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"Carefully Lizzie, I don't want you to fall in" He called out to her. She hadn't seemed to have noticed. Erick saw a dark shadow appear beside her. It was just black and seemed to stand out in the bright day but nether of the two people on the dock noticed. The gentleman stood up and walked right past Erick without noticing his presence. Erick heard a splash and he turned to see the girl was no longer on the jetty. Erick tried running towards her. After an eternity he managed to get to the edge of the jetty and looked down. The girl was floating upside-down lifeless' Erick awoke with a start. This dream had shaken him up. "Lizzie" he said to himself remembering the females name. The phone rang and he got out of the bath grabbing a towel and went to answer it. Kat was on the phone. "Hey Erick, was just wondering if you wanted to go out this afternoon." "Yeah sure" He said "What's wrong" she asked picking up on Erick's tone "Just had a bad dream that's all" "Oh. Anyway I am meeting up with James and Liz later today so I can pick you up on the way if you want" "Liz?" Erick says dropping the phone. He quickly picks it up "Erick??? Hello???" "Sorry dropped the phone. Umm can I ask you something weird?" "Sure" Erick starts to describe the girl in his dream and asks Kat if that is what Liz looks like. Kat tells him yes and he starts to go pale. He tells Kat about his dream and she sooths him telling him it's just a dream. They talk a little and then get off the phone. Kat sits down thinking about what Erick had told her and shivers. She was so deep in thought she screamed when the phone rang. It was James. "She's dead Kat!" was the only thing she heard. She sat there letting what James just said sink in. She didn't need to ask who she just knew with sudden realisation that the Evil was there and coming for them. With that thought she cried with unbearable grief and suffering. Kat was still crying when Jade poped in after hearing the news herself. It took Jade an hour to comfort Kat and getting her to go to bed. Kat had fallen asleep exhausted and Jade sat on the chair watching her. For some reason Jade was really calm about it all as the realisation hadn't really sunk in. She knew there were going to be loses and she didn't have the time to greive just as yet. Jade sighed and wished Darryl was there. She thought about calling Darryl but decided against it. She called Glenn instead telling him what happened. Glenn arrived about an hour later having brung Darryl with him along with Peter and Erick. They sat in the lounge and Jade went to awaken Kat. When she got there Kat was already awake having heard the car pull in. They hugged for awhile and then went downstairs. Jade moved over and sat next to Darryl on the couch, and Glenn stood up. He walked over to Kat and held her tightly to him. Jade noticed a couple of tears glistening in his eyes as Kat's arms crept around his waist, but said nothing. When they finally separated, Kat's eyes were dry, and Jade was rather startled by the expression on her face. There was a strange ferocity lurking beneath her calm exterior. Jade was slightly started by the change in her usually serene cousin. She wasn't the only one that noticed the change. Glenn was looking at Kat strangely, and Darryl was looking slightly apprehensive. Peter was looking at Kat like he'd never seen her before. Erick was the only one who didn't look surprised at the alteration in attitude. He leaned towards Darryl. *** It had taken the better half of the day to gather all the things they thought they would need. They had lunch at the cafe, and then trekked to the beck at the bottom of the hill, where everything (as far as they knew) had started. When they arrived at the clearing, the group looked at each other."Now what?" asked Darryl, looking around. Everyone's eyes turned to Kat. "Base camp?" she suggested "Is the evil near here though?" "Oh, it's here. Can't you smell it?" "No, but I'll take your word for it." Together, they set up camp and Erick looked up at the sky. "It's noon. I'd say daylight is our ally, wouldn't you?" "Yes. Let's go. That way." Kat led the way, and the others followed. They found themselves standing in front of a cave, and stood in a circle to make plans. It was decided that Kat and Peter would go in first, followed by Jade and Glenn, who would be followed by Darryl & Erick. Because Kat seemed to have sharpened senses at the present point in time, she'd lead the way. Peter would stay alert for a presence with his mind skills, and if he found one, try and persuade it to stay where it was. When they found it - whatever it may be - Jade would freeze it, and Glenn would lift it off the ground, and then they'd kill it. How they were going to accomplish that last bit, they weren't quite sure, but they figured that they'd work it out when they got there. Erick would call out a warning if he got any premonitions, and Darryl would be around in case anyone got hurt. Together, they moved into the cave... It was rather dark and they couldn't see much. There were a few lamps along the way but none of them were alight. They trekked carefully. "Away from the walls" Erick yelled out Everyone scrambled away from the walls they had been using as a guide. A few people triped over each other. Two bursts of flame flew along the walls making all that was along alight with flame. A few bats that had been hanging off the wall were suddenly crispy and dead laying on the floor. "Glad you worked out how to use your powers Erick" Peter saidEveryone lauged nervously. The moved ahead again and Erick turned to Darryl. "Actually that was a gut feeling" he whipered "Well maybe that is your way to use the gift" Darryl replied "Hadn't thought of that actually" The run to catch up with everyone else. When they get there they notice Kat is gone. "Where is she?" Darryl demanded "Kat, please be careful when you do that" "She said sorry and that she will be right back" Peter said Peter sat down and closed his eyes. He followed the mind link he had with Kat and soon found himself in Kat's mind. *** "Hey Peter, you seep into that section of my mind I will kill you" *** "I/we are flying through a tunnel. It is very empty apart from a few animals. Most appear dead. There is a fork in the tunnel. Going left will be a dead end. In the right is a seat / throne. There is something sitting on it. To the right there is a rack of something, a human..." "Get out of there" Erick said calmly "I/we feel a will, a pull on us. Pushing away" Peter suddenly opens his eyes and shakes his head "Kat's flying back but I suggest we meet her halfway just in case" he said They all nod and agree except for Erick "No" He says The ponder for awile. "Why do we do stuff like sky diving" Jade asks A scream fills the cave shaking the walls, the ground and