Ascendance (novel)

Ascendance is a work in progress novel by Brii, the main character's name is Kayla and she's in a weird house and then things start happening.

## Ascendance

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        **𝘛**𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬: 𝘈 𝘧𝘰𝘨𝘨𝘺, 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥. 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳...
        "𝘔𝘰𝘮?" 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘴𝘬. "𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨?"
        "𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦," 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.
        𝘜𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳, 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘮'𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭.
        The girl was alone. The lit up kitchen around her was warm salmon. It was getting darker outside. She had one last bite of sandwich and moved with tiredness, getting up out of her seat and throwing the trash away in the can. The kitchen had yellow patterns on the wall, yellow cabinets, yellow floor tiles connected to a further area, and yellow quarter-tiles on the bottom half of its walls. The fridge was yellowish salmon and it was thick. The kind of thick wood table that she got up out of looked out of place, it looked dark and modern.
        She was a young adult but looked tired and small in the glowing kitchen. Her hair was mouse brown with a pink shimmer in the light. She glanced at the window that was next to the table. Still getting darker. She turned back and looked at the hallway for a few seconds, walking towards and into it. Here the now red walls closed into a rectangular upright shape before opening back up to a chamber that had rows of tiny lights on purple walls and a set of antique looking wood stairs going up. The thing about these stairs was that they had a modern looking white fuzzy carpet on them, the type she could've seen in an office or a more completely modern set of stairs in some other house. But, she showed familiarity as there was a lack of surprise when she padded up them. In fact, she knew where she was going. She went up to the red room.
        The red room had a wallpaper with a flowing crown pattern and it also had rows of bookshelves. There was a fireplace in the middle of the otherwise dark room. Some feet away from it there was a black leather couch set which looked sort of modern, on top of a red carpet with a yellow tapestry like pattern all over it.
        She dragged herself over to the couch and flopped into an exhausted laying position, closing her eyes almost immediately and falling asleep some time after.
        ~\*~
        When she woke up, it was really dark everywhere, at least everywhere that wasn't already lit. She looked up at the clock above the fireplace. It said... 3 AM.
        It was still in the middle of the night. Her eyelids drooped but before she could close them, she heard a slow tapping noise.
        *TAP TAP TAP...*
        It sounded a little scratchy at the end each time. Her awake eyes looked around. Where was it?
        Her vision caught on the large black ornate window on the next area over, past the tall and wide opening of the walls. It looked like there was a large black branch on the window that... kind of resembled a hand?
        She squinted at it.
        She stared at it for a few seconds.
        And then, it started to fall down the window with a gruesome scratching noise. She stared at in horror as it disappeared.
        NOW she was awake. She quickly got up and fumbled over to the window, trying to look down at where the branch hand had been. It was too dark for her to see anything there. Her heart was racing and her eyes were really wide like what the hell?? And she figured there was one thing left to do: go down the stairs.
        So she broke into a run down the stairs to get a better look at what was going on. At the ground floor, her wide eyes darted around at the windows. There was a bit of an extra yellow glow to work with, but she couldn't see anything there... she took a step forward, and then another step, carefully, continuing to look at the windows.
        She still didn't see anything.
        She stood up straighter, confused.
        Then a shadow gleamed over the windows on the right. An ominous music note would've played if this was a film. She stared at where the shadow just disappeared in terror.
        A few petrified seconds passed by *really* uncomfortably. She was frozen in place, not knowing what to even do at this point.
        Her hands were shaking a little bit. The adrenaline was coursing through her bones. In fact, she could even feel where it was specifically pulsing: the sides of her head and her back. She repeated "what the" and a curse word each time through quiet gritted teeth a few times. It sounded mostly incomprehensible because she was scared about speaking even. Then nothing happened for what seemed like a minute of standing there. It was a fat minute for her.
        And then... all of a sudden... she saw a dome figure in the distance. Not one, not two, but now three were there, all walking slowly into the lighter area outside, the part where the glow of the other house stretched out until its end. They looked like people with sheets covering them but less people-shaped, they moved weirdly and not exactly like most people would walk, like kind of jerky... and creepy.
