1. Family

YinYang Lee Dannie, an experienced, young girl who has been through a lot during the first ten years of her life. Life has always been confusing for Yin though. Her life hasn't been very typical, being kicked out of her house when she was an infant and having single handily to raise her new born brother after her mother died during childbirth.

Amy Lee Dannie was her birth name, but a title that Yin soon abandoned. When Yin was born, she already had a family with six other sisters in it, and lucky for her, she was the youngest. Her sister's names, from oldest to youngest, are Carrie, Lori, Bonnie, Kate, Hayley, and Lacey. Yin's father was named Robert Dannie, her mother Susie Dannie, her uncle Raymond Dannie, and her aunt Lucy Marie. Lucy died of an unknown cause when she was thirty-eight years old. Her uncle Ray has never been the same since Lucy's death. Ray, along with most of the other Dannies, is a talented musician. Ray has been the lead singer in a band since he was in high school. Ever since Lucy died, he stopped creating new songs, and after a while, he even quit his band.

Now, when Yin was born, she was named Amy because her father believed that name to suit her. Her mother, on the other hand, hated the name Amy. Susie always called her beloved child YinYang. Susie believed that her child was a perfect balance of good and evil, light and dark, yin and yang.

The fist year of Yin's life was quite out of the ordinary. Yin's mother, Susie, took Yin along with her on all of her worldly adventures. Robert objected to the fact that his wife was taking their one year old daughter on adventures around the world, but Yin loved the quests. She loved to see all of the customs and traditions of other countries, and she loved all of the experiences that the adventures brought. In addition to all of the worldly adventures, Yin was not your typical one year old child. While most one year olds can barely even walk, much less speak, Yin could already do back flips and was able to talk in six different languages. She spoke fluently in English, French, Chinese, Spanish, Latin, and German. Yin's favorite language was Latin because Latin is the basic language that most other languages come from. She rarely ever spoke in the Latin language though, because the only language that her family spoke was English.

2. Yin's Birthday Party

A year had passed since the day of Yin's birth. On this day, December 29, 1995, Yin was turning one year old. All was fine on the day of Yin's birthday, until that faithful event. When Yin blew out her candles on her birthday cake, she somehow made the fire stronger than it previously was. Her family watched in shock as the fire soon overran the whole house. Yin did not want her house to burn down though, so she did not let it. She didn't know what she was doing back than, but with the blink of an eye, she stopped the fire from attacking her home. Her family, silent, staring at her like she was some kind of monster. Finally, after what seamed like an eternity, her father, Robert, took action.

"What are you thinking!" her father screamed.

"What do you mean?! Do you truly believe that I meant to do that?!" Yin screamed back.

"Well if you can somehow make fire, than I would have thought you would at least have some control over it!"

"But I did have control over it! I told it to stop and it obeyed!"

But Yin's father did not care about his daughter's opinions on her new found "talent". He swiftly walked over to her, like a lion stalking it's pray, and grabbed the collar of her shirt.

"If you refuse to admit that you have no control over anything that you do in your own life, than you will not put the rest of my family at risk." He said ruthlessly to Yin.

"I don't care about your opinions on the matter. I had plenty of control just then and…" But Yin was interrupted.

"You, you, my worthless daughter. You are a horrible curse to this family. And you, my "beloved" wife. You brought this curse upon our family!"

Before anyone could say anything more, Robert threw his wife and daughter out the door.

"And never. NEVER come back to this house ever again."

The whole family watched the event in dumbfounded terror. So startled, that they could not even say a word to their father.

3. Life With Abuse

Two years have passed since the day that Robert kicked his wife and daughter out of their home. Yin's mother was remarried to an abusive man. Every day for Yin's mother was like another day in a torture chamber. Susie found herself being beaten constantly and being welcomed home by a drunk man with a beer bottle in his hand, which he usually proceeded to hit his wife with.

Almost every night, Susie had cuts bruises and yet she was unable to go to anyone for help because of her fear that her husband would kill her or her daughter if he found out. On top of that, Susie was too poor to go to the hospital or even a doctor. She wasn't all that rich and she tried to make due with what she already had. Instead of living with that horrifying man, Yin found herself roaming the streets during the day, and sometimes even sleeping in the alleys at night.

For, she was too scared to even enter her own home because she believed that the moment she did, her father would attempt to beat her. She was a very skilled fighter for a girl of such young age. She didn't even use her ability to produce fire when she fought that devil of a man. Her mother warned her not to let Samuel see that his stepdaughter had supernatural abilities.

One day Yin left the house and pleaded to her mother that she would join her, but Yin's mother refused to come. Yin wondered the streets for a while. She knew about everybody in town, and even some of the people who only visited the town from time to time. Yin loved hanging out in the alleys with some of the neighborhood "weirdos". That's what everyone called them. That's what everyone called her.

The same day, when Yin returned home, she found that her stepfather had left a note on the counter. It read,

Yin,

I am not truly sure where my life is going, or if my life is even going anywhere. Every night I come home drunk and abuse my wife. I believe that it would be best if I just left and let you and your mother live a normal life, away from me. Please tell your mother that I am sorry and show her this letter.

Samuel

Yin was shocked to see that her stepfather actually had regrets for his actions and constant abuse. Although, Yin soon found out that her stepfather's true intentions were much more cynical.