us. Well that made me feel bad, & the woman saying she had no clue who she was made me feel worse. So I apologized, but I still don't feel right about her...
