Chapter 3: Room of Beings

[At the time when she was still falling]
[As she plunge through something that felt like an icy cold lake, only going icier and frostbitingly cold down, “Cold Cold [shivers]”she was grabbed and tugged by a bunch of black shadowed hands. “Eeeyyaaa!!! No… No… what’s all these? Urk…” They were all tangled up in a messed and she couldn’t see the source of it. They touched her in uncomfortable places and she squirmed and wriggled furiously against those inhumane, cold and writhing shadowed hands.

It was like sleeping in a nest of snake and they were all slithering up and down her body. Her body was immobilized; her voice could not resonate out of her voice box. She could only scream in her head. //“Yuck! Get away! Get away from me!!! Go away…….”// Her puny voice was left unheard. She trembled in silence with silent protests. Tears cascaded down unknowingly. She has never felt this terribly afraid of anything before and silent tears streamed her tear-stained face.]

[She fell through like several layers of thick black billowing black clouds, enduring the humiliation. She started to pray hard and closed her eyes. However, she couldn’t close out those images. She had closed her eyes but what she saw in her mind was exactly the same as the outside. [Open eyes and closes them again] [Eyes wide open] //“Why? Why couldn’t I not see them! Doshite? I don’t wanna see them!”//

[Just then, the hands started diminishing in great numbers and then, only one hand was still left on her forehead. "That" hand exuded a warmth for only a minute second and disappeared as fast as it has come. She heaved a great sigh of relieve and the black ominous clouds over her head cleared up too. She could finally get a clear bearing of her surroundings. She was still falling though, but now in another dimension. This place was as hot as a volcano island, with the sky a deep shade of vermilion and a red moon hanging upside down. “Gek! Hot Hot Hot! Now what again? Am I going to go through something so tormenting again? I dun wanna! [Flapping her hands as if they were imaginary wings] Up! Up! Don’t keep falling! Eh wait! That black thing is gonna wait for me up there again! Shit! Which way should I go? Ahhhh crap!”

[Just then, she saw a little lighted room ahead of her. Piqued by curiosity, she swam forward and held onto the ledge of the little room. [Entered on tiptoes] // “Wow, this room is beautiful, with jewelries donning the entire interior and silky cloths draping over elegant sofas and a high-ceiling mirror."// She walked towards the mirror and gazed intently into it. The mirror reflected six wings behind her back, and one of her eyes had turned gold while the other remained blue. [Turned behind to gaze at her back] “Eh wierd, there are no wings behind me, not even a feather but there were 6 wings!…” [Turns to face the mirror again but this time she saw herself perfectly.] “Eh! Now the image is back to myself again. Hmmm. This mirror is weird.Does this mirror shows the future or something like that?”

[Took a quick glance around the room. Saw another antique mirror but it was covered with cobwebs and the glass was heavily tarnished.] [Sweeps away cobwebs. Stares intently into it again.] “Ack! ...Yuck!” [Jumps back] now she cold see her own skull, with those empty sockets and such.] [She was so disgusted by the hideous look but she couldn’t glance away. Something was drawing her nearer. She raised her hands to touch the cold-paneled mirror and then, she slipped through and entered a dark dark chamber.] "Ehhhh!!!!!" [echoes fade into the still air]

Chapter 2: Spoken Tongue

//”Don’t leave me here…”// [look down at the feather with a strand of trailing silver hair. ] “What? What am I suppose to do with this???” [Scratches head][Twirls the feather around] // “[looks around] [pacing back and forth in the circlet of light which only illuminates that tiny area.] There doesn’t seem to be anybody else around here. Maybe I’m really alone now. What should I do? I should get down below and find that gentleman whom I saw just now right?… But how do I do that?//

“Ah! Mo! Lets just test this feather out first!!” “Ahem Ahem [Swishing the feather around and shouts into the air] I want to go down!! [Pauses] Impossible huh! Hmmm… then lets try this! Abacardibra! [Pauses] Still not possible!!! What! That’s the magic word I always see in my fairytale storybooks!!! Fairytales lies!” (T.T) [She said the wrong word anyways.] "No no… I can’t be depressed at a time like this! [Gently slaps her own cheeks] Think Think! [Stood up and jumped on the spot hoping to fall through somehow…]

#```Tie the hair strand to your wrist and place the feather on the ground. ```#

“Ehhhhh!!! Why is there a voice in my head!?!?! Oh no! oh no! Have I gone mental???????” Where? Who? Who are u!?!?!” [Silence ensued all around and there was no slightest sign of any movement.] [Suddenly, something dawned on her!] [Startled] “EEEEYYYYAAAAAA!!! Yulei!!!! Yulei (Ghost) ahhhh!! [She thought a ghost was chasing her and wants to possess her body that's why she started running towards the right corridor without caring where she ends up in.] [pants pants]

~~~[one hand on alley wall, another was grasping her stomach from the stitch she felt from running too fast][pants pants] [She turned to check if she was chased by anyone but instead found out that she had moved away from the spot of light earlier and is now completely absorbed into the darkness. She reached out her hands but couldn’t even see them. ]~~~

[Starts to panic again] // " Oh no! I can't see. What am i gonna do in this darkness if someone attacks me?! Calm down! Calm down! There’s nobody chasing me. Maybe I’m hallucinating that voice! What with me being all alone here and so tensed and on edge! No one's around so im safe for now at least. Hmmm… That must be it! Anyways. Let’s test out that theory!! Keeping my mind occupied on something is better than dwelling on all my questions and starting to hallucinate again.”//

“What’s the first step again? Tie the strand of hair to my wrist.” [fumble fumble] “Next would be to place the feather on the ground right. Yosh! [crosses her fingers and bent down to place the feather on the ground] Hope it really works...”

