The pitch black darkness of the night, did little to hide the two orange glowing eyes that looked out over the city. The tips of each of the two horns glimmer every so often as the city lights made their way to them. Perched high on the ledge of one of the buildings of Atlas park, sat a lone and confused creature. At one time she was a human just like any of the regualr citizens, but not anymore.
The glowing eyes looked out over the streets and buildings, a terrible sadness held within them.
"I did not ask for this" She thought, as a figure apeared on the leadge beside her, stepping out of a teleportation portal.
"I figured I would find you here, you seem to come here alot." Sharalisa said
LadyJasmin looked up slightly, than back out over the city, "It is peaceful here"
"Just wanted to check on you and make sure you was alright" Sharalisa said as she step back into her portal and vanished.
Ladyjasmin shook her head slightly, "But I am not alright", mostly saying it to herself.
The half human, half demon was far from alright. She did not ask to be this way, she did not want to be this way. She had a scholiship for college, she had plans she had made for her life, she had a boyfriend.
The last thought made her drop her head and if she could have cried she would have.
She "had" a boyfriend, his name was Jason, and he is the reason she is what she is now.
~~~~
"Come on Natashia, just go with me to the meeting one time" Jason asked, not aggressive, but in that persasive way.
"But I hear those meetings are not good Jason" Natashia said
"Nah, they are harmless, we just talk and read spells from good honest books" Jason said calmly.
"Are you sure, I don't want mixed up in some stuff that will get me in trouble" Natashia portested.
"I promise, look afterwards, we can go catch a movie and a bite to eat" Jason said tring to smooth it all out.
"Ok fine, that sounds good, but what should I wear?" Natashia asked
"Ummm cloths is always a good option, but hey you choose." Jason said jokingly
"Very Funny, alright how much time do I have?" Natashia asked
"Pick you up in an hour" Jason said.
"Alright see you than" Natashia said as she hung up the phone. A meeting of the Circle of Thorns, I can't believe I'm going. I had heard lots of bad things about them, but Jason had assured me they were untrue. I trusted him, we had been together for 7 months and he had never given me a reason not to.
The hour passed quickly with me gettng ready, and I heard the familiar knock of Jason at my door. I opened the door and saw him in his usual red robe that her wore to the meetings. I may have my doubts aobut the Thorns but he did look good in that color.
He took my hand and we walked to his car, the normal routine of us going out. The drive to the meeting was a p leasant one, more than usual. We talked aobut everything, for a change he was talkative back, looking back I see that it was just part of his plan.
The group was gathering in a wooded area in Perez Park, away from the eyes and ears of passer-byes. Each member made it a point to intruduce themselves and was very polite. Jason never left my side though, making sure I felt safe and secure around them.
The last to intruduce themselves was, as far as I could tell, the leader fo the group. He was tall, about 6'3 I would say. He had short gray hair and a short grey beard. He was polite and gentle, thanking me for coming, and all the usual nice to meet you things. He asked if I would like to participate in the meeting, but leaving it completely up to me if I wanted to. This of course made me want to, all this politness was making all the rumors i had heard clearly untrue.
I said I would like to, and he smiled and nodded.
"Now you have to go through a very short cleansing ceremony, its merely an act of releasing negative energies so that your mind is clear." The old man had said. Looking back, I realize how stupid I was, but that can't be changed now.
The old man took my hand gentle, I glanced at Jason who gave me that "it's ok" nod. He lead me to the center of the group, who had made a circle type formation.
"This one has come willing today to be amoung us, and wishes to participate today" The old man said.
The group clapped and smiled at me, which was a bit embarressing.
"OF course you all know that in order to participate, one must go through the cleansing ceremony the first time, and as such she has agreed to do it as well" The old man said.
The group nodded in agreement. Why do I have a bad feeling all of a sudden?
The old man stepped back and smiled at me, but not the same smile as before, the corners of his smile where twisted slightly. Really bad feeling now, really bad.
I looked at Jason who was in the circle, his head was lowered slightly, not the same way he usually stands.
