Friday, April 27, 2012

A taste of the story

I'm working on the first and second books at the moment, as they compliment each other. So you guys don't get bored, here's the skeleton I've been working on. Writing will get faster once I finish making this part streamline with my overview plot. Yes, the main character's name is Robert, and no, that's not me. I chose that name a long time ago because I though it was a good werewolf name :)   (btw, he's a brunet)
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Part one - Mortal life

Robert wakes in his makeshift sleeping spot in a broken river water pipe that's frozen over. He wakes the two children (boy and girl) that are cuddled next to him under the cloak.

He leads them through small holes in walls and over barricades to evade the Vyreh.

Unfortunately a single Vyreh notices them, and when he closes in Robert lights a bottle of fluid with some flint, and sets the ground aflame.

The Vyreh can't make them out from the heat of the flames (thermal vision), and they escape.

When they gets to a out of the way house, he knocks out a code, and the children are let in. The parent thanks him, and Robert sneaks into an alleyway.

Uncovering his face, Robert walks about like a normal person (explain the feeding times). He goes to check the Growing Houses. When an irritable Vyreh asks him what he's doing there, Robert fakes a story that his family is starving, and wonders if there is anymore left over food. The Vyreh throws him out saying that there never is any extra food. Done with checking where the food shipping roots are and the current status of the crops, Robert leaves.

Robert later makes it to the Resistance hideout (4th residential district).
(Describe how he's a wandering Resistance member, and is still a newer recruit.)

Lynn finds him and congratulates him when he tells her what he was doing. He simply replies it's the best he can do to help (explain how he is like the adopted child of Lynn, and how he lives with her and her daughter). He gives her the info he found in the growing houses. He goes to the store room to gather another vial of fire oil, nodding his greetings toward Lynn's daughter Valarie on his way in (Explain his relationship with her, and how they almost never talk). Robert then checks the requests that find their way to the Resistance headquarters. Finding none that require rescue or disappearance (his specialties), he relaxes in the den a bit.

Lynn later tells him they are heading home. They leave the building together, Robert, Lynn and Valarie. They slip through a door in a nearby alleyway that's near the district divider wall, pull back a rug and lift up some fake floorboards, and travel underneath the “impassable” wall of stone. Once out, they travel over a few buildings, enter, and then open a trapdoor under another rug, where their quarters are hidden.

Inside, it's a converted wine cellar, with a central room and two beds in the corner that are half concealed by drapes. There's a stove and a pipe with fount, as well as common food products like peas, onions, and salted meat. They burn a coal burner for heat, but it's still a cold area, and has many blankets. Robert sleeps in the small side 'room', while Valarie and Lynn sleep in the other bed. (explain how they met Robert). He thinks about how much he loves his adopted family, before sleeping.

The following morning, The three are woken by the sound of heavy wing beats. Fearing they have been found, or are about to be so, they prepare for for a dash out of the hiding area, and wait for many long minutes. The wing beats grow louder, and the sounds of screaming reach them. Lynn has Valarie stay in the cellar, and she and Robert cautiously leave.

People are running about in a panic. Vyreh are diving out of the sky and killing people on sight. Robert and Lynn engage single Vyreh, burning them with their weapons. They Robert notices that if there are any children running away, the Vyreh grab them and take them away without causing harm. He and Lynn fight until no more Vyreh are in the area. There are mutilated bodies everywhere. Valarie, who dares leave the house, retches at what she had and is now seeing. The Lynn decides that they should go to the hideout to assess the damage better and to learn why this happened.

Near their hideout, they see a young girl (short, brunet) lying “dead” in an opening. Valarie instantly recognizes her as her friend, and runs toward her without thought. (a man cowering in the shadows stutters to the others that it's a trap!) Valarie is relieved to find that her friend is only unconscious. When she turns to tell the others, her heart skips a beat as she sees a huge Vyreh crouched on a rooftop they passed, looking directly at her. It launches toward her just as Lynn and Robert get to her. Lynn is thrown aside like a rag doll, and Robert, who manages to parry a few blows of it's sword, is stabbed directly through the chest, a fatal wound. Valarie screams in disbelief, and it's the last thing that Robert hears as he falls.

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Deep within the black fortress of spires that make up Drekam's home, the grand general walks into a black-fog filled room occupied with a dark evil presences, and the chanting of many warlocks. He's holding the bound little Valarie many feet in the air. He tells his lord that the last children have been rounded up and that 'this' child has been confirmed at the daughter of the resistance. Nonchalantly Drekam says he has enough children in storage, kill her as slowly and painfully as possible, he no longer cares about information that she may know. As a scrawny Vyreh comes to take her away, Drekam asks the general to stay for the ritual, who in turn replies that he would never miss it, he's awaited this day for hundreds of years. When Valarie is dragged out she's shaking from the extremely evil presence that room had held. The old Vyreh laughs at her condition, and then tells her that the Pit of Hell is a place Drekam sends his most 'special guests', and that he will love hearing her scream. He throws her in a normal cell for now so that they can set up the pit. Valarie is left to cry in her cell. Suddenly she hears a demonic chanting coming from everywhere and nowhere at once. The shadows in the room gain life of their own, and the sky darkens. The presence of evil is so strong that nausea creeps up in her again, and she wails, her body convulsing.


Part two – New Destinies

Robert jolts awake, and looks wildly around for the others. He finds himself in an unknown area, a lush but dark forest. A voice calls to him, a gentle female voice. It's coming from a large glowing wolf. The wolf woman tells him that she is Mojala, guardian of all nature. She tells him that she likes him, and has a mission for a boy like him. Robert asks what the guardian of nature would want with him, so she tells him that humanity is nature too, and it's in danger. She proceeds to tell him that she wants him to get the people free of Dolorum and Ga-ul. Robert gets upset, he tells her that for one, he's dead, and two, he'd be killed anyways trying to do that. Mojala's manner becomes a bit darker, she tells him that "Robert is dead", and what must rise from his place is a much more powerful warrior, one capable of defying a god, she will aid him in that. She asks him if he is willing so sacrifice his way of life to save not only his family, but all of the humans here. Robert agrees. The wolf leaps at him, landing on top of him and biting at his neck. Robert briefly struggles, and then blacks out.

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