I own This story and all of it's characters, except for Kao. Kao is owned by LonelyUeki, who is also my editor.
16 years ago…
"It's a..amazing", a doctor said in vast shock!
"What is?" Another man asked.
"Your child survived birth. H…he shouldn't be alive. It's AMAZING!" The doctor exclaimed.
"Well I guess God has a different plan for our child, honey" the man said smiling at his wife.
10 years ago…
"Garret, please sit down in your seat and do your work", a kindergarten teacher said exhausted from a tiresome day of teaching, or me but a teacher would never admit that. (Or would they?)
DING! DING! DING!
The recess bell rang loudly alerting the class of hyper/ sleepy, drool filled kids. The kids lined up in a single file line quietly, waiting anxiously for their teacher to give them the Okay to leave. The teacher barely got the first sound out, when the herd of obnoxious children charged outside to the playground. Teachers hated recess, the kids recess at least because for a whole half hour they would run around frantically yelling at children. "Don't eat that!" "Don't touch that!" "Don't do this!" "Don't do that!" "Don't touch that either, when it rattles it's mad!"
"GARRET! GET DOWN! RIGHT NOW!" A teacher roared to me in anger and frustration and annoyance as she stared hopelessly at me as I stood at the top of the 15 foot tall swing set.
"Why?" I questioned in a mocking, annoying childish voice. Finally I gave in after 15 minutes of arguing with the teacher, I decided to get down. I simply jumped right off and landed on the ground with a smile. The teachers all ran to me afraid they'd get fired or something for letting a 5 year old child do something like that.
I started to walk to the big kid's playground, which we weren't allowed to go to or play on, when suddenly I looked back to find a strange man, who had an evil and angry look on, sprinting his way straight to me. I knew what to do. Offering a sucker always calmed someone down. (Smile!) But this guy didn't seem to want my sucker. He slipped out a dagger and frantically slashed out at me. I rolled, ducked, and avoided his moves like a breeze.
The teachers stood in amazement, even though they should've been at my side protecting me since they are, I mean were the teachers.
"Wha..t is this kid? He's so fast! He shouldn't be able to do this!" The strange man thought to himself.
I ran to the giant big kid's jungle gym shaped like a rocket. It was so tall it was like 300 feet high! (Really about 15 feet, the word big kid just made it sound so much bigger) I climbed up as fast as I could, laughing, "Ha ha you can't catch me!"
I climbed higher and higher into rocket ship. The game of death to kill me, which I didn't understand at the time was to kill me, was going smooth up to the point where my foot slipped and brought me into the strange man's reach. My feet luckily hooked onto a bar, hanging me upside down. The man's eyes were weird, one was red and the other was white. I mean pure red and white. I tried to move out of the way as the man slashed his dagger across my right eye. It didn't scratch me eye, but it was definitely going to leave a scar. I didn't really feel the cut, but all I knew was that the teachers were almost here (on step closer to getting fired) and the strange man took off. I tried to pursue the man, but was held back by the teachers.
That night at home, grandpa came to visit.
"Hey kiddo, you alright", he said handing me a sucker?
"Mhmm", I said devouring my sucker.
"I don't have much time, but-"
"Why grandpa?" I asked.
"You'll understand one day, but I want you to have this", he said handing me a silver beaded necklace.
"What is it?" I questioned.
"Keep it with you wherever you go and one day you'll know what to do with it. Trust it and Trust God. They are the only two capable of protecting you."
"Grandpa, are you going to die", I asked as a tear trickled down my cheek.
"Everything passes with time, as do we my child", He responded.
"Aren't we people too", I asked.
"Yes, but we're different. Like I said, you'll understand one day. Now I must go, remember Trust. Trust is the key." Grandpa said as hurried out in a rush.
"…." I had no idea what had just happened, but whatever.
"Oh what did grandpa give you?" My mommy asked. I tugged it off around my neck and showed her as I continued to suck on my delicious sucker.
5 years ago…
"Garret, please stop disturbing the class and get down off your desk", my 5th grade teacher asked in annoyance.
"(Sigh) Fine", I said hopping down from my desk as the whole class applauded disturbance of the class.
DING! DING! DING!
The lunch bell rang and kids flocked out the door to the cafeteria. Of course as always, I got shoved to the back of the lunch line and as always the sixth grade kids made fun of me for wearing a silver beaded necklace. Being at the back of the line wasn't always that bad, I mean you got to take whatever you want and as much as you want.
Just as I was finally about to grab to food, a hand stopped me. I turned around sharply.
"Grandpa", I said shaking, knowing he'd been dead for ten years. The suddenly the vapor of his figure disappeared.
"Garret, go. It's your turn", a class mate said.
"Huh? Oh sorry", I said in confusion.