The old man, raised his hand towards me, and suddenly I was frozen in my tracks.
OH boy!
I can't move, and slowly I feel my body rising slightly off the ground.
I try to scream, I try to call out to Jason, but not a sound escapes my lips. The group starts to chant and circle me, the old man speaking in some language I have never heard. I can't move, except for my eyes, I can look around. I see Jason, he is staring right at me, but he is not the same as I knew him, his face, his eyes, their evil.
The chant grows louder, the words hasten as they speak them. The old man lowers both hands to the ground,than quickly draws them upwards to this shoudlers.
It is than I see the glow around my body, like pure green energy erupting from the ground beneath me. I know this is not a cleansing ceremony, I had seen such things on TV, this was soemthing evil, and I was in the middle of it.
The old man did the same hand motions again, chanting something different than before. Than I heard it, a sound I will never forget. It wasn't a screech, or a howl, or anything I had ever heard before. It was some dark and evil, the white spirit hand reaching out of the ground tipped me off to that.
What ever it was that was being summoned or called or what ever they were doing, was coming for me. I try to look away and see Jason, he is now just a blur amoung the cirle of bodies. The hand grabs the ground as if tring to get a hold, than I see what it is attached to pulling itself out of the ground. Well through the ground actually, it is some kind of spirt or demon or something, heck I dont know.
The old man speaks more words, does more arm motions and the thing pulls itself free of the ground. Its hugh, like massively hugh, with wings they must have been over 6 foot across. Ok for me, that is hugh. When your paralized and floating off the ground about to be soemthings dinner, everything looks hugh.
The group stops circling at this point and starts pushing their arms towards me and jerking them back, while chanting something. I can feel my body growing lighter and lighter. It didn't take long to figure out what they were doing. The thing, the spirit, the what ever it is, is floating right on me, and as I grow lighter, it grows fainter. They are tring to posess me, I try to scream, silence from my lips. There is nothing I can do, so this is what powerless feels like.
I can see the old man grinning, an evil snerring grin, the kind that lets you know you are a victim. The group chants louder and hard, as if they were putting thier whole being into each chant. I feel as if I am outside myself almost, the thing almsot completely faded. My eyes want to close, so tired, so sleepy now. The world around me starts to fade into a peacful soft black.
"SHHHIZZZZZ"
"No you must interupt, the ceremony is almost over!!!" The old man screams.
"Correction, it be over" A gruff male voice shouts.
"SHHHIZZZZ"
The group draws daggers, as the second electric bolt slams one of them in the chest, knocking him out cold.
The wolrd is fading back slightly, I can make out very blurry images now.
"You must not interupt, who knows what will happen!!" The old man screamed, trng to draw as much power from those nearby to finish the ritual.
"Not my worry, ye tring to take another innocent life is me concern" The gruff sounding man said.
"siiiiiizzzzz, sizzzzzzz"
Two more member fallout, the old man can't continue the ritaul, slowly my eyes began to refocus. I can see what is going on now. A man in blue and white, the group members rushing towards him, the old man glowing with some kind of energy. The man in blue is smiling as they run towards him.
"Bad idea, bad guys." He shouts a second before they all are thrown back by a gale of winds.
All lay where they landed, the old man screamed, words I would rather not repeat. The man in blue just laughed and with a flick of his hand, sent a ball of what looked like electricity at the old man. Knocking him back a few feet, he too lay where he landed. If they were dead I didn't know.
The man in blue ran to me and caught me as I fell, when the old man fell the energy holding me stopped. The man in blue, lowered me slowly to the ground, I was awake but felt drained of all my energy. The man in blue was nice and spoke softly to me, I could feel my strength coming back as a green glow swept over me.
"I ner an expert healer mam, but ye just be taken it easy, I do all I can fer ye." The man in blue said.
I laid there several minutes, and it was than I noticed the look on his face. Not one of pity or concern, but one of marveling.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked
"Well miss, I thinking ye might not know what has happened to ye" the man in blue said.
