Chapter 1 The Wish
"Damn. This sucks." Jaden thought.
Jaden had gotten into another fight with people at her high school and, even though Jaden won, she got pretty messed up herself. Jaden can already hear her parent's voices in her head. Jaden had to be ready to explain to him that they started it. Well, she threw the first punch, but they made fun of her friend's, Sasha, glasses. That very friend and another one was walking with her.
"Really Jaden. You shouldn't let your anger get the better of you." Sasha sighed.
"Sorry, that's the only emotion I know." Jaden said with a smirk.
"That's also why you'll never get a boyfriend." Jewel said jokingly.
Sasha and Jewel were Jaden's best friends. Sasha had large round glasses, short messy brown hair that was in a pony tail and wore a stripped black and white tank top with a purple ankle length skirt with brown combat boots. Jewel had sandy blonde hair that was in a bobbed style with her bangs covering one of her eyes and she wore a red sundress with white leggings and red boots. They all stopped talking once they reached Jaden's house.
"Well, this is my stop." Jaden sighed.
"Alright. See ya tomorrow." Jewel said.
"And, Jaden! Thanks again for defending me!" Sasha said while bowing.
"Yeah. No problem. See ya." Jaden said while giving a two fingered salute to her friends. She looked at the door in front of her and, after letting out a loud sigh, opened the door.
"Dad, I'm home." Jaden called out. Her dad was the first one to see her after he left the kitchen.
"Jaden. Welcome ho- Good Lord! What happened to you!?" Jaden's father, Allan, exclaimed.
Jaden had a black eye, dried blood from a bloody nose, and a few bruises all over her body that couldn't be seen since she wore clothes that covered most of her body. Jaden had a small pout on her face as she looked at the ground.
"You got into another fight again, didn't you?" Allan asked. Jaden silently shifted her eyes in his direction and then back at the ground before nodding his head. Before she knew it, Jaden was pulled into a crushing bear hug by her father.
"That's my girl! So, what was for this this time?!" Allan asked excitedly.
Jaden's father actually loved when she showed off her fighting skills. Mainly, it was about knowing that she could always handle herself, but for him, it was also about the fact that she is always scaring off even the biggest or coolest of guys.
"A group of guys. Three of them. All big and muscular. They made fun of Sasha's glasses so I pounded on them until they ran home crying." Jaden said with a prideful smirk.
"Ha! Nice!" Allan said, receiving a high five from Jaden.
She then went to her room that was across the hall from her father's up stairs. After closing the door behind her, she stopped in front of her full length mirror and looked at herself. A 15-year old girl that had bright purple eyes with black straight hip length hair with some bangs covering her forehead. She wore a long white baggy sleeved shirt with a light blue neckline and she had gray sweatpants on, she also had on black sneakers.
"Man. I need a bath." Jaden mumbled.
She dropped her blood red backpack and began taking off all of her dirty clothes. The only thing left on her was a golden locket that was shaped like a heart. It was a gift from her mother, who died when she was five in a car accident. Jaden only took it off to shower, that's it. After taking it off, she took a long hot shower and washed off all the dirt and some fried blood. When she was done, she got dressed in her pajamas, a gray tank-top and red basketball shorts, also her necklace, and went down stares for dinner.
"Hey dad. So, what are we having?" Jaden said as she sat down at the table. He stood in front of the stove in silly apron that said 'kiss the cook'.
"Spaghetti. My specialty." Allan said with comical smirk.
"Nice." Jaden said.
They both ate silently through most of the dinner, except for saying what Jaden learned in school and Allan did at his job, which was manager of a popular restaurant. That's how he and Jaden got by so easily with her mom. When they were both done, Jaden got herself an icepack for her black eye and, after saying good night to her dad, she went to bed. As Jaden laid on her bed, she stared around the room at all of her posters of her favorite anime, Bleach.
Even though Jaden was always tough, aggressive, and cocky with everyone, she still had her nice geeky side. Only her friends closet friends, Sasha and Jewel, knew he true nature. Not being able to go to sleep, Jaden got out of her bed and opened up a window. Since they lived in California, Jaden always felt a cool breeze at night.
"Mom, it's me, again." Jaden said. Whenever she felt like it, pretty much everyday since she was eight, Jaden would talk to her mom.
"I...I have something I want to talk about. I love my friends and the way I live, but...I kinda wish I could go somewhere where the thing I'm good at, you know, fighting, could benefit people. Also, dad doesn't need me. I want someone to protect and need. Really, I just wish..." Jaden trailed of, slightly turning and looking all of the pictures of Bleach.
"I wish I could there and fight like them. With powers that I earn and that I use to protect people." Jaden mumbled.
She looked back out the window again, but this time, she saw a bright light in the night sky. Before she knew it, the light was coming in her direction. Jaden quickly shut the windows shut, but the light caused her windows to fly open and make her fly back and hit the wall. Either because of the light or because of how hard she slammed into the wall, Jaden passed out leaning up against the wall.
Soon, the sun began to rise, sunlight coming through the window. It hit Jaden right in the face as she still leaned up right against her wall. She began to stir and soon opened her eyes. The first thing Jaden did was rub the back of her head.
"Dang. What happened?" Jaden mumbled.
"I can tell you everything that happened." a random voice said.
Jaden looked to her right, where her bed was, and saw some random boy who looked at least 4-years old that wore a gray scarf that was way to long for him since it rested on the bed. Jaden jumped onto her feet and towards the other side of the room.
"Who the hell are you!?" Jaden screamed.