        "What the ####" she said out loud, hearing the shaking of her own now fast breathing that went faster and faster as she started to panic. One by one, the figures slowly seemed to turn to look at... HER.
        They started to move in the direction of this house.
        "No... no...," she said with her voice rising in fear as she backed away slowly. She made a little sharp scared noise as she turned and ran back through the hallway, not able to say anything anymore. She frantically ran up the stairs, across the red room over to the big window again and fell over into a stumbled crouch behind the wall under the window, peering up to see out there.
        The dome things continued to slowly walk to here. They walked... and walked...
        And then they stopped walking.
        And they didn't do anything.
        They just stood there, staring at the house.
        She kept watching it in fear, second after second passed by, which turned into another minute... which turned into another one... and so on. The minutes kept crawling by one after the other, but the things were still not moving. They had such a lack of movement that they looked like living statues- but she was well aware there was no way they could have actually been frozen in place. She knew they were watching... waiting....
        The minutes then became a moment. Tiredness started to drift over some part of her mind, even though she was still keeping her eyes through the window.
        By this point she was just as tired as she was afraid. She glanced at the clock, where almost a half hour had passed by, not wanting to lose sleep. But she didn't want to lose her life. She literally just got here.
        She got tireder and tireder... her falling eyes snapped back and blinked all the way open as she thought, *What if they're waiting for me to sleep?*
        Then she remembered something, smoothing out the hair on top of her head with a hand.
        With a shaky breath, she started to feel two lumps on her head, one of which was under her hand. Her eyes reflected her shock and bit of excitement when they started stretching out into straw like things. There was also hair running down her back in a sharp little trail that started getting longer. Then POOF- she now had cat ears and a cat tail!
        Her eyes were wider now and she frantically glanced around at them, turning around a few times. It felt like somebody put a super cute robot suit on her, it felt weird and new but also good.
        "Oh my God," she said quietly, hugging her knees and looking back out the window with her sudden tail curling up a little bit above the wall part.
        The dome things still hadn't moved.
        ~\*~
        When she woke up next, everything around her now had dim yellowish grey light. It was a lot less dark than before, like the lighting during a storm instead of blackness everywhere.
        The first thing she did was turn to look out the window. From the new landscape she could see today, the figures were gone. It... looked empty. And the place really was huge.
        By that point she wanted to check out her neighbor's house so she took her glance off and went across the room and then down the stairs. She walked over to the front door and looked at the handle for a good second before opening it. She took a wary step outside of the door and she was now on the porch.
        It looked a little eerie already, well now it felt kind of creepy being out here and hearing literally nothing. She cautiously moved a foot forward, then carefully made another step forward, reacting slightly to each tiny creaking noise and moving her eyes side to side to keep watch. So far, nothing. She stood up normally with a knuckle on her waist and offbalanced her eyebrows in determined confusion. By that point she shrugged and walked multiple steps down the stairs off the porch, and onto the grass.
        She slowly looked up at the sky, and there were a lot of leaves up there. They were really high. Not a single one was on the ground.
        She held her stare for a little bit, trying to make out if there was anything weird in the sky. Something seemed a bit off.. she wasn't sure if those textures were clouds, or if those little bits of pink and blue were tricks of the light.. but nothing was really in sight up there. So she looked back at the house across the field. There were a few tree trunks rising like redwoods out here, but mostly everything she could walk around on was spotted grass.
        She glanced around the clearing again and decided to make a run for it. The grass was being REALLY noisy but at this point she didn't care, if she walked in slow motion she'd be walking forever. As expected her heart was beating a little faster.
        It was a bit of an impulsive decision really, but she finally found herself on the other house's porch. The house really did look almost identical to hers even up close out here. But what or who was in there?
        She knocked on the door quickly and loudly, waiting. When she glanced back to look at her surroundings again, everything seemed to be wavering like a mirage for what suspense she was feeling. But all of these leaves together were honestly really blurry.
        The door opened suddenly and she flinched a little startled-
        But it was just a guy around her age wearing a emo outfit and a cape. Probably.
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