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Running. Running. Running. That was all I could think of. They were coming for me. But what did they want? Did they want to hurt me kill me kidnap or scare me. I ran as fast as I could and then BAM! I woke up on the floor and a very sore headache. I fell on the floor…again. That was the fifth time I had that dream this week. Cold sweat running down my neck. I got up to get dressed and walked outside to the school that laid 2 streets down from my house. I saw my friends Mags and Andy. “Hey Kat.” They both said in unison. “Hey…” I said but then I noticed something. There was a boy looking at me…he looked almost white and had dark black hair and looked sick. Then he was gone… I stared until the bell signaled and I ran inside knock into a wooden door that was never there I thought. Great I broke my nose just then Randy my crush walked by. “Um do you need to go to the nurse’s office?” He asked in a way that said I was bothering him. “No I’m fine I’ll snap it back later.” I said nervously. As he walked away I snapped it back. It was still a little bloody though. Oh well. I walked to the door and it was locked…from the inside. I started to walk away when I noticed I was alone in the hall way and I started to run to my next class when I felt some one watching me…I turned around to see the boy looking at me. I started towards him and he came closer as well. “What do you want?” I asked still coming closer to him to where we were face to face. He looked at me with depressed eyes. “I need your help…someone you know has my body and a force has taken me out of it and has been replaced…” he said. His voice was airy and it sounded as if there was nothing but bad memories portraying in his mind. I looked into his eyes…they were an emerald green… “Are you a ghost…did you die?” I asked noticing his voice sounded a little like Andy’s after he hit puberty… “No…I am what you call a victim from the unknown.” He said looking me in the eye… I put my hand up and he did the same…it felt as if he was real and that there was nothing strange at all…however he was freezing. “Are you sure you’re not just crazy because I can feel you but you look sick” I said. He looked hurt that I would think he was crazy. “I’m not crazy and I am sick but that’s not how this happened or why it is like this…I am merely invisible…well my soul that is…” he said. “Can other people see you?” I asked confused but fascinated by this new information. “No just you.” He said gravely. I was confused. “Why?” I asked blankly. He put his hands on my shoulders and I felt a jolt of excitement run down my spine as I realized he was angelic. “You are what people call a guardian of the invisible. You see us, talk to us, build relations with us and then help us get back to our bodies.” He said. I was scared I was just sixteen I am NOT a hero or guardian. “Then what? Do we carry on being friends or what?” I asked worried if I would never get to talk to him again. He looked down and then back up and smirked. “We would usually not remember and think it was like a coma or something but…not for us…we already know each other…for a while too.” He said happy by this fact. I was confused but then thought for a minute. He has eyes like Andy used to have, he sounds like Andy, and looks like Andy used to a week after he was sick for two days the week after…I had a huge crush on him but then moved on to Randy. I gasped. “Andy?!” I said tears coming to my eyes. He looked down and came to my ear. “The bell rang you have to go…meet me in the hall after each class…ditch…please…” he said. I couldn’t even move his voice captured me and I had to do it. I went into the bathroom and waited for the kids to go back to class. When I heard everything go quiet I walked back out and there he was waiting for me I ran up to him and hugged him tight. But something was wrong…he wasn’t hugging back. I looked up at him and noticed he was suddenly holding me really tight and then he took my hand and made me run…it was pretty hard to keep up with him though. “What are you doing?!” I yelled. I was scared and confused and worried about what was going on. I looked behind me and saw a…I guess was an unknown. It was evil looking…it’s eyes were pure black and it was boney looking yet young…this was a girl one and I could tell because of the voice. “DON’T DO THIS ANDY IF YOU KNOW WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU AND YOUR GIRLFRIEND!” she screeched. She flew over in a matter of what seemed like seconds. She grabbed me and touched my lips with hers. It was cold and I felt my soul being taken out of my body. It was the kiss of death…I studied it in freshman year…it was supposed to just be a myth used for small children when parents were worried about them kissing each other goodbye. My body got weaker until I saw a blurred vision of Andy snap her neck and take me from her arms. I was okay, shock