User blog:Uniman10/Chapters 1-3 Sneak-Peak

1

Hiding

Kingsley

It was a beautiful day in Zaven. The sun was shining through the trees, birds were singing, the clouds were small and puffy, the sky was blue, the weather seemed to be getting taken out from a fairy tale. Too bad I couldn’t enjoy it from my little shack in the woods.

I’m Kingsley, a young teen, living in a shack, in the middle of crazy woods. Yeah, pretty great.

As I woke up I went outside to the smell of wildflowers and squirrels.

“Are you kidding? Another day of robbery from the squirrels.”

“Cheer up you little one. At least they didn’t eat the fresh berries,” laughed Arthur.

“Ugh! You are so annoying!” yelled Emma.

“Oh, come on, he didn’t do anything Emma,” said Walter.

Oops! I didn’t give you a proper introduction. There are four kids living in that shack in the middle of the squirrel-infested woods. Their names were Kingsley, Arthur, Emma, and Walter. Ok, so back to the story…

“Let’s eat,” I said.

We ate our breakfast of fresh berries and then went into town.

“We should get some bread,” said Arthur. “It will be good to eat something different from berries.”

“Good idea! I REALLY want to eat something else!” exclaimed Walter.

We strolled through the town looking for bread that they could buy with their little amount of money. It was hard being homeless kids living in the middle of a forest.

Right about when we found a good price for a loaf of bread, Arthur quickly pushed us under a table. Why had he done that? I had no idea. Arthur looked pretty wide-eyed and scared when he had done it. After several minutes Arthur looked out from under the table and then he got out. I was scared. Arthur usually wasn’t scared of anything. We quickly rushed home.

2

Captured

Kingsley

I could tell Arthur was stressed. He had been pacing the floor for about twenty minutes. He had no idea what was going on. We had just rushed out of town. What could Arthur have seen that would make him so scared? I decided to drop it. After all, where was it gonna get me?

Later that day, we had lunch. I really didn’t want to, but I decided to ask Arthur what had happened earlier that day. We sat down, then talked about stuff. When I was about to ask what happened Arthur changed the subject. I still had no idea what had happened. “Oh well,” I thought “if Arthur doesn’t want to tell me his secret then too bad.”

The rest of the day went normally. Running around the forest trying to not get jumped on by squirrels at 2 o’clock, napping at 3 o’clock, being bored at 4 o’clock, and dinner at 5 o’clock. Pretty normal evening. After we ate, we played a little board game that Arthur had made a couple of weeks back. After that, we went to bed. As everyone was sleeping, I heard something coming from dining room. Odd. All my siblings were sleeping. I was sure of it.

I didn’t expect the little fairy kids that were in the dining room to kidnap a me. They brought me to a dark cave. They surrounded me. I was SCARED. I furiously scraped my brain trying to make a plan to escape. My hands and legs were roped up, my mouth was gagged, I was half-conscious, and I was chained to a chair. How could little fairy kids be so rude? Never mind that. “Just try to think of a way to escape” I muttered under my breath.

“Oh, you think you can escape?” Laughed one of the fairies who looked like the leader. “You can try, but you won’t succeed. As you can see we are Shria. We are the best at trapping people. THE BEST! We captured Philarkon III, the best escape artist ever, well at least in the 1,000 B.C! So, just telling you that there is NO way to escape!”

“I will find a way to escape! I always do!” I Yelled.

“Oh, I'm sorry my little darling, but no one has ever escaped from us. E-V-E-R.” replied one of the Shria.

I had no idea what to do. I felt my nerves getting ready to explode. Then, it happened.

3

Surprise!

Walter

I was bored. It was a lazy hot day. I had no idea what had happened earlier that day, but I wasn’t anxious to ask.

The rest of the day went normally, they had dinner at 5 o’clock, played a board game, then went to bed. Pretty normal right?

I woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of wolves howling. I then heard a couple of things fall and smash. Oh no, I thought. I hid under my covers for about what I thought was several hours. When I got out from the covers I saw a single blast of sunlight coming through the window. I knew it was finally morning.

After a night of tossing and turning I was happy to get to relax and eat breakfast. I told my family about what had happened last night. For some reason, Kingsley wasn’t at the table. I thought he was probably sleeping in. I was going to check later. Right now, I had to enjoy being with my other siblings.

I went to check on Kingsley. He wasn’t there. I let out a shriek and ran into the kitchen to tell the others. They were all going crazy. What had happened to Kingsley?

First, they looked outside. He wasn’t there. They looked everywhere. They couldn’t find him. I made quick mental notes on everything that had happened. Then, I remembered. It must have been those crashes in the middle of the night! What was I gonna do? I told the others real quick. I could feel my heart pounding against my rib cage. I was about to start crying when I heard a noise outside. I immediately ran to it. Then, in a flash, a 100-foot wave came crashing down through the forest. For some reason, I wasn’t scared of it. I actually started running toward it. Right as it was about to crash on me, it stopped. The water literally just stopped right where it was. I saw the others running towards me. ‘What just happened,’ I asked myself.

Never in my life had I ever been so surprised as when I had stopped the 3rd wave. They kept on coming. Arthur called me in for a real quick talk.

“Ok, I know this will be a lot to take in, but we're demigods. Each one of us has certain powers. I haven’t discovered them all though. It turns out that your’s is controlling water. Kingsley’s is something a bit scarier. There is a monster sending in those tidal waves, ok. Walter, I need you to take care of them. I will run in and kill the monster. Everyone ok with that?”

Everyone looked dazed, but I replied by asking what Arthur's power was.

“It’s battle strategy and strength,” he said, “Ok, let’s do this!”

Right as I stopped another tidal wave, he heard a low shriek, that sounded like a bass guitar trying to scream. What a terrible sound. Soon later, he saw Arthur walking over. He had a sword in his hand that had not been there before. The sword was glazed in a thin layer of green goo. He had a confident smile on and he was looking curiously at me. In thirty seconds he was back. He sat me down to talk.

“You’re a son of Weeter, Walter. We’re not actually siblings. We’re just a group of demigods living together. Yesterday, when we hid, we were hiding from a monster. Being a son of Weeter gives you water powers. You can control water, and even breathe under it. It’s like you have gills and lungs. I’m a son of Oowl. Kingsley is a son of Dreart and Emma is a daughter of Agri.”

“Ohh. You knew this all along? And what about Kingsley and Emma’s powers? What are they?”

“Ok ok, take it easy, one question at a time. Kingsley can control ghosts and spirits. Emma can basically grow a tree with the touch of her finger. But you, you are powerful. You can use your powers well. Kingsley though is more powerful. He can bring up hundreds of ghosts with the cue of his brain. You shouldn’t worry about him. What we have to work on is getting to a camp. There we could train and survive from monsters. There’s one on the other side of the forest. It would take about 6 hours to walk. Get ready to Pack!”