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Nothing.

“LMN?”

Seemingly nothing but a lick of shadow, moving…

“Are you-AHHH!!”

The shadows came alive, swirling and storming, a hurricane with Torchic at its center.
Swept under, ripped apart by the savage dark, with nothing left but a small light, which even then began to die away…


until it didn’t.

The shadows swirled for one last, crushing attack, but the tendril was blasted away by…
another light?

Another tendril, another light. And then two, three, four more, a barricade of ten lights, ten souls, alight against the suffocating darkness.

And then, so faint, another spark that barely could be seen….




one last forsaken soul…..

“TORCHIC!!”

Voices. Screaming. Why were they screaming?

“TORCHIC!!!”
“Oh God, oh God, oh my actual God-”
“SOMEONE GET SECURITY!”

Tree. Sidewalk. The sun, so bright and harsh. Blurred faces.

“No! Stop! Don’t move her!”
“TORCHIC!!!!”

Ohh, the pain. Blessed darkness.

Beep. Beep.
The sharp smell of antiseptic cut through her consciousness, along with a low, steady beeping sound.
A hospital. Of course.

She opened her eyes to the sight of the intensive care unit. It was surprisingly empty, the twilight rays of the sun glimmering across the floor.

Wait, what? Why am I in the hospital?

She tried to move and immediately regretted it, as a throbbing pain in her skull flared. She instinctively put her hands on her head to stop the pain and felt bandages.

Ow….

A flash of green caught her eye. A green ribbon, hanging from the windowsill.

Is that…

She grabbed it and flipped it over.

IL B
Woodland Middle School
5th Place
Boomilever
North Carolina 2020

We won?

“WE WON!!”

The pain temporarily forgotten, she whooped in excitement, and then started at the sudden sound of clapping.

“AHH!”
“Sorry!”
“No, wait!”

LittleMissNyan popped her head back around the corner.

“You alright?”
“What happened?”
“YOU WON! THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED!”
“WHOOOOO!”
Cue an (albeit mostly one sided) dance party.


Alright party over.
LittleMissNyan plopped down into a nearby chair.

"Great job!"
"Yeah, I guess.."

There was still one thing worrying her.

“Do you know why I’m in the hospital?”
“...maybe?"
"Maybe??"
"I mean the bandages probably told you that already, right?”
“No…?”
“Nah, it was just something stupid and you got hurt-”
“No, seriously, what happened?”


Yeah, this party was most definitely over.

LittleMissNyan took a deep breath.

“We were playing Frisbee in the courtyard...”

“The Frisbee got stuck in a tree and you went up to go get it.”

“There was an electrical box nearby.”

“I don’t know what happened, but something exploded, and the branch you were standing on cracked...”

“You landed on your head.”



“The doctors said you should have died.”

“I was so scared you were going to die.”

Oh.

LittleMissNyan was curled up on the chair, looking shaken. Such a familiar pose…