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Guardians ~ Black Plague ch.2

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The sky was a dark swirling mass, a warning for a storm soon to come. The city was compleatly deserted, any and all windows boarded up, and the stores exausted of their supplies. Not a single soul, animal nor man, could be seen anywhere on the streets. Jack stood on top of a two story buildning, surveying the streets for any little flickers of black. He had spent days gliding around the forest searching, but he couldnt even find any foot prints where he first saw her. Not a trace of her could be found anywhere, so he decided to try the city. He figured if she caused sickness, she would be around people, but, he couldnt find anything here either.The wind picked up and bits of dirty snow pelted the buildings and cars around him.

The snow began to get harsh, quickly covering the pavement in snow. The wind felt like razors slicing through the air. The snow began to get so thick it was impossible to see more than an inch infront of his nose. He began wondering if he should give up, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a small black flash dissapear behind the building.Using his staff, he swept down to the corner, and peeked around, tring to stay as hidden as possible. He saw a small black mass through the piercing snow, slowly moving through the streets. She swayed slightly as she walked, her legs barely disturbing her cloak as she walked. Jack noticed that her feet made no prints in the snow as she walked. She stopped infront of something blanketed in the snow. She knelt in front of it, and got within a hairs bredth to it. At first Jack thought it was a bag of garbage, or some other kind of trash that was flung carelessly aside, but the longer he stared the more he could make out.


Fabric sprinkle with white snow and stained with food and other unnameable substances.  Jack could see a hand stick out from under a thin cloth of mismatched fabrics patched together. It was un unatural almost ice blue, clutching a glass bottle. Jack guessed it was a homeless man, frozon from the blizzard. He could see the white of a long unruely beard and the tip of a mans nose jutting out from under a hole filled wool cap. He watched as Black gently placed a hand over the mans heart, eyes glowing a soft crimson. Her thin purple lips bent in a frown. Her face was only an inch from the mans. Jack watched curiously as she raised her palm and gently brushed over his eyes down to his chin. Jack silenced a ghasp as a thin, bright blue smoke lifted from the mans face. It swayed almost waterlike in the space between them. It didnt move with the wind, rather slowly spread out, twisting elegantly of its own accord.

Black watches with half lidded, sorrowful eyes as the blue whisps slowly dissapated, and vanished. She mumbled some thing that was lost to Jack in the howling wind of the blizzard. She touched the cheek of the man once more, then stood and stalked away. Her first elegant graceful gaite turned to a clumsy tudge through the snow, as if the weight of the snow and wind finally hit her. Jack followed her through a few allys, staying as far back as he could without losing sight of her. Through the blizzards ruthless snow, he ended up having to get closer and closer every turn she made. He was almost close enough to reach out and touch the hood of her cloak, when he tripped over something hidden in the snow. He stumbled with his footing, losing balance before catching himself at thelast moment. He stood strait, searching through the pelting snow. He could see nothing but white, and the blurred outlines of a car and a few other objects. He turned frantically searching for Black, but she was gone.

He darted off as fast as he could in the direction he thought she had gone, but ran into a dead end. He searched hopelessly through the snow, desparetly searching for any movment, but found nothing. Blindly walking through the blurred streets in the blizzard, he found himself close to where he first saw her. He remembered the man in the ally way, and after a few wrong turns, managed to find him again. The man was still sitting slumped against the wall, clutching the bottle in one hand. Jack approched cautiosly, and knelt before him as Black had done. He carefully nudged the man, but recieved no response. Jack slowly lifted the mans wool cap from his eyes. The orbs once filled with life, were now a dull listless white, color long gone and no longer decerible, pale and void of any life.

The man was dead, Jack knew that before he approched him, but it wasnt his eyes or his still heart that shocked Jack.  He fell back, dragging himself frantically away from the man, legs unwilling to let him stand again. He yelped, and breathed rapidly as he stared at the mans face, unable to tear himself away though he no longer wished to look. The mans face was horribly deformed, almost as if had been decaying while his heart was still beating. The skin was lumped and a charred looking brown streaked with black, dotted with a bright crimson patchs where the skin had compleatly receeded, revealing the muscle underneath. The top lip looked as if it was curling upwards, showing yellow, rotting teeth, forcing he mans face into a horrible grimace. The skin around the brown infected face was a sick yellow, leaking white puss that froze in the snow.

Jack remembered Black touching the mans face, but he couldnt see THIS through the snow. Could Black have done this? The man obviously had some sort of illness. He grew fearful of Black, he knew the things Black Plague had caused were terrible, but actually SEEING something like this, was something else.He looked off into the direction he followed her from there. something still nagged at the back of his mind. The mans face scared him to the bone, but, he could not stop thinking about Black herself. He wanted to talk to her, face to face, without the other Guardians, though every fiber in his body wanted to keep away from her.
Black? What have you done?

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Awesome! Hope more comes soon! Sorry if I am rushin you. Just that awesome to me. :iconperbyjackfrostplz: