Taika

Taika yawned and fumbled on her night table to get her magic wand. She shook it and the time appeared in blue numbers on the ceiling. She still had four hours to sleep. She shook off the numbers and turned around in her bed. She had been having strange dreams again about a boy, always the same. She placed the wand to her mouth like a microphone and started to speak. 

"He is really good at magic, no forget that, what was the dream about?" She posed and saw the face of the boy in front of her eyes again. 

"His name is... his name is... I forgot it again. I try to remember but I always forgot that. So we were at school and when we entered the room he was already there, sitting at the ghost table. Why would anyone sit at the ghost table, that's kind of rude but the ghost didn't seem to mind he was just flying around saying that he could finally graduate. Whatever that means. I didn't know ghosts could graduate, leave alone in the middle of the year. And the ghost said thank you to the boy and left. Really! I still wonder how that happened but as it is a dream it might be normal. Oh yeah and he had a particularly shining light blue Ora, I had never seen one like that before. I wonder why he is always in my dream, I never met him, the school has been increasingly boring lately, all the boys there seems to think about is how to make the bigger mess possible in botanic class, just because we have a replacement teacher." she sighed. "But that's not part of the dream. I better go back to sleep anyway, I'm forgetting it again."

She blew on her wand to extinguish it and put it back on the table. She heard some noises coming from under the bed. She might have waken her slippers up. They too seemed to have trouble to sleep. She yawned and turned on the other side, she didn't want to take them for a walk just now, it was too early. The slippers came out and started jumping. 

"It's three am, go back to bed", Taika said softly.

The slippers disappeared. It seemed that they were talking to each other but Taika was too tired to eave drop on the conversation. She was thinking about the boy. She wanted to meet him. She had been looking at the past yearbooks of the school during her free time without success, there was no one like him. Maybe she should resolve to tell her brother about it, he would love to resolve the mystery. She turned around again trying to concentrate on his face. It was starting to fade slowly as she fell asleep again.

Taika is a character of Demon Soul

Grand opening : Mes crazy experiences ETSY shop

I have been preparing for months and finally here it is : Mes crazy experiences ETSY shop is open !

For the moment I only have one item in store but a lot more will be available soon. 

Feel free to come back and have a look.

Or just said hello.

Camp NaNoWriMo End of third week update : Rainbow catcher, I'm a winner.

This is the end of the third week of crazy writing. This week I was working on "Rainbow catcher" only.

I tended to stay stuck a lot and not meeting with my words count but I finally overcame the difficulties and managed to get more words than I expected and to reach the 50000 words line which makes me a Camp NaNoWriMo winner.

One of the most amazing thing about my writing this week was that I mainly over come my problem on "Rainbow catcher" due to two amazing things. The first was word war with other people and the second was taking the bus. I took the bus for six hours on Friday night to go back to Tokyo and my boyfriend tricked me into writing by booking a bus which allow me to have electricity for my laptop. I was so desperate not to have reach my word count during the week that I wrote for six hours straight and didn't even sleep as I'm used to.

All Novels Drafts 

This was a very interesting bus trip and probably the best part of the entire story. Pyrrhus comes to meet some people from his past and fight with pirates. This also took me really close to the end of the novel. Even though I already won Camp NaNoWriMo with my word count, I'll continue to write to finish the first draft and see how much words more I can get.

Here is the part written this week, I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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Sahel

Sahel was sitting in the middle of the room. There was nothing there, the teacher had prepared it just for him. The walls and the ceiling were completely white, the floor was also white but there were really thin read lines shaping a grid on it. Sahel was supposed to create a map in his mind. The map of his body as he transformed to define better his own perceptions. Being the phoenix was easy for him, when he transformed he was just becoming something else. At first he had thought it was normal. He was a demon and he was used to be different from everyone else around him so being a shape shifter wasn't something that he was prepared for but it wasn't as well something that he would be afraid of. He could always turn back to himself when he needed it. 

But the teacher had made him see things differently. If he wasn't himself anymore when he turned into the phoenix, there was no way for him to decide what he was doing with his powers. He had tried to explain that it wasn't really like that, that he was changing slowly and his purpose melted with the purposes of the bird but the teacher had repeated it again and again: What if the purpose of the bird happened to be different? Sahel knew that the bird wouldn't do anything he didn't want him to do, the bird was still him but in the end he had started to doubt himself and that's how he finally ended up spending most of his time in an empty room. 

He didn't close his eyes, he wanted to, he found it easier to concentrate but the teacher had said that when he was to change again, he wouldn't have closed eyes and it was true. Instead he was fixing an imaginary point somewhere near the middle of the room. He started to feel like a stone, his body became heavy and it was harder and harder not to close his eyes. He visualized his body floating in mid-air where the imaginary point was, it was strangely lying there without moving. He concentrated on his hand, that was always where the fire was going out, always where the transformation started. He tried to hold the fire as much as he could in the hands of his vision but the fire suddenly came out. 

