Dahlia Coven

Sora quickly strode out of the room as fast as she could, as she ran through the crimson hall and out of the house.   

    She raced out of the horrid place, closing the metal gates behind her. She did not dare look back, because she didn’t want to see those two as long as she lived.

    As she walked back home she realised she was crying, Why? Why is this happening to me? She thought angrily, vampires? None of this makes sense, none of it. Suddenly she stopped, what was that? She turned around the deserted area, so quite and dark, she could have sworn she heard something… almost like whispers.

    Maybe it was Amethyst, maybe now he and that woman decided to kill her, Sora thought again as she squinted her eyes to get a better look through the night. Ignoring her thoughts, she began to walk faster and faster. But out of nowhere a movement came from behind the far tree. Sora stopped dead in her tracks, fear whirling around her like a whirlpool. Don’t worry, it’s just an animal, she thought groping for her flashlight at the bottom of her back. Where is it? She thought frantically.

    As the movement grew louder with the sound of heavy footsteps, Sora could make out the figure of a man…no, this wasn’t Amethyst, Sora realised, because Amethyst had a tall figure…this figure was bigger and broader somehow.   As he came out of the shadows, Sora in utter horror looked at his face.

    He was wearing a black leather jacket that matched his greasy jet black hair that gleamed against the street lamp, so dark against his pale face that  bared a large scar covering the whole left side of his face; he looked like somewhat crossed between disfigured and burnt.

    Sora moved back slowly, the fear she felt when she saw Amethyst the previous night wasn’t half as bad as when she faced this man, who unexpectedly gave a frightening smile.

    “Hello there, we have been looking all over for you.” he said in a very deep mocking voice.

    We? There’s more? Sora slowly moved back, her hands beginning to tremble like a leaf; she couldn’t swallow because her mouth was suddenly dry. Sora kept moving backwards as her knees began to feel unexpectedly heavy. She buckled backwards on a stone embedded on the ground and she fell, landing on her back that broke her fall.

    Sora looked up at the stranger who seemed to loom over her like a huge mountain.

    “Wait, I don’t know who you are. I’m sorry; I don’t know what you’re talking….”

    Sora couldn’t finish her last sentence because from behind her she first heard a swift sound in which something hit bone, and then there was the feeling of sharp pain. And finally there was nothing to see, as she was engulfed in absolute darkness.