Hollowed Visions

Hollowed Visions Chapter 1
By Lady Valkyria Evermyst

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Here, under the green leaves,
Here, I see all that will ever be.
Here, I see the difference of the world.
Here, I can always be me.

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The forest of Midian had been for a long time returned to its peace after the long battle between the elves and the dark elves.
Their Disagreement had finally been settled and all was well.

Many years had passed since then. But still the forest still wore scares after the fierce battle which had taken place.

The dark elves had returned to their place in the mountains and were rarly seen.
Though once in a while they could been seen near the water fall by the edge of the mountain.

Through out Memmingen, all types of races could be found but only in the area around Midian forest the elves could be found.

But this story has nothing to do with the past, ratter the present. Welcome to the land of Memmingen.

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Chapter 1


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Footsteps, quiet footsteps, sneaking across the forest grass.
Silence, only silence, there amongst the tall brown trees.
Birds singing there upon the light blue sky.
Even as magical as it all may seem, darkness is still there, lurking and waiting.
But yet, all is silent, only the birds are here.

The Birds and the silence.

Yet, the footsteps, the silent footsteps, moving closer and closer.
Leather, wrapped around the grey skin, touching the green grass.
The water from the grass, sparkling on the wet leather in the sun.
The deep red eyes, piercing through the deep forest.
Like fire gone wild.

Silence, yet still silence....

The vision, catching the glimps of a moving object.

More silence...

Waiting....
Watching....


There, the sound, Everywhere.
Not alone anymore.
Something there.
Waiting.
Just like her.


Then it all goes silent.
She waits for something to move. but nothing.
Only silence.


Is it gone? Had it left?
Is she alone once more?


The hardness hit her body like a rock, throwing her down.
The cold wet grass rubbing against her face
She knew she was defeated.


"How can you expect to learn anything when I get you every time?" The voice, harsh and cold, but still warm and loving.
"Get off me!" she shreiked, the pressure on her back pushing harder.
"You have to do better than that to get me off, Loreley." the voice laughed above her. She hissed in her own little anger.
"Get off me, mom. I've had enough for one day." she growled, a nasty glow like an animal ready to attack.
She flipped her mother over on her back, Baring her teeth as she growled.

"Who didn't learn anything, mother?" Loreley's eyes shimmered with red light as the gentle breeze ran over her back, playing along it like foxes playing on the grassy fields on a warm summer day. Shivers ran up her spin, giving her the chills.


"You can not learn that easily, Loreley. This takes training and more training. one day you will thank me for this." Dion wore a hidden smirk upon her lips as her daughter stared down into the cold blue eyes of her mother.

The silence came back and swirled around them like an invicible barrier.
The ice cold shivers creeped over her, neaking,lurking in the deepts of her soul.
Her vision flashed, the deep white light devovering her deep within it.
Her body was spinning, like a rush from eating a fly agaric.
Nauseasness filled her, her body felt like it was being torn appart by many hooks.

As if on the brick of ripping apart in two.


She screamed, but no voice was heared, her body fell over, the pain running up her spin.
Like millions of small needles piercing her skin.
Another scream, but just the horrible Silence.


She twisted in torture, her mind half awake, half asleep. Though this was how she felt.
Her mind screamed by it's own as the torture kept going.


She arched her back as another scream silently escaped her lips.
She was alone in the empty whiteness.

She couldn't escape this time.
She was alone there, in the bright light which blinded her vision.


She cried, her voice echoing within her head.
Her eyes started to focus again.
The whiteness that was there for only a second ago was now replaced with the raging light of burning fire, Circled around her as the flames grew higher.


"No!" She screamed out in a high pitch but no one was there to answer her reply.
Her vision rised with the rising flames.
The heat rised as well and she could feel the warm burning against her light grey skin.


She felt her body burning, the pain, the deep burning pain.
She hated it, it made her want to scream on top of her loungs.


Then, Silence, the deep silence.
The hurting silence which made itself crawl deep under her light grey skin.
Her vision faded once more as if a blindfold had been removed from her deep red eyes.


