What a Twist
Shade stumbled on the cobblestone street, a thin layer of sweat already forming on her body as she regained her balance and rushed towards the school house, her almost ice colored hair flowed through the currents opposing her as she rapidly closed in on her destination, the school house were a single big house with a few classrooms inside and only a single corridor and the occasional flicking light bulb that appeared in the middle of the hallways, just outside her classroom.
Rushing inside the school building she barely notice the door as she barrel straight through it, a quick glance on her wrist clock tells her that she's twenty seconds from coming on time.
Rushing for all that she's worth she run down the corridor until she reaches her classroom labeled '963 A' which were curious to her as there were only seven classrooms in the entire building.
Practically shouting something that were a mix of 'LEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY' and cusses labeling from cursing her feet to death, promising to summon Satan if someone as much as looks at her funny and a bunch of curses going from Swedish to English, to French, to German, to Spanish, British and Japanese.
"Kaminahage!" She shouts as she tackles the door inward, her clock telling her that she were five seconds early.
"Nailed it." Shade said as she got off of the floor and dusted herself off, the room were a dull grey version of a very small dining area, the paint had started to peel off of the walls and the blackboard were almost grey from constant use too, Shade would describe the room as a colorless hell, but just as the thought crossed her mind she noticed something, or lack of something.
No students or teacher's were present, and at a closer inspection the entire room looked more... Aged than ever.
A thin layer of dust covered everything, cobwebs almost everywhere and a half bitten pen, something were going on and she didn't like it one bit, reaching to her right pocket she pulled out her switch knife and held it at the ready, her left hand ready to grab her Butterfly would it be needed.
Shade started walking down the corridor in a combat stance, ready to kick someone if needed, her heavy leather boots would hurt a lot more than a knife, if used correctly.
She were telling herself that everything would be fine and that it was just some stupid prank, but that idea was replaced with a heavy feeling of dread as she realized that the corridor seemed longer than she remembered.
A lot longer...
"By the nine hell's what is going on?!" She yelled out at nothing, or everything.
A pair of footsteps were heard behind her.
"That exactly, child." An aged voice echoed from behind her, a walking stick slamming into the ground as the old man had stopped.
"What do you mean old man? I'm not in the mood for jokes!" She almost growls at him as she turns around, her switch blade held in a thrusting position.
The man were 5'4 tall, wearing a blue coat and a matching blue hat with a buckled wooden staff that he shouldn't be able to use, as it looked like it were about to break in half if you so much as breathed at it. The man wore a pair of dark glasses on his face that completely blocked out his face, his nose were huge, about a finger long and three thumbs thick
She stared at him for half a minute, and slowly retracted the switch blade before putting it in her pocket.
"Oy, aren't you a bit old for this place?" She said, gesturing to the bricks on the wall, leading to the schoolhouse.
"I'm a little too old for everything, Shade." He said, smiling.
His teeth were half rotten and yellow, they were sticking out in unnatural angles revealing a old tongue.
Her eye's turned into narrow slits as she kicked towards the man, and much to Shade's surprise he grabbed her dark jeans and threw her into the ground, making her land on her chest.
"FFFFFFFUU- ouuuchh! That freaking hurt you dimwit!" Shade said as she heaved herself to her feet, pulling out the switch blade she had secured in her pocket.
The man didn't even raise an eyebrow at the gesture.
"And it would've hurt too if you kicked me in the face." he said with a slight frown.
"Yeah? And for all I know you're some creepy pedophile that slaughtered my classmates! So choke on it, old man." She threw the switch blade at him, edge first.
He caught the blade between two fingers mid air and threw it back to Shade at a slow pace, she caught it with a practiced motion.
"... Who are you..?" she asked, utterly confused with how he knew that motion, it was her grandfather that taught her it and he's long dead.
"Well... In order to avoid complications call me Starswirl." he said, gesturing to the swirl filled with stars on his staff.
Only now did she notice how he looked a little... Red, his skin were slightly tinted towards a reddish color like he'dd been out in the sun for too long, which would be weird since it's the beginning of December.
On the top of his hands were the symbol's that was on the staff, but in different color's, the one on his right were a mix of purple and dark green, and the one's on his left were a mix of orange and white.
He had quite a beard, how she hadn't noticed this before she does not know, it went down to his chest and had a steel grey color, the same as Shade's eyes.
"Starswirl..? I'll call you Starswirl the Bearded. I mean look'it!" Shade said, gesturing to the ginormous beard.
"Then i'll call you Nightshade, woman. But oh my look at the time!" He said, gesturing towards her clock.
Confused Shade lift her left arm to her face and saw that it had changed into a alphabet with a lot of small arrows pointing on E A I Q R S T U.
"What the..?" she started, completely shocked at her clock as the letters seemed to be random and didn't form an actual word.
"Girl, wanna make a bet? If I win, you can go on the journey of a lifetime, but if you win you can have one wish." He said, gesturing towards the clock.
"What's that supposed to mean, Starswirl? You can't just grant wishes, that would require magic and magic dosen't exist." She said with a quiet sob, all her friends were gone. She didn't know why this hit her right now, it just did.
"Don't cry Nightshade, magic does exist. Look." He said gesturing towards a brick wall, with a flick of his wrists the wall almost dissolved and revealed a portal with a mix of color's she had never seen before.
"If I win, you must enter, if you win i'll grant you one wish." Starswirl said, the tattoo's on his hands glowing with the portal.
"... Fine, i'll take your stupid bet." She said with a sigh, it was just an old man, how hard could it be?
He laughed a little and said "Excellent! Riddle me this little girl, what can't see itself in the mirror without crying, but other's can't look at it without falling in love?" He riddled, she didn't understand it.
"Umm... Something corrupt?" She guessed, that answered seemed about right to her.
The man's smile grew wider and he stated "Nope."
Shade felt something grab her entire body and played her like a puppet and master.
"You lost the bet, Shade. You must pay the price." Starswirl added as she slowly advanced towards the portal.
"Like hell I do! Let me go you freak!" She shrieked and thrashed around her invisible bindings, but no matter what she did they did not budge.
"I can force you through that portal or you can leave yourself with at least a minor bit of dignity." He responded and let the magic dissolve around her, she hesitantly moved towards the portal.
"Good choice, forcefully stopping someone with magic is painful for the target." He idly commented as he watched her disappear, summoning a portal behind himself.
"Can you at least tell my sister that i'll be back for her, she'll probably be heart broken that her last sibling disappeared." Shade almost sobbed out, still slowly approaching the portal.
"Before I leave however, what was the correct answer, Starswirl?" She asked him, if he could answer then she at least could go without thinking she's been tricked.
He smiled at her, at least that made her feel a bit better.
"A Succubus." He answered with a grin, Shade just laughed at him.
"Thanks for lightening my mood at least, Starswirl." She took the final step towards the portal.
"I'll see you in another life, little sister of mine." She said with a tear as she entered the portal.
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Wow
Much Edgy
So dark
wasn't all that bad. Now all that's left is correcting the grammar.
3596180 Soo... You disliked the story because the main character's name is 'Shade'..?
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Its got a lot of potential, this story. Now a name like Shade fot a human character tends to get people to make assumptions about the character before they really get to know the character, now I managed to avoid assumptions and keep reading and now I would greatly enjoy seeing where this goes.
3596612 I named her Shade because she's half-based around a friend I know who's also named Shade.
3596698 hehehe, sometimes the best characters are the ones based on friends
I like the story keep going.