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I slept quite soundly last night, which was rare. Usually I’d be kicking around till there was no bedding in my nest, or wandering, well limping, around with my mind going into a repeated cycle of darkness. That cycle was something I didn’t like to explain or talk about, I didn’t know much about it myself. I only started receiving such bad things since my experience against those reckless members of the skulls. Well, everything happens to everyone. At some point anyway.
When my eyes flew open, my thoughts were washed away with annoyance. At first, I thought it was the middle of the night, but the familiar colours of an approaching sunrise gave me relief. That was when I noticed something weird was going on because when I stood up, there was no pain in my front right shoulder blade.
Surprised, I glanced at it to find the bandages were gone and my body looked perfectly normal, apart from the jutting bones that is. I opened my mouth to test if that too felt normal, and it was. “I-I can talk!” I exclaimed quietly before repeating the words several times, each of it getting louder. I started prancing around like an idiot, confidence filling my soulless spirit when I spotted my necklace hanging from a branch. At first, I didn’t really care. I mean, I could talk! That’s better than some creepy sounding necklace, right? Well, the surprise came when a very familiar figure stood barely visible from my necklace.
“Aliah!” I screeched, too excited about my recovery to care about who the figure really was, or remember that she was dead. A small chuckle was heard from the female panther as she padded forward, eyes light purple. It was strange, I thought her eyes were light red? And her frame seemed to be a bit smaller, but maybe it was my memory. Maybe my brain still had to recover properly. Yeah, that was it.
“Greetings, Kaori,” aliah replied in a weird voice. It was… extremely different from when I last met her. It made my blood run cold, and all the joy washed away along with my confidence. But I stood my ground, aliah could be testing me, right? She always did that. “It’s been… well, a long time. Not years, but a long time. How are you doing?”
I smiled back at her, giving her my usual cheeky grins, though the look in her eyes told me she knew my smile was a bit… off. I couldn’t hide anything from Aliah. “Um… not too great, actually,” I replied after a while, my eyes distant and blank before gazing up at her again. “There’s been a bit of a problem with shadowclan lately, they keep pinching off our members one by one. Anyway, what are you doing here?” I expected some sort of a gentle smile or even a lick of sympathy, but nothing came. All her expressions were held in her eyes as if she was hiding something. Aliah… wasn’t very ‘herself’ today. It kind of scared me.
“Oh? Do you need… any help with that? I’ve heard some things are stirring up in other clans too,” aliah responded, seating herself down with her nose almost touching mine. “And now that you’ve mentioned that problem, I’m here to save you from trouble. I don’t want my favourite child to die, do I?” With all my worries out the window, my ears pricked at the sound of her words. The Great Aliah was going to help me? She was going to help a useless rep? And yet Aliah called me ‘favourite child’? Blinded by pride, I eagerly nodded though I expressed my doubt. “That’d be cool, but… how do you co-come back?” Aliah was dead and dusted, right?
Aliah gave me a soft smile, but warmness wasn’t held in it. But did I care or even notice? Nope. “By possessing you, of course,” she suddenly said with a sharp tone before disappearing into some sort of mist. At first, I was confused. However, the answer came sooner than I expected, and much more painful.
Instantly, I collapsed into a heap onto the dusty ground, gasping and choking as I abruptly began to cough up a flood of blood. My head hurt like someone was whacking a titanium hammer against my head, and my vision was blurred up and darkness was beginning to overwhelm. This was more painful than what the members of the skulls did. After all, inside pain was much more unbearable than outside pain. “You’ll die if you keep resisting, Kaori,” said the sudden voice of al- no, it wasn’t aliah. It was someone else. I was manipulated into thinking someone was aliah! I can’t believe… I can’t believe I’m this stupid. Whoever, you are... leave me alone! kaori screamed in her head, the migraine intensifying each minute.
“I can’t, Kaori. If I leave, you’ll die,” the-whoever-panther said in a calm tone. I'd rather die than be possessed by someone I don't know I replied bitterly as I coughed up a bloody hairball. “Don’t give me that attitude,” the voice suddenly said in a deadly tone. ” You need me, and you know it. Kaori, stop. Do you want more captures?”
I didn’t.
“Do you want to risk the chance of those captured be tortured?”
I didn’t.
“Do you want more raids?”
I didn’t.
“Don’t you want to protect your clanmates from anymore of this?”
It's not my job to-
“You don’t want anyone looking down on you, do you?”
I didn’t, and that was when I finally felt the pain ease. My coughing went from a flood to a trickle, and my head went from unbearable to light. I could feel the purple eyed panther slowly merging herself into my mind. My fur tingled, and my paws felt weird. But I didn’t care, this pain felt so soothing.
I’m so weak, I really am. I hate it, I hate being easily manipulated and I hate falling into traps. But if this panther really did offer some good stuff, then I might see the bright side of the dark side. I wonder what my friends would think… well, if they were still my friends that is.
I don’t what happened next, but I guess I fell into unconsciousness.
//over 1000 words 0-0
anywayy, this was kinda long, and kinda rushed cause i only made this last night cx but oh welllll[/fancypost]