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A writer's group assignment, I had a great deal of fun with this one. It was to create a story out of a song, I chose to do "By Myself" by Linkin Park, and to do it in the style of my story given the temporary title "Darkness" which connects the stories "Stained Past", "The Uprising", and "Darkness" together. Any tips on tabbing on here would be appreciated, it still makes me angry. Oh, and I'm aware of some errors, i'm just a bit too lazy to correct them right now, but truely I believe this was a success.


Darkness surrounds all, the sound of something ripping into flesh penetrates throughout the night. They stand here with me, their weapons ready, hiding in the darkness against the wall. It had been years since it all started and since these monsters began to show up in the cities.
Sound comes from behind us, another one feasting. What do I do to ignore them behind me? Do I follow my instincts blindly? Do I hide my pride from these bad dreams and give into sad thoughts that are maddening? No, I ordered them forward with a motion of my hand.
A shot pierced its head, and it fell onto its victom, a girl, nothing left but her face and a bit of meat clinging to her bones, screams came then, one had found its prey. Do I sit here and try to stand it? Or do I try to catch them red-handed.
“Let’s go,” I said. A team of five, enough to hold its own against a few. We moved to the stairwell of the building and switched to night vision. A click echos throughout the stairwell, this was their ground, a newly claimed one, they were beginning to claim city after city, no longer doing so in secrecy, no longer able to keep their instincts at bay.
We headed up, towards the screams. Footsteps, we flattened ourselves gainst the wall, pointing our guns at the door to where the sound was coming. Sweat ran down my face and I relaxed and tensed my trigger finger.
A woman burst through the door and I grabbed her.
“Where are they?” I asked.
“coming,” she responded, “We have to go upward, they’re storming the bottom floors!”
do I trust someone and get fooled by phoniness? Or do I trust nobond and live in loneliness?
“Cover the door,” I said to my men. One moved into the doorway, looking into the darkness. He flew backwards as a dark blur hit him. Shots flew from his gun as it clung to him as he fell down the stairwell. Finally he hit the railing and it killed him, ripping into its victom.
They stood there for a second, then a few others poored through the doorway, shots flew. The closest men lost his arm and the beast tore at his flesh. One jumped at me, I quickly sidestepped and put a bullet into its head as it fell. The last lay in front of one of my men, his gun covered in its blood, a useless weapon now.
We moved upward in formation, two in frong, one behind with the girl in the center and the one with a useless weapon behind, a knife in his hand. We finally reached the top floor and she moved ahead of us. Screams came from farther down the stairwell.
“Fortify this position, move farther down the hallway to force them through a narrow opening,” I pulled out one of the threee grenades every man was issued with, pulled the pin and threw it down the stairwell. I moved back to where the others were and waited.
Soon they began their attack, all flying through the door and soon being shot down. The firing to my left ceased and I turned around, sensing something wrong. Something scratched at my face, barely missing, I poured the rest of my clip into it.
“Over here!” the girl yelled waving to me from by a door.
“Retreat!” I yelled to the two others remaining. I ran to the door and turned around giving what cover I could. One jumped on my unarmed comrade and he flew through a window.
“come one!” I yelled to the last. He smiled as he was about to the door then one hit him and his neck snapped. I quickly shut the door. It was cold, metal. Screams came from behind it, then of something hitting it, then silence.
“Tell me,” she said at last, “Why didn’t you help them?”
“Because I can’t hold on when I’m stretched so thin, I make the right moves but I’m lost within. I put on my daily façade, but t hen I just end up getting hurt again. By myself, I ask why, but in my mind I find I can’t rely on myself.”
She moved to the window. “It’s beautiful in the night, this world is much like my own then.”
“your own? So you’re telling me you’re one of those demons that created them?! You’re telling me we just helped a vampire!”
“Yes,” she said, her back still to me.
What should I do? If I turn my back I’m defenseless, and to go blindly seems senseless. If I hide my pride and let it all go then they’ll take from me till everything is gone. If I let them go I’ll be outdone, but if I try to catch them I’ll be outrun. If I’m killed by the questions like a cancer, then I’ll be buried in the silence of the answer.
“You still have a lot in the world don’t you?” she asked.
“And yet how do you think I’ve lost so much?” I’m so afraid, I thought to myself, I’m out of touch.
“So what do you intend on doing? Will you kill me?” she asked.
“How do you expect I knew what to do, when all I know is what they tell me to.”
Silence, then she began to speak.
“Don’t you know I can’t tell you how to make it go. No matter what I do how hard I try, I can’t seem to convince myself why I’m stuck on the outside.”
She turned around and looked at me. “I am Mia,” she said and then vanished.

Just something I felt like doing, odd for me to do just do something on here. I truely wonder if anyone reads these other than kagomaey. Fall for you have been lost.

Remember the light
The warmth I felt with you
The darkness I retreated into
Remember the feel of life
The pain, the sorrow, the all you felt
Everything you ever knew
Remember my death
My life fading, my heart ceasing
Blood pouring, death gripping at me
Die my once love,
Die

Call to me
Call till dark
Here I am
Here I stay
Stand no more
Stay till dawn
Call to me, Call to me
On and On

Just done because I had a picture in my head of a lover standing at her love's grave.

Dark abiding,
Do you see it?
Death a calling,
Can you hear it?
Memories falling, letting you go
Your life a calling,
telling all you know

Falling, falling
Nothing so sweet
A taste of a death, a taste of me
Your life dwindling,
Your darkness calling
Everything, everything
Could you have dreamed?

Darkness abiding,
Your life still a calling,
You fade
You fade into that of me

Tempting to cut the last part out.

Do you see it?
Do you heart it?
The darkness looming,
Your all
Your one
Your darkness coming

Bid farewell or stay out of sight
For my call, for my horror
My heart, my black
Your blood, your scent
I will not spare you
I cannot hint

Well I do have some chapters of the book I was writing but never finished. It's pretty gruesome. I'm a pretty nice person, but you'd be amazed how far my mind can wander. I wonder if I should post it or not.