"Happened to me, what do you mean "Happened to me"?" I asked in surprise.
"I tried ta be gettn her as fast as I could Miss, to stop em before ner thing happened. But I fears I didn't make it ner soon nuff" the man in blue said.
I raised my hand to rub my eyes, and it was than I first caught on to what he said. Reaching for my eye I raised my hand a little high and bumped something, something hard and rough. Slowly I touched what ever it was, it was coming out of my forehead. The look in my eyes told the man I had been clueless and now I was scared.
"They be horns Miss, two of em to be exact." the man in blue said.
"Now the first ye need to do is stay clam Miss, the ceremony made a few changes to ye" he said.
"Changes? What changes?" I half asked half stammered out.
"They be tring to posess ye with a demon, the ceremony was almost over when I gots here and interupted" the man said.
"Almost over? so i was almost a goner than? But what did they do to me?" I asked, I would be cring but for soem reason my eyes no longer would shed tears. Slowly I lowered my hand from the now protruding horns and looked down, the rest of me looked normal, well as normal as I could tell.
"Can ye be walking Miss, we needn't linger here to long" the man said.
"I think I can," I said as I tried to get to my feet, "Who are you?"
"The name be StaticGust," he said, " I been followng that boyfriend of ye for a few months now"
"So you knew what was going to happen?" I asked
"nah, I just knew he was a member of this here circle. It weren't till an hour ago I figured out what he had planned for ye" Static said.
"I am glad you did figure it out, although I am not sure I wanted you too after what I have become." I said half hearted.
We both took to running out of the park, and to my surpise, I was no longer the slow girl I once was. Static must have seen the look on my face as I ran faster.
"Although ye may not be liking what ye have become Miss, sometimes curses can really be blessings, just with a bad book cover." static said
I nodded slightly, and kept running, concentratign to run faster. Static had no trouble keeping up and was out running me by a long shot. I was determined to catch him, being left alone in this park was not what I wanted.
"Poof"
What the?
"poof"
I stopped instantly and so did Static.
"What the heck was that?' I asked. Having just disappear back there and appeared up here beside Static.
"Ah, it look like, your new form has a few powers as well." Static said laughing and smiling
"powers?...you mean like real magical powers like you see in movies and comic books type powers?" I asked half surpised.
"Aye, that be the powers I speak off." static mused
Ok, so here I am now, a half demon and I have make believe turned real powers. Kinda cool, but kinda scary. I stood for a second and concentrated on a spot on the ground a few feet away.
"Aye, make traveling easier, and use less gas in ye car" Static said laughing.
~Agent StaticGust....report~
Static reaches for a gadget on his wrist
~Ritual averted.....Target alive...merger incompelte~
~Good....report to charlie base Bravo immediatly...sector issue~
~Roger...on me way~
"I gots to be going Miss, another one to prevet I fear" Static said.
All I could do was nod, we were at the security gate so I was safe, well safe was a reletive word as this point, with how I looked, I feared more of being killed by scared citizens than anything.
Static was gone and I stood there alone, my first of many days of feeling lost.
I made my way in the shadows to the a little lake on the outskirt sof town. THe calm water and peacefulness did much to calm me down. I knew that I could no longer go back to my old life. No way most would accept me as I am now.
"But I am still a lady", I thought,"that can never be taken from me"
As I sat there by the water, I noticed the Jasmin growing along the edge of the rocks and a smile crossed my face.
~~~~
Slowly I closed my eyes, shaking my head. I can't change what I am now, I can't go back and not go to the meeting. I am this....this creature, and I can't just sit here and let this happen to someone else.
Standing up and I breath deeply, the warm air feeling good in my lungs as I heat up my surrondings to make it comfortable. I dont heat up to much though, I dont want to burn anything.
That day at that meeting Natashia died in that energy and ceremony, and LadyJasmin was born.
