Chapter 1: The Beginning
"Please read chapter 18 and have your analysis on Mr. Avery's business proposal prepared by Thursday."
Nagia Marie Johnston, mixed, light-skinned African-American girl, 17, finishes packing up her netbook and heads out the door. Why do I always do this to myself? AP Business? With AP English, AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Chemistry? I'm positively mad...
Suddenly, she feels something bump into her, "Ow!" She turns to see a dirty basketball roll away. She looks up as two basketball studs wave sorry to her.
"Sorry, Nagia!" She turns around to see Andrew Parker, captain of the basketball team and all around most gorgeous thing she'd ever laid eyes on lean down to grab the ball. Nagia immediately turns redder than a cherry.
"Oh no no! It's fine!" He knows my name! "Don't worry about it! Good luck tonight against Lakewood!"
He looks up at her and smiles, "Thanks." He glances down for a second before taking a deep breath, "Ya know, Nag-" he looks up, but she is already several feet away. He watches her almost bump into a door before escaping around the corner.
Nagia races to her locker. She stares at it for a second before banging her head against it, much to the surprise of a nearby group of girls. Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! He knows who I am. Wait... ok. Stop. Don't let yourself get out of control. A boyfriend is the last thing you need. She opens her locker.
Boyfriend! inner squeal She bangs her head on the open door. The girls stare in silence. Ack! I can't get all happy! He's WAY out of my league, I don't have time if I want to be an extremely successful businesswoman, and … She lifts her head and starts loading her bookbag. he is too cute... and sweet... and generous... and athletic... he's perfect... She freezes for a second, calc book in hand. Why does such distracting eye-candy have to exist! She bangs her head once and forces the book in her bag. Focus, Nagia! Don't get your hopes up again...Nagia stands up, slams her door, grabs her bag, and heads down the hallway.
A few moments later, Nagia exits her car and heads into the library. She climbs a flight of stairs and settles in her favorite corner before opening her bag. Just as she pulled out her business book, she feels a prick on the left side of her neck. She hits it, thinking it is a bug, and feels a furry plastic piece instead. She pulls it out and stares at it. She immediately recognized it from the nature documentaries. Tranqui- The world went black.
Nagia awoke with a start. She was in a car. She could hear other vehicles passing, but she wasn't moving at all. She felt fabric in her mouth and tape and drool around her lips. She tried to move, but her arms are tied behind her back. She panics and lets out a soft whimper.
"Oh! You're awake!" said a high feminine voice. A masked face peered around the driver's seat. "I'd tell you not to worry, but heh... don't think that's gonna mean anything. Anywho, nothing dangerous happened to you. You've been picked to save the planet."
Oh Lord, I've often been horrible to my sister, but please get me out of this one! This woman is a lunatic...
"Ha! I can totally read your expression right now. You think I've lost it. Perhaps. But my master... hmm... how do I explain this... My master can see the future. A couple years ahead, in fact. He predicted a few years ago that you are going to save the world, but only if we give you the powers to do so. So, we've given you powers."
Oh God. Please, please! I promise I will never ever ever ever complain about Lillian again! Or Mom. You will never see us fight as long as I live!
"It probably doesn't help that you're all tied up, but if we didn't, Master says you'd have bolted, told the cops, sounded like a lunatic, and blah blah blah... destroyed the world. So, listen carefully and I'll let you free. And, you'll probably never see me again. Well, at least in the next couple years... Ever see Spiderman? Like how he was bitten by a radioactive spider and got powers? Well, you weren't bitten, but you were zapped with radiation... and other stuff... Anyway, you can now transform and fight evil! Get it?"
Nagia nods slowly. Why isn't this a dream?
"Ok!" She quickly sets to removing Nagia's bindings. "By the way, you're mom and dad were called to" she makes air quotes, " 'urgent business', so they have no idea you were even gone. And we know your sister has volleyball." She finishes untying Nagia and removes the gag.
"What-" Nagia starts.
"No questions! Bye bye! Shoe!"
"Hold on. This is ridiculous. I'm not leaving until-" Nagia starts.
"Yes you are. I said, 'Bye bye!' " The masked woman teleports in front of Nagia and pushes her out of the car.
Nagia falls on the ground violently and watches as the car suddenly vanishes. What the... that didn't just... if it did, then I must...oh crap...