[b]"Wakey wakey!"[/b] the bird chirped, [b]"Wake up sleepyhead! Breakfast!"[/b]

"[color=palegoldenrod]Wakey, wakey...?[/color]" Nel tilted her head, glancing at the bird as it hopped on her shoulder, "[color=palegoldenrod]What did you...?[/color]"

[i]What did it do? This is your fault, you gullible idiot.[/i]

Nel's eyes widened in horror as the gigantic draconian statue before her shook the earth. It rumbled, vines snapped with it's movement, and moss that had been accumulating on it's stony carapace was shaken off as the stone-beast roared to life. Absolute terror flashed in her eyes, her pupils shrunk to pinpoints. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't-- she couldn't do anything. She wanted to turn her head to see her companions, what were they doing? She wondered. Were they paralyzed at the mere sight too? She doubted it.

[i]Fool! Fool! Fool![/i]

Perhaps they had left her here, already? Her body was no longer her own. Her blood, the knot in her stomach, the cold sweat that ran the length of her skin-- it all became ice as the yellow eyes glared at her. The soreness left her body, the enervation, the doubt... it had all been replaced by that overwhelming fear. It rushed to her head. It told her...

[i]'run run run run run run run run rUN RUN RUN RUNRURNRUNRRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRURN[b]URNURNRUNRUNRURUNRUNRUNRURNURNURNRUNRUNRURNURNURNR[u]RUN[/u][/b]'[/i]

But her body was no long her own to move. In her head, her parent's bickered. Her mother laughed at her-- [i]you're in over your head![/i] Her father wanted to galvanize her, he pleaded-- [i]you CAN deal with this.[/i] Neither got through, all the only thing here was her, and the beast, and with a glare, it had taken control of her body away. With a whimper, Nel fell to her knees.

[i]Fool![/i]

She knew what was happening; she couldn't breath, her head felt slight, the light was dimming. She tried to turn, tried to murmur something to... someone... before... her eyes... closed... her.. .  he ad. .  h it    th e   gr ou n d    .