Introduction

Life chooses different paths for us. Me? I was taken from my mom and dad when I was three. I didn't understand why someone would kidnap me. I was good to my parents; they loved me to death. My mom use to sing me to sleep when I would awake from nightmares. My daddy use to read to me, books about, happily ever afters and fantasies. I knew those were all a lie when I was taken on my third birthday. My parents did however put up a fight with the man who took me. I remember my mommy being very surprised like she knew the guy that was taking me away from them personally. If she knew him why would he hurt her so? To take away a child is to take a life from someone. My daddy told me to be smart and do whatever they said to do in order to keep my life. I am now seven years old and can barely remember my parent's faces; my mom's, my dad's. They are just distance memories now. I was raise by a bunch of people that never showed their faces. They came to the castle in black cloaks and never removed the hood. I shared a room with so many others that there wasn't enough room to breathe. We all had these charms around our neck that made it impossible to leave the castle's premises. They made it possible for the council to keep tabs on us. Where we were, what we were doing and what we were saying. Nobody was safe and nobody ever questioned anything.

"Name?"

"Rikki Lynn Woods." I said as a person in a black cloak walked the hall where we were all standing in a line.

"Parents?"

"River Thomas Woods and Bay Fawn Woods, maiden name Anderson."

"Good." He said smiling in the shadows of his hood.

Chapter One

"You were all called here because it's the time in your life to start your training." A man in a cloak said walking back and forth in front of us. "You each will get your own trainer that will awake you from your beds bright and early. They will teach you how to control your powers and how to use them properly." The man explained looking at all of us through his hood. "Rikki Lynn Woods."

"Yes, sir?" I questioned stepping forward.

"Your trainer's name is Chandler." He sighed looking at the piece of paper in front of him. "Now step back."

"Yes, sir." I said stepping back in line. He read off all the other trainers and we were all dismissed to our room. It wasn't even night yet. I looked around and saw all the other children getting in bed except one or two kids. I heard the footsteps of our security we have here in the castle. They walk the castle all night, making sure we don't step out of line. Nobody ever has because the council made it quite clear anybody who breaks the rules will be given no mercy.

"The council's minions have made it quite clear it is time for bed. Are you children disobeying the council's orders?"

The supposed leader of the group of people looked up and said in a perfect out of forest accent. "What are you going to do about it? It's not like you could kill me or anything. I'm too important to the council they wouldn't risk my life."

"I'd watch it you little punk! There are so much more that is worse than death." The guard said in a low tone. "Bed!" He shouted pointing to our bunk beds.

"Hmm nope." The boy said as his friends did what the guard told them to do. "Guys what the hell?" The boy asked turning around to see all of his friends in their bed. Me? I was still standing there in the corner, in shock. He was standing up for himself and I was part of it. I hope I don't get in trouble. My parents won't be very proud of me if I did. I might not remember my mom or dad's face but I do remember that one piece of advice he told me the night I was kidnapped. "Be smart and do whatever 'they' say to do in order to stay alive." I have lived my whole life around those words and it's all going to come crumpling because I didn't do what I was told.

"Is this one of your followers?" The guard questioned grabbing my arm.

"No I'm not!" I screeched. "Let me go!"

"You're coming with me. As for you Alan I will have someone who is more suited for you pick you up." The guard said pulling me by the arm. He took me to a secluded room; the room was just big and stone cold. "Name?"

"Rikki Lynn Woods." I said shivering. Mostly in fear but I could write it off as being cold.

"Woods?" The guard said letting go of my hand and closing the door behind us. "What was your mother's maiden name?" He asked turning back to me again.

"Anderson." I said quietly.

"Speak up! I will ask you again what your mother's maiden name is!"

"Anderson!" I shouted fighting back tears. "What are you going to do to me? I will never disobey the rules again. I promise!"

"We don't give second chances but I feel I could let you off the hook this one time. Our little secret." He said taking off his hood for the first time and winking. I have never seen any of them take their hoods off. He had long curly dirty blond hair that was pulled back in a ponytail and greenish gray eyes. His jaw was squared, stubble caressing the lower half of his face and he had black wings. He was kind of attractive.

"What? Who are you?"

"My name is of no importance to you." He said putting his hood back on. "Now you must get back to your room and just so others think I have gone soft." He said backhanding me across the face as his nails dung into my skin and I started to bleed.

"Ow!" I screeched starting to cry.

"Good, that's a nice feature." He smiled in the shadows of his hood. "Now go." He said opening the door. I didn't move at all; I just stood in the middle of the stone cold room. He came back and grabbed my arm. He took me back to the sleeping quarters and shoved me into the room. "That will teach you to disobey us!" He shouted and slammed the door behind him and the room went completely dark.

"So you took the blame?" A voice said in the darkness.

"No I didn't." I said putting my hand on my burning cheek. Blood coated my fingers.

"What's your name?" The voice said coming behind me.

"Rikki."

"You're bleeding." He said taking my hand. "Come on." He smiled in the darkness and started sneaking out the window. "No I am not breaking anymore rules especially not on purpose."

"Trust me." He said poking his head back through the window. "If we get in trouble I will take the whole blame."

"Okay." I sighed, knowing he was lying but following him out onto the balcony anyway. "What is this place?"

"The one place they can't reach us. Not even with these fancy trackers."

"Why is that?" I said looking around. It looked like we were on top of the castle's lookout tower but I never remembered climbing anything. "Wait this place is off limits. We can't be here!" I shouted running to the edge.

"Where are you going?" He said watching me run.

"I am not going to get into trouble again. You might be okay with bringing shame to your family but I would never do that." I shouted jumping off and I ended up right back where I was before, at Alan's side. "W-w-what happened?"

"Nobody ever listens. This place doesn't really exist. It might look like the top of the lookout tower but it isn't. This is my own creation."

"How?"

"Did your parents ever tell you any of the legends of the dragons?" He said turning to look over his shoulder at me.

"Legends?"

"I guess not." He chuckled. "I defiantly pity you, not knowing what you are really capable of doing."

"What do you mean?"

"All dragons have a signature power that none other possesses. Mine is to create different dimensions; I can create anything my heart desires but I still haven't mastered it. They are still very unstable. I can't make full dimensions yet, I can only make certain places I have seen in my life before. One day I will be able to be as good as my father."

"If he was so good, how did you get captured?" I questioned as his fists balled up and he squeezed his eyes shut.

"You can only protect yourself in a dimension you create. He couldn't protect me or…my mom." He sighed opening his eyes and relaxing his fists.

"What happened to your mom the night you were captured?" I asked putting my hand on his shoulder.

"That is none of your business." He said sharply and pushed my hand off. "You don't know me so don't pretend to be my friend all of the sudden."

"Excuse me but I saved your ass back there!"

"Ha! You didn't have me in mind at all. You didn't even know me before then. We have been in the same place for four years and I was nobody."

"Everybody is nobody to me! I don't have one friend because I don't see this as a joke! I was taken from my parents-"

"So was everybody! You can either resent what happened or embrace it."

"My whole life since I could make sense of this situation, has been trying to find a way out so I can go back to my family and grow up with them. The way it should be." I said as the image I was seeing faded around me. We were still on the castle's balcony. We never left anywhere. "Good night, Alan." I said climbing back through the window and feeling my way around the completely dark room. I finally found my bunk, went up the ladder to the third one and put the covers over my head to fall asleep.

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