Chapters
1. How We
Got Together In A Dangerous
Place.....................................................6
The Cast
The Guardians Powers/ Abilities/ Creature
1.
Serena
........................................................................................
Everything
2. Ryan
....................................................................................
Earth/Ground
3. Bryan ......................................................................................... Fighting
4. Erika
........................................ Physic/ can carry stuff with
mind/Hypnosis
5.
Brook ................................................................................................. Wind
6. Maya
.................................................................................. Water and Steam
7. May
....................................................................................... Ice and Steam
8.
Kaitlyn
.................................................................................................. Fire
9.
Crystal
........................................................................................ Holograms
10.
Keigan
.......................................................................................
Metal Turner
11.
Hannah
............................................................................................. Feelings
12.
Savana
..............................................................................................
Animals
13. Conner ....................................................................................... Energy Giver
14.
Casey
.............................................................................................. Healer
15. Kat
............................................................................ Ghosts/ Part Fog Faery
The Big Helpers( The creatures/ people that help the
Guardians along the way!)
1. Stone Leaf
......................................................................................
Tree Dryad 2. Misty
........................................................................................ Selkie
3. Lealia
...................................................................................... Griffin
4. Lupus .....................................................................................
Werewolf
Prologue
We are taking a tiny break. I wanted to copy
down what happens to us for the next generation of Guardians. So they won't
make the same mistakes we did. So they have a better chance of beating their
enemies. Lupus didn't want us to write this. He told us to think of what would
happen if it got into the wrong hands. But I trust that it won't. I know that
it won't. For now, it will stay with us.
To the fellow
Guardian who is reading this, please try to stay alive for the first three
weeks as a Guardian. You are not powerful enough to fight in attack. Only fight
in defense. Otherwise you will die very easily. I know this is not bright, but
what can I say. People have to do what people have to do.
Now, we will start
telling what happened to us on our very first day, in the morning. Because we
still are on our first day. Besides I like writing. I am one of the 15
Guardians.
Many Blessings upon you future Guardians. May it be a
guidebook on you road. Now read this... Journal of the Guardians.
P.S. Please write
about your journeys too, to pass it on to the newbies. They will need all the
help and information they can get.
May the Dragons of
Sprit and Energy guide you on your quest. And the Greek Gods and Goddess. They
will help a lot.
chapter1 How We Came Together
In A Dangerous Place
Serena
looked around for the 100th time. She was scared. And freaked out. She thought
something or someone was following her. No, she knew that something or someone was following her. It`s just that I`m nervous for the last day
of school she thought. That`s because that Serena, the smartest kid in
school, had to give a graduating speech to all the 7th and 8th graders.
Why her 1st of all? Answer:
Because she was the smartest kid in the school. Why was she the smartest?
Answer: That`s a secret. One about to be revealed that even Serena doesn`t
know.
Now let's talk about
Serena`s looks. I mean everyone has to know how people look like in the stories
don't they? Serena is an average-looking girl at first glance. Her eye were a
natural brown color. Her hair covered her eyes and she wore glasses . Her hair
was long and black, and her figure sleek and thin. She was beautiful, but since
she was a nerd, no boy would ever go for her. Or so people thought. Well
anyways let us get back to the real story.
Serena
heard something crack. Loudly. Then the rustle of leaves and sticks. She spun
around. On the ground she saw two teenagers girls fighting . One of them seemed
to have a godly appearance and the other seemed to have a demonic appearance. She
did the first thing that came to mind to any leveled-headed person. She
screamed.
You are
probably wondering what the heck does this have to do with the prologue? Well,
it has may things to do with it. One among them is that I'm that girl.
I
was very scared. What else with a girl like me would do? Unbelievably, the girl
with the godly appearance shouted," Get out of here Guardian! Find
someplace safe to practice Magick! The war is coming!". That was all she
could say because of the little person. That was encouragement enough for me. I
ran. I ran all the way to school. I passed surprised students and teachers
yelling at me to slow down. I didn't stop until I reached my locker. I stood there gasping for air
for a few minutes. People were giving me weird looks. I didn't care. I was just
happy to be somewhere else rather than where those two teens where fighting. Then
one of my best friend Kaitlyn walked up to me and said" Why were you
running? I called your name like 300 times! And looked like you`ve seen a ghost.”.
