Post by spyder on Jan 24, 2007 18:53:05 GMT -5
After starting the TTMNC on my 15th bday, it's only fitting that I start the sequel now (seeing as I'm 16 now XD) It won't show up on the boards for you until tomorrow though (because of the time difference)
I’ve already written a summary for each character so you can’t get straight into it and don’t have to listen to my rambling XD Enjoy!
Summary (In order of Character’s first appearance)
Shaun: After spending 4 years behind bars Shaun Irvine has finally lost what’s left of his mind. He has spent everyday of his sentence hungry for revenge in the worst possible way. This time there are no limits. No one magical, or non magical is safe. This time, Shaun will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if that means summoning the awesome power of the devil…
Rose: After barely surviving her last battle all those years ago, Rose has been living on the determination to fulfil her promise she made to her brother Jeff in his dying moments. But with little idea of where she was going, or what she was looking for Rose is walking through darkness; and the only person who can help her is slowly becoming her worst nightmare. Rose is determined to find the truth to her and Jeff’s past, even if that means turning to an enemy for guidance…
Jake: Once the Clan lost its leader and only source of direction Jake was able to retire temporarily from his dragon duties and settle back into life with his love Rose. But after Rose getting visions of major danger in their future, Jake grows paranoid and fearing for their lives returns to intense dragon training sessions prepares for the absolute worst. Little does he know, this battle becomes a war bigger then he could have ever dared to imagine…
24 year old Shaun Irvine gripped the bars of his cell firmly, slowly losing what was left of his mind. He’d been in the cell for just over a year now and was getting really messed up in the head. He looked it too, his dark hair was messed up and crazy, his cold, brown eyes wore a look more wild and vile then they ever had before.
Ever since failing to kill Jake all those years ago and losing his father he’d been sent to the local Mental Hospital and placed under solitary confinement where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Ever since being released from the Mental Hospital after a three year sentence, he’d spent one year of his seven year conviction in prison, doing his time for charges of manslaughter.
He scratched the wall with a stone for another day he’d spent, the wall had been decorated with the markings of rock and after making another line upon the cement Shaun removed the glove from his Huntsclan uniform which he still wore underneath his prison wear to this very day.
There it was, that familiar mark of a dragon coiling around his right hand, wrist and up his forearm with horns upon his head, resembling not only the Huntsclan but also the devil gene. He stared at it everyday, just reminiscing everything that had ever happened and all his past with the Huntsclan, always with just one thought on his mind; revenge.
Shaun’s P.O.V
13 months. 13 long, never-ending hard months I’ve spent in this hellhole, being treated like some kind of lower form of mankind, some kind of mental. But that’s all going to change, I don’t care what my sentence says or what kind of disease I have, I’m getting out of here and nobody’s going to stop me.
I have grown stronger physically and mentally, and I don’t care if I have to do it as the devil or as a human. I will slay that dragon; I will fulfil my destiny and take my place at the lead of the Huntsclan.
I will get the American Dragon’s blood on my hands and then when he’s out of the way I’ll have no trouble taking care of my sister. She talks about tainted blood in her own family, well when I’m out of here that tainted bloods going to be all over the place.
She killed her master, she killed her father and betrayed the Huntsclan.
But when I get my hands on her she’ll beg to come back but that will never be enough. She turned her back against her destiny and once that Dragon’s dead she’ll have no purpose to live for anyway.
They killed my master, without him the Clan and I have lost all source of direction, until I get out and kill a dragon they’ll have no master. But I will escape soon enough, by now I’m sure Rose and Jake have completely forgotten about me, or have assumed that if I was going to escape I would have done it by now.
But I’ve got news for them I could escape this place anytime I want and I plan to, but not now, when the time is right. I stared out the barred window of the cell staring into the sky, thinking of the satisfaction I’d get of flying out of this place.
I didn’t care about the guards seeing me, it didn’t matter to me. Still looking into the sky, I spoke out loud, out loud as the Huntsman was watching me now.
