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A figure lost to forever remain in time. A servant or toy, both titles entail serving two figures as old as this world until I have fulfilled my usefulness. The red haired woman with green eyes thought as she sat atop a tall building in a city in one of the regions of aphelia. She took a deep breath and exhaled while closing her eyes, pulling her legs up close and rested her chin on her knees. The cool wind blew, playing with the long locks of hair as a parent would when combing with their fingers. "...But when will I be released and allowed a death from possible foolishness with my own magic?" she whispered as red tresses blew up by her face and her eyes opened to gaze out at the dark horizon.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLg0PJJHYAO
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She stayed sitting for a few minutes before shifting and standing, dusting off her pants and straightening her comfortable orange shirt. Alanna took a deep breath and stepped forwards, moving into a run as she took a running leap off the building. She spread her arms out, watching the nearing ground as her long hair whipped around like an angry snake. She put her hands out in front of her with the heels together as she focused. An icy light began to form in the center of her palms and spread out into a circle. She shifted her body around so her feet were more forwards and she was more upright. Now! she thought and the light flashed as it enveloped her quickly.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwguDKBRvcl
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Alanna would appear safely on the ground with a few steps to use up the remaining movement from the fall and sighed, turning her head to look back up to where she had previously been in the big city. Until that day comes, I will continue to use my magic as I wish on top of following their orders when given. She looked away and proceeded down the street, folding her hands behind her back as she walked with her eyes on the starry sky above. No matter how much I question when that will end...510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUy32svyEvb
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Later Alanna would be walking around a park that needed some care with its plant overgrowth. She ran a hand over the seesaw as she eyed the chipping painted wood. "One would think a city would care more." She quietly commented to herself as she moved on, looking around at the empty swings, the manual marry-go-round, the slides and other entertaining things to the young and old alike.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRs2k2NlCUo
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She made her way over to the swings and sat down, staring at the sandy ground and slowly closed her eyes in the moonlight. I wonder how things would have been should they had unfolded differently... she silently pondered.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8lIgBKFNH
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"It would have unfolded just as it had, my dear Queen of Hearts~" a male voice whispered into her ear with a throaty chuckle.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zAHjbpGVa
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Alanna's eyes snapped open and she swiftly looked left and right but saw no one. Her grip had also tightened on the chains of the swing with her heart slightly racing after the initial jump. Her eyes slowly closed some from their wide state as she tried to calm down. "...no way. I know he's dead...I saw him die." She reminded herself to hopefully give her mind reassurance she was safe.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIf4cvRPHJ
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"Are you so sure? Are you positive you can kill a shadow in full?"510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmqRebvcKSc
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Alanna stood and turned, backing away from the swing and scoured the area with narrowed eyes as a spell was charging in one hand. "Come out! I'm not scared of you Shade!"510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkT0dWlRa1
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"Once more I do ask if you are sure, half-breed. You seem scared and such a tense voice, it is so sad that you have let yourself go."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIuCq6S3dn
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"Come out of hiding and speak to me face to face, coward." She growled sharply as she continued to scan the area as the wind blew around her, carrying a few flakes of snow from her charged and waiting ice spell.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwCZUolVHV
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He chuckled as a shadow silhouette formed by a tier swing. "You look just as beautiful as ever but I'm not much for the brighter red and green. I much more preferred the darker shades, when your hair looked like blood." He commented with a general hand gesture into the air.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3iOBeGy65j
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She narrowed her eyes on him and stood her ground with a firm stance. "You should know that I'm not going back to being her anytime soon just for your enjoyment." Her voice then lowered into almost a growl. "I'm also not letting you near my magic either."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBAm7oRCaVl
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Shade scoffed as he rolled his eyes. "You are simply no fun and why do you even want to keep that magic? It will simply kill you faster if you use it and besides, I know you are aware it comes out with your ice magic." He calmly commented.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnGQIAufHh
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"I know that but I'm not afraid of it. I know what it does and I know it can do much more than I have yet to discover and execute."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pfV1XR13V
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"Then why don't you just give me that element of yours so you may be more ice than danger, hmm?" he offered a hand out to her with his palm up. "The people of Indu will like you again, they will trust you again if you do." He smoothly whispered.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPURjsDnEj2
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She lowered her eyes to the ground as she felt her throat tighten at his offer. Her gaze trailed up to his hand then his face as she felt a shiver run down her spine. "...I won-" her words got caught in her throat as he whistled and her eyes widened before closing tightly. Her ice spell shot out at him, passing through his body to freeze the trunk of the tree behind him. She gripped her head and crumpled forwards as darker strands of hair began to appear, streaking along her pulled back locks like a trickling river.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFYRC9XInl
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"You mean that we would like to take his offer, do you not?" a darker and sensual voice spoke in an echo within her mind.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZ5hGG7y4v
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No, I don't want to. He can't have our void magic, not on top of his own.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKJKkRoZ6u
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"Why not? We would still have our ice magic and besides, we could even slay him once again with a little spell." The darker tone of her own voice commented with an alluring chuckle. "All we have to do is use a spell that we have no consequences for and then we can go take care of that brat who has no respect for us."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Lb47MOQfS
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Because it's wrong and we don't need to do that. We just need to be strong and I need to make sure he doesn't have his claws into me again...not again... Alanna thought with a waning internal voice to her other side.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ84sd399aGy
