PROMPT:

I awoke to the sound of someone pounding on my door, and I shook my head as I looked through the corner of the curtains at the striking orange sky, guessing what time it was. It was then that I realized that wasn't sunrise - those were flames.

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CHARACTER: The Mask

A serial killer who goes by "The Mask."

His greatest strength is his powers of observation. He stalks someone for a year, then on New Year's Eve he murders them and hides the body. He then impersonates his victim for the next year (or until he gets bored living their life) all the while stalking his next kill. When he moves on, his last victim's family and friends find out about the murder- a year after it happened. As a younger man he made a lot of mistakes, so he thinks that doing this gives him second chances at life.

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CHARACTER: whisper

Whisper: (Serial killer concept)

She is quite the ball of screwed up. Due to abuse as a child, she has a split personality, Whisper being her dark side that deals with the dregs of this world, her positive half would never be seen as a possible pairing with Whisper. The way she gained the name is that she never speaks above a whisper. Favorite methods of death are modified children's toys. Toy planes that shoot real bullets, exploding dolls, a cricket bat she always has on her...you get the idea.

best part, Whisper knows about her alter, but the positive side does not know about Whisper.

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CHARACTERS: Pack of Eve's wolf-shifter

Male Alpha: 

• Pure blood, leader.
• Passed from son to son. Has been challenged 3x for leadership, won all. Had to kill his own father to gain his position. 
• Fierce & very protective. 
• Recently moved his pack to get away from new pack that was doing too much damage & not enough subtlety.

Female Alpha:

• Bitten long ago. 
• Alpha fell in love with her immediately & took her in. She's been with him ever since. 

Right-Hand Man: (my wolf-boy)

• Pure blood
• Got his scars by saving alpha from a fire; almost died.
• .
• .

Mother Figure:

• Pure blood
• Acts more human than anything. Hates being a wolf & tries to keep it out of her life as much as possible, but is a sucker for a person in need. She'll save first, ask questions later. 
• Very kind & generous.
• Acts like a mother although she's very young in looks/personality.

Scrapper:

• Pure blood
• Very young teen boy. Hyper and annoying, always getting into trouble.

Female New comer:

• Bitten
• Was left for dead after being attacked by one of the other gangs. Saved by "mother" & brought into pack. Very creative, noble & inquisitive. Is still learning.
• Infatuated with Right-Hand (my wolf-boy), so becomes jealous of Eve.

CHARACTER: Maureen (Mo) Hadley

Maureen (Mo) Hadley - 34

Medium-sized curvy blond with big eyes and an even bigger smile. She married her high-school sweetheart who happened to be the quarterback of the football team, Everyone thought he was going to make it big until he hyper-extended his knee, putting an end to his football career along with Maureen's dreams of becoming the coveted trophy wife. They stayed in town, and he took over at his father's car dealership, still giving them a decent life but still not the one she expected. Always perfectly made up and color coordinated, there was a hint of longing behind her plastered on smile. Due to an unfortunate need to have a hysterectomy at an early age, she can no longer have children and tries to make up for that by keeping herself as busy as possible within the community. She's a huge social flower and knows everyone and everything that goes on in the town.

I originally thought of her to help a fellow NaNoer out, but they will be making significant changes, if even using her at all, so she's still available for anyone else!

WRITING: Eve's kidnapping

2:05 pm

It was raining. One of those hard steady rains that soaks you to the bone. The man stood patiently on the sidewalk among the other parents and guardians waiting to pick up their children. He wore jeans and a t-shirt with a waterproof hoodie and carried a medium sized black umbrella, for all the help it did. The wind was strong, spraying him sideways with drops of cold water. The mechanical ding of the afternoon bell could be heard over the loud speakers, announcing the end of the school day at Beachside Elementary. Classroom doors swung open and a mass of children raced into the hallways each headed toward some unknown destination. The man looked around, surfing through the crowd for an open opportunity. That one, he thought, spying a red-headed girl whose back was facing him. He started in that direction, when she suddenly turned and ran toward a woman calling her name. He swiftly turned around. Realizing he was now too close to the inside of the school, he backed off and changed his direction, toward the opposite side where the playground and sports complex sat. A few stragglers were running between the open gates, trying to dodge the rain as it fell, but none of them held his attention. Ignoring them, he made his way further into the back of the school, and that’s when he saw her. A lone girl. Maybe nine or ten, standing with her bike held up against a small concrete building, perhaps the bathroom for the open concession stand. She looked like she was trying to escape the weather by standing under what little rim the building offered, but it wasn’t doing much good. She was drenched and shaking, and didn’t seem to be going anywhere. She was perfection and he had to have her.

He joined her, offering up the umbrella as a conversation starter. “Here,” he said. “This may help some.”

She looked up at him, big green eyes red-rimmed and scared. “Aww, sweety. What’s wrong? Why are you out here all alone?”

She pointed to her bike. “The front wheel is flat. I don’t want to leave the bike here or my mom will get mad if someone steals it.”

“You hold this,” he handed her the umbrella. “And I’ll take a look at it.” He bent down, rain pounding on his back and took hold of the tire. When he stood back up, he nodded. “Yep. It looks like you have a piece of glass bottle stuck in it. It’s letting all the air out.”

