Yeah. Try to ignore any spelling mistake you find or not so obvious errors as I haven’t gone over and edited it yet…just wanted to get some thoughts before continuing.
>> Yawp.
First Chapter
Our story begins on a lovely fall day in November. It also begins with a lovely lady by the name of Sarah. A noble princess with a heart full of love, her eyes the colour of sapphires and locks of gold, her beauty is well known throughout the land! Now before you begin thinking that I am telling you a fairy tale, let me warn you that this is no ordinary fairy tale. It is a dark one, full of evil and madness, along with some love and courage. ‘Bah!’ You think, ‘All fairy tales have that.’ But I did warn you, and I will repeat myself. This is a special fairy tale. For while Lady Sarah is full of light and love, willing to defend justice and good, she has a twin sister. “Ah!’ you think. “I know this one, the sister is evil and full of hate for her sister and everyone!” But! You are wrong my friend. While her sister seems to be the darker half, she is good as well perhaps just as good, but she does have a dark spot as everyone does. And in this story we will see how both sisters triumph over evil in the world and within themselves.
Now back to Lady Sarah. She was sitting one day outside close to a fountain. Sitting precariously on the fountains ledge with a book in her hands her eyes devoted to it, she taps her foot in an impatient manner looking up every so often. Watching her it is apparent that she is waiting for someone. She seems nervous her blue eyes showing some anxiety behind her gold rimmed glasses and her smile slightly forced as she glances from her book to her surroundings. Going back to reading her book she is unaware of the intelligent green eyes watching her and looking her over. Garbed in a blue shirt with a leather vest over it, and some white pants she doesn’t seem very genteel, and the large hunting boots she wears on her feet are quite the opposite of ladylike. A sword hangs at her side, along with some pouches. Her head jerks up as if she feels someone watching her and she looks around a brow quirked her braid whipping around as she moves her head. After a moment her blue eyes meet the set of green and there is a pause before Sarah stands.
About 12 yards away a young woman who looks almost identical to Sarah is standing poised for action. Her own hair a darker blonde and her eyes the colour of emeralds, but they are the same in build and height. This woman is dressed in an adventurers garb, a forest green shirt and black vest, along with a olive coloured cloak. Her legs are covered by black pants and she has moccasins on her feet that lace up to her knees. Looking each other over for a moment in a shocked manner Sarah is the first to recover her speech as she steps foreword a few steps asking, “Emmy?”
Upon hearing her childhood nickname the green eyed woman nods and the run foreword to embrace each other happily tears of joy trickling down bother their faces as the sisters were reunited at last.
“Oh Emmy I missed you!” Sarah says as she clings tightly to Epiphany glad to have her other half with her once more.
“Me to Sapphy….” Epiphany whispers holding just as tight. They withdraw smiles on their faces as they wipe tears from their eyes. Since they were eleven they had been separated, at their parents discretion when war had swept their homeland of Callista, not wanting to risk the future of the kingdom they had sent them off to other lands until the war ended. Sadly, it never did. Their parents dead and their homeland destroyed they had been forced to remain where they were. Epiphany stayed with a family under the name, Starrya, and while treated decently at first, once the Mother died (they were a matriarchal society) and the sister took over, she was treated like a slave. She was trained in magic at about 14 and began to develop and excel with her use of magic. This earned her a better spot, but even so, she still felt alone and not really wanted. Training for years and moving a few times she began to look for Sarah. She was not hard to find as she had excelled in her studies and looks and was fairly well known in the kingdom she had been raised in. Sarah had been raised by Opal, who ran a finishing school in which Sarah had attended once she was old enough. She learned many things and picked up some magic while learning some very basic weaponry. She was fairly popular and well known through out the land as she helped when and where she could with her talents. So popular she became that villains and suitors often attempted to kidnap or kill her repeatedly, why, she wasn’t sure but she found it annoying.
Now all this history Sarah and Epiphany shared on their first day being back together. Within the first couple of weeks they had relived their lives together and had discussed everything from what they had done as children, to their first menstrual cycle. Close as they had been when they had been separated soon people began to call them by the nicknames they had received as small children. Sarah the Sapphire and Epiphany the Emerald. There names suited them; first off they had blue and green eyes respectively, and second there favorite colours corresponded as well. Both of them always wore green or blue, and it was a rare day you could find them in another colour. So as the months went by and they began to build there lives together one event occurred that seemed to stick out among all the others in their drama filled lives, and this in fact is where the actual story picks up.
Now since Sarah was having issues being attacked and kidnapped quite often she had decided to learn to defend herself since more often then not the only thing she was able to do was bite, kick and scream. Even though she had Emmy to protect her more often then not, she was tired of everyone rushing off to defend her every time some small town villain thought Sarah would be a quick way to earn some money if used as a hostage. So as a result she had enlisted the help of her friend Steele who was a skilled swordsman for lessons. These lessons often turned out quite interesting, more often then not.
“ARGH!!!”
A loud noise of frustration pain and anger rent through the air sending several nearby birds scattering. The source of the noise was Sarah as she stood wearily in a ring of fenced off dirt that was used for training. A few feet away Steele stood trying unsuccessfully to hide a smile while Epiphany giggled from where she watched at the fence.
“Having some problems sis?” Emmy called out as she perched on the top bar of the wooden fence.
“No.” Sarah said in a determined, if a bit sulky, manner.
