Walpurgis Night-The Beginning of Black (Book 1)

STORYBOARD/PLOT DRAFT

• Lured by a talking stray dog to the Black Continent, told to bring Serene along
• Enters the Black Continent, meets with a strange team of a giant, an elf, a dwarf and a humanimal
• Ventures with them to send a mystery child named Xana back to her clan
• Going through many obstacles, including marshes, cliffs, skeleton pines and ruins
• Meets a High Being frozen in suspended animation in a huge crystal
• Talks to High Being in a dream
• In the Earth Dimension, people start to notice Wallie and Serene's disappearance
• Meanwhile Wallie & team reach the Hanging Bridge, meets a Keeper who will only let people pass if they give him an unsolvable riddle
• Wallie and Serene succeed in giving him an unsolvable riddle
• Creatures called Falah-Teks hovering around the team as they cross the bridge and snatched Wallie and Serene when they targeted Xana
• In captivity, learns about the true nature of Xana: she is born from a Death Messenger creature
• Xana is a child created as a deal to allow a young girl 10 more years for her dying father
• Abandoned because she is born out of wedlock and half Ima'asen (Other Worldly Beings)
• Team comes led by Xana's mother to return Xana to the Falah-Teks in exchange for Wallie and Serene
• Xana speaks for the first time, delivering a death message to her mother and her village
• Plague hit and killed everyone in the village
• Xana's mother, before she died, blamed Wallie & Serene for bringing this calamity to them
• After consultation, the giant and elf volunteered to take Wallie and Serene to see an Ever Being so she can send them to see the Hymanjalai on the mountaintops
• Hymanjalai in cat form request a gift for safe passage
• Wallie gives her anniversary necklace as a gift
• Passes through