" Maybe because I did dumb-dumb!" I snapped at
her.
" Somebody didn`t get enough sleep last
night!" she said laughing.
I ignored her and opened up my locker as my mind raced.
Kaitlyn kept on blabbing on about a date or dance, or something. I had seen a
two teens fighting and that one of them was protecting me or something. It, or
whatever, called me a Guardian and told me to practice magic. Or was it Magick,
knowing it could be said both ways. So, I knew magic was supposedly real or that was a dumb prank. I
closed my locker. What in the world was going on?! Magic or Magick or whatever isn't
supposed to be real. Right?
" Well, I'll see you later, nerd!
Bye!" said Kaitlyn, as she walked away.
" See ya." I start walking toward
class. Then I heard something that I didn't want to hear right then.
" Hey! Bookworm! Why
were you running? Got scared by a car?"
Some boys snickered. I turn and face the boy
and his gang. Ryan and his gang of dumb boys. " Ryan. Now is not a good
time," And with that I turn around and start to walk away. But Ryan grabs
me.
"You ain't going to go without giving me
an answer like I asked." he said as he grabbed my arm. As soon as he
touched me , I twisted out of his grip, grabbed his hand and gave it a twist.
He cried out and fell to his knees.
" Don't. Touch.
Me," and I let go of him. A little crowd had gathered. That would only
attract teachers. And today would be a bad day to get a detention. Actually,
any day was a bad day to get a detention. But today was worse. I walked out of
the middle and through the crowd. And right into a teacher.
5 MINUTES LATER, Ryan and I were
sitting in the principal's office. Well, the Reflection room as the principal
and the staff liked to call it. Kids called it the Torturing room, because 1.
It was flowery and sunshiny. Not in a good way and 2. It was just plain creepy.
Because there was a least a hundred dolls in there. The eyes of those dolls are
creepy. And 3. It was B-O-R-I-N-G.
We
were sitting next to each other, because there were only 2 chairs. Which were
nailed to the floor. Next to each other. But we stayed as far from each other
as possible. Finally, I couldn't stand sitting anymore and walked over to the
window. And what I saw surprised me. " What da......?" I muttered under
my breath. There was a deer running towards us in the distance.
"
Did you say something, Bookworm?" asked Ryan. I didn't answer him as I
looked outside. Then he looks at me. " What'cha lookin' at?"
It
took me a second to realize that Ryan had asked me a question. " Oh.
Ummmm, nothing." I replied, quickly. Which wasn't, maybe, a good idea.
"You are hiding something, aren't
ya." he says as he gets up out of the chair.
" No, I'm not!"
" See! Yes you are!" and he walks
over, pushes me to the side, and looks outside. Which, probably, wasn't a good
idea for him. Right that moment, the deer came flying through, breaking the
window, tackling Ryan to the ground, and making me scream in the process.
" Ryan!" I run over and help him up.
" You ok?"
" No! Do you think a person would be ok
when they just got tackled by a deer?" He gets up slowly and groaning, and
leans on me.
" Geez... Harsh." I mutter.
" Where's a nurse when you need
one?"
" Ummmmm... Ryan. We have a bigger
problem to deal with."
"What?????"
" That." I said as I point at the
deer. It was looking at us. Then it changed. I mean like shape shift change.
That deer shape shifted into a bull. Not a good sign.
" That's not good. I think," Said
Ryan.
For a pretty popular guy, he was pretty dumb.
" Well, duh. And it looks like it's gunna charge at us. I think we
should-" I'm interrupted by the fire alarm.
" Really!!!???" shouted Ryan. He
look at me and yells over the sound of the sirens," Well?"
"What!!!!!????" I asked as the bull
started to paw the ground.
"What were you going to say??!!"
" I have a plan!!!"
" I have a plan!!!"
" What?!?!"
" Run!!!!!" I shout as the bull started to charge at us. We ran toward the
window and jumped since the stupid bull was blocking the door. We ran into the
woods were right beside the school. We shouldn't have gone there. Or maybe we
should. Well it doesn't matter now. That's when both of our lives changed.
