Skeletal Writings

Well, I have come to the conclusion that my Callix trilogy is never going to work in any form it's currently in.  She (Callix) really wants her story to be told and yeah, I want to do that, but it's just never happened.  So then today I thought, "Maybe it's not working because it's not her story."  I've been trying to force all the things I want to happen in all my previous drafts and such and it seems like just when I'm on a roll, I get trapped and don't know where to go.  Well, that's because it's not coming naturally to me.  All this senseless babbling leads me to a very important point, and that is the new outline for the trilogy.  As of right now, it is unnamed other than Callix Trilogy and none of the novels have titles.  This should come to me eventually, if this is really the direction I need to take.  And now, the outline for the three books.

Book Number One
Callix and her parents (not sure who they are) are going on yet another demon hunting trip.  Callix ( a preteen/young teenager) is all "Oh my god, my parents are such losers!" because nobody else's parents go demon hunting.  They happen to go ghost hunting, which is a lot less dangerous and kind of awesome.  And that logic is totally backwards, but that's the way things work.  So Callix is sitting in the car while her parents are all "Yay demon hunting!" at an abandoned house that looks exactly like the type of place you'd find a demon.  Boring stuff happens, so we flashfoward to maybe the third chapter.  Callix finished exploring around the house and thinks something demonic is happening right that moment, but there are no signs of anything alive.  The demon hunting trip is deemed an absolutely failure and Callix's parents are ready to leave.  As they're pulling out the driveway, Callix sees an unusual looking girl walk out of the house and sit on the porch.  This is Jillian (a demon of sorts who becomes important in some way in another novel).  End of introduction.  The rest of the novel is one evening Callix is attacked by a demonic shadow and a winged humanesque demon named Eriko (anyone who has followed my journal knows a little about him) rescues her.  He explains that she should not have been exploring near that house and that really kicked off things to come.  He also tells her you don't come to demons, they come to you, and very few people are lucky/unlucky in that way.  Because there is a barrage of demons waiting for Callix (some she sees, some she knows are around but that's it) Eriko suggests she visit the Simballa marketplace/business district (yes, the worlds are the exact same) on a certain date.  No other information follows.  Skip to why it's significant.  A man named Tatius Salzana (has been mentioned in context of anolder draft outline) is recruiting boys for a demon hunting/slaying/exorcism school and he happens to be in the marketplace that day.  Long story short, Callix follows him back to the school and becomes a student.  The rest of the book involves her training and creatures previously mentioned (Snip Snips and kadiups) reveal themselves and the end of the book has something to do with Callix and Jillian (of course, the very lousy author has no idea what it is).

Book Number Two
This book opens with Callix (eighteen, same body) in Toriaun Salzana's vacation house.  Other things happen at the same time concerning buddies she made, but that is glossed over in favor of more details on her and what she's looking at.  A lot of this stuff is what happened in an older draft.  Toriaun has a bunch of demons who are basically prisoners/there for him to torture.  Callix and her amazing picking-up-on-vibes ability know something is wrong (even though they are demons and that is the one thing she's againts, she doesn't like what she feels when she's around them).  Finally Toriaun comes clean and Callix leaves him.  Years pass (because the author said so) and Callix is now a twenty-five year old only ranked female slayer.  She is also a go-between for the demon realm and the human realm (and you can blame the kadiup who is still in her mind for that) which is contradictory with her slaying.  On one of her visits to the demon realm, she is randomly attacked by a demon who forgot/doesn't know she's protected.  She tells her demon boss she quits, which puts him in a rage and bad things happen to a bunch of people.  The end of the novel is dealing with the results of whatever he did.   

Book Number Three
After all the mental rebuilding is completed, certain worlds are ready to fight the demons for what happened.  Bare in mind, whatever Astrixto (Callix's former boss/demon king) did affected every human world and they're justified.  But not entirely intelligent.  You can't expect to fight the demons and win.  It just doesn't work out.  That leads to conflict within worlds and between worlds, because if you're going to go to war you need a leader.  Most worlds scrapped monarchies and such in the last twenty years.  Now it's a matter of who's going to lead, even if just temporary.  Lots of boringness ensues.  Long story short, Callix is selected as a leader and preparations begin.  In the first and second books, there is a slight romantic subplot (I promise it is significant) between Callix and Toriaun Salzana (okay, it's one-sided where Toriaun wants Callix and Callix can't reciprocate).  In this book, the romantic subplot concludes with Callix telling Toriaun to shove it.  Although he is a fantabulous demon torturer and they are both so abusive to each other they balance each other out (which means it's an equally negative relationship and that seems to work for them) and Toriaun isn't bad to look at, he is just like the demon king she's training to fight against.  More on this story later when I feel less distracted.