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THIS STORY IS BACK. WITH A WHOLE NEW REWRITE. I have had years that I have been gone and that saddens me. All my stories were removed or just left to die. I have left this years ago and thought for years on how this story would play out. During that time, for the longest time, I thought of details I wanted to change, and just looking at my writing style back then. More than anything, I wanted to improve the story and give readers what they deserved. Because of that. I have rewrote the first chapter and the rest will be rewritten as well.
The story remains the same. But small details, things to make the story more consistent with what I have planned to write out, people to incorporate and other details. In addition, two movies have been released since I last touched this story and in that time, a lot has changed as well. I am going to update this and hope that the story can stay up to the expectations that readers have give it.
I am sorry it has taken so long.
I just want to say, Welcome to My Life. And for people here, Welcome Home.
August 23rd, 2008
Dear... what should I call you?
Notebook, Journal, Diary?
I guess it would just be appropriate to label you as you are... "BOOK"!
(Why the heck am I even talking to a book..plus this shit is digital.. even less sense...)
Anyways,
DEAR BOOK!
Okay, so my name is Dakoda Aria Ray but I go by the nickname Koda. Seems odd right? Well other than the nickname I choose to go by, I am a pretty normal kid. I go to school, hang out with my friends and fight with my siblings. I obsess over movies or video games or books, just like any other highschooler, like those with sports, or fashion or the weird hobbies that some people get. But I'll get into hobbies later. Onto other stuff. I have 4 siblings, 3 brothers and a sister. I have two younger brothers, named Trey (14) and Shane (15), along with an older brother and sister, Tyson (18) and Skyra (19). I live in a family with separated parents. My older siblings and myself live with our dad while the younger two live with my mom. We all use to live in the same city for the longest time but my Dad has a job in the military as a member of the UN Peacekeeping forces, therefore he moves around a lot. My older siblings and I ended up moving in with him so we have never lived in any place for long for the majority of of my teenage years.
Recently, my father got a job where he was going to be stationed in the States for a short period of time before moving overseas, so there he took us with him. I originally came from Canada as I was born there and lived there until I was 11. I'm currently 17 years old and going into my last year of high school, so no matter where I move, as long as I end up graduating, I will be fine. That is what I thought until I found out where we were moving to. We moved to a town in the middle of nowhere, named Tranquility, I think after the American Moon Landing, I don't know, I'm on a Canadian Education system (homeschooling abroad SUCKERS!). I am going to be enrolled into their local high school to try and make friends because "I need a social life before I go to college." At least according to my Dad. Now understand this, in addition to moving to Nevada, this the longest I'll ever be in a desert and not a military base. Plus I am use to spending the majority of my holidays travelling back up to my mom in Canada where it is nice and cool, sometimes cold, BUT NOT THE HEAT DEATH OF THE DESERT! I mean the military bases I lived on over the years, I was usually able to walk from one area to another while remaining indoors, however, I have to hike it like 4 miles to get to school or something. I am bad at measuring stuff that isn't the metric system. (stupid american imperial system...)
But, enough with those complaints cause I have other things to complain about. Like the fact that my father, who has the rank of Colonel at this point, has been assigned to a special branch of the United States Military. That's what I have been debriefed about anyways, to do with his transfers. He is going to be stationed here in Nevada for a couple months before they ship him overseas, and none of us are allowed to go with him this time. That's right. He had all of us move here to Tranquility, Nevada, JUST TO ABANDON US THREE WHILE HE GOES TO TRAVEL THE WORLD! Sorry... that's a bit of a sore spot with me. I really don't know how to feel about being on my own for the first time in my life without my parents. I mean I have been left alone on the military bases to do my own routine when my father was out on missions, but he would always come back. However, now he will be deployed for several months, even years on this assignment, doing things I don't know and it is not like when he comes back, I will still be a kid. I'm growing up and it doesn't exactly feel good for me.
On a different note, moving here, as I mentioned above, I have to go to a public school in order to "socialize" and "make friends", but I am not too good with that. The only kind of long term friends that I have been able to have during the teenage years of my life are those I have met overseas and kept in contact with online, as well as others that I have met online. Don't be surprised, I don't have that many online friends. There isn't really anything about my circle of friends beyond small common interests.
I honestly wonder what this new school is going to be like, as I have been homeschooled since I was in elementary school. Well, not entirely true, I did try a couple of times at the start of high school. In the 9th grade, my father was stationed in southern Europe and wanted to enroll me in an english speaking high school, though it had a different curriculum than I was use to so not all of the stuff I studied transferred over. I was only in the school a few weeks before I basically was "excused", or well, expelled. I did so poorly with the materials they gave me and my education didn't stack up to those of other students. Frustration from that lead me to be the basic teenager who lashed out and rebelled. One thing led to another and I ended up vandalizing the school front with a couple of other people who I am no longer friends with. This vandalism actually made the news, which is why I don't want to name the country. But anyways, the school found out from a snitch that it was me and I was promptly removed from enrollment. So yeah, my high school experiences are very flawed.
But moving on. I can complain more about high school later. (Why am I even doing this? I'm basically talking to myself. OH WELL) Okay so I complained a lot about school and my family. But what about myself? I said I am just a normal person right? WELL THAT IS WRONG... or totally right. I'll get towards talking about myself and doing stuff.