~~~~~~~
We kept running as the bull, or thing
charged at us. We have been running for 5 minutes straight, when we started to
get stitches in our sides. But we ran. And, thankfully, we soon lost the thing.
We fell down gasping for air. As soon as we caught our breath, I was able to
think clearly and thought over what had happen to us. Well, 1. We got into
detention. 2. A deer half bull thinge charged at us, nearly killing us. and 3.
There was a fire at school, so I'm guessing that everyone will think that we
die in the fire. Wow. No search party. Nice thought.
~~~~~~~~
Now we must travel to a
different part of the town. Seven kids were ditching today. The other kids
couldn't make it to the meeting. This was serious. The meeting was about what
were we going to do about high school? How would we get out? They had better
security there then middle school. Our middle school had only one police
officer. The high school had at least twenty. And that was bad news for
sneaking out of school. But we had to sneak out once a while.
Our parents wouldn't let us stay at home when
we had just gone through something emotional. They expect us to forget it and act
like it never happened. But teens like us can't handle that. We needed time. And
if we had strict parents, we couldn't get out much. So kids like us, popular
and non-popular, grouped together and made a club. It was secret. We could only
let other people come into it unless the club decided to. And someone must be
very close to that person, that's in the club. So, they can trust them. We had
tight security for a reason.
So far, we had 45 members.
And the head of it was Ryan. But no one was there expect us. Kaitlyn, Erika,
Brook, Crystal, Keigan, Savana, and me. Not even the co was here. And that's
strange. We usually, at least, have fifteen or more people. It was actually
kind of creepy in this part of the forest. Not to us. To the other kids. But
that's good. That way other kids don't find us. The club knows all the rumors
are fake. Because we started them. We also have other safe guards. Cameras,
motion sensors. They weren't state-of-the-art, well expect a couple, but they
worked. They were made by the geeks and nerds in our group. They are actually
pretty cool for the non-populars.
Anyways, it had been 15
minutes when we finally have given up waiting. We weren't supposed to start a
meeting if there were no one that had positions around. We had at least 30 more
minutes left and we didn't want to waste it. So we went exploring in our little
part of the forest. With Erika and Brook flirting with Keigan, we made slow
progress, because we had to keep telling them to shut their pie holes from time
to time. So we wouldn't get caught.
One time an exploration team,( as we like to
call them), had been caught and they got detentions for the whole week. They
couldn't escape for a month. They could only come to after-school meetings. And
nightly meetings. So we really didn't want to get in trouble.
Again, I'm going
off-track!!! We were walking in the dry creek bed. (Note the word,
"DRY".). We just went deeper and deeper. So far, only 5 minutes had
passed. That was pretty good time. I
hope. We were always looking for new places to hide our things, and new meeting
places. So that way we wouldn't get caught and it the place and, if it happen,
people would think we were only using it once or they would send the police or
something, because they would think we were doing drugs. The police would keep
watch of the area we were in, where they saw us. But we would be on a different
side of the forest. Then we would solve the police problem later. That only
happened once. So far. The club had 12 meeting places and 5 storage rooms.
Why do I keep going
off-track??? We went deeper and deeper into the forest. It got kinda creepy.
Savana and Kaitlyn tried to lighten the mood by telling stupid jokes and
things. It didn't help much. And we walked for what seemed like forever. Oh! I
almost forgot! You are probably thinking, How
can Serena be in two places at the same time? Well, I'm not Serena. I'm Kat,
Serena's best friend. I'm telling this because our part is also just as
important as Serena's. And someone thinks she should be telling this, but she's
too jumpy to do it. Ouch! Hey! Kaitlyn! That's not nice! She just threw a
bottle at me for saying that. But it's true. Yes! You just missed this time!!!
Well to continue- ( You
hear a crash in the background).) Kaitlyn! You know we aren't allowed to smash
windows. You are so going to get yelled at. Anyways, as I was saying...
Then we happened to walk
into a clearing. And I walk toward the middle, looking at the trees. Then I
step onto nothing and looked down. A very big hole. " What the fudgecracker
is this?!?!" I shout as I almost fall in, if it happen been for Keigan who
was right behind. " Thanks Keigan," I tell him.
