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=What happened, could happen next=

Chapter 1 My adventure begins

//When you think, what are you really thinking? Do you ever feel when you're trying to concentrate so hard,that you're mind just wanders? I was trying to figure out a way to get out of this, but all i could think,(and say), was, “Ahhhhhhhhhh!”// I screamed as the dog like thing //came// running toward me. I darted toward an alley and behind a trashcan. The dog ran right by me. My tuxedo was stained with mud and dirt, .and my trousers were torn. I trudged back around to the sidewalk. Surprisingly, there were a not a lot of New Yorkers out on this Saturday night. A cool breeze flowed through my hair. Suddenly, I was trapped against the wall, the dog thing right, in FRONT OF ME! And then, all of a sudden, I felt a tugging at my gut, and I knew something was happening. I saw my hands move without my command, and a jet of white shot towards the dog thing. He was unconscious at once. I slowly walked over to where he lay. My hand was glowing a strange whitish gray. The dog thing shuddered, and started to get on its feet. Or paws, or whatever they were. I started to admire its great strength and complexity. He stared at me again. But I didn’t feel scared. And he didn’t look like he wanted to kill me anymore. “Hello,” a voice said inside my head. “Who said that?” “Who do you think?” The dog thing gave me a look that clawed at my attention, and I realized that it was the thing that was talking to me. “And just so you know, (I realized this as she was talking), I’m a girl. “Well, I knew that. But what are you?” she looked away like she didn’t hear my question, though I know she did. “Climb on my back, we need to move.” “What, why, where?” I gathered my thoughts. “Why do we need to go?” I said. “You are being watched.” And before I could reply, she raced under me, knocking me into the air. On the way down, I landed on her back, and she took off. Through the alleys I had come through earlier, and out into the suburbs of New York City. And out into the woods. Woods? I thought. How could we be in the woods? Since I was a New Yorker I knew nearly all the streets, and I knew that there was no woods anywhere near New York City. But there we were, in the middle of a very dense wood. The ride had been peaceful enough, despite the fact that we had almost crashed into two lampposts, four buildings, nearly and killed two pedestrians that had been coming around a corner. When we had finally settled down, we made camp. And when I say we, I mean the dog thing had set up camp, made a fire, and put up a tarp, because a huge storm seemed to be heading right at us. I just sat down and tried to wash the guck out of my shoes. “Relax, you have a long journey ahead of you.” “For the millionth time,” I said. “Where do we need to go?” “To the city of Æsheart” “And I am Alinan, of the land of Citegezz. Where the heck is that I thought, but I think she knew I had no Idea where AEsheart and Citegezz were. They sounded like ancient names. “I like that name, Alinan.” It sounded strangely familiar. At this point I looked around, but Alinan wasn’t there. I got up and looked around, but she was nowhere in sight. Suddenly, something whirred over my head, and Alinan Came out of nowhere. There was a strange man lying at her feet, dead. He was holding a bow and a quiver of arrows. Alinan looked at me, and gave me the “told you so” look. “Where the heck did he come from?” I asked “Sent to us. By the ruler of Æsheart. King Spharta.” The air seemed to darken around us, and it looked that the ground might give way and we would all to the center of the earth. And suddenly, it happened. The darkest pit you have ever imagined opened at our feet, and we were falling. I looked over at Alinan. She didn’t look frightened at all. Actually, she was peacefully closing her eyes, as if nothing were wrong. I was scared out of my head, but eventually got used to the strange felling of falling. After about ten minutes another chasm opened, and we fell through to the other place. I knew we were in another world.

Chapter 2 “Where the heck are we?”