the ceiling. Dirt falls down onto them. "He doesn't like that notion Jade" Erick says *** Kat flies around in circles trying to get her bearings after the scream this monster had let out. Kat keeps trying to fly out of the tunnel she is in but seems to keep coming across this wall she knew wasn't there before. She silently yells out help mentally hoping that Peter will hear her. She flies upwards and holds onto the ceiling. It takes her a while to get used to being what would be upside in human form but what is rather natural in bat form. She listens to her surroundings. The evil that is sitting on the throne changes form to James and flexs his arms. He then walks over to the human that is on the rack and reaches into the throat then swallows what it grabs out. After a few gulps the evil, the new James speaks. "Hope you don't mind me borrowing your voice" The evil laughs and then heads out of the cave. Kat sents a mental thought to Peter more despretly."Peter if you hear this, please relink with me, I need to talk to you, URGENTLY!!!" *** Peter spins around looking for something then stays still. From around the corner comes the evil in James' body. He bowls them all over. "Oh thank heavens, it's horrible in there, I thought I would never get out" He pants "James!" Jade cried and leaped up to hug him. Glenn reached the cave in and quickly began removing dirt and rocks from the mouth of the tunnel. When the hole was big enough, he stepped through, and saw the remains of what used to be James. He turned away in disgust. "But I don't understand, James," said Darryl. "Just let me look at it." The second the green mist touched James, he screamed, and transformed into a black mist. Darryl, who was concentrating on healing, didn't notice. His eyes were closed and he was concentrating fiercely. The others concentrated on Darryl, loving him, but still watched in horror as the black mist writhed in pain. It changed form several times, before finally settling on a single human form, and screaming in abject pain and anguish. Then, suddenly, it dissipated into fine gray ash. Darryl looked up, exhausted, only to see a fine gray scattering of ash settling over the floor. While Darryl recovered his strength, the others sat with him, and talked. It wasn't long before an elderly woman came walking towards them. They watched her warily, and she smiled at them, and held out a book. *** One week later, the group gathered at Jade's house. Kat was the first to arrive, and Jade was sitting on her floor, the book closed in her lap. Jade drew herself up, and began to speak... ...Once upon a time there lived a young girl, named Kate Porter. She lived in a small town in the middle of nowhere named Carosue. Young Kate was very beautiful, with long dark hair and dark eyes, a result of her gypsy heritage. Kate was also the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and unlike most ladies of the time, was educated, so that she could do her father's bookkeeping for him. Kate's talents for singing out-passed even her beauty and intelligence, and she added to her father's wealth by singing in the local tavern each night. As Kate approached her 16th birthday, her father began to entertain suitors for her. One of her suitors was a cruel man whose name was Jerimiah. Kate did not love him, and was worried that her father would promise her to this man, as he was very rich and powerful. Kate arranged with her best friend, Andrew, that if her father betrothed her to this man, together they would flee and marry, so the betrothal would be void. On the morn of Kate's 16th birthday, Kate's father announced her betrothal to one Jerimiah Trisk, and immediately handed her over to him. That same morning, Andrew was arrested for treason, and taken away. Kate and Jerimiah Trisk were soon married, and reluctantly, Kate moved in with Jerimiah, but she did not love him. After one year, Kate became pregnant. It was Jerimiah's hope that Kate's pregnancy would bring them closer together, but instead it drew them further apart. Jerimiah did not know that one day whilst cleaning their house, Kate had found the secret door in their home, and the secret passage which led to the cave by the beck. Upon seeing the alter and sacrificial remains that littered that unholy place, Kate knew without a doubt that she could never love this man. She read his notes, and found his plans to sacrifice her and their child in order to achieve immortality, and decided that she could not let this happen. One year and 6 months since the date of her betrothal, Kate went down to the beck, carrying a kitchen knife, her diary, and a quill. Once there, she gathered 6 stones, one for each month of her pregnancy, and placed them around her open diary. Kate punctured her wrist with the knife, and wrote the beginning of her story in the diary with her blood, and then began to sing. In doing so, she damned Jerimiah Trisk to a life alone. She sung as though her heart would break, of all the love she had for everything in the world, excepting Jerimiah Trisk. Upon the conclusion of her song, Kate gave up her fight for life, and died by the stream, her blood flowing over the book and stones. Jerimiah Trisk had returned home early, only to find the secret passage open and the house empty. Knowing that Kate would have seen everything, he gathered his sacrificial knife and hurried through the passage. He was in his alter room when Kate died. Instantly his heart turned to stone, and he was cursed to eternal life as something less than human, all his love gone, never to return. The evil that was once Jerimiah Trisk thrived upon evil and discord, abhorring love and trust, for what he could not have, he wished no one to have. And so the 6 gypsy stones were created. The Gods imbued the stones with magical properties, to aid those who would destroy the evil that was Jerimiah Trisk. These stones were placed in areas around Carosue, where 6 worthy people would find them and go against the evil, group by group until it was overturned. Many failed, until one day, a group of 6 teenagers got hold of the stones. Their names were Jade, Kat, Darryl, Glenn, Erick and Peter...
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rick awoke feeling groggy. He hadn't slept well being haunted by dreams. He shook his head as if to clear it and headed to the bathroom hoping a shower would make him feel better. The dream remained in the back of his mind. Pictures was all he could get and all the images he got were rather non-descript so he couldn't even get a firm grasp of what he was seeing. He decided to run a bath instead and started to make preperations. The water was clear and inviting and warm against his skin that he was able to relax. All his tense muscles seems to agree that a bath was a better idea. Erick smiled and closed his eyes and soon drifted of to sleep...