and weak, but okay. He laid me down gently in what looked like a mysterious place I had never seen before. It was dark and gloomy with a mattress and all the necessities you would need except that there was no heat and it was really cold. I looked at the door. It was the door that I smashed into. “Where are we?” I asked confused but scared and cold as well. “Where I live now.” He said looking down. I just looked at him…his dark black hair fell in front of his eyes and then he looked up…he looked around and then at me. “Is this why you’re always so cold?” I asked worried about the answer. “Yeah.” He said tears approaching his eyes. I hugged him and he hugged back. Even though he was cold and it made it worse because I was shaking it felt nice to be welded in his arms. I looked up at him again and he had his head on my shoulder. Later I ended up falling asleep and he was shaking me to wake up. I finally woke up and looked at my watch…it said 2:26 four minutes till I get out. I looked at him. “I…I have to go.” I said. I let go of his hand and before I left I felt him brush his lips against my forehead. I smiled and went out…I hid in the bathroom until the bell rang and when it did I slipped between people and walked home. While I was walking home I felt a sudden chill go down my spine and when I looked back there was nothing there but when I turned around there was something looking at me in the eye…it was an unknown only this was a boy and he was boney as well, “thou shall not try to help the ones who should not be here.” he whispered and then left. I ran home after that and feel asleep in bed. The next day I saw Mags but Andy wasn’t there. “Hey…” she said sick looking. “Hey what’s wrong, where’s Andy?” I said concerned. She looked down. “He’s not here and I didn’t sleep last night after what happened to me.” She looked to the side. “Well what happened?” I pushed annoyingly. “Andy KISSED me yesterday but I pushed him off because I don’t like him that way you know how it is.” She said looking up at me. I was scared now what was happening! I ran into the bathroom until the bell rang and walked out. There he was waiting for me. I ran up to him and hugged him but then I cried. “His t tried t to g g get h her!” I sobbed. He smoothed my hair. “I know.” He said. I looked up at him. “I thought only girls got girls and guys got guys.” I said quietly. “No…they care…they prefere the same gender though.” He said. I looked down and got a hold of myself. He took my hand. “C’mon lets go to the office and call that so called Andy in here.” he said starting to walk. “I can’t go…not without getting Mags better.” I said. Just then Mags walked in the hall but her eyes were black…and by the door to the math class…only she was almost…white…I gasped. She was an invisible now. I ran over to her. “Mags oh my God I’m so sorry! I should have protected you!” I cried on her shoulder. She wrapped her arms around me. “What are you talking about? I’m fine! Why is she wearing the same thing as me!” she said looking over at the unknown who was walking away…she obviously didn’t know what was going on…that just makes it worse. She then saw Andy. “Andy! You look different…you look great! But sick. What happened you were fine a minute ago?” She said babbling on. I walked over to them and held them both close… “Mags…you’re invisible to everyone but me and Andy…Andy is invisible too. But I’m the only one who can see you and feel you.” I said seriously so she knew I wasn’t playing games. She looked at me and then to him and started to cry. She ran away from us and we heard the door slam from the main entrance. I looked at Andy and he looked at me. We started to run towards the door. “Mags!” I yelled. “Mags come back!” Andy screamed. We found her under a tree petting a dog that didn’t notice she was there. She was crying. I walked over to her slowly but quietly. “I was going to ask that new boy out today.” She sniffled. I felt guilty that I couldn’t have stopped it. I hugged her and Andy came over and hugged her too. “Can I help her too?” I asked Andy. He looked up and looked sad. “Yes. But you won’t forget to help me will you?” he asked worried. I looked him in the eyes. “No. I won’t forget you…I promise.” I said making sure he believed me. He nodded and held my hand. Mags looked at our hands. “Is there something I should know?” She asked curiously. We smiled and laughed…then we nodded that there was nothing at all. She raised her eyebrow at us and let it go. We ended up going in the old abandoned building that used to be a so called ‘house’. I sat on the floor and they did the same. “How do we do this?” Mags asked as me and Andy was planning how to get their bodies in one room. We both turned and looked at her. Andy had a staring contest with the floor that was usually how he concentrated on anything. I was taking deep breathes because I thought of a bad idea but that it could possibly work.
