Black Cat Academy

Subject: Black Cat Academy Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:19 am

Hiya guys! Yeah, I'm writing a story. Just tell me what you think of the beginning!

The absence of the sun signified the beginning of the night and the shadows clawed out as though to pull me into their dark underworld. I ran through the night, the trees around me ripping at my sleeves, telling me to slow down but I couldn’t. I had to get away, lest I get captured. I couldn’t run anymore and collapsed on the earth, I could hardly see because of the dark shadows that danced to an unheard tune all around me. I could feel the cracks in the earth below me, but suddenly a rustle in the bushes awoke me from my void. I jerked up; my breath was coming quickly and raggedly as I glanced around nervously, knowing that it would do no good anyway. If someone was standing a metre away from me I wouldn’t be able to tell, night comes quickly in this land and I can hear the howl of the hunting dogs as they tracked my movements. I got up and continued running. I had to escape.

‘Who am I? What am I doing here?’ I wondered but still I continued. I ran through the darkness blindly, allowing the spirit of the night to fill me and guide my way to safety. Suddenly a dark figure on a horse burst out of the bushes and swept me up behind them with one arm. “Hold on tight Miss, I’m going to get you out of here.” I could tell that the voice belonged to a man, possibly two years older than myself. I heard the thundering hooves of the horse and was terrified that at any moment the hunters, whoever they were, would find us but on we galloped through the night towards the blurry, threatening shape of the mountains of what I vaguely remember as the valley I once called a home. I no longer heard the hunting dogs or the rustling in the bushes nearby as we stopped in front of a seemingly normal rock face on the northern side of the mountain. I stood shivering in the freezing night air, the wind against me felt as though shards of glass were burying themselves in my skin. The figure opened a door, though how he did I could not see and indicated that I should step inside. Obligingly I stepped inside to a blast of warm air and glanced around. The man stood beside me, I reached his shoulder and I felt incredibly small and insignificant. “Welcome to the Black Cat Academy.” He had stated.

So, what did you think?!