Sahel felt backward looking at his hand. The fire was leaking out from them. He heard three knocks on the door and the teacher entered. 

"I failed again", he said.

"I never said it was going to be easy", the teacher answered, "What went wrong this time?"

"Always the same, when the fire comes strong, I always think about Yue", Sahel answered. 

"That's enough for today", the teacher answered.

"I want to try one more time", Sahel answered.

The teacher laugh, his student always lost tracks of time when he entered this room.

"Just go home for now", he said placing an apple on the ground in the middle of the room.

"What is that for?" Sahel asked. 

"You are not the only one using his room", the teacher said.

Azazel entered looking around.

"What is this place?"

"Hell", Sahel answered standing up to leave.

Sahel is a character of Demon Soul, Attic Mirror, Demon and fairy and Demon World.

Raphael

"Stop walking so fast", Ethan said looking passably annoyed. 

He was carrying a large carton box and had trouble seeing what was in front of him. 

"I'm not walking fast, you're the one being slow and we are going to be late", Raphael said walking even faster.

"We have more than one hour before the start and it will takes only five minutes to prepare", Ethan said taking a deep breath.

As much as he liked his brother and enjoyed working with him Raphael's constant nervousness and hurriedness tended to be contagious and to make him feel nervous as well.

"You don't know that, what is something happened?" Raphael asked.  

The event was not really that important, all they had to do was to carry the boxes, and those were the last, to the stadium, other people were already preparing everything there. What Ethan said was going to take them five minutes to do was to test if all the lamps were set up correctly and enlightening the right spots, so they just had to turn them on and say it was alright and go sit with everyone else. 

"Nothing ever happens", Ethan said, "But why don't you go on ahead, I want to buy myself a drink anyway."

He stopped in front of the store waiting for his brother's answer.

Raphael was comically dancing from one feet to the other, he seemed tugged between wanting a drink too or finishing what he was doing.

"Come on, do you want a drink or not?" Ethan asked looking at him, he wondered how anyone could survive with that level of stress for only little matter such as getting a drink.

"I'll come back to get one later, we need to bring those boxes quickly", Raphael answered started to walk away.

"As you wish", Ethan said. He pushed the door of the convenience store.

Raphael turned around noticing that Ethan was not following him. He was so nervous, he wanted everything to be perfect today. He didn't really know why but it had to be. He started to walk as fast as he could with his boxes leaving Ethan behind. He couldn't understand how most people could be so careless and never put a silly little effort for everything to be done properly. He was feeling so stressed by other people's behavior.

When he arrived at the stadium, nobody was there yet. He left his box on the side and walked around looking for everyone. He started to fix things other people were responsible for by himself bitting his nails. It was incredible how careless they could be. He had to do everything if he wanted it to be perfect. It needed to be perfect, if it wasn't perfect it was wrong, and wrong was bad, he couldn't let that happen, he couldn't...

Raphael woke up in sweat realizing that he had been biting his nails in his sleep. He looked at the alarm o'clock, it marked three in the morning. He took the glass of water on the bedside table and drunk a little. His heart was beating fast in his chest. He regretted to have accepted to participate to the event the next day, he couldn't rely on those people. He took the notebook his mother had prepared for him. She had written little stories and added quotes from her reading to help him calm down. He read a little before going back to sleep.

Raphael is a character of Demon Soul

Questions

I don't have a character whose name starts with a Q so for today's A-to-Z Challenge post my characters are going to be answering questions from readers.

Where are your characters from?
Demian: I'm from Teneria of course, why aren't you from Teneria too?
Dylan : I'm from London but a London you weren't born early enough to know.


What are your characters strengths and weakness? 
Dylan : I don't have any weaknesses.
Viorel : He has a bunch.
Dylan : No I don't, I can show you I don't.
Brownie: I know a certain vampire who tried to jump on a girl to make her see his point and ended up with a big huge headache.
Viorel : He fainted.
Dylan : I did not, I'm the most scary vampire out there and if it wasn't for this thing you injected me with.

How do they smell? 
Kallisto: Seti smells like flowers
Seti blushes and looks away : That's only the shower gel, don't tell anyone or they'll giggle.

Is there a certain dream your characters have that no one knows about? 
Isakael: I dream to become a demon.
Everybody look around amazed.
Isakael: just kidding, she asked that dreams that no one knows about, do you think I'm going to tell her ? 

What are their hobbies? 
Grenadine : I like to draw
Brownie: As long as she had an orange pen that is.
Grenadine : Even if I don't
Brownie: I still need to see that.
Hitomi: I like to draw
Raphael: I like to build things, like with lego
Ethan: I do science, most of the time.
Gideon: repairing things but it's more of a necessity than a hobby.

