Gloom DRAFT (Cringey 7th grade story)

CHAPTER 18

“Ivory!!!” Ix screamed running over the outdoor staircase and kicking open the door.
“Ivory! “ Ivory! Get down here! NOW!” He bellowed.
Ix ran into the living room lying Xora on the table and Ry on the couch.
Ry didn’t seem too badly injured but Xora seemed fatal making it surprising how Ry was the one who passed out while Xora was observing around her eyes wide awake. Her eyes slyly move over to Ix as he began a small panic.

Doohm and Ivory ran in. Doohm froze as he saw Ry lying passed out and Ix who wasn’t even paying attention to his own brother but Xora instead. Ivory quickly ran over to Ix glancing at Ry and Xora.

“What happened?!” Ivory questioned. “And who is this?”
Ivory moved over to Ry to check his bleeding.

“Leave him be, help her!” Ix ordered
Ivory quietly gave a doleful look towards Ry and proceeded to Xora to help Ix with stopping her bleeding. Doohm glared in disappointment. He slowly walked over to Ry and sat next to him. He quietly stared thinking of how terrible it must be to have a brother like Ix. Heartless, senseless…wrong…and how they don’t even try to help him. Doohm quietly watched. Then he slowly grabbed Ry and held the boy in his arms. Hugging the boy quietly and healing his wounds, Ry’s eyes then opened as he hugged Doohm back with small tears. Doohm sharply glared at Ix who was watching.

“Doohm do that to Xora!” Ix yelled
Doohm quietly glared at Ix and Xora who observed quietly.

“Why should I…” Doohm growled. “Why cant I just ignore her the way you did to your own brother….”

“Please just help her!” Ix begged.

“She’s the one who shot Xera with an arrow….” Ry weeped.

Doohm’s eyes widened with a firing anger.

“She wont survive this…” Ivory intervened. “Im sorry master Ix…”

Ix was shocked and terrified. He realizes now not even knowing why. He grew very attached to the girl somehow. He looked at her and quickly back at Doohm.
“Doohm please! Im begging you!” He cried.

Doohm glared, picked up Ry and left the room coldly.
Ix froze in his terror. Ivory quietly exit as well to check on the other young master, and leaving Ix and Xora a final moment.
Xora’s eyes slowly turned to Ix again.

“I don’t know why you bother…” She mumbled.

Ix stare at the dying girl. Then he quickly grabbed a knife and layed it over his hand.

“Let me save you!” He shouted.

“No.” Xora rejected.

“Why not?!”

Xora rolled her eyes.

“I don’t want your…Ix blood….”

“But-“

“No.” she repeated.

He froze bringing a small silence. Xora sighed and looked up at the sealing.

“I don’t have much time left…” She muttered.

Ix quietly turned his head away in shame.

“And Grey betrayed me…” She continued.” I guess it doesn’t hurt to tell you what you wanted to know now….”

Ix slowly turned his head back at her listening intently.

“I came from gloom to kill Xera, to save my people of Rae’ll…” She explained. “Gloom has been taken over by a far strong evil…I was part of a rebellion against it…so I was sent to spy by being hired by the very one who is controlling all of gloom at the moment. His name is Xyver. He then sent me and grey here to kill your friend. I was informed to follow all of Xyvers orders while I was investigating his plans. Grey actually works for Xyver though. That’s why he didn’t hesitate to kill me at all.”

Ix’s eyes widened in shock. It all makes sense now. Xyver, the same one that persuaded Ix to hurt Xera in the first place, planned this. And its clear that he’ll never stop. The thirst for power and Xeras blood seems infinite. Why didn’t he think of it in the first place….

Xora rested her head to the side.
“Well it seems I failed anyway….” She breathed.
Ix leaned down closer to her while holding her head.

“You did not fail…” Ix shook. “You just helped your rebellion by the thousand. I’ll make sure Xyver gets what he deserves for everything he’s caused, in my world and yours. I promise.”

