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A Gathering of teenagers stood in the park outside of their high school. It was just
about nine o’clock and the summer breeze was shifting and whirling around them in an unsettling manner. The group was
meeting for one of their chats about something that was far from natural to the world around them. This meeting was between
them, their Guardians, and the forces of the Supernatural that so often threatened their existence. Among them were Wiccans,
a female Satanist, and a quick-tempered Pagan boy.15
The darkness drowned out their figures
to where no one could see them unless they were less then ten feet from them. Everyone was silent, listening to their unsteady
surroundings. They were listening for the footsteps of their missing member, The silence was broken about ten minutes later
by shuffling feet. The person flicked on their lighter – their universal sign that it was only them – and moved
in closer to the gathering. 16
“Bout damn time.” Said a Wiccan girl with purple hair,
gray eyes and glasses. She looked annoyedly at the person that had just came into view. The Pagan boy ignored her disapproving
look and instead walked over to another in the group.17
“Calm down Lyss, he’s only
about ten minutes late.” This Wiccan girl had dirty blonde hair and green eyes that were reflecting in the darkness.
She was sitting against a guy with shaggy brown hair that covered his eyes completely.18
“I
wasn’t able to get out of the house, my sister was bitching and so was my mom, so let’s start the damn meeting
already.” The guy who was late had black hair, and had an almost Mexican-Indian look to him. Lyss, the purple-haired
child, nodded finally. She and the guy shot each other bitchy looks.19
“Tim, Lyss don’t
start your arguing now either – you can fight it out after we’re done talking.” Said the dirty blonde girl’s
boyfriend.20
“Wait – where’s Tony?” asked a blue-haired child with piercing
blue eyes. She was the Gathering’s Satanist. 21
“I’m right here love, I just
went to dispose of my soda can. I also stopped to see Krissy and them by the football field.” A tall, pale vampire figure
came into view. His hair was spiked straight upwards and his brown eyes gave him a dashing German look. His accent was but
beautiful and he continued with his explanation. “You guys see that party over there? That’s where the whole damn
school is right now.” He added. Everyone whirled around – to their shock, a party was actually going on.22
“Why don’t we meet another time – because at this rate we’re not going to
get anything done.” Lyss suggested. She looked over at the party. There was a massive bon fire, that caught the Pyro
Yami’s attention, and a large social gathering that caught everyone else’s eye. Lyss’s hearing tuned in
and she smiled, hearing the music flowing to her ears.23
“Hey Yami – wanna go for
a walk?” She asked, grinning at the Satanist child.24
“No, we have to continue this
otherwise I came all this way for nothing.” Tim said. He and Yami actually had the same last name and looked very much
alike. Both he and her had strong tendencies to try and control the other like brother and sister. Yami watching Tim’s
expression, wondering if he was going to start fighting with her good friend.25
“Quit your
bitch’n okay? We can make this for another time.” Lyss decided, running off towards someone she noticed from the
party. Tim was going to remark, but Yami grabbed him by the arm and stopped him.26
“Hey
you two need to stop this fucking fighting. It’s all you do now a days. Shit, you guys were fine a while after the break-up,
but what’s the issue now? What happened?” He didn’t answer and turned from his “sister” and
headed towards the party, tugging on Yami’s shirt as if to pull her along with him.27
“We
can make for another time.” Tony said agreeing with Lyss. “Let’s go to the party, we can’t get any
work done here with all them people anyways.”28
“You guys go on without us, Cory and
I are going to stay her a bit longer. We shall be there shortly though so don’t worry about us.” Said the blonde
girl.29
“Alright love, muah!” Tony waved and ran off to go and find Krissy again.
Yami and Tim nodded and continued to walk towards the party and its dancers.30
“You alright
now?” Yami asked her Pagan brother.31
“Fine, don’t ask now okay Yami? Why don’t
you go and find that loser ex, James, of yours okay?” Tim had an annoyed tone of voice. 32
“Alright,
but you’d better not bother Lyss too much okay?”33
“Whatever.” Tim watched
the blue-haired girl walk away from him towards the parking lot directly behind their school.34
“Bye!”
Yami waved and Tim signaled bye. 35
Yami walked closer to the fire pit that was slightly beyond
the ending of the parking lot, on the other side of the wired fences. She noted that she saw Lyss and her friends Steve and
Eric, and sort of grinned. Now only if she could find James. She looked a little further away and found Tim and his friend
Iverson. They were just a few yards from Lyss and her friends and she watched them for a slight moment. She was astounded
that they weren’t trying to kill each other and tare the other’s throats out. She figured that her friends would
defend her if need be and if more necessary, she would ring both their necks. When she found James, she wandered towards him.
