This is my first fanfic so please no hateful reviews! :3 Thanks! (A/N: includes spoilers for every book except the 6th, Nightfall)
"Whoa," Sophie whispered as Foxfire glittered into view. She'd just light leapt from her estate home, Havenfield, but the prestigious academy in front of her was breathtaking. The glass pyramid in the middle of all the other wings of the U shaped school, was softly glowing in a light blue color. Silver streamers covered bushes shaped like levels' mascots. The level ones had a black gremlin for a mascot, level twos were a blue halcyon, level three was an amber mastodon, level four, a jade dragon, level five was ruby saber tooth tiger, and level six was a stark white yeti. She was a level five so she had to wear a red dress to correspond with her levels uniform color. Sophie was fine with red, though. She'd been told many times that red was her color. Apparently, it brought attention to her brown eyes. All the other elves had blue eyes, she was different, though. And in more ways than just her eye color.
Sophie was created by the Black Swan, a rebel organization, a group that existed in a world where rebellion was supposed to be absent. Hence the name.
Anyway, Sophie's DNA was based off of an alicorn's, that's exactly why she had brown eyes and can teleport while other elves cant. She also had multiple special abilities and enhanced power, all thanks to the Black Swan and their Project moonlark, which is what they call her. Just thinking about it made her feel squeamish and awkward.
She pulled her long blonde hair around her face, and looked at the ground as she walked. She watched the snow on the ground crunch under her black heels with every step she took, trying to keep her mind away from weird thoughts.
The Winter Semi formal was always something she secretly looked forward to. Sophie usually hated parties or anything social like this, but somehow she managed to have an amazing time each year, just talking, eating and (occasionally) dancing with all her friends. Speaking of her friends, she'd finally trekked across the snowy scape to the grand doors that led to the atrium on the first floor of the glass pyramid.
The moment she walked in, a blast of thundering bass almost knocked her back a step, but she caught herself before she lost her balance (and dignity..). The warmth of the building thawed her numb fingers as she carefully walked along the edge of the room, scanning the huge crowd for her small group of friends. Her eyes locked with impossibly teal eyes from across the room.
Fitz.
Her insides turned to mush and she could feel the butterflies in her stomach, but she tried her best to ignore the feelings.
Sophie started walking towards him when she tripped on her long train, falling straight towards... A person. A GUY person. The boy steadied her with is muscular arms. Sophie found her balance and whipped herself off. She stole a glance at the chuckling boy, surprised when she recognized his artfully styled blonde hair and charming smirk. It was Keefe who'd caught her.
"I knew you'd be falling for me sooner or later. I guess I never realized it'd be sooner." Keefe winked. He loved to tease people. ESPECIALLY Sophie. She smiled a little on accident and looked down to hide her rouge. Hiding it didn't really matter much though. Since Keefe was an Empath, he could already feel what her emotions were.
"It's practically inevitable that I will trip at least two more times tonight." She could barely walk in flats, let alone in these Tall Torture Devices for Feet, called high heels. "Why were you over here? Everyone else is over there, aren't they?" She asked, trying to change the subject.
"Oh. Fitz and Dex wanted some lushberry punch, and so did I," He gestured to the punch bowl behind her and slightly to the right. "I was going to grab some for us when I saw you walking around like you were lost. I was trying to catch your attention but instead I just caught all of you." He gestured widely to her whole body with a smile. "Wanna help me bring over the punch?"
"Sure. Hopefully I don't trip again." She glared at her dress that was still tucked under her foot. She kicked it aside and followed Keefe to the small table with the glass bowl and several little cups. Keefe set out four cups. Once he filled them all Sophie took one in each hand and Keefe did the same.
"So, Foster," Keefe said as they turned and began walking towards their group of friends. "Who's your creepy stalker in the corner?" His eyes lifted to a dark haired boy in the far right corner of the room. Sophie followed his gaze.
