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Monday, 16 January 2012

Who is Andrew? Part 1.

I'm writing this post to describe the journey that Andrew goes on. Of course, it starts at home. Andrew is an only child, adopted from an early age by a kind woman and her quiet husband. He never knew his parents, who had died when he was a toddler.
At the start of the story he has no idea that he is some magical being from another world. It just been his birthday, which is a Saturday, and returns to school on the Monday where we first meet his best friend, Erin. He goes to school, but seems off colour, keeps getting headaches and dizziness.
Then his Adoptive mother dies. Andrew loved his mum, and is devastated when she dies. And whilst curled up in grief he feels something change inside of him. But he doesn't realise exactly what it means.
Then he notices little changes about himself. He can hear better than normal, and one night attacks the wires in his bedroom without thinking to shut up the static noise. He can smell better too, and at one point is overwhelmed by smells. His dreams change, and he finds himself dreaming of things going to happen. One day he predicts a girls death.
Then stuff gets even weirder. When confronted by bullies, he swipes out and scratches across one boys face, like an animal. At a fair he attacks a rabbit. One night he goes into a fit and howls at the moon. the final sign is the voices that start in his head, other peoples thoughts.
But he has a phone number, given to him by an old man who predicted this would happen. They arrange to meet up the next weekend.
But that night the darkness seeks him out. He is confronted with a shadowy beast, and runs. That is when he makes his first full change into a wolf. He runs into the forest then around to his friend Erin's house. When he reaches there he collapses, and changes back. He meets up with Erin and, without revealing the truth, gets her help in finding the old man.
When they reach his door, Andrew falls into a fit, and dreams a new prophecy. Erin pulls him over the doorstep, and with the old man she writes down the prophecy (Its the prophecy in my other post by the way.) Erin finds out the mans name is Remi, and together they wait for Andrew to wake up.
When he does, Andrew talks privately to Remi, and finds out that he is a shape shifter as well (Into a stag), and also his grandfather. They talk about the other world and the prophecy Andrew just made. He decides that he must travel to that world to stop the darkness. As he can't return home, he gathers a few things and readies himself to go. Remi puts a translation spell on him, and then pushes him across the void. When he wakes up he has crossed to the other world.
Unfortunately, Erin has no idea what is going on. She talks to the old man, and though she can't get any straight answers, she agrees to go across and help him, but as the timing is different she is four days behind him.

That's all I'll write right now. That's the end of Part one. I'll post part two tomorrow.

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