" Welcome. And maybe it's a sinkhole?" .
I look down at the hole.
" It's not very deep," I say as everyone crowds around the hole. It
was about six feet deep. Easy to get out and in. I look up at everyone and say,
" Anybody wanna jump into it and see what we can find?". They all
nodded. Maybe if someone checked the time, we wouldn't have jumped in. We had
like five minutes to get back to school, I'm thinking. Maybe if someone said
not to, we wouldn't have jumped in. Maybe. But that's in the past. We were too
curious. Maybe that saved us. Maybe it didn't. I've always wondered what would
have happened if we didn't jump in. But like I said, that's in the past now. We
didn't realize that jump changed our fates. I can't believe a thing as
insignificant as a jump into a hole thing changed our fates. That simple thing.
A little thing.
We jumped.
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It's Serena again. I won't be on for long.
Well, anyways, let`s go to San Diego. One of my favorite places in California.
And also the home of some twins..... ( Whispered in background: Maya.....Maya! Here. A new voice: Oh. Thanks.)
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Ummmmm, hi. I'm
Maya. May's twin. ( May throws a pillow at Maya and says: They only need the
story M2!!) And an annoying one too. ( May yells: I am not!) See? ( May, once
again yells: Am not!) Will someone please gag her? ( You start hearing sounds
of someone gagging May.) Thank you. Now to begin.....
" Ms! Let's go! It's
going to be crowded if we don't leave early!"
Being called our nickname
means that our mom is in a good mood today. Mom happy= Lots of things and fun
for us. Don't want to ruin that. " We're coming mom!" We say together
at that same time. I hate that sometimes when that happens, because it sounds
like only one of us talking. But most of the time, we find it rather funny,
because then that person gets rather confused on who said what. (Our voices
almost sound the same.) And our mom, isn't used to it.
" Maya! I didn't hear
you!"my mom yelled. And this time, we did find it funny. We love seeing
our mom confused, because parents aren't usually confused. We looked at each
other and start cracking up. We both try to stand up as we laughed. That wasn't
a good ideas. Our knees immediately buckled and we just lay there laughing.
Then Mom shouted, " I'm waiting!". We both stop
laughing, ( Or at least tried to), and
was able to make it downstairs and in the car with our bags in the back, before
we started to collapse again. Our mom looks at us weird as she pulls out of our
driveway. Sometimes I think, that she thinks that we need to see a professional
because we are so giddy. But so far, so good!
As we get on to the freeway, I feel kinda weird. Like we shouldn't be
going on to the freeway. Like something bad is going to happen. I can't say
anything to mom because she's making a phone call and she hates being
interrupted during phone calls. So I grab a notebook out of my bag. It's a
notebook that May and I have been using as our mouths during phone calls or if
there's a secret that we want to tell each other. Or just plain talk without or
mom eaves dropping. Which would be easy for her because we are in a car.
Then I grab a pen and
write.
Hey May. Are you
getting a feeling that we shouldn't be on the freeway?
I hand the pen and the
notebook to May and she reads it. Then she writes something and hands the
notebook back to me. I read:
Hey Maya.
Yeah. It's so weird. And you should change your handwriting a bit more.
Then I write back:
To May. Does it
feel like something bad is going to happen? And my handwriting is fine. I like
it.
I hand the things back over to May. And that's how it went for 5
minutes. Here's our whole conversation:
To Maya. No.
All I feel is a feeling that something is going to happen to us and the car.
And mom. And I really don't like your handwriting.
Hi May. Well,
then maybe something bad is going to happen to the car, us and mom. And can we
please stop arguing about my handwriting?
Hi Maya.
Maybe. But we don't know for sure. I think that it's nothing. And you should
really change your handwriting.
Sup May. I think
we should be ready just in case though. So I am. I don't know about you though.
And I'm not going to talk about my handwriting anymore.
Sup Maya.
Ok, then. If you will, then I will too. But just in case, right? And fine. But
I really think you should.
What'cha doin'
May? So agreed?
