Disclaimer: I only own the characters of whom are not from Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland.
Into the story-Part 1
I awoke in the same dull room as I had since I was 5. I stretched my limbs with a new exciment in my eyes since me and my friends found a secret passage that lead to these really cool rooms behind the mystery door.
I put on a white blouse, a black wool skirt, white tights and black flats.
I braid my dark brown hair in a single braid before going out.
My room is the farthest from the staircase which, to be honest, isn't that far since there are 5 other rooms on my floor, not counting mine. You see we live in the Dragon Tower although it was renamed the Pink Tower when Mistress Mink took over when Miss Mary left for America. Miss Mink is Miss Mary's daughter. Miss Mink's twin cousins, Miss Tinka and Miss Bella, are second in command of the place we live which is Mary Starlite's Orphanage and School for Young Children. I'm an orphan which means day in and day out I do chore after chore after chore. It wasn't always that way but things changed when Mistress Mink took control.
There are five of us total on our floor. There's Zinny, Echo, Breeze, Red and me, Valkyrie. Of course, there was another door on our floor which makes 6 doors even though there are only five girls. The thing is that door leads to a secret staircase that leads to adventure after adventure, as I mentioned before.
Breeze and Red are already out of their rooms. "Hi Val," Breeze smiled in her whisper like voice when I approach them. Breeze was a small girl with short red hair, stormy gray eyes and a sweet smile. Breeze also had freckles to spare. Breeze was wearing the same outfit as me, so was Red.
"Do you get any sleep?" I ask.
"How could I when we found what we found in the secret?" Red asks. Red's Chinese. She has long black hair held back by a red headband. She has hazelnut brown eyes and was almost as tall as me, which is very tall. Also, the secret is the code word for the place behind our mystery door.
"Hey guys," came a sing-song princess voice that belonged to Zinny. Zinny was like a princess you found in fairy tales. She had golden blonde hair that was always in perfect ringlets, starry blue eyes and a fair skin. Zinny was medium height and wore her hair in a ponytail by a ribbon. Today it was a dark green ribbon lined with gold which is her favorite one.
"Good-morning Zinny," Breeze smiled.
"Ready for the day?" Red asked.
"Eh," Zinny replied which really matched how we were all feeling.
"GOOD MORNING!" a loud, cheerful voice called. We turned to see Echo. She was a very tall and very lively girl with enough energy for everyone at the school and then some.
Echo had long black hair, sparkling brown eyes and chocolate brown skin. Echo had her hair in 2 braids and she wore a pair of purple glasses.
"Come on guys, the faster we get our chores done the faster we come back to explore the secret," Echo smiled.
"About that, I need to tell you guys something," Breeze said stopping everyone from going downstairs. "Yesterday when you all went back to bed I decided to look around a bit more as you all know. What you don't know is that a found another secret passage."
"Really?" Zinny asked.
"Wow!" Red smiled.
"AWESOME!" Echo said a bit too loud.
"Did you explore it?" I ask.
"Not yet. I wanted to wait for you guys," Breeze smiled.
"All right then, after our chores we can go explore the new passage that Breeze found," Red smiled.
"Wait, should we invite Rider?" I ask. Rider is a guy we all know who helped us find the second passage when I invited him up here to see it.
"I don't know. It'd be risky because than other people might overhear," Zinny said.
"Come on, he's a part of it now too. I say we should," Echo smiled.
"I vote against it. I don't want others to find out," Red said.
"I agree with Red," Zinny added.
"Breeze, what do you think?" I ask.
"Um…well…I guess…yes. Yes, we should invite Rider along," Breeze answered finally.
"I can tell him today since we have kitchen clean-up together," Red sighed.
"Okay than it's settled. I'll see you all when we're done with chores," Zinny smiled and with that we all went to go downstairs.