LadyJasmin
by Noctoos
The pitch black darkness of the night, did little to hide the two orange glowing eyes that looked out over the city. The tips of each of the two horns glimmer every so often as the city lights made their way to them. Perched high on the ledge of one of the buildings of Atlas park, sat a lone and confused creature. At one time she was a human just like any of the regualr citizens, but not anymore.
The glowing eyes looked out over the streets and buildings, a terrible sadness held within them.
"I did not ask for this" She thought, as a figure apeared on the leadge beside her, stepping out of a teleportation portal.
"I figured I would find you here, you seem to come here alot." Sharalisa said
LadyJasmin looked up slightly, than back out over the city, "It is peaceful here"
"Just wanted to check on you and make sure you was alright" Sharalisa said as she step back into her portal and vanished.
Ladyjasmin shook her head slightly, "But I am not alright", mostly saying it to herself.
The half human, half demon was far from alright. She did not ask to be this way, she did not want to be this way. She had a scholiship for college, she had plans she had made for her life, she had a boyfriend.
The last thought made her drop her head and if she could have cried she would have.
She "had" a boyfriend, his name was Jason, and he is the reason she is what she is now.
~~~~
"Come on Natashia, just go with me to the meeting one time" Jason asked, not aggressive, but in that persasive way.
"But I hear those meetings are not good Jason" Natashia said
"Nah, they are harmless, we just talk and read spells from good honest books" Jason said calmly.
"Are you sure, I don't want mixed up in some stuff that will get me in trouble" Natashia portested.
"I promise, look afterwards, we can go catch a movie and a bite to eat" Jason said tring to smooth it all out.
"Ok fine, that sounds good, but what should I wear?" Natashia asked
"Ummm cloths is always a good option, but hey you choose." Jason said jokingly
"Very Funny, alright how much time do I have?" Natashia asked
"Pick you up in an hour" Jason said.
"Alright see you than" Natashia said as she hung up the phone. A meeting of the Circle of Thorns, I can't believe I'm going. I had heard lots of bad things about them, but Jason had assured me they were untrue. I trusted him, we had been together for 7 months and he had never given me a reason not to.
The hour passed quickly with me gettng ready, and I heard the familiar knock of Jason at my door. I opened the door and saw him in his usual red robe that her wore to the meetings. I may have my doubts aobut the Thorns but he did look good in that color.
He took my hand and we walked to his car, the normal routine of us going out. The drive to the meeting was a p leasant one, more than usual. We talked aobut everything, for a change he was talkative back, looking back I see that it was just part of his plan.
The group was gathering in a wooded area in Perez Park, away from the eyes and ears of passer-byes. Each member made it a point to intruduce themselves and was very polite. Jason never left my side though, making sure I felt safe and secure around them.
The last to intruduce themselves was, as far as I could tell, the leader fo the group. He was tall, about 6'3 I would say. He had short gray hair and a short grey beard. He was polite and gentle, thanking me for coming, and all the usual nice to meet you things. He asked if I would like to participate in the meeting, but leaving it completely up to me if I wanted to. This of course made me want to, all this politness was making all the rumors i had heard clearly untrue.
I said I would like to, and he smiled and nodded.
"Now you have to go through a very short cleansing ceremony, its merely an act of releasing negative energies so that your mind is clear." The old man had said. Looking back, I realize how stupid I was, but that can't be changed now.
The old man took my hand gentle, I glanced at Jason who gave me that "it's ok" nod. He lead me to the center of the group, who had made a circle type formation.
"This one has come willing today to be amoung us, and wishes to participate today" The old man said.
The group clapped and smiled at me, which was a bit embarressing.
"OF course you all know that in order to participate, one must go through the cleansing ceremony the first time, and as such she has agreed to do it as well" The old man said.
The group nodded in agreement. Why do I have a bad feeling all of a sudden?
The old man stepped back and smiled at me, but not the same smile as before, the corners of his smile where twisted slightly. Really bad feeling now, really bad.
I looked at Jason who was in the circle, his head was lowered slightly, not the same way he usually stands.
