Splinters

'''So, idk if I'll continue this. I'll put Call Me Natalie first. I just want to do a nice quick write quickly and if you like it I'll continue it. Its another first pov practice! Yay!'''

By, SuldreenSong

So quick overview cause I'm to lazy to write a plot description right now. Atlantis-tragic past-shame-abondoned-now is a society where a lot of illegal (mostly betting) activities go on, and it's a pretty dead end place. Once your there your stuck there more or less. And despite how expansive it is, it's still a prison. they've been cut off. Ask me if you need more.

Same universe as my role player Nyala

Chapter One
''Bang. Bang. Bang.''

Each bottle shatters, it's jagged pieces falling onto the floor. Their points appear especially sharp with the lighting reflecting off of them from the balefire. I push my way through the crowd, shoving in order to reach the admission stand. A man stands there, his nose slightly crooked, his eyes black, wincing as he looks at me with suspicion.

"You're a contestant?" He grumbles, skeptically. His brow shoots up, "You have the fifty lusters? We don't have time here for jokes."

I'm careful to avoid taking out my cube--You know cube theft these days--reaching deep into my elbow pocket, drawing out the cash careful to not go a fraction over. The man snatches the money, counting it twice before gesturing me towards a corner where some other contestants are drinking fizzleberry wine.

I make my way towards them, distancing myself enough to make sure nothing troublesome happens, but also close enough to seem like I belong to a group. A boy looking about my age laughs, "Huh, and I thought the contestants here couldn't get any weirder." His piercing teals studied me as if trying to figure me out. I got that reaction a lot though. I could understand why, though. He opens his mouth as if to speak again, before being shoved out of the way by girl with rainbow streaks running through her hair.

"Like, do you even, like, like know how to play?" She questions eyeing me again. Electricity zaps between her fingers, zapping a bug flying in the air sending it to it's doom. No flinches. They know not to even if we would have naturally. We don't show any signs of weakness at all.

"Of course I do. What do you think this is? A playground?" I spit it out. I take a moment looking at her. From her clothes to her neatly styled hair I could tell something was different about her. "But I guess for you it is."

She nods a me, something a did not expect, almost like she respected me. "Ok, clear off." She said shooing the rest of the people away, leaving only teal eyed one left. She turns back at me her face housing a display of confidence, "Good luck. You're gonna need it."

A voice cuts through my head turning me back the other way. My shadow dances behind me stretching of towards the boy. "So, you're a shade," He states as if it's the most normal thing in the world. "And you have brown eyes. Related to the great Sophie Foster, by chance?

I shake my head. It wasn't his business really, though. "Nope, just some messed up genes, I think. Nothing that interesting."

"Nothing that interesting." He repeated laughing, "Please. We're down here. It's not like there's much more interesting. I'm Mylen by the way. Mylen Vacker." I'm surprised he tosses him name around so carelessly. It probably wasn't

"Hmmmmm...Sounds familiar was your family once celebrities or something?"

His tone turns different as he replies, "Once..." His voice goes back into its upbeat state, "hmmm, I wonder what's taking so long." He walks away.

"See you in the ring." He pivots slightly, sending a smile that could brighten up all of Atlantis.

'''Yeah I might rewrite that to have more action. I feel like that was a bit boring so just wait, actually don't bother reading the rest of this so you can get ahead to a better part once it's done. It will still be chapter one though.'''