In fact though, Sarah was having some problems at the moment. Steele was attempting to teach her a move that involved a complicated thrust, that if done correctly would disarm the opponent. And while Sarah was actually getting decent at basic swordsmanship, this move was proving a challenge. Not to mention her arms were tired from holding up her wooden practice stick for an hour. Steele keen blue eyes noted the fatigue in her movements and pursed his lips. While not a hard teacher, he did like to push Sarah to her limits in an attempt to get the best out of her, and she rarely complained or admitted she was tired.
“Sarah, go take a break, I need to stretch myself.”
Looking more then a little relieved Sarah dropped the sword and sank into the soft dirt and laid down her face up to the brilliant blue sky. Steele shook his head stabbing his wooden sword into the earth before wiping his brow and his silver hair out of his eyes. He then looked over to Emmy and called. “You wouldn’t happen to want lessons too would you?” He teased as he walked over to fence close to her.
She snorted quite unladylike before responding, “Right.” In a sarcastic tone. She was quite renowned for her skill with a sword even though she had only been there a few month. She had shown up one day at the sparring grounds and had challenged one of the knights to a match. He had laughed at her and didn’t take her seriously. It wasn’t until she whipped out her sword and forced him to fight that she was taken seriously. With her skill she had won quite a few matches and had learned some new tricks. Now she was one of the guys and sat swapping stories and sparring with them on a regular basis. And Steele was one of those guys.
It was obvious he was taken to Epiphany but she really didn’t seem to notice or care about him in that manner, which while it disappointed Steele, he was glad to spend sometime with her, even if it meant they were fighting one on one in some ring. Flashing a smile at her Steele cleared his throat while he rubbed the back of his head with one head nervously.
“So Epiphany, did you want to spar tomorrow?”
“I don’t see why not.” A boyish grin lit up her face. “Try not to trip this time.”
“I’ll try,” he replied chuckling his face taking on a slight reddish tint.
Steele began to say something but never got it out as he was knocked to the ground as an explosion of pure force hit him. He choked as he tried to regain his breathe his hands digging into the soil preparing to push himself up as he looked around wildly for whatever had caused the Explosion. Standing close to Sarah was a dark cloaked figure who was pulling Sarah up roughly a knife in his hand. She began to struggle but once he got the knife to her throat she froze motionless waiting for his next action. Epiphany lay close by having been knocked off the fence, and she began to pull herself up a hand to her head as her green eyes darted fiercely around.
“So…I find you unprepared to face me!” A shrill nasally voice cries from under the hood cause Sarah to wince at the sound.
By then Steele was standing and his light blue eyes where a bit different looking. They seemed to be consumed with fire and his brows were narrowed into a glare. He didn’t like being interrupted when he was having a lesson. And Epiphany hated being knocked off a fence. She was standing her own green eyes narrowed into a venomous gaze as she stared at the man threatening her sister.
“Who are you?” Emmy called in a contemptuous tone.
“I am Alutard! The great and intelligent and mastermindedly evil bloodsucking vampire from Fryse!” He pauses for dramatic effect. “MWHOHOHOHO!”
Steele’s eyes return to normal and Epiphany rolls hers. Once more Sarah was attempting to be kidnapped by a somewhat skilled amateur. The only thin he had going for him though was the knife at Sarah’s throat, perhaps a distraction was in order.
“Anything else O great Alutard?” Emmy scoffs crossing her arms. “And why have bloodsucking in your intro, it’s a little redundant.”
He scowls. “DO NOT QUESTION ME!” He shouts this red eyes from under his hood appearing and glaring at Emmy.
“My Mistake Great Alutard,” Emmy says tapping her foot. “Now hurry up we don’t have all day.”
Steele snickers and Alutard makes a hissing noise. “You doubt my power? You think I am kidding??!?!?!?!” He fairly shrieks this in her nasally voice and takes a step towards Emmy a fist raised in anger. In fact, he was a bit to focused on Emmy and forgot his prisoner. Or, at least he did until he felt a pain in his foot as the heel of Sapphy’s boot crushed it and then he remembered even more as a sharp pain exploded in his groin from Sarah’s well aimed elbow. Doubling over his knife falling into the dirt Sarah scrambled away as Emmy leaped over the fence drawing her sword along with Steele. With two swords aimed at him their wielders obviously not in the mood for games he began to cry and shriek. “Don’t kill me! I needed the money! Oh gods don’t stab me! I need to live!”
“You are pathetic!” Epiphany says staring at him with an annoyed expression.
“Agreed.” Steele added nodding. “Now, should we begin to cut him from the top, or bottom?”
At that comment the shrieks dissolved into incoherent cries and whines.
“Well…” Sarah said coming to stand by Emmy. “We at least know someone paid him, and he just didn’t decide to drop in.
“True. Who sent you?” Steele barked,
Alutard went silent for a moment. Steele blade began to inch close to his lower extremities and the vampire shouted, “Alright! I found a flyer, they’re all over the other kingdoms! They offer 5000 gold is we bring in that girl dead or alive.”
The three of them wince as he whines in his obnoxious voice.
“So someone wants me dead?” Sarah asked her face going a bit white.
“HERE!” Alutard shouts (as much as whiney nasally vampires can) digging into his cloak and pulling out a crumbled flyer. Steele leans in grabbing it gingerly and examines it before handing it to Emmy who looks at it with Sarah.
The flyer is plain starting with large text “Wanted Dead or Alive…. Sarah Carmen Lunae Cura Gloria Philosophia Domina Memoriae Callistae.” And then a decent drawing of Sarah with text underneath. “REWARD: 5000 gold. Bring to Lady Valentine in Shide.”
“Well.” Sarah begins after reading it. “At least the picture looks like me.”
Also… If anyone thinkgs of a good title, I might steal it if you tell me. hint hint <<
