Chapter 1

It was dark but she could see the stars out the window of the bus. His hands held hers tight but gentle. She leaned her head on his shoulder and looked out of the window. She saw the star that she was looking for but didn't make a wish. She had everything she wanted. But everything changed when the bus driver stopped the bus.

That morning I had gotten on the bus for U.I.L. I sat with my boyfriend, Zuko, and we listened to music. We couldn't hold hands then. There were too many people. Plus it was daylight. We got to the town, Flower Scepter, in no time, so a quick trip. Well, my event wasn't until 2:30 so I had time to mess around. My friends, Lyna, Rikku, Lulu, and Paine, plus Zuko and me, Katara, just sat there and talked. Zuko had my Gameboy SP and Lyna had my MP3 player. Paine was writing, and Rikku and I were chatting with Lulu. Paine and Lulu had Ready Writing soon so they left to find their room where they would compete. The rest of us stayed there in the cafeteria, odium thing and hung out. Hours passed by and I went to my competition with Lyna and some other guy named Cliff. We were the doing Maps, Graphs and Charts. When we got to the room we were supposed to compete in Cliff went off into some other group of guys and left us to fend for ourselves so, we sat down in some desks a way from everyone else and talked. We finally got our test, after waiting for someone to come and supervise us, and we went to work. Cliff left us after he finished his test in 30 minutes. After the test Lyna and I went looking for Zuko who was in Number Sense. He got out in a few minutes so we waited for him. After he got out we all went to the cafeteria, odium room. Lulu, Paine, and Lyan left after they got back from their events to go home on the early bus. Zuko had Spelling three hours later. Rikku and I waited another hour or two for our Science test and came back to the cafeteria, odium room. We found Zuko playing with my Gameboy SP, looking very bored. Finally after a couple of hours of waiting we finally got back on the bus to go back home. Zuko and I sat close to the back. I got my hand in his and we sat there like that for a while. I turned to the see the stars and the bus stopped. If only this could last a little longer I'd be o.k. I thought. The lights came on and we separated. I looked around and instead of seeing Cliff and Rikku and the other students in their seats I saw some weird looking shadow things. "We are far enough out of the town, get to work", the shadow said who had taken the old bus drivers place. What work? I was scared. They couldn't be looking for…No…they couldn't… maybe we got on the wrong bus. No, we were on the bus that we had ridden to Flower Scepter in. The really scary thing was that they were coming for …us! Dang it! How did they find me?

"Zuko, open the window."

"Why?"

"Just please do it."

Zuko turned and pull the lever up and pushed the glass window out. The window hit the road and broke into a million tiny pieces.

"Ok, now climb out the window and on top of the bus."

"What about you?"

"Stop asking questions and just do it Zuko!"

He climbed out the window with a hurt look on his face but I didn't see it, I was to busy concentrating on getting my bag from one of the shadow demons. I had the handle and was almost out the window when one of the shadow demons grabbed my foot. The touch of a shadow demon is very cold, so I had heard, but I was not prepared for the tingle of ice needles going up my leg and through my spine. I shivered the feeling away with difficulty. I kicked the shadow demon with all my might, but it wouldn't let go. I kept kicking and kicking it and finally I got really angry, and I felt a rush of energy that felt so great to have it fill me up but it had a tainted felling to it.

"Dang it! Let go!"

Then the shadow screamed and I noticed my vision had turned lime-green. The color in my eyes faded and I scrambled out the window. I found Zuko on top of the bus looking around franticly for something. He saw me scrambling up the side of the bus and his face softened. He grabs my hands and helps me up the side of the bus. I got my bag open with difficulty, from shaking hands still cold from the demons touch, and got out the little rectangular prism that was in a secret pocket of mine in the back of the bag.

"What is that?" asked Zuko.

"You will see."

I pressed the bottom of the prism and it started to enlarge itself. It grew longer and wider until it was big enough to hold me and Zuko. There was little buttons and switches all on the front of the board. Mahod was staring at it like it was going to attack him.

"Jump on," I ordered.

I got on before him and helped him on the air board. He got on behind me and wrapped his arm around my waist so he wouldn't fall over board. I pushed a button with the heel of my foot and steel wraps came up and wrapped around our feet. They tightened so we wouldn't fall of the air board.

"How'd you do that," asked Zuko.

"Very easily," I answered.