Anica Storm & The Wand Of Time (Part 1 of 4)

by Steven Wolff

  *Cough - Cough* Anica spits blood, trying to clear her throat. She starts saying something between the coughing in a low tone of voice, but Luigi can't hear.

  “What did you say?” Luigi asks in amusement. He picks her up by the back of the shirt and dangles her in the air like a kitten.

  “Don't kill me? Why Not? It's Fun!”

  He lets her fall to the ground where she coughs and spits up more. Anica again repeats what she just said in a low, soft voice. Luigi bends down enough to where his ear is lined up with her face, looking away with a smirk on his face.

  “Speak up, I can't hear you!”

  Without warning Anica plunges a piece of sharp metal from the car debris deep into Luigi's neck! *ARRRGGHHHH!!!*

  Blood shoots out violently from the wound like a corked champagne bottle releasing all its contents. He roars loudly, trashing in pain before all 400 pounds of him tumbles face first to the ground like a mighty oak tree falling. He continues expelling dark red blood several feet off to the side with the metal rod still lodged in place.

  Anica managed to get back up, wiping her own dirt and blood from her lips on her sleeve. “What part of DIE YOU BASTARD did you not understand?” she says defiantly, kicking him in his side but she only manages to stub her toe! *OW! OW! OW!*

  'Real smart Anica, only you can get hurt by a dead guy!'

  Her moment of victory quickly turns to fear when she notices that something is still moving underneath his shirt. She looks closer and see's something under his clothes is struggling to get out. Anica backs away more frightened then ever when Luigi's shirt tears violently open and two dark dragon-like wings start flapping really fast in all directions. Anica stumbles backwards in disbelief as the wingspan makes up a good 10 feet across, very evil looking. The wings continue to flap for a minute till they go lifeless, lying fully spread out on either side of him.

  The pool of blood on the ground next to the body starts to ripple violently as it begins glowing and sparkling like thousands of diamonds reflecting sunlight. The liquid begins to rise upwards, forming a feminine humanoid shape that rises 5 feet tall before solidifying. Two sparkly fairy wings unwrap from the backside and fully extend outwards, flapping gently against themselves. Anica watches in awe and fear, as she's not sure what to expect next.

  The naked winged creature opens its eyes and looks left and right before fixing its gaze on Anica. Anica starts crawling backwards on her hands and legs out of fear. The creature extends its arm towards Anica, pointing all four fingers straight up, as if motioning to stop.

  Anica freezes in place and complies, not wanting to cause any trouble.

  The creature tilts her head to the side as if studying Anica and then looks down at the 400-pound dead body from which it was released. It then stares back at Anica, almost with a proud look on its face. It begins to speak in a beautiful language, but Anica has no clue what's being said. It walks over and sees a bad cut on Anica's arm. The creature reaches for it but Anica instinctively pulls away, unsure what she's going to do.

  The creature understands and respects her fear so she shows Anica both her palms facing up and gestures Anica do the same. When she does, the creature slowly moves both of her sparkling wings in front of her, towards Anica's open palms. They starts to flutter, causing fairy dust to collect into her hands, enough for two handfuls. The creature demonstrates rubbing her arm and gestures for Anica to do the same.

  Anica rubs it on her wound and instantly notices a tingly, almost ticklish feeling on her arm as the dust sparkles brightly like it's doing something.

  The creature then gestures for Anica to blow the dust off her arm.

  Anica takes in a deep breath and blows as much as she can away, creating a cloud of glittering light that's pretty to look at. After Anica watches the dust float down, she looks at on her arm and is surprised it's completely gone!!! She reaches on her arm and feels her skin, squeezing and pinching… there's no trace of any injury.

  Anica smiles at the results.

  “Thank you, whatever you are.”

  The creature closes her eyes in content. The moment is interrupted when several hundred feet away an elderly couple approaches to investigate the car crash they heard. The creature starts to panic and instantly dives into Anica's body, dissolving completely into her skin. Anica passes out instantly! The elderly man runs up to Anica to check on her and finds her unresponsive, but alive.

  “Help me get her into the house,” he tells his wife. They take her inside their home and upstairs to a guest bedroom where they leave her to rest, safe from any harm and the elements.

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