Odeon

Odeon was walking in the snow. He liked the sound of it under his feet. He was trying to walk in his father's tracks but his father was taking so huge steps that it was difficult for him. He was half jumping already and walking on the edge, also trying not to lose his balance.

His father stopped in a glare.

"What will I learn today?" Odeon asked

"Prophecy", his father answered.

That was new, they had been hunting and fighting and capturing animals since last summer.

"Why?" Odeon asked.

"Because you are supposed to know that too", his father said.

"You mean the other one in me", Odeon answered.

"I'm not sure how is really works, I only know that because you are who you are, they will be coming after you and your brother. Some say that it's better if you don't know anything but I believe that if you know exactly who you are you will be able to use it against them", his father answered.

"I'm scared", Odeon answered.

"There is nothing to be afraid of, this is just training", his father said smiling.

Odeon didn't answer what he really wanted was to be done with it but looking at the future didn't sound like fun anymore. What if he was to see something bad happening and was unable to change it?

His dad sat in the snow and Odeon sat in front of him copying every movement.

"You need to empty you mind, to think about nothing at all", his dad said. "It is called meditation, then when your mind is empty, the future and the past will come to you, all at the same time, and you will know something deeply inside of you. That's all. Now close your eyes."

Odeon did as he was told, he closed his eyes but he started to think about things about as many things as he could. He didn't want to know the future, he didn't want to see them coming for him as his father had said they would so he refused to empty his mind. He was getting cold, the snow had started to fall again and his wings felt frozen in his back. He wasn't allowed to move them to warm them up or get rid of the snow on them. He had learned to be immobile a long time ago when they had been hunting. It was easier to capture your prey if you were immobile. 

His father finally stood up and Odeon followed him. 

"What did you see?" His father asked.

Odeon looked down.

"Nothing", he answered.

He was feeling half ashamed for disobeying and half happy for managing not to see anything.

"It's alright", his father said rushing his hair. "We'll try tomorrow again."

Odeon is a character of "Demon World".

Nkosana

Sibyl was praying again. The sun was high in the sky and she knew that she would soon have to go home and make food for the men. She took her pot of milk and placed it on her head holding it only with one hand. She knew she wasn't thinking straight, she was too absorb in her prayers but she couldn't take the risk of spitting the milk on the ground and being beaten for it by her husband. So she was holding it carefully. The church was in the center of the village, she had been putting light every day now. It was expensive and the god of the white men refused to answer her prayers. If she didn't get pregnant, her husband would take another wife. She was laughed at in the village, she couldn't give him a son. 

It was afternoon and Sibyl was alone again. It would soon be time to go taint the clothes with the other women but first she had decided to do a ritual. The ritual had been banned by the white man, they call it witchcraft and it was prohibited because it was making their god angry. She didn't mind making him angry he had never talked to her anyway. Her mother had taught her the secret of her ancestor before she dies, she had tell her to talk to the trees, the trees had been here a long time, longer than any men the trees knew a lot of things and they would talk to you when you really listened. Sibyl didn't listen for a long time. She had tried to listen in the church but she didn't understand the words of the white men so she was always thinking about something else. She had listened to the trees when she was a little girl and now she would listen again. She prepared her colors and walked to the forest. She stopped under the biggest baobab and poured some milk on the ground. It was good to feed the trees it was making the forest happy. She turned around the tree caressing his trunk with the tip of her finger, asking for a baby boy.

The following day she came again, earlier and earlier she came to offer her milk and wishes to the tree. One day the tree bent and gave her a seed. It was brown, as dark as her own skin. She went home and planted the seed in a little pot. She was taking good care of the seed, giving it milk and honey. Her husband became angry and menaced to throw away the seed so she took it back to the tree and continued to care for it. 

After few months the seed was growing into a little plant with the shape of an infant. Sibyl was really happy, every day she would spend more and more time near the tree and telling stories to the seed about life, about how it was before the white men arrived, about how it was before she was married, about the secrets of the trees, like her mother had taught her. But once again she was late to care for the house and late in her cores and her husband beat her. She went back to the forest the following day and he walked furtively after her. He wondered who she had been seeing in his back. She stopped under the tree. A little boy was standing there where the seed had been. She picked him up laughing. 

"I will call you Nkosana for you are the prince of the baobab tree."

Nkosana is a character of Demon Soul.

Camp NaNoWriMo End of second week update : Demon World and Rainbow catcher

This week I managed to finish "Demon world" even though I still want to rewrite the ending which I always do about ten times for every novels and I want to add and epilogue. 

