The Rose of the Earth:
A runaway series book.
prologue
Want to know what happens when we have been through 25 years of war? How the earth looks? Trashed, like all humans have left. We have severely lost population. But what about the magic world? Who was the "cause" of the war. Well most organizations have died out and the final presidents believe that the whole magic world is gone, they are wrong. The organizations that have died out are: vampires, goblins, elves, and last tree nymphs. Doesn't mean we don't have trees, we do. The organizations left: wizards, witches, werewolves, water nymphs, air spirits, rock spirits, and satyrs. Me? My name is Rose Elvira. I'm in a rare group, a mix of stuff. I'm an air spirit, wizard, and rock spirit mix. Rock spirits are a type of spirit that can turn into a rock looking thing that can move and talk but use rock to their will. So here's my story. Also my friend is a mixie, as we are called. Her name is Drew Maxie
chapter 1
Rose
the aftermath
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After the war that I lived in for 10 years finished 5 years ago we had to build a new home me, my dad, and my mom. Now we have a big stone house in one of the prettier neighborhoods in Tennessee USA. The government doesn't know my secret. Drew also lives in my neighborhood. We share the same secret. If president Zach ever found out about our secret, we would be dead. Or worse, slaves. We are mixes, a type of mixed magic. Or as some magical people call us, Mistakes. Air spirit, rock spirit, werewolf, and wizard. At least me and Maxie are. We are very special but against the law. Humans waged war against magic and they think they won and have killed of all magic, but they didn't the main council kept some organizations hidden during the war, mixes was one of them. So we hid during the war, not really in a bunker, but didn’t send our families into the war. What we did to gain the government's trust was ordered by the head council. We offered to spy on the magical’s and would bring them information on what organizations there was. We left out the one’s ordered by the head council. They let the smaller ones go in, and die. I didn’t like it, but I did it to stay alive. It was either the smaller organizations or me and Maxie. And I couldn’t stand the thought of dying, or Maxie dying. So I offered and gave them these names Elves, and Goblins. And they died off. I felt guilty afterwards but the head council told me it was for my own safety, they were correct. There was one place you could go if you were caught. The safe land, as it is called. Hence the name safe. That is where we are going to go, Rose Elvira and Drew Maxie. Where we will be safe.
Chapter 2
Rose
Start Running
It was a nice day outside in my neighborhood, I met up with Drew and we went to our secret spot in the sewer. It was the only clean one. “Hey Rose!” She said.
“Hey Drew. What’s up?” I replied to her.
“Well, I’m waiting for you to come in here! So hurry up before I close it off!’ I ran in, she wasn’t kidding. 2 seconds after I got in she closed it. We laughed. We switched on the lights and sat down. “So did you hear about the new law?” She asked. I shook my head.
“Well President Zach made it a law to be arrested if you didn’t go to school, and you weren’t sick. He really likes making laws.” She said.
“Yeah. Tell me about it.” President Zach was about 37 and really mean. We talked for about another hour then we climbed out. She walked me to my house but stopped me before hand.
“Look.” She hissed. I did. There were two guards, from the government there.
“Is Rose or Drew here?” They asked my mom.
“No sirs. They went for a walk.” She lied.
“And your name is Valentyn Elvira, correct?” They asked.
“That is me, I’m Roses mother.” They nodded and left while we hid. We went in to ask my mom what happened. “Pack, quickly, you have to! I think the government is on to you.” She thrust a piece of magical paper in my hand. “The directions to the safe land. Use them.” She said. We packed clothes and food and water and hurried into the woods. We ran for several miles then got tired and slowed to a walk for a couple more. Finally we set up camp and looked at the map.
“We are going in the right direction.” Maxie said.
“That’s great. Let’s eat and rest.” I said. We did just that. Soon we were both asleep.
I woke up in the middle of the night to footsteps. Boots. “Maxie, get up.” I hissed. We exchanged looks. We practically ripped the sleeping bags off the ground and put out the fire. We saw some people walk by, in suits and ties.
“School day. Someone needs to be arrested.” I heard a cold voice say. I looked to the man who said that and I saw a teenager. He had short, sandy colored hair that made his deep blue eyes stand out. He looked about 5’8’’ and was actually pretty cute.
“Dang. If we weren’t running from him, I would totally ask him out.” Maxie told me. We looked at each other and knew, he could trick us by just looking in our eyes and smiling. I swear I saw Drew’s eyes grow. “I, I know him.” She said, “I heard of him. He is a new recruit but is Yak-face’s favorite. Not good.” They walked past, not noticing us. Even though we were running fast, we were making a lot of noise. I was afraid they would hear us, but luckily they didn’t. I was pretty happy about that. I took the map and we started walking.
We walked through a bunch of green valleys. “This is beautiful.” Drew said at one point. We stopped to eat.
“Yeah, it is beautiful. In a couple days we’ll be in the Safe Land. And have a new home.” I said. When we finished we walked for several more hours till about 9:30. We ate and went to sleep. I had a dream where I was in the Safe Land and Maxie and I had our new home and we were eating. It was wonderful, we even had boyfriends but the Safe Land was as strict as the country is now.
I woke up to a gunshot sound and screaming. I jumped up, “Drew are you alright?” I asked.
“Kind of. The bullet almost hit me, slit my arm.” She said. Crap. That is it! I thought. First they come after us, then they shoot my best friend! I gripped my fists together. “Rock Spirit.” I said. I transformed into a giant human rock. The people came out of the bushes. I pointed at them and closed my fist. Rocks went flying at them. Some dodged some didn’t and it hit them. Thankfully knocking a couple out, maybe injuring one enough to not move. They shot at me and I laughed. I was a rock! They can’t shoot and hurt me now. I have rock shell around me. The best the can do it dent the rock. They seemed scared. I heard behind me whooshing, I turned around to see Drew as an Air Spirit. I smiled. She sent a tornado at them while I sent some boulders their way at the same time. They were out. I shifted into an air spirit and we packed up and got out of there with airspeed, so basically fast. We couldn’t stay like that for very long usually, but luckily we were in that form for about an hour traveling at 150 miles per hour. So we were far away. But there were cars they could use.
“I say we rest for a day or two.” Drew said.
“Nah, just a day to be safe and refill on magic. And sleep.” I said.
“Okay. I’ll make a fire.” She said. I nodded and pulled out some canned soup. We poured it into a pan and waited for it to cook.
“So how’s the arm?” I asked her. “Good I guess. I wrapped it up in some sports tape after cleaning it.” She said. I nodded. We talked for a while and ate then talked for an hour afterwards.
I had a dream where I was fighting the man who we saw a few days ago. "My name is Nick. Nice to meet you." he told me.
"Still serving Yak-face?" I asked.
"Why do you have to be so mean?"
"Because you still work for the man who wants us dead."
He gave me a sly smile at my comment. "Look, if you come with me, then maybe he will spare you. Try and get your pretty friend and you might just get a job and live." he said. It sounded tempting. I looked at him and he smiled at me and put out his hand. Mine was shaking as I put it into his. Right before our hands touched, I woke with a start.
“Run!” Maxie screamed in my ear. We continued running, I was panting by the time we ran a mile. I saw Maxie’s arm, now there was a scar, but it wasn’t a skidmark, it was a picture of a sword battle. I kept running and caught up. We finally stopped. I sat down and laid out or tent. “What happened in your dream? You look stressed.” Maxie told me as she sat down. I looked over at her and sighed.
“Yak-face’s favorite was there.”
“Did he kiss you?!”
“No, he just, wanted me to turn myself in and take you.” I told her the entire dream and details. “He looked like he would’ve kissed me. He also called you pretty.” I saw her cheeks go super red.
“Oh. Well, we better sleep.” Maxie told me so I curled up in my sleeping bag and was out. I woke up a little bit later but didn’t move. I heard the earth moving. I saw a silhouette of a girl earthbending. I then really woke up, it was a weird dream.
“Maxie.” I said. She didn’t wake up. “Maxie!” I screamed. She rolled over and groaned. “Get up!” I yelled as I shook her. She got up.
“Dude, I fell asleep like a few hours ago, not earlier last night like you.” She said. She plopped back down and snored. I rolled my eyes and started a fire, we needed to eat something. I pulled out one of our fifty cans of beans and opened the top with a can opener I had packed. I moved it into place on a stick I kept from the last site. I made sure it wouldn’t fall into the fire. It cooked and I pulled out two spoons. By now Maxie woke up and sat down next to me.
“Yay! Beans!” She exclaimed and scooped up some and ate it like it was heaven. I laughed. She does love beans, not black beans though. We ate and I walked to find a stream. I found some water and scooped it up with the pot I packed, (We are magic so we put a spell on our backpacks). I walked back and boiled the water then made some of it ice and then the ice melted, making the water cool enough to drink. We drank a lot, soon we were full and we packed up and hiked. I looked at the map and saw we were going the right way.
“Rose and Drew.” I whipped around at that voice. It was Nick. Maxie ran away and hid, I stayed. “Hi, I’m Nick.”
"Still serving Yak-face?" I asked.
"Why do you have to be so mean?"
"Because you still work for the man who wants us dead."
He gave me a sly smile at my comment. "Look, if you come with me, then maybe he will spare you. Try and get your pretty friend and you might just get a job and live." he said.
“Deja vu.” It sounded tempting. I looked at him and he smiled at me and put out his hand. I held my hands at my side. He took a step closer. I stood my ground. Another step. I stood there. Another step. I stood there like an idiot, his face was super close to mine. He looked in my eyes and half of me melted, but the other half yelled like crazy. I stood still. I could see Drew watching. He leaned in and held my head. He closed his eyes and kissed me. I was surprised, and I could tell a little bit of Drew was jealous. I stood there, eyes open then he pulled away. I was dazed. “Now get your friend and come with me, otherwise I am the last man you will ever see.” I looked in his eyes and my idiotic urge to fight came back.
“Oh really? You call yourself a man? Men don’t kiss girls just to take them to their president. You are no man. No wonder you are Yak-face’s favorite.” I said. He stopped and drew a knife.
“I don’t want to kill two pretty ladies.”
“You won’t have to.” Drew said. She was right behind him, she had her knife at his neck. “One wrong move pretty boy, and you will never see anything else but death.” His eyes went wide. I drew my sword.
“Thanks.” I told Maxie then she released him, only to have him at the edge of my sword. “Come with us.” I said. He followed as we traveled. He kept pleading for us to let him go. “You are coming with us until we don’t need you anymore.” I told him. We were in the middle of thick woods and camped out. “Look, we will clear a place for you to sleep, okay? Just don’t cry for help, we have hospitality. At least we are letting you lay down and sleep.” I told him, with my sword point close to his chest. Maxie stepped over and used her sword. I stepped back and put away my sword to set up the tent. I pulled out and extra sleeping bag for Nick. We all got comfy and Nick fell asleep fast. I stood guard in case anyone came looking for him. No one came so Maxie took over, she had her rest and I went to bed. I woke up and grabbed my sword, knowing it was my only defence. I saw Maxie asleep, she clutched her knife at night. Nick woke up.
“Hey, I’ll go wake her up.” He told me as he walked over.
“No.” I told him. He saw the knife and nodded. I woke her up and we packed. We kept walking and I took my blade down and he kept walking with us. I looked over and he was glowing.
“Magic. I’m a rock spirit.” He told me. “Yak-face saved me to get a hold of you two.” I nodded, he wasn’t impressing me yet, though. I remembered that when you haven’t used your magic in a while, you glow. He glowed the color goblins do.
“Anyone else hungry?”
“Drew isn’t the only one.”
“Maxie.”
“Ya, Drew Maxie.”
“No! It’s just Maxie!”
“Guys! I have some granola bars. Here.” I fished through my backpack and grabbed Drew three chocolate-chip granola bars. I threw one to Nick and gave one to me. We plowed through them, but we were still hungry. I stopped walking and set up the tent. I finished and set down my stuff then walked to make a fire. There was already one going and I saw Nick and Drew sitting next to each other. I found some sticks and cleaned them off. I grabbed some of the sausages Maxie packed. She saw that I put them on the sticks and she squealed, she loved roasting things. I smiled and handed her the stick. I grabbed more firewood and cooked my food. They were spicy sausages so Nick and I walked to find some water. We found a stream and I scooped up some water and we started walking back.
“You know, I wanna come to the Safe Land with you guys. I can help, more of Yak-face’s idiots are going to come for us.”
“Us?”
“Ya, they know I’m with you.”
“Wow.”
“They don’t know what I’m doing.”
“Fine. You can come. Just be helpful, don’t hurt us.” I said and we kept walking. When we got back I made a stone formation over the fire so it was like an oven. I made sure it had a hole just big enough to hold the pot without the pot falling. They water boiled until I knew all the harmful bacteria and minerals were dissolved and gone. I pulled the pot off and put ice in it. I had a secret to how I got the ice. A long story that Maxie doesn’t know, sadly. I have more of a power in me. A power that isn’t a organization. A long lost power. Ice power.
Chapter 3
The cold truth
So I could bend, make, become, or turn people into ice. I did not want Maxie to know. But if we were going to the Safe Land and I was going to join the council like I said in my letter to them. I had to tell her. You’re probably wondering how I know I’m going to join the council. Heres how:
Dear Ms. Rose Alvira,
We, the council, beg you to come join us when you arrive in the Safe Land. We hope you will except. You will have the choice of the following jobs:
Dragon Slayer
Squad Leader
Spy
Or janitor.
Please consider joining us.
The Council of Magic.
I got this when I was packing for the Safe Land. While Maxie was in the bathroom. I went over to Maxie and shoved the letter in her hand. “The council sent me this three days ago, the day we left. I’ve accepted to be a spy and a dragon slayer.” I said. She read the letter and then looked up. “Why did they ask you?” She asked. She seemed kind of hurt. “Because I have a specialty power. Ice. I can turn into ice, make ice, move ice, bend ice, turn people into ice.” I said. She took a letter out of her back pocket that said this:
Dear Ms. Drew Maxie,
We beg you to come join the council when you enter the safe land. You will have the choice of these jobs:
Main Council Board
Spy
Squad Leader
Janitor
"I'm gonna be a spy. Don't try to change my mind. And on the main council board." She told me. I looked at the letter then looked back at her. I handed her my letter but she shoved it back and stomped back into our tent. I saw Nick walk over.
"What's with pretty girl?"
"Stay out of it."
"Just tell me."
"No!" I yelled and stomped off. I walked back into the tent and Maxie turned her back to me. I took a step towards her and her hand curled over her sword. I stepped back and sat down. She turned around and she had been crying. Her eyes sparkled like crystals in caves. She turned away. Ick walked in.
"If we are going to get to the Safe land, we need to move." He told us. I got up and followed. Maxie grabbed her sword. She looked horrible. I almost told her but I thought that would make me lose an arm. I just walked off and directed us. I found a lake and set up camp. It was nightfall and we needed sleep. We all made a small dinner. Maxie sat next to Nick. All the way on the other side of the fire. I knew she was mad at me. I took out some of the chili I packed and poured it in a pan. While we waited for it to heat up we were silent. “Wow it’s like ice cold between you too.” He said. Maxie practically was made of stone. The only time she moved was to eat. I hugged her but she threw my arm off her and ran back in the tent. I sat down next to Nick.
"Why Nick? She is already mad. I don't want her to wanna kill me. " I said. He shrugged. He leaned over and by the firelight he look really good. We leaned in. I was ready. Our lips touched. I wasn’t ready, I grabbed his neck in my hands and his hands found my wasit, then I heard a gasp. I looked over to see Maxie standing there. Crying. "Why?!" Maxie screamed at me. I was about to tell her but she knew what I was going to say. Her eyes looked like crystals. She lifted her hands up and cave crystals floated next to her. They were razor sharp, more than a bullet wound would come from those. I panicked. I ran for the woods. I climbed a tree. She saw me. I ducked. She lowered her crystals. She raised a boulder. She was apparently the owner of the earth power that extra special, but sadly not lost.. I knew what she thought. I climbed down. I walked up.