“Believe me, master,” I said, staring into the golden-red horizon “The American Dragon will die!”
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Short, I know. So, cause it’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood I’m posting two chapters. I’m also really eager to get into it. Plus, it gives you guys an idea of what’s happening with all the characters. So yeah, everyone wins.
BTW, if you have the song “Believe” by Yellowcard you should definitely put that on while you read this chapter because I think it really fits (especially around Jake’s P.O.V) In fact, it really fits this story in general, but anyway… I hope you like it (the chapter, not the song lol)
Rose’s P.O.V[/b]
I suddenly jerked awake from my sleep, gasping and feeling the beads of sweat trickling down my hot, blotchy face. There it was. Accompanying the fear plaguing my soul I felt that familiar burn running through my wrist, right upon my birthmark, the one feeling I'd promised myself I would never forget. The one feeling I had to remind me of everything that had happened and the promise I had made all those years ago.
I sat up breathing heavily and stared around the room, taking in my surroundings looking over the dark, empty, safe apartment bedroom within New York city miles away from where Shaun was being held.
Everything was okay, I knew it yet I couldn’t help it. I was really growing scared of these visions I kept having of Shaun. I had to try and get him out my mind some how but no matter how hard I tried I never could. What if he was going to come back? How could I be ready? I hadn’t fought in over 4 years.
So much had changed since our final battle with the Huntsclan, and everything just happened so fast. I was still trying to move on after Jeff’s death, but I couldn’t seem to let it go. I vowed to never forget him though, and more importantly never forget his wish.
I was going to uncover out past, for my sake and for his.
Despite everything that had happened to us in the past, we; Jake and I both had aged quite well. We’d grown up healthily;
still seemingly as exactly the same was we were four years ago. Not all of the aftermath had been good though, even though our scars and wounds had healed easily, everything that had hit us inside never seemed to go away.
We’d both grown a lot more serious after what happened to Jeff, and after being lucky enough to pull through this, I was thankful for everyday that passed us by and thankful that we were finally together, alone, not fighting for survival, just alive and well.
I suddenly heard a stirring next to me and turned to see Jake slowly waking from his sleep and looking up at me. Within in the few seconds that he stared at me, even through the darkness and the sleep still left in his eyes he could read my emotions and tell that something was wrong.
“Rose,” he said sitting up, once he figured out something was bothering me “Hey, are you okay?” he leant forward and brushed some of my hair out my face, but I didn’t respond.
“You had another dream about him, didn’t you,” Jake asked.
I turned over and at first I thought I was actually going to tell Jake, but when I opened my mouth and tried to find the words, I just couldn’t do it. Everything over the past few weeks had been just too much me. So, instead of being able to give Jake a straight answer, I just broke down into tears.
“Hey it’s okay,” he said to me, wrapping his arms around me and holding me tightly in his arms, trying to soothe me.
“No, it’s not Jake,” I replied, through tears “He wants to kill us, he wants you dead and then he’s coming for me.”
“I know…” he said “He made it very clear to me the last time we were in each other’s way.” He added, opening his shirt, revealing the scar that still ran down his chest where Scythe had cut him.
“He wants you to be afraid,” Jake continued “He wants to break you, and that’s not going to be an easy task. I know you can fight this Rose, you’ve had much worse. You’re so much stronger then him,”
“I can’t,” I said back helplessly “I can’t handle anymore of this. I thought after everything we put ourselves through, after everything that happened, it would be the end, and we wouldn’t have to worry anymore. I couldn’t imagine things getting any worse, but they are. This is living proof…”
Jake’s P.O.V
I held Rose tightly in my arms, rocking gently as I held her, trying to bring whatever comfort she could find let in her.
I knew how hard been hard on her, and I could only imagine what she was going through. It would’ve been unbearable. I couldn’t blame her for breaking down. I mean, seeing Jeff die, seeing her father die (even if he was trying to kill her, he was still her father) it’s not the sort of thing you can just put behind you forever. It takes time.