Even though, I consider the first draft finished and I won't be adding to it until I completely finish "Rainbow Catcher" as well.
All Novels Drafts 

The last part is only two pages long. I still wonder how it was possible not to finish it at the end of next week but I guess this will remain one of the mystery of the universe. "Demon World" word count adds up to 101942 words which makes it average length.

Here is the last part. I hope you'll enjoy this ending.

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I spent the rest of the week working on Rainbow catcher, it had been so hard for me to write on it after finishing JulNoWriMo and being unable to finish the story during AugNoWriMo. I struggled a lot through the first day, then I took a day off which is not really a good idea but I was really tired of the struggles. On the third day I didn't want to write so much but I was afraid that I was going to stop and not finish it again so I did some word wars with a friend which helped me not only to get through the day with the expected word count increase but also helped me to get far enough in the story to be able to actually get the drive. I haven't missed a day since (except last Friday when I was away from any writing tools.)

I used the first ever Camp NaNoWriMo Writing Marathon over Sunday night (from 2am to 10am Japanese time) actually I went to bed at 5am. To take a considerable advance, that is catching up with the words missing from the day off and Friday. And now I'm back on track with confidence that I can finish this story and give it the proper development and ending it deserve.

Here is the second part including what was written about 1.5 years ago during AugNoWriMo 2011, JanNoWriMo 2012 and of course the recent development.

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Morgan

Morgan was running bare feet in the forest.She needed to act fast, there was no time to lose.

She caught herself as she stumbled upon the open roots. It was her forest, she knew it better than anyone, she had been running here like that everyday for as long as she could remember but today was different, today she was escaping and they were after her. The urgency of the escape was making her nervous. She knew that fearing them would only make things worse but she couldn't help herself.

She arrived at the glare, Cameron was waiting for her, she had told him to go first that it was too dangerous that they would kill him if they found him but he didn't listen to her. She had a bad feeling in her heart. As she reached for him, as he smile at her, she heard the sound of the string clacking in the air. All happened too fast, his smile suddenly changed into a grin as the arrow pierced his chest. He felt on his knees. Morgan ran faster and grabbed him before he hit the ground.

"No, no, no", was all she could say.

She wasn't even trying to find her breath back. 

"No, no, no", she yelled. 

They were coming closer to her. Cameron was dead, gone forever, for her sin, she had nothing left to lose. She took the ring out of his finger and out of hers and threw them both in the lake nearby. 

They were still coming closer. She took a deep breathe and started to sing. Her wings were slowly becoming darker. Her blond hair turned suddenly black, her eyes lost their color. 

They stopped bemused. She kept on singing. One of they armed his bow, pulling on the cord. She could hear the breathe, she could hear the string, the awful sound which had precessed Cameron's death. The arrow flew to her, then stopped in mid air and turned around toward the bowman. It flew, faster, and hit. The bowman felt. They tried shooting at her again, but they all felt, their blood on the forest ground nourishing her power. She pushed them away, the trees grew thicker around the lake, around the glare, around the fairy tree, around her and Cameron. They were all come.

"I should have done it earlier, I'm sorry", she said holding Cameron face. 

He was smiling again in his death.

"I can't let you die", she said and she stood up carrying him. 

"I can't let you", she carried him to the lake, it was only few meters away but it seemed so far. Cameron was so heavy now that dead had passed through him. She let herself fall in the lake with him. They left deeper and deeper. The water was turning black around them. Cameron body was becoming lighter and lighter, she had to pull on him for him not to go back to the surface. When she hit the bottom of the lake the rings were shining in the dark water. She picked them up and found a large stone. 

"Spirit of the lake I seal this love, keep it's spirit in your water.

 Spirit of the lake I seal those ring, keep their love in your water."

The rings seemed to be entering the stone, she pulled Cameron to her and pressed his hand on the stone.

"Spirit of the lake I offer you this man, keep him alive in your water."

Cameron's body was shaken by spasms, he started to tremble, opened his eyes and tried to get some air but he only found the dark water. He was panicking. Morgan started to sing again to calm him down before they swam back to the surface. She went out of the lake alone, Cameron was still swimming near the surface looking at her.

"I'm sorry my love, this is the best I can do", she said. "I can't keep you alive in the air, you have to stay in 

the water."

She sat on the floor near him and swept.

 Morgan is a character of "Demon and fairy".

Luna

Luna was sitting under the fairy tree meditating. Peter and Atreju knew that when she was in that state it was better to leave her alone but she hadn't moved for about two hours and they were starting to be hungry. 

