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Footsteps in the darkness

Chapter 1: beginning

We spend all our life in the dark

Searching

But we find nothing.

Until we step into the light....

Chapter 2: Bethany diary entry; life

I lived all my human life worrying what would happen tomorrow

and didn’t live for the day, when it all ended on the eve of my16th

birthday I realised I needed some perspective. Dying was

the perfect solution, I didn’t want to die, but I had no choice,

the creature I tried to fight was so much stronger, faster and

much cleverer than me, he even seemed to know what I would

do next. What happened? - Well telling you would probably be

easier. I awoke to my uncle Stephen standing in the corner of a

large clean smelling room looking very dishevelled and tired,

now when this would have been comforting most people, myuncle –to whom I had been very close –had been dead for

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almost 8 years, which supported the fact I was dead. He walked

over and put a reassuring hand on my shoulder when I looked

at it closer I saw everything in such definition that it gave me a

headache, every smell overwhelmed me, every sound was

incredibly clear [put some metaphors in] I could even hear what

the people were talking about on the high street (the price of 

meat in the market) I swayed and my vision blurred, again he

put a hand on my shoulder to steady me “it’s all right, your

safe now” he said

“Am I dead?” I asked

“No”

“Why not?”

“Because if I hadn’t stopped him you would be dead.”

“That still doesn’t answer my question,”

“You had to change a bit to not die”

”What do you mean ?”

”Look for yourself “ I looked down my usual dark skin was

replaced with what looked like a mix between the darkest

Indian and the whitest albino the colour shifted and changed in

the light, I touched the back of my left hand with the tips of my

fingers of my right hand it was strange like there were tiny

scales instead of my usual skin

“what happened?” I gasped “like

I said you changed a little”

“please explain”

“well your kinda well like a . . . A... um...well...a”

“please just spit it out”

“you’re I mean we’re um kinda like well” his voice faltered and

he looked down to his feet…half dragon like things”

“WHAT!”, “um

well you got attacked by a dragon and a fully fledged one at

that but when he saw me coming he backed off immediately it

was very strange behaviour but only after slashing you with

poisonous claws, I tried to save you but the poison was

already half way around your body there was nothing I could do

I.......”

“if I’m a dragon then why do I still look like a human?”

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“oh that’s because I put an incantation on you, which I will

teach you later, to keep your form human “ “ok, so what

were you saying” “um

oh yeah I was about to tell you... I’m sorry but your parents

were killed by him before I could save them as I saved you ”

”oh” I felt my eyes well up with tears I fought to keep them

hidden but a solitary tear escaped and rolled down my new

cheek “it’s ok you

have the right to be upset. you can cry if you want ”

“no I must be strong and for me that’s not crying”

”ok whatever you say”

“what are we going to do, people will recognise me but I’m so

different wont they ask questions?”

“no because according to what I told them you’re dead; you

died in an accident along with your parents”

“so I don’t get to say good bye to all my friends?”

"No”

"family?” “Nope,

no one. We need to keep our identities secret if people see or

hear about a dragon they grab their spears and torches then

hunt us down until were extinct”

“oh” I felt my heart drop never seeing any one I knew or loved

ever again and if I did, they wouldn’t know who I was. I let

another tear slip down my cheek after the last one I wiped it

away before he could see.

 That was over two thousand years ago and I’m still here.