Light and Shadow
Prologue
The Dreamer Awakens
I'm finally back to doing Slayers stuff. Sorry it took so long but a few things came up. I have chapters of my other stuff done I just can't access them until I replace the power brick for my laptop that just died two days ago and my laptop battery is very low on power.
But, anyway this new idea comes from an odd manga I found called, "Evil's Return." The main bit of the idea comes from that but I'm only using the main idea. The rest of the story is going to be my own take on things. Also a warning if you do not like reading stories dealing with different takes on religion then you might not want to read this.
She was dreaming and yet seemed to be fully aware within her dream. She was walking down a hallway that reminded her a lot of a school building. In each room there where students and teachers in the classes. She continued walking past feeling everything was fine. No, odd dreams tonight, but then noticed something. One of the rooms was completely empty with not a person in sight. She walked up and peeked in while asking, "Hello, is anyone here?"
She received no answer and saw no one in the room. She walked in and looked about the room to see different maps of the world on display. It looked like some kind of geography class but for some reason it wasn't in session like the rest of the school. As she turned to leave the door slammed shut and the room drifted away to nothingness. She felt as if she were in a void. Alone in a never ending space with only the things on her person to comfort her. As she tried to move she heard a voice behind her say, "I see you're finally awake. Interesting that fate would bring you to me."
She turned to face the man only to be met with a figure dressed in a monk's robe. The robe hung off the shoulders all the way down to the edge of the floor. The hood was pulled over the face revealing nothing but shadow. The figure moved closer as it continued, "I thought finding you once you awoke would be much harder, but it seems I won't have to look at all."
She started to back up but found that the never ending had suddenly become all to restrictive. As her back hit some kind of barrier she looked back at the figure to see two gleaming sapphire eyes staring at her from under the hood. "Who are you and what do you want," she asked as she tried to back away with no success.
The figure stopped right in front of her and extended it's hand. Long elegant fingers gripping her chin and turned her gaze towards it's eyes. When their eyes met the figure replied, "I am what I am. Once of the Alpha and the Omega and what I want..." it paused as it brought it's head close to her ear, "...Is you."
Lina shot straight up in her bed and quickly looked around as sleep left her mind. She was sweating as she panted because of the weird dream she had just awakened. She wiped away the sweat that was trickling down her brow before saying, "What was that? That's the weirdest dream I've ever had."
She turned and looked at the clock to see that it was four in the morning. She yawned as she got out of bed while thinking, 'Might as well get up. I'm not going back to sleep after that.'
Lina walked into her bathroom and turned on the light. She looked at herself in the mirror and somewhat huffed. "This won't do at all. Today's the first day of my new job and I don't need to look like I lost a fight with an electric socket."
She walked over and turned the shower on before she slipped out of her nightgown and waited for the water to heat up. As she stepped into the warm stream of water she sighed. The dream was slowly going to the back of her mind as she began to wash up for the long day ahead.
Disclaimer: Any characters or ideas from The Slayers do not belong to me. I am not selling this material, just writing for the heck of it as I go.
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