"I'm not gonna say it was him. It was mostly me. Just make sure you dot leave us alone. For our own good." she turned to lea of a stone. She let out a small giggle and her eyes weren't as glassy. I smiled. Her eyes were normal and so was she. She still had her dagger in her hand. She jerked her head right and threw a dagger. It hit a man in the shoulder. "He was kind of hot. " I said sarcastically. She laughed a little bit.
"We need to move. Nick! Grab our stuff. We need to move." se yelled in a minute Nick was with us. We were running. A fighter came out and tried to cut me. I couldn't grab my sword so I grabbed his arm and kicked his legs. He was down and I grabbed his dagger. I saw Maxie kick a guy in the face nd he was knocked out. His nose was bleeding too. I looked around to see fighters surrounding us. Nick dropped out bags and turned to a rock. He ran and knocked into them. They fell unconscious but he was fine. He ran and did that five more times. Then we could fight. I waited for Nick to come back then made a huge tower of ice around us. Maxie made a rock and crystal inner layer. Then I melted the ice, making a huge wave fall onto the fighters, dazing them. The Maxie made the rocks fly out to them. They were down. I pulled one up and beheaded him. Maxie stabbed two. She took out her dagger and ran to a guy who was behind me. She elbowed him and cut his leg with her dagger. She then stabbed his neck. Nick killed the last two. We kept running. We got to the coastline. We needed a boat. We stole one from some tourists and rove off.
We were at sea for two days. Then we saw it. Land. We docked and walked onto the beach. We saw guards there. We checked in and he let Nick come too. We were shown to our house. Nick went to his. We unpacked. I laid down. I felt a sharp pain behind my knee, in my shoulder, and on my temple. I looked in a mirror and gasped. Somehow I got cut on those places. “Maxie help!” I said. She ran over and saw my cuts. She pulled out a small medical kit then sighed. She took her hands to my temple. She mumbled something in an ancient language. I forgot, she also had the power over medicine and healing. One of the lost powers. You may be wondering what is a lost power? Well they are powers that only one specific person gets in a whole 1,000 or more years. Medicine and healing hasn’t been a power in over 10,000 years. The ancient lost power as it is called. Maxie is a very powerful person. That’s why they asked her to be on the Main Council. To be the one calling the shots, while I killed dragons and they almost kill me. We still lived together though. But more on that later. Soon she was done and I said, “Thanks Maxie. That means a lot. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier about the ice power.”
“It’s okay, doesn’t mean I won’t hold you to it to use ice powers again. I will.” She said. Then she laughed.
Chapter 5
Unexpected guests
After I healed her cuts Rose and I sat down and lit a fire. “You know what would be cool? To have fire powers.” I said.
“Yeah. But it’s so cool to have a lost power. You know sand, ice, cloud, and lightning. But it’s cooler to have an ancient lost power like you. You know medicine/healing, storms, poison. Yeh..” She added. I nodded. Soon we fell asleep. I had a dream where we were in the safe land and I was on the council and they decided that we needed another person on it, and they wanted Rose but Rose didn’t want to join and I kept begging her to join but the the numans attacked us. And we fought for a while then I woke up in a sweat.
“Maxie? You alright?” Rose asked me.
“Yeah, bad dream.” I said then I shook my head knowing what she was going to ask next, to tell her about it. We got up and had some cereal and cleansed ourselves in the bathtub . We went and knocked on Nick door he opened it and was already dressed and packed.
“I packed some extra food from here.” He said. “We are 2 days journey from The Safe Land if we aren’t attacked.” Rose said looking at the magical map. Then a bunch of guys and girls came out of the bushes. Rose put a hand and yelled something I couldn’t hear. She put up a shield of ice around us. Then I took my hand and made some stones and boulders around us. I lifted the boulders and placed them around us. I threw one of them at a group of people who ducked just in time. Another at a group who got hit and went down a cliff. And another group that some ducked some didn’t. I lifted the stones in the air, ready.
“Wow, you’re good at earth Maxie.” Rose said.
“Thanks.” I said. She melted the ice and water took the injured and possibly dead bodies away. Nick turned into a rock and ran around hitting and kicking people.
“We need to train him. Or you do.” Rose said. I nodded and laughed a little bit. I took the stones and hit several people. One person threw something at me and Rose stepped in front of me and took it. She laughed.
“Why’d you do that?” I asked.
“Cause we need you to win. I shield us and you take out half the people with boulders. You can’t get hurt.” She said. That made me feel better.
“I guess this wasn’t a good place to stop. Did it hurt getting hit?” I asked
“No. It tickled.” She laughed. I picked up some dirt and hardened it. I made it levitate then flung it into a guy’s face. I saw four guys fall down. behind them I saw two guys.
“Dang.”
“I know.” Rose said then they ran over they ran to the other side and started attacking enemies. I realized they were on our side. I held my dagger and charged at the strongest enemy. I slashed his neck then whirled around, cutting another girl in the neck. They bled badly but Rose made some ice then melted it and they washed off the cliff and we turned to the two boys.
“Who are you?” I asked dagger in hand.
“I’m Adam and that’s TJ.” Said the cuter one. He was about 6’3” he had black hair and brown eyes. He smiled.
“And you are?” He asked.
“I’m Maxie and this is Rose.” I told them. I looked to the other one who was checking Rose out. He was about 6’1” had blonde hair and green eyes. Not cute to me.
“Are you guys magic?” Rose asked.
“Yep, I’m a air spirit and Adam is a Half human half rock spirit. But I also have another power a specialty power. Uh it’s lightning. And Adam has the power to turn people to stone or ice.” TJ said. Oh great, ice. Rose is going to attract to him. I thought to myself.
“That’s cool. We’re mixes we also have specialty powers. I’m ice. And Maxie is earth and medicine and healing.” Rose said looking at TJ.
“Cool ancient lost power. And a lost power.” Adam said. Mostly looking at me.
“And I’m Nick. I’m a rock spirit.” He said, he looked like he wanted to kill Adam. After we talked for a minute we all headed to the Safe Land together. We traveled for several hours till about 1:30 at night. So we sat down and set up camp. TJ and Rose talked for awhile then Rose went to go to bed and so did TJ and Nick was already asleep. So it was just me and Adam on watch for Yak-face’s men.
“You’re very pretty.” Adam said after about 10 minutes of silence. I blushed.
“Thanks. You’re very handsome.” I said. He turned to me. And smiled.
“Thanks. Sorry if that was random.” He said. I shook my head. He looked at me. We both leaned in and our lips touched. We kissed for a couple minutes then Adam went to go rest for about 30 minutes and sent Nick out.
“Hey there.” Nick said.
“Hey Nick.” I replied.
“How is the most beautiful girl in the world doing?” He asked. I looked up. He nodded. I felt heat rising to my cheeks.
“There’s something I’ve always wanted to do.” He said leaning in. I took my fist and punched him in the stomach. I pushed him back.
“Get away and don’t try to make a move on me. Manipulator.” Then I went into my tent and fell asleep.
I woke up and Nick was right there. I grabbed my dagger. He backed away. “What did I do?” He asked me.
“You kissed Rose then said you want me.” He stared at me. “Twice.” I said. He walked out. Adam walked in. “Hey.” I said.
“Hey pretty lady.” I blushed.
“Someone is in a good mood.”
“Well, you are here.” He said. I looked at his eyes. We stepped closer. He grabbed my waist, but not low. I smiled. I kissed him. He kissed back and we heard a noise and pulled away to see fighters.
Chapter 6
Maxie
Halfway There
We were running fast. I looked behind and saw the enemy gaining. We were almost to the beach, then we could be near water to help Rose get it to ice. I turned and stopped. I flung a thick wall of rock up between the enemy and us. I ran to catch up to the rest. “That should hold the for a little bit. We are almost at the beach!” I said. We kept running. The army was already through the wall. We ran for the woods. I tripped over a huge tree root. I fell down and my friends were already way too far ahead. The army was right behind me when I got up. I fought off the first ten but I couldn’t take them on my own. I got to the point where there was only one guy and me. I elbowed him and he punched my head. I fell down but bounced back. HE slashed my arm and I was bleeding. I closed the cut. It hurt but he hit my head. Hard. I was down. I heard running and voices.
“Adam, we need to carry her.”
“I know Rose. I got her.” I heard Adam say. I felt like I was off the ground but I didn’t see anything else.
I could see again and I saw we were at the beach. I looked around and saw TJ with my medical kit. “Lay down. You need to ice your head. I already wrapped up your cut.”
“Thanks, where did you learn medicine, most people would just pour water and drop ice and have me move on.” I mumbled. TJ smiled nicely.
“My mom, she is a nurse.” TJ told me. “Babe, can you make some ice ang bag it for Maxie’s head?” He said, turning to Rose.
“Sure.” Rose said and bagged a bit of ice she made. TJ put it on my head. He looked at rose and she got another bag. He put it on my arm. He took the ice off my head and put it on my arm, moving the bag on my arm to my head. He did this every few minutes. I saw TJ signal Adam, and Adam lifted me up. He put the ice back on me and I felt better. It could’ve been the salt water ice. Adam carried me to an abandoned part of the beach and sat down. I watched as Rose made a float of ice. We all got on and made our way out. TJ and Rose set up the tent and sleeping bags while we were floating on the sturdy ice. I went inside the tent and laid down on my sleeping bag. I laid there for a few minutes. Rose walked in.
“How ya feeling?” She asked me. I smiled a little.
“Better, I think it is because of the salty ice.” Rose laughed a little.
“You do have the medicine and healing.”
“TJ also helped a lot. His mom is a nurse.” I said. She smiled. I sat up. Rose grabbed some medical tape and taped the ice to me.
“There.” She said. We laughed a little. Just then TJ walked in.
“You need to clean up, your wound also needs to be washed. You can’t bathe yourself though.” He said looking at Rose.
“I will go boil some water and cool it for you. If you don’t mind, I will bathe you and TJ will wash your wound.”
“Sure.” I said. I gave a look of thanks to TJ. Rose left and TJ sat down next to me. I looked at him.
“Thought you would want help getting these off.” He said, taking the tape off me and putting the ice down. I gave him a hug.
“Thanks.” I said. We sat there for a few minutes, then Rose and Adam walked in with a lot of water. She put it in the tub, (remember, we are wizards) and TJ and Adam left. Rose closed the tent and nodded to me. I stripped. I pulled out a new sports bra and underwear and clothes. I got in the bathtub. While rose cleaned my body and my hair I hummed a song. When she was done I rinsed with an extra pot of water. Then rose helped dry me. I walked over and got dressed. Then TJ walked in and cleaned out my cut. It was turning to a scar now, but it still needed to be cleaned. When he finished, he wrapped my arm with no bandage, just gauze and sat next to me. I put a bit of make up over my bruise on my forehead. I walked out and saw we were in the open sea. The sun was setting and I sat down. Rose and Adam joined me, but TJ came over last. We watched the sun go down then it was dark. Rose, TJ, and I headed to go to sleep. I crawled in and fell asleep. I woke up to the smell of chili. I scrambled out of my sleeping bag and out the tent. I saw everyone eating. Adam looked well rested, maybe he went to bed and Rose took watch.
“How ya feelin?” Adam asked me.
“Good.”
“Thats great.” Adam said. I smiled. I started to see an island. “We need to move around it.” Adam told us. I summoned the earth from the bottom of the ocean and made a paddle out of rock. I used it to move us away from the island. I set the paddle down and rested. TJ came over and looked at my arm. IT was a scar, not a fresh one, but like it had been there for a while. He smiled.
“All better.” He said. I saw a boat. I panicked. I lifted the earth in a wall.
“We need to move fast.” I said. I saw Nick in the corner. “Nick! Come on! We need to move the ice!” I screamed. They all knew what I had seen; the government scientists and army. I flung earth up behind me and made us fly forward at about 90 mph. We flew for about 30 minutes, so we went 45 miles. We passed the ship and I kept flinging up rocks to help us move forward. We were finally out of sight. I was exhausted. I slumped down. We glided closer to the safe land. We were still very far. I sighed. This is not going to be as easy as I thought. I thought it was going to be extremely hard.
"We have about a weeks course if we don't get attacked." I stared out to the water. "We have to go through a check in in about three days. We will pass two islands the check in. Then, four days of travel. The man who checks us in will give directions. We just keep going the way we do and we will get there." I looked at Rose. Nick walked over.
"Hey." He said, sitting super close to me. I got up and moved. I looked out to the ocean for a few minutes then grabbed a book to read. I layed down on my sleeping bag. I put down the book and started to draw. I need up drawing a rose.
"What's wrong?" Rose asked as she walked in. "You don't really draw." I looked up.
"This is different. I miss my family. At least I'm with my best friend." I managed and smile. Rose walked over and hugged me. I started to draw anime eyes. I drew a girl who had my features. She came out looking scared.
“You know it’s okay to be scared, and sad. I am.” Rose said. She looked down.
“I’m afraid to end up like my dad, MIA, he went for the Safe Land and we never heard from him again. I don’t want that to happen to me.” She added. I leaned over and hugged her but pulled away fast.
“Rose you’re as cold as ice.” I said. She looked at me and laughed.
“That happens to me a lot. That’s why there were some times I never hugged you. Just means I’m tired of being human.” She said.
“What do you mean? You’re not acting human, you’re not human.” I said.
“It’s complicated.” She said. Then she looked at my picture again. She nodded and smiled.
“What?” I asked.
“It look like you. The golden brown hair, the blue eyes, the purple shirt, and grey jacket.” She said. I laughed and smiled.
“Thanks. Want me to draw you?” I asked.
She shook her head and showed me a picture she drew herself. It was amazing, it showed her blue hair, her ice blue eyes, and her favorite white dress.
“I remember the day you got your blue hair.” I said. “I remember you walking up and saying, ‘Hey Maxie.’ And I was afraid you were one of Yak-faces. Then you told me you died your hair the light blue and you were letting it grow out. I remember wondering why you dyed.” I said laughing.
“Yeah, um, Maxie? I didn’t actually dye it. When I got the ice power it turned this color. It’s hard to explain but if I cut it short my ice is weaker longer it’s stronger. I didn’t want to tell you.” She said. I looked at her.
“Okay I guess.” I said. She smiled we layed down and fell asleep. I dreamt about Rose’s dad who went missing from trying to get to the Safe Land. I saw him trying to run and getting shot. I woke up in a sweat.
“Morning Maxie.” Adam said. I smiled.
“Morning Adam. Where is everybody?” I asked.
“ Hunting. We docked earlier so I carried you.” He said. I laughed a little.
“Why do you always carry me?” I asked him. He smiled. I got up and grabbed my knife. I walked into the rainforest that everyone else went into. I laughed when I saw them trying to catch a fish. I walked over and flung up the earth. A dozen fish flew up and they all grabbed them and thanked me. I kept walking and saw an antelope. It was so beautiful. I walked over to go past, it hadn’t done anything to be killed. I started going around it and it charged at me. I slashed it and it was dead. I felt a small tear fall down my face. “I wasn’t going to hurt you, but I had to.” I called for everyone and they came.
“Maxie, why did you kill it?” Rose asked me.
“I was walking around it to go past to find something else for us but it charged at me, it pointed its horns at my heart.” I said. They stared at the creature. We all dragged it back and skinned it. Then Rose and TJ chopped it up for us to eat, but I ate the fish instead. We walked around the island and saw a man in a suit. We walked over.
“Drew Maxie, Rose Elvira, Nick Stott, TJ Gold, and Adam Silvers?” He asked us. We nodded. Adam flipped his hand to show his inner wrist, it had a monkey, the man nodded. He nodded to me. HE handed me a choice of markings. “These match your personality, choose one, it a like a tattoo, so choose well.” He said. I chose the dragon.
“Please make it brown and red.” I told him. He nodded. Then he pulled out another sheet of markings. He nodded to Rose. She chose a sword with a snake wrapped around it. The man walked me over to a chair and had me sit down. I moved my t-shirt and pointed to where I wanted it. He nodded and went ahead. When the needle was marking my skin, it didn’t hurt at all, it felt like warth running through my veins. It was done and he showed me it in a mirror. IT looked amazing, like a chinese dragon that was brown, but the outlines were red. No redness was there and I walked out to my friends and showed them my dragon. Rose went and got hers done. She came out and it looked cool. We went back to our campsite.