Everything had been a nightmare for her, ever since Jeff sacrificed himself in order to stop the Huntsman, Shaun had threatened to kill me and then come after Rose.
The strangest thing though, was that Rose had suddenly gotten this insight, a sixth sense almost. Just like the one she had before with Jeff, it was happening all over again but with Shaun now.
She kept having dreams about him (or visions, I’m not sure what you’d call them) it was like he haunted her trying to pick her apart, piece by piece and he wasn’t doing a bad job.
Eventually I pulled slightly away from her, knowing I had to calm
her down and looked into her eyes. It wasn’t often I saw Rose like this, scared.
“Look Rose,” I said, taking her hand as I spoke “I swear as long as I’m breathing in and out, as long as I’m alive and physically able, I will not let him come near you. I couldn’t live with myself if I let something happen to you.” I added, smiling and brushing some of the hairs away from her forehead.
“I know,” she replied, a smile crawling across her face “and I couldn’t bare to see you get hurt either.”
“Now, come on,” I said eventually, after we spent a moment or two staring into each other’s eyes lovingly “stop worrying about Shaun and try to get some sleep.” I leant in and gave her a soft kiss before we both lay back down in each others arms, Rose nestling her head into my chest as we slept.
I held her close to me, so she could hopefully have the peaceful sleep she needed and deserved. But as I lay back, staring upon the bare apartment wall and out the window onto the city stretching before us, I knew in my heart that I had my doubts as well, which was why I’d been secretly training, and training hard as a dragon.
Every day of my life, taking every lesson I learnt seriously. As the American Dragon, I was stronger and a better fighter then I’d ever been before, so that if Shaun ever did make an unexpected attack, I would be ready.
Because even though New York had been safe from the Huntsclan for several years now I knew there was always the chance they could come back at any time, and I didn’t want to seem venerable.
I knew this day would have to come sometime; we would never be safe forever. The Huntsman may be dead but that was just one of the obstacles we had to avoid. Now we still have his son Shaun, half human, half devil.
I thought back and remembered how messed up Shaun had become, when he became Scythe. He took the whole Huntsclan thing in a really weird way, it was like he had a split personality and after all the years suddenly Scythe had completely taken over and there was nothing of Shaun’s caring, sain side left.
He no longer had a heart, a conscious, clear thought, he was just ruthless and callous, and that would usually go away by pulling off that Huntsclan mask. But now it was like these raw furious emotions had been marked upon his insides and after the death of his father and leader ‘Shaun’ had completely gone.
All he cared about now was revenge, he seemed to want it more then life itself. He was always counting up, getting even and never, ever forgetting, but he and Rose would never forget the things he’d done and what he was doing to completely ruin their lives.
He was determined to kill me and then I was gone, he’d go after Rose, I couldn’t let that happen to Rose if I lost her that was it I would surrender myself to Scythe and the Clan and let them cut me up and slay ceremonially if they wanted, but I was not going to let them hurt Rose, but that was the problem. He’s determined to kill me and will not stop at nothing.
I’m determined to protect Rose and would go as far as sacrifice myself, just to protect her. The major thing being, once I’m I can’t protected her anymore and she’d be left alone to have to fend for herself.
I mean, sure Rose is a great fighter and would normally have no problem with this, but she’s going to up against Shaun, someone who’s not only been trained just as hard as her for longer, but someone who also has the power of the devil gene which he chooses to give into whenever he feels it taking over. Man, this is becoming a real problem.
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^ I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it already as a spoiler, but I’ll say it again anyway just as a reminder but Jake has become a lot more serious now. That battle to save Jeff was like when Loa Shi fought the Dark Dragon. It opened his eyes. So yeah, you’re going to see a really changed Jake in this story (hopefully a change for the better)
So, what do you reckon? Worth the wait or do I just take this “building suspense” thing a bit too far? XD
I’ve already written a summary for each character so you can’t get straight into it and don’t have to listen to my rambling XD Enjoy!
