The Isle of Embers was illuminated as the growing sun rose from behind the snow-peaked mountains. The grass bobbed and danced flashing gold and scarlet in the sweet wind. The wind rustled the tree’s sending a flurry of autumn leaves scattering through the air before settling gently on the ground.

The graceful Moon Birds pecked at the sunflowers chatting amiably with each other in their language of squeaks and grunts.

From her vantage point on top of the tallest Amber tree, Lea Rose watched the forest.

Everything rushed around her, living, breathing and moving so fast. She felt so calm at the heart of everything. An ice princess living inside the burning sun.

 Her hair, so black it looked almost blue, blew around in her face in messy halo. She grinned and stretched her neck back. The sky opened before her, rose pink dabbled with sunshine yellow.

Below her she heard a snap and immediately tensed her hands clenching the top branches in her hands. She sighed, her apology to the tree lost in her breath. The tree started to shake and finally the smell reached her.

The gut-wrenching, eye-watering smell of rotting flesh and ghosts.

A cold clammy hand clamped around her ankle and she screamed as she tumbled to the leaf-strewn ground below the disgusting smelling figure clasping at her urgently.

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Welcome to “The Isle Embers”! Embers is a small island off the coast of Ireland.

Stop, read the previous chapters, write one of your own and watch as someone gets an idea from your story and writes a follow on.
But before you get started let me lay down a couple of rules.

1.Read the previous chapters so you have an idea what you can write and so you have all the facts.

2.If you don’t want to write anymore on your character but don’t mind if anyone else uses it say so in the comments. If you don’t want anyone to use your character and don’t want to write with it any more than please just write a chapter on why that character is no longer on the island.

3.You can use another person’s character in your chapter but don’t write from someone else’s characters perspective without their permission.

4.Anything is possible in this story but please don’t write anything extremely childish or stupid and remember ‘keep it PG’ no heavy swearing!

Have fun being creative and rememebr come back often to see how it all works out and to add to your character!

updated May 3 '10 by allifirefly