War of the Change

A Game of Memory



~~An old tribe that called themselves Wictarim lived among many different animals that they swore they could communicate with yet would not prove it, they were different from any of the other Indians that resided in the shadows of Blood Valley and in living their required skills unlike any others. But as in all tribes a story of a fate was said to of been born and a destiny was to be fulfilled, it had scared the people that lived in the distance of the tribe who have seen them do odd acts at night and heard their pleas of a savior of dark riches. Scared them so much they went through the tribe killing every child that was born in the last year, the massacre sent the Wictarim tribe woman into a frenzy who in turn riled up the warriors who murdered the trespassers until a small child of five held out her hand and the wind picked up wiping out the murders of her people then turned to the bodies of the babies. Gazing across the blood filled field her eyes begun to glow like the shining moon and stars above her as each body was taken into account she spoke every last name with a mourning mother’s sigh. It went down in Wictarim history yet no one would but those there that night, the child’s hand reached for the sky and slammed down to the ground, as she did that five bolts of forked silver and blue lighting came out of the ground and raced for the starlit blaring sky surrounding the tribe’s made huts. It lasted what felt like hours yet only stood for a few moments as each bolt ascended and storm clouds commenced a section of baby cries began to fill the area. That five year old pulled the souls back from the beyond and gave the bodies life once more, turning as the cries of each baby rose up giving off life she walked off into the blacken woods only to be followed by her sadden mother who blew a kiss to her family and friends and left without looking back. No one knew where they went and what happened to them, for no one dared anger the young angel from the beyond, but they say the powers where passed down through every female generation and always will. Ever since then a female had been portrayed as the caretaker of the lands and protector of her warriors and with each strong female came a stronger orb or jewel that channeled their inner strength to be even stronger.~~


~Years After Childhood Was Left Behind~


‘So many traps, so many murdered already…Yes murdered, stare upon this group and anyone can see there’s no way in hell that those people died by accident, we started with a group of about 15 now it dwindled down to 7 though one was poisoned and wasn’t going to last much longer. Poisoned by a rattle snake in their tent, people are mean by nature but this was pushing for animalistic. The group was made up of a devastated fireman who lost his family named Chris, religious traveler named Rema, ex criminal Tommy, historian named Kellie who was poisoned, a recovering druggie named Brittany and last but not least a pair of twins a guy named Dias and a girl named Serena who got caught up in this mess by their now dead friends Melanie, and Jamie. All these people had come from all over, even from different Empires to track this woman down. We should have already turned back my brother and I, after the first person died we should have marched our twin butts off this death trap and back to our lives. Though all in all we are matched, no one adorns an orb of any size, yes orbs I remember that much of my learning’s. Orbs were gifts of the beyond given to you either at birthright or when you come to age and lose your innocence the proper way, if you lose your innocence improperly you are what they call an abomination and you become a shell of what you were supposed to become. Part of that was a lie…my twin has an orb but wont allow anyone else to know because of me.’


“Hey stop writing and come on wench.” Laughing at his sister’s strange habits of trying to write down everything that happens on the trip so far, Dias hauled his sister up to catch up with the others before anything else happened accidental or not. Dias pulled his sister close, her almost black red hair done up in curly pigtails smacking him in the face as he rubbed her shoulder, her only being a few inches smaller then him anyway. “So when do you think Kellie’s gonna go? She’s been looking a little green for the past twenty minutes…how long does it usually take for snake poison to kill some one.” Dias stared into his sister’s golden brown eyes in real question no concern in them for another death just a simple question which almost sounded…sadistic. They weren’t close, Serena and Dias, but after their parents death it was all they had of their past and after so many years of fighting, it got old.


“Well…” Serena looked back up into her brown eyed brother whose hair was cut in length with the tops of his ears, then over to Kellie who was slung on Chris’s back, her skin was looking almost decay like and her movements were as little as possible her voice was gone but the pain showed in her eyes extremely clearly. “I give her…five minutes, she knows it too.” Shaking her head Serena leaned into her brother for strength and yet no comfort. Staring around at the others she honed in on the way Brittany was grabbing her arms before a pang of dread and horror rushed through her and with a glimpse to her brother Serena knew he felt it too. They felt it ever since walking up this mountain forest, every time some one was about to die every time something was going to happen. Dias started to move to a huge oak tree hoping if his back was to it nothing could get to him as Serena did the same to another oak tree so the two faced each other and saw everything before them and behind the other. It seemed everyone else started to feel danger approaching and started to do what Dias and Serena were doing, though Chris was having a little trouble doing it.

Tommy saw it first, a beast with yellow eyes and a toothy silent growl on its lips, but his sneer turned into a smirk as he crossed his arms in wait. “Brittany!” Both of the twins screamed as a roar filled the area and it just seemed like the forest went black and silent as a mountain lion jumped out of a bush taking Brittany by the head and back into the darkness with it, her screaming squeals drifted off and with a sickening crunch was gone.