~~~[She held her breath and gently placed the feather on the ground. Suddenly, an evil greenish golden smoke, which had risen up from below the ground, engulfed her completely and threatened to choke her to death. She struggled pitifully but all the more was he being sucked into the ground like a quicksand, drowning its victim slowly but surely. This scene was similar, just like that for the gentleman; the only difference being her cycle was of a more vicious and skin-crawling one and she begins to descend yet again.]~~~

Zenith (Prelude+Chapter 1:Cloaked in Shimmers and Confusion)

Prelude
This is a story about Cephei Kiriyuka, 18 sai. Japanese and Chinese mix.
[Why is she here? What happened to put her in this wierd circumstances? What's going to happen next? Well, one can only guess!] (ur not the author! ahahaha)

//"Why is it so dark in here?! It's cold!"// [Blinks][blurred vision, caught a glimpse of her room while lying on her bed. However, her eyelids fell shut again and she couldn’t open them. She tried! but to no avail. ]
//"Why do i get the feeling that I am falling?! No! No! I dun like this! I dun like this feeling! I dun wanna keep falling! Help! Help Me!! ...."// [Struggling madly, hands grasping air. ]

~~~[Just then, she felt a gentle warmth spread up her body as she was slowly bathed in a beam of light. //"Ah... what's this? Something... something feels warm."// [Reaches out to touch this warmth] the darkness seemed to fade away and she no longer seem to be falling. Instead, she sensed that an invisible hand was pulling her up into the light. [A hand grabbed hers] //"Ehhh!! Who is it?.... Whoa! ... now im rising? That’s wierd. This situation is so wierd but nevertheless, i find this more comforting than falling alone endlessly in a bottomless pit! Ah... this feeling.. How nice!" I want to see! The person pulling me up!//


This overwhelming sensation made her forcefully pried open her heavy eyelids, only to find herself staring into a bright bright beam. [shield eyes with hand] //"Urgh! Bright!.... Ehhh... dare?// She saw some shadow! She could barely make out the person who was standing at the end of that beam. That fuzzy shape was near yet far, familiar yet distanced. [Weakly] "Who? Who are u?" She strained her eyes harder but the beam was so glaring and she was so tired from all the struggling that she couldn’t take it anymore and loss consciousness.... ]

Chapter 1: Cloaked in Shimmers and Confusion

~~~[Woke up and was leaning on an old alley wall. Took a step forward but fell back onto the wall. Head was throbbing so she gripped her head with one hand while the other hand was placed on the alley wall to stabilize herself from falling sideways.]

"Urgh...where am i?!?!" [Slowly looked left and right. She was horrified as she could see nth but darkness creeping in. //"Sht! The darkness is gonna eat me up soon!"// [Slowly looked up and...] "AHHHHHHH!!"

~~~[She couldnt believe what she had seen. All of those evil deeds that she had done before had come flooding in front of her, surfacing up to an "inverted" pond-like structure overhead like a slide show. Sudden reviewing of all those terrible stuff (imagine urself) she had done before filled her with the utmost guilt and she, being now all shaky and weak-kneed, collasped onto the floor.] €sobbing sound€ "No.. Im sorry.. Im sorry... Im really sorry... please forgive me!yada! yada! Dame!!!" [She was sobbing uncontrollably and she felt a stabbing pain in her heart.] //"I know, i know. That day is coming faster than i had expected..."//

[Suddenly, she heard footsteps coming from the right dark alley. She saw, through her tear pool as a pair of feet, plodding softly on ... //"What Was That? CLOUDS! What he had walked on became clouds!?!?"// slowly became visible in its own illumination. Then, she unmistakably made out that a great something, which was swaying gently behind the gentleman, almost as if sweeping the floor, was a great pair of pink wings. //Wow! Wings! Like those of an angel's. Wait!! ANGEL? how come something like that is here! Oh wait!! In the first place, why am i here???? I remembered waking up from my dream ... and then......... how??? how did i end up here??? Where???? where the hell is this place??? crap!// [looks around frantically for other sounds of life but there was none. [shocked] look at her own back to see whether she has a pair of wings too. > // “Hmmm... I have no wings huh? This seem so unreal I thought I would have also sprouted wings by now.”//

That gentleman with silky long white hair was cloaked from top to toe in white. [stunned] //"Wow! so beautiful... and he has that warmth which i felt earlier!! That light which radiates from him. Could he be?!?!"// [reaches hand out to touch the approaching image][the gentleman stood before him] [Cephei looked up][gulps] //"Wah... on closer look he is even more beautiful!// "Uno... sumimasen... are you the one just now? the one who pulled me up??"


[The gentleman glares down with cold eyes][with one swift motion, the gentleman pluck out a feather and a strand of his own hair. He tied the strand of hair onto the feather.] "Take it." [trusts the feather into Cephei's outstretched hand> "Harrrrr?????? Whattt?" [Cephei was startled, her mouth hanging wide open] [The gentleman then looked as if he melted into the ground into who knows what is down below!!!!] "Hey… Waittt!!!! Matte teba! Where are u going!!! Waittt!!! Dun leave me here!!!" He left without hearing any of Cephei's pleas. The confused Cephei is now all the more confused and bewildered and lost and on the verge of tears againnnnn…]