I was running and they were coming for me. Andy and Mags were captured and in switched bodies…everything was quiet…even the city…oh no…there was an unknown following me from behind and he was very quiet. I turned around and looked at him. He flew up next to me, bent me over and gave me the kiss of death. I tried to fight him off but it wasn’t working…then I realized it wasn’t just any unknown…it was someone I knew…
I woke up sweating…again. What was going on with these dreams? I ran to my window and what I saw made me want to scream and just go in the closet. I couldn’t though my legs wouldn’t move and neither would my mouth. Outside there was nothing but the vacant lots of my neighbors and it was dark…and I was scared…I did manage to turn around and when I did I was relieved. I saw Mags and Andy sitting on my bed. I walked over to them and sighed. “It’s getting bad…almost the whole school is filled with them now.” Andy said looking at Mags who looked worried. I felt myself starting to feel nauseous and ran to the bathroom. As I spit in the toilet I realized it was blood only it wasn’t red…it was black. I fell back and started to get scared what in the world was happening?! I got up and looked in the mirror as I realized I was turning paler by the second and my hair wasn’t just black-ish brown…it was now jet black and I didn’t even look like myself I looked different…my body started to feel weird and I saw it curving in at the right places…my jaw wasn’t as round it was now slender and my eyes turned to a misty green blue. I walked back out with tears in my eyes. Andy and Mags both got up and walked towards me. Mags looked surprised and Andy looked surprised but also happy. I looked at him weird and I noticed I was slightly taller than him now. “What is HAPPENING TO ME!!!?” I screamed. I gasped as soon as I said that when I realized my voice was more mature sounding. “It’s an ability of yours…you can disguise yourself so no one knows who you are. The unknowns are after you and this is just your instincts to change you’ll be able to control them yourself as soon as you get used to it. Right now this is your older vision of yourself…25 years old” he said sternly. “How do you know all of this stuff?” I asked surprised and confused. He looked at me. “You know what I’m into I studied the paranormal creatures of the night for 5 years.” He said looking at me with intent eyes. I studied his face a minute longer and snapped back to reality. I walked to the window and the sky I noticed was red. And there were people…young people from my school walking around talking to each other with black eyes and there were bony unknowns everywhere on the streets. There were watching my house. I could tell because their eyes were watching straight ahead…which my house was. I turned to both of my friends and hugged them both tightly. We all started to cry and I realized it was time to try and get their souls back in their bodies. I walked down stairs with them behind me and we casually walked like the others until we were at the old house. I had them hide in the closet and went back out to get my “friends” they followed me and then I shut the door and locked it. They turned to look at me with their black eyes. I got scared and it hurt my ears when they screeched for help. I didn’t care though I screamed for help form Andy and Mags. They came out and held them down. I stood there like an idiot until I felt myself come closer to them I walked over to the body of my friends and I didn’t want to but I felt my hand caress the cheek of Mags body. I noticed as she went limp and fell into a trance. The other one started to panic and started screeching louder and longer I felt my hand do the same to the other unknown and he went limp. “What happened to them?!” I asked confused but scared that they might wake up. “They went into a trance” Andy explained. “How?” Mags asked getting anxious. “When she caressed their cheek it’s called the forbidden touch and it’s like their kiss of death but much different.” He said matter-of-factly. “Oh ok I get it now…there’s the kiss of death, the forbidden touch…What’s next…the intoxicating sound?!” I said getting upset. “No…but there is the intoxicating voice…not sound…you have to sing not scream.” He said. I rolled my eyes and just looked at the still bodies and then back up at them. “What do we do now?” I sighed. He pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and handed it to me. I looked at it, it was a poem. “Read it and we’ll get back in our bodies.” He said. I looked at it longer and then started.