Peter pulled on Atreju's sleeve to make him come with him. They left Luna alone under the tree. It was not a tree like others, it had a very large trunk with a hole in the middle. Luna was still too small to reach it but that's where she had the boys felt her message for the Fairy World. 

She still remembered the first time she had ever seen a fairy. At times it seemed that she had always been able to see them but she knew that there had been a first time. She was crying alone under the tree. She had been bullied at school again for being weird. She didn't know what was so weird about herself. She felt that she was rather banal, just like any other kids but they had decided that she wasn't. They had decided that there was something wrong about her and that they would teacher her how to be the right way. Some times it was about her hair if she had decided to attach them in a different manner or not at all. Sometimes it was her clothes, she wasn't wearing anything properly. Even when she had the same clothes than another girl it wasn't good, she shouldn't have copied. She didn't even copy anyone it was just an accident. Sometimes it was because she was bright and had the right answer to questions no one else could understand. Sometimes it was because she wanted to read during the break, she didn't have anyone to play with anyway. No matter how hard she tried to be accepted, no matter how "normal" she tried to look like, there was no way to please them. 

So after school she had been crying again and she didn't even want to come home. At home every body would say that it was ok that the other kids were just stupid. But it wasn't ok. Even though they were all stupid, she wanted them to stop, she wanted to play with someone, she wanted to be "normal". That day she sat under the tree and cried until she felt asleep of exhaustion. Crying so much was tiring. 

She was awaken by a strange crystalline noise. It was moving around near her head, tickling her ears. She opened her eyes and scratched her ear to remove the strange sensation. 

"Bouh", the little creature said. 

Luna didn't startle, she wasn't the type to get surprised easily.

The little creature put a hand on her hips and started to blow on her fingers. She was standing in the air, just in front of Luna's face. 

She started to make some strange noise. 

"It's ok, another blind one", Luna managed to understand.

She wondered why she could understand that but it was normal to understand strange things in a dream. She started to extend her hand to touch the creature but she thought she might be rude.

"Hello", she whispered. 

 The little creature started her complicated movement again.

"Halt everyone, the big one said something"

"I'm not big", Luna answered.

The fairy came closer to her face making signs with her hands in from of Luna's eyes. Luna followed the movement wondering what it could mean.

Then the fairy flew a bit further away.

"Can you really see me?" she asked.

"Yes", Luna answered.

The fairy flew away in the branches of the tree and disappeared behind the leafs. Luna sighed, even in her dreams little people didn't want to play with her.

She stood up and dusted her closes realizing that she wasn't sleeping anymore and that it was getting late.

"Really?" the little creature said appearing in front of her face.

"Yes", Luna said, she was starting to get annoyed. She wondered how she could be awake and see the creature at the same time.

The creature turned around.

"How many wings do I have?" 

"About four", Luna said counting on her fingers.

"You're not sure", the creature said.

"You are moving them all the time, if you would keep them still it would be easier."

The little creature flew away again. 

 Luna took few steps to leave but it appeared in front of her again. Then another one, then another one, they were everywhere around her, pulling on her clothes, pulling on her hair, talking to each other so fast with their strange movement that she couldn't even follow the conversation. Luna was giggling, it was so funny with them. People at school will never believe it but she wouldn't tell them, it would just make her look weirder. she was feeling very happy.

They pushed her toward the tree under the hole. She was too small to reach it so they pushed a book out of it.

"Fairy doctor" was written on the cover.

"So you want me to read this", Luna said.

"You can see us and you are a girl so you are a fairy doctor, we had been looking for you a long time, this belongs to you", the little creature she had first met said.

Luna took the book and stroke the leather cover, if felt familiar in her hand. 

"Luna what are you still doing out? It's time for dinner", her brother called her from the house's door. 

"Thank you", Luna whispered to the fairies. She grabbed her school back and ran to the house.

Luna is a character of Demon Soul

Kallisto

The queen of the people of light was checking the stars' prescription while rocking her new born son sleeping in his cradle. She couldn't see anything to prevent the fate of her land. The demons had failed in preventing the god of Chaos to be reborn and it would be here soon but it was unclear when. It seemed to be fading every time she was to know the exact day.

She threw the parchment away looking at the baby fast asleep. He didn't know what was awaiting him yet. A servant came running at the door.

"Your majesty, your majesty, the girl is born, she has green sparkling air, she is perfect", the servant said out of breathe.