Xora smiled.

“Maybe….there is hope after all…” She whispered with her last breath as she slowly began to close her eyes. Ix put her head down and held her hand hiding his face from behind the hand he was using to hold hers. He looked downwards in silence.
“I promise…” He repeated then looking up with a calm expression hiding in his fired eyes filled with anger and despair.
But as Ix looked back down to Xora he was surprised to feel a hand pushing him away from the girl. Ix looked up to see Doohm who seemed to have heard the entire conversation. Doohm looked at Ix quietly then kneeled down to Xora. Doohm grabbed her hand and wrist then closed his eyes. Ix watched in fascination to see a ray of sunlight appearing from Xora’s wounds as they would begin to heal. Xora’s death has been passed over to another day. Ix stared at Doohm in shock, then turned his eyes back to Xora who we could see began to breathe again. She opened her dizzy eyes over at Doohm but then widened in a certain unexpected look.
Doohm rose his eyebrow inquisitively to the gaze Xora was giving him. Xora then looked closer to Doohm’s face as if she was trying to recognise him. She then looked at Ix and Doohm but fell back to her unconsciousness. Doohm looked at the girl quietly.

“She should get to bed now…” Doohm suggested.

“Right.” Ix spoke while grabbing Xora into his arms and walking away.

“Ix…” Doohm growled.
Ix turned back to Doohm.

“What?”

“Not in your bed…” Doohm warned.

“PSHH…” Ix rolled his eyes.

“I’m not that sick minded you know. What, just because I was hiding her in my room for this little while without letting her leave does that mean im some sort of pedo or something?”

Doohm turned his head towards Ix with wide eyes.
“You were hiding her in your room without letting her leave?!?!”

Ix froze.

“That came out wrong…” Ix muttered. “I swear its nothing like that!”

“Uhh…you know if you two want the girl could take my room and I could sleep down here…” Interrupted a voice.

They turned towards the entrance to see Xera half asleep looking over.

“She needs it more than I do…” Xera added.

Doohm and Ix quietly stared at Xera.

“Well FINE!” Ix submitted. “Since nobody around here trusts me lets just give MY FRIEND here away to XERA’S room! FINE!”

Doohm rolled his eyes.

“Its better that way. Trust me.”

Doohm stood up and brought Xora upstairs with Ix.

Once Xora was asleep they came back downstairs to find Xera who seemed dazed in thought.

“Where’s Dera?” She asked.
Ix stood quiet and sighed.
“He ran into the forest with another beast on his tail.” Ix informed.

“Another beast?” Doohm questioned.

Ix nodded.
“The one that goes by the name of Grey.” Ix explained. “If I didn’t know any better, those two mutts are related to each other.”

Doohm and Xera glanced at each other and back to Ix who bowed graciously and left the room.
Xera thought quietly of shock.

“I didn’t know Dera had a brother…” She muttered.

“Me either.” Doohm mentioned. “It would seem Dera has been hiding secrets…”

They led in a silence. Doohm then left the room as well.

“Goodnight.” He greeted goodbye as he left.

Xera led on the couch and quickly came back to sleep.

“Goodnight…”

***

A grey morning, the fog fills the forest, over to the footsteps of the manor where Ry is seated, waiting to see if Dera will ever return. Ivory creaks open the door to see Ry staring into the forest. Ivory quietly smiles and steps outside.

“Young master, you’ve been waiting here for hours this morning. Aren’t you getting a little chilled by the air?”

“I’m fine.” Ry stated.

Ivory smirked while sitting next to Ry.

“Do you think he’s alright?” Ry asked.
Ivory took a small pause staring at the forest.

“I think so.” He affirmed. “After all, this is Dera’s forest. He knows it like the back of his hand. For someone like him, it’s a good advantage to have. I do believe the lost dog will find his way home soon.”
A small silence appeared.

“That’s if he isn’t dead yet…” Ry mumbled.
Ivory froze quietly at the young masters pessimistic response.

