Oh my god. XD As a Junior in High School (dyyyiing over here), I can't even begin to comprehend how you're dealing with all the work. D+ Thanks so much for running the site. <3 You're doing a great job.
"Thanks," she said as she walked in. "...Guess not." She touched the shelf and removed the dust. She then broke off a piece of the metal and examined it. "No one's touched this castle for a good ten, fifteen years maybe."
She shrugged and took a coat. Just then, a nobody... a twisty thing, came up to her and delivered a towel.
For some reason she had totally missed that castle. Hmm, that was awkward.
It looked like it had not been used for a long time. She liked castles like that. Or she used to, anyway. She wasn't quite sure anymore what she liked and what she disliked.
It was all very surreal.
She walked towards it and found herself standing above a pool of the most sickeningly bright green...
"Rain can't hurt you," she said. She noticed that they smelled a lot like... nothing, and a lot like dark. The exact same scent she noticed from herself, which had been awkward to get used to. She usually smelled of fruity shampoo and hand lotion.
"My name is... Xylia..." she said to Namixne.
Something was awkward about that statement, as if that wasn't her real name, or that was her real name but attached to the wrong body, the wrong soul, the wrong heart.
...Heart...
What was so special about the way she thought that word?
Xylia woke up in the pouring rain in an area she didn't recognize and thought: "Well, crap."
She looked down at her hands and realized her fingers were slimmer, more slender, her skin was more pale, her nails longer.
Nothing was right. She looked down and found that her figure had changed, and looked in a puddle to find that although she looked basically the same as she had before, certain aspects about her were... different, somehow. Her eyes were darker, her hair slightly longer...
What was this?
She just got up and walked, and kept walking. She felt no hunger, no thirst, no fatigue. Nothing. Walking and walking until the rain stopped, until the lush grass no longer cushioned her feet.
She wasn't sure when she saw the black creatures with their yellow eyes and she wasn't sure when she made them disappear.
Looking around, she wondered where she was and gave up. She was wandering endlessly through nowhere. It was probably hell or a dream or something.
But then, she saw... not just one, but a group of people.
Maybe she had finally reached civilization again...
Name: Xylia (or if you want me to add an x to THAT, Ixlyxa)
Real name: Xylia
element: Xylia's is illusion, Ixlyxa's is sound
weapon: Crescent-shaped pendulum
number: I (or VI-VIII if you want to be I)
