Melting Fire

Me: We're back! Sage agreed to to come back now because he's in a bit of a better mood.

Ash: And we don't have a topic do we?

Me: ...not completely though I thought that I'd just talk about my stories or something.

Sage: They'd probably also like to know that you named the sequel to Black Light finally.

Me: Oh yes! I'm calling it Melting Fire. *thinks for a moment* Mostly just because that name sounds really good but if you think about it, the meaning could be rather different...either the fire is melting something or the fire itself is being melted.

Ria: And then you have some people who could possible see 'fire' as like love or something and then it sounds like that feeling is melting away...it could have many meanings.

Ren: And you don't know exactly what the meaning is, right?

Me: Well...I have an idea...but I can't say what it is. ;P

Sage: ...I think I might know what it is...

Me: Of course you probably do but no one else does...besides Thallus.

Thallus: Yup.

Me: Well about Melting Fire...I only got the prologue and first chapter done before I hit a solid rock wall and couldn't think of anything to write.

Zeth: Wait, so you just stopped writing it?

Me: For now, yeah...I don't know when but hopefully soon, I'm going to set aside a bit of time and work out a small outline for it so it'll go a little faster.

Thallus: An outline for you is basically brainstorming tons of ideas and writing them down.

Me: ...kind of. I do put them in the order they need to go but often there are huge spaces between one thing and another.

Ash: So if you're not working on MF, what are you working on?

Me: Currently, I'm thinking about revising/editing The Night's Shadow because I quickly read over bits of it yesterday and realized how much I loved that story...though I might first work on the other story that I based off of an RPG that I made called The F.B.S. The RPG went on for over a year so I'm going to make it into like three books or something.

Sage: And the first book is called Sealed Memories.

Me: Yep! That one is waaaay easier to write because I know every single detail that is going to happen because the plot in the RPG has already been resolved. I'm just going to edit and take out a few things that aren't important or didn't work out.

Thallus: You even took out a full character from it, didn't you? Morgroh was his name.

Me: *nods* Yeah, he really didn't work out rather well and wasn't a major role in the story so he got deleted.

Sage: He was supposed to be the bully but he wasn't even that mean.

Me: I'm not very good at writing mean people...

Sage: ...define 'mean'.

Me: Like people that insult other and tease. I'm pretty good at writing cruel people but not mean...trust me, I really stick at insults. Like Carson; he's supposed to be a bully but he's just a boy with a really sad life and a bit of an anger issue. If he fixes that, he'd be a rather nice guy.

Slade: So you're not going to revise my story?

Me: I'll get to it eventually but I think I'm going to go back to what I used to do a while ago where I focused on up to three stories and decided which one I felt like writing that morning. I'll just switch back and forth between them when I feel like it.

Thallus: You tried to do that with The Lapis Scar and Silroe but you ended up just focusing on The Lapis Scar.

Me: Yeah...good point...but I'll try to be better this time. Both stories are easy to work on so it shouldn't take too long for me to finish one or the other. ...now that I think about it, Aerien, and The Lapis Scar need a  lot of work on them because the main idea does come in until near the end of the story.

Sage: It's the same with Black Light but that one is a little more structured and doesn't trail off into pointless things.

Me: I could almost make two short stories from the beginning of The Lapis Scar...

Zeth: Stay focused, you're only working on The Night's Shadow and Sealed Memories, ok? You can edit the others later.

Me: Yeah...and if I get the outline for Melting Fire, I'm going to work solely on that one and finish it quickly because it's going to be kind of a summery like The Apprentice of Evil was but slightly longer...

Ash: I was surprised that you were able to only do like twenty-something chapters...usually you always go beyond sixty and almost reach the hundreds in most cases.

Me: Aerien was really long...though I don't remember how long it is...my books are usually around 400 pages or so. I should check which one is the longest... *sighs* I'm kind of running out of things to say....

Ren: You mentioned that you were going to post a short story that you wrote if you ran out of space.

Me: I did, didn't I? ...I haven't edited any of them in the slightest so they're probably horrible. I have to find one first... Oh my goodness!! I found a small clip that I wrote that started the idea of The Night's Shadow! I actually used this idea in the story! At the time I was writing it, I didn't even have an idea that I was going to write an entire story about it so it's really funny. Apparently the girl's name is Arabella...which I changed a lot but I kept the idea name, Slade... *reading idea briefly* wait...whoa...huh?...*reads more and laughs* That's so weird! I named one of the girls in the idea, Sage! I keep forgetting that Sage can be a girl's name too. *keeps reading* I named another one Brook which I kept in The Night's Shadow but changed the spelling a bit. And I kept the name Bria as well. :) Whoa, I kept Blair's (Bria's sister) name too! This is so weird because I basically gave a brief summery of the story and this was even before I wrote it! Of course there were a few things that were different.