“We don’t have directions.” I said.
“You will make it, you have the markings now.” TJ and Adam told us. We relaxed and ate some food. Nick followed us with a skull on his wrist. I shivered. I continued eating my food. It was getting dark so Rose made us a new ice boat and we boarded. I took watch. Later, TJ walked out.
“Can’t sleep?” I asked him.
“Yeah. Can I ask you something?”
“Ya.”
“Would you mind if I uh. Well, I haven’t kissed Rose yet and I don’t know if she would think I was a good kisser and would you mind?”
“If you practice-kissed me?” I asked him. He nodded. “Sure.” I said. We leaned in and kissed. We parted and I told him, “She would like it.” He smiled.
“That was just as friends.” He said.
“As friends.” I said. We took watch together, then he told me to sleep. I walked into the tent and saw Rose drawing. “Rose, guess what.” I said.
“What?”
“TJ really wants to kiss ya. He even, practiced with me just to see.” She smiled and looked hurt, but mostly happy.
“Is he still awake?” She asked. I nodded. She ran out the tent. I peeked out to watch her. I saw her sit down by him. She looked in his eyes, they both leaned in. Bam! They kissed. I smiled. I felt a tap on my shoulder. Nick. I saw his skull glow. I fell down. I scrambled up and ran to my sleeping bag. I thought of my dragon, of strength, of me. I had a barrier to keep him out. Nick tried to get through, but was grunting, trying to break my invisible shield. Adam woke up from Nick’s noise and ran through my barrier. He hugged me and the field was stronger. I knew why he could come in and do that, we chose chinese zodiac signs, and they were compatible. TJ and Rose ran in. Rose grabbed Nick and held him back. TJ smacked him in the face with the flat of his knife.Nick went unconscious. They carried him to his sleeping bag and had him sleep. Adam got up and helped me up. The barrier fell and my heart pounded. We were safe.
Chapter 7
Rose
A close call
“You don’t need to cry.” He said.
“But, y-you’re dead! I’m dreaming!” I screamed.
“Yes you are dreaming, but am I dead?” He asked in his soft tone.
“Yes! You are! You left me and mom and you died! We should’ve all gone!” I yelled at him, my dad. He looked at me and shook his head.
“What about Maxie?” He asked.
“You know! Her parents left for a vacation the same you died and returned two weeks later than they said they did, they were gone for a month! And they had adopted a girl who looks just like Maxie, they only paid attention to her. Not Maxie. You should remember you were there when it happened, but then you left, and died.” I said crying.
“Honey, I love you.” Is all he said then he faded away. I woke up. The sun was rising. I added some ice on the bottom of the boat and went and looked out at the sea. I thought of my dream.
What if he was using magic to send me a dream message, what if he’s not dead, he’s alive and they have a no letter policy or somthing in the Safe Land? I thought. I saw some land and used all my water power to turn us there. Since ice is a form of water I could use it also but not as well as I could ice. I docked us some off shore and made a tiny ice boat and woke up the others. I told them my plan and we set out. My plan was this, we find food and water and then we get out of here cause I didn’t like this place. How wrong I was about getting out of there quick.
Right away it went wrong, we were walking and someone had the idea of splitting up so we did. So Drew and I went off together, we were walking and these weird vulture things dive bombed us and started attacking. I put up a shield of ice. I sat down on one knee and started concentrating hard. I thought of all the things that made me mad, my dad dying and appearing in my dreams, leaving my mom and my little brother, the people chasing us, failing my test when I got the answers correct. Maxie was saying something but I couldn’t understand her. We needed help, for the vultures, getting to the Safe Land, finding the others, getting jobs. But right now we mainly need help with the vultures, finding food and the others. I kept thinking of things that made me mad. I could feel my body trembling, I felt Maxie sit on one knee right next to me. She realized what I was doing. Building my power up. I got up quick and all the ice shattered and hit some of the vultures.
“I’ll keep you safe, build your power up!” I yelled to Maxie. The wind was howling, I made several knives out of ice and threw them at the vultures. Then I decided just to use ice, not in a special form. I threw ice shards at the vultures some flew away the others were killed. I realized we had food now. I looked to Maxie who was sitting down smiling.
“What?” I asked her.
“I wasn’t building up my power. I was letting you do it.” She said. I rolled my eyes. We skinned and cooked the meat. Then we headed off to find the others. We found them at the ship with no food. We showed them the vulture meet and their eyes widened.
“Bon appetit.” I said. Then she arrived. She was about 12 and had white hair and green eyes.
“I’m Cassy.” She said. “I’m a runaway to the Safe Land.” She added.
“Don’t say that name to strangers you don’t know if we could of been human.” Adam said. I knelt to the little girl.
“Hey it’s okay, we’re going to the safe land too.” I said.
“I could tell. I sensed your presence here.” She said. She looked at me. “Especially the ice goddess.” She added. That was news to me. I knew the ice goddess blessed me with her power but I don’t remember her making me the ice goddess. The others looked at me. I shrugged.
“Yeah it’s true so what?” I said. The others looked back at the girl. I looked her in the eyes. How did she know?
“How could you sense us here, Cassy?” I asked in a sweet voice.
“I have the power of the wind, and air. I could sense when you docked and sensed you were nice.” She said. I made the next decision on my own, since she was air, and ice needed air and air needed ice.
“We’ll take you with us onto my ice boat I made and you can enter with us.” I told her. She threw her arms around my neck. I picked her up and carried her on board. I made a new tent for the two of us and maybe Maxie to stay in.
“Oh I’m Maxie, that’s Rose, that’s Adam, that’s TJ, and that’s Nick.” Maxie said pointing to us. The little girl nodded. We made a fire and heated up the meat and I gave her some. She devoured it in seconds so we gave her another piece. And she ate that slower. Then I carried her back on board and we set off. She laid down in her sleeping bag and I decided to ask her a question.
“How did you know I was the ice goddess? I asked.
“Air powers, I can sense who is near us and the most special things about them.” She said. “I’m also lightning power.” She said. I nodded made sense most air power users had both of them lightning and air. She laid down and went to sleep and I walked outside. The others were waiting for me, except for TJ.
“Before you yell at me let me tell you something, she can sense who is in a 10 mile radius of her and the most special thing about them.” I said. “She’ll be useful in staying away from trouble.”
“Yeah, well why didn’t you tell us YOU were the ice goddess.” They asked.
“I didn’t know either but then a memory came back of the old ice goddess making me the new ice goddess. Where is TJ?” I asked.
“He was hurt you didn’t tell him so he went to his tent.” Adam told me. I sighed and walked over there and went in and put up a block of ice in the door.
“Go away.” TJ said without turning.
“No TJ I won’t cause we need to talk.” I told him.
“About what? About that you didn’t tell me you were a goddess? Or the fact that you lied to me?” He almost yelled turning to me.
“TJ don’t get mad. I didn’t even remember about being given the title of ice goddess. It was along time ago and the former ice goddess suppressed the memory so I wouldn’t go crazy with power. Also I was 11. And I try to forget everything that has to do with that age.” I told him, my voice breaking on the last words.
“Why?” TJ questioned me.
“Because when I was 11 my dad set off for the safe land and promised my mother and me to send a letter of his arrival, but we never got it. So he has to be dead.” I said silently. He looked at me and hugged me.
“I’m so sorry. By the way what does ice goddess mean?” He asked looking at me.
“It means, that I can be very powerful when I want to. Just like Maxie. Earth goddess. It’s nothing big. And I’m NOT immortal.” I said laughing. He nodded then we said goodbye and he went to bed. I climbed into the tent with Cassy and laid and fell asleep. I had another weird dream that night.
“Dad?” I called out. I was in a cave with crystals lined all around it.
“Yes honey?” He asked. Coming around the corner. I recognized his black hair and blue eyes but he still seemed fake.
“I’m scared.” I said shaking.
“You should be, but not of me. Of them.” He said looking past me, no straight through me.
“Who’s ‘them’? I risked asking.
“Run, honey, get up and get your friends and run! Don’t stop till the little girl says it’s okay! RUN!” He yelled. Then I woke up in a sweat and saw what he meant. There were three of Yak-face’s big ships gaining on us. I screamed for the others to wake up and they met me outside. They started panicking and I looked at Cassy, she nodded.
“Guys! Jump in the water with me and Cassy! Trust us!” I said. We all held hands and jumped at the same time me and Cassy used our powers to form a ball around us. She provided the air and I provided the ball. We sunk down some and I moved us forward.
“Look for some land or something under the water to sit this ball of ice on!” I said to the others. They nodded and looked at us. In our hurry we left all out food on the ship. My stomach grumbled. I told it to shut up. And it did.
“Woah! Rose, your eyes are white!” Adam said.
“It happens when I’m using a lot of power.” I told him. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Drew raise her hand up then I saw something to land on under the water. I turned around and smiled at her, she had made it. We docked about 100 feet under the water and I made some ice tunnels to get out of the ball and go fishing. Cassy and I went first. First we checked out the surface and I turned to Cassy.
“We traveled 7.5 miles they are looking at the boat, and Yak-face is with them.” She said.
Chapter 8
Rose
The ball of ice continues
Yeah, we had traveled 7.5 miles away from Yak-face. I went under the water and went back to the ball of ice. I thought it was useful so I made everyone get out and I had Cassy supply them with air while I worked on the new ice ball. This time I made is more of a square with round edges and I added separators, tables, chairs, and seats for someone to steer the submarine with and we went in. Maxie added comfy beds and some sheets and pillows. We all sat down and cooked the fish and ate some of it and saved the others.
We finished eating and everyone went to the sharing rooms. I fell asleep and woke up the next morning with no crazy dream. I sighed. I went and cooked some fish, no one was there. I looked in the rooms, everyone was gone. Even Cassy. I ate and sat down.
“What is going on?” I said out loud.
They left dummy. My little brother said. You might want to talk to Maxie in five minutes or when they get back.
I sighed. I sat there for a few minutes. I waited and I felt a small shard of ice slide down my face. I was crying. I ran back into Cassy and I’s room and sat on my bed. I heard footsteps and my friends came back in. No one said anything to me for an hour. Then we all got together and talked strategy. Cassy showed us her mark. It was a wildcat. We talked strategy for the next two days and I hung with Cassy more. I noticed Maxie hanging with me less also. A week passed underwater and Maxie didn’t even talk to me. I thought it would pass but two days went by and she hadn’t said a word to me. I walked into the room she had to herself. She was drawing. I caught a glimpse of what she sketched. Four people running in a forest and one left behind with a cut on her arm and she was being attacked. I started seeing a resemblance between all the people. She then drew in one more person, a young girl who looked just like Cassy. I saw a girl who looked just like me. I also saw TJ, Adam, and Nick. Maxie was the girl left behind. She was drawing when we left her. She flipped to a new page and started drawing me having fun like we did before we had to run away. Then she started drawing another girl there. Cassy. She drew herself looking at us having fun without her. She drew a picture of Cassy and her having a conversation, except she wrote in what Cassy said. Cassy was saying: Stay away from her, you will get her killed. No one needs and earth goddess, especially Rose. Cassy’s eyes were mad in the drawing. I knocked on the door and she shoved her notebook away. I walked to her.
“Why did you draw those pictures?” I asked her. Usually she drew what had happened to her. Rarely fiction, when it was, no one real was in it.
“Cassy hates the earth people. She has hates everyone. She say no one needs them, that they are useless and all they are good for is starting trouble. She says if you don’t get killed by my trouble, that I would kill you. I cut her on the arm. She was unarmed and she knows I’m easily set off.” Maxie told me, halfway through she was crying.
“Look, I will talk to her. She might just-”
“No! She screamed it at me Rose! You can’t do anything. She will not take it back!” Drew screamed at me. I went quiet.
“Look, you ditched me for a girl who is 12. It isn’t like she is the ruler of the universe.” Drew continued.
“Look, she has air and lightning powers they are-”
“Rare and extremely powerful, they only get handed down once in every 2000 years. We have to make sure she doesn’t destroy the world. I know. And also she is just like me because I can control the air in the north and south poles and she can control the water. I know.” Maxie cut me off. I sat quietly.
“She has air Rose. If she doesn’t like us, we can all die right now! I don’t get why she didn’t just electrocute me in water already! When you found I had earth and healing powers, you did nothing. Honestly. You know those are fragile powers and that I’m easily set off but NO. We have to take care of a very emotionally stable 12 year old girl because she is very powerful.” She mocked.
“Look Maxie, I am just really stressed right now with these dreams that-”
“Dreams? My parents havent talked to me in three months, before we left. Their daughter, they think she is the best thing ever Rose. I get you are confused about your dad, but it isn’t like he replaced you with someone just like you. My parent’s forgot my name Rose. I don’t want to have to use my earth to get my self out. I don’t want to leave my best friend, but right now, it seems like she is replacing me too.” Maxie said. She was sobbing now, choking on her own words. I went to hug her but she moved away. Adam walked in.
“Hey Drew.”
“Maxie.”
“Sorry, is this a bad time?” Adam asked. Maxie nodded and her backed out.
“Maxie, look. I only want to know why you think this. I can spend more time with you if you want.” I said.
“I know she is helpful but she can 180 and totally kill us just by not telling us something. I don’t want you to spend more time because I feel replaced. Look, I know you are going to make me feel better then go right back to her. Just go now. I will talk to you later, if I can.” She said. I let a tear fall down my face. I walked out of the room. I got back to my room and laid down on my bed.
“Rose. What were you two talking about?” Cassy asked my from her bunk.
“She thinks I’m spending too much time with you and you don’t like her.”
“I hate her.”
“Why? She is really nice girl. You just have to get-”
“I don’t want to get to know her. Earth powers are trouble, period.”
“She has gone through a lot, don’t just bash her.”
“So now your are defending the freak?”
“I’m not defending any freak. We are all freaks Cassy!” I yelled. She went to sleep angry. I walked out and saw TJ.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“You sure?”
“Yes.” I said. He walked over and gave me a hug.
“Do you know how Maxie kept Nick away from her? Why could Adam get in?” TJ asked me.
“Well, they are really into the chinese horoscope thing. I guess monkeys and dragons are compatible.” I said. TJ smiled. He gave me a huge hug. I saw it was dark so I went to sleep.
“Guys. We need to move. Now!” I heard Maxie scream. We got our stuff together and went to the surface ot the water. Our Ice boat was perfect and untouched. We got on and saw Nick still there.
“Where in the name of magic have you been?” He screamed at us. I told him.
“Well, I guess you don’t care about me.”
“We don’t.” TJ and Maxie told him.
“The truth hurts.” I said. He charged for me. He couldn’t get to me. It wasn’t Cassy though. It was Adam and Maxie, they put up an invisible shield around me and gave me a peephole and I watched as they fought Nick. Cassy wasn’t helping and I saw Maxie try to defend her and it worked after about 10 minutes of fighting they got Nick on the ground and handcuffed. I saw Cassy do something and I saw Nick’s body go limp and stop moving. The wall around me melted and I walked out. I went to Maxie first and hugged her.
“I’m so sorry! I miss you!” I cried.
“I miss you too, I’m so sorry for blaming you for Cassy not liking me.” She said hugging me back.
“What did you do to him?” I asked. Maxie looked over and said,
“Let’s just say he’s not in commision anymore, he’s dead.” I looked at him and kicked him. Yep, dead all right. Then they I heard a scream and looked over to see something go through Adam and come out. He fell to the ground.
“No! Adam!” Maxie screamed. I picked her up and froze Adam’s body and TJ picked it up. I looked to Cassy.
“3.7 miles away Yak-face and about 250 of his men, no magical powers. They think we came on foot. They are running they’ll be here in about 10 minutes.” She said. We climbed in the ice boat and I added some more ice and we went under. I looked at Cassy.