“All who are unseen and blocked by the
Ones with no color…
They seek the identity
Of the ones unseen…
So they feed off them
But now it’s time to get them out
And let the unseen be about…into their bodies they will forever be
With identity and be seen.” I read it like I saw on television. I looked up and noticed that their souls were going into the bodies and black figures were being thrown out. They acted like themselves…until they talked. “Oh my Gosh! I’m in a guy’s body!” Mags screeched. I looked at her and noticed her chocolate brown eyes in the spots where his green ones should have been. “I’m a chick!” Andy gasped as he was looking from Mags to himself. I was about to laugh which could’ve made it worse and believe me it did. I busted out laughing and suddenly stopped when I realized they were glaring at me. “This is terrible how am I supposed to pee?!” mags exclaimed. “I don’t even know how to anymore!” She added. “Easy just wet your pants.” Andy said annoyed at the same situation he was in. They glared at each other. “Just make sure I don’t leave anywhere without any makeup. It’ll ruin me if I don’t were any.” She said shooting daggers at him with her eyes. “Um 2 problems…I don’t know how to put makeup on and I am a guy…I don’t wear makeup.” He said crossing his arms. She looked at him. “Not in that body you’re not” she said aggravated. He looked down at his body and looked back up at her. “You’re right” he sighed batting his eyelashes and swaying his hips. I had to laugh. He glared at me again and I thought right now would probably not be the right time to kiss him on the cheek. “Can we switch it back some how?” mags asked annoyed that she was still in the body. I looked out the window again and it got even worse in the view of this old building we were in. The sky was no longer red but blackish purple and the unknowns were everywhere with no light at all. All I could see was a faint light from the moon showing where they all were. I saw Mags come up to me and I quickly went into her chest and sobbed until I looked up and saw her creeped out. “Sorry…not used to a girl in a guy’s body.” I said my face turning red. They both looked worried as Andy stared out the window. It was a chain link reaction because Mags didn’t get worried until she saw Andy’s face. I walked up to Andy and noticed his eyes weren’t normal. They were glassy and the way he stood wasn’t the same either…besides the fact of being in a girl’s body. But the way he had his back hunched over wasn’t right and he was sweating and getting pale almost like…he did when he was sick that day before the incident with the unknown… “Andy? Can you hear me are you okay?” I said with worry in my voice. He just looked at me and fell over…I ran to him or her or him…what ever and held his head in my lap and looked down. “ANDY! ANDY NO! YOU CAN’T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS! STAY WITH ME! ANDY! NO!” I screamed as I heard Mags in the back crying I started to as well. Just because his soul was taken doesn’t mean he wasn’t still sick. I looked at Mags and I saw her do something I thought I would never see her do. She bent down and put her lips to his…and saw his soul being taken out of her body and her soul put into his. I felt my jaw drop and looked at her. His soul was laying there. I saw her start to cry harder. I stopped crying and got scared. She looked back at me and saw me back up…I figured it out…she was an unknown…I got up and ran to Andy. His hair was getting a dry oily feeling to it and his green eyes were still glassy as he opened them to look at me. He took his hand and put on my face; he bent my head down and whispered something muffled by tears. “Kat…you know I really like you and the last thing I want is to see you upset…so if anything happens leave with the memories of all of us when nothing happened.” He whispered. I started to cry harder and shook my head that I wouldn’t forget him. I looked back at Mags as I felt his body go limp. I looked back at him and remembered when Mags had the same sickness but it passed. I walked up to her and gave a deathly glare. “You were an unknown ad never told me, you gave him the sickness, and you even took his soul out of his body so you could have your own back.” I growled. She backed up against the wall. “Kat I know your upset but you don’t understand…I would’ve scared you If you knew, and I gave him the sickness because I knew he liked you and soon enough you would like him then you wouldn’t care about me anymore, and I took his soul out because I wanted my body before he died because if he died in it I wouldn’t get it back Kat I didn’t want to live in a guy body forever” she said staggering towards the window. “So you were just being selfish?!” I screamed. I almost lunged