The Re-uniting of the Six
Chapter One: Nightmares
I shiver again as I hear the screams of the seemingly ever lasting nightmares fade away into nothingness.
As I open my eyes, I stare up into the ceiling. As many times as I have that dream, I can't shake the absolute fear it gives me each time I have it.
"Cyrus! Get down here now!" Dad yells from downstairs. "You're going to be late!"
"Be right there!" I call to him. I stare at the ceiling a few moments more, all the while holding the blue medallion that hangs around my neck.
"Cyrus!" I hear again.
"I'm coming!"
I shift out of bed, and place my feet on the floor. I stretch, and stand. I put on whatever is clean and pause for a moment. Again, I shake as I remember the dreams that have haunted me ever since the first scar appeared, and they only intensified with each new addition.
The first showed up on my first day of school ever, Kindergarten. I recall being so excited, this was all I ever wanted, as was what I wanted when I was 5. We had just walked in the door when I felt the scar, searing, burning, and torturing my skin, and I started to scream and scream. My father quickly realized what was happening, and he swiftly scooped me up, and we fled, and didn't return. That was the first time in our long series of moves. I cried that night because I really wanted to start school.
I am sixteen now, and I still dread sleeping at night. No one, not even my own father, knows.
But my nightmares give a positive side along with the negative. They remind me of who I am, the mission I have here on Earth.
I am Number Five, and the fate of two worlds, Earth and Lorien, rests on mine and the other 5's shoulders.