Summary (In order of Character’s first appearance)
Shaun: After spending 4 years behind bars Shaun Irvine has finally lost what’s left of his mind. He has spent everyday of his sentence hungry for revenge in the worst possible way. This time there are no limits. No one magical, or non magical is safe. This time, Shaun will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if that means summoning the awesome power of the devil…
Rose: After barely surviving her last battle all those years ago, Rose has been living on the determination to fulfil her promise she made to her brother Jeff in his dying moments. But with little idea of where she was going, or what she was looking for Rose is walking through darkness; and the only person who can help her is slowly becoming her worst nightmare. Rose is determined to find the truth to her and Jeff’s past, even if that means turning to an enemy for guidance…
Jake: Once the Clan lost its leader and only source of direction Jake was able to retire temporarily from his dragon duties and settle back into life with his love Rose. But after Rose getting visions of major danger in their future, Jake grows paranoid and fearing for their lives returns to intense dragon training sessions prepares for the absolute worst. Little does he know, this battle becomes a war bigger then he could have ever dared to imagine…
Chapter 1: Living In The Past
24 year old Shaun Irvine gripped the bars of his cell firmly, slowly losing what was left of his mind. He’d been in the cell for just over a year now and was getting really messed up in the head. He looked it too, his dark hair was messed up and crazy, his cold, brown eyes wore a look more wild and vile then they ever had before.
Ever since failing to kill Jake all those years ago and losing his father he’d been sent to the local Mental Hospital and placed under solitary confinement where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Ever since being released from the Mental Hospital after a three year sentence, he’d spent one year of his seven year conviction in prison, doing his time for charges of manslaughter.
He scratched the wall with a stone for another day he’d spent, the wall had been decorated with the markings of rock and after making another line upon the cement Shaun removed the glove from his Huntsclan uniform which he still wore underneath his prison wear to this very day.
There it was, that familiar mark of a dragon coiling around his right hand, wrist and up his forearm with horns upon his head, resembling not only the Huntsclan but also the devil gene. He stared at it everyday, just reminiscing everything that had ever happened and all his past with the Huntsclan, always with just one thought on his mind; revenge.
Shaun’s P.O.V
13 months. 13 long, never-ending hard months I’ve spent in this hellhole, being treated like some kind of lower form of mankind, some kind of mental. But that’s all going to change, I don’t care what my sentence says or what kind of disease I have, I’m getting out of here and nobody’s going to stop me.
I have grown stronger physically and mentally, and I don’t care if I have to do it as the devil or as a human. I will slay that dragon; I will fulfil my destiny and take my place at the lead of the Huntsclan.
I will get the American Dragon’s blood on my hands and then when he’s out of the way I’ll have no trouble taking care of my sister. She talks about tainted blood in her own family, well when I’m out of here that tainted bloods going to be all over the place.
She killed her master, she killed her father and betrayed the Huntsclan.
But when I get my hands on her she’ll beg to come back but that will never be enough. She turned her back against her destiny and once that Dragon’s dead she’ll have no purpose to live for anyway.
They killed my master, without him the Clan and I have lost all source of direction, until I get out and kill a dragon they’ll have no master. But I will escape soon enough, by now I’m sure Rose and Jake have completely forgotten about me, or have assumed that if I was going to escape I would have done it by now.
But I’ve got news for them I could escape this place anytime I want and I plan to, but not now, when the time is right. I stared out the barred window of the cell staring into the sky, thinking of the satisfaction I’d get of flying out of this place.
I didn’t care about the guards seeing me, it didn’t matter to me. Still looking into the sky, I spoke out loud, out loud as the Huntsman was watching me now.
“Believe me, master,” I said, staring into the golden-red horizon “The American Dragon will die!”
