Tuesday, March 17, 2009

#41

"Is it just me," Brian asked as he knelt at the edge of his cage, peering down into the ravine below them. "Or is that filling up?"
The rain was constant and heavy, and the two could just barely see each other. There was lightning, but no thunder, and it was all eerily quiet.
Stormy pulled herself over to the side of her cage and looked down. The bottom, once over three hundred feet away, seemed a whole lot closer. "This must be the deepest point in the area... All of this rain is flowing into it." She pointed up above them. "When the lightning flashes, look at the top." When it did, they could see the walls of the ravine were like great waterfalls, emptying thousands of gallons of water down into the ravine.
Brian jerked his head over to look at her. "Do you think...?"
She looked back at him, resigned look on her face. "I do."
He sank back against the bars and looked up at the black sky. "Please, Rainbow. Hurry."

Starlite stood on the rainbow, looking out at a most unwelcoming world. On-X had set down beside him, and Rainbow and Krys surveyed the world uneasily.
"This place?" Krys asked warily.
The world was engulphed in torrential clouds as black and thick as smoke. Lightning streaked all across the planet, making their skin crawl even from their distance.
"This is the place," Rainbow said. "I'm sure I've never come here, and yet I feel as though I've seen this all before."
"Let's go, before we lose our nerve," Krys said, and On-X rose up into the air once more.
They descended through the clouds, and came upon a world that was sure to have once been beautiful.
"This is terrible," Rainbow said as she gazed out at the bare rock of the planet. Without plants and roots, there was nothing to protect the dirt from the rain, and everything loose had been swept away. Water ran like wild horses across the surface, cutting away at the ground until there was ravine after ravine slicing through the planet.

(I won't type up the page I have left..it cuts off mid-sentence. I've still got to figure out what I was about to do here.)

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