“They’ll be expecting us to take a boat so they have also have arsenal with them.” She was like a bloodhound.
“Then we’ll have to take a detour.” I told them. I turned us around and we went for about 3.7 miles (according to Cassy) under water and then I let us sink some. I unmelted Adam and saw I had stopped the bleeding with the ice. Maxie used some her powers on him and he came back, but not as strong. We laid him down in his bed and I made some ice then melted it for water. I made a night stand and set it there. We left him to sleep.
“Okay about every 30 minutes someone should check on him.” I said. We found a way to track the time and started it. Maxie checked on him first and then Adam did, then me, and Cassy did, and then Maxie me and Cassy. Maxie and Cassy seemed to get along better a few hours later. We all laid down and went to sleep I set us on course for the Safe Land.
Chapter 9
Maxie
The escape
We all slept for a while about a day from the events of the other day, Just a day away from the Safe land, nothing could go wrong if we stayed under water right? Wrong. When I woke up I saw water on the floor. I went out to see the others looking at it.
“We have to leave Maxie. We must pack up quick and swim to shore then travel for several hours then rest and head there.” Rose said.
“What about Adam?” I asked worried.
“I regained all my strength that I need.” He said behind me. I turned around and kissed him. Then we went to work in 30 minutes we were swimming to shore. We got out of the water and we all looked at Cassy.
“19.7 miles away. Be at this exact spot in more than an hour.” She said. We all looked at our wet clothes and we went to go change. I changed into a cute white dress that was easy to move in and then Cassy went when she came out she was in black shorts and had black shirt on that showed the wildcat on her forearm. Then Rose came out in black shorts and a black long sleeve shirt with black leather gloves on her hands. We headed out we traveled for about an hour and I heard someone trip I looked behind me and went to help Cassy up and she tried to walk but fell again so I picked her up and kept moving 30 minutes later she was walking again so we traveled for about 5 more hours then decided to eat. We cooked some of the fish and I said,
“I hope we aren’t all going to be like this eating fish and being crazy you know.” They laughed. We all looked at Cassy.
“You guys are getting to use to me, I can’t see or sense them very well but they decided to stop so they are about 57 miles from us.” She said. I hugged her. Then we all got back up and decided to walk for a couple more hours and then set up camp. When Cassy said,
“Human’s can no longer track us here. We are on the border of the Safe Land.” She smiled. We all looked around. It didn’t feel safe but oh well. Everyone but me went to sleep I was drawing, I drew a picture of me and Cassy as sisters and Rose as a good friend then I realized it was backwards. I was the good friend and they were the sisters. I laid down and went to bed. Where I had a weird dream. I was in my old living room and my parents were crying and their daughter, the one they neglected me for named Destiny, was in the corner.
“Why did she have to leave? We never meant for her to run away without saying goodbye. We still loved her, didn’t we Brad?” My mom asked crying hard.
“Yes, I still loved Drew to death.” He said holding my mom then their daughter, Destiny said,
“Why did you guys forget about her then?” In a soft voice.
“That’s what the old earth goddess said to do, she said it would help Drew channel her anger through earth more. That she needed to feel that hatred for someone and we didn’t want to make her loose Rose so we stayed two extra weeks and adopted you and then we started to neglect her.” My mom cried. I sat there and listened to them weep that I was gone then my dream shifted I was in a beautiful cave and my “mother” the old earth goddess was there.
“Daughter you have seen your parents cry over losing you and now you see me, and you thought I had died. I did not die I just gave you my power and went away leaving you as the earth goddess.” She said smiling like everything was alright.
“You caused me to feel pain on purpose!” I yelled.
“That is the only way to be a strong earthbender. My friends and parents did that to me. But I was all alone and you had Rose the best friend ever.” She said.
I was about to open my mouth when she added,
“And be careful with Cassy she still hates earthbenders, and you’re the earth goddess so watch out. She could turn on you at any point.” She said.
“What’s your name?” I asked her.
“You know my name Drew.” She said.
“Emily. My middle name.” I said. She nodded.
“What if I need your help?” I asked.
“You and your friends will stumble on this cave and you’ll know the way there from the Safe Land. After all I’m less than a mile away from the Safe Land.” Emily said, then I woke up.
“Morning.” Adam said right next to me. I jumped. We were in a different place. I looked at them.
“I carried you since Adam still isn’t strong enough yet. We are about 10 miles away from the Safe Land.” TJ said. I got up.
“Thanks. Any food left?” I asked. They put something in my hand. Meat. I gobbled it up and then got up.
“Well what are we waiting for? Let’s get going!” I said to them. We started off and I decided not to tell them about my dream with my parents crying over me or Emily. We kept walking through a thick forest and I heard footsteps behind us. I turned around quick and there were about 35 or so evil goblins right behind us.
“Well boys we have some magic trying to get to the safe land. Two goddess’, one half goddess, and two others.” The leader said.
“Boss, are we gonna kill them?” One of the goblins said.
“Yes, Burk you idiot we are going to kill them!” He yelled. They looked at me then at my friends. They smiled. We were out numbered but I couldn’t let my friends get hurt. I saw everything go dim but my targets, the earth, and the one’s I was protecting. I felt my body moving and I saw some trees move in front of me. I moved my hand forward and the trees moved, I had some puppets. I threw the trees at one batch of dumb looking ones and I hit. I saw some ice form then melt. I remembered my friends. I turned to see them looking at me. I built up a wall of earth and started punching random parts of it making those parts fly and hit goblins. The leader was mad. I turned to my friends again.
“Go! I’ll hold them off. You guys need to get to the safe land and make sure we belong there. Find Emily!” I yelled. They took off quickly without knowing who Emily was. I punched more random walls and one dumb little goblin got through and I took him and punched him then threw him about 30 miles away with some rock. I fought for a while then it was me and the leader. I came up with a knife and cut my cheek. I tried to hit him and he cut my other cheek. I grabbed his neck and told him,
“You’re lucky you are going to have a quick death.” And he took his knife, I was prepared for an attack but he slit his throat then his wrist. Soon he was dead. I grabbed the knife and ran off after my friends. When I caught up they saw my two cuts.
“Maxie! That’s not good!” Rose said. I was out of breath and couldn’t speak I must off run for miles because I saw a cave. And then the Safe Land.
“We are 0.7 miles away.” Cassy said.
“We need to stop in the cave.” I told them. They shrugged but followed me. I walked in and I saw the same cave in my dreams.
“Drew, Rose, Cassy, Adam, and TJ. Welcome.” Emily said. She was about 6’0” and had my color hair and purple eyes.
“Who are you?” Adam asked stepping in front of me. I spoke up.
“That’s Emily. The earth goddess before me. My mother in a way. And not to be rude, but I can protect myself.” I told them all about my dream and Emily nodded. When I was done she pulled out a necklace with a Peridot on it. That’s a lime green stone for the month of August . The month I was born in. I looked at it.
“Most earth users are born in August so this is hundreds of years old. It will give you more power so you can also control volcanos and make them whenever you want.” She said. She put it in my hands, I looked at it and fastened it on. The others stared at it. She also handed me a bracelet with a garnet on it.
“As for you Rose. I have something my friend Emily the old earth goddess gave you.” I looked at her.
“And yes that woman was me. I ruled over earth and ice for a while then had you two and gave each one of you my powers. So this is yours Rose.” She pulled out a Tanzanite, a light blue stone for the month of December. The month Rose was born in.
“This will help you control water better.” She said. then she pulled out an anklet for Rose with a tanzanite on it also. Like mine but for her ankle.
“Thank you.” She said and she fastened both of them on.
“And I have a gift for the all of you. This will help you get to the Safe Land without walking.” Emily snapped her fingers and the land underneath us rose up. And zoomed us away. I could feel the air stinging my eyes. I was wrong about Cassy and Rose being sisters. Me and Rose are sisters. I turned it so we would head straight for the gate. We were all smiling and waiting to get there.
Chapter
Maxie
We arrive
Finally we arrived at the gate the land melted and we hit the ground. We showed them our tattoos and they let us through were a girl who was about 22 walked up and said,
“Hi I’m Natasha and you must be the new arrival’s: TJ Gold, Adam Silvers, Rose Elivira, and Drew Maxie. Follow me.” She showed us the town then showed us to our houses. Me and Rose owned houses right next to each other and they were conjoined so there was a door to get in through the houses. And Cassy was to stay with Rose. TJ and Adam had houses next to each other across the street. I walked into my home and threw down my bag of dirty clothes. It was fully furnished the way I wanted and there were clothes my size in the drawers. There was also soap and shampoo ready so I decided to take a bubble bath. I turned on the water and put in some bubbles and climbed in. After that was over I climbed out and dried off. I put on some baggy sweat pants and a cute red tank top and decided to visit Rose. I knocked on the door and Cassy opened it.
“Maxie, what do you want?” She asked.
“Came to see Rose.” I told her.
“Oh she went grocery shopping they supplied everything but food or drink.” She told me. I thanked her and decided to go grocery shopping to but then remembered I had no money. I checked my closet and saw a purse I opened it and saw there was 1,000 dollars in it. And a note to note read:
Dear Ms. Drew Maxie,
Here is your before payment for your job.
The Magic Council.
I shrugged and went to get some food. When I was done shopping I ate and went to bed. The next day Rose walked up to me.
“Hey!” I said. She smiled.
“How’s my sister doing?” She asked me.
“Great, but you do know that the bath soap smells great. Try taking a bath.” I said. We laughed.
“We also have a Council meeting today and you need to come.” I said. She nodded.
“Hey, lets go back to my place.” She said and we went. We got inside and she started to make some popcorn for us. The doorbell rang so I went and opened the door.
“Hey!” Adam and TJ said.
“You know why we met right?” Adam asked me. I shook my head.
“Well, we already lived here. We were sent to help you find the way.” TJ told me and he walked to Rose. Rose nodded, she heard it too.
“A rose for Rose.” TJ said as he handed Rose a rose. She blushed. Cassy walked out.
“Ya, blah blah blah, now go AWAY. You too mud face.”
She snapped. We sat down and she screamed.
“What?” I asked.
“I need my beauty sleep idiots! Boys go AWAY NOW. You Mudface, LEAVE ROSE ALONE.”
I was taken back. So, naturally, I provoked her.
“Screw you.”
“What did you say?” She said, trying to intimidate me.
“Oh, you didn’t hear?” I asked. “SCREW. YOU.” I yelled in her face.
“You can’t tell us to leave when we are older than you, you know that right? And you, me, and Rose are going to see Emily today.” I told her. Soon we were heading half a mile to Emily’s cave. When we heard someone say,
“Stop! You there stop!” All three of us turned around and Cassy gasped.
“Mom? Dad?” She said shakily.
“How dare you run away from us! We fed you and clothed you! And let you practice magic! And go to school! You little brat!” Her dad yelled and slapped her across the face hard sending her down. Rose and I gasped, Rose stepped forward and put a hand up.
“Please don’t slap her!” She said then the mom stepped forward and said,
“You think you can tell us not to slap our daughter! We will slap her and punish her! I don’t know why she wanted to practice magic anyways. I hated it.” She said. I saw ice shards fly up, Rose was mad and I was worried. The parents gasped but the mom stepped forward.
“I will have you know, I am a water user.” She crossed her arms out in front of her like an X. She looked at Rose like she was an idiot. Rose laughed. The mom shot some water at Rose. It froze in it’s path.
“And I will have you know, I am the goddess of water and ice. .” She said. The mom stepped back.
“We just want our daughter back home with us.” She said.
“And I wanted to visit my goddess mom before my council meeting, looks like we are both disappointed today.” Then then the mom grabbed Cassy’s hand. I walked up and punched the mom. The father stared at me.
“You dare hurt my lovely wife!” He yelled at me and lunged. I threw a rock at him. He tried to blow it back but I launched him with the earth. The mother ran to me and tried to hit me. I grabbed her arm and twisted it. I made a rock fly up underneath her arm. It hit her arm and it broke. “If you haven’t noticed, I’m the goddess of earth. So, BACK OFF.” I said. The father was coming back but Rse cut him and froze him. I looked at Cassy as she ran to Rose. I grabbed her and we walked away. As soon as we were in the gates we ran to our house’s. Rose brought Cassy inside and put some ice on that bruise on her cheek. She set up some alarms and made some food and we left for our meeting. We got there and we were shown to our seats. I sat down next to Rose and we prepared for our first Magic Council meeting for the rest of our lives.
Chapter
Rose
The Meeting
I sat down and we waited, me and Maxie for our first Magic Council meeting. When the Head of the Council, Drake who was about 47, got to the podium he started speaking,
“Welcome, yesterday we had two newcomers finally arrive after a long 3 week journey running from our enemy Jella, better known as Yak-face and his leader Zach. We are pleased to welcome Rose Elivira, and Drew Maxie onto our Council!” He pointed to us and we stood. He beckoned us to walk onto stage and we did. I went on first and introduced myslef.
“Hi I’m Rose Eilvira, I’m a mixie, and also an ice and water goddess.” And I walked off to let Maxie get on.
" I'm Drew Maxie, call me Maxie. I'm also a mixie and I'm the goddess of earth and lava." Maxie said
The members applauded and bowed. We went and sat down. And they started with rules:
“Sorry. I wasn’t watching where it was going.” I said then I looked up. He was there, looking at me hand in hand with a young girl and holding another little girl, my father.
I stared at him, the little girl seemed 3 or so years old.
“Dad?” I asked. He looked at me and set the girl down and hugged me.
“Rose!” He yelled. I didn’t hug him back. He pulled back and stepped to the other lady.
“Jenna, this is Rose, Rose this is Jenna, my fiancee.” He said. Pointing to the blonde hair and brown eyed lady, Jenna. Then he picked up the little girl.
“And this is Lily, our daughter.” He said smiling like a proud father. The whole time I hadn’t said anything, that was over.
“YOU HAD A KID? YOU GOT ENGAGED? AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN WRITE ME OR MOM, YOUR WIFE?!?! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU!” I yelled at him, Jenna looked at him.
“You’re married?! This is your daughter you told me that her mother died? You lied to me!” She screamed also then turned to me.
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t know.” She said, I shook my head,
“It’s okay. I don’t hate you, I hate him.” I pointed to my old father. Me and Jenna exchanged numbers real quick and I turned to my dad, I was crying now.
“I hate you, I wish you had died on the way here. I can’t believe you left me and mom to come here, and didn’t write us and had a kid. I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU! I WISH YOU NEVER LEFT OR HAD DIED ON THE WAY INSTEAD OF BETRAYING ME AND MOM!” I screamed in his face, I turned and ran away. I ran outside the gate and I ran till I got to the cave entrance. Then I collapsed and cried. Then I felt Emily over me. She lifted me up and helped me to her table where I continued to cry.
“ I saw what happened.” Emily said. She hugged me.
“I don’t know why he would do that. I can’t believe him.” I said.
“I’m so sorry I called Maxie and told her what happened she’s on her way with TJ, Adam, and Cassy.” Emily said. Soon they arrived and comforted me without asking questions at first then when I stopped crying they started asking me questions. I answered them but I didn’t like it so they stopped. We stood in the entrance of the cave looking at where we came from and where we live now. I smiled thinking of my new family here. Emily the mom, Cassy the youngest sister, and Maxie my best sister. Maxie looked at me.
“I don’t need my dad. I have my mom and my sisters right here.” I said looking at them.
“I wonder who else we will meet.” Maxie said looking out.
END OF BOOK 1
Preview of book 2: The Knight of the night
“Mike are you training right now?” My mom yelled interrupting my training with fire and poison. I grabbed a shirt and threw it on. And climbed down the ladder to my training room and went down stairs.
“Nah, I’m down stairs now.” I yelled to her grabbing a bottle of water. I walked to the living room and saw Silver there. She’s my best friend in the world she has the power over making people fall asleep and mist. Her hair is black and brown and her eyes are green. She looked scared. She jumped up.
