A/N: this is my first fanfic and I'm hoping that it will turn out nicely. Happy reading you guys!

Chapter one:

"Juuileut dollida!"

Three students stood attention, watching silently, yet eagerly, for further instruction.

"Joh-eun hwal."

I silently go into a deep bow along with my peers. I look back up to see Master Daren leaving his chair.

"Please take a seat and remove and fold your belts." He said as he walked towards his office

We did so and carefully folded our belts.

I silently sat still as I waited while my peers whispered excitedly to each other. I rolled my eyes at them and looked toward my older sibling.

Conner gave me an enthusiastic thumbs up and mouthed "good job!"

I cast him a nervous smile and looked down at my blue belt. I've been in Tae Kwon Do for five years now and throughout that time, both of us have been taken away from our parents by child protective services, put into foster care, moved to a new school, and what I oddly find is most important: Conner has become a second degree black belt.

I want to catch up with him. I look around, Master Daren is taking a while, did we do anything wrong? What do I do if he doesn't give me my brown belt? I take a deep breath, calm down Erin, your belt is literally right in front of you. Master Daren wouldn't do that.

I'm pulled out of my thoughts as Master Daren walked back into the room holding three brown belts.

I let out a sigh of relief. See, your fine.

"Paul,"

"Yes sir!"

Master Daren quickly tied the belt around the young boys waste. "Congratulations, brown belt!"

Paul gave him an arm bump and shook his hand. "Gamsahabnida, thank you sir."

Paul jogged back to his spot. While Master Daren gave Alex his belt I shifted in excitement.

"Erin."

"Yes sir!"

I walked towards Master Daren, carefully keeping my composure.

Master Daren skillfully tied the belt around my waste, "Congratulations, brown belt."

I gave him an arm bump and shook his hand. "Gamsahabnida, thank you sir."

The room clapped while the three of us stood at attention. "You will learn a new kick and two takedowns. A lot to be excited about for this next belt!"

We all bowed to Master Daren before taking our leave.

"You did a fantastic job Erin!" Exclaimed Conner as he unlocked the door to our house.

"Thanks. But my spinning hook kick was a little sloppy."

"What!? Your spinning hook was perfect. When I was a blue belt I didn't do as well as you." He assured me.

Really? I felt a tinge of excitement, I'm ahead of him?

A grin appears on my face and Conner looks down and returns it. "Why don't we order Vietnamese food tonight to celebrate? Paula is working late."

"Sure!"

Once the Vietnamese came, Conner and I settled down on the couch to watch Naruto. Conner has watched the entire series and decided to introduce it to me.

Currently, Rock Lee is drunkenly fighting the Kimimaru guy.

"Lee's gonna destroy him." I stated flatly, pointing towards the screen.

Conner chuckled, "how are you so sure?"

"Because, Lee is ridiculously OP and it's obvious that that guy's overconfident."

"Oh really?"

"Yep."

We're interrupted at a loud knock on the door.

"Stay here, I'll get it." Conner said as he paused the TV followed by an "aww" from me.

I waited impatiently for Conner's return until I heard shouting.

"What? An old man can't come to visit his two kids!?l" Crap, that's our father.

"Tyler, you're drunk. Leave." Came my brothers firm voice as I silently crept towards the door and peaked out.

My breath catches in my throat as I see Tyler shove my older brother. "I'm not drunk you little brat and I can see you whenever I wan't."

"It's illegal for you to see us-" Tyler abruptly punched my brother in the head.

Anger flares in my chest as I bolt from my hiding place and used the momentum to kick the man's stomach. "Leave him alone!"

I watched as Tyler picked himself off of the ground "so that's how it is, bitch." He growled "it's obvious that you need to learn your place."

With that, the middle aged man tackled me to the ground and pressed his hands against my throat.

I kick and struggle to breath as he pressed even harder. I can faintly hear Conner shouting in the background while the edges of my vision went black. I struggled even harder but there was nothing I could do as I lost consciousness.

I woke up to see white and let out a pained groan as I went to clutch my throat only to find a cast in the way.

"Erin!" I look up to see my brother sitting up in a chair.

"Co-" I choke as pain shoots through my neck.

"No! Don't try to speak. Tyler choked you until you passed out and I called an ambulance."

Right, that whole thing with Tyler showing up sloppy drunk, I thought, Conner must have managed to pull him off of me.

I feel myself slowly beginning process what happened and within a few seconds a sob racked through my body.

"Oh Erin." I look up to see tears streaming from Conner's eyes as well. He moved to give me a hug as we both cried.

Eventually I fell asleep and I woke up to see that Conner was gone. No wait, he was with Paula as she was bursting into the room.

"I came as soon as possible when I heard what happened!" She cried as she wrapped her arms around me and furiously looked me over. "Are you ok sweetie? How are you? Can you talk?"

I let out a sigh. Paula's a good foster parent and all but she acts like we're children. I'm fourteen and Conner's seventeen.

Shut up, you almost got strangled to death she should be worried. Oh right.

"I-I'm ok." I rasped, my throat feeling absolutely terrible as I spoke.

"No you're not! Did you just hear yourself speak!?" She gasped.

An awkward cough interrupted our one-sided conversation by a nurse who had been waiting patiently by the door up until now. "I'm sorry but Erin needs her rest and…"

"I understand." Said Paula as she moved to usher Conner out of the room.

"Get better ASAP!" Said Conner giving me a weak thumbs up as he stepped through the doorway.

I gave him a weak smile as the door snapped shut. I'm all alone now.

Now what do I do? I get out of my bed even though I'm probably not supposed to and look out the window. How long is it going to be before I can get back to Tae Kwon Do? I sigh, placing my elbows on the window sill and looking down at the traffic, probably at least two months, since it was just-

I'm dragged out of my thoughts as I hear a low hissing sound.

Hmm? I turn to my right and see a strange necklace hanging off of the window sill.

I silently stare at it as it hisses. It has a thin and delicate chain that leads down to a large black rock that's shaped like a reptile's scale. I can also see what appears to be smoke or steam coming off of it.

I slowly reach for the piece of jewellery as it continues to hiss. As I pick the necklace up it's hisses become louder.

Well that's pleasant. I think as I look at it closely. I suddenly hear the hospital door open, then close. Followed by someone yelling at me to get into bed. Oh crap.

I can't help myself as I slipped the necklace over my head and around my neck and the world immediately goes black.

A/N: just warning you Erin will eventually become super OP. Every 100 views I will have a chapter with another character's POV. It will basically be a recap of their relationship with Erin from them meeting to where the story is now.

I'm hoping to post at least one chapter per week. See you guys later!