"Why am i here? Why did you kidnap me? who are you?" Linanda asked fearfully.
"You are here because of your gifts and ancestry. We kidnapped you because we need your help. Who we are does not matter." The mystery voice claimed from somewhere in the shadows of the room.
"My gifts? My ancestry? What does that mean?" The fiery red headed girl inquired.
"Yes."
"Oh, wow. THAT'S helpful." Maybe her sarcastic remark should have stayed in her head, because the moment they left her mouth, she heard growling.
"YOu're gifts.You're a Shady." He grumbled. "YOu have the ability to hide in the shadows and become invisible." Suddenly, she remebered all those times when she felt invisible to people, and wondered if she really had been.
"A SHADY? wow. That sounds absolutely horrid? Couldn't it be called, i don't know, a Shade at least?" She asked.
"No." The dark voice claimed. "You must use these powers to reach the devasstated girl beneath the world, and in the Land of Shadows.."
"ooh! Crypticly worded!" Linanda sarcastically muttered.
"YOu've got spunk. But that will do you no good in the land of Shadows." Linanda rolled her eyes.
"Fine, I'll go, but where must I go to get to this mysterious 'Land of Shadows'?"
"You must melt into the shadows. It will take all of your power, and you will probably black out. But not to worry, you will wake up in a matter of hours. Once you find the Devastated Girl, tell her 'Alnanahu'. She will know what this means." Scared, but aware that her captor was deadly serious, Linanda focused on the shadows, trying to 'melt into them'. Within minuted, she felt a tug in her gut, and the air seemed to get darker and colder.
She woke up several hours later in a vast land of blackness. she could somehow see, and she started walking. She was beneath the World, now she just needed to find the Devastated Girl.
"Come to me!" The wind seemed to whisper as it howled by. "Come to me!" Frightened by the voice full of despair, Linanda ran, no, she fled as fast as she could, in an attempt to rid herself of the wind, but it seemed to get louder.
"ALMOST THERE! COME TO ME!" It howled in her ears, wrapping around her brain, creeping into her thoughts. She couldn't take it anymore, and she crumpled on the ground, crying. The voice was so eerie and painful. But when her body hit the ground, she found herself face-to-face with a young girl. Startled, she jumped up. Built into the dark ground was an African girl, her brown eyes full of misery, her mouth speaking into the wind.
Linanda spoke one word: "Alnanahu"
The Devastated Girl flinched at the word, then she got up and strangled Linanda. Somehow, Linanda now knew what the word meant : "Kill the Shady Girl"