Chapter 1: The first clue.
I woke up with a jolt; I studied the coldness of the room. A black and purple (a massive bruise colour) creature hiding in the corner of my room under my desk, just fitting. The creature looked like a mix of a giant bat and a lion, it's mane on fire. It lunged at me I instinctively flick up my leg it knocked his chin off his face the creature cried in utter pain and stumbled backwards. From the corner of my eye I could see that the jaw went out of my door and onto the stairs. He lunged again I rolled out of bed; the beast slashed the air where I was a second before. I back flipped of the wall, landing on its back, and snapped its neck. I didn't know how I did it but the creature exploded in a cloud of darkness and fog, sinking into the floor. I collapsed on my bed. The air was filling me with despair. All that was left was a smell, a horrible rotting apple in sewage water sort of smell. The power I felt when I killed the beast, just like a jump-start from the world most powerful car, left me as soon as it came. That manoeuvre took so much energy from me I fainted while still on the bed. My dream (nightmare) was so weird I would have fainted again if not for the fact I was already knocked out. I was standing at the top of a tall mountain. 2 armies where giving their best shots (or so I thought). I was most surprised to find out that the body I was staring at the war from, a 30ish year old man. A thunder bolt came from the sky and came straight at me. I woke with a jolt; it was my mum shaking me to wake me up. She was also shouting at me, like she was trying to bring me out of a trance. I sat bolt upright and the smell of rotting apples and sewage surged my body again. "Phoenix, what's wrong?"
(If you haven't guessed my name is Phoenix Tide. You may not know that my mother's name is Shara Tide. I am 15. I am held back a few years, 3 to be precise, just like most of the children in my class. I live in Poole, in England. I have no real father, apparently Shara isn't really my mum, she found me with a letter saying I was a day old and my name was Phoenix. My mum gave me her maiden name 'Tide' and I had a family. My mum has remarried several times, all of them millionaires who don't want me to live in their mansion because I'm too poor and unmannered. But enough about me.)
"Nothing mum," I replied ", why?"
"You were talking in your sleep," replying to my reply, which I thought was weird, guess it was just because I was so tiered. (Did I ask her a question?) "Something about a giant monster attacking you and thunder hitting you? Are you sure you're ok?"
I answered my senses suddenly waking up. "Perfectly fine mum and stop worrying about me you smother me too much."
"I'm sorry dear; I just don't want anything happened to you."
"Mum, what's that you're holding?" To me it looked like the bottom of a jaw, the jaw of that beast. I could faintly remember the beast wearing the jaw.(do you wear a jaw or is it something else)
"Oh nothing dear," she put the jaw in her pocket but she look nervous ", you better get ready soon, it is almost the last day of school don't forget." I look away, I was dreading this day, my mum knew it but I still didn't want to show her that. At the end of every year at St. Mary's catholic combined school there is a massive test filled with possibly every question EVER! Two hours of pure torture. I would know I've done it twice and this will be my 3rd. At least I had a girlfriend, Ella, she was pretty with her strait black hair, her twinkling blue and green eyes. Time passed me by. I went over to my mirror and changed my outfit several times before deciding on wearing my blue, green and black shirt (My favourite colours) and grey jeans. The colours went great with my eyes. Some people say that my eye colour never stays the same colour 2 days in a row. Luckily Year 7s, the class I'm in, don't have to wear school uniform. I showered and went to eat breakfast.
" Don't forget to come home early to get ready for your date tonight" my mum called as I walked out the front door.
"I won't!" I shouted at her from outside.
"I said NO! I will not go out with you" I yelled at Enya (my friend who is always asking me out and telling me to dump Ella) just as Ella walked into class. She ran over and hugged me. "I can't believe you still won't dump Me." she said with happiness twinkling in her eyes. She kissed me, the first time since we were first going out. She said she wouldn't kiss me just in case it led somewhere she didn't want to go. I couldn't believe it. We were kissing for a minute when I started hearing my classmate's murmuring to their friends. She stopped and rushed to her seat just as Mrs Howard walked in. She was the meanest teacher in the whole school and I have had her for 3 years. First break from class I went outside and sat down on one of the benches. Ella, Enya and Thomas came over and joined me. (Thomas was one of two people I didn't get along with in class; he was always hitting on Ella. And he is a black belt in karate. We fight but I'm good at blocking while he is good at attacking so were evenly matched. The other is Amber an average girl who sits alone at the table, in class and at lunch, doing nothing. Never talks to anyone and can't read well.) "Please will you dump Ella" Enya said as she came over.
I rolled my eyes and said "I will only dump her if she starts kissing another boy and starts going 'too far'." I used finger quotes around too far. I chuckled as I imagined her grabbing Thomas and pulling him closer and putting her hand up his shirt and slowly moving downward. Just as I thought that, it happened. She stopped abruptly suddenly waking up and backed away.
"Now about that dumping thing" I said looking straight into Enya's eyes. I glanced back at Ella, plea in her eyes. "I'm sorry Ella I said what I said for a reason and beside you never went that far with me" I hated doing that but she is just an idiot. I looked around and saw Amber on the other bench looking at the sky. I walked over and kissed her, just an average kiss on the lips, I don't know why I did it but I just did. I walked over to Enya. "Hey! don't blame me I broke up with her," I said when she gave me a funny look ",Hey do any of you fell as if the world is spinning…" I blacked out.