Young Writers Society

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Sorting through the attic- that's all I've been doing since grammy died. Yet another box of documents stood in my way, I channeled my grief and anger into throwing the box out of the way. My knees buckled under me and I fell to the floor and the room filled with my sobs. I was on my own, gram was the only family I had besides gramps, who had died when I was but six. My mother had died when giving birth to me, and my father was anonymous to everyone except mom. Gramp's death was caused by a car crash, and gram's was from cancer.

No one believed me when I said that gram was still alive. But I knew that she would only truly be dead when I believed it. And, I am never going to let that happen.

Through my tears, I faintly saw the edge of a glowing orb. All except the said edge was covered by boxes. I wiped my tears away in order to investigate, though more just took their place. When the torrent ceased, as I pulled the boxes away, a whirlpool made itself visible. But this whirlpool was not of water, but many fragments of mirror glass. Each tiny fragment peeked into my memories. I screamed as I was pulled into the whirlpool, I clawed away but to no avail. My vision filled with the fragments. Would this be the end? A moment after that thought entered my mind, I found my self in a room lined with windows. Each window depicted a different realm. One window caught my attention, an elf stood on the other side. His name was Okami, and he was madly in love with me. How do I know this? I had dreampt about him, along with all the other windows. Not only were these windows of a different world, but each one was a different dream.

I reached toward the window, half expecting glass to meet my fingers. Instead, they went right through to the other side. I pulled away momentarily, and without a second thought climbed through the window.

On the other side of the window, soft grass met my bare toes. I looked behind me. Instead of a window, there was a space between two branches that depicted the window room. Nodding with satisfaction, I continued on my way. An arrow whizzed past my ear, in shock I jumped and was suspended midair. A beating of wings behind my back caused me to remain motionless. Another arrow glanced off the bat-like wings behind my back, my wings. Okami loosed one arrow after another, close enough to intimidate me, but not to harm me. I flew up, now he started. He wasn't used to his target flying right up to him, especially Nocta. Nocta the outcast- the one who never wanted to take sides. The free one, and the one with bat wings.

I stared into his deep brown eyes, this so unnerved him that he fell from his perch. I dived to his aid, I caught him before he neared the ground. His face had gone pale, if my memory hadn't failed me, it was usually visa versa. I put him down on the ground, and sped off. As soon as his motion sickness allowed, he was on my tail. I neared a cliff, at it's foot there lay an expanse of water. Its circumfrance was that of a pond, but made up for its circumfrance in depth. Eleven or twelve feet down, there was a grey rock bottom. The crystal clear water betrayed this to me as I neared the edge, as to lose Okami. But, fate always had its way. My wings gave out above me, and not a second later the icy water met my skin. I sank like a stone. "So this is the end" I thought. My only regrets were that gramm was still out there, and I had not shown Okami that I returned his passion for me.