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"Why do you keep denying me? Why do you keep denying a piece of yourself that was created by your own hearts darkness?" the other half took her form, a mirror reflection of Alanna inside her mind only with blood red hair and darkened emerald green eyes. She wore more regal in appearance clothing, not as fancy as normal but still befitting one of nobility.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBPF2c450HX
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I'm me, not you and I refuse to become what he created. You aren't me, you were never me. You are only what he made me think I was when he got me to see the world as isolating and betraying.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ9RPVUVhgV
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"Do you really think you can blame him for what you had done and allowed to happen? Nothing would change had he not entered the picture." She folded her arms and cocked a hip to the side with the shifting of her weight. "We both know your mother would have died using her magic to protect Sin from your unstable power serge when they told you no on your date plans as a teen. We both know you would have killed her and destroyed the manor. He didn't make you lose your hold on your void magic you had been trying to conceal at the request of your mother." Her voice shifted to a slier tone as did her gaze. "Or do you care to pretend he faked being your parents and caused you to lose control of your own magic that faithful day of your banishing and my birth?"510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADVShXkOrz
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Alanna was silent as she spread her footing wider to keep from falling as her knees wanted to buckle. That's not true...that's not true... she whispered in her mind to her other self. I didn't want either one to die even though I yelled at them to die and that I hated them. Father forgave me when I came home after he helped free me, he helped me by sending guards. He never gave up on me, nor did the ones that my soul had met.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxesq27eyB
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"Brave saving thoughts from one so weak she remains split in two yet denies being what she had become."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzByeH6FmHW
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I am not denying what I did, I do not deny what I became but I also... she opened her eyes to stare at the ground as she caught the sound of footsteps nearing slowly closer. I remind people that isn't me and that I am not what I was so to give me a chance to show I have changed. Her jaw tightened as Shade reached a hand out to touch her head. "...and I won't return," a circle of magic formed under her right then left foot. "I won't return...to you!" she snapped sharply and loudly as the magic exploded, throwing out what looked like light and snow.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuzy6pHKyRN
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"You can't escape your shadow! You can never outrun your own inner darkness!" Shade snapped in rage at her as he was shoved back.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4xeSGxzliK
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"I won't let that side you created be out and have freedom over my actions. I'm Alanna Valic and I will remain as Alanna Valic, not as Alanna Valar the Dark Queen!" she shout out as another blast of light and snow flew at the silhouette of Shade.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpcsq4lwqT7
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"You are making a mistake turning away from the gifts I gave you. I gave you power, a family, love and everything you could have ever wanted." Shade hissed coldly at her as his form was nearly falling over.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoyI2lFmOSX
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"You fed me lies. You tore me apart and ruined my relationship with my only son who rules our throne alone."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96idG5anuU
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"That was your own doing, my dear former Queen. You are the one who was a bitch to him, not I."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FCUqUboh6
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Her eyes narrowed and began to darken as her fists began to grip tight. "You clouded our judgment, my judgment on what was going on and caused me to ignore my son." She snarled in a warped voice that held both her normal and darker tones. "We love our son and we won't let you have gloating privileges for taking that love away!"510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEyBscQu3Rf
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"That was all you!" he bellowed as shadows shot out and swallow the area briefly before vanishing.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkxcO6aQg3
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The scene quieted except for the sound of Alanna's panting breath. Her head was dropped and her body trembled from its spot where the grass was painted white with snow. Her red and dark red hair began to seep back into its normal red coloring as she collected herself. She didn't speak as she let herself calm back down, listening to the silence ringing in her ears from around her. Eventually she stood upright and unclenched her fists, setting her eyes in the spot Shade had previously been. "...I refuse to return and show those who expect me to become what I had been to be right in their speculations and fears." Slowly she began to walk off before vanishing in a flash of light with a spell.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbABObigyHP
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Floating in the air with two observers was a stone creature made of several rings as well as a single stone eye in its center where the rings moved and rotated around. On the creature was a boy and girl who looked to be twins. The Weavers smiled as they watched. "Our puppet continues to grow." The girl commented cutely.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClCZwBO8oT
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"Yes but as she does, so does the use but at the same time she stays stuck in a never ending dream." The boy replied with a fluid hand motion out as if releasing something only that nothing left his empty palm.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmocwGkSetI
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"This just makes it more fun..." her voice fell an octave, "so long as she does not become stuck."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZwg9jB4U9
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The boy shook his head and looked to his twin. "She will not. Her mind is strong enough she will not become stagnate on us and if she does," he smirked as she met his eyes. "We can always pull forth a reminder of what she learned outside her physical body."510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ69exKDpLce
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The girl giggled with a nod. "I so love our toys when they make deals with us!" she cheerfully said in glee. "But do you think she will be able to merge with the shadow former Lord Shade had created?"510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwdVf33krh3
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"We both know that answer but her pathway keeps changing the further she advances. Her ribbon is hard to pin down so perhaps our answer we know will not be what comes to pass in reality." They both looked up above their pet and sighed before taking their leave of the middle grounds where mortals lived, answering the call of another for their unordered leave of their post.510Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81d083x9s6
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