At first I thought we were in china, but then I noticed that we were in a large meadow. It was like we were in the middle of nowhere. Wait, we were in the middle of nowhere. All around us was one giant meadow. There were no mountains, no water, not even any animals. “How old are you?” Alinan asked. I knew what she was getting to. Humans usually don’t get their powers until they’re 11 years old. “I’m ten.” I said. She nodded as if she was thinking if I were worth keeping alive. “Do you have any idea of what you just did?” “Nope.” was my modest reply. “What about are camp, “ I said. “We left it back there.” Motioning to the sky, which was now turning a strange shade of blue-orange. The only strange thing was that I couldn’t see the sun. And I didn’t think it had set either. “It is the work of Spharta. His magic staff has the power to make objects disappear. She probably saw the look on my face. It was the look of grief, anger, and maybe even envy. She might have even known about my parents. They had left when I was 5and 1/2. I hardly remember any of it, I just remember a strange man coming to our house. He told my parents something that must’ve really scared them, because by the next day, they had left. I had been raising myself all these years. I had stayed in my old house, eating whatever I could find. I didn’t have any friends, which was good, no one wondered where my parents were. But it seemed odd to me because my parents didn’t seem to have any friends either. They didn’t go out much, we mostly stayed at home to eat and stuff. They only went out when we needed something, like more food, or something to fix up our house. I didn’t really mind not having any friends though, I was used to just coming home from school and doing my homework. After recoiling from my flashback, I looked around and there was our camp. ‘How do you keep doing that?” I asked. “I have the power to teleport myself, and other objects from place to place, world to world. But I cannot teleport other people.” She added. The world thing had creeped me out, but I had automatically realized that I was in another world so I guessed I was supposed to be used to this thing. Before I knew it, I was climbing into my tent, and under the covers. I thought about what had just happened. Why was I able to use my power early. I didn’t know, but I had the feeling Alinan did. I was definitely going to ask her about it tomorrow. I fell asleep as soon as my head hit my hard pillow. I had had a tough day. That’s when my dream started.

Chapter 3 Dreams My dream started like this. I was in a huge palace, that I knew to be Sphartas’. It looked like one of those huge Victorian palaces, except that it looked as if it were one really, really long hallway. On the walls of this hallway were pictures of strange old guys with long strangely beards, sitting in a tall wooden throne. If you looked closely at them you could see faint scratching marks as if someone had clawed at them, long ago. A voice was calling to me from the end of the hallway, which could have been miles away. “Listen, listen young one and what do you hear.” I made the huge mistake of listening. I heard something wailing, no, more like whining. A dog whining. As I thought of Alinan, a picture showed in front of me of Alinan about to be slaughtered, but something in my dream wouldn’t let me cry. I felt prouder, stronger, and I realized for once in my life what it meant to truly be alone. Even after my parents left, I felt that I was still part of something, still useful to the world even if I was a child. Now I felt completely alone. No one to be there, no one to care about me or what happened to me. It was a horrible feeling. Then a horrible laugh came up from the dark pit of a hallway, but not the nice kind of laugh you might hear come out of you’re parents. A dark, and cruel, and evil laugh. “Now do you know how it feels young one? To be alone and empty In life. Come and join me. Come and join me. Come and join meeeeeee.” His voice started to quiet and echo in the dark hallway, fading away, like a dream.

Chapter 4 “Lets get a move on.”

When I woke up, Alinan was nudging me to wake up. “Come on you, lets get a move on,” she said with happy grin on her face. “Oh, what’s wrong with me?” I said “Hmm?” “ I feel so stiff.” “It is the pain of a journey. Everyone on their first adventure feels that way.” Alinan said “You mean you’ve been on other adventures?” I asked “Countess. You see young one, the Lupier live forever, unless they fall in battle. “So that’s what you are. A Lupier.” I probably sounded like real expert, but I was thinking,” So that’s what you are. A something-or-other”. “Why didn’t you tell me earlier when I was asking you?” I asked. And again she ignored me like she didn’t hear me. I rolled my eyes. “What was that?” she asked, like she was asking a regular old question. “What this?” I rolled my eyes again. “Yes,” she said,” I have never seen that emotion before.” I chuckled and looked away. It was sort of a payback for her not telling me that she was a, what was it again, oh yeah a Lupier. I had almost thought root beer, which made me chuckle again. I realized that Alinan had been looking at me, and when I looked at her, she just smiled and looked away.