They both sat there quietly. Staring and waiting for Dera to come home, but had a surprise as something dropped and hung from the roof.

“FREEZE NOW!” Yelled a childish voice.

Ivory and Ry froze to see a young little girl, pointing a book at them, Taking a closer look, the girl resembled Xora in many ways. Some dead skin color a little greyer, same large eyes except this one had Large puffy purple hair along with two pigtails at the side while leaving some loose. Also this one didn’t have green lips but rather the same color of her skin.

“Who the-“
The girl jumped over away to down the stairs landing and getting red glowing eyes. She opened her spellbook at them as her silky kimono seeming dress began to shuffle in the wind.
“I AM EVALORE! MISTRESS OF MAGICK!” She declared loudly.

“AND IM-“ Another childish voice declared.
Another girl landed from the sky behind this Evalore. This one had her dark feathered wings wide open. Light pink hair straight and making a tiny ringlet to the side of her neck. Her eyes were pink and had markings of shadow along with it. Her right eyebrow had three silver piercing and on top of her head she had tall horns. This girl was wearing a puffy pink dress. You could easily assume this girl with her extremely adorable appearance would be a sweetheart. Until the moment she points a claymore twice the size of her short little self towards Ivory and Ry.

“IM DEVE! BEWARE!”

Ivory and Ry stared at each other and back at the two little girls.

“um…”Ry muttered.

“YOUR GOING DOWN!”

Deve charged with her sword interrupting whatever Ry had to say.

Ivory quickly tackled Ry out of the way and Deve ended up sticking her sword into the door.
She froze quietly staring at the door as Evalore facepalmed. At that moment, Deve froze as the manor door slowly opened, And Doohm looked down at the little girl and back at the sword that is hanging through the door.
“Well…you certainly aren’t selling any cookies….” Doohm smirked at the claymore.
Deve’s eyes began to glow red as she pulled out the claymore and jumped back spreading her wings into the air. Ry and Ivory glanced at Doohm who slowly blinked in response and began to take a few steps down the stairs.
“Am I supposed to be impressed?” He asked.

“I’ll give you something to be impressed about!” Deve yelled.

Deve quickly aimed her sword at Doohm and shot herself to the ground but before she could hit him, Doohm brought out his white wings dodging her by blasting into the sky. Doohm quietly laughed at the facial expression Deve had upon her face.

“That Twitbone!” She growled.

Evalore quietly glanced up at Doohm and at Deve, Her eyes quickly flashing red as well. Evalore then opened her black wings as well and flew high up into the sky along with Deve. Both of them began to fight a battle against Doohm in the sky.
Evalore quickly read some unknown words from her book and began to cast spells of magic into her hand. She quickly began to shoot fireballs at Doohm as Deve began to swing her sword at him in the clouds. Doohm dodged all the fireballs and the swings Deve was aiming at him. Evalore switched to another page and started a new spell. Soon enough she threw a watered spirit of a dragon that jumped over to Doohm, Doohm quickly flew away and dodged it, as the water dragon crashed into Deve instead. She then accidently lost hold of her claymore and her balance and began to fall.

“Oops!” Evalore muttered as she began to fly down to grab Deve.

Though before Evalore got to Deve, Doohm picked Deve up with one hand stopping her fall Though Evalore flew into his back causing her to drop her book. Doohm then quickly turned and Grabbed Evalore with his other hand and slowly landed down to the ground. He glanced at both of them who he was hanging up in his hands as they pouted.

“So…why?” He questioned them.

Evalore rolled her eyes.
“It has come to our knowledge….” Evalore slowly explained.

Deve poked Doohm irritated.

“It has come to our knowledge that A creepy pedo letcher has our team mate hostage here!” She interrupted.

Doohm quietly looked upwards thinking of Xora and Ix who brought her right before….Hmmm….