The old man, raised his hand towards me, and suddenly I was frozen in my tracks.
OH boy!
I can't move, and slowly I feel my body rising slightly off the ground.
I try to scream, I try to call out to Jason, but not a sound escapes my lips. The group starts to chant and circle me, the old man speaking in some language I have never heard. I can't move, except for my eyes, I can look around. I see Jason, he is staring right at me, but he is not the same as I knew him, his face, his eyes, their evil.
The chant grows louder, the words hasten as they speak them. The old man lowers both hands to the ground,than quickly draws them upwards to this shoudlers.
It is than I see the glow around my body, like pure green energy erupting from the ground beneath me. I know this is not a cleansing ceremony, I had seen such things on TV, this was soemthing evil, and I was in the middle of it.
The old man did the same hand motions again, chanting something different than before. Than I heard it, a sound I will never forget. It wasn't a screech, or a howl, or anything I had ever heard before. It was some dark and evil, the white spirit hand reaching out of the ground tipped me off to that.
What ever it was that was being summoned or called or what ever they were doing, was coming for me. I try to look away and see Jason, he is now just a blur amoung the cirle of bodies. The hand grabs the ground as if tring to get a hold, than I see what it is attached to pulling itself out of the ground. Well through the ground actually, it is some kind of spirt or demon or something, heck I dont know.
The old man speaks more words, does more arm motions and the thing pulls itself free of the ground. Its hugh, like massively hugh, with wings they must have been over 6 foot across. Ok for me, that is hugh. When your paralized and floating off the ground about to be soemthings dinner, everything looks hugh.
The group stops circling at this point and starts pushing their arms towards me and jerking them back, while chanting something. I can feel my body growing lighter and lighter. It didn't take long to figure out what they were doing. The thing, the spirit, the what ever it is, is floating right on me, and as I grow lighter, it grows fainter. They are tring to posess me, I try to scream, silence from my lips. There is nothing I can do, so this is what powerless feels like.
I can see the old man grinning, an evil snerring grin, the kind that lets you know you are a victim. The group chants louder and hard, as if they were putting thier whole being into each chant. I feel as if I am outside myself almost, the thing almsot completely faded. My eyes want to close, so tired, so sleepy now. The world around me starts to fade into a peacful soft black.
"SHHHIZZZZZ"
"No you must interupt, the ceremony is almost over!!!" The old man screams.
"Correction, it be over" A gruff male voice shouts.
"SHHHIZZZZ"
The group draws daggers, as the second electric bolt slams one of them in the chest, knocking him out cold.
The wolrd is fading back slightly, I can make out very blurry images now.
"You must not interupt, who knows what will happen!!" The old man screamed, trng to draw as much power from those nearby to finish the ritual.
"Not my worry, ye tring to take another innocent life is me concern" The gruff sounding man said.
"siiiiiizzzzz, sizzzzzzz"
Two more member fallout, the old man can't continue the ritaul, slowly my eyes began to refocus. I can see what is going on now. A man in blue and white, the group members rushing towards him, the old man glowing with some kind of energy. The man in blue is smiling as they run towards him.
"Bad idea, bad guys." He shouts a second before they all are thrown back by a gale of winds.
All lay where they landed, the old man screamed, words I would rather not repeat. The man in blue just laughed and with a flick of his hand, sent a ball of what looked like electricity at the old man. Knocking him back a few feet, he too lay where he landed. If they were dead I didn't know.
The man in blue ran to me and caught me as I fell, when the old man fell the energy holding me stopped. The man in blue, lowered me slowly to the ground, I was awake but felt drained of all my energy. The man in blue was nice and spoke softly to me, I could feel my strength coming back as a green glow swept over me.
"I ner an expert healer mam, but ye just be taken it easy, I do all I can fer ye." The man in blue said.
I laid there several minutes, and it was than I noticed the look on his face. Not one of pity or concern, but one of marveling.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked
"Well miss, I thinking ye might not know what has happened to ye" the man in blue said.