The group looked at each other pale as ghosts it seemed like hours before any one moved staring at where the mountain lion came from and went everyone silent with dread. “Open your eyes Kellie…Kellie?” Chris was shaking Kellie who wasn’t responding what so ever, before setting her down and feeling her pulse. “Guys…she’s dead.” Chris’s sad blue eyes looked up to a pair of yellow brown glaring eyes with a wicked sneering look from Tommy who was only a few feet away his eyes dead of emotions besides that hateful glare that he showed to everyone.


“I guess…the animal was too much for her heart…” Rema whispered chewing on her bracelet to hide her crying. Staring up at her brother, Serena walked over to Rema to try and comfort her, though she kept darting her eyes around in case the animal came back for more.

“Should we try and bury her?” Chris looked up at the others his usually dark skin now sickly pale his eyed pleading for directions.


Tommy growled enraged at the mere thought and stupidity, “that bitch just got dragged off by a lion! What makes you think it won’t be able to dig this one back up or come across us trying to bury her? Don’t be stupid just lay her body down and let’s just keep moving unless the rest of you would like to die.” Turning his back he started up the barely there path once more muttering about morons and death. No one said anything as Chris and Dias nodded and picked Kellie up and laid her body down in a patch of flowers and said a few words on her behalf before starting to catch up to Tommy not trusting him in the least on his own, but nonetheless leaving the girls to rush to catch up to them all.


“Serena how old are you?” Rema kept sneaking glances at Dias throughout the whole trip but with her being 26 she didn’t say much to the younger twins but it was obvious she wasn’t really asking Serena for her age but rather Dias.


“Well”, Serena stared at Dias for a moment before turning back to Rema, “We’re 19, only did this because of Easter break, and well our parents are dead.” Nodding vigorously her pigtails swayed forward and back blocking the fake smile on her face inside she was a raging mess but the lies she was forced to tell for her brother’s behalf kept her regular beatings from his aggression side of his state of mind to none. Her home life was never easy but unable to fully remember after some accident with her cousin Tiffany, Serena never was the same afterward, she became a push over and just didn’t care what happened to herself.


She had lied and her brother heard everything, knowing why she did it too. Dias loved sex he was a pure sex addict and when he didn’t get it he got violent but beside even that, he loved older women, but no one would do a 16 year old sure their birthdays were soon but still it wasn’t legal age neither was 19 for that matter. Shifting his head back using his hair as a sort of block, he took a look at the blushing Rema and really uncomfortable looking Serena, females…geeze. “So Chris when do you think we’ll find this…witch.”


Chris frowned and shook his head. “She’s not a witch; she’s supposed to be a beautiful maiden.” Tommy snorted walking further ahead.


Serena butted up between them getting in Chris’s face, “Are you saying witches can’t be beautiful? Or maidens?!” Crossing her arms in anger Serena walked backwards in front of the fireman with ease. They went on arguing until nightfall back and forth back and forth as Dias and Rema started talking to one another also but most importantly they caught up to Tommy cause well everyone knows, keep your friends close, enemies closer.


“Hey Dias, I’m getting tired….and its dark shouldn’t we take up rest?” Rema pushed her chest against Dias’s arm to get his attention quickest. Serena glared at the move getting tired of the two being so close fast, it’s not that they have an open sibling relationship it was more of…Serena walked in on him and a teacher and nothing’s been the same since on that subject, sex in any form horrified her for no reason her brother fully believed. So as her brother is a playgirl like model and uses those skills, Serena was an opposite to the T, she was anorexic skinny with ribs sickly poking out, her body wasn’t that desirable and she was out of shape, her chest wasn’t as big as most girls since she couldn’t keep her weight on and because of an episode from her deranged distant ‘Aunt’ she had scars that made her look like a suicide junky. Plain and ugly was all she’d describe herself to be and anyone who said different wanted something from her and it was never good.


With that, depression slowly took over her as she started to sing to herself feeling more awake then ever possible after over 14 hours of walking, while the depression took her mind to another plane the energy started racing through her arms and legs to move, to get the hell away from these demented people. So she did. Serena went bounding through the trees and off trail Serena sprinted through the forest barely able to see 5 feet in front of her and still not hitting into anything well anything that would cause her to stop. “SERENA!” The calls of her brother and friend fading fast as she heard them bring chase after her, well good luck to them she wasn’t about to give up. Something was singing to her blood and had awakened the darkness the spoke to her all those years ago.


Her feet traveled as if they’ve run this path before, crunching the leaves beneath her heavy boots as her mind traveled else where her soul soaring to where her feet were taking her to. It seemed to of been a mistake to just follow your feet as Serena came to a stop in the center of a field of ruins and stones with varies paths, while in the short distant a small make shift house was strategically place so no one could sneak up on it, while in random places fire poles were place to illuminate the area, the moon hung heavy in the sky illuminating the rest of field with light. A woman came from behind the house and begun staring at Serena, wearing what seemed to be only a purple velvet robe, her naked body barely hidden and the fact she was heavily pregnant was obvious to the mere glance of her. Stopping she motioned to a stone like garden to the left of Serena before speaking softly to her. “I’m not going to harm you young one, I feel what’s inside your heart, what you can’t speak true to even yourself. Please step upon a relic of your choice, and I will grant the wish you came here for. Yes I am she.” The woman stood on a solid black lava rock that seemed to put her at the advantage over looking the stone or as she said relic garden.