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Short, I know. So, cause it’s my birthday and I’m in a good mood I’m posting two chapters. I’m also really eager to get into it. Plus, it gives you guys an idea of what’s happening with all the characters. So yeah, everyone wins.
BTW, if you have the song “Believe” by Yellowcard you should definitely put that on while you read this chapter because I think it really fits (especially around Jake’s P.O.V) In fact, it really fits this story in general, but anyway… I hope you like it (the chapter, not the song lol)
Chapter 2: When You Thought It Was All Over
Rose’s P.O.V[/b]
I suddenly jerked awake from my sleep, gasping and feeling the beads of sweat trickling down my hot, blotchy face. There it was. Accompanying the fear plaguing my soul I felt that familiar burn running through my wrist, right upon my birthmark, the one feeling I'd promised myself I would never forget. The one feeling I had to remind me of everything that had happened and the promise I had made all those years ago.
I sat up breathing heavily and stared around the room, taking in my surroundings looking over the dark, empty, safe apartment bedroom within New York city miles away from where Shaun was being held.
Everything was okay, I knew it yet I couldn’t help it. I was really growing scared of these visions I kept having of Shaun. I had to try and get him out my mind some how but no matter how hard I tried I never could. What if he was going to come back? How could I be ready? I hadn’t fought in over 4 years.
So much had changed since our final battle with the Huntsclan, and everything just happened so fast. I was still trying to move on after Jeff’s death, but I couldn’t seem to let it go. I vowed to never forget him though, and more importantly never forget his wish.
I was going to uncover out past, for my sake and for his.
Despite everything that had happened to us in the past, we; Jake and I both had aged quite well. We’d grown up healthily;
still seemingly as exactly the same was we were four years ago. Not all of the aftermath had been good though, even though our scars and wounds had healed easily, everything that had hit us inside never seemed to go away.
We’d both grown a lot more serious after what happened to Jeff, and after being lucky enough to pull through this, I was thankful for everyday that passed us by and thankful that we were finally together, alone, not fighting for survival, just alive and well.
I suddenly heard a stirring next to me and turned to see Jake slowly waking from his sleep and looking up at me. Within in the few seconds that he stared at me, even through the darkness and the sleep still left in his eyes he could read my emotions and tell that something was wrong.
“Rose,” he said sitting up, once he figured out something was bothering me “Hey, are you okay?” he leant forward and brushed some of my hair out my face, but I didn’t respond.
“You had another dream about him, didn’t you,” Jake asked.
I turned over and at first I thought I was actually going to tell Jake, but when I opened my mouth and tried to find the words, I just couldn’t do it. Everything over the past few weeks had been just too much me. So, instead of being able to give Jake a straight answer, I just broke down into tears.
“Hey it’s okay,” he said to me, wrapping his arms around me and holding me tightly in his arms, trying to soothe me.
“No, it’s not Jake,” I replied, through tears “He wants to kill us, he wants you dead and then he’s coming for me.”
“I know…” he said “He made it very clear to me the last time we were in each other’s way.” He added, opening his shirt, revealing the scar that still ran down his chest where Scythe had cut him.
“He wants you to be afraid,” Jake continued “He wants to break you, and that’s not going to be an easy task. I know you can fight this Rose, you’ve had much worse. You’re so much stronger then him,”
“I can’t,” I said back helplessly “I can’t handle anymore of this. I thought after everything we put ourselves through, after everything that happened, it would be the end, and we wouldn’t have to worry anymore. I couldn’t imagine things getting any worse, but they are. This is living proof…”
Jake’s P.O.V
I held Rose tightly in my arms, rocking gently as I held her, trying to bring whatever comfort she could find let in her.
I knew how hard been hard on her, and I could only imagine what she was going through. It would’ve been unbearable. I couldn’t blame her for breaking down. I mean, seeing Jeff die, seeing her father die (even if he was trying to kill her, he was still her father) it’s not the sort of thing you can just put behind you forever. It takes time.
