Sincerely, Your Shadow #6

The shadow sat on the edge of the pond and said, "Might as well start from the beginning.  You are a shadow, like me, and shadows help protect humans from dark threats.  The reason why your
"parents" took you was for two reasons.  First, they knew you were a very valuable tool in their plans, and second, to draw me to you and eventually capture me too."

"Me?" I asked.  "I wish!  I've been the weirdest kid in my entire school.  How could I important?"

She sighed, "We're what we call the Guardians of the Willow.  We must protect the Willow you used to enter this world.  The Willow allows us to stay connected to the human world.  And since we are born when a human is born, and die when they die, we won't be able to survive if the Willow is destroyed, which is exactly what your keepers want to do.  And with us gone, the human race will live in fiery pain and agony for all eternity."

"That was a great joke!   I almost believed it!" I tried to laugh.  However, she did not laugh, and I assumed it was not a joke.  "Darn it!" I whispered.

"Excuse me?" she asked.

"Oh, um... nothing!  When do we get started?"

"Now."

Sincerely, Your Shadow #5

Fear swept over me.  I tore its freezing hand off me and ran back across the bridge.  But before I could make it across, it vanished from under my feet.  I fell in the water.  I looked back and there it was following me in.  I was stuck in this shadowy place and I couldn't get out.

"Do not fear me," said the shadow.  "I mean only to protect you."

I slowly backed away.

"You're safer here than you are at home," it said again.

I didn't say a word.

"It's really hard to believe you're one of us, sister," she said.

If it had been like in the movies, I would have certainly fainted.  Yet, curiosity overcame my strong desire to black out.

"How could I be one of you.  I mean... well, I'm human and you're... not.  Anyway, we couldn't be sisters because we look nothing alike, right?"

She smiled, "Look again."

She removed her black shawl that gave her the impression of a shadow.  I observed her features.  Long black hair, pale white skin, almost transparent.

"Fine, we do look similar, but I'm not transparent like you," I said.

She looked at me with defiant eyes.  I looked down at myself and sure enough, I was transparent, like her.

"What did you do to me?" I screamed at her.

Sincerely, Your Shadow #4

I didn’t really have a choice; If my parents weren’t my parents, and if I can’t tell Father about my shadow… I just had to find out.  So I left that night. 

I dressed up and left the house more quietly than a mouse. 

Nothing looked really magical about the willow or pond, but I still went under the willow tree’s coat of leaves and incanted, “Crystal clear path, appear.”

A bridge appeared across the water.  It didn’t look sturdy since it looked like it composed of evaporated water and fog.  On the other end of the bridge stood a figure, most likely my shadow.  So I walked on.

To my surprise, the bridge was quite strong.  Nevertheless, I hurried across, not wanting to take an unexpected bath.  As I arrived across, I tripped on a pile of weeds.  Before I could hit the ground, a cold hand caught me.  I looked to see who my savior was, a practically black transparent girl.  It looked like a silhouette if you took one quick look, but if you looked really closely, you could see some human-like features.

“I am Your Shadow.” 

Ariana (From The Diary of Ariana Thomson) #2

The next spot the family will be visiting is indeed London. (I'll write another story for that one to tell you how it goes! Hopefully, no more magic rings!!!) With bustling streets and people 24/7, lots of stuff can happen there, right? I've also been yearning to visit Africa's small villages. Rumor has it that the people have quite some stories to tell and a really interesting past being the earliest civilization. Anyway, we're leaving in a few days! Our house is already getting busy with the suitcases and extra harmonicas (Father won a lifetime supply of harmonicas and insists we take some with us. So much for traveling light!)

 Sincerely, Ariana Thomson

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