What'cha
doin' Maya? On what? You should change your handwriting or that feeling thinge?
Goodbye May. The
feeling thing. We should stop otherwise mom might get too curious.
Goodbye
Maya. You're right. I'll be ready in case anything bad happens.
I put away our notebook and
looked out the window. Then I see a very big truck right beside us. I never
really like being on the freeway with a truck right beside us. I always feel
that the truck driver would lose control , swerve and hit us. Therefore making
us crash with a huge possibility of dying. Nice. We were about to pass him,
when I look over at who was driving, he did something weird. He gave me an evil
grin. And a wink. Gulp. Then the truck started to pull ahead. And unfortunately.
It did happen. The losing control part. And I think he did it on purpose.
The guy lost control of his truck,
hitting us and made us fly up in the air and making us land in the other side
of the freeway. About a lane away from the ditch. Off the freeway. Cars started
swerving around us. One pro and one con. Luckily we were up on the tires. Unluckily, we were trapped.
" May! Are you
there?!" I shouted over the sound of the cars.
" Yeah! My door is open. I can easily get out! How about
you?"
So that made actually two pros and one con. " Not good. I
think I have to crawl to your side! So get out!"
" Ok! " and I hear her get out." All clear!"
" May! While I'm getting out, go check on mom!"
" Ok!"
As I slide out, (Thank
goodness I'm thin!), people start to stop their cars, get out and try to help
us. A couple went over to the truck and got the driver out. A guy helped me
slide out of the car. When I get out, I look over to the truck and see
fire......and gasoline. A river of it just 5 feet away from the car. I look at
the fire and shout, " Get out of here!!! Fire!!! Gasoline!!!!". At
once, people saw what I saw and ran off to their cars, moving them a safe distant.
Which was far away. Very far away. Leaving us to save our mom. Some people
stayed and tried to help us get out mom out.
As I try to pull our mom
out, I see the fire getting closer and closer to the gasoline. "May!"
" What?!?!"
" The fire and gas!! We have to go if we are going to
live!"
" But what about mom!?!?"
I look at our mom and realize something. She wasn't breathing. A
little stream of blood was trickling out of a corner in her forehead. " She's dead.", I choked out
quietly, close to tears.
" What did you say?!?! I can't hear you!! " She shouts
at me.
" May!!! Our mom is
dead!!!" I scream out. And I go into half-shock. But I remember what
happened.
May looks like she's about
to cry. But then she doesn't. She gets back in control, and takes charge. " Then we better not die! Come on!"
And we sprint away as fast as we can. Well, we me half running and half
stumbling and dragging by my sis. We make it just in time.
BBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then we fall into the
ditch. And into a hole. In the ditch.
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Sup. I'm Bryan. Luckily, I don't have any siblings
to bug me. Or friends. (May and Maya: That's not a nice thing to say Bryan!!!)
Yup. I'm happy. Well, my turn to start the story! ( You hear a lot of
complaining and zip-its.)
I was
waiting and swinging in my hammock in the back. I was waiting for my partner to
get here from Puerto Rico so we can go help some important people. But he was
taking forever to get here. He said that he was going to try a teleporting
spell instead of a plane flight. The plane flight was supposedly longer then
the teleporting spell. I hope it was. But right now, that was seeming
impossible.
That's
when a hole opened up in the ground. Immediately, I jumped up and grabbed my
sword. By my training, it looked like it was a portal. Hopefully Lupus made it.
Or maybe the gods or Dragons did it. I went over to the hole with my sword at
the ready. Then when nothing jumped out for 5 minutes and looked down the hole.
It look like someone had dug it there a long time ago. But that wasn't true. it
just appeared out of nowhere. That's when Lupus appeared out of nowhere right
behind me. He yells, " Boo!" and scared me half way to Hade's Death Gates.
"Dude. Please don't do that!!!" I
yell at him.
" I'll try," He answered with a
smirk. Then he looks at the hole. " What happened here?"
" It just appeared at out nowhere and I
was looking at it before you came and scare me halfway to Hade's Death Gates."
I said, annoyed.