Pets?  
Dylan : Do I look like I need a pet.
Daciana : Dylan.
Dylan : Hey not in public.
Mark : I have a turtle and it likes to climb on my skate board.
Sahel : the dark shadow.
The dark shadow slides away muttering something unintelligible. 

Where do they go on vacation? 
Dylan: thinking about it, I haven't been anywhere in a long time.
Tito: In the haunted house/
Hitomi: that's not a vacation place and it's not even haunted.
Tito: It is, it is!
Hitomi: I go to Teneria.
Brownie: yeah but you go there even after school. I've been to New-York once.
Grenadine: yeah I remember that it was awesome.

How do they feel about social media? 
Dylan: social what?
Jane: That's what civilized people do on computer, they meet each other and talk. 
Dylan: Yeah but I can't bite a computer, it's rather pointless.


Do they roller skate? 
Mark : yes, yes yes ! but I fall all the time, skate board is better.
Brownie: I like to roller skate with Sahel.
Grenadine: he flies and doesn't even let your feet touch the ground.
Brownie: yeah, that's the all point.

What was their favorite class in elementary school? Teacher?
Tan: Am I suppose to have one.
Hitomi: I liked when the teacher read us stories.
Tan: you said that now because you are not in elementary school anymore.
Hitomi: No, I really did enjoy it, or describing picture was fun too.
Tan walks away.
Melody: The teacher is not bad.
Tito: That's because you're lucky, ours make us wash our hands before lunch.
Hitomi: That's normal.
Tito: It depends what people do with the water. 
Hitomi: Oh that! 


What was their most embarrassing moment? 
Sahel: When I discovered that I was scared to fly.
Azazel: You can't be scared to fly, you're a demon.
Sahel: I'm not scared anymore but I used to be.
Azazel: How is that even possible, really, you just do it some day and realize you are flying.
Sahel: Hey, I didn't have other demons around to show me that. What's yours by the way?
Azazel: My what?
Sahel: Your most embarrassing moment.
Azazel: I don't have one.
Sahel: Come on, we all have one.
Azazel blushing like crazy: No I don't really.
Evalynn: One time he was changing and some part of his body...
Azazel jumps on her putting a hand on her mouth: Nothing really nothing hahaha

Pyrrhus

"Look at that!" Deborah exclaimed looking down.
Pyrrhus walked to the side of the balloon. He had been flying for as long as he could remember but he wasn't yet used to the high. His mother didn't mind, she could climb the ladder to go check that everything was alright on the sail without even attaching herself. His father always needed to remind her and she would just wash off the anxious look on his face with a smile. She was pushing herself so much out of the balloon to see the ground below them that Pyrrhus wouldn't have been amazed to see her fall with the next squall of wind.
He passed the cord in her belt and attached her as firmly as he could. She was just laughing in the wind.
Birds were passing by and Pyrrhus had the strange thought that his mum was just like a bird.
He stood near her and looked at the ground, water, water everywhere.
He wondered how it was possible to have so much water in the same place. People called it the Northern Sea. It was were the desert ended. It was the first time for him to get out of the desert.
"Can we land?" He asked.
He wanted to touch that water to see what it was like. His mother laughed.
"We can't land now, we are in the middle of the sea, the balloon would drown", she answered.
"Drown?" Pyrrhus said interrogating.
"The balloon would get inside the water, very deeply and we wouldn't be able to get it out, that's what drown means", his mother explained.
"Like being sucked in by the sand near the oasis", Pyrrhus said.
"Yes, a bit like that", she answered.
Pyrrhus looked down at the water, it was moving by itself as if it was alive, it wasn't because of the wind, it was something else.
"I like the desert better", he said very seriously.
"They are thousands of different place to discover", his mum said passing a hand in her long ginger hair to take them away from her face before giving up to the wind, "maybe you should learn a little more about them before making your choice."
Pyrrhs didn't answer. He wanted to walk back in and try to sleep but he was thinking about what his mother had just said and looked at the deep ocean below him. He didn't know where they were going but he knew that he would never be able to walk on the watter without drowning. It was a really strange place indeed.
A fish jumped out of the water surprising him and he felt backward, making his mother laugh.
"Are they people living in the water?" he asked.
He had entered the water one in an oasis but he couldn't stay underneath for too long. His father had said that people needed to breathe. Before that, Pyrrhus had never thought about breathing, for him it was just something that his body was doing.
"There are all sort of things living in the sea", his mother answered.
Pyrrhus' mind was suddenly filled with questions about the sea. I wasn't just water, it was becoming slowly strange and marvelous and mysterious.
"When are we going back to the desert?" he asked.
"When we will hear that it is safe again", his mother answered. A veil of fear clouded her face and Pyrrhus knew that it was better to change topic.
"I'll prepare for breakfast", he said turning around. 

Pyrrhus is a character of "Rainbow Catcher"