Everything had been a nightmare for her, ever since Jeff sacrificed himself in order to stop the Huntsman, Shaun had threatened to kill me and then come after Rose.
The strangest thing though, was that Rose had suddenly gotten this insight, a sixth sense almost. Just like the one she had before with Jeff, it was happening all over again but with Shaun now.
She kept having dreams about him (or visions, I’m not sure what you’d call them) it was like he haunted her trying to pick her apart, piece by piece and he wasn’t doing a bad job.
Eventually I pulled slightly away from her, knowing I had to calm
her down and looked into her eyes. It wasn’t often I saw Rose like this, scared.
“Look Rose,” I said, taking her hand as I spoke “I swear as long as I’m breathing in and out, as long as I’m alive and physically able, I will not let him come near you. I couldn’t live with myself if I let something happen to you.” I added, smiling and brushing some of the hairs away from her forehead.
“I know,” she replied, a smile crawling across her face “and I couldn’t bare to see you get hurt either.”
“Now, come on,” I said eventually, after we spent a moment or two staring into each other’s eyes lovingly “stop worrying about Shaun and try to get some sleep.” I leant in and gave her a soft kiss before we both lay back down in each others arms, Rose nestling her head into my chest as we slept.
I held her close to me, so she could hopefully have the peaceful sleep she needed and deserved. But as I lay back, staring upon the bare apartment wall and out the window onto the city stretching before us, I knew in my heart that I had my doubts as well, which was why I’d been secretly training, and training hard as a dragon.
Every day of my life, taking every lesson I learnt seriously. As the American Dragon, I was stronger and a better fighter then I’d ever been before, so that if Shaun ever did make an unexpected attack, I would be ready.
Because even though New York had been safe from the Huntsclan for several years now I knew there was always the chance they could come back at any time, and I didn’t want to seem venerable.
I knew this day would have to come sometime; we would never be safe forever. The Huntsman may be dead but that was just one of the obstacles we had to avoid. Now we still have his son Shaun, half human, half devil.
I thought back and remembered how messed up Shaun had become, when he became Scythe. He took the whole Huntsclan thing in a really weird way, it was like he had a split personality and after all the years suddenly Scythe had completely taken over and there was nothing of Shaun’s caring, sain side left.
He no longer had a heart, a conscious, clear thought, he was just ruthless and callous, and that would usually go away by pulling off that Huntsclan mask. But now it was like these raw furious emotions had been marked upon his insides and after the death of his father and leader ‘Shaun’ had completely gone.
All he cared about now was revenge, he seemed to want it more then life itself. He was always counting up, getting even and never, ever forgetting, but he and Rose would never forget the things he’d done and what he was doing to completely ruin their lives.
He was determined to kill me and then I was gone, he’d go after Rose, I couldn’t let that happen to Rose if I lost her that was it I would surrender myself to Scythe and the Clan and let them cut me up and slay ceremonially if they wanted, but I was not going to let them hurt Rose, but that was the problem. He’s determined to kill me and will not stop at nothing.
I’m determined to protect Rose and would go as far as sacrifice myself, just to protect her. The major thing being, once I’m I can’t protected her anymore and she’d be left alone to have to fend for herself.
I mean, sure Rose is a great fighter and would normally have no problem with this, but she’s going to up against Shaun, someone who’s not only been trained just as hard as her for longer, but someone who also has the power of the devil gene which he chooses to give into whenever he feels it taking over. Man, this is becoming a real problem.
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^ I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it already as a spoiler, but I’ll say it again anyway just as a reminder but Jake has become a lot more serious now. That battle to save Jeff was like when Loa Shi fought the Dark Dragon. It opened his eyes. So yeah, you’re going to see a really changed Jake in this story (hopefully a change for the better)
So, what do you reckon? Worth the wait or do I just take this “building suspense” thing a bit too far? XD