Written by 0bliv!on.


Cloudscape VII

I meandered aimlessly, gliding through fetid fumes and searing winds. All were reminders of what occurred below me: fiery conflagrations consuming my cities whole, foul pestilence afflicting my brethren; all because I had erred, because I had been too naïve, too blind to see. I should have struck down the usurper the moment he had appeared. Instead, I had welcomed him into my world, shared with him my knowledge, and gave him reason to envy me. None of that mattered to me now, as my fury threatened to drown my very sanity in an ocean of hatred. I rose to face the thunderclouds who hovered like vultures over my dead and dying. Uncaring I raced towards them, daring them to strike me down.



Upwards, forever upwards I flew. Desperately I clawed my at the air with my blackened wings, struggling to leave behind my shattered world. Even as I fled, my home cried out in anguish. Heedless, my wings flailed at the air, taking me higher and higher still. Rising, ascending, and yet fallen I sped on. I rose from the screams and chaos, escaping the world below me, only to meet the wrath of heaven. A solid wall of blackness confronted me, an ominous ceiling looming over me.



The inferno below flickered on its shadowy surface, an unnatural merging of flames and frost. My seething rage drove me on. Reckless, I passed the threshold, plunging myself into the miasma, letting myself be engulfed. Tendrils of cold seduced me, smothered me. The nothingness numbed my pain, took away all feeling, replacing it with blessed oblivion. The ice which had entrapped my heart spread out through that object, which I distantly saw as myself. My wings beat lethargically, as I drifted blind. For an eternity I hung, motionless, my wings thoughtlessly caressing that which bound me. I felt an indescribable empathy with this infinite greyness. Within me, my emptiness merged as one with the featureless void without.



I burst out above the turbulent blankness, into a world of light. Sunshine flooded my senses, blinded me, and shattered my reverie. The emptiness in me fled, the clinging chill was washed away, and my heart leapt at the warmth which embraced every inch of my being. I floated, mesmerised, paralysed in this instant of bliss, under the azure dome of heaven, my wings lazily tracing patterns on the gently rolling blanket of white under me, stretching as far as the eye could see, ad infinitum.



I was struck by a sense of serenity so potent, it pervaded my thoughts, my emotions, my very existence. So totally alone as I had never been, and yet there was not another moment to which I had more belonged. I stayed awhile, letting the sunlight nourish me, while the breeze tousled my hair and ruffled my feathers. Letting my anxieties and doubts be overwhelmed by the aura of peace, I readied myself to return to my world, still pleading for salvation. When at last I could linger no longer, I soared once more towards the sun, drinking in one last taste of pure joy, and at the peak of my ascent, I let myself drop. With one last stroke of my wings, I hurtled at the white foam beyond which lay my destiny.



~ Fin

Nice story!! but are we really not aloud to make storys about anime???

any stories can go here.. anime stories go in 'fanfics'. and thanks for the comments =)