Icy cold stairing back into her red.
It was gone now.
Just the chills remained.
Creeping across her skin like millions of ants.


"Loreley? What happened?" The voice, somehow changed, scanning in to see the damage which had been caused. Yet it all seemed like a bad dream.
A Bad dream that never wanted to let go of her.

There, in the back of her mind, it held on to her.

Like so many times before.
She shivered as she sat there, the eyes still watching her, concerned and worried.


"I'm okay," She whispered under her heavy breath.
But the eyes, stairing deep into her soul.
"Let me be, mom. I'll be okay." Dion's eyes shimmered as she watched her daughter's face.
Loreley ignored her, stumbling up on her trembling feet.
The earth, as if moving below her, sent her straight back down on the ground.
As if a strong connection tied her back down.


Her mother, filled with fear of what was going on, rushed to her side.
Loreley frowned, her eyes turning bright red.


"Just let me be,mother!" She commanded with a harsh tone as she leaped up of the ground.
The ground shivered beneath her as her boot's soft leather devided the forest ground below.


She listens to her own footsteps as her feet lead her through the Midian forest.
She knew her kind wasn't warmy greeted in this parts of the land.
But at the time being, she couldn't care less.


The silence was gone, now she could clearly hear the birds singing ontop of the treetops.
A silent sigh escaped her lips as her eyes slowly closed.
She didn't understand what was going on.
It had always been that way.

For as long as she could remember.

She didn't really remember much of her childhood.
It had just been her and her mother.
Her Father, Gorain had died during her first years in life.
She didn't really remember anything about him.
Just his smile and his eyes.
Often she still visited his grave.
She missed him dearly,
Even when the fact was that she really never had get to know him.


She lowered her head in depression.
The gentle breeze played along the light green grass,
rushing through her black and red hair like a gentle lover's hand.
Her braid waving like a panter's tail behind her.

She wished that she was home.
Wishing that she was out of danger from the Elves in Midian.


It so often felt as if the war never really had ended so many years ago.
The scars still so visable and bleeding in the earth.
She hated the sight of it.
It tormented her soul.
But what could she do to the things done long ago?


It hurt deep within her to know that her mother has been a part of the huge battle.

How could she have?
How could she fight the town where she once lived?


She didn't understand how such a thing could even be possible.
The people that once took her into their village and let her live there among them.
She pushed the thoughts away with her, no use annoying herself cos of it now.


The sun was setting over Mount Desori.
Soon, The whole forest would be dark.
And she left alone there in it.
She could see the gates far away, shining by the redish burning flames.
Soon, she would be home.


The breaking of fallen branches were heard behind her.
Her eyes searched through the dark forest.
But it was too dark for her eyes to see what hidden in the darkness.
Her feet kept on moving, though her body felt frozen.
All was quiet again as she stopped to listen.


But nothing.....


Soon she would be safe.
She worried that maybe, maybe an elf had followed her.
She knew how hated the darkelves were in Midian.
All because of her mother and her lust for power.


"It's all your faulth..." She thought to herself as she stepped closer and closer to the gates of Dersoni.
Nothing could hurt her there.
There, again, the breaking of branches on the forest ground.


Close, so very close.
She could feel it now.
And she knew someone was watching her.

The shivers ran up her spin,
She wanted to turn but she was too afraid to do so.


With a shivering voice, she finally managed to say:
"Anyone there?" Her voice trembled in fear.
Unknowing of what was lurking behind her back.


But not a voice was heard.
She gave out a silent sigh.
Maybe she was overracting.
Maybe nothing was there at all.


But her thoughts were interuped as another noice was heard behind her.
Her fear caught the grip of her.
And before She knew it, her feet was carrying her fast across the wet grass.
Her heart beat beating hard in her chest by every passing step.
Just a little further and she would be home.
They couldn't take her there.


But then, something or someone attacked her from behind.
Her body crashed against the cold, wet grass as an devilish laugh rang in her ears.
She closed her eyes, too afraid to even look.
Too afraid to know what was going to happen to her.


Everything was silent, all she could hear was her own breath.
She felt the weight of someone stradling her back,
a warm breath breathing on her neck
Before, she felt strands of hair tickling her face.


"I gotcha" A voice gently whispered in her ear.
That voice.....
So familiar, she knew that voice so well.
It wasn't her mother which she had left behind in the forest.


"Rose, Get offf me, I've had enough of being thrown to the ground in one day."
She barked as she tried pushing herself up from the wet ground.
She felt the weight on her back letting go and disappearing.
She crawled up on her feet, turning to see a blue headed darkelf sitting on her knees behind her.


"Mommy giving you a hard time, Loreley?" The blue-head said as a soft laugh escaped her lips.
Loreley groaned as she watched her sitting there.
Her long light blue hair waving in the evening breeze as she wore a grin upon her face.
Rose's green eyes felt as if they pierced right through her and saw exactly what was going on in her mind.


"Oh shut up, Rose. I wish she'd stop bothering me with that darn training" Loreley muttered while crossing her arms across her chest.


"Oh, please, Loreley. At least you know your mom. I don't even know who my parents were." All the sudden her face was serious.
As if everything she had thought about and how she had surprised Loreley was gone.


Rose had grown up as an orphan.
Somehow the little girl had managed to survive in a cave on the lower base of Mount Dersoni.
The Villagers had found her many years after her parents had been slaughtered.
Apperantly, it had all happened before the eyes of the young girl.
For many years she didn't speak, just hiding away from the sight of everyone else.
The town's elder thought she was going to die for sure.
She rarly ate, never really went outside her house and walk around the Village.


Not until she turned 9, she suddenly started speaking again.
The Town elder was surpised that she even made it so far alive.
She never really talked about what had happened with her family.
So, It remained a mystery for them all.
And Rose, herself as well.
People mostly stepped out of her way when meeting her.


Loreley guess that was one of the reasons why they were such good friends.
She knew how it felt to be different and that people didn't do anything else but mock her for being so.


Loreley's case was a totally different.
She was an outsider cos of the fact that her father was a human.
People didn't accept halfbreeds very much in the village.
She was always alone, just like Rose.
The only one that was ever close to her, was Dion.


She hated the world,
she hated the fact that her father was dead.
It didn't even help much that he had been a human.
A human, of all things.
At least her mother could have chosen something close to her own race.
The darkelves of Dersoni wanted an clean race,
and Loreley was the pest in their Village.
The filthy rat that had snuck into their house and filled their lives with sickness.


Loreley sighed as she looked upon her friend.
"I'm sorry, Rose. I didn't mean it like that. I-It's just that my mom has been a real pain in the ass when it comes to this training. she yells at me if I don't do it right."
The look on Rose's face, made it seem as she suddenly had regreeted saying what she said.


"Don't, Loreley. I know how your mom is. And I know how you blame her for allot of things in your life," she muttered, her head lowered so Loreley could not see her eyes.


Loreley looked up, her eyes trying to focus as she saw a tall figure standing behind her friend.
This time, she was sure that something was there to take them.
In a second, she grabbed Rose's hand, pulling her friend suddenly off the ground and on her feet.


"Common!" Her voice echoed through the trees.
The sound of running footsteps could be heard as the two elven girls ran towards the gate of mount Dersoni.
The shadow right in their heels.


The gate was near, only a few feet away.
No elf would get her in Dersoni.


They could make it, she felt it inside her.
She stumbled, making them both tumble under the gate of Mount Dersoni.
Rose crashed on top of her, delievering a blow to her stomach.
She gasped for air as she saw the figure standing infront of the gate in the moonlight.
It was a male elf, his eyes watching them laying there on the rocky ground.
She watched him, his light blond hair waving infront of his blue eyes.
He groaned as he disappeared into the darkness.


Loreley sighned in relife.
She was safe now, and so was Rose.


Rose pushed herself up,
the knockles on her hands turning light grey as she held herself up,
inches from loreley's body.
Rose looked up at her, her face just inches away from her own.