Her face scrunched up and she started to cry again. “I can give you a ride if you need me to take you somewhere.”

She didn’t know how to respond. Her mother always told her never to talk to strangers, but it was wet and cold and he seemed really nice.

“I don’t know,” she said, unsure of what to do.

“It’s okay. I was just here waiting to pick up my brother, Josh, from little league.”

“Josh?” the girl, asked, recognition filling her face. “Joshua Loman?”

“Yeah,” the man said, going along with it. “But I wouldn’t want to go with a stranger, either. You’re a smart girl.” He turned around, as if he was going to leave when a flash of lightning hit the sky and seconds later thunder came booming down around them.

Her eyes widened and she called after him. “Wait!” She had made her decision. “I guess if your Josh’s brother, you can’t be all bad.”

He smiled. “Come on. Let’s get your bike into the truck and I’ll give you a lift. If you were riding your bike you can’t be very far from here?”

“Just a couple of blocks over,” she admitted. “I always go straight home after school so my mother doesn’t worry.” She was much more relaxed now, thinking he was the nice big brother of her friend from school, and they almost ran to escape the rain, her holding the umbrella as he swiftly pushed the bike by its handles.

    They scurried back out into the parking lot where there were still a few people roaming about, everyone seemingly too preoccupied with their own doings to notice a little blond girl voluntarily getting into a big black F-250. He hurtled the small bike into the bed and clicked the unlock button on the key remote. She pulled herself up into the seat and pulled the door closed. As it clicked shut, she turned to put on her seatbelt. Her mom always taught her safety first. Before she knew what was happening, the man forced a sweet smelling cloth over her nose and mouth. She jerked her head back and forth, but that only made him press down harder. A woozy sensation washed over her as her hearing started to fade out and within seconds she was unconscious.

SYNOPSIS: Storyline 1 - Eve

I have been looking for a very long time for a main back story that allowed me to have a variety of fantasy "beings" (for lack of a better term) in a modern day world. However, as the final outcome is going to be based on a combination of several different story lines I need help bringing everything together. I have so many aspects of this world that I highly doubt it'll be contained to one "novel", but I plan on branching it out into a series of events that end in an ultimate showdown with the Big Bad (ie: the Demon King). The whole basis starts with him in the very beginning and weaves its way through various other characters (some human, some not so much) and ultimately ends with either his resurrection or his permanent fatality.


[credit:] Dervish98 @ NaNoWriMo for creating the actual Demon King.
Just to give you a basic idea, mine is in a world where everything & its brother exists unknown to humans. So there is a lot of fantasy potential but in a mostly modern setting. I will have a ton of stories going on that will eventually come together when they're against the Big Bad, so to speak. Right now, I'm focusing on the first main character's story. (A millennium ago, 4 powerful supernatural humans (the Elders?) united to defeat a Demon King. They couldn't ultimately defeat him, but they were able to contain him. Now its present day and one of the Demon's immortal lackeys has been searching for a way to bring him back. [[I was thinking maybe the demon would be a body jumper: his soul can live forever as long as he escapes the human body he chooses before it dies or he'd be trapped in death]] 4 Descendants of the (Elders) hold the key. Each has a (talisman?) that as long as they stay separated, the Demon King will be "contained". But if the four are combined, it will release him into the world again. So the demon, upon finally discovering this, is after the 4 descendants to kill and take each of their (talismans?) So now, I'm back to present day and the telling of each individual descendants story.

I'm starting with Eve. She lives in Daytona Beach, is studying to become a vet and is actually working as a Vet's assistant at the Beach Walk Vet Clinic. When she was 5(ish) she was kidnapped but was saved/escaped(?) and returned to her home. [[she is going to somehow be saved by a wolf which actually ends up being a human shape-shifter who has been watching her since she was born]] She doesn't remember much about what happened and the doctors said she may never regain memories of the traumatic event. They never caught the guy, but its been years and now she's grown up. One day, she bumps/runs(?) into someone and something about their scent triggers a flashback of when she was kidnapped and she knows without a shadow of a doubt that this person was her kidnapper. But whoever it is either doesn't recognize her because it's been so long OR doesn't realize she suddenly remembers. At this point, I'm going to bring the wolf back into her life [[I was thinking either someone could hit it with their car and bring it into the vets clinic where she is and she has to take care of it or she, herself, hits it one night in a situation. There's just something about it's eyes that catches her and she ends up bringing it home to tend to, obviously not knowing that its human(?).]]  So now, wolf-boy needs to be introduced into her story somehow without her yet knowing that wolf and man are one and the same. ALSO, here's another kicker: she is a healer. But she hasn't come into her powers yet, doesn't even know she has them, so those will have to start coming into play soon, also. 

Now, we've come full circle to where she recognizes her kidnapper and the wolf is now actively in her life as a human, instead of watching from the sidelines like he has been. 

