The Search for the Golden Diamond Key
Hi, my name is Alexandrea Maria Rose, but people call me Alex or Alexa. I am 16 years old and in the tenth grade. Right now I'm at school in my seventh period art class, we've painting a mountain landscape. So the colors gray, white, blue, yellow, pink, purple, and green are splattered on the tables so it looks as if someone threw up all around the class room. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiing! Well I got to go; luckily I wasn't assigned clean up duty for there's only ten minutes till the buses leave, and I don't have very good time management. As I walk down the hall to my locker, I stopped in the middle of the busy hallway and thought: I wonder what I have for homework…oh! That's right I.. wrote... down…my…homework? Dang it I forgot to write them down! Maybe one was that two page math work my teacher was talking about. You know? I wonder what is for din-
"Hey Ally!" I heard someone shout, so I snapped out of my thoughts and looked up. It was one of my best friends, Dez.
"Hurry up or you're gonna miss the bus!" He ushered me and ran off. I guess I dosed off for a while after, because when I finally registered what Dez said the hall was emptyish.
"Coming Dez," I called back way too late. I check my watch and it was 2:40 and the buses leave at 2:45! Shoot! I thought distressed. I ran down to my locker, ignoring the complaints given by teachers about running in the hallway. I opened my preset locker, shoved everything in my backpack and semi zipped it. I dashed out of the school, looked at my watch, 2:44. I ran down the hill of the row of buses and looked at the numbers: 03, 36, 33, 34, 26, 21, 02, 01, 00, 1-Wait a minute! Bus number 21 is my bus! I remembered. Therefore I ran back up the hill and ran into my bus, sat in the first seat just as the bell rang for the buses to start dropping off students. I sighed, That was a close one, I really do need to start managing my time better, I told myself. I take out my iPhone and sent out a mass text to my best friends Keven, Julia, and Austin. We texted:
Me-Hey guys, just got on the right bus this time. Where are you?
Trish-In the back listening to Austin and Keven's conversation with their other friends.
Me-lol XD. Not having fun?
Trish-No. -_-
Austin-Hey Ally! :D How are you?
Trish-Good thx 4 asking.
Austin-Srry Trish.
Trish-meet you guys at the abandoned apartment complex. K?
Me and trish- whteva, idc.
Austin-sure!
I then shut off my phone so I can hop off the bus. As I got off the bus I took a good look at my surroundings, I love my neighborhood's scenery. The trees perfectly trimmed and neat with their vibrant mint green color, the sky an iris blue and the beautiful, shapeful, puffy clouds a mint cream color. And before I know it I'm standing at my front door. I take out my key and open my house; I put a note on the door saying that I'll come back soon. As I go out the door I mass texted my best friends saying that im on my way. I put in my ear buds and put some music on. I skip down to the burned down apartments, a lot of it is black or gray with a hint of red. I look to a park bench to see that my friends Julia and Austin were sitting on the sidewalk talking. As I'm about to say hi to them someone touches my shoulder, not knowing who it was my instincts tell me to swing my right fist into the person's face. I turn around to see it was no one but Keven.
"Really Keven," I say ass I shake my head.
"OW! Yes, and you didn't have to punch so hard….or at all really," he complained. Just as he says this Julia and Austin come rushing over.
"What happened?!" They said at the same time in curiosity.
"Long story short. That," I said with an attitude pointing at Dez. "Scared me half to death therefore I punched him unconsciously." I didn't know why but everyone of my friends stared at the sky like there was something interesting happening.
"What?" I questioned. So unexpectedly the sky turned a cadet grey and the clouds a grey-blue, 5 rays of different colored lights shine down from the clouds. 4 of the 5 hit me and my friends, the other one hit farther away from us. I felt a new birth of energy come to me, and then everything turned back to normal in a flash. It looked as if nothing happened.
"What the…what was…whoa. Just…whaaaaaaat?" Trish said confusedly.
"I now right," I agreed.
"At least I'm not tiered anymore!" Austin yelled as he jumped in the air and fist pumped. But strangely enough when Austin's feet touch the ground, a giant crack appears and he trips.
"what the-," I started but I never got to finish my sentence because we were flashed, with a bright blinding light; to another place which looks like the apartment complex we were just at before it burned down, but bigger.
As soon as my vision cleared I looked in front of me and saw an old object that looked alive.
"Oh. My. Gosh...Dinosaurs really do still exist! Alive!" Me and my friends exclaimed in awe. Then it laughed. And laughed and laughed and laughed.
"I'm not a dinosaur. I'm Melvin a shapeshifter, and a guard. Welcome to the World of Magic's job institution. Your probably wondering why you're in this alternate universe of Earth. If you follow me I can show you," Said the what now appears to be an old man. "You five are five of the six chosen ones, I'm afraid that the sixth one has been taken to the dark side….. But let us give you a little training first." He says as he leads us to what looks like an arena. He stops abruptly in the middle of the arena and turns around to face us who are about 2 yards behind him.
"Ok. Austin come here," said Melvin.
"Be careful Austy, he knows are names…..he could be a stalker or a creeper or a kidnapper or an idiot and I don't want you to get hurt," I whispered to Austin. He looked kind of surprised at what I said but not for long, I wonder why. He walked up one yard then Melvin said in a commanding voice:
"Stop. Now, push energy through your arm to your hand as you move your arm forwards diagonally up."
"Uh….ok?" Austin said confused. He turned his head around rolled his eyes and laughed so only we could hear; he mouthed "Your right Alls he's a nutjob." Austin tried to do what Melvin commanded of him and the ground became pointed and rough-looking and it arose up at a diagonal, he suddenly stopped it. The rest of us stared in awe at.
"Now you know how to make a move, now to cancel it by moving your hand down diagonally backwards," Melvin told him. And when Austin did thee aroused ground fell back into place all smoothed out.
"Austin you're an earth elementist," Melvin stated. Melvin went over the basics of our magic for the rest of us. I'm an ice elementist, Trish's a fire elementist, Dez's a water elementist, and Elliot's a water elementist. Apparently, Dez and Elliot's power also are the two elemental healing powers.
"Now… there is a mission…. for the chosen ones. To find the gold diamond key that opens to another world. Now that you know how to control your powers, here are the clues and good luck." Melvin stated it like it was casual and normal yet… dangerous. Then we were flashed back outside the burned down apartment complex.
"Was weird." I said.
"No, I thought that was completely normal," Elliot said.
"So what's next?" Trish questions Elliot.
"We're gonna search for the key," Austin says like he's tryin to be cool.