The basic fall of the story is this;
For hundreds of years children have been taken from their homes and families by a clan, and risen to follow and understand their ways and traditions, everyone of these has been chosen prior to being taken, and each have a small symbolic tattoo. Each year 48 children, or 'fledglings' are taken, and are put into ranks. In the first rank there are 48 fledglings, but most die off, due to their bodies rejecting the tattoo or the magic in the caves they now call home. The second year normally consists of 24 and the third of an average of 12. But the forth rank always has no more or less than four fledglings remaining.
In the forth rank the fledglings go through an initiation ceremony, where they have to collect twelve new children each within the 48hour time limit and protect them from the monsters, who attempt to destroy the clan. This year the fledglings set off as usual on the ring of midnight, the cold night of 28th of October, to each get their 12 children. But these four are friends, and the elders don't like this, they could work together, and this means they could find out too much, and so they fail and don't get their tattoos, which would show their ranking up, even the ones who got all their children and protected them from the monsters. But instead of dying at the hands of the cruel humans, as the elders said happened to failures, they were rescued by members of the clan... or so they thought before they were sent to the other place.
They were sent though a portal to a separate dimension, just like ours, but devoid of all life and empty of any materialistic goods, except for the shadow creatures of course. Now they have to fight for their lives, and work together to get home and find out the truth behind the elders of the clan, and the so called monsters.
Suggestions welcome.
[Belongs to me and Charlie -DyingHere]
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