"Perfect", the queen thought for herself, maybe that was her opportunity to create a new fate for her world, using this girl, using her son.

"I want her to have a different education", the queen fairy said, she had been thinking about it a long time, changing the fate written in the stars.

"I do not understand", the servant said lowering her head and the top of her body as much as she could looking at the ground to be forgiven for her rudeness.

"Was she placed in the princess palace yet?" The queen said evasively, getting up and walking to the window. The night was dark and without stars as if they were purposely hiding to let her continue defying them.

"No, we are waiting for your majesty", the servant said.

The queen turned around and walked fast toward the door, passing the servant to go to the nursery. 

It looked like a garden filled with different kind of flowers, bigger than the normal side and inside of them were eggs. Some were really pink and some were blue, the queen fairy walked toward the lilies from where voices could be heard. Every body seemed to be amazed at the baby girl. She had fair skin and her eyes were already wide open throwing sparkles all around her. People were gathering to be touched and blessed by them. Her green hair was filled of fairy powder. 

"Bring me the wish book", the fairy queen said looking at the little girl.

"Your majesty", a servant said.

The fairy queen opened the book and started to go over wishes.

"Those are perfect, send her there", she said pointing at an address in the human world. 

"But your majesty, she should be send to the princess palace she is to marry prince Kordelius and..." one of the servant started.

She stopped and bowed as low as she could under the fairy queen's cold eyes.

"It's an order", the fairy queen said turning around to leave.

"Good bye little Kallisto", the servant said letting the baby girl in the garden of a human couple. 

"May the stars be with you as they know you are going to need it."

The servant shed some tears and left.

Kallisto is one of the main characters of "Demon and fairy".

Jason

Jason opened his eyes with the sunlight, he never had problem to wake up in the morning. After all, since the death of his parents he was all alone to take care of his little sister. He jumped out of bed and sat at his desk. It was only five o'clock in the morning but he wanted to finish cleaning the motor pieces before going to visit Clarissa at the hospital. He had always been blaming himself for what happened to her that day, for the death of their parents.

She wanted to play with him and his friends, but she was so small and annoying, he had told them not to give her the ball, thinking that she was going to give up eventually and go cry somewhere letting them have their fun. But Clarissa was so stubborn, she would run after every ball trying to intercept every pass, she had run, more than every one else. Until she had run too much. They had come back home already, they were not running anymore but she had started to fall, unable to breathe, unable to answer to his mum. She was so small suddenly, not so annoying anymore, more like a fragile little thing about to disappear.

At first he had thought that it was a joke, that she was making it up to make him feel sorry for not playing with her. He remembered that she had done it several times before and every time he had just laughed at her for being so weak and she had laughed saying that she was just joking. But now he realized that she hadn't been just joking. She was really in a bad shape. She should have listen to him when he had told her to stop running and to take a rest but she didn't. Of course she didn't want to be alone, girls never wanted to be alone.

Then his parents had taken her to the hospital but they never made it there, they run into an accident. A truck had burned the red light and hit their car. He remembered the phone call.

"Hello, this is hospital Johnasbury."

"Yes", Jason had answered. Were his parents on the way back already and the hospital calling to say that everything was alright with Clarissa?

"Is there an adult in the house? I have an important message." The voice had said.

"I can transmit the message when my parents come back", Jason had said.

He heard the voice breathing on the other end. It wasn't a good sign, his parents had always told him never to say on the phone that he was alone at home. He started to be a little bit scared, he didn't really know why.

"I have the regret to inform you that there has been and accident on road 53 and James and Claire Dreamen have past away." The voice said.

"...", Jason didn't answer.

"...", the person on the other side of the line seemed to be hesitating again, Jason could only hear them breath.

"..."

"They didn't suffer, it happened really fast", the voice said as if trying to comfort him.

"...", Jason was considering the options he had left, how to change that fact, how to make them live, what he could have done differently for the accident not to happen?

"I need an adult to come to the hospital, the doctor needs to talk about your little sister's heart condition", the voice said.

"I don't want you to take away Clarissa's heart", Jason said.

He didn't want anyone to walk around with Clarissa's heart when she was lying dead with his parents leaving him all alone.

"Your little sister needs medicine and care right now, nobody will take her heart, she is alive. Is there anyone I can call to talk about her future?" The voice said.

But Jason was already running out of the house. There was only one thing he knew, they wouldn't allow him to do anything, after all he was only thirteen but he knew who could do something. That's the day when he had started to go to the garage and to clean the pieces instead of going to school.

Jason is the main character of "Rainbow catcher" .