Chapter 5 A journey through the mountains

As we started packing up camp, I noticed that the landscape had changed a little around us. I could see a couple of trees. Way out in the distance I thought I could see what looked like massive mountains, only they were moving. No, the mountains weren’t moving, there were people. Hundred thousands of peoples moving about the mountain slopes. “Nazgar.” I heard Alinan mutter. She talked a little louder this time. “Spharta’s servants. The warriors of his realm. Every year he personally comes to all the villages to take the ten strongest men, and the five strongest lads to fight for him. When they reach the palace, they cut their hair, and are trained by the most vigorous generals in the land. They are then boiled in a special kind of lava that protects them from burns. Their skin is beat with hot iron, till it is tough as stone. Then, they personally one by see Spharta. The shock of him standing there is enough to brainwash them into his full loyalty and service. They will fight with such brutality until death.” I thought about the cold laughter in the dream. Just the thought of ran a shiver down my back. “Where to now?” I asked. “We shall go around.” She replied “But that’s far from here,” probably sounding a little whiny. “Not if you know the ways of the mountains. There are secret paths every 5 miles of so.” “Great, more secrets,” I thought. “But we will have to move fast, if we don’t want to be noticed. “And what a pleasure that might be.” I said, setting off through the meadow to the mountains beyond.

Chapter 6 Prophecy

After traveling for an hour or so of fast pace walking, we stopped by a stream, (that had somehow seemed to appear only a few minutes ago). As I bent to pour some water into my hands, I saw a face in the water. Unfortunately it wasn’t any sort of Naiad to come and flirt with, it was a dead, gross, head. “Gross!” I said, with a kind of terror in my voice. “Get away!” Alinan yelled. I wasn’t sure if she was talking to the thing in the water or to me, but I got the impression to back off. All of a sudden, water gushed up from the stream, creating a sort of rainbow. I looked Alinan. She looked like a child that had just seen a ghost, except that she wasn’t crying. In the fountain an image appeared, full with borders and everything. It looked like a Christmas invitation from you’re grandmother, except that the person in the picture could’ve been Medusas mother, without the snake hair. (If you’ve heard the story of Percious and Medusa). Then the medusas mother lady started to speak in a long raspy voice that sounded something like this. ”Doooo youuuu knoooww whyyy youuuu arrreee heeereeee?” My eye twitched in a response something like, No. “Weeellll lisstenn younngggg oneee, anddd youu shall heaarrrrrr.

You shall go to the land without rain but snow, You shall face Spharta, and barter for life or death, You will fight in the end, a greatest foe. “That’s a happy thoug-,” I said, my voice failing. The image shuddered, and disappeared, the water dropping like dead leaves to the water. My energy left me, and everything went black.

Chapter 7 Awakenings

When I woke up, Alinan was dabbing my head with a wet towel. “Where do you-“ I couldn’t finish that sentence, because I had that same tugging at my gut, but this time it hurt. Bad. It hurt so badly, it made me sit up and yell, even though I didn’t have the slightest bit of energy in me. So I collapsed back on my bed. I saw that Alinan’s face was grim. “I don’t know what she did, what It Spharta’s idea? I just don’t know.” I heard Alinan mutter to herself. She sighed, seeming a little more relaxed. Just then, she shot her nose into the air. I didn’t notice anything, but I knew Alinan did. “What?” I managed to squeeze out. “I sense a presence. One that I have felt since-. “What. Since what? I asked "I dont feel it anymore. thats strange. Strange things are awakening. Old spirits of the water and wood. And we are near the area of summoning. "But whos summoning them?" "I thought Spharta, but not anymore. Something strong. something old. something like-. Alinan callapsed a my feet. a spear in her back.

End of part one

Part two

Chapter 1 Alone

Do you know what it feels likes, to be alone? Without anyone to be there for you, or care for you. Or even protect you. especially when youre only ten years old, traveling in another world to some evil guy who wants you dead? I'll tell you, it feels pretty bad. Heres what happened after alinan got attacked. "What the heck. I said, rushing to her side. Panic filled my heart. I had only been with her a little while, yet I felt her closer to my heart than anyone else. I noticed that the spear hadn't actually gone through her, it only punctured the surface. In fact, there was only a tiny trickle of blood coming out. Yet it wasn't exactly blood, it was more of an bluish-yellow color. At that moment Alinan began to rise, only to collapse back down again. "How are you?" I asked nervously. "Surprisingly, not too bad." she took a deep breath, only to have a coughing fit. "The wound shouldn't be too bad. It looks like there are some herbs over there, over by the river." For the record, I hadn't wanted to be anywhere near that river after what happened before, but Alinan said we needed to follow it to find the passage. I went and colIected a couple of reddish brown fern leaves, crushed them in my palm. I was surprised I knew how to do that. I guessed it was some sort of nature instinct. "Alinan, where did that come from?" "You might not believe me, but it came from one of the Nazgar. They have the power to reach any distance, as long as they can see it, and they have the eye sight of a hawk. One must have spotted us. "Good to know." I sighed. "We need to find shelter," she said .There is only one option. I must train you. The ground shuddered, and we were swallowed into the earth.