I like music. There, I said it. I AM A TOTALLY NORMAL PERSON. Okay, well I like rock music. Stereotypical teenager. Skillet, Three Days Grace, Linkin Park. The big music of, well, teenagers who like having emotions. Yeah yeah, I know there are others like Fall Out Boys and My Chemical Romance. Those are more for the moody preteens. I'm more sophisticated than those little jerks. I have stereotyping tastes. I also like action movies and books and my favourite colour is red. LIKE THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES. Okay... maybe going a little bit far on that one. Oh well, I'm also a big fan of anime. Yes. I am one of those people. I cover my wall in posters. Anime, video games, movies and all the random fandoms. Its a thing. Not a huge thing, but those are types of things that brighten up my day and allow me to enjoy time exploring other worlds and imagining things. You know. A normal person.
Okay now away from normal. I guess one benefit to America is their love of guns. Yes. I am a fan of guns. I was brought up in a military family. I have been taught how to handle pistols and certain rifles. It's mostly either self defence or hunting. I also have two dogs. Dobermen Shepherds, Ozzy and Griffin. Ozzy is 3 years old and Griffin is a year and a half. They are military hounds and help me hunt, however they flunked training because they are unusually lovable to humans so my dad adopted the two. However they are still trained dogs and are personally mine. Also speaking with military in mind, I have military training. It was my dad's idea for all his kids who live with him to get basic training. Tyson is full on enlisted as reserves in two countries for the UN Peacekeepers (not going to name them) and Skyra has training in piloting a plane and handling weapons. However, Tyson has his job set up for him while Skyra is looking to enroll in college starting in January. So none of this is really relevant.
But they have their specialties and I have mine. Mine is simple. I've been trained and continue to train as a sniper. I took an interest in the long range weapons so I have borrowed a military friend's sniper rifle on many occasions to shoot at the shooting range on base. At least I was able to until we moved to Nevada. My record at a range was 1.43 KM or 1430 m. I'm still practising as I usually average at 0.89KM. But I'm not really going to brag. Though I also got another nickname from the military. It's Shadow. Though the reason for it varies depending on who you ask. I say its cause I am very sneaky and can easily hide. However, others say its because I always follow people around to find out what they are doing and run around to eavesdrop on people. What can I say? I like being in the know.
Okay but going from weird to just stating things of other worldly origins. I have superpowers. Okay, it can be considered superpowers or normal depending on how things work. Well, to make things seem normal, I'm not the only one who has this sort of thing, at least in my family. My brother Tyson has the same stuff go on as I do. It's basically a strange connection with electronic devices and kinda electricity in general. Things can fluctuate in response to emotions (haha basic teenage angst with powers) but it's true. Emotions can make one unfocused and cause fluctuations in whatever they are attempting. It is a passive type of thing but can act up. For example, electronics can be affected, like supercharged or short out and thunderstorms can be a fun time with all the electricity in the air. Main ways that it can be "channelled" is like focusing stuff through the hands. I can shock people or fry electronics. (Revenge and break people's phones). Again, my brother Tyson has the same thing going on. We are the freaky impossible siblings of nature but I guess that is just a thing. However, I don't mind. It's like mine and his secret superpower where we can be superheroes who save... stuff. I haven't gotten that far in things. Maybe I can come up with something later.
Oh well, I think I rambled on enough about myself. I don't know why I am telling myself about my own stuff but people always said that venting helped to deal with change and this is definitely a big change to happen. Let's just see what happens.
ANYWAYS.
My dad said that we are going to head over to meet our neighbours. So I am being dragged against my will to meet people before I ever go to school. LET ME BE ANTI-SOCIAL!...Oh well. Apparently they have a boy around my age that I am going to be going to school with. So I guess that is grounds for meeting him? I don't really know. This is like a hostage situation but I am willingly not consenting but allowing this to happen so I am dragged over to meet people? This is all kinda just me complaining at this point.
OH. OH. OH. Also apparently the boy's name is Sam. I have just got this knowledge from my brother cause I was complaining about this shit out loud and he heard me. So this Sam guy is going to be my "new friend". Oh the joys.
Also, I suddenly want to mention this last thing. My brother showed me a news story for a meteor shower that is suppose to happen sometime in the next month. Maybe that will be an interesting thing to look into. The town might have something to give after all. (I am also a nerd of space. I LIKE THINGS IN THE DARK VOID OF THE UNIVERSE. Plus aliens are totally real. No denying it. PFFFFT. I can't say that shit with a straight face. But I mean scientifically speaking, there is a chance. Unless we go to every planet in the universe (aka impossible) there is no way to disprove aliens. But that is just a thought.
ANYWAYS.
It is like 3 am now soooooo I should get some sleep. I'll come back later and maybe write about the things that happen. Let's hope I don't die.
I'll type up here later.
Koda.
A/N
REWRITE.
NEW DETAILS.
CRAZY CONNECTIONS.
TUNE IN NEXT TIME FOR THE NEWEST STORY WRITINGS AND BELIEVE THAT IT WILL BE BIG.
~KRay~