Loreley could feel her cheeks getting warmer,
feeling a bit strange having her friend this close to her.


She closed her eyes as she whispered;
"Can you please get off me?"


"Why? Does it make you uncomfertable?" Rose's face shinned in the moonlight.
She hoped that Rose didn't see her blushing.
She'd never been this close to her before and it felt a bit strange.


Rose were gazing into her eyes, as if searching for some answers.
She saw her smiling, and somehow she questioned herself, why?


Rose dropped as the sound of movement in the bushes were heard.
Her body crashing down upon Loreley's.
She felt Rose shivering in fear.
Her face hidden by her neck, and she felt Rose's warm breath breathing upon her.


Rose looked up, looking straight into Loreley's eyes.
The warmth in her cheeks returned.
Rose crawled up to her, her nose gently rubbing against hers.


"Rose..." Rose's finger stopped her words with it's barracade.
The soft texture of her fingertip gently resting against her lip.


"Shhhh..." Loreley could feel her warm breath upon her face.
She watched her face, peaceful she did seem.
Slowly, her eyes closed and a smile appeared on her lips.
But a bit of fear caught her as she noticed Rose leaning down to her.
And before she could even move, She felt Rose's warm lips against her own.


At first, she tried struggeling, but it was of no use.
Her body started to relax, and before she even realised what she was doing,
She found herself kissing her back.


But as suddenly as it all had started, it ended as someone grabbed Loreley by her braid.
Her head jerked to see the person that has grabbed her attention.
Icey cold eyes was stairing back into hers,
It was no other than Dion standing above her,
in her hand, she held her daughter's braid.


"What the hell are you doing?" Dion' growled as she watched her daughter's face turn into
an ashamed look.
"M-Mom...I-I..." She stuttered as she tried to get Rose off her.
Rose noticed that the wisest thing to do was move away from her at the current time.


"You're coming with me back to the Village at once, Loreley. So get your butt of the ground and move this instant!" Dion commanded as she pulled her by her braid.
Loreley growled in a bit of pain by the feeling of her hair getting pulled.
She stumbled on to her feet, looking once at Rose before she got pulled away by her mother.


"Mo-ooom!!! Is this really nessusarry?!" She yelled as her mother which didn't really seem to bother with what her daughter was yapping about.
Dion lowered her head as she walked towards their village.
"What was going on back there, Loreley?" Loreley was silent, She didn't want to answer her question.
She wasn't really sure herself what had happened.
It just felt as it just had happened without her realizing it.


"I'm not sure, Mom..." She muttered in her own little whispering voice.
Dion frown and turned to her, her eyes looking deep within her daughter's.
"Do not think I am a fool, Loreley. I saw what was going on!"
Frustration rushed over her, it wasn't her faulth.
Dion glared at her youngster and frowned in anger.
The young darkelf stood with her head held low and her vision caught on the rocky ground beneath her.


"I do not have time for your childish games, Loreley. I got bigger fish to fry, than you." her mother muttered as she began to walk up the mountain side again.
Loreley stood like a frozen figure in the dark, her heartbeat slowly dropping to a lower level.
Dion turned to see the flamy aura rising from her daughter's shoulders.
She Watched in fright as the flames grew taller and she wondered to herself, what was going on.


"Loreley?" the dark-haired woman whispered, her eyes still caught by the flames still rising from her young daugter
Horror knocked her off her feet as her youngster opened her eyes, flamy red eyes was looking straight back into hers.


"Get off my back, Mother!" The flames swallowed her like an easy pray as she screamed ontop of her loungs. Her body crashed upon the rocky surface with a loud bang.


"LORELEY!" The dark-haired woman screamed as she rushed to her daughter's side.
She flipped her over, only to see that her youngster laid unconsius on the mountain path.


"...Loreley..." A soft whisper said in the darkness. Dion's hand gently rushing through the hair of her daughter.
She seemed so peaceful were she was lying.
Her breath, barly there,
Dion's face fadede to worries as she looked upon her daughter's young face.


"Loreley...."


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End of Chapter 1

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