Chapter 1

I blinked against the sunlight streaming through the wide windows of my English class room. It was our last lesson of the day and everyone was as bored as I was listening to Mr Ronald rambling on and on about verbs and nouns and so and so. I snuck a glance at my two best friends, Ashley and Jack, on the other side of the room. Ashley turned her head to me and mouthed 'You bored'. I answered her with a simple, lazy nod. In return she started pulling strange faces at me, making me giggle. "miss Taylor" Mr Ronald's voice cut through my mini giggling session. "Is something funny. Would you like to share it with the rest of the class?" At this point the whole class was staring at me. I started to blush furiously from all the attention. "No sir. Sorry sir" I bite out. I wasn't a very open person, and neither was Ashley or Jack for that matter. Mr Ronald furrowed his brow but then turned his back to the class and started writing examples of adjectives on the board. I sent a half-hearted glare in Ashley's direction which she returned with an apologetic smile. At that moment I was saved by the bell. I immediately headed in Jack's direction as I was still slightly annoyed with Ashley for getting me in trouble but I knew I couldn't stay mad at her forever. As I approached him, I could see Jack lecturing Ashley about misbehaving in class. I shook my head slightly, already used to their little antics. The closer I got the more annoyed I could see Ashley was getting. Soon enough she would start yelling at him and then that would bad. When Ashley yells it's like there's an earthquake. I quickened my pace to stop them before it got out of hand.

"It wasn't my fault she started laughing!" Ashley said.

"Well you shouldn't have tried to make her laugh then!" Jack retorted.

"I didn't try to make her laugh! She just did!" I could Ashley's voice getting louder now.

"Guys, it's fine. At least I didn't get detention, right? I mean, it could have been worse than just a warning" I pointed out.

I watched Ashley calm herself down. She didn't have the best temper and when she lost it, it was like all hell broke loose. She smoothed out her long purple hair. (Yes; you read correctly. Ashley's hair was bright purple.)

Ashley's been my best friend since primary school. She's quite tall, with long purple hair flowing in curls down her back and her bright green eyes are always looking for something to do. She gets bored extremely easily, so she uses Jack and I as her own personal entertainers. She's loud but she's a great friend and she always knows how to make me smile.

Jack on the other hand is quiet and a bit shy, but if he has an opinion he won't be afraid to speak his mind (to us, anyway) He has short, messy, dark brown hair which just brush into his black eyes. He's smart, quite handsome and quite strong but most people count him as weird, like Jack.

Then there's me. I'm counted as weird too. I wouldn't say I'm smart or pretty or strong. I don't have many friends and my social life sucks. My attitude normally gets me into trouble too. My permanently tangled mess of chocolate brown hair never falls the way I want it to and my Hazel eyes are normally ringed with black from my lack of sleep. My family's having problems. My mum and dad died in a car accident 4 years ago, so it's just me and my 2 brothers now.

Anyway, at that time we had started walking towards the school gates, when suddenly...

CRACK!

The ground shook. We turned in time to see a horrible creature crawling out of the hole it had made in the concrete. It had a long rat-like tail and it's beady black eyes seemed to be staring straight at the 3 of us. But it wasn't the creature that had my attention. It was the people floating above the things head which I was interested in.

There were 3 of them, each male. Well I think they were male. I couldn't quite tell from where I was.

They started to float down towards the ground. Lots of the kids who had been walking home had already left in a panic when the creature appeared. The kids, who were still here, now took the chance to run away. Now it was only a handful left, which were either too scared to move or were too stupid to know the danger they were in. I fell into the second category.

As the mysterious, floating people reached the ground I now had a better view of them.

The tallest of the 3, who seemed to be the oldest, had dark Hair and coal grey eyes. The smallest had light brown hair tied in two ponytails on the top of his head and his golden Eyes had a mischievous glint in them. It was the third person that caught my interest. His moss green coloured hair fell just past his ears. Now green isn't my favourite colour, but it kind of worked for him. His yellow cat-like eyes seemed to follow my every move. It was unnerving.

He seemed to sense my uncomfort because he smirked at me. An incredibly sexy smirk might I add.

The older one opened his mouth to speak but the small one cut him off before he could.

"Hey Sardon" the brown haired boy said. "Why'd we have to come here? I mean this place is filled with old people" I furrowed my brow at his remark. Old people? What old people? He couldn't mean us, the pupils, could he? Why that little-

"Hey, who are you calling old you midget!" I yelled at him.

The boy stared back at me wide eyed, seemingly surprised that I had spoken to him. The older boy, Sardon, studied me intently for a moment before speaking.

"There were traces of blue aqua found in this area. Dren thought it would be a good idea to check" he said, replying to the midgets question. He then turned to the 3 of us still standing in front of him. "You don't seem at all surprised by what's happening" he said, folding his arms across his chest. The other two boys were staring at us all, interested by our reactions.

"oh...well...um" was all Ashley could manage to get out.

"HEY! FREAKS!" we all turned to see 5 beautiful girls standing a few feet away.

The, whatever they were (I'm going to call them elves for now cause of their ridiculous ears), seems to recognise the 5 females. The rest of us, on the other hand, had no idea.

"well well well, it seems you're a little late today hey kitty?" the sexy green haired elf, Dren, called to them.

"Shut up you pervert!" the pink haired girl at the front of the group yelled angrily back at him. Dren only smiled at this. "Alright enough talk, time to play!" Sardon said, throwing something that looked like a glowing jelly fish at them. And that is when the adventure began.