The room faded into darkness. Neyeeva vanished from beside Eveela. Eveela gasped as the breath was knocked out of her and she felt like she was falling. She flailed, trying to grab onto something. Weight smashed down on her like she just got smashed by a building and she blacked out.
Eveela opened her eyes and sat up and looked around. She was in a forest. Night had fallen. Eveela got to her feet and saw Neyeeva asleep by her side. Eveela looked around, trying to identify anything, but it all seemed like a calm, normal forest to Eveela.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Neyeeva felt panic stricken as Eveela disappeared before her eyes. The blood, the Nightmare thing too vanished. Neyeeva whirled this way and that, looking for Eveela, the Nigthmare, something, /anything/.
ReplyDeleteNeyeeva abruptly felt the wind knocked out of her. She gasped for the breath lost so suddenly. Everything went blacker, darker. Neyeeva knew no more until she stirred.
Neyeeva awoke with a jolt. She continued to gasp for that lost breath, then found she took in too much, making herself choke. Neyeeva caughed out the excess air as she fell forward onto her hands and knees. She noticed that beneath her lay a forest floor, dirt, foilage, grass. She clutched at it gratefully, looked up to see Eveela. Neyeeva became dizzy with releif as she steadied her nerves. Neyeeva rose to her feet.
She realized suddenly what had happened. It was she who was manipulating the dream. It was her own raw emotions that had brought forth the Nightmare thing. The emmense anger that she had felt toward Eveela's mother. She had glimpsed the thing before she unconsciously took them from it. It was the dark, distorted form of Eveela's mother. Twisted, evil looking.
Neyeeva looked arround her at the forest. It seemed familiar, yet not familiar. She came to the conclusion that it was her subconscious that had brought them here, away from the Nightmare. The powers within her that allowed her to control the dream only obeyed what her mind ordered of them. Neyeeva shook her head, disappointed in herself at her own failure. "That should not have happened." She told herself firmly.
Neyeeva looked to Eveela then, giving her an apologetic look. "Eveela," she began, finally addressing the druid, "We must go back, continue. It is far from over."
Neyeeva concentrated, waiting for Eveela to take her part in bringing them to their next destination.
"No. It's continueing on itself" Eveela replied. She had felt a sense of familiarity to the forest, but she assumed it was just since she was a druid. But Eveela had not realized what exactly this was.
ReplyDeleteThundering shook the forest and Eveela stumbled a bit before regaining balance,"What the-" Eveela whipped around to see a large storm cloud in the distance. Eveela blinked. Why did this all seem extremely familiar? A slighter shaking shook the ground, but Eveela didn't lose balance.
Suddenly a panther sprang from the bushes. Atop its back was Eveela, alittle older then the last nightmare. Eveela looked around, her eyes narrowed with hatred. Behind her two more panthers sprang, Knici and Berlin atop them. They began to walk more slowly now, as if stalking prey. Eveela instinctivly followed them, ignoring if Neyeeva was following or not.
They came to a few houses. Eveela recognized them with a jolt. The one they were riding to was her father's. Eveela bolted after herself as the three rode toward the house, though her siblings seemed more curious of Eveela's action then easily guessing what was about to happen. They walked up to the house, dismounted, and then Eveela kicked and punched the door while shouting something. Eveela saw a blade, sheathed, at her younger self's side. Eveela watched the door open by her stepmother.
Everything happened at lightning speed. Eveela's younger self, driven by hate and the need for revenge, lunged foward, zipping past her stepmother and to her dad. She pulled the blade and screeched something.
Eveela felt her heart nearly stop "NO!" She shouted and lunged foward, not fully thinking and fell through them, almost like a ghost. And slammed head-first into the wall. Eveela stumbled backward to see it had already been done. Eveela's dad slumped over, his own daughter's blade driven into his heart. Eveela's stepmother screamed at the top of her lungs. But younger Eveela's bloodthirst and the need for revenge didn't stop her from whipping around, only to be grabbed by Berlin and driven to the ground.
Eveela felt herself mouth the words her younger self said,"LET ME GO!" Such hatred met her words... such pain and suffering.. Eveela's younger self nearly got free before Knici helped restrain her. Her stepmother turned and ran.
