Dark Days - Di-Di Lewis (fantasy novels to read txt) 📗

take this planet, and I shall rule with her!” At the end, I kinda started scaring myself, I was starting to get excited about something that I would never have gotten excited about ever in my life. “What am I doing?” I yelled.
“She’s taken over you, that’s what’s happened, do you want any help? Do you want her to leave you, do want that right?”
“Of course I do, but I don’t want you to do it, I don’t need your help, I’m perfectly capable of doing this myself,” I stated, even though I knew that I was not capable of that by any means.
“Sure you are young child, that’s why you asked why you were doing that.” It stated questioningly.
“I didn’t know then, but I know now, so you don’t have to help me in any way, I can fix things by myself,” I said stubbornly, but I knew that that was not true at all. Then I stood up, unwillingly, and stalked off.
“Wait, where are you going?” the creature called out to me, “We need you.”
“I’m leaving,” I called out, “and I’m never coming back!”
“Fine!” the thing shrieked after me, “We don’t care if you leave, we don’t care if you don’t need our help, just go you ungrateful beast!”
“Fine!” I screamed back. I stormed out, I didn’t need something that I didn’t know telling me what to do, especially if it was trying to use me.
“You need me!” it screamed, “You won’t survive without us!” I rushed out of the room, I didn’t want to stay in there, not with those things in there. I kept running, I didn’t look back, I hardly even look up, I didn’t care what I ran into. Then I hit something soft, it wrapped its arms around me, then a familiar voice spoke, “It’s all right, I got you, it’s OK.”
“James, you’re here,” I said excitedly, “I can’t believe it!” I wrapped his arms around him and looked up. I smiled, he was here, my big brother, he saved me.
“I’m so sorry,” he sobbed, then something was stuck into the back of my neck.
“What are you doing?” I cried, “You’re my brother, aren’t you?”
“You’re brother’s not the only one who can change his form,” a familiar voice said, but it was not my brothers, it was someone else’s, “remember me?”
“How could I forget such an awful creature? The one who lied to me, the one who wants to take over the planet?” I yelled, “The one who I hate, and the one who is trying to take control…” I trailed on, I couldn’t keep talking, then I was out, again, and this time, it wasn’t peacefully, I had a dream.
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“Mom, mom, I can’t see you, where are you? Where’d you go, I can’t find you,” I screamed, I was in my old living room, at the house that we lived in before we moved to Vancouver, Washington. My mother didn’t reply. I went into the kitchen, where my mother usually was in the morning, she wasn’t there. I looked out the window, there was nothing but storm clouds and rain. I sat down, my elbows on the windowsill, chin in hands, watching the raindrops race across the window. It was very depressing, it was awful. I started crying, I didn’t know why, but I started crying. I felt a hand on my shoulder, “Arianna, I’m here, you don’t have to cry, it’s OK.”
“My name’s not Arianna, it’s Violeen,” gheese, this person must be stupid, since when was my name Arianna? I looked up, and I saw the beautiful face of my mother. She was smiling, I stood up, turned around, and hugged the old woman. I cried into her shoulder, “Where are you mom?” I asked.
“I’m right here darling, can’t you see me?” She asked, a hint of concern in her voice, I knew she didn’t mean it because she didn’t use my real name, she called me Arianna, but my name was really Violeen. She wasn’t my mom, she was someone else, I don’t care if she looks like my mom, she isn’t. “You’re not my mom,” I stated, “You’re someone else.”
“Of course I’m your mother, why would you say such a foolish thing, there is no way that I could be someone other than your mother.”
“There is one way, you’re a figment of my imagination, I know this because we aren’t back at the house in Vancouver, we’re here, in our old house,” I stated, “What other proof do you need, mom?”
Then everything started blurring together, and it all turned into a shapeless blob, now I know that I’m dreaming. Then it was all gone, and I was back where I had been before the crazy creature from the light, trapped me to the stone cold floor in the big metal box.
“Glad to see that you’ve finally decided to join our reality, Arianna,” cackled the evil creature.
“How do you know my name?” I snarled, “What do you want from me?”
“All I want is your cooperation, I want you to help me out of a sticky situation,” she chose her words carefully, “I think it would be best if you just do as I say, I’m sure that you want your precious brother James to be OK, right?”
“Let him go,” I exasperated, “you can’t do this.”