" Oh. Well, it looks like a portal. And
we should jump in it. Because the gods said they would have something for us to
travel in. I didn't think that would mean a portal. But that's better than a
bumpy dragon-ride." he said, thoughtfully.
" But what if it isn't?" I asked,
immediately regretting asking the question, fearing the answer.
"
Then get your sword ready." Lupus said as he walked to the edge of the
portal. "I'll see you on the other side!" And with that, he jumped
in. Well that didn't help me feel any better. The hole wasn't that deep, so
logic kept telling me that he would be there standing and embarrassed. But when
I looked, he wasn't there. I had a huge, but quick fight in my head. But then
my loyalty to what I was learning won. Then I jumped.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I-oh, Ummmm. Hi. My name is Hannah. I live in
Florida with my mom, because my dad is deployed a lot. I used to live in San
Diego, until my parents divorced. Now I live with my mom in Florida. Serena and
I were really good friends. We met in 2nd grade. Very good times. Well, enough
about Serena.( Sorry Serena! Serena : It's ok. Continue!) Anyways......
" Mmmmmooooommmmm!!!! Do you have any
bug spray?!?!" I yell.
" Not on me, but it's in my bag
dear!"
" Where
is your bag?!?!"
" In
the tent, honey!" Yep. I was really getting tired of those pet names. I
get up from my comfortable patch of grass and run to mom's tent. I didn't
understand why the bugs had to bug me now when I was in the interesting part of
the book. It wasn't even lunch time. I walked into mom's tent and look around
for her bag. That's when I see a plane ticket on her makeshift desk. The desk
was for my mom's work. She had to work, even on the holidays.
The ticket was halfway under a book. It was
the book I gave her last Christmas. 50
Shades of Grey. I pick up the book and move it aside, and looked at the
airplane ticket. It was a ticket to San Diego. My stomach dropped. That meant
back to a dad who used to be the best dad in the world, who now didn't seem to
care about me. A dad who used to get me at least 50 presents each Christmas,
but now, if I was lucky, gave me one. Then I heard my mom coming. Immediately,
I put the book back the way it was, on top of the plane ticket and grabbed the
bug spray out of her bag.
"
What's going on? What took you so long?" she asked me, looking at me
suspiciously. And that was weird. My mom was never acting suspiciously of me.
Never. And what happen to the pet names?
But I
chocked back down my, " Why are looking at me so suspiciously and are you
going to send me back to San Diego?" and answered with, " I couldn't
find your bag."
Then she
said, "It was on my chair," expect, mom's bag was not on her chair,
because she did not have one here. It was on her sleeping bag. That's what I
started to suspect something. I think that she saw my suspicion. Because she
pounced on me, making me fall to the floor. She drew a knife from her belt and
put it to my throat.
I screamed . But there was no one around to
help. Then I thought of something. "Hey! There's a raccoon eating our
food!". Even as I think now, I start laughing about how dumb that thing
was to fall for that. I manage to slip out of her grasp and run out of the tent
and into the woods. The thing started to follow me. And that thing was fast. I
just started to run faster, when I ran into a clearing. And into a hole.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yep.
It's Serena again. A lot of hole-falling-or-jumping-in. Yep. Well, last stop.
Japan.( You hear shuffling in the background. And mumbling of people
complaining how lucky that Serena and Ryan were not falling in a hole, because
it was a gut-wrenching experience.)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What
should I say? I really don't know. The others seem able to do it. Maybe it was
easier for them. Maybe. Anyways, I'm Casey. I was and am Serena's T.K.D.B.F.F.
That's short for Tae Kwon Do BFF. Because I am. I should start now.
I was
walking back home from school. Just daydreaming about a boy I had a crush on.
And from what I heard from my friends, he had a crush on me too. And that he would
be asking me to the next dance. But they were rumors, so they couldn't be true.
Impossible, but I still daydreamed about it anyways. As I was walking I looked
at the time on my phone. 3:00. Japan time. I miss California time.
I still had time so I took the bike routes. As
I was walking I heard something. Like a flute playing. So I followed the sound.
I know what you are thinking. Don't walk
toward the sound! But I did. I was curious and I had time. And I was tired.