"Never seen him before," Sophie mumbled. He had wavy, rich brown hair with locks of it flopping down on his forehead. His skin was the color of chocolate milk and he had a striking bone structure. Right below his jawline, was a Northampton shaped like a heart. His white suit told her he was a level above her. It also complemented his eyes. Eyes. That's what really caught her attention; his deep aquamarine eyes that reminded her of the ocean. They were beautiful. The two jewels set into the boy's face were staring right at her. When he noticed she was looking at him, the guy smiled shyly, but it still light up his whole face. Sophie looked down for a moment, not sure whether she should return the smile or ignore him and keep walking, but somehow she decided looking back at him, offering her best smile was a good idea. Except, when she looked up, where the boy was a second ago, he was gone. She quickly scanned the crowd to see if he'd left or was trying to walk towards her or something. He was nowhere to be found.
"FINALLY!" Biana said exaggeratedly. "We were starting to think you two ditched on us." Biana strode across their little circle of friends, blinking in and out of sight as she did, (Biana was a Vanisher and didn't realize she did it) to give Sophie a hug, clearly not caring that Sophie had two drinks in her hands. As Biana wrapped her arms around her, Sophie tried to return the hug without spilling the juice on her pale teal gown. Luckily, Fitz took the drinks from Sophie's hands and smiled his movie star smile. He took one for himself and waited for the Biana-Sophie reunion to be over before handing Sophie the other glass of punch.
It hadn't been that long since she last saw them, only about a week. School was out for winter break and they'd last hung out on the last day of school. They were all really busy so she understood why she hadn't been around her friends too much over break. The break is over tomorrow anyway. She'd see them in school soon enough.
She looked around at all her friends. Fitz was to the left of her, Biana was next to him, then Dex, then Jensi, Marella, Linh and her twin brother Tam, then Keefe and finally right back to Sophie. She had so many amazing memories with all of them. Cognate training with Fitz (a special kind of telepathy bonding), shopping with Biana (though,Sophie usually hated it at the time, looking back on it now, she realized it was kinda fun.), practicing alchemy with Dex (and very nearly burning down her room. Multiple times...), Jensi guiding her through the halls of Foxfire (she got lost a lot.), learning useless but entertaining drama from Marella (somehow she had all the gossip), raiding the ogre capital with Tam and Linh (and other people too. Long story..), having heart to hearts with Keefe and riding across the sky on a shimmery alicorn with him (again, long story..). There was so much more, too.
"Foster, you ok over there? I'm getting some weird vibes from you." Keefe fanned the air as if he could tell what she was feeling. "Hmm. I'm getting sentimental, happiness, and... Is that... Love?" He squinted his eyes staring off into the distance pretending to concentrate really hard. His face snapped back to normal and he looked into her eyes. "It is! Ooooh. What boy are we thinkin' 'bout? Hmm?" Everyone seemed to lean closer.
"No! It's not like that. I was just thinking about the great times we've all had together. And how I'm sure tonight will be another memory to add to the pile." She hoped her face wasn't as red as she felt like it was.
"Aww. That's not as fun as getting some dirt on your love life." Sophie ignored Keefe's remark.
"You're right, Sophie. You guys are the best friends anyone could ask for." Fitz finished with a smile making the complement twice as perfect.
"Well, like Sophie said, tonight's gonna be awesome! So let's get partying! Woot woot!" Biana did a little jiggle to the rhythm of the music. Sophie giggled, swaying her hips slightly to the song. Everyone followed their lead. They mingled and danced and sipped on some lushberry punch for a long time. But all the while she could never shake the feeling that someone was watching her...
Multiple taps on her shoulder made Sophie jump slightly. She hesitated just a minute before she turned around, afraid of who might be behind her. She found herself gazing into deep green-blue eyes that seemed to never end. She felt way too many emotions wash over her as the realization dawned.
Standing right there in front of her was the boy in the corner with the beautiful eyes.
Hope you liked it! I'll try to make the next chapter longer. I promise I'll update fast! Please please please, if you guys see any mistakes please TELL ME. And if anyone has suggestions for the next chapter (or any chapters in the future) PLEASE LET ME KNOW! Love you all! :))))