Sage: You had so many daydreams...and they are really weird.

Me: Hey! This was like three years ago, ok?

Ash: You have a weird obsession with violence...that and people getting captured and stuff.

Me: I need to work on writing short stories...these are like eight pages long...

Jafen: You could just pose the one with me, you, and Sage that you wrote a while ago.

Me: *blush* But that one was kind of weird...

Jafen: It's probably the shortest you have.

Me: *sighs* Ok fine....Oh and I like to name my daydreams but this one I didn't really feel creative so I just came up with Characters Meet Their Writer. Here it is: (Please excuse the horrible grammar and mistakes...)

The moment Sage opened his eyes he knew something was wrong. He jumped to his feet in an instant and glanced around. He was in some kind of metal room and from the looks of it there were no doors or windows. The moment he realized that his skin began to crawl and he quickly walked around the room his hand moving towards the knives on his belt involuntarily. Reluctantly he ran his hand along the wall and found it cold and firm. Quickly he inspected every wall but found it completely smooth. With a shout, he slammed his fist against it but nothing happened and his voice echoed around the room with no one to hear it. Taking a deep breath he allowed himself to slip down the wall to the ground and try to calm himself down. Sage turned to remember the last thing that happened but his mind was completely blank and the most recent thing he could remember was from a week ago but even that was fuzzy. He slowly took a deep breath and stood up. The good thing was he still had his sword strapped on his back and his belts with throwing knifes, darts, and needles on them. Sage carefully began examining the wall more closely but the results were the same as before. The only thing left to do was to wait… He had no idea how long had past when the wall suddenly rippled and vanished completely, showing a low dark hallway beyond. For a moment he didn’t move and stared cautiously at the opening before slowly edging out into the hall. The walls were metal like the room and he slowly wandered down them feeling even more on edge and alert than before.

His eyes darted all around the place scanning for anything and Sage suddenly detected a tiny noise, but it was so light he couldn’t make it out. Slowly he drew a small dagger and continued slowly slow the dim hallway. A flash of moment caught his attention but he made sure to show no signs of noticing it. He came to a three way part in the hall and was aware of something behind him so he turned the corner naturally and then quickly slipped back into the shadows and crouched there, hidden in the dark. The moment he saw the figure turn the corner he slipped out, intending to sneak up behind the person and put his dagger to their neck but his knife was quickly blocked by another blade. Sage swiftly drew his sword and noticed that the other figure was a boy of about his same age. For a split second they stared at each other before the other spun away and slipped out another dagger from his sleeve. Sage raised his sword quickly and blocked the swift strikes, before returning them quickly. He was able to tell that the other boy didn’t intend to harm him very much but they both were on edge and jumpy. The boy spun away and then too Sage’s surprise disappeared to be replaced to a raven which flew over his head and then changed back into the boy. Shape-shifter. Sage said, quickly flipping out of the way. A soft whizzing sound made him jerk back and he noticed two throwing needles embedded in the wall where he’d been just a moment before. He quickly snapped his attention back to the newcomer and then they were locked in combat again. Just as Sage and the other boy separated for a moment a girl suddenly rushed between them and held out her hands.

            “Cut it out. Both of you.” She said, firmly.

            Sage suddenly discovered that there was a force field keeping him from attacking the boy or the other girl so he slowly lowered his weapon, as the boy did the same.

            “Who are you?” The boy asked, his dark green eyes flashing.

            The girl lowered her arms and Sage felt the force field disappear.

“It’s going to take a long time to explain that.” She said slowly.

Slowly Sage looked at her more closely. She only looked about fifteen with long brown hair that seemed to have a tiny hint of golden-red in it and her eyes were a grey-green that had made her look completely human.

“There’s no need to fight; I know both of you are a little confused a freaked out about randomly appearing here and having no memory of it but you’re on the same side.” She said.

“How do you know about not remember how we got here?” Sage asked slowly.

The girl smiled slightly at him and he had a strange feeling that she reminded him of someone.

“Because I know a lot about you two, Sage.” She said.

He blinked and studied her closely.

“Where are we?” The other boy asked.

She looked over at him and then glanced around the room, placing her hand on the wall.

“I’m not so sure…but I have a bad feeling that someone is controlling this place. It was the same where you came from, right Jafen?” She asked.

“Yeah, but how do you know my name?” He asked. “What is your name anyways?”

“I have many names that people call me.” She said, removing her hand from the wall.

“So what can we call you?” Sage asked, slowly returning his sword to its sheath.

