(A/N This is my first fic, made a deal with my friend that if she posted her story i would post mine ^_^ so i would like to give a shoutout to HikariKarin and her story "A Frozen Star" Been working on this for a little while, hope you all enjoy please review and continue being awesome!)

The Spirit Within

Chapter 1 - A Warning

My name is Brendon, and what I have to tell you may save your life someday. What I'm about to tell you will seem so out of this world, that it will be impossible to be true. It may feel as though this is just some hoax made up by someone, trust me I would have thought so too if I hadn't lived it. Whether you believe me or not is unimportant, what IS important is that the truth be made public for those of us who can hear the call…of the spirit within.

That week felt like any other week at school; boring, slow, and all around mind-numbing. You get the picture; I mean its school for crying out loud. I had just left calculus class and was heading to my locker, when I felt a thump on my back,

"Hey man, did that calculus test kick your ass like it did mine?"

"Not really Adam, but then you never could quite figure out what two plus two equaled."

Smiling I turned to face my best friend Adam, he was a quirky guy average height, bright blonde hair green eyes and always loved getting a laugh out of everyone even if it meant being the butt of the joke. I on the other hand would be what you call just average, short brown hair glasses; the only cool thing about me is my eyes seem to change colors every other day. He and I had been friends for longer than I could remember, people never understood why we had become close, he being the class clown and me being the quiet and slightly nerdy guy, but hey that's life.

"Ouch your words cut me deep, so let me take a guess and say you aced it huh?"

He smiled and asked as I opened my locker, "Well someone had to show that the human race has a chance of surviving, I mean what would life be like if we relied on you to train the youth of tomorrow!" I laughed as I grabbed my backpack.

"Ha-ha-ha you just think you're so funny Brendon, and I thought I was the class clown here!"

"Well maybe I'm taking over your role and ending senior year in a dramatic and not myself way." I said as I closed my locker door and looked at him.

"Yea right I'll believe that when I see it bro, but anyways mind if I hitch a ride home? My mom got called into work early."

"Yea sure man, you only live a few blocks away from me and you ask me for a ride every other day." If only I knew how much that particular ride home would change my life, things might have turned out differently.

I often wonder what life would have been like if I hadn't given Adam that ride home, would fate still catch up to me and change my view of the world, or would I have lived on in complete ignorance unaware of the danger we are all in.

"So as I was saying before you so rudely interrupted me, what do you think of Marie? I mean come on she's drop dead gorgeous and not to mention god granted her a nice set of…"

"ADAM!" I interrupted him once again before he could continue his observations on the figure of our classmate. Marie would be what you called the typical popular girl, red hair blue eyes and captain of the cheerleading team, a.k.a. miss perfect and also dumber than a box of rocks. Yea she was…well-endowed as Adam so smoothly put it, but in my eyes she was just another girl at our school.

"What?! Oh come on like you haven't noticed, I mean I can't call you a man if you haven't even tried looking at them!"

My silence and the rolling of my eyes just seemed to antagonize him further, "Holy crap dude you mean to tell me you haven't! Like not even once?!" He hooted with laughter as I continued down the road on the way to his house.

"Unlike you I don't care what a girl looks like Adam, you want a girl for her sex appeal, and I just want someone to have fun with."

"Oh ok, I know what you mean wink wink and all that jazz."

I looked over at him and couldn't help but once again wonder how we had become friends, "Wow dude, your lust and depraved mind knows no bounds."

"Hmm let me think about that...NOPE!" Adam once again burst into a fit of laughter as I pulled up to his driveway.

"Thanks for the ride home dude, a lot better than walking home, not to mention I can harass you even more now!"

Adam started getting out of my car then turned and said, "You know someone needs to pick on you, and who better than your best friend?"

"Yea I'll remember that the next time you need a ride you butthead!" I shouted through the open window.

"Oh now the nerd has some bass in his voice, why don't you come inside and show me what you got?" Adam had a father who was practicing to be a professional MMA fighter, and there were a myriad of times that Adam wanted me to go down to their basement and "toughen the white twig up" as he put it, I just didn't see the need for it.

"No I'm good, I need to go home and do some homework anyway, but I'll take that offer someday don't worry." Adam shook his head and waved goodbye, knowing I would never take the offer no matter how many times he asked.

As I pulled up to the stop sign by Adam's I couldn't help but get an unusual chill up my back. This made no sense considering it was the middle of August, but then I could have sworn I heard a voice.

"Take the longer route home Brendon, danger lays ahead if you continue down your normal route."

I shook my head a couple of times to clear my thoughts, "I did NOT just hear a voice in my head, come on Brendon it's senior year don't start losing it already!"

I scolded myself, and then realized that talking to yourself wasn't a good alternative to hearing voices either. Once I had looked around to make sure it wasn't just Adam pulling a joke on me, I sighed and thought, "I shouldn't start listening to random voices that don't exist, why should I randomly go the long way home when I'm only six blocks from my house going my normal way?" With that argument firmly I mind, I pressed the gas pedal and continued on my merry way home, but the trip wasn't about to be so merry after all.

(A/N Well there's chapter one, I know it's rather short but hopefully i grabbed the interest of you all and wont dissapoint (: chapter 2 is on the way)