Knici and Berlin let Eveela go, who whipped around and snapped something Eveela couldn't hear, before turning and walking off.
The worst mistake she'd make.
Eveela's state of mind at the time of the incident had been that her mother and father both equally shared the blame, and deserved to be punished.
Eveela looked up and saw Neyeeva next to her, and blinked in surprise, completely forgetting the older druid had been accompanying her.
The room twirled and everything was gone, the furnitature, everything. Only the remains of the house remained standing. Eveela closed her eyes as tears began to form. She saw herself do it all over again, hatred and fury blinding her to reality. Eveela fell onto her hands and knees and opened her eyes. "It seems to be tapping into whatever memory I think of next" Eveela said, her voice slightly shaking. "If that's the truth..." Eveela let her voice drift off, fighting to keep her thoughts clear so they could stay in one location long enough to talk without being thrown into another terrible nightmare of Eveela's past. She forced her thoughts down, just focusing on very little.
((Agh that sucked. I'll need to edit that better later))
Neyeeva followed Eveela after the figures of the past. She witnessed the second terrible mistake Eveela had made. At first, she was confused as she watched the event unfold, then she understood. Neyeeva walked to stand beside Eveela, looking at the young Eveela, as she walked away from the brother and sister that she care so much for. She then listened as Eveela explained shakily, "It seems to be tapping into whatever memory I think of next."
ReplyDeleteNow it was clear to Neyeeva. It was Eveela who had brought them to the forest, not Neyeeva's own flight instincts. Though, both could have combined to bring them here. If that were true than there bond was much stronger that she had originally thought, which would make the certain circumstances unbearable, should they come to be. In any case they were here now. It was time to face this part.
"Eveela, you killed your father. In cold blood you ended his life. You mentioned to me when we talked of this before, that you blamed him as much as your mother. Do you still feel the same? Why did you walk away from Berlin and Knici?"
Neyeeva looked about the remains of the building, awaiting Eveela's response. Wondering, hoping, praying, that Eveela no longer blamed her father, and would at least admit her grave mistake and feel the deep regret she that she should.
Eveela paused for a moment. "I -blamed- him, I don't blame him now. At the time I was blinded by fury and anger... I wasn't thinking straight. It was not his fault, and I walked away from them because at the time my sate of mine announced that they had turned on me.." Eveela thought aloud. How foolish she was back then.
ReplyDeleteEveela got lost in thought afterwards, zoning out completely.
Neyeeva listened to Eveela then felt relieved that she was regretful of her actions. She looked upon Eveela, noticing her to turn inward to her own thoughts.
ReplyDelete"What are you thinking Eveela? Voice it. Tell me every thought you have while we are here. Leave no question unasked, unanswered. It is only here and now that you will face this, overcome it, move on. There are no more chances, no other options." Neyeeva warned, as she had repeatedly done over the past week. Neyeeva raised her brow to the other druid in question.
This was the last resort. There was no turning back now, only to go forward and either have things changed for the better, or not at all, leaving Eveela to her ultimate fate. It was all up to the troubled druid now, to decide her fate. If she became open, and faced her feelings as she should, there was hope. If not, then there was nothing that could be done for her.
Neyeeva looked to Eveela once more, waiting, wondering if she would take this chance and use it to the fulles potential.
Eveela opened her mouth, but at that instant her mind settled on one memory. The whole world spun around Eveela and she was suddenly in the sky. She felt like she was falling. She turned her head and saw the ground miles beneath her. The ground vanished and so did the sky. Eveela saw darkness everywhere, not even Neyeeva. Eveela looked around wildly. She fel like she was laying down now, and got to her feet. Whatever she was thinking vanished into thin air.
ReplyDeleteShe looked around and suddenly something grabbed her neck from behind, and then her shoulder and turned her around.
Eveela's blood drained from her face. There facing her was herself, shadow magic wreathing around her, her eyes a burning red and her skin pale like that of a Death Knight's. The Nightmare grabbed Eveela's throat and began squeezing, and rising Eveela off the ground. Eveela kicked and tried to pull the hand off her throat, but it was no use. Eveela felt her air being cut off by the Nightmare.