The girl though for a moment brushing her bangs out of her eye to the left like they normally were and smiled slightly.

“Either Silver or Assen. I prefer those names out of most of them. Phoenix would also work maybe.” She said.

“So how do you know our names, Assen?” Jafen asked, stepping more into the light so Sage could see him better.

His hair was black but there was a very slight tint of green in it that Sage only caught for a moment before it looked black again.

Silver smiled and sighed.

“You guys are never going to believe me, but before I tell you let’s get out of here.” She said.

“How?” Sage said, looking around at the metal walls.

Assen held out her hand to him.

“I have a special ring that a friend gave me, and it will teleport us out of here.”

Sage hesitated and eyed her suspiciously.

“You can trust me Sage. There’s no other way out of this place that I know of but we have to hurry before the person in charge finds out.” She said.

Slowly Sage reached out and took her hand. She smiled at him and then slipped her hand into Jafen’s. Taking a deep breath Phoenix closed her eyes and they were instantly pulled away, appearing in a forest. Sage felt his mind slowly being to clear but he still couldn’t remember any he could have gotten to that place. Silver stumbled forward and Sage tightened his grip on her hand to keep her up without thinking. She smiled gratefully at him and slowly sat down looking a little tired, letting go of Jafen and Sage’s hands. Jafen and Sage looked at each other for a moment.

“So…you’re a shape-shifter?” Sage asked.

“Half shape-shifter elf…half something else.” He said slightly uncomfortable.

“It’s ok Jafen; he doesn’t care if you’re half dark elf.” Silver said softly.

Jafen looked at her sharply.

“How do you know that?” He asked.

Assen slowly got to her feet and brushed off her black skinny jeans and green shirt.

“Like I said earlier: you’d never believe me.”

“I’ve heard a lot of crazy things.” Jafen said.

“I’m with him.” Sage agreed. “Try us.”

Phoenix allowed a smile to slowly spread across her face and she laughed quietly before looking at both of them for a while.

“Ok then. I’m your writer.” She said, crossing her arms.

Jafen and Sage exchanged a glance and then looked back at her confused.

“Wait…what? How does that work?” Jafen asked.

“I wrote your stories and brought you two to life. Both of you are just characters in one of my stories that I’ve written.”

“Then how can we be standing here?” Sage asked slowly.

“We’re in a world that I created and found the ability to jump into. It’s a combination of every one of my stories. If travel around this world you’ll be able to reach The Venroa Houses as well as Zender’s Castle. There are many other characters here but none of them have met…until you two found each other.” She explained slowly.

“So…you basically created all of us.” Jafen summoned up.

Silver nodded.

“You could think about it that way. The thing is…each of you has a small piece of me inside of you and that’s why we seem alike or familiar to one another. I know you almost as good as you know yourselves, but because I made this world, the characters began developing on their own so their personalities might have change slightly making them a little more unpredictable to me then before.” She said, leaning against a tree as she talked.

“That means in a way, you’re each one of your characters.” Sage said.

Phoenix nodded with a smile.

“You catch on quickly.” She said. “There are also a few characters in this world, who don’t have their own story but only existed in my mind. Claytharien is one of those few and he gave me the rings.”

Sage looked around the forest and mentally made note of where they were.

“So you’re a human?” Jafen asked.

Silver shrugged.

“Yeah, pretty much, but I do have a few tricks I can do. I think you could call me a Writer because I can do this.”

She pulled out a small notebook out of her back pocket and a pen. Quickly she scribbled something down and a boy suddenly appeared next to her whose hair was a slightly messy pale mint green and he wore a sport hat that was a dark purple with small blue lines down it. His eyes were a bright yellow that flashed in the sunlight and he looked around sixteen or so with clothes that looked more modern.

“Assen, please don’t tell me you did that because you wanted to.” He said with a sigh.

“Sage, Jafen, this is Claytharien. He goes by, Clay, Clayth, Claythar, and then his full name.” She said.

“How did you do that?” Jafen asked, in surprise.

“As a writer I learned that I can summon my characters if I write down their name on a paper. If I try hard enough I can also make other things happen but it takes a lot of my energy to do thing like that.” She said. “But enough about me, we still have a problem.”

“Why the person brought us to that place and who they are.” Sage finished for her.

Assen nodded and thought for a moment.

“I think someone might be able to use the abilities as a writer like I am.” She said meeting Sage’s eye. “That might mean that the characters in this world are no longer as safe as they were.”

Me: It's so long...

Sage: You enjoy bossing me around in stories sometimes.

Me: ...I do actually. ;) Ok! Well that makes the post long enough and I have to get going. See you'll next week!!

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