“Well I can’t really lie about the letcher that lives here….” Doohm yawned. “But…”

***

Xora lies staring at the side in boredom. She can’t really move very much yet. She looks around the room anyway though. Xera sleeps here. ..She slowly sits up a little to see next to the bed there lies a pile of papers with sketches, Xora quietly looked through them curiously. The first sketch, were these creepy long fingered hands, the second was of a skeletonized family, seeming to be Xera’s family actually. The third was a sketch of the mad image of Xera that she has seen from the mirror, and the fourth…was something Xora found quite interesting. A sketch of Xyver…but then again, next to him, a sketch of Doohm. These were nice sketches. Very real…Xora smirked to herself realizing something. She smiled staring some more but when she heard the door quietly open, she quickly put the pages back on the desk where she found it. And sat up where she was earlier.
Ix quietly entered and glanced at her who was staring.

“How are you…” Ix asked while sitting next to her.

“Alive.” Xora replied.
Ix smiled looking to the side. “Heh. I’m jealous.” He laughed.
Xora grinned silently then lied back and glanced to the side at the window.
At that moment Ix couldn’t help but stare at the girls neck being so well displayed to him.
He stared some more silently with hungry eyes. Slowly leaning closer and closer to Xora as she slowly closed her eyes. But at that moment his thoughts were interrupted by a slamming of the door and Doohm grinning at Ix with Evalore and Deve behind him.

“There he is, that’s him, the pedo letcher caught in a new act.” Doohm taunted.

“PERVERT! Get away from Xora you creeper!” Evalore yelled.

“WHAT?!” Ix yelled in a squeaky voice.

“I’ll teach him a lesson!” Deve growled charging up to him and tackling the vampire.
Doohm tried not to burst into laughter while watching Ix get beatn by a little girl in a puffy pink dress. But he couldn’t help but to have a huge smile over his face as he watched the show.
Xora quickly leaned over to watch her friend beat Ix in her defence, and couldn’t help but to smile the same way Doohm was at the view of Ix getting beaten by again, a girl in a puffy pink dress.

“Ah stop that!” Ix yelled pushing the girl away and quickly standing back up.
“Who are these brats?!” Ix screeched.

“Eva and Deve.” Xora mumbled quietly.

Ix glanced at Xora and back at the two girls.
“I Should have known.” Ix sighs. “Friends of yours I presume? They aren’t going to kill you too are they?”

“NEVER!” Deve and Evalore yelled.

“Their part of the rebellion.” Xora spoke out. “In truth I work with them.”
Ix thought a little more walking around the room.

“So you guys are all against Xyver right?”

Doohms eyes glanced sharply at the girls waiting for a response.

“Yes.” Evalore affirmed with a nod.

Doohm rolled his eyes.
“Well let me warn you all, simply laying a finger on Xera wont help this rebellion of yours whatsoever.” Doohm warned.

“Yes! Quite actually.” Ix agreed. “Im still not sure what exactly it is about Xera that makes Xyver want to kill her besides her bad attitude, but you should know that if Xera does die, Xyver will get whatever her “power” is.”

“Power?” Evalore questioned. “Who is this?”

“The girl Xyver ordered me and Grey to kill.” Xora spoke.

“The pack leader was sent to kill the girl?!” Deve stuttered in small shock. “Damn, I wonder what this power is…” Deve quietly glanced at Evalore.
“Maybe we should….Use it for ourselves if it’s that important…”

“Don’t even think about it.” Doohm hissed with an angry glare.

Deve looked up at his expression and back down a little.
“Okay but you really have no idea whats the big deal with this girl?” Evalore interrogated.

“Nope. No idea.” Ix replied.

“Well it had something to do with gloom…” Doohm mentioned quietly.
The girl’s eyes widened.

“With gloom?” Evalore echoed him.

“Ah that’s right!” Ix added.

Evalore and Deve glanced at eachother and back at them.
“That’s all you know?” They questioned.

Doohm and Ix nodded.

“Don’t you want to know more?”

