I live in a little house in the woods with my older brother. We look normal enough and sometimes act normally but we are different than others. We are 1/3 human, 1/3 elf and 1/3 dragon and live secretly on the Fablehaven reserve. Well not secretly technically; the creatures here know we are here but not the preserve owners. Hopefully if they do find out about us they won't throw us out or put us in the dungeon. But so far they don't even know we exist. Another strange thing about us is that while I age like a human my brother ages like any other magical creature. We also were born in the middle ages and the only reason that I am the same age as I was then is because some stupid wizard froze me like a statue and the only way to get unfrozen is to wait until some fool opened zzyzx. Well you're probably waiting for me to tell the story so I'll start telling it. By the way my name is Journey.
Running out of the door of our hut I held my knife in my hand hearing my brother yell in pain. I saw my brother wrestling with a chimera; blood oozing out of the bite wound in his shoulder.
"Hey! You! How about you pick on somebody your own size" I yelled angrily at the chimera my teal eyes blazing and so were the chimeras yellow ones. Climbing off my brother the chimera and I started to circle each other. It was about a good two feet taller than me, its shoulders over my head standing. I threw aside my knife as it charged me and nimbly dodged aside. The snake struck my cheek leaving a nasty cut. Feeling the poison starting to take affect I knew I had to do something fast or we wouldn't live to see the next day. I circled the chimera warily waiting for an opening. Hearing a dragon roar I looked up immediately and the chimera pounced knocking me to the ground. It locked its jaws around my neck with me screaming in pain. I pried the jaws open with my hands and wrapped my arms around its head strangling it. The claws raked my sides and back but I still held on. I could feel the snake biting my arms but I didn't care; all I cared about right now was keeping my brother safe. Finally I felt the chimera go limp and topple on top of me. Weakly I pushed it off and rolled over until I wasn't anywhere near it in the clearing. I looked around the clearing for my brother but I couldn't find him but I did see a face briefly peek out of the bushes. Even wounded I was very stealthy and before he knew it I was crouched right next to him. When he didn't see me out there I tapped his shoulder leaving a bloody fingerprint. When he turned around his eyes were wide. He had brown hair and brown eyes and was tan; But not as tan as me. The poison was taking a better hold of my body now making me feel light headed and I started to fight to breath. I took a few steps back to put my hand on a boulder to keep me from falling over. Then everything went black.
"Journey. Journey!" my brother said shaking my shoulder gently. My eyes snapped open and I sat upright in the bed I was lying in. we weren't at home I could tell because the room smells different and my bed wasn't as soft as the one I was lying in. I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out except a raspy breath. I cautiously brushed my hand against my neck to feel a bandage. I quickly looked down the side of my shirt to find bandages there too. I swung my legs out of bed and was about to get out when my brother pushed me back into bed. I started struggling to get out until a man old enough to be my grandfather walked in and said,
"Journey your awake. That's a good sign" my brother got off me and shook hands with the stranger. I got out of bed and walked over to stand behind my brother. I lightly punched his back and thought
Why did you tell these strangers my name? (Just to let you know reader Journey won't be able to talk so all the underlined writing is her talking to other peoples' minds). The stranger laughed and said,
"He told us your name because you were hurt and needed help. Also when my grandson came back and was carrying you with your brother following him, usually that isn't a good sign. We're lucky that you're alive. Most people don't survive a chimera attack you know. I didn't even know there was a chimera here." He said
Who are you? I asked
"I am the caretaker of the Fablehaven preserve" he said. I froze. Now he knows we're here! Is he going to throw us out? I thought to myself.
"Now Will how did you come to living here anyway?" he asked
"Sir we came to living here when in the Middle Ages an evil wizard cursed me and my sister turning her into a statue and making me age like the fey. He said she would remain that way until someone opened zzyzx. So when a man named Patton heard about this he brought us here trying to help us break it. So when she turned into a person again I thought that I would start aging regularly. But I haven't so I'm going to keep on aging slowly." My brother explained
"So you're both human?" he asked. I shook my head
No we aren't entirely human. We're both 1/3 elf and 1/3 dragon. I explained to him. A girl about eighteen or nineteen knocked on the opened door and came in followed by a unicorn's avatar and an older lady I took to be her mom.
"Hello Journey it's good to see that you're all better now, though you should be in bed still" she said smiling at me. Again my brother tried to get me back in bed but I fended him off. I heard someone knock softly at the door and walk in. but I was too busy to look because I was still fending off my brother.
"I would help you get better if you got into bed" the avatar said
Well excuse me for being alert because if you haven't noticed I'm in a room full of strangers except for my brother I said angrily in my head to everybody. Laughing my brother introduced me to the girl whose name was Kendra, the unicorn whose name was Bracken, the older lady who was Kendra's mom and the kid who came in while I was fighting with my brother whose name was Seth. I recognized him as the boy I had tapped on the shoulder. Somehow I knew this was going to be a long day.