towards her when I felt a hand on my arm pull me back. I looked back to see Andy pull me against him and look me in the eyes. “Let her run and be afraid of what will happen. Don’t destroy her…let the guilt eat her alive.” He said revengefully. I looked up at him. Before I knew it he kissed me on the forehead and let me go. He limply staggered to the corner and fell down. I felt the tears silently run down my cheeks as I turned around to see Mags jump out the window. I ran to the window and felt myself jump out after her. She looked back and I ran faster. She suddenly stopped and turned around to face me. I stopped and we were face to face. “I heard your plan and it’s not going to work. I’m not going to be eaten away by my own guilt.” She said with acid in her voice. “Whether you hear it or not I will get revenge for killing him.” I shot back. She backed up and as she got more worried I grew more confident. Until she smirked and a whole group of unknowns followed their way towards me. I backed up then looking around to see if any were behind me. I quickly shape shifted into Mags appearance and they immediately stopped their lunge for me. I smiled and walked away. “I have to um…get something…”I said my voice shaking. I ran away as fast as I could go back to the house. I saw Andy’s limp body and noticed that his chest was rising barely. I ran over to him and noticed his eyes were focused on the ceiling and he was slightly. I waved my hand in front of his face and he looked at me. I smiled and tears were coming down my cheeks. He put his hand weakly to my face and smiled. “I don’t want to go away; I want to stay with you.” He said. I saw tears streaming down his face and wiped them away. He smiled and bent my head down and kissed me lightly on the lips. I started to cry because I realized that this was probably the time when he weakly says his last words and I sob at his lifeless body. But that was the opposite of what he did. He slowly got up and I held his hand as he brought me into a hug. I cried so hard and I couldn’t stop. He stroked my hair and kissed the top of my head. I looked up at him and he was looking at his lifeless cold body that Mags had gotten out of selfishly. I let go of him and brought the body over to him and me. I took the bodies head and put it on my lap and held Andy’s hand and started to sing the intoxicating sound. He closed his eyes and fell down and disappeared into the lifeless body. His eyes opened and he still looked sick but was feeling better. He sat up and looked at me I stared into his green eyes and he smiled and kissed me quickly on the cheek. I smiled and then laughed. He laughed with me and then we both got up. He started to growl as I turned around to see Mags sitting on the window ledge. I turned back to see him with his eyes turn white with red pupils I gasped because I was guessing he was an albino knight. I backed away to the corner as I watched my two friends turn into beasts you would find in a nightmare. They flew towards each other and I had to cover my eyes after I saw Mags use her nails and slash into Andy’s side. A few minutes later of fighting I heard Mags screech. I snapped my head up and saw Andy have his nails dug into her throat. “Move even an inch and you’ll die.” Andy said his voice sounding dangerously menacing. I covered my mouth because blood was spurting from her throat beneath his hand and I just couldn’t handle it seeing my two closest friends fight to the death when everything was fine a week ago. Tears were flowing from her dark black eyes and Andy’s veins were throbbing from the pain in his side. He gripped his hand tighter and I ended up screaming. They both turned to look at me but Mags only shifted her eyes. “Why are you two like this? A week ago nothing was wrong, a week ago we were all friends for life and we never thought of even INSULTING each other, but now, your killing her and you tried killing him.” I cried. They just stared at me. I cried harder and put my head in my knees and tried to block out the sound of them slash into each other. It suddenly grew quiet and I looked up to find them both staring at each other instead of killing each other. I stayed where I was though. I didn’t want to risk anything if they wanted complete silence. I saw suddenly Andy loosen his grip to what looked like it was secure but more comfortable for her. She put her hand on his side where she cut him and they still stared at each other. All of a sudden Mags started to cry and the sounds of my breathing were the only thing being heard. Her tears fell silently and I noticed he was mouthing something to her and her face seemed to relax. I got up and walked over to them quietly. They turned to look at me. I started to feel sick as soon as I saw how much