Chapter 2 We had not known it then, but just as we fell, a giant net came out of nowhere,that would have trapped us inside it. I was actually surprised that it didn't trap us anyway, because we seemed to be already in the net when we sank down. "And who is this?" A booming voice asked. The voice sounded of someone who smoked, just louder and lower. His voice had a touch of irish in it, which I thought was sort of funny. "Yes my boy, " the voice said. "That is how I got such a bad reputation," and at that, a huge man in a hawaiin tea shirt, and cacky shorts emerged from the darkness. He had a long strangely beard, and he looked around 55 years old. (Despite how tall how was). He looked old, but not evil. Actually, he looked kind of depressed. I gave Alinan a puzzled look. she seemed to understand. "Who are you, great spirit." "Oh I am not a spirit. Or great for that matter either. In fact, am no greater than you, young one. He nodded his head at me. "But I do sense a special power in you. How old are you, young one?" I knew I was going to be getting this question a lot. "Only ten," I said. "Ah yes, I see. "Well, as you're little friend Alinan here said, we must train you. "Yes," she looked at me. "He indeed is going to help in your training. "Ok, but who are you," I said to the giant. "That my boy, is a good question." He bent down to my level, which looked like it would have broken his legs. "Not many of us know that, but after a long period of time,( he meant longer than I thought), you can find out. I personally have had lots of time. My boy, I am Zeus, lord of the old skies.