A few guys were messing with fireworks and James was watching them and laughing. She figured that if she walked over to him
and said hi, it would be kind of weird. They’d been broken up for a long month or so and neither of them were seen together
with the other’s friends. It was against James’s “standards” to be seen with a “Freak”
or a “Goth”. Yami cringed as the winds forcefully pushed her felt trench coat into the air. She stopped
for a moment, and peered over the car before her. She recognized her senior friend’s truck and saw that the tail end
was down. She jumped onto it and observed everything around her. She tilted her head feeling as if her spirit guide’s
ears were curling upon her head. James looked around until his eyes fell upon hers. She snarled to herself – yet not
herself – and watched Lyss and her friends. The others like her were laughing and having a good time, which made her
wonder if she’d ever truly be like them. James snuck away from his friends, who were racing to the party’s bon
fire as fast as possible. 36
“Hey you.” James appeared before her and interrupted
her thoughts. She remained silent, but laid her eyes upon her ex boyfriend. Her head began to spin again.37
“Hey
– Yami – is said ‘hi’.” He said holding a hand out to her. The wind thrust her trench coat into
the air. She sat beside him, he was now on the tail gate, and watched everyone in the distance with her vampire-sight.38
Off in the distance her “brother” Tim was speaking to another in black, which she detected
as Iverson – he best friend. His voice appeared to rise rapidly and his arms flailed up in the air, as the other nodded
and spoke calmly in response. Iverson was also one of them, but choose to work along unless absolute necessary. 39
“What
the Hell – she always does this!” Tim growled. “Plans a meeting and then runs off, bitch, I’m willing
to bet that she does half this shit for attention.” Iverson nodded.40
“Could be, I
heard she like Steve now – you do know that right?”41
“Yeah, that stupid ass
skater kid, I know who that fucker is.” Tim and Iverson were walking in front of the parking lot through the back now.
Iverson caught someone staring.42
“You know that girl – sitting next to that Prep
kid?” He pointed in her direction. The blue-haired girl waved at them.43
“Yeah that’s
fucking Yami – that girl you were obsessed with in the beginning of this year. Remember?” Tim laughed.44
“You
used to always be like – ‘oh man I would so fuck her’, and all that shit.”45
“Oh,
yeah I remember, damn she was hot. She still look the same now?”46
“Uh – no
shit, anyways back to the point.”47
“Oh yeah, about Lyss right? I think that you two
just need to stay away from each other in the long run. I mean all you two ever do is fight and bitch – why do you even
attend their stupid meetings?”48
“Because if I don’t then shit’ll happen,
besides I’m friends with Jaime and them anyways.” Tim muttered.49
“Yes, that’s
true.”50
The dirty blond chick and her boyfriend slowly made way to the party. They were
arm-in-arm and chatting about the next meeting. When they passed Iverson and Tim they stopped to check on them and then left
again. Cory waved to Yami and frowned when he saw James, but thought nothing to much of it. Jaime insisted upon going to see
their other friends Pat and Will and then CJ and some other kids. 51
Away – the most north,
were Lyss and Steve – laughing their asses off at Eric. Steve and his friends were the funniest people anyone could
ever be around.52
“What did God say when he created the first black person?” Eric
asked.53
“I dunno – but that was very racist.” Lyss laughed.54
“What?”
Steve asked eagerly.55
“Oops, I burnt one!” Eric said falling into the grass laughing.
Lyss and Eric laughed so hard that their sides were aching and Lyss was in tears from the laughter soon after. “Oh wow
that’s the best one ever!” Eric chuckled. They continued to joke and mess with each other until they got bored
and went to dance by the fire with their school.56
“Hey Yami! What the Hell are you doing
all alone out here?” The truck’s owner asked.57
“Yeah, and why were you off
all alone? Where’s your Goths? Surely-”58
“James, shut it okay? And why the
fuck are you on my truck?” Chris – Yami’s best friend from her seniors, asked. He loved to threaten and
scare James in anyways possible. And of course, he’d always hated Yami’s boyfriends – especially the Asian
ones!59
“Relax Chris, man it’s all good.” Someone behind him said. Another senior
perhaps? Yep, another senior all right -another wasted and smashed senior. This one was Chris’s friend Matt. Yami
hadn’t bothered to say a word. Anubis was making her hold her tongue. It was as if her voice box wasn’t working.
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“Well see ya later.” Chris jerked Yami’s coat and left them, Matt swaying
behind him.61
“You okay?” James asked, breathing a sigh of relief. The seemingly dead
girl ignored his question. He looked at her cold blue eyes that stared at the dark grounding below them. “Yami?”
He whispered and rubbed her back.62
“I – I’m fine…just cold…”
She replied. He placed a hand against her cheek and felt her frozen skin.63
“Wow, you weren’t
kidding! What’s wrong with you?” He asked, it coming out all wrong.64
“A lot
of things.” Yami said simply. “A lot of things.” This time she said it to herself. Anubis was sitting atop
the truck now watching…65
Tim and the other walked over to the other’s girl friend.
She was much more normal-looking then they, but then again she was so drunk she’d have never noticed a thing herself.
She had curly blonde hair and laughed hysterically. Tim wasn’t too amused and Iverson was trying not to laugh. They
were only friends, Iverson and this girl Bekki. But more often than not, that acted as if they were going out.66
Several
kids danced and greeted each other. Several guardians awoke to the starling feelings around them and in the air. Their hosts
felt the familiar tingle (all at the same time) that told them this was going to be another strange night. It would be here,
it would be now. They knew, they all knew…67
And then it began.68
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