Thread: Spirit of the Crystal Shard (HKitten and J)

Modern Day The streets were fairly busy today in the Saturday Market, bursting with life and deafening with sound. People were haggling over prices and objects for things they probably don??t need, since the place was mainly for knickknacks that no one really cares for. At least, that??s what he had always thought. But even if the stuff they sold could be considered junk, Noah found himself at the market every other Saturday, just searching through the booths and wasting his time away while he enjoyed the day off of school. At the age of sixteen, the dark redhead boy was living alone in the city, having his parents send home money every month. Though it was strange for a teenager to live alone like that, his parents couldn??t pass up the opportunity of the new job in the other city. However, since Noah had already started school at his new High School, they figured they would allow him to stay back in this city and provide for him. His friends would often say he ??had it made??, but really, Noah sometimes felt lonely in his house. He wasn??t the type to randomly invite people over, since that would be a bad idea to have a lot of people around, but of the few friends he did invite, they were not always available. Today, the crystalline blue eyed teen though, was going to be the day that he brought some junk to cheer himself up of that thought. However, there was a lot of junk to filter through, so he continued to shuffle through booth after booth until the late afternoon. It wasn??t until he ran into a jewelry booth did he realize he??d been pass this same one the last eight times. Gee, Noah?direction senseless? he scold himself, before deciding to take a look at this booth since he was there. The teen wasn??t exactly thinking he should be a jewelry item, but they didn??t look too bad. Nothing extremely fancy and girly like he was trying to avoid. ??Have you found something you??d like?? the stand owner asked, some strange and old man. The sun was ??at its peek?? at the moment, shining direction down over them. It made this old man look like he was hollow or something, with less muscles and pale skin to cover him. Just seeing that irked him slightly, but he just faced the jewelry again to focus on the merchandise. ??No?well, what about this one?? the teen finally asked after a few minutes. He picked up a small necklace, a small pendent that looked like part of a broken crystal, wrapped around strangely tough string, and all tied together with some weird leather for the necklace part. The crystal was barely visible though, since the string wrapping around it was basically covering every inch. Strange, why would someone sell a covered up crystal? ??Ah, yes! That one is rather old. Said it came from the very Stronburg Castle itself. The crystal is supposed to have magic trapped within?and whoever frees this magic, owns it?but be warned, once bound cannot be unbound, for this magic bind to you and stay with you. You will not be rid of it until you??ve found all of the shards, young lad?? Noah stared at the man as if he was crazy. ??Eight bucks.? that was his one and only offer. The necklace itself looked kind of cool, but he wasn??t going to buy into some stupid ??myth?? that old geezers make up to get their junk to be sold. After a good ten minutes of bartering about the price, it was sold to him at seven dollars and eight-nine cents. Ugh, this thing isn??t even worth that hassle? Noah thought to himself, before heading out of the market area. Obviously, he shouldn??t be buying anymore junk and waste his time, so the teen decided to just go home and watch a movie. Once he was home after a short bus ride, he stuck in some random comedy and grabbed for a few snacks. ??No, let??s see if you??re even real?? Noah didn??t really believe he brought crystal??perhaps fake, plastic junk, but not the real thing. While he unraveled the string that bound the crystal, he found that it was rather knotted on one end, so he attempted to use his teeth. Tugging at it while trying not to break the necklace, he pulled the knot and string free, but ended up nicking himself on his lower lip. ??AH! Shoot, that??s sharp?? the teen complained, feeling blood well up from his cut. The crystal had a good drop or two of his blood where it had cut him, and while he licked his bottom lip of the blood and stared at the necklace, it began to glow a strange, blue hue. Phew, that took me longer than I thought to do it. xD spent a chunk of the morning Hope it's alright it was a long introduction for my character...kind of got carried away