“Mike, they found out. Yak-face is coming for me, for u
A runaway series book.
prologue
Want to know what happens when we have been through 25 years of war? How the earth looks? Trashed, like all humans have left. We have severely lost population. But what about the magic world? Who was the "cause" of the war. Well most organizations have died out and the final presidents believe that the whole magic world is gone, they are wrong. The organizations that have died out are: vampires, goblins, elves, and last tree nymphs. Doesn't mean we don't have trees, we do. The organizations left: wizards, witches, werewolves, water nymphs, air spirits, rock spirits, and satyrs. Me? My name is Rose Elvira. I'm in a rare group, a mix of stuff. I'm an air spirit, wizard, and rock spirit mix. Rock spirits are a type of spirit that can turn into a rock looking thing that can move and talk but use rock to their will. So here's my story. Also my friend is a mixie, as we are called. Her name is Drew Maxie
chapter 1
Rose
the aftermath
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After the war that I lived in for 10 years finished 5 years ago we had to build a new home me, my dad, and my mom. Now we have a big stone house in one of the prettier neighborhoods in Tennessee USA. The government doesn't know my secret. Drew also lives in my neighborhood. We share the same secret. If president Zach ever found out about our secret, we would be dead. Or worse, slaves. We are mixes, a type of mixed magic. Or as some magical people call us, Mistakes. Air spirit, rock spirit, werewolf, and wizard. At least me and Maxie are. We are very special but against the law. Humans waged war against magic and they think they won and have killed of all magic, but they didn't the main council kept some organizations hidden during the war, mixes was one of them. So we hid during the war, not really in a bunker, but didn’t send our families into the war. What we did to gain the government's trust was ordered by the head council. We offered to spy on the magical’s and would bring them information on what organizations there was. We left out the one’s ordered by the head council. They let the smaller ones go in, and die. I didn’t like it, but I did it to stay alive. It was either the smaller organizations or me and Maxie. And I couldn’t stand the thought of dying, or Maxie dying. So I offered and gave them these names Elves, and Goblins. And they died off. I felt guilty afterwards but the head council told me it was for my own safety, they were correct. There was one place you could go if you were caught. The safe land, as it is called. Hence the name safe. That is where we are going to go, Rose Elvira and Drew Maxie. Where we will be safe.
Chapter 2
Rose
Start Running
It was a nice day outside in my neighborhood, I met up with Drew and we went to our secret spot in the sewer. It was the only clean one. “Hey Rose!” She said.
“Hey Drew. What’s up?” I replied to her.
“Well, I’m waiting for you to come in here! So hurry up before I close it off!’ I ran in, she wasn’t kidding. 2 seconds after I got in she closed it. We laughed. We switched on the lights and sat down. “So did you hear about the new law?” She asked. I shook my head.
“Well President Zach made it a law to be arrested if you didn’t go to school, and you weren’t sick. He really likes making laws.” She said.
“Yeah. Tell me about it.” President Zach was about 37 and really mean. We talked for about another hour then we climbed out. She walked me to my house but stopped me before hand.
“Look.” She hissed. I did. There were two guards, from the government there.
“Is Rose or Drew here?” They asked my mom.
“No sirs. They went for a walk.” She lied.
“And your name is Valentyn Elvira, correct?” They asked.
“That is me, I’m Roses mother.” They nodded and left while we hid. We went in to ask my mom what happened. “Pack, quickly, you have to! I think the government is on to you.” She thrust a piece of magical paper in my hand. “The directions to the safe land. Use them.” She said. We packed clothes and food and water and hurried into the woods. We ran for several miles then got tired and slowed to a walk for a couple more. Finally we set up camp and looked at the map.
“We are going in the right direction.” Maxie said.
“That’s great. Let’s eat and rest.” I said. We did just that. Soon we were both asleep.
I woke up in the middle of the night to footsteps. Boots. “Maxie, get up.” I hissed. We exchanged looks. We practically ripped the sleeping bags off the ground and put out the fire. We saw some people walk by, in suits and ties.
“School day. Someone needs to be arrested.” I heard a cold voice say. I looked to the man who said that and I saw a teenager. He had short, sandy colored hair that made his deep blue eyes stand out. He looked about 5’8’’ and was actually pretty cute.
“Dang. If we weren’t running from him, I would totally ask him out.” Maxie told me. We looked at each other and knew, he could trick us by just looking in our eyes and smiling. I swear I saw Drew’s eyes grow. “I, I know him.” She said, “I heard of him. He is a new recruit but is Yak-face’s favorite. Not good.” They walked past, not noticing us. Even though we were running fast, we were making a lot of noise. I was afraid they would hear us, but luckily they didn’t. I was pretty happy about that. I took the map and we started walking.
We walked through a bunch of green valleys. “This is beautiful.” Drew said at one point. We stopped to eat.
“Yeah, it is beautiful. In a couple days we’ll be in the Safe Land. And have a new home.” I said. When we finished we walked for several more hours till about 9:30. We ate and went to sleep. I had a dream where I was in the Safe Land and Maxie and I had our new home and we were eating. It was wonderful, we even had boyfriends but the Safe Land was as strict as the country is now.
I woke up to a gunshot sound and screaming. I jumped up, “Drew are you alright?” I asked.
“Kind of. The bullet almost hit me, slit my arm.” She said. Crap. That is it! I thought. First they come after us, then they shoot my best friend! I gripped my fists together. “Rock Spirit.” I said. I transformed into a giant human rock. The people came out of the bushes. I pointed at them and closed my fist. Rocks went flying at them. Some dodged some didn’t and it hit them. Thankfully knocking a couple out, maybe injuring one enough to not move. They shot at me and I laughed. I was a rock! They can’t shoot and hurt me now. I have rock shell around me. The best the can do it dent the rock. They seemed scared. I heard behind me whooshing, I turned around to see Drew as an Air Spirit. I smiled. She sent a tornado at them while I sent some boulders their way at the same time. They were out. I shifted into an air spirit and we packed up and got out of there with airspeed, so basically fast. We couldn’t stay like that for very long usually, but luckily we were in that form for about an hour traveling at 150 miles per hour. So we were far away. But there were cars they could use.
“I say we rest for a day or two.” Drew said.
“Nah, just a day to be safe and refill on magic. And sleep.” I said.
“Okay. I’ll make a fire.” She said. I nodded and pulled out some canned soup. We poured it into a pan and waited for it to cook.
“So how’s the arm?” I asked her. “Good I guess. I wrapped it up in some sports tape after cleaning it.” She said. I nodded. We talked for a while and ate then talked for an hour afterwards.
I had a dream where I was fighting the man who we saw a few days ago. "My name is Nick. Nice to meet you." he told me.
"Still serving Yak-face?" I asked.
"Why do you have to be so mean?"
"Because you still work for the man who wants us dead."
He gave me a sly smile at my comment. "Look, if you come with me, then maybe he will spare you. Try and get your pretty friend and you might just get a job and live." he said. It sounded tempting. I looked at him and he smiled at me and put out his hand. Mine was shaking as I put it into his. Right before our hands touched, I woke with a start.
“Run!” Maxie screamed in my ear. We continued running, I was panting by the time we ran a mile. I saw Maxie’s arm, now there was a scar, but it wasn’t a skidmark, it was a picture of a sword battle. I kept running and caught up. We finally stopped. I sat down and laid out or tent. “What happened in your dream? You look stressed.” Maxie told me as she sat down. I looked over at her and sighed.
“Yak-face’s favorite was there.”
“Did he kiss you?!”
“No, he just, wanted me to turn myself in and take you.” I told her the entire dream and details. “He looked like he would’ve kissed me. He also called you pretty.” I saw her cheeks go super red.
“Oh. Well, we better sleep.” Maxie told me so I curled up in my sleeping bag and was out. I woke up a little bit later but didn’t move. I heard the earth moving. I saw a silhouette of a girl earthbending. I then really woke up, it was a weird dream.
“Maxie.” I said. She didn’t wake up. “Maxie!” I screamed. She rolled over and groaned. “Get up!” I yelled as I shook her. She got up.
“Dude, I fell asleep like a few hours ago, not earlier last night like you.” She said. She plopped back down and snored. I rolled my eyes and started a fire, we needed to eat something. I pulled out one of our fifty cans of beans and opened the top with a can opener I had packed. I moved it into place on a stick I kept from the last site. I made sure it wouldn’t fall into the fire. It cooked and I pulled out two spoons. By now Maxie woke up and sat down next to me.
“Yay! Beans!” She exclaimed and scooped up some and ate it like it was heaven. I laughed. She does love beans, not black beans though. We ate and I walked to find a stream. I found some water and scooped it up with the pot I packed, (We are magic so we put a spell on our backpacks). I walked back and boiled the water then made some of it ice and then the ice melted, making the water cool enough to drink. We drank a lot, soon we were full and we packed up and hiked. I looked at the map and saw we were going the right way.
“Rose and Drew.” I whipped around at that voice. It was Nick. Maxie ran away and hid, I stayed. “Hi, I’m Nick.”
"Still serving Yak-face?" I asked.
"Why do you have to be so mean?"
"Because you still work for the man who wants us dead."
He gave me a sly smile at my comment. "Look, if you come with me, then maybe he will spare you. Try and get your pretty friend and you might just get a job and live." he said.
“Deja vu.” It sounded tempting. I looked at him and he smiled at me and put out his hand. I held my hands at my side. He took a step closer. I stood my ground. Another step. I stood there. Another step. I stood there like an idiot, his face was super close to mine. He looked in my eyes and half of me melted, but the other half yelled like crazy. I stood still. I could see Drew watching. He leaned in and held my head. He closed his eyes and kissed me. I was surprised, and I could tell a little bit of Drew was jealous. I stood there, eyes open then he pulled away. I was dazed. “Now get your friend and come with me, otherwise I am the last man you will ever see.” I looked in his eyes and my idiotic urge to fight came back.
“Oh really? You call yourself a man? Men don’t kiss girls just to take them to their president. You are no man. No wonder you are Yak-face’s favorite.” I said. He stopped and drew a knife.
“I don’t want to kill two pretty ladies.”
“You won’t have to.” Drew said. She was right behind him, she had her knife at his neck. “One wrong move pretty boy, and you will never see anything else but death.” His eyes went wide. I drew my sword.
“Thanks.” I told Maxie then she released him, only to have him at the edge of my sword. “Come with us.” I said. He followed as we traveled. He kept pleading for us to let him go. “You are coming with us until we don’t need you anymore.” I told him. We were in the middle of thick woods and camped out. “Look, we will clear a place for you to sleep, okay? Just don’t cry for help, we have hospitality. At least we are letting you lay down and sleep.” I told him, with my sword point close to his chest. Maxie stepped over and used her sword. I stepped back and put away my sword to set up the tent. I pulled out and extra sleeping bag for Nick. We all got comfy and Nick fell asleep fast. I stood guard in case anyone came looking for him. No one came so Maxie took over, she had her rest and I went to bed. I woke up and grabbed my sword, knowing it was my only defence. I saw Maxie asleep, she clutched her knife at night. Nick woke up.
“Hey, I’ll go wake her up.” He told me as he walked over.
“No.” I told him. He saw the knife and nodded. I woke her up and we packed. We kept walking and I took my blade down and he kept walking with us. I looked over and he was glowing.
“Magic. I’m a rock spirit.” He told me. “Yak-face saved me to get a hold of you two.” I nodded, he wasn’t impressing me yet, though. I remembered that when you haven’t used your magic in a while, you glow. He glowed the color goblins do.
“Anyone else hungry?”
“Drew isn’t the only one.”
“Maxie.”
“Ya, Drew Maxie.”
“No! It’s just Maxie!”
“Guys! I have some granola bars. Here.” I fished through my backpack and grabbed Drew three chocolate-chip granola bars. I threw one to Nick and gave one to me. We plowed through them, but we were still hungry. I stopped walking and set up the tent. I finished and set down my stuff then walked to make a fire. There was already one going and I saw Nick and Drew sitting next to each other. I found some sticks and cleaned them off. I grabbed some of the sausages Maxie packed. She saw that I put them on the sticks and she squealed, she loved roasting things. I smiled and handed her the stick. I grabbed more firewood and cooked my food. They were spicy sausages so Nick and I walked to find some water. We found a stream and I scooped up some water and we started walking back.
“You know, I wanna come to the Safe Land with you guys. I can help, more of Yak-face’s idiots are going to come for us.”
“Us?”
“Ya, they know I’m with you.”
“Wow.”
“They don’t know what I’m doing.”
“Fine. You can come. Just be helpful, don’t hurt us.” I said and we kept walking. When we got back I made a stone formation over the fire so it was like an oven. I made sure it had a hole just big enough to hold the pot without the pot falling. They water boiled until I knew all the harmful bacteria and minerals were dissolved and gone. I pulled the pot off and put ice in it. I had a secret to how I got the ice. A long story that Maxie doesn’t know, sadly. I have more of a power in me. A power that isn’t a organization. A long lost power. Ice power.
Chapter 3
The cold truth
So I could bend, make, become, or turn people into ice. I did not want Maxie to know. But if we were going to the Safe Land and I was going to join the council like I said in my letter to them. I had to tell her. You’re probably wondering how I know I’m going to join the council. Heres how:
Dear Ms. Rose Alvira,
We, the council, beg you to come join us when you arrive in the Safe Land. We hope you will except. You will have the choice of the following jobs:
Dragon Slayer
Squad Leader
Spy
Or janitor.
Please consider joining us.
The Council of Magic.
I got this when I was packing for the Safe Land. While Maxie was in the bathroom. I went over to Maxie and shoved the letter in her hand. “The council sent me this three days ago, the day we left. I’ve accepted to be a spy and a dragon slayer.” I said. She read the letter and then looked up. “Why did they ask you?” She asked. She seemed kind of hurt. “Because I have a specialty power. Ice. I can turn into ice, make ice, move ice, bend ice, turn people into ice.” I said. She took a letter out of her back pocket that said this:
Dear Ms. Drew Maxie,
We beg you to come join the council when you enter the safe land. You will have the choice of these jobs:
Main Council Board
Spy
Squad Leader
Janitor
"I'm gonna be a spy. Don't try to change my mind. And on the main council board." She told me. I looked at the letter then looked back at her. I handed her my letter but she shoved it back and stomped back into our tent. I saw Nick walk over.
"What's with pretty girl?"
"Stay out of it."
"Just tell me."
"No!" I yelled and stomped off. I walked back into the tent and Maxie turned her back to me. I took a step towards her and her hand curled over her sword. I stepped back and sat down. She turned around and she had been crying. Her eyes sparkled like crystals in caves. She turned away. Ick walked in.
"If we are going to get to the Safe land, we need to move." He told us. I got up and followed. Maxie grabbed her sword. She looked horrible. I almost told her but I thought that would make me lose an arm. I just walked off and directed us. I found a lake and set up camp. It was nightfall and we needed sleep. We all made a small dinner. Maxie sat next to Nick. All the way on the other side of the fire. I knew she was mad at me. I took out some of the chili I packed and poured it in a pan. While we waited for it to heat up we were silent. “Wow it’s like ice cold between you too.” He said. Maxie practically was made of stone. The only time she moved was to eat. I hugged her but she threw my arm off her and ran back in the tent. I sat down next to Nick.
"Why Nick? She is already mad. I don't want her to wanna kill me. " I said. He shrugged. He leaned over and by the firelight he look really good. We leaned in. I was ready. Our lips touched. I wasn’t ready, I grabbed his neck in my hands and his hands found my wasit, then I heard a gasp. I looked over to see Maxie standing there. Crying. "Why?!" Maxie screamed at me. I was about to tell her but she knew what I was going to say. Her eyes looked like crystals. She lifted her hands up and cave crystals floated next to her. They were razor sharp, more than a bullet wound would come from those. I panicked. I ran for the woods. I climbed a tree. She saw me. I ducked. She lowered her crystals. She raised a boulder. She was apparently the owner of the earth power that extra special, but sadly not lost.. I knew what she thought. I climbed down. I walked up.
