Shadows and light, angels and demons

by The Crimson Reaper

Chapter 1: The Everfree shudders

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The Next Morning, In the Castle of the Two Sisters

POV The Bipedal Creature

I feel, disappointed... disappointed that I had gotten so far, yet it amounted to nothing. I was so close. yet so far from my goal... all of this because I had gone and sacrificed my own life for that little girl. I had made the right choice... but what I hated was that I died. I wasn't done! so WHY DID I DIE!? I look around, after ranting in my mind about my supposed abrupt fate I had just noticed that I was in a Limbo like place, there seemed to be nothing as far as I could tell. "Well, this isn't so bad... kinda quiet, but peaceful too... is this what the afterlife is like?" I think out loud to myself. "Not quite, little one... your time is not nigh." booms a deep and majestic voice. I search around for it, finding nothing I awkwardly clear my throat, and nervously call out into the dark, "So um, if Im not dead. Then where am I?" The deep voice chuckles in response to my question. "Do you not recognize your own mind little one? You are merely unconscious. you only need, to wake up..."  as soon as he had that, a bright light blinded me and the next thing I know. I can feel cold, hard stone pressing against my temple. Feel... if I can feel, I'm still alive... my fingers twitch as my brain tells them to start helping me up. I groan as the stiffness of my limbs clashes with my wishes to simply sit up, I roll to onto my back, and rub my color mismatched eyes with a gloved hand. As everything starts to come into focus, I begin to hear birds signaling the break of dawn. I hate this part, I rapidly sit up, causing my body to shriek in protest. I ignore it seeing as I already did my groaning and complaining for the day, "Didn't I just die???" The thought springs unbidden from my subconscious... weird, I should be dead from that Black Robot thing, kinda creepy how it sung nursery rhymes while if fought me... I look around to take in my surroundings, the first thought that comes to mind is: Broken. I seem to be in what appears to be a throne room of some sort, but it looks like time has crumbled some of the walls away and tattered the tapestries... Enough thoughts on that. time to get out of here, but first, Inventory check! Lets see...

-Black Hoodie: Check

-Black pants: Check

-Blackish boots: Check

-Black Face cloth: check

-Hidden Blades: check

-Throwing knives: check

-Fingerless black gloves: checkie!

-Hidden daggers in boots: check, check!

-Black dyed Leather armor under Hoodie and on pants: CHECK! :D

-Badass green Fire Magic: Check! check! check!

With that last check my hands burst into green fire, it doesn't burn me, but it kinda feels warm. considering is made of pure condensed hellfire... eh. whatever, the flames die out as I clench my hands, I set off at a brisk pace towards the huge double doors I saw earlier. then it hits me, "Wait, Why do I need to walk on two legs when I can run on four?" I mentally slap myself as I prepare to do a Transformation, I release the energy and immediately a burning sensation erupts across my body as my cloths turn to fur, and my hands and feet turn into paws. A tail shoots out of my back and my mouth and nose elongate into a furry muzzle, my ears become pointed as I begin to both hear and smell and see at a heightened level, completing the transformation into my favorite animal, the Wolf. I shake my coat and look around once again confirming that there are no signs of life. Then, with a great leap, I bound off past the doors and into the dark forest beyond...

Wait, where was I!? And which way was out of this forest!?!?

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