blood was still draining from Mags. Andy looked away from me and up at her. She smiled wickedly as soon as she saw his face twist into the same grin. He let go of her and she landed perfectly on her feet. The damage from them heals in a matter of two seconds. They both turned to look at me I backed up and Andy swept Mags off her feet and glared at me. “Thanks babe you put on quite a show.” He said to her. She smiled back at him and put her bony fingers to his hair. “You know I couldn’t do it without you my love” she said teasingly. I gasped at what I just heard. I backed up into the corner and they followed me hand in hand. I put my hands to my ears as Mags screeched with laughter. “Mags! Stop! Please! Don’t do this!” I screamed. She suddenly stopped laughing and glared at me. “Of course my father would pick a stupid disguise name like that for me…” she said upset that I said her name. “What?!” I gasped. She shook her head at me. “You silly stupid girl…why would anyone ever dream to give a child such a worthless name…” I stared at her but didn’t say anything. “My real name is Eve Shadows…weird as it may sound but I like it, it is the exact meaning of me.” She said. I looked over at Andy to see what he would say but he just glared at me. “Andy really is my name.” he said depressed that his name wasn’t an evil sounding thing. I looked back at Eve and she just glared wickedly at me. She walked closer to me and put her pointer finger to my head and pushed in so hard that it cut into my skin leaving blood draining from my forehead. Suddenly things that I had sworn I forgot came tumbling through my head like bowling pins. The memories were literally frying my brain, after about 10 minutes….everything went black.
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I woke up and realized I was freezing. It was dark and quiet and I was terrified. I got up and felt around until I found what felt like a light switch. I flipped it on and screamed at what I saw…my parents and others…dead. They were not invisibles they were dead their bodies were thrown to the ground and my mother’s face was destroyed…her skin had been scraped off and her hair torn out of her scalp while my father’s eyes were still there but their color wasn’t. His eyes a plain white. Others had been mutilated along with them. I covered my nose and mouth to not taste or smell the rotting flesh. I turned to the door and started banging on it. “Let me out! Let me out! Please! Don’t keep me in here!” I screamed while crying until I heard a small cry from the other side of the room I was in. I turned around but couldn’t see anything with my eyes blurry so I wiped the tears away as I walked slowly towards the sound. I came to a small girl with reddish brown hair. She looked up at me and she had big bright blue eyes. She started crying hysterically and I bent down to comfort her when I saw that her fingers were missing. I gasped at the sight that she wouldn’t be going crazy because of this but I let it go and hugged her tight. I didn’t care if I didn’t know her I just really needed a hug. I felt her get tense and looked at her. She kept her eyes on the door and I saw that it was trying to open. I held her tight and ran to the very back of the room. As much as I didn’t want to I hid us both underneath the cold lifeless bodies. I heard whoever was coming in mumble something under their breath while I felt the little girl shake underneath me. “Stupid higher ranks bossing me around. ‘Go do this go get that.’ Why do we need the legs anyway?” He said. As soon as I heard the door close for good I crawled out and saw the girl do the same. I bent down to her. “What’s your name?” I said trying to sound happy so she wouldn’t feel scared. “N N Nina” she stuttered. So she was a stutterer. “W w what’s y yours” she continued. “I’m Kat.” I said. She smiled and giggled. I smiled too. “T t that’s a funny n name.” she said. I nodded and sat down. I closed my eyes and rubbed my fore head feeling the cut.
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I was being shaken when I finally opened my eyes. I sat up and Nina looked at me…I gave her a weird look because she was now staring at nothing. She looked at me and then put her fingerless hand up…then she waved out of now where. I didn’t get what she wanted to tell me until I felt bony but strong hands on my shoulders and pull me along the ground. I was kicking and screaming. “Nina! Nina helps me PLEASE!” I cried. And then stopped and gasped when I saw her. She started to giggle and smiled evilly. She put her hand up and her fingers soon grew back. The last thing I saw before the door closed after me was her say her last words to me… “When are you going to learn not to trust anyone?” she said as my life faded away…

The End