fantasy
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Taken by Fairies
There are many ways I could try and explain to you what had happened to me, but I’ll just start from the beginning. Me and my family are taking a trip to the mountains about an hour away. I live in Oklahoma so there isn’t many places for us to go. I’m about 12 years old on this trip. We stop and eat sandwiches that we packed for the trip and take a look at the scenery every once in a while, before we actually get to our destination. We have made it to the mountain and we’re about to hike up, there’s at least five of us, my grandma me my sister my dad and my granddad. It’s not too bad of a hike on like maybe one or 2 miles and with no real rugged terrain. Me being curious I decided to wander off halfway up the mountain. Thinking that I can just make it back with no problem, and well I get lost. I felt like I walked for hours and he will try to make it back to the car but I just couldn’t find it or them. I notice it starts to get dark outside, and while I’m wandering around looking for my family I end up running into a small pond with lots of vegetation and flowers of all different kinds. I don’t know what it was but I started to hear something in the back of my head telling me to get closer. It was like someone shut the sun off whenever I got close enough to the pond, there was no moon just darkness. Little balls of light started to rise from the water, And start to fly towards me. There’s a conflict going on in my mind because i’m not scared but scared. There has to be at least 20 small balls of light that are floating in front of me. I keep hearing small voices in the back of my head, just realizing that The voices in the back of my head or actually The small balls of light in front of me. They’re all talking to me but it seems I can talk to all of them at once. I don’t remember the questions they asked me and I don’t remember the answers that I gave them, I wish I did. They kept me for what seemed like weeks or maybe even months. I started to see my body change, like I was getting older or more mature. The longer I stay the more Time started to speed up. The fairies look like they were just playing on top of the pond the whole time. Before I knew it I was an old man. I was so confused I started to look at my body and wonder what happened. I started to weather away by getting weaker and it felt like my bones were turning the dust as I sat there. The fairies came up to me and told me that life is short and if I ever go off path sometimes it’s a good thing sometimes it’s not, so I should still be cautious about things I do. As my eyes were beginning to close the fairies all approached me and started to laugh. Once my eyes were closed it was just pure darkness. After what seemed like forever my eyes open again, but I was just back in front of the pond young again. I sat on the ground for a good minute before my family found me and asked where I’ve been for the last two hours. I tried to tell them everything that happened but for some reason that part of my memory was blocked. The pond that was in front of me that looks so beautiful once before and I just look like a crater inside the ground. I’m 20 now and I still wanted to this day where those fairies took me, did they want to teach me something, were they just having fun, I don’t know but that experience was the most confusing thing in my entire life.
By SammoSun McNugget6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
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By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
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By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
Of all the unlikely places to go, the old forgotten pumpkin patch that bordered the woods by her home was one of Madeline’s favorites. Overgrown and neglected in most places, the little girl especially loved it during the fall when the sky stayed permanently overcast, and the weather was cool to the touch morning, noon, and night. It was the time of year when Madeline felt the most alive.
By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
Rose was minding her own business, which was to say she was being the responsible one. She was actually minding the business of the Hodge Podge because someone had to from time to time since they were still missing their third. Rose found her reading interrupted though when something viciously blue and bubbling was shoved under her nose by a very enthusiastic fire witch.
By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Katori and the Star People
This was the plot outline I did for the series Katori and the Star People, a six issue mini series Issue One Katori, a 25-year-old paralegal, returns to her home town on a New Mexico reservation. Her grandmother, who has always tried to get her to be more in touch with her native heritage, which Katori has generally rejected throughout her life. Katori has been having strange dreams and finds out that so has her Grandmother, who explains that the dreams come from the old gods, the Kachina, who had come to the earth long ago and met with their ancestors. Gran believes that they are trying to contact them and uses some kind of ancient magical technology to conjure visions of the first time their ancestors met the Kachina. That night, Katori tries to sleep but dreams of the Kachina in their ship, designed in Aztec and Mayan style designs. They are fleeing from something, while they try and send a message, the dreams, to Katori and the others. The signal is hacked by that which is chasing the Kachina, the Enochs, a winged race of golden-skinned humanoids with black pits for eyes. They instead send something to attack Katori in her dreams, a giant lion-man creature calling itself Buer. The creature attacks Katori who tries to run and flee but finds her dream world being turned against her. Before Buer can pounce on her, a net suddenly forms in front of it, restraining it. We find that the net is the design of a Dream Catcher and that Gran is holding one over the sleeping Katori in the real world, Channeling her energy into the catcher to slow down the Buer while calling upon the Kachina to help them. The Kachina in their vessel lock onto Gran’s transmission and use it to send one of their own, Patlotl, through Gran and into Katori’s dreams where he fights and defeats the Buer. Patlotl makes sure Katori is safe and then tells them they are coming. Katori wakes up suddenly and breathing heavily. She looks over and sees Gran has collapsed on the floor next to her bed, the dream catcher laying beside her. Katori rushes to her and tries to help her.
By A.C. Hampshire6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
Christine scanned the bar patrons, looking out among those who leveled their own inebriated gazes back at her in challenge, or dropped their eyes completely, not wanting to get dragged into another’s problem. Not seeing any real takers, the witch’s questing gaze landed upon a short guy leaning up against bar. He was grinning cheekily back at her, like he knew just how much trouble Christine was in.
By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
There was a monster in the garden. Tabitha had always been warned by her parent’s staff not to wander about at night by herself. It was something that turned out to be very hard for her not to do though. In her mind, there were just so many fascinating things to look at in the dark.
By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
A nowhere can be a somewhere. It’s all about perspective. The Hodge Podge was a legend, a myth, a story, a secret, a riddle, the beginning of a song you only half remembered when you were drunk, and a bit of a conundrum that everyone who was anyone knew about. Stumbling over a bit of arcane knowledge or ancient lore with a dash of hope and a smidge of belief did wonders too.
By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
Beware the Night
Prologue: Earth It all happened so fast. After being gone for the better part of a millennia, the Fae came back to the human world, the plane of Earth over ten years ago. We didn’t invite the creepy little bastards back. They just kind of showed up, like disowned thrice-removed relatives to humanity’s family reunion BBQ. Unwanted yet larger than life, they came in droves to spike the punch with moonshine wishes, dazzle us humans with glamorous lies, and eat the kiddies before we noticed what the hell was going on.
By Sebella Sigel6 years ago in Futurism