Eveela looked around for Neyeeva, who was nowhere to be found.
Eveela had no choice. She focused on the worst of her memories, thinking hard on it and closing her eyes. She imagined it in her mind and suddenly the weight on her neck vanished, her neck pulsing where the hand was. Eveela opened her eyes to find herself on the streets of Stormwind. She got to her feet and looked around. Neyeeva was standing next to her, as if all of it hadn't happened. She still looked at Eveela as she was before. Eveela let loose a sigh of relief, realizing her nightmare hadn't begun yet.
"Uh... just thinking of something." Eveela said, knowing that her thoughts had completely been erased when she blacked out. "The only thought I have erm... thought of is how I could've changed it, I suppose."
When she finished her sentence she saw a figure in the distance. It was her, a more updated version from the last vision, riding on her saber, Stormbringer. Eveela gazed at her Stormaber for a moment, then blinked. She looked at the house beside her and muttered,"Lell's" the name made her lips burn.
Eveela's past self dashed foward and kicked the door in, opening a house with Lell having her blade at Knici's throat, blood spattering her tabard.
Unlike the other visions, the voices were clear as day,"Ah! Eveela, such a pleasure you could join us" Lell said harshly.
"Give me back Knici and I'll be on my way, Death Knight." Eveela said plainly.
"Aww! But it would ruin all the fun! Why don't you stay for a cup of tea?" Lell snapped.
"Adorable." Eveela growled.
Eveela blinked for a moment, and suddenly her past self lunged foward. Lell and Eveela fought for what felt like an eternity, then Lell kicked Eveela backward and grabbed Knici again.
"Say goodbye to your sister" Lell cackled and stabbed her blade through Knici's back.
Knici's scream was cut off short as she fell to the ground. Lell took back her blade. Eveela lunged foward and grabbed her sister, as Lell cackled and walked past the present Eveela. Eveela ran foward to Lell, and then Lell TURNED to her.
Her face became twisted and she lunged foward to Eveela like a beast. Eveela let out a gasp and jumped backwards, only to realize she was standing on the edge of the canals and plummet into the water.
A hand reached up in the depths and grabbed Eveela. Eveela suddenly thought of Oakpack... the druid she had been amused by as he was drowning, little did she know at the time.
Suddenly everything twirled around Eveela. They were standing at the gates of Stormwind.
Eveela was sitting beside herself, staring ito the water of the Valley of Heroes. In the water was a splashing figure....
Oakpack.
Neyeeva was beyond suprised to have suddenly been taken from the abbandoned home to the streets of Stormwind. It was only a split moment later when Eveela appeared, causing her more confusion, yet she would not allow Eveela to see it. Neyeeva was about to ask Eveela what she meant by "how she would have changed it" when she noticed Eveela's gaze.
ReplyDeleteNeyeeva turned to see the much older Eveela, riding atop a stormsaber and the house. Neyeeva heard Eveela mutter the name of a former Arbiter, the order she was member to. Lell the Death Knight, stepsister to Eveela.
Neyeeva suddenly recalled the schemes between the uncooperative Death Knight, and manipulating Eveela, that had put her mate in the middle, eventually leading up to his present troubles. Neyeeva quickly released the thought from her mind as she watched what was to happen next.
Had it been the past Neyeeva she would not have believed Lell capable of such treachery, yet knowing what she knew now of the Death Knights, she was not surprised in the least over such brutishness. Neyeeva witnessed Lell mercilessly execute the girl, Eveela's sister Knici. Then she saw what she thought to be the unthinkable. The Lell vision actually turned to Eveela. It then transforme to the dark twisted figure of a Nightmare. Neyeeva for an instant became frozen with fear, then in the very next instant came to her senses, the warrior training she had grown up with, kicking in and taking affect. Neyeeva lunged for Eveela as she fell into the waters of the Canals. She reached down, kneeling over the drop, to grab at Eveela then just as suddenly as it all had begun, everything shimmered and whirred and changed.
Neyeeva was suddenly kneeling, on her hands and knees upon the bridge in the Valley of Heroes at the Stormwind gates. She looked arround, baffeled at first, then looked up to see Eveela sitting before her; two Eveela's, one present, one a past vision. With the panic of the moment before gone, Neyeeva rose to her feet, then walked to sit beside an Eveela, the one on the right. She looked down into the waters below, where the other two were looking, what she saw made her blood run cold.