"I'm not gonna say it was him. It was mostly me. Just make sure you dot leave us alone. For our own good." she turned to lea of a stone. She let out a small giggle and her eyes weren't as glassy. I smiled. Her eyes were normal and so was she. She still had her dagger in her hand. She jerked her head right and threw a dagger. It hit a man in the shoulder. "He was kind of hot. " I said sarcastically. She laughed a little bit.
"We need to move. Nick! Grab our stuff. We need to move." se yelled in a minute Nick was with us. We were running. A fighter came out and tried to cut me. I couldn't grab my sword so I grabbed his arm and kicked his legs. He was down and I grabbed his dagger. I saw Maxie kick a guy in the face nd he was knocked out. His nose was bleeding too. I looked around to see fighters surrounding us. Nick dropped out bags and turned to a rock. He ran and knocked into them. They fell unconscious but he was fine. He ran and did that five more times. Then we could fight. I waited for Nick to come back then made a huge tower of ice around us. Maxie made a rock and crystal inner layer. Then I melted the ice, making a huge wave fall onto the fighters, dazing them. The Maxie made the rocks fly out to them. They were down. I pulled one up and beheaded him. Maxie stabbed two. She took out her dagger and ran to a guy who was behind me. She elbowed him and cut his leg with her dagger. She then stabbed his neck. Nick killed the last two. We kept running. We got to the coastline. We needed a boat. We stole one from some tourists and rove off.
We were at sea for two days. Then we saw it. Land. We docked and walked onto the beach. We saw guards there. We checked in and he let Nick come too. We were shown to our house. Nick went to his. We unpacked. I laid down. I felt a sharp pain behind my knee, in my shoulder, and on my temple. I looked in a mirror and gasped. Somehow I got cut on those places. “Maxie help!” I said. She ran over and saw my cuts. She pulled out a small medical kit then sighed. She took her hands to my temple. She mumbled something in an ancient language. I forgot, she also had the power over medicine and healing. One of the lost powers. You may be wondering what is a lost power? Well they are powers that only one specific person gets in a whole 1,000 or more years. Medicine and healing hasn’t been a power in over 10,000 years. The ancient lost power as it is called. Maxie is a very powerful person. That’s why they asked her to be on the Main Council. To be the one calling the shots, while I killed dragons and they almost kill me. We still lived together though. But more on that later. Soon she was done and I said, “Thanks Maxie. That means a lot. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier about the ice power.”
“It’s okay, doesn’t mean I won’t hold you to it to use ice powers again. I will.” She said. Then she laughed.
Chapter 5
Unexpected guests
After I healed her cuts Rose and I sat down and lit a fire. “You know what would be cool? To have fire powers.” I said.
“Yeah. But it’s so cool to have a lost power. You know sand, ice, cloud, and lightning. But it’s cooler to have an ancient lost power like you. You know medicine/healing, storms, poison. Yeh..” She added. I nodded. Soon we fell asleep. I had a dream where we were in the safe land and I was on the council and they decided that we needed another person on it, and they wanted Rose but Rose didn’t want to join and I kept begging her to join but the the numans attacked us. And we fought for a while then I woke up in a sweat.
“Maxie? You alright?” Rose asked me.
“Yeah, bad dream.” I said then I shook my head knowing what she was going to ask next, to tell her about it. We got up and had some cereal and cleansed ourselves in the bathtub . We went and knocked on Nick door he opened it and was already dressed and packed.
“I packed some extra food from here.” He said. “We are 2 days journey from The Safe Land if we aren’t attacked.” Rose said looking at the magical map. Then a bunch of guys and girls came out of the bushes. Rose put a hand and yelled something I couldn’t hear. She put up a shield of ice around us. Then I took my hand and made some stones and boulders around us. I lifted the boulders and placed them around us. I threw one of them at a group of people who ducked just in time. Another at a group who got hit and went down a cliff. And another group that some ducked some didn’t. I lifted the stones in the air, ready.
“Wow, you’re good at earth Maxie.” Rose said.
“Thanks.” I said. She melted the ice and water took the injured and possibly dead bodies away. Nick turned into a rock and ran around hitting and kicking people.
“We need to train him. Or you do.” Rose said. I nodded and laughed a little bit. I took the stones and hit several people. One person threw something at me and Rose stepped in front of me and took it. She laughed.
“Why’d you do that?” I asked.
“Cause we need you to win. I shield us and you take out half the people with boulders. You can’t get hurt.” She said. That made me feel better.
“I guess this wasn’t a good place to stop. Did it hurt getting hit?” I asked
“No. It tickled.” She laughed. I picked up some dirt and hardened it. I made it levitate then flung it into a guy’s face. I saw four guys fall down. behind them I saw two guys.
“Dang.”
“I know.” Rose said then they ran over they ran to the other side and started attacking enemies. I realized they were on our side. I held my dagger and charged at the strongest enemy. I slashed his neck then whirled around, cutting another girl in the neck. They bled badly but Rose made some ice then melted it and they washed off the cliff and we turned to the two boys.
“Who are you?” I asked dagger in hand.
“I’m Adam and that’s TJ.” Said the cuter one. He was about 6’3” he had black hair and brown eyes. He smiled.
“And you are?” He asked.
“I’m Maxie and this is Rose.” I told them. I looked to the other one who was checking Rose out. He was about 6’1” had blonde hair and green eyes. Not cute to me.
“Are you guys magic?” Rose asked.
“Yep, I’m a air spirit and Adam is a Half human half rock spirit. But I also have another power a specialty power. Uh it’s lightning. And Adam has the power to turn people to stone or ice.” TJ said. Oh great, ice. Rose is going to attract to him. I thought to myself.
“That’s cool. We’re mixes we also have specialty powers. I’m ice. And Maxie is earth and medicine and healing.” Rose said looking at TJ.
“Cool ancient lost power. And a lost power.” Adam said. Mostly looking at me.
“And I’m Nick. I’m a rock spirit.” He said, he looked like he wanted to kill Adam. After we talked for a minute we all headed to the Safe Land together. We traveled for several hours till about 1:30 at night. So we sat down and set up camp. TJ and Rose talked for awhile then Rose went to go to bed and so did TJ and Nick was already asleep. So it was just me and Adam on watch for Yak-face’s men.
“You’re very pretty.” Adam said after about 10 minutes of silence. I blushed.
“Thanks. You’re very handsome.” I said. He turned to me. And smiled.
“Thanks. Sorry if that was random.” He said. I shook my head. He looked at me. We both leaned in and our lips touched. We kissed for a couple minutes then Adam went to go rest for about 30 minutes and sent Nick out.
“Hey there.” Nick said.
“Hey Nick.” I replied.
“How is the most beautiful girl in the world doing?” He asked. I looked up. He nodded. I felt heat rising to my cheeks.
“There’s something I’ve always wanted to do.” He said leaning in. I took my fist and punched him in the stomach. I pushed him back.
“Get away and don’t try to make a move on me. Manipulator.” Then I went into my tent and fell asleep.
I woke up and Nick was right there. I grabbed my dagger. He backed away. “What did I do?” He asked me.
“You kissed Rose then said you want me.” He stared at me. “Twice.” I said. He walked out. Adam walked in. “Hey.” I said.
“Hey pretty lady.” I blushed.
“Someone is in a good mood.”
“Well, you are here.” He said. I looked at his eyes. We stepped closer. He grabbed my waist, but not low. I smiled. I kissed him. He kissed back and we heard a noise and pulled away to see fighters.
Chapter 6
Maxie
Halfway There
We were running fast. I looked behind and saw the enemy gaining. We were almost to the beach, then we could be near water to help Rose get it to ice. I turned and stopped. I flung a thick wall of rock up between the enemy and us. I ran to catch up to the rest. “That should hold the for a little bit. We are almost at the beach!” I said. We kept running. The army was already through the wall. We ran for the woods. I tripped over a huge tree root. I fell down and my friends were already way too far ahead. The army was right behind me when I got up. I fought off the first ten but I couldn’t take them on my own. I got to the point where there was only one guy and me. I elbowed him and he punched my head. I fell down but bounced back. HE slashed my arm and I was bleeding. I closed the cut. It hurt but he hit my head. Hard. I was down. I heard running and voices.
“Adam, we need to carry her.”
“I know Rose. I got her.” I heard Adam say. I felt like I was off the ground but I didn’t see anything else.
I could see again and I saw we were at the beach. I looked around and saw TJ with my medical kit. “Lay down. You need to ice your head. I already wrapped up your cut.”
“Thanks, where did you learn medicine, most people would just pour water and drop ice and have me move on.” I mumbled. TJ smiled nicely.
“My mom, she is a nurse.” TJ told me. “Babe, can you make some ice ang bag it for Maxie’s head?” He said, turning to Rose.
“Sure.” Rose said and bagged a bit of ice she made. TJ put it on my head. He looked at rose and she got another bag. He put it on my arm. He took the ice off my head and put it on my arm, moving the bag on my arm to my head. He did this every few minutes. I saw TJ signal Adam, and Adam lifted me up. He put the ice back on me and I felt better. It could’ve been the salt water ice. Adam carried me to an abandoned part of the beach and sat down. I watched as Rose made a float of ice. We all got on and made our way out. TJ and Rose set up the tent and sleeping bags while we were floating on the sturdy ice. I went inside the tent and laid down on my sleeping bag. I laid there for a few minutes. Rose walked in.
“How ya feeling?” She asked me. I smiled a little.
“Better, I think it is because of the salty ice.” Rose laughed a little.
“You do have the medicine and healing.”
“TJ also helped a lot. His mom is a nurse.” I said. She smiled. I sat up. Rose grabbed some medical tape and taped the ice to me.
“There.” She said. We laughed a little. Just then TJ walked in.
“You need to clean up, your wound also needs to be washed. You can’t bathe yourself though.” He said looking at Rose.
“I will go boil some water and cool it for you. If you don’t mind, I will bathe you and TJ will wash your wound.”
“Sure.” I said. I gave a look of thanks to TJ. Rose left and TJ sat down next to me. I looked at him.
“Thought you would want help getting these off.” He said, taking the tape off me and putting the ice down. I gave him a hug.
“Thanks.” I said. We sat there for a few minutes, then Rose and Adam walked in with a lot of water. She put it in the tub, (remember, we are wizards) and TJ and Adam left. Rose closed the tent and nodded to me. I stripped. I pulled out a new sports bra and underwear and clothes. I got in the bathtub. While rose cleaned my body and my hair I hummed a song. When she was done I rinsed with an extra pot of water. Then rose helped dry me. I walked over and got dressed. Then TJ walked in and cleaned out my cut. It was turning to a scar now, but it still needed to be cleaned. When he finished, he wrapped my arm with no bandage, just gauze and sat next to me. I put a bit of make up over my bruise on my forehead. I walked out and saw we were in the open sea. The sun was setting and I sat down. Rose and Adam joined me, but TJ came over last. We watched the sun go down then it was dark. Rose, TJ, and I headed to go to sleep. I crawled in and fell asleep. I woke up to the smell of chili. I scrambled out of my sleeping bag and out the tent. I saw everyone eating. Adam looked well rested, maybe he went to bed and Rose took watch.
“How ya feelin?” Adam asked me.
“Good.”
“Thats great.” Adam said. I smiled. I started to see an island. “We need to move around it.” Adam told us. I summoned the earth from the bottom of the ocean and made a paddle out of rock. I used it to move us away from the island. I set the paddle down and rested. TJ came over and looked at my arm. IT was a scar, not a fresh one, but like it had been there for a while. He smiled.
“All better.” He said. I saw a boat. I panicked. I lifted the earth in a wall.
“We need to move fast.” I said. I saw Nick in the corner. “Nick! Come on! We need to move the ice!” I screamed. They all knew what I had seen; the government scientists and army. I flung earth up behind me and made us fly forward at about 90 mph. We flew for about 30 minutes, so we went 45 miles. We passed the ship and I kept flinging up rocks to help us move forward. We were finally out of sight. I was exhausted. I slumped down. We glided closer to the safe land. We were still very far. I sighed. This is not going to be as easy as I thought. I thought it was going to be extremely hard.
"We have about a weeks course if we don't get attacked." I stared out to the water. "We have to go through a check in in about three days. We will pass two islands the check in. Then, four days of travel. The man who checks us in will give directions. We just keep going the way we do and we will get there." I looked at Rose. Nick walked over.
"Hey." He said, sitting super close to me. I got up and moved. I looked out to the ocean for a few minutes then grabbed a book to read. I layed down on my sleeping bag. I put down the book and started to draw. I need up drawing a rose.
"What's wrong?" Rose asked as she walked in. "You don't really draw." I looked up.
"This is different. I miss my family. At least I'm with my best friend." I managed and smile. Rose walked over and hugged me. I started to draw anime eyes. I drew a girl who had my features. She came out looking scared.
“You know it’s okay to be scared, and sad. I am.” Rose said. She looked down.
“I’m afraid to end up like my dad, MIA, he went for the Safe Land and we never heard from him again. I don’t want that to happen to me.” She added. I leaned over and hugged her but pulled away fast.
“Rose you’re as cold as ice.” I said. She looked at me and laughed.
“That happens to me a lot. That’s why there were some times I never hugged you. Just means I’m tired of being human.” She said.
“What do you mean? You’re not acting human, you’re not human.” I said.
“It’s complicated.” She said. Then she looked at my picture again. She nodded and smiled.
“What?” I asked.
“It look like you. The golden brown hair, the blue eyes, the purple shirt, and grey jacket.” She said. I laughed and smiled.
“Thanks. Want me to draw you?” I asked.
She shook her head and showed me a picture she drew herself. It was amazing, it showed her blue hair, her ice blue eyes, and her favorite white dress.
“I remember the day you got your blue hair.” I said. “I remember you walking up and saying, ‘Hey Maxie.’ And I was afraid you were one of Yak-faces. Then you told me you died your hair the light blue and you were letting it grow out. I remember wondering why you dyed.” I said laughing.
“Yeah, um, Maxie? I didn’t actually dye it. When I got the ice power it turned this color. It’s hard to explain but if I cut it short my ice is weaker longer it’s stronger. I didn’t want to tell you.” She said. I looked at her.
“Okay I guess.” I said. She smiled we layed down and fell asleep. I dreamt about Rose’s dad who went missing from trying to get to the Safe Land. I saw him trying to run and getting shot. I woke up in a sweat.
“Morning Maxie.” Adam said. I smiled.
“Morning Adam. Where is everybody?” I asked.
“ Hunting. We docked earlier so I carried you.” He said. I laughed a little.
“Why do you always carry me?” I asked him. He smiled. I got up and grabbed my knife. I walked into the rainforest that everyone else went into. I laughed when I saw them trying to catch a fish. I walked over and flung up the earth. A dozen fish flew up and they all grabbed them and thanked me. I kept walking and saw an antelope. It was so beautiful. I walked over to go past, it hadn’t done anything to be killed. I started going around it and it charged at me. I slashed it and it was dead. I felt a small tear fall down my face. “I wasn’t going to hurt you, but I had to.” I called for everyone and they came.
“Maxie, why did you kill it?” Rose asked me.
“I was walking around it to go past to find something else for us but it charged at me, it pointed its horns at my heart.” I said. They stared at the creature. We all dragged it back and skinned it. Then Rose and TJ chopped it up for us to eat, but I ate the fish instead. We walked around the island and saw a man in a suit. We walked over.
“Drew Maxie, Rose Elvira, Nick Stott, TJ Gold, and Adam Silvers?” He asked us. We nodded. Adam flipped his hand to show his inner wrist, it had a monkey, the man nodded. He nodded to me. HE handed me a choice of markings. “These match your personality, choose one, it a like a tattoo, so choose well.” He said. I chose the dragon.
“Please make it brown and red.” I told him. He nodded. Then he pulled out another sheet of markings. He nodded to Rose. She chose a sword with a snake wrapped around it. The man walked me over to a chair and had me sit down. I moved my t-shirt and pointed to where I wanted it. He nodded and went ahead. When the needle was marking my skin, it didn’t hurt at all, it felt like warth running through my veins. It was done and he showed me it in a mirror. IT looked amazing, like a chinese dragon that was brown, but the outlines were red. No redness was there and I walked out to my friends and showed them my dragon. Rose went and got hers done. She came out and it looked cool. We went back to our campsite.