Serena fidgeted hearing the smashing of the others coming close she more felt like she was having an out of body moment with no full control, “What do they mean though.” Figuring it would be better to look around then to question the naked woman who seemed off in her own world anyhow. Serena looked at each relic before being drawn to a relic with multicolored gems, the moon going through all its stages and a picture that looked like a dog trying to stand up and a perfect sexless figure stood behind it with a black sun in its hands while under all the moons. It seemed to call out to her in a frightening way and in turn made her angry, by her brother being so perfect and her so opposite, “and why do I feel connected to this one.” Serena bent down running her fingers over all the markings feeling strangely light headed about it all, she moreso had been asking herself than the woman.


The woman smiled showing off pearly white teeth and spread her arms, her hands reaching to the moon the robe opening even more as her eyes close peacefully not bothered by her nakedness at all, “your wish will be granted young one. I know you know the legend hopefully you know the consequences also.” Serena’s eyes widen as her mouth opened to yell out but became caught off guard so it sounded more like a dying bird squeak, as Dias came crashing from the bushes and kept going till he got to the relic garden to the right of Serena, whose hand was fully rested on the now glowing relic.


His face was twisted in rage, “What the hell is going on?” It seemed too late though as his foot stepped on a gold moon relic with a person kneeling before it with red eyes and extremely pointed ears, and the relics the twins were touching shattered releasing black mist lifting them up to the sky as two gasps were heard.


Dias’s body was surrounded by crackling red fire it began to burn up his clothes leaving behind different ones. His body looked like it was being pulled from his head above and his feet below as the flames flicked a brilliant gold as his ears grew longer, pointing at the top of them, three gold hoop earrings appeared at the tops of both his ears making a soft jingling sound as the flames moved like wind. His once short ebony hair grew to his shoulders and had gold tips but shaped his face giving him a motorcycle gang look, his nails grew sharper and a bit more feminine, as his eyebrow became pierced with another gold hoop each hoop on him had red glowing symbols radiating on them. The fire finished changing his clothes leaving him in a plain black muscle tee and wearing what looked like black Japanese pants called hakama, but these were looser in the waist and narrower in the leg, his feet were bare. Dias’s mouth opened in a silent scream as his canines lengthen and sharpened, his eyes snapped open bleeding red as he was dropped the the ground landing on his knees the fire still surrounded him like a cage his head turned eyes blazing red as they connected with his twin.


Serena’s body was surrounded by black lightening singeing her clothes and burning them off slowly giving way to her transformation. Curling into a ball the lightening intensified as black and silver fur began covering her naked body, her ears grew pointingly as they too were covered in black fur with silver tips. Throwing her head back Serena let out a silent roar as bones started to shift making her more dog like then humanly possible her hands crushed into clawed fingers, around her wrists was a silver lining of fur accompanied by a silver chain as her feet became paws, her legs were pelted black to her ankles where it looked like her feet were dipped in silver paint they too adorn silver chains. Thrusting her chest out it looked as if the lightening was trying to snap her in half while her curly black and red hair became straight and grew to her elbows adoring a shine like no other her bangs which shaped her face giving her a seductress look were tipped silver and her eyes shone with the silver of the moon. Her waist slimmed considerably making her go from a sickly 95 to a healthy 115 pounds in fifteen seconds, her stomach flattened out and got a tone look that was soon hidden by black fur, her chest grew to a size that could make a few models blush with envy and that too was covered by fur but it was silver fur shaped like a big upside down u, shaped crescent moon. Around her neck lay a thinner chain, then the ones on her wrists and ankles, in the center of it lay a relic orb like the one on the relic she was touching before this all started that stayed tucked between her cleavage and fur. The lightening dropped her and she easily landed on her paws her eyes snapped over to her twin who’s red eyes bore into her silver ones, and she gave him a big sharp toothed sneer before charging out of the lightening ball and colliding into Dias.


All the others came to find the two beasts fighting a shaking Rema was found at the edge of it all in tears, Tommy stared lustfully at the naked woman who now was shaking her head and raising her hand to all of them. “ITS YOU!” Chris roared pointing at the lady in utter surprise.


Sighing she looked up at the new comers, “This wasn’t how it was supposed to go, he interfered, now the balance is off.”


Rema looked up enraged at her and stood shakily, “I demand you to complete my wish!” Chris held her shoulder keeping her balanced and dissapointed at how she said that. Tommy started moving toward the woman fully avoiding the fight of the two things, a black mist was covering them so what they were exactly could not be seen.


“No one tells me what to do, you are all trespassing get out.” She turned around stepping off the stone as the smell of lavender invaded their senses and all they could see was black. “GET OUT!”