Bears.
It had to be bears.
There were two of them. Massive. With teeth like daggers. Their eyes were crimson, a sure sign they were inflicted with the Malady. Flecks of foam drifted down from the corners of their open mouths.
The bear to her right suddenly reared up on two it’s hind legs, letting out a deep threatening moan. It was an evil sound, something you’d expect to hear at midnight in a cemetery.
Gwen took a step back, attempting to keep both behemoths in sight.
“Stay back you two great buckets of ugly”
-It was right around here-
Righty slammed back onto all fours, while Lefty took a step forward, it’s blood-filled eyes directed right at Gwen.
“This won’t end well for you, you’ll be a carpet in front of someone’s fireplace I promise you”.
Gwen adopted a fighter’s stance, her feet set for an attack from either side. She had a grim smile on her face. She took a breath, a breeze ruffling the sun-kissed mahogany hairs atop head. The breeze died down and Lefty charged. So did Gwen, right at Righty, who lurched back up on to two legs, raising its arms to attack. Claws the length of a human forearm gleamed in the golden light of the late afternoon. Spotting an oak looming in the corner of her vision, Gwen cut short and leapt to the side before entering the bear’s reach. She reached up and grabbed a high branch. Her momentum nearly ripped open her grip, but she held strong. She brought both legs up, placing her feet against the wide trunk and launching herself, landing on Righty’s broad shoulder where she promptly jammed both of her thumbs into each of his red eyes. Righty did not appreciate this.
-Nearly there-
Gwen leap down, landing clumsily before regaining her feet and taking a look back to see Left receive massive gashes across his cheek as Righty, in a tornado of frenzy, attempted to tear into anything within reach.
Gwen took off running.
“That’s how you make the most of an un-bear-able situation” she chuckled to herself “Yikes, that was bad, even for me.”
-This! This was it, this was the scene he knew he loved her, that he loved Gwen Sparrow. He’d lost track of what number re-read this was yet his heart still leapt whenever she overcame certain death. Girls at his school weren’t like her. She was quirky, funny and a total badass. There was a magic about her and not just the spells she begins casting near the end of the first book. The first time he picked up 'The Curse of Fear' by Carlos Method he had been hooked into the series by the end of the first chapter and in love with its protagonist by the end of the second.
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He rubbed at his eyes as things started to come into focus, a lush evergreen forest, dirt the brick-colored dirt, and a woman.
A woman with hair the color of mahogany that was kissed by the sun.
Billy's Notes:
Hey, it's me. I've considered adding notes to some of these posts for a while particularly the "From the Red Notebook" stuff. I wanted to share this one, but it's missing a lot and would/will take a long time to complete, so why not add some notes for clarification/backstory. The basic concept is this dude is infatuated with Gwen Sparrow and somehow enters the world from her series of books then maybe adventures ensue? I feel like it's a concept that has been done before, but there were parts I liked, so no harm in tossing it up on the ol' blog, right? I was happy with the first couple of lines despite them being a glaring Indiana Jones reference. I also am quite fond of the title, which at the moment, has next to nothing to do with the story, but I think that's why I like it. I feel like most of my titles are fairly obvious, whether it be a line from the story or the subject. As They Fly Away is from a poem about sparrows I came across after a quick google search, I saw the line and really liked how it sounded by itself. When I typed up Gwen's book scenes and the Readers part in Microsoft Word (just kidding i use pages from Apple cause I'm too cheap to pay for Word) each had different fonts, but apparently this website only has one standard font so I went with normal and bold text to attempt to show a difference. Not sure if it made it easier to figure out or just plain confusing. With the Red Notebook stuff I usually type out what I wrote down a couple years ago and end up changing things because what's written down is essentially a two-year-old rough draft and they're often plain not good. This one I had to do more work on than usual and it was not easy. The whole fight scene was an addition, in the original she simply took off running. It was also referred to as the "penultimate" scene in the Gwen Sparrow book, which I'm almost positive was added just because I wanted to use the word "penultimate". There was also another scene where Gwen and the Reader were communicating before he was drawn into the book. I didn't really like how it played out so I axed it. I may tinker with it or add more and repost the story, but it took me like a week just to think of her jumping off a damn tree in the fight scene so it's going to be a bit.