“Well I certainly am intrigued.” Ix expressed. Doohm nodded a little in agreement.

“Well…um…we could…”Deve mumbled.

“You could what?” Doohm asked.

Xora got off the bed and walked into the conversation,
“They want to bring Xera to Maxis.”

“Maxis?” Ix questioned.

“Well….yeah…he’s our boss….” Deve affirmed.

“He also knows most of Glooms secrets…”Evalore explained. “Hed be most interested to know about this…”

Doohm quietly observed the conversation. Maxis? He frowns at the thought of suspicion. What would happen if they actually brought Xera to this man? What if it’s better that we don’t know what her connection to gloom is…what if we already know too much….
Doohm quietly walked out of the room loosing himself in mind as he walks the halls and disappears into another room. Unaware of the girl standing right outside the door where the conversation was.

….They want to take me somewhere…? Xera thought to herself while watching Doohm walk into his room. She frowned and silently walked away. It would be at this very moment that by repeating the conversation into her head, Xera would realize a certain link of Xyver and herself by these young demonic beings…
….The first one, with the red hair, Xora, was definetly the one to have shot me…” Xera thought, But it wasn’t on her own behalf… Xera walked to the dining room window and froze staring outside while seeing Ivory make Ry some tea in the kitchen. They haven’t noticed her yet. She stares out at the trees.
“Ill just stop thinking about it…” She whispered. “Now isn’t any good time to worry about me and only me anyway….”
She stared into the forest and began to wonder where it is that her friend was to be found. She glanced deeply some more, to ask herself what it is that she could be waiting for…I’m tired of sitting and waiting…I know I should act…She thought. Xera glanced behind her at the creak of the door to see Ry and Ivory drinking some tea. She sighed and quietly snook off without anyone realizing. She left the front door and walked up to the gates. She paused and stared at the gate…reaching out, hesitating to touch it but once she did, she opened it wide, and stepped forward into the forest. Where she began to search for Dera, lost… She shook a little at how grey and dark the area seemed. Though nothing was really different compared to any other day.... Oh but wait…Now she realizes…

“Oh. That’s it. I’m alone.”

Its quite true actually. Sometimes anywhere at all can turn into darkness and fear. Simply because you are there, alone. It tends to feel this way mostly after being surrounded by people for a long time, the feeling of being defenceless will then cloud you and haunt your very thoughts.
Xera questions the feeling. Especially with the fact that all her life, she felt alone. Why should now be any different?
As she walked she felt herself jump at about every sudden movement she felt happening around her. She hopes to feel stronger as she would keep walking.

“Be brave…” She mumbled to herself.
The more she looked around we could say the more uncertain she became of her choices.

“Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea…What would Doohm think…”

She stopped at that thought.
“Wait a second! What do I care what Doohm thinks? He isn’t the boss of me! I mean sure hes an amazing guy but that doesn’t mean I need to get all dependent on him! Just because he saved me about, more then three times doesn’t mean im not capable of saving myself!”

She paused her thoughts again.
“…But am I capable of saving myself…?” She thought weakly in uncertainty.
She stomped her foot in an affirmative matter.
“Of course I am! Im not some damsel in distress!!!”
She began to march around confidently in search for Dera. As the forest got darker and darker she began to slow down. “But I am pretty moody aren’t i…” She added.
Walking slower and slower she found herself to get more worried for Dera, still no sight of the wolf boy…She began to feel a cloud above her mind where could she be going…is there any hope to find him here….what am I doing…
She felt warmer and warmer as if she began to fall ill. The fatigue began to slow her down and make the girl drop to her knees. She then just sat there in confusion, almost as if for the small moment she began to forget everything that was presently happening…until she saw a shadow of a creature walk slowly towards her with a limp…A large beastly being, a wolf like creature…with an immense scar across its right beady eye…
She stared as it came closer to Xera, just sitting there…The wolf then brushed against her, and lied its head on her lap.

“Dera….”