Chapter.1~ The mysterious package

I stood in a barren land, no plants, no trees, just sand, the sun's light warmed my face as I looked at the endless stripe of open road in front of me. Where am I?…What is this place? my legs started to move, breaking into a jog that quickly turned into a run. Faster and faster and faster. The scenery around me started to turn into a blur as my velocity increased , the wind rushed against my face but was useless in slowing me down as I ran down the road. How am I running this fast? I look down a my legs and finally noticed… This wasn't my body. I was looking a pair of strong, thin, blue legs both wearing white socks and spotless red shoes with white straps and a yellow buckle on the outside. Was I looking through the eyes of someone?…Or something… There was a sudden flash of golden light. Huh?… I looked into the blue sky, there lie a golden streak. What is that?…I tried to focus on it more, the obscured golden streak came clear. It was a golden Chinese dragon with glowing red eyes. Is that a …Dragon? It looked at me then seconds later let out a bellow and somehow…I understand it. "Carry on the legacy…" What legacy? What was the dragon talking about? Suddenly, I was blinded, a bright light came out of nowhere. What the-? I look at the dragon, as it started disappearing into the light. Wait! What legacy? Wait! Don't go! WAIT!

"WAIT!" I awoke, my hand outstretched as if I was reaching for something but nothing was there. I only groaned as my arm fell back to my side. I laid in my comfortable bed, a large blanket wrapped around my body, my head rested on a large fluffy pillow. "Same dream again…", I've been having that dream for a week now. I'm still trying to figure what the dragon meant?

"Jacquelyn!", My mom's voice echoed up the stairs, "Are you awake?"

I forced myself to sit up, despite half of my mind wanted to go back to sleep. I threw the covers off of my body and swinging my feet onto the soft rug. I stood up, stretching ,hearing some of my bones crack. I swung open the door to my room and walked down the stairs, I was greeted by the sweet scent of pancakes and bacon. I walked into clean kitchen, To find Mom finish the last of the eggs. "Oh, Jacquelyn. Your awake." , said my Mom. I lived my Mother, no father. Mother said that Dad had left a month after I was born. She said he left for no reason not even telling my Mom if he would come back or not. Years passed he still hasn't returned. I started to believe that he was…dead. No, I wasn't going to believe my father was dead. He's probably lost…But who could be lost for 16 years? Uhhh… my head still hurt just thinking about it. " Jacquelyn can you go get the mail for me."

"Sure. Right after breakfast"

"Okay."

Right after eating a plate consisting of pancakes, eggs, and bacon. With my stomach filled, I slipped on a pair of comfortable shoes and went out the door. Once I stepped outside , the sun's light washed over me giving me warmth until a chilly breeze blew by disrupting the warmth and making me cold.

"Brrr…I totally forgot it was still cold outside."

I walked over to our mailbox and swung open the small door, inside a small pile of letters.

"Let's see…", I pulled out the letters and started to look through them, "Mom….junk…junk…Bill…bill…junk…Mom."

I sighed, Why isn't there any letters for me once and a while? I started to walked back to the house, opening the junk mail until I tripped everything happened so fast only thing I remember was my body colliding with the ground and the letters flying out of my hand.

"Ow!", I picked myself up, dusting the dirt off my sleeping clothes, "What the-?"

I looked behind me to see what tripped me, there was a brown box tied with thin piece of string, "What is this?", I sat up and observed the mysterious box. It had my name and address but no return address.

"Weird…I wonder who send me this?", I stared at the box thinking weather to leave it where it laid or to take it home. Another cold wind blew in, I shivered. "Well….I can't just leave this lying here especially if it belongs to me." I picked up the scattered letters and the package, and walked back inside. I closed and locked the door, Mom walked over to me.

"Is that for me?"

"The mail is but the package no.", I handed her the mail.

"Who would want to send you a package?", My Mom asked as she started to open the rest of the mail.

"I don't know.", Mom looked at me for a few seconds.

"Well…"

"Hmm?"

"Are you going to open it?"

"I don't think I should. It doesn't has a return address for all we know it could be a bomb."

"Alright it's your package you open it when you feel like it.", After that saying I went back upstairs, the rest of the day was fine but I couldn't take my mind off the package, I mostly had my eyes on the package instead of the T.V. One thing about me is that I was very curious at the same time I always cautious. But this time my curiosity was winning, I decided later on today I was going to open it.

Night soon came, stars littered the ink- black sky, the full moon's pale light washed over the land. I sat in my room looking at the mysterious package, I was nervous but at the same time anxious to see what lies inside. I shook it at first I could rattle of stuff, there was a lot of stuff inside. I placed the box down before I slowly started to pull on the thin piece of string. What I didn't know is that the stuff inside this box will change my life forever.