Then another hand grabbed me and spun me around. "Remember me!" The man yelled at me as he threw me across the cafeteria floor. Kids screamed and ran for the exits like ants that'd just got bombarded by a pile rocks thrown by little kids.
I picked myself up and shook the dirt off of my shirt. "I've been waiting for you for a while, because I want payback!" I yelled at the man with a red and white eye. He stared back at my scar that went down my right cheek and up my right eye.
The man charged. Once again I avoided his moves easily. I hopped from table to table maneuvering my way through his field of attacks. This time he attacked with a freaky looking sword. I tackled him to the floor off the tables. I elbowed him in the face right and left, that was until he got fed up and socked me 15 feet in the air. I snagged ahold of light, as the man from back then attacked me.
I hopped down and the man kicked and pinned me to the floor with his foot. I struggled to free myself from this bondage, but his foot must've weighed a ton. To prolong my last moments he decided to start monaloging and as he did, my silver beaded necklace suddenly drizzled down my neck like water, into my hand and formed a sword. Without thought I, swung as hard as I could, leaving a large gash on his leg.
I rolled away, free from the weight which held me down. I charged with the sword of silver which had somehow formed into my hand and took a swing at the man as he tumbled to the floor. He scurried to pick himself up.
"Who are you", I yelled!
"Your death", the man said a she jumped through the window, escaping me. My sword melted down into liquid in my hand and trickled its way up around my neck, back to its original silver beaded necklace form.
"Garret, what have you done", the principal said to me looking at the destroyed cafeteria. And as always I got blamed for whatever happened, like this.
Present…
"Garret", someone said from ahead of me. Yep that's me. The kid who always got distracted easily, always got in trouble, and always had the worst of luck (if ya know what I mean). I wore a pair of thrashed black skater shoes with faded camouflage lacing, a green 'Quick Silver' t-shirt, and my pair of favorite blue jeans. My jeans were baggy but not too baggy; put it this way I had plenty of room, but they wouldn't fall off.
"Huh?"
"Have you figured out the answer yet", my teacher said.
"Huh, no. Sorry, I kinda spaced out there for a sec", I replied in thought.
"Come see me after class, please", she said staring at my silver necklace, which slithered on my fingers back and forth hidden behind my book, or at least it was supposed to be hidden. Had she seen it? Thoughts raced through my head. I'd hadn't been able to control my necklace much since I was 11 when it first transformed, but recently I was starting to regain control; little by little, so I'd been spending the past few weeks trying to figure it out and playing with it. I'd also never told anyone; like my parents still think destroyed the cafeteria. Ya, you can imagine how that went.
My class room was a typical classroom I guess. I mean there were about 20 desk and chairs, then Mrs. Claire's desk was up front by the door, and we had those annoying lights that buzz all day. There were these strange unique plants on both sides of the door; no one really paid any attention to them. Then there was the typical whiteboard at the front of the class, except this white tended to spark once in a while as if electricity were jumping from its metal frame to whoever was writing at the time, usually Mrs. Claire.
The rest of the day seemed to procrastinate and my teacher seemed to stare at me intensively, which really freaked me out. Then the bell rang, it peered into my hollow stare of thought. I started to get up to leave, when my teacher, Mrs. Claire, pushed me back down in my chair harshly.
"Forgetting something", she said creepily?
"Umm…no? Oh ya you wanted to talk to me", I said.
"I'm only going to ask once, so give it to me", she demanded.
"Give what?" I said trying to stall her for some odd reason; I just knew it was the right thing to do.
"Fine. Suit yourself. You wanna play games, then count me in", she said walking back to her desk with an evil chuckle.
"Huh?"
"What do you want? You didn't even ask me for anything", I said confused. Without hesitation, my freak teacher turned around sharply. She gave me a long stare. Then it finally happened in the midst of her creepy stare, her face suddenly cracked. A light blue light peeked through the cracks in her body. A chip fell off of her which pierced the quiet, eerie air around us as it shattered against the ground.
Immediately I ran for the door. Then a bolt of electricity shot down welding the edge of the door to the wall. I looked back to see my teacher shedding her human skin, which fell to the floor and shattered. Beneath her ex-human ski, was a blue figure. Her whole body beamed in an electrical shaded blue. I have to admit, her alien form or whatever was very eye catching. She zipped through the air at me and I dashed to the window out of her path of destruction.
I didn't know what my teacher was or what she wanted (or that she was even a girl!), but all I knew was that I didn't want to stick around for whatever she obviously wanted to dish out with me. I finally managed to pry open the window, as my teacher came back at me for more. I ducked as she swooped at me once more. I slammed the window shut and looked for another exit. But as always a second too late, the wall came down with a loud thundering crash. I ran outside, towards the back of the school as fast as I could. I was still trying to figure out what my teacher's power was; I mean obviously she had some sort of power.