Then I reached a clearing. I looked around and saw nothing. Then the flute
noise stopped. I didn't think any of it
until I reached the middle of the clearing. Then I thought about what I did.
Then I realized how stupid I was. I started to run back the direction I came
from, but then a hideous thing came from the direction I was heading too. So, I
turned around and ran to the opposite direction. But another one came. Then I saw
a hole in the corner of my left eye. I knew that wasn't there a minute ago. I
had read stuff about portals and spells a long time ago when was 7, but I
remembered most of it.
These things were some kinds of monsters. I
wish I could believe this was just some big prank, but it wasn't. This was
real, so I had to accept it. I also read that holes that appeared out of nowhere
were usually magic and 55% of the time, portals. I was going to have to trust,
fiction and that 55% if I had any chance of getting out of here. Then my brain
went into autopilot.
I faked a right and the things fell for it.
They immediately ran to my right, but then I went left. And dove right into the
hole. Dumb monsters, I think as I
dive for the hole.
Chapter2
Then I heard a lot of thuds, groans, and
screams. And some words. I look up and see 12 kids sprawling on the ground,
" What da...?" and my jaw dropped. There was Kaitlyn, Sophie, Erika,
Keigan, Crystal, and some others. While my jaw was open and I was watching
them, they got up and Kaitlyn walked over. And slapped me. " Ouch! Hey!"
" Whoops. Sorry 'bout that!" She
said smiling. the she walked away muttering, " Always wanted to get her
back for that comment."
I
shake my head. Then go to Kat, and ask, " What are you guys doing here?
And- Oh my god! Is that you Hannah! ". I run toward her. " Hannah!
" I say as I touch her.
" What?" she says dazed. Then she
seems to get a grip and screams.
" You're ok Hannah," I say as I
helped her calmed down. That's when I felt eyes on me. " You're alright
Hannah," I say in a comforting voice, " You're with me." And
crying, she tells me everything.
As soon
as Hannah calmed down, I turned around facing everyone else. Everyone looked
like they gone through a burning house expect what looked like a 14-year-old
and a 18 or 19-year-old who were carrying swords " What?", I asked
them.
Then they all turned somewhere else and start
talking about dumb things, like the weather. Ok...... weird. It seem like they
were looking at me for directions. Maybe they weren't, I thought hopefully. But
I couldn't get the image of their faces while looking at me. It was......
scary. I looked at everyone. There was my friend Casey who moved to Japan.
Hannah, from Florida. Erika, Brook, Keigan, Kaitlyn, Sophie, Ryan and Savana.
May and Maya from San Diego. But the rest I didn't recognize. Which was only
two people.
I guess everyone sensed me looking at them,
because they snuck glances at me. Why are they looking at me?! It's really
creepy. Like they expect me to do something. But what can a nerd like me do?
Then the 14 year old and 18 or 19 year old
walked over. " DD-sann! I suppose you don't recognize us." and with
that I zoned out trying to remember who they were. I had a nagging feeling in
my brain that I knew who that were. Then I heard a snippet of what the younger
one was saying to me. R.O.B. Rage of Bahamut. Lupuswolf and Shotsg101.
" Lupus?!? 101?? No way. But you were
supposed to be in Puerto Rico," I said while pointing at Lupus, " And
you live in Texas! " I said to the younger one, 101. " It would take........Why
are you here?" I asked them with all warmth gone from my voice.
They looked at each and Lupus answered,"
The Guardians, DD.".
" Guardians? " I asked them and
having no idea what the heck they were talking about. Then I had an inkling in
my mind. Like a rope. I tried to grab onto to it, but it slipped out of my
grasp.
They looked at each other confused, then
Lupus gave 101 the ' I know what's going on here look.'. And they leave me
standing there very confused. And very curious.
I looked around to everyone else. I felt like
we were missing somebody. So, I did a head count. It was really hard to count
them, because they were all walking around. I was getting really frustrated. I
was right about to yell at everyone top stop moving, when someone whispered in
my ear, " There are fourteen . One is missing. Find him.".
Immediately, I whipped around and looked frantically for the person who
whispered in my ear, but nobody was there.