“Are you sure, cause I’m pretty sure that I’m doing it right now, and there’s nothing you can do about it child,” she stated smoothly, “All that you have to do is do whatever I say and your precious brother will be OK.”
“No Arianna, don’t do it, she’s tricking you, she’s trying to get to you!” James exclaimed, “She won’t let me go, even if you do what she says, don’t listen do her!”
I looked away from him, “Do you really promise, even that you will die if you break this promise?” I asked.
“I do,” with an evil glare in her eyes she said, “and do you promise to do anything and everything that I tell you to do, and if you don’t you and your brother will die?”
“Only for a few months,” I said, “and if you keep me any longer, you will surely die, along with anyone that actually wants to do anything that you say willingly as of this moment?”
“All right, so it’s settled girl, you work for me now, and you will never leave my service otherwise you will die,” she laughed a laugh like an evil sorceress, I looked longingly towards my brother, he was the only person left in the world that I actually cared about, and now he was being ripped from my life, not to be seen for the next few months. This was terrible, something that I truly dreaded. I nodded my head, I might as well get this dull life underway, this dull and terrible life.


Chapter 3
I sat in my room, my knees folded up against my chest, this was the worst decision 
I had made in my entire life, I was so stupid, but it was the only way that I could save my brother. I know that he is safe now, especially after what had happened a week ago. I couldn’t stand to bear the thought of losing anyone ever again. There were tears running down my cheeks, then I heard a knock on my door, “Can I come in?” called a familiar quiet, shy voice, it was Kandy, she was the sweetest person that anyone could ever meet.
She was thye first person that I met in this horrible place, at least, the first person that was kind to me. She became my best friend, she cared for me. She was about fifteen years olc, and she would never lie to me, unlike those creatures of the light, and she 2would always tell me that my brother was OK, I don’t know how she knew that, but she just did, and she wouldn’t tell me how. She was like an older sister to me, we’ve had our arguments, but it always turned out OK. She was my best friend, and I loved her for that.
“You can come in,” I replied, “What’s wrong?”
“Oh nothing, it’s just that the sorceress wants you, for heaven knows what, but she’s never summoned you like this before, her voice was urgent, and it seemed as if something important was about to happen,” she told me, “and you will never guess what it is.”
“What is it, does it involve my brother, I think it does, and it could be something terrible?” I guessed, that was always my guess when she said that something had made the sorceress worry, so I didn’t know if it was or not.
“No, you’re wrong, again, it does not include your brother, just the planet Earth.”
I gasped, it couldn’t be, but it was, I can’t believe that she would destroy the planet that I was raised, such an evil woman, but didn’t everyone know that? It’s quite obvious, really, I mean, she was the worst person to people that she had jurisdiction over, she treated us like crap, and I’m serious, she really did. She would tell us what to do, we’d do it, and then she’d go on and complain about something else, I thought it was pretty stupid, “All right, I’m going to go to her now, I’m sorry, but I’m going.” Kandy had always hated it when I left, she was always scared, she thought that something was going to happen to me, that that evil woman would do something horrible to me, or to someone else. I stood up and walked away, I knew just where to go, and I know just how to get there, unlike on my first day, it was absolutely terrible. I couldn’t stand it, I hated it, it was not like anything that I had ever experienced before. But now, I do it every day, and I’ve kinda gotten used to the idea, it’s normal for me. I stepped out of my room, it was blazing hot, unlike usual.
Outside it was usually really cold, but not today, it was strange. Normally I sat in my room, doing nothing but think about my brother, I risked my life for him. I wasn’t thinking then, all I remember from that terrible day is that I left my brother, and that I was put into the service of this horrible creature. I can’t remember anything for some reason, I don’t even remember how long I’ve been with her. It was scaring me, I can’t remember anything about my past, I just know that I’m special, and that thing needs me for something, and there is no way that I was going to help her.
Slowly I walked towards her dungeon like room, then something spoke very loud, “Arianna, hurry up, you have to be fast, if you want to live, you will have to be fast.” I started walking even faster, then I started running. I ran as fast as I could to her dungeon like room, and then I stopped there, I couldn’t move anymore, I was stuck to the ground, not able to move; it seemed as if something like this had happened before, but I couldn’t quite remember where.
Then the ground moved, pulling me with it, into the horrible building. It was terrible, I hated it, along with many other things, but I had to deal with