Mrs. Claire (freak mode) flew through the air at me; my necklace slid down my body into my hand forming a giant axe. It formed in the midst of my swing, and made contact with my teacher's hand. Immediately my sword lit up electrifyingly, throwing me back several yards.
I picked myself up. Knowing at least what her power was was helpful. I charged back for more, not thinking. My teacher raised her hands, and fired a fleet of thunder bolts at me. I was hopeless, fighting against her. Just as the bolts should've electrified me, I looked up to find a girl diving through the air in front of me. My eyes lit in horror; I wouldn't let a girl take a hit for me, let alone save me. Too late, within seconds, a soft mist of chilling ice flew out of the girls will to form a wall of ice. The girl went down skidding hard on the asphalt.
She tried to pick herself up, but her arm gave out as the road rash on her arm throbbed out blood. I went to attack again, but this time I realized my necklace was gone. My necklace, formed sword shimmered about 30 feet away, in the dead center between my electrifying teacher and me. We both made way for it, in a hurry. Well at least I knew what she wanted now, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give it to her.
My teacher snagged it moments before, I grabbed it.
"Thank you for this pathetic duel, children, but I must run now. Farewell", she said elevating herself into the sky. I wouldn't let my grandfather's gift get taken away from me that easily. I ran and jumped on the dumpster and leaped for the ladder. I climbed up the ladder rapidly and as I lifted myself onto the roof, a piece of metal melted off the ladder into my hand forming a sword. I charged on the roof, towards my teacher, which was now about 15 feet away from the edge of the roof. I simply ran and leaped, but it wasn't far enough. I closed my eyes tightly hoping for a miracle and to my surprise I fell on a sheet of ice, 30 feet in the air. I looked down for a sec to catch the smiling glimpse a young teenage girl.
The ice quickly started melting behind me. I got up and charged and leaped at me teacher once more. As I swung at my teacher to retrieve my necklace back, I heard a voice from down below.
"Don't touch the sword while you hit her!" The girl from below said.
In the midst of my swing, just as the blade was about to touch my teacher's arm, I let go.
Mrs. Claire simply laughed as electricity shot up the sword. Just as fast as the electricity shot up the sword, it shot back down. My teachers own attack back fired own us both with a large electrical blast, sending us both to the ground. As I fell landed on a hard sheet of ice about ten feet in the air. Pain shot into my shoulder. I glanced at the girl.
"You could've done that a bit sooner", I groaned as I fell to the ground with a THUD as the ice gave way beneath me.
"Well you could at least be thankful, I even saved you", she said proudly with a smiling grin.
"You didn't save me. I was doing just fine, until you came", I snapped back!
"And that sheet of ice I made for you to walk on didn't help? Or the wall of ice I USED TO SAVE YOU!" She barked back. I picked up myself and walked over to my necklace. I stared at it, in thought.
"Hey, the Police are coming. Let's go!" The girl urged tugging on my arm. She started to drag me away, but I ran back. I stretched out my arm and the Silver Beaded Necklace flew up my arm and back around my neck.
"Wait, why are we running?" I asked.
"Because, do you want to be the one to explain to the police that you have a 'Magical necklace thingy, fought your teacher who is an electrical person/ thingy, and was saved by a girl with Magnificent ice powers.' No, you don't. That's what I thought. So let's go!" She said in a persistent childish mimicking voice.
"Wait who made you boss? And you never saved me!" I said as I started to hear sirens in the background. And with that, I followed without hesitation.
"Guys are always in denial", she said with a smirk. Then realizing what she'd just said, looking at me glare at her, she said, "Aww, whatever, you know what I mean."
We ran around the school and down the street. There was a strange silence, until I broke it.
"So what exactly are you?" I asked her.
"The same as you", she said sarcastically.
"Human", she finished with a chuckle.
"So you don't a have special name or anything", I questioned further.
"Well some boys call me the 'the cuteness or the awesomeness' you can choose whichever", she said choking in her laughter and sarcasm. I gave her a plain stare, the kind you give when you don't find something humorous. She was about 14 years old or so, had brown shoulder length hair, dark brown eyes, and she stood about 5'4. She wore just a pair of plain ole' tennis shoes, faded blue jeans, and a worn out blue t-shirt.
"ALICE, come quick", a man in shock said cutting me off just as I was about to speak.
"Kao, what's wrong", the girl said, whose name is apparently Alice.
"It…it…just happened. We didn't know what to do. I couldn't stop it….I'm sorry. I'm sorry", he pleaded with her.
As we approached a house Alice's facial expression changed dramatically. Her eyes burned red with tears and anger. One tear found its way to the ground, and that was the last. Alice's fist clenched tightly, as her breathes grew shorter and heavier.
"Alice, I'm sorry. I tried", Kao said as he started to choke up.