[sidenote:] Her best friend & roommate is a bartender at a bar/club down the street from their house. They are staying in a beach house that is actually Eve’s parent’s vacation home, but since she is attending that college, she & her best friend, Ryssa Grannan, are living there in the interim. There is a bouncer, Scott Peterson who comes into play also. He is very close with both girls & is protective of them. I was thinking he had a thing for Eve who also comes in all the time to see Ryssa. Ryssa is tall, tan with short super straight reddish/black hair. She's a do what she wants, say how she feels whether you like it or not type. Knows how to work a crowd and all the guys LOVE her. She's flirty and adventurous. Scott is more of your hometown country boy. He was raised on a farm in a horse town a couple of cities over. He's not overtly tall, but what he lacks in height he more than makes up for in muscle mass. He always wears a cowboy hat & boots and when he's not wearing the official bouncer t-shirt, he wears a long sleeve button up tucked into his skin tight wranglers. He drives a beat up truck and Ryssa drives a Mitsubishi eclipse. Besides the wolf-man, those are the only two solid characters I have. I need to have one or two more humans as well as fantasy characters that can help her along the way, too.

 

CHARACTER + PLOT: Kiyusa

Kiyusa - she has light brown hair and large blue eyes. She can transform into a doe. She, like a doe, is very timid and shy, although she's trying to get over that.
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Possible PLOT idea: She, amongst other shape-shifting creatures, are captured & help captive until they are of use. Their captors force them to change into their animal form and are set free in a specific area that the captors arrange for "hunters" to track and hunt them down.

[credit:] me - this was an original plot idea I came up with after reading Kiyusa's description.

CHARACTER: Circe

Circe: she is sixteen and has white hair and sapphire eyes. Thanks to a strange genetic twist, she is able to read minds. She looks down on people without special powers.

CHARACTER: Marco

His first name is Marco, I never came up with a last name for him. He has dark skin, black hair, brown eyes. He's about 35, medium height, appears to work out a little. He is a librarian. He is very unfriendly, and sends death glares across the library if anybody so much as coughs. He spends most of his time behind the desk scowling. He has a soft spot for small children and animals. He brings his dog to work with him every day, and everyone is too afraid of him to say anything about it to his boss. The dog is a black lab named Bookworm, is very friendly, and will grab random books off the shelf and bring them to people.

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CHARACTER: Olive "Olly" Starr

Olive "Olly" Starr
22 years old Has long dirty blonde hair, dark brown eyes, and a heart shaped birthmark on her left shoulder blade. She is 1/4 korean.
Olly never wears jeans, she owns two pairs of Stich onesies she bought off eBay, and enjoys hanging out with boys way too much for it to be healthy. She is very direct with people, to the point where, should a boy be ridiculous enough to say something like "I saw you underwear", she'd probably reply with "Yeah, it's pink, want a better look?". Olly likes to say that her brain is a slut, but her body is not; she is often found to be a bit rude, and is highly unapologetic about it.

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CHARACTER: Chelsea Camire

Name: Chelsea Camire
Age: 26
She has brownish gold hair and big green eyes. Her clothing choices are usually at the more somber end of the spectrum, but usually in style. She's very friendly and becomes buddies with a stranger very quickly. The one time she allowed a relationship to go beyond friendship she got burned very badly, and keeps herself aloof. She's very organized and practical. However, when it comes to her personal life, she tends to avoid trouble and hope it goes away. She also really likes children, and is taking classes to become an elementary school teacher. Her hobbies include amateur photography, hiking, and reading. In her original story, which was a fantasy, she had a limited amount of magic.

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CHARACTER: Joey

Name: Joey (last name unknown)
Age: 18
Apparent Age: 16
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 140#
Build: Thin but muscular, basically swimmer's build
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Features: Gold lip-ring

Joey has recently been outed as gay to his stepfather, and as a result, was brutally attacked by both his stepfather and older stepbrother, Tonio. (The stepfather is never actually introduced in the course of the storyline.) Following the attack, he moved his belongings from his stepfather's house and disappeared. At this time (that he knows of) he has no living family -- his mother died a year prior to the attack and he has no memories of any further family on either side. He's been living on the streets of Tucson ever since.

While living on the streets has inspired a rougher, "I can take on the world" mentality, he has a softer side. Too, due to the abuse he suffered, he's relentless when it comes to people -- especially small children -- being abused, and while he may not look it, he's taught himself to be more than capable at taking down a bigger target using any moves (fair or foul) at his disposal when he feels someone's life or safety is at stake. In rough fights, he carries something he calls a Smiley, a bandanna tied to a padlock, which he's more or less proficient at.

CHARACTER(s): brother & sister

Chrystoph Bealenour
Female, 15
Long blonde hair kept in a braid, somewhat tanned skin, brown eyes
Fit, about 4' 00", quiet, strong, observant, and stubborn.
In my story, she was subjected to genetic experimentation which gave her large bird wings, but you can take either version of her.

Jacobi Bealenour
Male, 8
Spiky brown hair, pale skin, blue eyes
Slim but not particularly muscled, about 3' 5", innocent, measured, crafty, and tough.
Chrystoph takes care of him like a mother- if you've read Maximum Ride, the relationship between them is a lot like that. In my story, he broke Chrystoph out of the science lab after she'd been captured, which left him with scars on his left arm and torso.

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