Diligently Screaming (eBook)

A Mage Within

A. G. Inmon (Autor)

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2018 | 1. Auflage
306 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-5439-4310-8 (ISBN)

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For the last 9,000 years, a great and terrible evil has plagued the lands. Pursuit of a quiet life has led Luminous, a human/Elf half-breed, to life on a farm with his adopted family, but he can't escape his destiny. When tragedy strikes, Luminous stands accused, and though he is cleared of all charges, it's soon obvious that the horror has only just begun. Luminous must make a decision: fight for what he believes in, or lose the person he cares about most. In an epic battle of magic and strength, through great loss and sacrifice, Luminous and his band of Elves take on the evil and fight for the Legacy Stone-the only thing that can defeat it. Will they succeed? Or will Luminous experience even more loss at the hands of the evil?

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Chapter I

Indulgence

Cloaked in a shroud of silence, he mercilessly stalked his delicate victim. Luminous persistently watched Rebecca with his gaze, while lurking within the shadows. From a distance, he watched her with cruel intention concealed in the dense vegetation on the forest floor. Gradually, his eyes began to narrow as they focused on her long dark hair and slim body with a passionate pleasure that sent a smile reeling to his face.

“Rebecca!?” he thought to himself as his eyes glistened brightly, fixated on their prize. “We are alone at last!” he added with a sinister smile from the safety of the woods while he spied on his unsuspecting prey.

Admiring the situation, he stared at her noticing the depth of her pure blue eyes as she approached him. Her face was round and her lips lush, which made indentions in the corner of her cheeks as she smiled. Abiding his time, he patiently waited for her as she walked down the path singing a faint melody that gracefully swayed its way into his ears.

He was drawn to the warming call of her voice, which seemed to carry a familiar tune. Cautiously, he perused her with an ill and deliberate action without making a single sound. Each step was full of purpose and designed to serve his vile and sinister efforts. As his mark innocently strolled to a clearing, he steadily crept behind her, drawing closer and closer.

“Luminous?” Rebecca called. “Where are you?” She added while making her way through the thickets and down a narrow path to a small clearing that overlooked a pond.

The day was hot, the kind where the shade of all the tall trees extend beyond their boundaries and cast a long shadow in the sun. Underneath the canopy of these mighty trees, residing deep within the woods, Rebecca stood, watching for any sign of her dear brother.

“I really thought that he would be here,” she thought to herself, wondering where he could be. “I have looked everywhere for him.”

Just off of the path, she could clearly hear the steady roar of the falls splashing into the water and on the rocks near its banks. Enjoying the scenery, she deeply inhaled the fresh air and exhaled, relaxing as she did so.

“What a wonderful day,” she thought, stretching out her back with a long yawn, pleased with the peaceful lull of the divine beauty surrounding her.

Just then, she heard a rustling in the bushes behind her. Instinctively, Rebecca straightened her back with a sudden jerk. A cold sweat leaped out and collected upon her brow. She slightly paused, and began to feel overwhelmed by a very strange and foreboding presence. As this persistent feeling stubbornly manifested itself deep within her heart, it caused an unbearable sensation of apprehension and agonizing dread. Her imagination started to manifest all types of possibilities of what laid in waiting just behind the shrubs.

“What if it is a boar, or some other manner of creature that bares me ill will?” she thought as she stared intently at the bushes in front of her.

Alarmed, she instantly froze and hesitated while the grizzly feeling grew within. This made the tiny hairs on the back of her neck stand on end, one after the other. Instantly, her breathing became erratic. Inhibited by the eerie silence, a fleeting feeling of anxiety built up inside of her, and stole her very breath away. Hesitating, as fear took its hold on her, she listened to the quiet and strained her ears for the faintest of sounds. As she did, she was abruptly afflicted with a nauseating feeling, and her stomach twisted in knots.

In a heart wrenching moment, a loud and ominous noise pierced through the forest, shattering the peaceful tranquility of the calm, which made her flinch and shutter. As chills radiated through her entire body, the sound resonated in her ears and lingered with an unwelcoming presence that terrified her deeply. Her eyes widened with an unnerving discord that distressingly consumed her, causing her to distrust her senses and doubt her reason.

“Time to go,” Rebecca thought, as she let out a bloodcurdling scream. “I have to get out of here.” Then, she turned and bolted down the trail in an adrenaline-fueled flight.