Chapter 3 "But I thought those, you," I corrected, were only in the myths?" "Well, yes. but no." he said very wisely. "Have you ever thought about, what is a myth? No, no, don't answer that. Tell me, what you think, is physically a myth." "Well, I don't, sir." I had learned that you had to call important beings,( and gods), sir. "Well that's the whole point. The point of a myth is that no one knows of the unknowing, so no one can simply not know. My, how long have I been down here? My brain is surely rotting. Annnyyyywayyyy," he said, "as I tried to make obvious earlier, I am no longer the lord of the skies. You see my boy, it was very strange, the way it happened." All the while, the shadows around us seemed to be shifting, seemingly getting ready for the story about to spring forth. " You see, everything seemed as it was going well on olympus. Almost too well in fact, that was why I had my suspicions on a young mortal. This mortal, he was special. All the gods and goddesses could see it. Some loved him. Thought he was the greatest person in the world, doing things for other people. Others, like me, had there suspicions. The boy had an aura that could scare away trouble, little did we know that while getting rid of trouble, he could cause it. After years of getting rid of trouble and disease, he could no longer hold the power inside of him. The trouble started boiling up inside of him. The trouble turning into hate, the hate turning into madness, the madness turning into evil. And so the evil took him, little by little, until he was a full fledged evil maniac. The gods were outraged! They tried to put an end to his treachery, but to no avail. And one by one, the gods began to die. No one knew how, even now I don't know, but they started falling behind our backs. It must have been a trick, because before we knew it, all of us, escept for me and my two brothers fell to this young ones wrath. The lord Hades' power was sucked out of him, but he is still alive. The lord poseidon joined forces with him, but to save me. I was the only one still fully alive. But I lost my bolt. The master bolt was taken from me, and I was cast into this miserable pit." At that I decided to take a look around. It look just like a cave, only it didn't feel like a cave. In fact, it didn't feel like we were underground at all. It was a bit cold, but that was it. "And if you think thats bad, i haven't said it all. Not only the Greek gods, but gods and heroess from other myths too. But they have all come to the same dreadful fate as my relatives. Buttttttt, on the bright side, we have you! " So I've heard." I muttered. "You are worth more than you know." He looked at me in a strange way, and I realized he was looking behind me. I turned around to see the most unexpected thing to see. My parents, in an image right in front of my face. I could tell they were on the verge of death. Chapter 3 “Despicable!” “Is there anything you would like me to do master?” “No, no Alered, I'll be fine,” the great kind said, fuming. “Are you sure that you-“ “**Silent**!!!!” He yelled, the whole palace shaking. “I am fine, Alered. It is just those **despicable** warriors of yours. I spend generations worth of energy on them, and what do I receive? A pack of mongrels who can do nothing but sit around, or just go camping in the woods?” Alered shifted uncomfortably. The room they were in was usually called the stone room. Guess why? It was all made of solid limestone. Polished so that the light bounced off every wall, creating one huge mirror. Guess why? Lord Spharta loved to look at himself anything more than the world. And there wasn’t much to say about his looks either. In fact, he was quite ugly. “Still, they do amuse me,” he said a little more calmly. “But their performance today was lousy! Unforgivable to the highest level! I have had enough of them!” Clearly he was in a very moody mood today. But all of the palace dwelling Nazgar have gotten quite used to it. "Of- of course youre highness," The stuttering cammander said. Chapter 4 Twilight "The image of my parents caught me way off guard. I stumbled back and nearly fell on a huge rock. My dad had straight durrty blond hair, like me. My mom looked as if she had just seen a ghost. "Son," my mother said, rasping. " If you are listening to this now, please pay attention, this is the only time you will be able to hear it." she looked back as if someone was following her. Then my dad said," The night we left, it was all a trick so that you would-" he was cut off from a screech in the backround. " It was all a trick that you should come here. Please son, go home." It was funny, because he said son like it pained him. Exactly as it had happened earlier. The image faded, and I collapsed on the ground. Chapter 5 A great choice I was in a dark room, that was of course made of rock. I was alone, but I felt as if someone was watching me. I looked around, but there was still no one there. I found the strenght to lift my body up. I got up to find the door. There wasn't any. //Concentrate.// I told myself. I concentrated all my energy on one side of a piece off rock. I envisioned seeing the outside lines of a door, and then, I looked and the rock was sliding right out of its place. It tilted left, and left an opening about 12 feet tall. It was a door. I figured it needed to be that tall if Zeus wanted to get around from room to room. As I walked through the door, I heard voices down the hall. It was Alinan and Zeus. They were arguing about something. I don't usually like to listen in, but this was different. I mean, I was in a new world were the myths existed, I had super powers, and something was going on with my parents. I deserved a few more privaleges. As I pressed my ear to the door, I hear Ainan say, "I just don't think he's ready to know." //To know what//, I thought. "Well," Zeus said,"Ok, but he must know eventually. " Yes," Alinan sighed. "I guess so, I just feel that he would be so devastated to find out that-" Something made her stop. I heard footsteps coming near the door. so I pressed my body against a crevace in the wall. Zeus's head stuck out, but he didn't see me, so the door just closed back up again. I was too scared to listen anymore, so I just went back to my room, willed the door to close and fell asleep on my moss bed. When I woke up, sunlight was streaming through he windows, which was very odd because there were no windows, but it did appear to be that sun light was coming into the solid stone room. I got up and put on some new clothes that were lying at the end of the bed. All the while I was thinking of what I had heard earlier. What did Zeus want me to know, and why didn't Alinan want me to know? I didn't have time to think about, for at that moment alinan came through the door. She said, "It's time for some breakfast if you would like some?" "Of course," I said. Alinan left. I sat down to breakfast with Zeus and Alinan. We had a typical eggs and bacon meal, but I was starting to wonder where he got it. I thought it was better not to question the lord of the sky, even if he is sorta nice. "I would like to talk to you after breakfast." I felt as if he was my dad telling me that I did something wrong and that we needed to talk about it. (I had that happen to me many times before). Alinan gave him a look. "And Alinan of course," he said. Once we had finished breakfast, we ent into a long oval shaped room. We all sat down on a long stone bench. Technically Alinan wasn't //sitting,// but she was in a sitting position. "I want you to listen very carefully to to what I'm about to say." He said this very seriously. I nodded. "And before you answer," Alinan added, "I want you to take time to think abou you're answer. My heart was racing. Was this the thing that they were talking about last night? Or had they found out I was listening/ I didn't know, all I could do now was wait and listen. Again I nodded. Zeus took a deep breath and sighed. "I'm going to get right to the point. You have two options, he said. I was sort of depressed that I had //only// two choices. "Your first choice," alinan said, " Is to stay with me and Zeus." I thought that sounded pretty good, but it seemed like Alinan wasn't sure she wanted me to. "Your second choice," Zeus said, "Is you can choose to go back to your world, and live there like a regular human."I was taken back that they would ask me to do that. I thought they wanted me the save the world. I looked at both of them. Their faces were expressionless. I was surprised my decision came so quickly, but the words just seemed to slip out of my mouth. "My decision is, "the shadows leaned closer, "to," closer,"return to my world." The shadows receeded. I had made my decision.

