❱❱ sʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ ᴀɴɪᴍᴀʟs : ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 1 ✥ ᴄᴇᴄᴇ walked down the street with her little sister, Mira. They were heading to the playground, for what seemed like the twentieth time that week; it was only Tuesday. But Cece had promised her mom, Bella, to take care of Mira while Bella was at work this week, so kindergartener-sitting would be Cece's fate for the rest of the week. They finally arrived at the playground, and Cece was already exhausted. Mira, as the 6 year old she is, bolted up the ladder of the first slide she saw. Cece collapsed into a bench and watched the shadows. Mira caught Cece eyeing the shadows. "Cece!! It's daytime, the shadow animals won't come right now!" Cece sighed. "I know, Mira. I'm just worried after what happened with Saki..." Cece immediatley thought back to the night when Cece and saki were hanging out near the edge of the forest, shooting t!k t0ks, and a shadow fox appeared out of the woods behind saki. Cece screamed and saki turned around, then locked eyes with the shadow fox. The color started draining out of saki's skin immediatley. Cece remembered being frozen in place, her eyes glued to saki's skin, which was turning grayer and grayer by the moment. Finally, saki was a very pale gray, and as saki turned around to face Cece once more, her eyes held no emotion. Cece turned and fled back to her house. She hasn't seen saki since. Mira sighed. It's cute when a 6 year old sighs like she's 17. "You know, I saw someone be shadow-ed or whatever, too; Jenni. They were in my class." "Yeah, but...that's not really the same. They weren't your best friend. Since...preschool." Cece replied. "I still know what it looks like. It's scary." Cece nodded. "It is." After a while, Cece and mira headed home, and saw a delicious looking dinner of chicken tenders was set up, and their mom and dad, Bella and Cherry, were waiting for them. The family sat down for dinner and started chatting about random things that happened earlier that day. Suddenly, the lights flickered. Then again. The family froze. The lights went out. At first Cece thought it was just a power outage, until a wave of cold washed over her. She heard a ruffle of wings. Lights going out...sudden cold...wings...could only mean one thing. "The Shadow Dragon." Cherry whispered. TO BE CONTINUED...
Characters: (in order of appearance) Cece (@therealgabriellalala) : main character Mira (@-spopadvice-) : cece's little sister Bella (@-angelies) : cece's mom Saki (@sakithetaki) : cece's old bff Jenni (@j2nyioz) : random side character that was in mira's class then got shadow-ed :) Cherry (@cherry_da_frog_real) : cece's dad