“We don’t have directions.” I said.
“You will make it, you have the markings now.” TJ and Adam told us. We relaxed and ate some food. Nick followed us with a skull on his wrist. I shivered. I continued eating my food. It was getting dark so Rose made us a new ice boat and we boarded. I took watch. Later, TJ walked out.
“Can’t sleep?” I asked him.
“Yeah. Can I ask you something?”
“Ya.”
“Would you mind if I uh. Well, I haven’t kissed Rose yet and I don’t know if she would think I was a good kisser and would you mind?”
“If you practice-kissed me?” I asked him. He nodded. “Sure.” I said. We leaned in and kissed. We parted and I told him, “She would like it.” He smiled.
“That was just as friends.” He said.
“As friends.” I said. We took watch together, then he told me to sleep. I walked into the tent and saw Rose drawing. “Rose, guess what.” I said.
“What?”
“TJ really wants to kiss ya. He even, practiced with me just to see.” She smiled and looked hurt, but mostly happy.
“Is he still awake?” She asked. I nodded. She ran out the tent. I peeked out to watch her. I saw her sit down by him. She looked in his eyes, they both leaned in. Bam! They kissed. I smiled. I felt a tap on my shoulder. Nick. I saw his skull glow. I fell down. I scrambled up and ran to my sleeping bag. I thought of my dragon, of strength, of me. I had a barrier to keep him out. Nick tried to get through, but was grunting, trying to break my invisible shield. Adam woke up from Nick’s noise and ran through my barrier. He hugged me and the field was stronger. I knew why he could come in and do that, we chose chinese zodiac signs, and they were compatible. TJ and Rose ran in. Rose grabbed Nick and held him back. TJ smacked him in the face with the flat of his knife.Nick went unconscious. They carried him to his sleeping bag and had him sleep. Adam got up and helped me up. The barrier fell and my heart pounded. We were safe.
Chapter 7
Rose
A close call
“You don’t need to cry.” He said.
“But, y-you’re dead! I’m dreaming!” I screamed.
“Yes you are dreaming, but am I dead?” He asked in his soft tone.
“Yes! You are! You left me and mom and you died! We should’ve all gone!” I yelled at him, my dad. He looked at me and shook his head.
“What about Maxie?” He asked.
“You know! Her parents left for a vacation the same you died and returned two weeks later than they said they did, they were gone for a month! And they had adopted a girl who looks just like Maxie, they only paid attention to her. Not Maxie. You should remember you were there when it happened, but then you left, and died.” I said crying.
“Honey, I love you.” Is all he said then he faded away. I woke up. The sun was rising. I added some ice on the bottom of the boat and went and looked out at the sea. I thought of my dream.
What if he was using magic to send me a dream message, what if he’s not dead, he’s alive and they have a no letter policy or somthing in the Safe Land? I thought. I saw some land and used all my water power to turn us there. Since ice is a form of water I could use it also but not as well as I could ice. I docked us some off shore and made a tiny ice boat and woke up the others. I told them my plan and we set out. My plan was this, we find food and water and then we get out of here cause I didn’t like this place. How wrong I was about getting out of there quick.
Right away it went wrong, we were walking and someone had the idea of splitting up so we did. So Drew and I went off together, we were walking and these weird vulture things dive bombed us and started attacking. I put up a shield of ice. I sat down on one knee and started concentrating hard. I thought of all the things that made me mad, my dad dying and appearing in my dreams, leaving my mom and my little brother, the people chasing us, failing my test when I got the answers correct. Maxie was saying something but I couldn’t understand her. We needed help, for the vultures, getting to the Safe Land, finding the others, getting jobs. But right now we mainly need help with the vultures, finding food and the others. I kept thinking of things that made me mad. I could feel my body trembling, I felt Maxie sit on one knee right next to me. She realized what I was doing. Building my power up. I got up quick and all the ice shattered and hit some of the vultures.
“I’ll keep you safe, build your power up!” I yelled to Maxie. The wind was howling, I made several knives out of ice and threw them at the vultures. Then I decided just to use ice, not in a special form. I threw ice shards at the vultures some flew away the others were killed. I realized we had food now. I looked to Maxie who was sitting down smiling.
“What?” I asked her.
“I wasn’t building up my power. I was letting you do it.” She said. I rolled my eyes. We skinned and cooked the meat. Then we headed off to find the others. We found them at the ship with no food. We showed them the vulture meet and their eyes widened.
“Bon appetit.” I said. Then she arrived. She was about 12 and had white hair and green eyes.
“I’m Cassy.” She said. “I’m a runaway to the Safe Land.” She added.
“Don’t say that name to strangers you don’t know if we could of been human.” Adam said. I knelt to the little girl.
“Hey it’s okay, we’re going to the safe land too.” I said.
“I could tell. I sensed your presence here.” She said. She looked at me. “Especially the ice goddess.” She added. That was news to me. I knew the ice goddess blessed me with her power but I don’t remember her making me the ice goddess. The others looked at me. I shrugged.
“Yeah it’s true so what?” I said. The others looked back at the girl. I looked her in the eyes. How did she know?
“How could you sense us here, Cassy?” I asked in a sweet voice.
“I have the power of the wind, and air. I could sense when you docked and sensed you were nice.” She said. I made the next decision on my own, since she was air, and ice needed air and air needed ice.
“We’ll take you with us onto my ice boat I made and you can enter with us.” I told her. She threw her arms around my neck. I picked her up and carried her on board. I made a new tent for the two of us and maybe Maxie to stay in.
“Oh I’m Maxie, that’s Rose, that’s Adam, that’s TJ, and that’s Nick.” Maxie said pointing to us. The little girl nodded. We made a fire and heated up the meat and I gave her some. She devoured it in seconds so we gave her another piece. And she ate that slower. Then I carried her back on board and we set off. She laid down in her sleeping bag and I decided to ask her a question.
“How did you know I was the ice goddess? I asked.
“Air powers, I can sense who is near us and the most special things about them.” She said. “I’m also lightning power.” She said. I nodded made sense most air power users had both of them lightning and air. She laid down and went to sleep and I walked outside. The others were waiting for me, except for TJ.
“Before you yell at me let me tell you something, she can sense who is in a 10 mile radius of her and the most special thing about them.” I said. “She’ll be useful in staying away from trouble.”
“Yeah, well why didn’t you tell us YOU were the ice goddess.” They asked.
“I didn’t know either but then a memory came back of the old ice goddess making me the new ice goddess. Where is TJ?” I asked.
“He was hurt you didn’t tell him so he went to his tent.” Adam told me. I sighed and walked over there and went in and put up a block of ice in the door.
“Go away.” TJ said without turning.
“No TJ I won’t cause we need to talk.” I told him.
“About what? About that you didn’t tell me you were a goddess? Or the fact that you lied to me?” He almost yelled turning to me.
“TJ don’t get mad. I didn’t even remember about being given the title of ice goddess. It was along time ago and the former ice goddess suppressed the memory so I wouldn’t go crazy with power. Also I was 11. And I try to forget everything that has to do with that age.” I told him, my voice breaking on the last words.
“Why?” TJ questioned me.
“Because when I was 11 my dad set off for the safe land and promised my mother and me to send a letter of his arrival, but we never got it. So he has to be dead.” I said silently. He looked at me and hugged me.
“I’m so sorry. By the way what does ice goddess mean?” He asked looking at me.
“It means, that I can be very powerful when I want to. Just like Maxie. Earth goddess. It’s nothing big. And I’m NOT immortal.” I said laughing. He nodded then we said goodbye and he went to bed. I climbed into the tent with Cassy and laid and fell asleep. I had another weird dream that night.
“Dad?” I called out. I was in a cave with crystals lined all around it.
“Yes honey?” He asked. Coming around the corner. I recognized his black hair and blue eyes but he still seemed fake.
“I’m scared.” I said shaking.
“You should be, but not of me. Of them.” He said looking past me, no straight through me.
“Who’s ‘them’? I risked asking.
“Run, honey, get up and get your friends and run! Don’t stop till the little girl says it’s okay! RUN!” He yelled. Then I woke up in a sweat and saw what he meant. There were three of Yak-face’s big ships gaining on us. I screamed for the others to wake up and they met me outside. They started panicking and I looked at Cassy, she nodded.
“Guys! Jump in the water with me and Cassy! Trust us!” I said. We all held hands and jumped at the same time me and Cassy used our powers to form a ball around us. She provided the air and I provided the ball. We sunk down some and I moved us forward.
“Look for some land or something under the water to sit this ball of ice on!” I said to the others. They nodded and looked at us. In our hurry we left all out food on the ship. My stomach grumbled. I told it to shut up. And it did.
“Woah! Rose, your eyes are white!” Adam said.
“It happens when I’m using a lot of power.” I told him. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Drew raise her hand up then I saw something to land on under the water. I turned around and smiled at her, she had made it. We docked about 100 feet under the water and I made some ice tunnels to get out of the ball and go fishing. Cassy and I went first. First we checked out the surface and I turned to Cassy.
“We traveled 7.5 miles they are looking at the boat, and Yak-face is with them.” She said.
Chapter 8
Rose
The ball of ice continues
Yeah, we had traveled 7.5 miles away from Yak-face. I went under the water and went back to the ball of ice. I thought it was useful so I made everyone get out and I had Cassy supply them with air while I worked on the new ice ball. This time I made is more of a square with round edges and I added separators, tables, chairs, and seats for someone to steer the submarine with and we went in. Maxie added comfy beds and some sheets and pillows. We all sat down and cooked the fish and ate some of it and saved the others.
We finished eating and everyone went to the sharing rooms. I fell asleep and woke up the next morning with no crazy dream. I sighed. I went and cooked some fish, no one was there. I looked in the rooms, everyone was gone. Even Cassy. I ate and sat down.
“What is going on?” I said out loud.
They left dummy. My little brother said. You might want to talk to Maxie in five minutes or when they get back.
I sighed. I sat there for a few minutes. I waited and I felt a small shard of ice slide down my face. I was crying. I ran back into Cassy and I’s room and sat on my bed. I heard footsteps and my friends came back in. No one said anything to me for an hour. Then we all got together and talked strategy. Cassy showed us her mark. It was a wildcat. We talked strategy for the next two days and I hung with Cassy more. I noticed Maxie hanging with me less also. A week passed underwater and Maxie didn’t even talk to me. I thought it would pass but two days went by and she hadn’t said a word to me. I walked into the room she had to herself. She was drawing. I caught a glimpse of what she sketched. Four people running in a forest and one left behind with a cut on her arm and she was being attacked. I started seeing a resemblance between all the people. She then drew in one more person, a young girl who looked just like Cassy. I saw a girl who looked just like me. I also saw TJ, Adam, and Nick. Maxie was the girl left behind. She was drawing when we left her. She flipped to a new page and started drawing me having fun like we did before we had to run away. Then she started drawing another girl there. Cassy. She drew herself looking at us having fun without her. She drew a picture of Cassy and her having a conversation, except she wrote in what Cassy said. Cassy was saying: Stay away from her, you will get her killed. No one needs and earth goddess, especially Rose. Cassy’s eyes were mad in the drawing. I knocked on the door and she shoved her notebook away. I walked to her.
“Why did you draw those pictures?” I asked her. Usually she drew what had happened to her. Rarely fiction, when it was, no one real was in it.
“Cassy hates the earth people. She has hates everyone. She say no one needs them, that they are useless and all they are good for is starting trouble. She says if you don’t get killed by my trouble, that I would kill you. I cut her on the arm. She was unarmed and she knows I’m easily set off.” Maxie told me, halfway through she was crying.
“Look, I will talk to her. She might just-”
“No! She screamed it at me Rose! You can’t do anything. She will not take it back!” Drew screamed at me. I went quiet.
“Look, you ditched me for a girl who is 12. It isn’t like she is the ruler of the universe.” Drew continued.
“Look, she has air and lightning powers they are-”
“Rare and extremely powerful, they only get handed down once in every 2000 years. We have to make sure she doesn’t destroy the world. I know. And also she is just like me because I can control the air in the north and south poles and she can control the water. I know.” Maxie cut me off. I sat quietly.
“She has air Rose. If she doesn’t like us, we can all die right now! I don’t get why she didn’t just electrocute me in water already! When you found I had earth and healing powers, you did nothing. Honestly. You know those are fragile powers and that I’m easily set off but NO. We have to take care of a very emotionally stable 12 year old girl because she is very powerful.” She mocked.
“Look Maxie, I am just really stressed right now with these dreams that-”
“Dreams? My parents havent talked to me in three months, before we left. Their daughter, they think she is the best thing ever Rose. I get you are confused about your dad, but it isn’t like he replaced you with someone just like you. My parent’s forgot my name Rose. I don’t want to have to use my earth to get my self out. I don’t want to leave my best friend, but right now, it seems like she is replacing me too.” Maxie said. She was sobbing now, choking on her own words. I went to hug her but she moved away. Adam walked in.
“Hey Drew.”
“Maxie.”
“Sorry, is this a bad time?” Adam asked. Maxie nodded and her backed out.
“Maxie, look. I only want to know why you think this. I can spend more time with you if you want.” I said.
“I know she is helpful but she can 180 and totally kill us just by not telling us something. I don’t want you to spend more time because I feel replaced. Look, I know you are going to make me feel better then go right back to her. Just go now. I will talk to you later, if I can.” She said. I let a tear fall down my face. I walked out of the room. I got back to my room and laid down on my bed.
“Rose. What were you two talking about?” Cassy asked my from her bunk.
“She thinks I’m spending too much time with you and you don’t like her.”
“I hate her.”
“Why? She is really nice girl. You just have to get-”
“I don’t want to get to know her. Earth powers are trouble, period.”
“She has gone through a lot, don’t just bash her.”
“So now your are defending the freak?”
“I’m not defending any freak. We are all freaks Cassy!” I yelled. She went to sleep angry. I walked out and saw TJ.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“You sure?”
“Yes.” I said. He walked over and gave me a hug.
“Do you know how Maxie kept Nick away from her? Why could Adam get in?” TJ asked me.
“Well, they are really into the chinese horoscope thing. I guess monkeys and dragons are compatible.” I said. TJ smiled. He gave me a huge hug. I saw it was dark so I went to sleep.
“Guys. We need to move. Now!” I heard Maxie scream. We got our stuff together and went to the surface ot the water. Our Ice boat was perfect and untouched. We got on and saw Nick still there.
“Where in the name of magic have you been?” He screamed at us. I told him.
“Well, I guess you don’t care about me.”
“We don’t.” TJ and Maxie told him.
“The truth hurts.” I said. He charged for me. He couldn’t get to me. It wasn’t Cassy though. It was Adam and Maxie, they put up an invisible shield around me and gave me a peephole and I watched as they fought Nick. Cassy wasn’t helping and I saw Maxie try to defend her and it worked after about 10 minutes of fighting they got Nick on the ground and handcuffed. I saw Cassy do something and I saw Nick’s body go limp and stop moving. The wall around me melted and I walked out. I went to Maxie first and hugged her.
“I’m so sorry! I miss you!” I cried.
“I miss you too, I’m so sorry for blaming you for Cassy not liking me.” She said hugging me back.
“What did you do to him?” I asked. Maxie looked over and said,
“Let’s just say he’s not in commision anymore, he’s dead.” I looked at him and kicked him. Yep, dead all right. Then they I heard a scream and looked over to see something go through Adam and come out. He fell to the ground.
“No! Adam!” Maxie screamed. I picked her up and froze Adam’s body and TJ picked it up. I looked to Cassy.
“3.7 miles away Yak-face and about 250 of his men, no magical powers. They think we came on foot. They are running they’ll be here in about 10 minutes.” She said. We climbed in the ice boat and I added some more ice and we went under. I looked at Cassy.
“They’ll be expecting us to take a boat so they have also have arsenal with them.” She was like a bloodhound.
