PROLOGUE

Could you imagine of being part in a movie? Well, it actually happened to me. You think you got a normal life like everyone else but with a single footstep everything changes. Everything, no exception. I thought I perfectly know the world I am living in, but I have been completely wrong. There are so many places we still don't know. So many places full of new life and stuff you have never seen before. It is hard to realize. Everthing is, and I can't believe really why I'm still alive. It all started with that fucking car crash...

Sydney, in one of those friggin' hospitals. Several policemen were standing around my bed when I woke up, all of them babbling questions but I couldn't understand what they were all saying. I felt like I lost my ears and my head was almost killing me.

"Are you fine, Ms. Black?" One of the policemen whispers.

"What the shit happened?"

"You have been involved into a car crash."

"Holy fuck. Where is Mom? And Dad?

"...They...I'm sorry."

And I felt like I passed away in that moment. It was like I lost my own life. I didn't know what to do. There was just me left now, and Julius. You know, he was something like my best met up first at the orphanage when we both have been really young.

He did all the planning with the funeral. That wasn't self-evident because he is not healthy himself, at last not physically. He got a critical muscle atrophy and his life is made by his wheelchair. Still he is helping me. That's what I call a good friend.

I never had any other friends than Julius. We both are...kinda different than other people. Julius never had any other friends than me because of his handicap and I...I don't know...I just have problems to trust people I think.

My parents weren't my real parents actually. I have grown up in that orphanage my whole childhood. My real parents have given me away when I was a baby. Same with Julius, I guess because of his handicap. Kinda sad, he is a really nice guy. Then my new parents came and picked me up. I was 15 in that time and I didn't want to go without Julius because I feared to loose my one and only friend. He had been 17. My parents also wanted to take Julius but we had a small house, too small for four of us. So we started a campaign in our neighborhood to induce a nice family to pick up Julius from the orphanage. We had been successful and he moved into a house two streets away from my home. Now he is 27 and I'm 25, so this had been exactly 10 years ago.

After the funeral of my parents we moved together in my parents house. I wasn't happy at all, everything reminded me of my past life.

"You lost your happiness..." Julius said and hugged me.

"Yeah...yeah..."

"You should do a threaphy. I can understand if the situation is so overwhelming for you. It must be unbearable. I'm so sorry."

"I simply cannot any more."

"Cannot what?"

"Stay here."

And then he was calm for a while. After looking at me having the most shocked face ever, he took a deep breath and replied then.

"Maybe you're right. I don't want to force you to stay. You can go, I will take care of the house. Your...parents... surely didn't want to get it sold."

"You cannot pay it alone."

"I'm sure my ...parents... will help me."

I started crying slightly. After the accident I couldn't hear the word "parents" any more. Julius knew that and he tried to avoid that word but in fact sometimes you cannot avoid it, my bad.

"And you are fine with that?"

"Yes, as long you call me regularly. When will you be back?"

"I don't know. Maybe I will be away forever, maybe just for a week."

"Please visit me. I become too worried if you stay away for so long."

"You don't have to. I will be fine."

I didn't know where to go, I simply wanted to get out...to somewhere. After I have saved up a bit of money I was able to buy an old Jeep and then my trip through Australia could start. I had no job, no future, so why staying at home? My new life was in front of me, I just felt sorry because of Julius, it was extremely hard for me to leave him there alone. His last words had been "Goodbye, I will miss you, princess. Don't forget I'm always with you." And then I was away as fast as a lightning.

At this point I couldn't imagine what would happen to me. All the danger coming over me. All those strange things which happen. The present comes now. Me, Kaze Black and the great adventure. But it all started the same. It all started with a fucking car crash...