Frustrated with that, I turn around and
looked at everyone, remembering each and every relationship I have or had with
them. Every single one of them changed my life in different ways. Changed my
point of view in life. Without them, I wouldn't be the person I was now. I
relax, reliving special moments with them and ignoring that nagging feeling in
my mind.
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I looked at Serena. She looked like she was
thinking. But she looked happy. Perhaps happy memories. She was beautiful in
her own way. Very lucky for me, her hair wasn't in the way of her eyes. Her
eyes are beautiful and deep. They were kind eyes. Kind, but determined,
headstrong, and cocky. I liked those traits. But you are probably wondering who
I am. I'm Ryan. There, now that I have that out of the way.
You
probably also think of me as a rude bully, but I once, I was well-liked by
everyone. Now liked by none. And this happened when I let too many emotions
come in. Last year, I had a cute girlfriend who I loved dearly. But she saw
another and ditched me. Then, the same day, my mom and dad die. And I was taken
into a madhouse. All my family made me work like Cinderella. They told me to do
some ridiculous things. But I refused to do them. So, I was beaten, emotionally
and physically. It had been happening for three weeks. That's when I put the
emotional shield up. It seemed to help me. And it gave me leverage in the
madhouse. And it spread to school. Soon I had a gang.
But when Serena came along, everything
changed. She was pretty, smart, and could hold her own. And something else
attracted me to her. But I couldn't put my finger on it. I thought she would be
like the last girlfriend I had, so I put my shield back up. And bullied her. I
thought it would help me stay secure. But it didn't.
I liked her more and more. But I didn't let
that show. I couldn't let that show. That would bring me down back to the same
level that I started in my mad house. Slave. But right now, I just stared at
her. Hopefully no one would notice.
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I came running out of my house. Then BOOOM!! Why
did the draicons have to strike when I was about to have my first kiss? I
groan. I always have bad luck... I continue running and hit the forest. Where's
the portal? Where's the portal? I look around, left to right, looking for the
stupid hole. Then I see it in a clearing up ahead. Then I hear some draicons
right behind me. That's not good. If I fall even once or falter, I'm dragon
lunch. Gulp. I run a little faster, but I'm starting to get a stitch in my
side.
Then without realizing it until I'm falling.
I'm in the portal. But not before one of the draicons get me in the back. I
scream in pain, and with that goes all thoughts of my first kiss. And I go
black.
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Then I
hear it. A scream. A scream of terrible pain. I look up at everyone else and
see that they hear nothing.. How can no one hear that scream?, I think. Then it
stops and a boy appears out of nowhere. And lands on Bryan and Ryan. I manage
to stifle a laugh, and I run over to the boy. As the boys complain, I take a look at the boy that fell on top of them. I
push him and say," Wake up,".
He was so familiar. I know him. Then I
remember. Connor? Impossible! He disappeared 3 years ago! He was a cute guy that I liked in Taekwondo. He was blond,
though blond is not my taste, with hazel eyes. He was friendly, smart, but
kinda locked up about himself. I was always happy to get him to smile. Then 3
years ago, for no apparent, he disappeared off the face of the earth. He left
no trail and his parents disappeared with him. It was creepy, because the next
day they tore down the house.
But here he was. Laying down either sleeping
or unconscious in front of me. Impossible. So many impossible things.... Then
he groans. " Connor. Wake up,". Everybody looks at me weird when I
say his name.
"
You know him?," Kaitlyn asks me.
" Yeah.. He was my friend in Taekwondo..
Before he disappeared off the face of the earth," I said as I was shaking
him. Finally, I was annoyed with just gentle pats. I poked him in the side. I immediately
he rolls over to his stomach and I see blood.
Oh
gods. " Someone help get this shirt off. Now!" And suddenly seven
pairs of eager hands help get the shirt off. I immediately looked at the wound.
It didn't look too deep. It also wasn't bleeding that bad. I sighed in relief
and thank the gods for this.
I touch and he flinched, crying out. I frown.
This not might not be easy as it looked. I grabbed Connor's shirt and ripped it
in half. Taking the cleanest half, I wrapped it around the wound. It would need
some actually treatment though. But at least he could feel the pain,. Means he
is alive.