Part 3

Chapter 6 Going home, or not I had made my decision, nothing could change that, but was I sure that this was what I wanted to do? That I didn’t know. I still wondered how those words just slipped out of my mouth without me wanting them to, but something told my brain that I did want to. Basically I was a wreck. Packing my things to leave, ( which meant taking water and some food), and already thinking about saying good byes. I willed the door to open. Alinan and Zeus were sitting at a table, looking grim. “Are you sure you want to do this?” he said in a sad but serious voice. I was about to say “not really”, but the voice took over again and said,” Yes.’ I was almost mad that I said it and I tried to speak again, but found that I couldn’t! I tried to walk over to them, but my legs wouldn’t move! Again I tried to yell out, only to find that I could move my mouth either! “Good bye then,” I said unwillingly. I tried to wiggle my fingers. I couldn’t even do that. I was so panicky, and if I had any control of my body, I probably would have fainted. But of course, I couldn’t. The thing controlling me reached down and grabbed my bags, and walked out the door. I was fuming mad now. I felt as if I could smash through a wall. I couldn’t go like this! And who was controlling me and how. I didn’t know. I didn’t have much time to think about it, because I felt as if my conscience was being shoved into a closet, and everything was dark. That thing was in complete control of my body, and powers. Chapter 7 Trouble //Just if you're wondering, this next part completely from the thing controlling me. I had nothing to do with it.// I could run, I could jump, I could do practically anything. I was in someone elses body, I didn't care what I did to it. Only I had direct orders only to bring it back to Earth. If I did anything else, solitary confinment for 100 years. I hated that Spharta so much. He thought he was so special with his powers to make everything chaotic. He had sent me on this pathetic mission to get rid of this kid. It was way too easy. The boy practically opened his mind to me. No protections, no nothin. And by now I was nearly ready to launch myself into the space way into Earth's atmosphere. From there I would curl myself into a ball, and land right where I needed to be. those pathetic humans don't even know they have artificial intellegence from another world coming to them. They jusy think were stupid, balls of rock. One day well show them one day the spirits of the dead will rule the world! Chapter 8 Escape I tried desperately to escape, but to no avail. I had even tried to call apon my powers, but I could not reach them. I was totally iscolated from the outside world. //Calm down, focus.// I told myself. I tried to feel around me, but it was if I were trapped in my own mind, a giant maze of nothingness. I spread out my sences, trying to feel some kind of door. A door! I could try to do the same thing I did in the stone room! I looked at a patch of darkness, which is kind of hard because you know, looking at darkness, kinda hard? I managed envision something that looked sort of like a door, using some imaginary light as the outlines. I pushed outward, and, amazinggly there was a door! I decided to walk right through it, and before I knew it, I was myelf again! Chapter 9 Nooooooooo I knew everything was going too well, something had to go wrong. Everthing was going as planned, Nazgar group alpha A, B, and C were already working their way to the cave, and I had complete control of the boy. But not for long. I don't know how he did it, all I know is that I felt as if a suction was pulling my body in all different directions, and before I knew it, I wasn't in his body anymore! I was appalled. No one had ever been able to shoo me out of them before! What made this kid so special! I wanted to fight him. See who was stronger, but I knew not to struggle when being taken over. You can lose your mind. "Ha!" a voice said inside my head. I grimaced. How annoying! Chapter 10 We should begin