“Then we’ll have to take a detour.” I told them. I turned us around and we went for about 3.7 miles (according to Cassy) under water and then I let us sink some. I unmelted Adam and saw I had stopped the bleeding with the ice. Maxie used some her powers on him and he came back, but not as strong. We laid him down in his bed and I made some ice then melted it for water. I made a night stand and set it there. We left him to sleep.
“Okay about every 30 minutes someone should check on him.” I said. We found a way to track the time and started it. Maxie checked on him first and then Adam did, then me, and Cassy did, and then Maxie me and Cassy. Maxie and Cassy seemed to get along better a few hours later. We all laid down and went to sleep I set us on course for the Safe Land.
Chapter 9
Maxie
The escape
We all slept for a while about a day from the events of the other day, Just a day away from the Safe land, nothing could go wrong if we stayed under water right? Wrong. When I woke up I saw water on the floor. I went out to see the others looking at it.
“We have to leave Maxie. We must pack up quick and swim to shore then travel for several hours then rest and head there.” Rose said.
“What about Adam?” I asked worried.
“I regained all my strength that I need.” He said behind me. I turned around and kissed him. Then we went to work in 30 minutes we were swimming to shore. We got out of the water and we all looked at Cassy.
“19.7 miles away. Be at this exact spot in more than an hour.” She said. We all looked at our wet clothes and we went to go change. I changed into a cute white dress that was easy to move in and then Cassy went when she came out she was in black shorts and had black shirt on that showed the wildcat on her forearm. Then Rose came out in black shorts and a black long sleeve shirt with black leather gloves on her hands. We headed out we traveled for about an hour and I heard someone trip I looked behind me and went to help Cassy up and she tried to walk but fell again so I picked her up and kept moving 30 minutes later she was walking again so we traveled for about 5 more hours then decided to eat. We cooked some of the fish and I said,
“I hope we aren’t all going to be like this eating fish and being crazy you know.” They laughed. We all looked at Cassy.
“You guys are getting to use to me, I can’t see or sense them very well but they decided to stop so they are about 57 miles from us.” She said. I hugged her. Then we all got back up and decided to walk for a couple more hours and then set up camp. When Cassy said,
“Human’s can no longer track us here. We are on the border of the Safe Land.” She smiled. We all looked around. It didn’t feel safe but oh well. Everyone but me went to sleep I was drawing, I drew a picture of me and Cassy as sisters and Rose as a good friend then I realized it was backwards. I was the good friend and they were the sisters. I laid down and went to bed. Where I had a weird dream. I was in my old living room and my parents were crying and their daughter, the one they neglected me for named Destiny, was in the corner.
“Why did she have to leave? We never meant for her to run away without saying goodbye. We still loved her, didn’t we Brad?” My mom asked crying hard.
“Yes, I still loved Drew to death.” He said holding my mom then their daughter, Destiny said,
“Why did you guys forget about her then?” In a soft voice.
“That’s what the old earth goddess said to do, she said it would help Drew channel her anger through earth more. That she needed to feel that hatred for someone and we didn’t want to make her loose Rose so we stayed two extra weeks and adopted you and then we started to neglect her.” My mom cried. I sat there and listened to them weep that I was gone then my dream shifted I was in a beautiful cave and my “mother” the old earth goddess was there.
“Daughter you have seen your parents cry over losing you and now you see me, and you thought I had died. I did not die I just gave you my power and went away leaving you as the earth goddess.” She said smiling like everything was alright.
“You caused me to feel pain on purpose!” I yelled.
“That is the only way to be a strong earthbender. My friends and parents did that to me. But I was all alone and you had Rose the best friend ever.” She said.
I was about to open my mouth when she added,
“And be careful with Cassy she still hates earthbenders, and you’re the earth goddess so watch out. She could turn on you at any point.” She said.
“What’s your name?” I asked her.
“You know my name Drew.” She said.
“Emily. My middle name.” I said. She nodded.
“What if I need your help?” I asked.
“You and your friends will stumble on this cave and you’ll know the way there from the Safe Land. After all I’m less than a mile away from the Safe Land.” Emily said, then I woke up.
“Morning.” Adam said right next to me. I jumped. We were in a different place. I looked at them.
“I carried you since Adam still isn’t strong enough yet. We are about 10 miles away from the Safe Land.” TJ said. I got up.
“Thanks. Any food left?” I asked. They put something in my hand. Meat. I gobbled it up and then got up.
“Well what are we waiting for? Let’s get going!” I said to them. We started off and I decided not to tell them about my dream with my parents crying over me or Emily. We kept walking through a thick forest and I heard footsteps behind us. I turned around quick and there were about 35 or so evil goblins right behind us.
“Well boys we have some magic trying to get to the safe land. Two goddess’, one half goddess, and two others.” The leader said.
“Boss, are we gonna kill them?” One of the goblins said.
“Yes, Burk you idiot we are going to kill them!” He yelled. They looked at me then at my friends. They smiled. We were out numbered but I couldn’t let my friends get hurt. I saw everything go dim but my targets, the earth, and the one’s I was protecting. I felt my body moving and I saw some trees move in front of me. I moved my hand forward and the trees moved, I had some puppets. I threw the trees at one batch of dumb looking ones and I hit. I saw some ice form then melt. I remembered my friends. I turned to see them looking at me. I built up a wall of earth and started punching random parts of it making those parts fly and hit goblins. The leader was mad. I turned to my friends again.
“Go! I’ll hold them off. You guys need to get to the safe land and make sure we belong there. Find Emily!” I yelled. They took off quickly without knowing who Emily was. I punched more random walls and one dumb little goblin got through and I took him and punched him then threw him about 30 miles away with some rock. I fought for a while then it was me and the leader. I came up with a knife and cut my cheek. I tried to hit him and he cut my other cheek. I grabbed his neck and told him,
“You’re lucky you are going to have a quick death.” And he took his knife, I was prepared for an attack but he slit his throat then his wrist. Soon he was dead. I grabbed the knife and ran off after my friends. When I caught up they saw my two cuts.
“Maxie! That’s not good!” Rose said. I was out of breath and couldn’t speak I must off run for miles because I saw a cave. And then the Safe Land.
“We are 0.7 miles away.” Cassy said.
“We need to stop in the cave.” I told them. They shrugged but followed me. I walked in and I saw the same cave in my dreams.
“Drew, Rose, Cassy, Adam, and TJ. Welcome.” Emily said. She was about 6’0” and had my color hair and purple eyes.
“Who are you?” Adam asked stepping in front of me. I spoke up.
“That’s Emily. The earth goddess before me. My mother in a way. And not to be rude, but I can protect myself.” I told them all about my dream and Emily nodded. When I was done she pulled out a necklace with a Peridot on it. That’s a lime green stone for the month of August . The month I was born in. I looked at it.
“Most earth users are born in August so this is hundreds of years old. It will give you more power so you can also control volcanos and make them whenever you want.” She said. She put it in my hands, I looked at it and fastened it on. The others stared at it. She also handed me a bracelet with a garnet on it.
“As for you Rose. I have something my friend Emily the old earth goddess gave you.” I looked at her.
“And yes that woman was me. I ruled over earth and ice for a while then had you two and gave each one of you my powers. So this is yours Rose.” She pulled out a Tanzanite, a light blue stone for the month of December. The month Rose was born in.
“This will help you control water better.” She said. then she pulled out an anklet for Rose with a tanzanite on it also. Like mine but for her ankle.
“Thank you.” She said and she fastened both of them on.
“And I have a gift for the all of you. This will help you get to the Safe Land without walking.” Emily snapped her fingers and the land underneath us rose up. And zoomed us away. I could feel the air stinging my eyes. I was wrong about Cassy and Rose being sisters. Me and Rose are sisters. I turned it so we would head straight for the gate. We were all smiling and waiting to get there.
Chapter
Maxie
We arrive
Finally we arrived at the gate the land melted and we hit the ground. We showed them our tattoos and they let us through were a girl who was about 22 walked up and said,
“Hi I’m Natasha and you must be the new arrival’s: TJ Gold, Adam Silvers, Rose Elivira, and Drew Maxie. Follow me.” She showed us the town then showed us to our houses. Me and Rose owned houses right next to each other and they were conjoined so there was a door to get in through the houses. And Cassy was to stay with Rose. TJ and Adam had houses next to each other across the street. I walked into my home and threw down my bag of dirty clothes. It was fully furnished the way I wanted and there were clothes my size in the drawers. There was also soap and shampoo ready so I decided to take a bubble bath. I turned on the water and put in some bubbles and climbed in. After that was over I climbed out and dried off. I put on some baggy sweat pants and a cute red tank top and decided to visit Rose. I knocked on the door and Cassy opened it.
“Maxie, what do you want?” She asked.
“Came to see Rose.” I told her.
“Oh she went grocery shopping they supplied everything but food or drink.” She told me. I thanked her and decided to go grocery shopping to but then remembered I had no money. I checked my closet and saw a purse I opened it and saw there was 1,000 dollars in it. And a note to note read:
Dear Ms. Drew Maxie,
Here is your before payment for your job.
The Magic Council.
I shrugged and went to get some food. When I was done shopping I ate and went to bed. The next day Rose walked up to me.
“Hey!” I said. She smiled.
“How’s my sister doing?” She asked me.
“Great, but you do know that the bath soap smells great. Try taking a bath.” I said. We laughed.
“We also have a Council meeting today and you need to come.” I said. She nodded.
“Hey, lets go back to my place.” She said and we went. We got inside and she started to make some popcorn for us. The doorbell rang so I went and opened the door.
“Hey!” Adam and TJ said.
“You know why we met right?” Adam asked me. I shook my head.
“Well, we already lived here. We were sent to help you find the way.” TJ told me and he walked to Rose. Rose nodded, she heard it too.
“A rose for Rose.” TJ said as he handed Rose a rose. She blushed. Cassy walked out.
“Ya, blah blah blah, now go AWAY. You too mud face.”
She snapped. We sat down and she screamed.
“What?” I asked.
“I need my beauty sleep idiots! Boys go AWAY NOW. You Mudface, LEAVE ROSE ALONE.”
I was taken back. So, naturally, I provoked her.
“Screw you.”
“What did you say?” She said, trying to intimidate me.
“Oh, you didn’t hear?” I asked. “SCREW. YOU.” I yelled in her face.
“You can’t tell us to leave when we are older than you, you know that right? And you, me, and Rose are going to see Emily today.” I told her. Soon we were heading half a mile to Emily’s cave. When we heard someone say,
“Stop! You there stop!” All three of us turned around and Cassy gasped.
“Mom? Dad?” She said shakily.
“How dare you run away from us! We fed you and clothed you! And let you practice magic! And go to school! You little brat!” Her dad yelled and slapped her across the face hard sending her down. Rose and I gasped, Rose stepped forward and put a hand up.
“Please don’t slap her!” She said then the mom stepped forward and said,
“You think you can tell us not to slap our daughter! We will slap her and punish her! I don’t know why she wanted to practice magic anyways. I hated it.” She said. I saw ice shards fly up, Rose was mad and I was worried. The parents gasped but the mom stepped forward.
“I will have you know, I am a water user.” She crossed her arms out in front of her like an X. She looked at Rose like she was an idiot. Rose laughed. The mom shot some water at Rose. It froze in it’s path.
“And I will have you know, I am the goddess of water and ice. .” She said. The mom stepped back.
“We just want our daughter back home with us.” She said.
“And I wanted to visit my goddess mom before my council meeting, looks like we are both disappointed today.” Then then the mom grabbed Cassy’s hand. I walked up and punched the mom. The father stared at me.
“You dare hurt my lovely wife!” He yelled at me and lunged. I threw a rock at him. He tried to blow it back but I launched him with the earth. The mother ran to me and tried to hit me. I grabbed her arm and twisted it. I made a rock fly up underneath her arm. It hit her arm and it broke. “If you haven’t noticed, I’m the goddess of earth. So, BACK OFF.” I said. The father was coming back but Rse cut him and froze him. I looked at Cassy as she ran to Rose. I grabbed her and we walked away. As soon as we were in the gates we ran to our house’s. Rose brought Cassy inside and put some ice on that bruise on her cheek. She set up some alarms and made some food and we left for our meeting. We got there and we were shown to our seats. I sat down next to Rose and we prepared for our first Magic Council meeting for the rest of our lives.
Chapter
Rose
The Meeting
I sat down and we waited, me and Maxie for our first Magic Council meeting. When the Head of the Council, Drake who was about 47, got to the podium he started speaking,
“Welcome, yesterday we had two newcomers finally arrive after a long 3 week journey running from our enemy Jella, better known as Yak-face and his leader Zach. We are pleased to welcome Rose Elivira, and Drew Maxie onto our Council!” He pointed to us and we stood. He beckoned us to walk onto stage and we did. I went on first and introduced myslef.
“Hi I’m Rose Eilvira, I’m a mixie, and also an ice and water goddess.” And I walked off to let Maxie get on.
" I'm Drew Maxie, call me Maxie. I'm also a mixie and I'm the goddess of earth and lava." Maxie said
The members applauded and bowed. We went and sat down. And they started with rules:
- No harming the others unless they harm you first
- No harming the environment
- No stealing
- No pickpocketing
- No trespassing
- Etc.
“Sorry. I wasn’t watching where it was going.” I said then I looked up. He was there, looking at me hand in hand with a young girl and holding another little girl, my father.
I stared at him, the little girl seemed 3 or so years old.
“Dad?” I asked. He looked at me and set the girl down and hugged me.
“Rose!” He yelled. I didn’t hug him back. He pulled back and stepped to the other lady.
“Jenna, this is Rose, Rose this is Jenna, my fiancee.” He said. Pointing to the blonde hair and brown eyed lady, Jenna. Then he picked up the little girl.
“And this is Lily, our daughter.” He said smiling like a proud father. The whole time I hadn’t said anything, that was over.
“YOU HAD A KID? YOU GOT ENGAGED? AND YOU DIDN’T EVEN WRITE ME OR MOM, YOUR WIFE?!?! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU!” I yelled at him, Jenna looked at him.
“You’re married?! This is your daughter you told me that her mother died? You lied to me!” She screamed also then turned to me.
“I’m so sorry, I didn’t know.” She said, I shook my head,
“It’s okay. I don’t hate you, I hate him.” I pointed to my old father. Me and Jenna exchanged numbers real quick and I turned to my dad, I was crying now.
“I hate you, I wish you had died on the way here. I can’t believe you left me and mom to come here, and didn’t write us and had a kid. I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU! I WISH YOU NEVER LEFT OR HAD DIED ON THE WAY INSTEAD OF BETRAYING ME AND MOM!” I screamed in his face, I turned and ran away. I ran outside the gate and I ran till I got to the cave entrance. Then I collapsed and cried. Then I felt Emily over me. She lifted me up and helped me to her table where I continued to cry.
“ I saw what happened.” Emily said. She hugged me.
“I don’t know why he would do that. I can’t believe him.” I said.
“I’m so sorry I called Maxie and told her what happened she’s on her way with TJ, Adam, and Cassy.” Emily said. Soon they arrived and comforted me without asking questions at first then when I stopped crying they started asking me questions. I answered them but I didn’t like it so they stopped. We stood in the entrance of the cave looking at where we came from and where we live now. I smiled thinking of my new family here. Emily the mom, Cassy the youngest sister, and Maxie my best sister. Maxie looked at me.
“I don’t need my dad. I have my mom and my sisters right here.” I said looking at them.
“I wonder who else we will meet.” Maxie said looking out.
END OF BOOK 1
Preview of book 2: The Knight of the night
“Mike are you training right now?” My mom yelled interrupting my training with fire and poison. I grabbed a shirt and threw it on. And climbed down the ladder to my training room and went down stairs.
“Nah, I’m down stairs now.” I yelled to her grabbing a bottle of water. I walked to the living room and saw Silver there. She’s my best friend in the world she has the power over making people fall asleep and mist. Her hair is black and brown and her eyes are green. She looked scared. She jumped up.
“Mike, they found out. Yak-face is coming for me, for u