Galaxy

Lying on road fighting for my life. My eyes refocusing to leave the burning house. The flames covered the little house, black smoke leaving the house and going to the sky making the sunny afternoon a blanket of darkness. It had been a normal day. But isn't that how things change? Things are never as they seem. Good and evil co-existed with each other it has too right? Coughing out the black smoke, people around me saying that everything was going to be ok. Lies, it was all lies. Nothing is ever ok. They said that I was lucky to be alive. Lucky that they reached me before the whole house went up in flames. Not everyone was lucky in life.

Memorises linger, tears fall, heart aches for your loved ones. Never again hear them calling your name. Watch their faces light up when you walk in the room. Cuddling put close when the lighten keeps you awake at night. Smelling cooking smell around the house in the mornings. I had to run runaway from my old life. There was nothing left for me; I didn't want people pitying me. How could they really know how I felt? I didn't just lose a house in the fire. I lost a home. They say your family is your home. Well I didn't have a home, and I didn't have a family.

 A dad, who tells me off for drinking too much. A mum, that dragged me around the supermarket. A little sister, who browed my clothes without asking. Of course there were good times lots in fact. Singling along to radio on a Sunday afternoon, with dad while he did the Sunday dinner. Talking to mum about anything an everything in Redcliff café. Doing my little sisters hair and make-up, and then dancing together in the back yard.

Remember, forever and never forget...

The knock at the door didn't surprise me. Even over the sound of the music on the Cd, I could still hear the footsteps that stopped outside of my door. I loved my new reflexes; the way my body moved to the music was amazing. Gracefully still partly dancing I went to my door and opened it.

"Miss River?" He asked me. The stranger was dressed in a formally in a black suit and navy blue tie. He had spiky blonde hair and shiny green eyes that gave me some sort of a clue of what he was. His scent also seemed familiar to the estate that Ethan nearly took me down this morning.

"Erm yes can I help you?" I told him still standing in the door way.

"This is for you, put it on straight away." He went into his jacket and pulled out a rectangle box and headed it to me.

"Thank you." I say opening the box lid. There nested in black valet was a tiny sliver flower, the flower was a rose bud. I clear fully took the necklace out of the box. "Wow, who's this from?"

"Put the necklace on Galaxy." He instructed. I did as he asked the thin sliver chain felt light against my skin. The rose bud came to the middle of my chest when the necklace was firmly in place I heard the necklace click into place. The sound sent a shiver down my spine. My hand admittedly went to the clip but it wouldn't budge.

"What is this?" I gasp out staring at the stranger. Dammit why did I trust him?

"It will protect you Galaxy." He says then strolls away leaving me puzzled looking after him.  How did he know my name?

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Author guidance for This exercise

This is another wonderful collaborative story and here's the only (and very few thank goodness) rules:

NO KILLING OFF OTHER PEOPLE"S CHARACTERS! Please...
And you can have pretty much any species you want for your characters. Anything goes!!

Characters:

Jessie Worthington:
Age: 17
Species: vampire.
Tall, slender, with long curly hair and violet/gray eyes. Gentle and calm but fiercely protective of people close to her. Has a gold enchanted key that unlocks anything. She seriously hates her family and her father is on the council of Perfectionii.
usuallyinzane

Name: Robert Di Laurentis
Age: Approx 550 years old but looks about 18
Species: Vampire
Appearence: Average height, messy chestnut coloured hair and bronze eyes
Personality: Incredibly charming and will flirt with anything that moves. Despite his age he's managed to retain his playfulness, making him stand out from other vampires, underneath however is a wall of steel.
Other: Robert is part of the Vampire Council, the Perfectionii. He has only recently left the side of his maker (and leader of the Perfectionii) Maxxie Balo.
Phoenixsong

Name: Marcus (Marc) Vorne
Age: 40 but looks eighteen
Species: Vampire
Still has the personality of a seventeen year old but loves to read and is never truly serious about anything unless it is life and death. Has eternally messy short dark blond hair and bright green eyes. Average height and slightly stocky in build. Escaped from France and from his psychopathic vampire mother.
Unclaimed so far!

"Name: Galaxy River
Age: 18
Species: Vampire (new)
Appearance: Black long straight hair, petite, slim, tattoo of a crescent moon back of her neck. Slivery blue eyes. Sliver hooped earrings & flower pendant necklace.
Personality: Kind, loving, loyal to her friends, can lose her temper at times.
Other: Recently moved to town, get change into a vampire. Lost her family in a fire.
Fitzy

"Name: Linnea
Age: 90 years old, but seen as young in human years she'd be around 19.
Species: Dryad
Appearance: Long wavy, ginger hair. Skin pale, red lips. Long green dress. Flowers and leaves in hair and vines wrapped round her arms and legs. Green eyes.
Personality: Happy, and fun. Can be shy.
Other: As she is a forest nymph, can blend into trees, and was forced out of hers, as the fellow nymph's near by were killing the humans who were cutting down the trees, and she wanted to get away from it all.
Victoriagrace

Name: Lavender Wilcox
Age: She is really seventeen.
Species: Called a "witch" for her inhuman mythical powers, but doesn't really know what she is.
Appearance: Long raven hair that has an electric blue-green sheen in extraordinary daylight, and full moonlight as well. Her eyes are a lavender-grey set below cleanly arched eyebrows and above her elegant high cheekbones. Very tall and slender, with near translucent pale skin, her only scar is a small silvery mark by her left eye.
Personality: Intelligent and quietly sweet. Can be shy and drawn sometimes, but is usually brave to speak out or take action.
ZillaGirl

updated May 18 '10 by usuallyinzane