Short Story-ness (That isn’t much of story… O_o;;)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2006 by RockyThis one I wrote some time ago. I could continue on it, and make it longer and more detailed and actually contain a plot, but it was an extended introduction I used for Dave and Aevan when I use to roleplay. It was s’pose to be built on within the roleplay, with otehr characters joining in by otehr writers. But… I only used it once or twice, and many people stayed away from it for some strange reason… -seriously doesn’t know- Tell me what you think pleaaase.
A girl screamed, but her gasp for breath was cut short, ending her life with a gurgle of panic. Blood dripped down the brick wall of the dark alleyway, the distinct large figure of a man bending over the pale and lithe form of the teenager. Her throat was almost completely hacked off, the muscle, bone and cartilage of what once might have been a beautiful neck was cast across the ground like discarded rubbish – which it now most certainly was.
A light and jovial chuckle sounded from the silhouette, a grin across his smug face as he bent closer, his nostrils flaring as he smelt her torn flesh, the sharp scent of blood cutting at his senses, but he loved it. He loved every moment of his triumph. Until it was cut short.
The wiz of an object flying at high speeds through the air caught the man’s attention, forcing him to look up, which he certainly shouldn’t have done. A moment later, a fairly well made arrow had pierced his right eye. Medieval, perhaps, but affective nonetheless. Through the thud of impact, no one who didn’t have stronger hearing than a normal person would’ve heard the smashing of glass, and no one but the victim of the arrow would’ve felt the certain liquidated metal that begun to run through his veins.
Hissing, the man exposed his canines – no, tusks – and ripped the shaft and arrowhead clean from his eye socket, seeing he no longer possessed a right eye. Wincing in pain, the liquid metal running through his veins, the man stood up, and in one swift movement he disappeared into the night, to surely meet his death.
A quiet whoop of joy and triumph came from the archer, his metal and modern bow lowered, and the spare arrow – just in case – stored neatly inside a small leather quiver on his back.
“Okay, tell me that wasn’t fun?” He asked the two people behind him, shifting his body slightly so he could see them better. His fit frame was in great contrast to one of his companions, who was thin – but at least no one pestered him about it anymore. The feminine silhouette behind the thin and youngest of the three chuckled, her usual quietness broken by the new event in the night.
“Yeh, it was fun. But if you didn’t just install the new formula on arrows, and made bullets out of ‘em too, it would’ve been a lot more fun for me.” She stated, turning around and walking in the opposite direction the killer of the adolescent girl went. As she approached the head of the alleyway, the pool of light that was cast from the street lamp illuminated her, before she turned around and was once more a silhouette. “I guess I’ll be seeing you two later.” She waved goodbye and walked away, the sound of her boots against the concrete fading into nothing before the last two companions turned to face each other.
“You’ve been rather quiet tonight, Aevan.” The archer remarked, folding his bow in a way that showed he’d done it many times before. Slowly, he hooked it onto his back, near the quiver, and glanced down the alleyway in the direction on the killer. Shrugging, he completely ignored the dead girl and walked after the tracks of their female friend.
Aevan, on the other hand, frowned after his friend, remarked something under his breath, and glanced sadly down at the teenager before sullenly following his friend. “Yeh, well, you’ve had nights when you were quieter, Dave.” Aevan replied, thrusting his hands deep into the pockets of his coat. “Dun ya think we shuld, uh…” He glanced back, the pale form of the teenager and glistening blood making him slightly nauseous.
“No, we shouldn’t do anything about it, it’s not out job.” Dave replied, sighing sadly to himself. He glanced up at the street lamp as the reached the end of the short alleyway; his blond hair cut short and distant blue eyes sad in the bright glow of the light. “But I wish we’d get to these attacks quicker.”
Aevan nodded, his longer and messy died red and black hair covering most of his face, which was naturally pale. His distinct features weren’t as sharp as his taller friends, darker perhaps, but certainly not as friendly as Dave’s. Aevan was what you’d call all right, not necessarily gifted in his appearances, but then again, he didn’t care. Pale green eyes glared out into the night, his black T-shirt under his dark grey coat was two sizes too large and torn in certain places, just as his messy dark blue jeans. Blood stained his clothes, which added to faithful appearances to ward off people, he hated it when people paid him attention he didn’t want – and dressing this way got him that attention – but he hated a perfect stranger coming up to him more.
Dave, on the other hand, with his clean features, neatly cut hair and even neater grey shirt, loved being, well, the centre of attention – but not in ways he didn’t approve. His pale jeans moved with his form as he turned left, the opposite direction of the female friend, and calmly walked away from the horrific scene of a poor girl’s murder.
Aevan sighed. No matter about his appearance, he certainly was a nice kid. But Dave, now you had your classic prat. How the two of them were good friends eluded their other companions at anytime. An age difference of five years – Aevan 16 and Dave 21 – a strange selection of stereotypes and even stranger backgrounds, these two would normally be outright enemies.
But who cared. These were the streets of a collapsing city. And they were part of a group of people trying to keep it together.
But for how long they could manage to keep it from tumbling to the ground, they didn’t know.