Snippet #2149662

Maria Odess

Maria sat quietly at her school desk. The past few days had been warm and golden with the leaves changing colors and warm air, but still there was an air of coldness lurking about every shadow. Maria wasn't sure what this strange air of coldness around each dark corner was, perhaps only her imagination led her to think these things perhaps it was real. As these thoughts ran through Maria's head she did not notice the school bell ringing signalling the end of the day. It took her about 10 minutes to realize she was alone in the class before she got up and packed her things to go. While putting away her pencils Maria allowed herself to hum quietly as she did the air rippled around her and the lead of her pencil went from gray-ish to a vibrant shade of apple green. Now what was she going to write with???

Sighing Maria decided not to focus on trivial matters and packed everything up before spinning around on her heals and heading out the doors. The hallways of her school were quiet and empty with her classmates already off to start there weekend adventures. Maria never planned things for the weekend, she had no family to visit or friends to hang out with so there was nothing to plan for. While her mind focused on the negative thoughts of being alone during her weekend she walked down the hallway her shoes making noise that echoed off of the hallway walls. Making everything seem oddly earrie.

While Maria continued her way down to her dorm room she realized that she felt like something was watching her. She turned quickly too look down an empty hallway and sighed turning around and continuing on her way. While she rounded the corner she suddenly felt her left foot fall down. Maria froze in panic and looked down to see her foot swallowed up darkness cold darkness. But the darkness seemed odd it looked more like a shadow she could partially see through. Panic rose up in Maria but she supported herself and tried to tug her foot free. While she tugged though the shadow spread and her other foot fell in. Maria began to panic and tugged and ripped at her feet feeling her legs slowly getting swallowed up. Maria began to squirm and panic it felt like a snake slowly coiling around she closed her eyes tightly and when she opened them again her legs were free.

Maria looked around and ran down the hallway into her room and slammed the door behind her. "What the hell???" Despite her muttering her ability same into affect anyway and a book shed left on her desk earlier that morning burst into fire causing Maria to curse. "Stop!" The fire singed out like it had never been there but the burns were still noticeable on her book. Maria knew no one had an ability like her and that she was unique but she'd never really thought much about it. But whatever had happened in the hallway THAT she would think much about. Feeling shaken she moved over to the small bathroom in her dorm room and washed her face. When she looked up she noticed how dirty her mirror was and grabbed a cloth to clean it. She brought the cloth up to the mirror and started to clean it when her hand went through the mirror.

Maria panicked and tugged at her hand trying to free it but it felt like there was someone on the other side grabbing onto her hand and pulling her into it. Maria pulled back and struggled only to be pulled in further. "STOP IT!!!" The air around the mirror rippled but her ability had no effect and instead her arm was sucked in further. The silvery mirror wrapped around her arm and pulled her in up to shoulder. She opened her mouth the scream but was lifted off her feet and pulled in. On the other side Maria became unaware of everything it felt like she was being pulled through water. It was cold and she felt like she was a million times lighter. The only problem was she could not speak or open her eyes.

When what seemed like an eternity later Maria opened her eyes and looked up. She was outside somewhere now and the sky was bright and blue. She sat up very slowly only to come face to face with a pair of empty glowing white eyes. A scream caught in Maria's throat as she slowly shuffled backward. All around her were more glowing eyes she looked around the eyes and faintly saw the outline of human looking body's. But as human as the body's appeared they weren't they were dark like someone had wrapped there skin in shadows but there eyes were bright and void of all forms of emotion or expression. Maria wasn't sure what they were thinking but she noticed one of the creature was holding out it's hand.

Maria stared at the shadowy hand not sure if she should take it or not. She wasn't sure why she wasn't rolling around on the ground and screaming and freaking out in every-way imaginable. Maybe it was the fact that all this was so completely out of place and farfetched it made her feel completely at home. Or maybe it was because she was in shock and her mind wasn't sure how to process everything that was still happening. When she blinked back into reality she realized all of the shadowy creatures were holding out there hands to help her up.

When Maria finally stood up she looked around. She appeared to be in the heart of a small town, not a very elegant town but definitely a town. The buildings were small and shaggy with no color but looked to be made of gray wood the only color on any of the buildings was the biggest building. Maybe a mayors house Maria wasn't sure but it had a little red thatched roof and a red door to match. When Maria noticed the strange bright eyed ummm shadow people? Still staring at her she opened her mouth to speak. "So... Where am I?" There was no answer only silence before one of the shadows moved closer and stared down at her before opening what appeared to be a gash of a mouth to speak in a raspy hollow voice that caused Maria to feel sick. "Your in Shadow Town..."