"Happened to me, what do you mean "Happened to me"?" I asked in surprise.
"I tried ta be gettn her as fast as I could Miss, to stop em before ner thing happened. But I fears I didn't make it ner soon nuff" the man in blue said.
I raised my hand to rub my eyes, and it was than I first caught on to what he said. Reaching for my eye I raised my hand a little high and bumped something, something hard and rough. Slowly I touched what ever it was, it was coming out of my forehead. The look in my eyes told the man I had been clueless and now I was scared.
"They be horns Miss, two of em to be exact." the man in blue said.
"Now the first ye need to do is stay clam Miss, the ceremony made a few changes to ye" he said.
"Changes? What changes?" I half asked half stammered out.
"They be tring to posess ye with a demon, the ceremony was almost over when I gots here and interupted" the man said.
"Almost over? so i was almost a goner than? But what did they do to me?" I asked, I would be cring but for soem reason my eyes no longer would shed tears. Slowly I lowered my hand from the now protruding horns and looked down, the rest of me looked normal, well as normal as I could tell.
"Can ye be walking Miss, we needn't linger here to long" the man said.
"I think I can," I said as I tried to get to my feet, "Who are you?"
"The name be StaticGust," he said, " I been followng that boyfriend of ye for a few months now"
"So you knew what was going to happen?" I asked
"nah, I just knew he was a member of this here circle. It weren't till an hour ago I figured out what he had planned for ye" Static said.
"I am glad you did figure it out, although I am not sure I wanted you too after what I have become." I said half hearted.
We both took to running out of the park, and to my surpise, I was no longer the slow girl I once was. Static must have seen the look on my face as I ran faster.
"Although ye may not be liking what ye have become Miss, sometimes curses can really be blessings, just with a bad book cover." static said
I nodded slightly, and kept running, concentratign to run faster. Static had no trouble keeping up and was out running me by a long shot. I was determined to catch him, being left alone in this park was not what I wanted.
"Poof"
What the?
"poof"
I stopped instantly and so did Static.
"What the heck was that?' I asked. Having just disappear back there and appeared up here beside Static.
"Ah, it look like, your new form has a few powers as well." Static said laughing and smiling
"powers?...you mean like real magical powers like you see in movies and comic books type powers?" I asked half surpised.
"Aye, that be the powers I speak off." static mused
Ok, so here I am now, a half demon and I have make believe turned real powers. Kinda cool, but kinda scary. I stood for a second and concentrated on a spot on the ground a few feet away.
"poof" ...."poof"
Again
"poof" ....."poof"
"poof" ....."poof"
"poof" ....."poof"
"ok that is kinda cool." I said laughing
"Aye, make traveling easier, and use less gas in ye car" Static said laughing.
~Agent StaticGust....report~
Static reaches for a gadget on his wrist
~Ritual averted.....Target alive...merger incompelte~
~Good....report to charlie base Bravo immediatly...sector issue~
~Roger...on me way~
"I gots to be going Miss, another one to prevet I fear" Static said.
All I could do was nod, we were at the security gate so I was safe, well safe was a reletive word as this point, with how I looked, I feared more of being killed by scared citizens than anything.
Static was gone and I stood there alone, my first of many days of feeling lost.
I made my way in the shadows to the a little lake on the outskirt sof town. THe calm water and peacefulness did much to calm me down. I knew that I could no longer go back to my old life. No way most would accept me as I am now.
"But I am still a lady", I thought,"that can never be taken from me"
As I sat there by the water, I noticed the Jasmin growing along the edge of the rocks and a smile crossed my face.
~~~~
Slowly I closed my eyes, shaking my head. I can't change what I am now, I can't go back and not go to the meeting. I am this....this creature, and I can't just sit here and let this happen to someone else.
Standing up and I breath deeply, the warm air feeling good in my lungs as I heat up my surrondings to make it comfortable. I dont heat up to much though, I dont want to burn anything.
That day at that meeting Natashia died in that energy and ceremony, and LadyJasmin was born.