As Neyeeva what was happening far below, she felt all the color drain from her face, her eyes widened with horror. It was Oakpack, her former student, the one she had failed, the one Eveela was thought to have killed. She watched, frozen in horror as Oakpack flailed about in the water. "Shift, damn you. /SHIFT/!" Neyeeva thought wildly to herself, knowing she could do nothing, that fate had already run its course and all she was seeing was a shadow image. Yet, she still could not help but feel the overwhelming horror of the incident, as though she were there, in that time, witnessing it as it happened.
Oakpack never shifted. He never transformed to the aquatic form that all druids knew, learned to become accustomed to. In that way and form, they could never drown. But, he did. Oakpack sank to the bottom after a few long, terrorfying moments. He never resurfaced. Neyeeva felt the unbearable pain of his loss overcome her once again. This time however, she reacted out of the deep sorrowful grievance she never allowed herself to feel instead of the anger she had experianced once it was thought that it was Eveela who had killed him.
ReplyDeleteNeyeeva let out a terrible scream of pain and loss, of her own failure to her student. "NOOO!" she screamed, a blodcurdling lament. The tears ran freely down her cheeks, streaming in tiny riverlettes.
After a few moments of struggling with herself, her emotions, Neyeeva regained some control of herself. Out of the whole time they had worked to form their bond, Neyeeva never allowed herself to ask Eveela of the truth behind her student's death. She purposely avoided the subject, so they could move forward with the cleansing that was now taking place.
Neyeeva hugged herself tightly to control the tremors within her body. She finally spoke to Eveela in a voice quaking with emotion over her own failure that resulted in the death of the young druid. All her own doing.
"I owe you an apology Eveela." Neyeeva paused, sniffing trying harder to still herself, her voice. "I thought in my heart that it was you that killed him, so I could not look to my own failure with him, where the blame is crediably due. Once more I must ask you to forgive me of my wrong doing toward you."
Eveela didn't listen. Eveela felt herself, and her past self, being flung into the water. Eveela gasped for a moment before plunging into the depths. Eveela flailed for a moment, only to see herself grab Oakpack's arm and pull him to the surface, but Eveela remembered clearly he was already dead. Eveela's past self dragged him to shore and casted a healing spell on him. Eveela remembered the pain as it backfired and pain and agony struck her.
ReplyDeleteEveela watched herself stumble backward. Eveela ran out of the water and over to Neyeeva, remembering what she said. "It's alright. I forgive you... and you must forgive yourself. If you become shadowed by grief you will be weakened terribly." Eveela muttered.
Eveela suddenly felt a hand grab her arm, and whipped around to see two nightmarish creatures lunge foward and grab her. She fought out of their grip and turned to see Neyeeva was no longer there. Blackness crashed down on Eveela as Eveela's thoughts trailed...
Neyeeva's body was still somewhat shivering from her emotions when suddenly both Eveela's piched themselves over the bridge's edgs. Instantly Neyeeva's body ceased its quivering as she watched what was to happen next. Neyeeva peered over the edge as she watched Eveela, the shadow of the past, pull Oakpack from the waters to the shore and attempt to save him. Neyeeva watched wided eyed, in shock, as teh attempts failed. The new realization took hold of Neyeeva.
ReplyDeleteSo she had tried to revive him after all. Eveela had done something, or tried to, instead of simply standing by, witnessing his death. She had intervened, only to be too late.
Eveela came back to Neyeeva's side, she muttered her forgiveness to Neyeeva, then expressed her advice for Neyeeva to forgive herself,not allow herself to become overshadowed by grief. Neyeeva looked up to Eveela, stunned beyond words. Before any words of thanks could come to Neyeeva's lips, Eveela vanished before her eyes. Neyeeva glimpsed the dark shadowy hand grab Eveela's arm, before she disappeared.
Neyeeva's thoughts raced with a sudden panic. She fought to control and calm her mind. When she finally had herself under control, Neyeeva concentrated all her thoughts and energy upon Eveela, waiting to be taken to her by the Dream...