Driven by her inner ambitions, she effortlessly ran through the forest leaping over shrubs and dodging branches. As her feet trotted through the dirt, she heard footsteps of her assailant following closely behind her. Shifting her gaze, she turned to inspect her aggressor. As she did, she inadvertently stumbled over a protruding root. In feverish excitement, she screamed. Falling forwards, she tumbled across the ground and slid to a violent stop.

Suddenly, something grabbed her from behind. Disoriented, she quickly turned to inspect her attacker, and to her surprise, she knew him.

“It’s you!” Rebecca exclaimed, looking up into Luminous’s face with panic gripping at her voice. “You ass!” she added, glinting at him with the most grievous of looks and hit him with a closed fist.

Luminous stood tall with broad shoulders and a small skinny frame. Not a weak or sickly frame though, but the kind acquired through a lifetime of laborious work and hard living. His physical attributes came from healthy, hard farm work, tending to his crops. His well-defined muscles gave him both strength and agility that he often used for his own pleasures.

His hair was light brown with shades of blond that glistened throughout his long wavy locks, which flowed down past his shoulders to the middle of his back. His eyelashes were long and dark, and gracefully accompanied with deeply piercing eyes, which brightly shined in a tinge of pure blue just like his sister’s. He bore a youthful and very affable looking face and had thick eyebrows matching the color of his hair.

Being half elf, Luminous’s ears were long and narrow, and protruded through his hair at an angle. He wore an old tattered shirt pieced together with stitches of patch wool and linen. His leggings were brown and worn, which tucked their way into shin-high goatskin boots.

“Are you okay?” Luminous inquired as he helped his sister Rebecca off of the ground.

“What are you doing anyway?” she asked in a mean voice, squinting her eyes.

“Just having a little fun,” he responded, hysterically laughing at her.

“Uh-huh, right!” she stated, rolling her eyes.

“Ah come on sis; it’s just a little fun. Why so jumpy, anyways? A girl of thirteen shouldn’t be so easily scared of the forest.”

“I am fourteen, thank you, and I am not afraid of the forest…just the things within it,” she sneered back. “Besides, a boy of nineteen should not fancy scaring such a girl, now should he.” She raised her voice and placed both of her hands on her hips.

“Well, Rebecca, you may be human, but you are no ordinary little girl now are you? You are my kin, so frightening you will never get old to me,” Luminous remarked with a wide smile plastered to his face. “So what brings you here anyways? Have you come for a morning swim as well?” he asked, looking at her as he tried to read her facial expressions.

Rebecca looked at the water, trying to decide her next course of action. “As joyous and as pleasant as that would be, I cannot,” she stated. “I have come to tell you that Father is looking for you, and that he has sent me to find you.” She look and watched Luminous’s eyes widen. “After all, I know how much you like to indulge yourself with little swims on warm days.”

“What!” Luminous said. “You lie. Father went into town early this morning to pick up our supplies and will not be back until this evening.”

“Father did set out for supplies this morning, but he did not get but a furlong or so down the road when his horse became lame,” Rebecca said smugly with her arms crossed.

At hearing this, Luminous swallowed hard and looked over Rebecca’s shoulder toward the farm in concern. Rebecca could tell from the expression on her brother’s face that he was indeed worried about facing their father.

“He went to the southern fields to check on the progress that you made, but he couldn’t find you. When he saw that you were nowhere to be found, he was displeased and sent me to find you,” she added.

Luminous frantically began to gather his affects and, without thinking, sat down in the mud to put on his shoes. As he glanced up at his sister, he noticed an unusual smirk gliding across her face.

“Why do you smile at me so?” Luminous asked. “Is it not enough that I face father’s wrath, but you have to torment me and mock me with your grin? Wait a minute…you’re just pulling my leg, aren’t you?”

Rebecca could no longer contain herself, and let out the most blissful of laughs that echoed off of the rocks. “Indeed brother, maybe now you will think twice before you try and frighten me again. Two can play at your game if that is what you’re after.” She sat down beside him on dry ground.

“You little vixen!” Luminous said angrily. “I thought I was sure going to get it this time.”

“You should have seen your face,” Rebecca said, laughing. “It was full of fear and worry.”

“You got me good, sis,” he said, shaking his head pondering the current events. “I pity anyone who dares to mess with you.” Luminous laughed along with her.

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• ISBN-10: 1-5439-4310-1 / 1543943101
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5439-4310-8 / 9781543943108