We're All Connected
Chapter 1
Unusual Events
"This way!!" yelled a 16 year old boy with red spiky hair, his eyes were a deep dark blue, his olive green skin sort of glowing in the unusual light and he wore a blue short sleeved top with dark blue baggy pants and sneakers. He was yelling to a 15 year old girl with long blonde hair that went all the way down to her waist. She was wearing a red knee high casual dress with black thongs. She turned around in a hurried haste to look at the boy, her peaches and cream skin looking darker in the unusual light and it was revealed her eyes were a deep grassy green colour.
She gasped when she saw the boy, and then looked behind her. A 27 year old woman in a long white coat and a staff appeared. On the staff was a huge, dark green crystal at the top and dark blue markings down it. Her hair was long and black, reaching below her waist and her eyes were a dark red. Her skin was pale white like the moon. The young girl gasped and turned around, running to the boy who was opposite the lady. She grabbed his hand and they ran, trying to escape the lady.
"Cameron!" she yelled suddenly stopping making him stop as the lady appeared in a blaze of light in front of them.
"Honestly Katie, running from me is useless! I will get you, no matter how far you travel or how fast you run. And Cameron, I'm afraid for you, your time is up!" said the lady, pointing the staff at Cameron.
"Do whatever you wish to me, but you will never get your hands on Katie!! Not if me or any of her friends have anything to do with it!! You will never succeed Maria!!" said Cameron. Maria chuckled.
"You fool. In case you forgot, it's only you here and you're about to become extinct! There's no one left to protect Katie!!" said Maria evilly.
"Cameron! Run, she'll kill you, get out of here!!" yelled Katie. Cameron turned to look at Katie, placing his hands on her shoulders.
"If my time has come then so be it, but I will never let her get you, not without a fight. if I go down in battle today, then at least I died doing something noble, if today is my day, then I ask something of you, never forget me!" asked Cameron.
"Cameron, if today is your day, then I will never forget you, but it's not!! I know it!!" said Katie.
"Enough with the little love speeches!! Prepare to disappear!!" yelled Maria, her staff starting to glow and then she shot a burst of energy at Cameron. Katie suddenly stepped in front. Cameron gasped and grabbed her, pressing her tight against him.
But they never felt anything. Katie slowly opened her eyes to see a protective bubble surrounding the two of them. There was a young girl on the outside of the bubble, her short brown hair glistening a light gold in the light. Her skin the colour of peaches and cream. She turned around after freezing time around Maria. Her eyes were a deep chocolate brown.
"Sleep!" she commanded and suddenly Katie and Cameron felt their eye lids become heavy. They suddenly collapsed backwards, falling into a deep sleep. They let go of each other, and they were separated.
I suddenly jumped in fright and actually jumped out of bed.
"Whoa!" I said as I tumbled out of bed. I sat up, rubbing my head. I stood and walked over to the little mirror I had in my room. I sighed.
"Katie and Cameron. Hmm. Another dream about Katie, but this is the first time Cameron has made an appearance. I mean, she's mentioned him, but he's never appeared until now. A third time for Maria. I wonder if tonight I'll have another dream about her?" I questioned myself. My waist long brown hair was all tangly and full of knots.
I grabbed my hair brush which was lying on the desk and started untangling the knots. It was a painful procedure, but I finally got through it. I then grabbed two bright red hair clips and put one on either side of my head, just above the ear. I then reached into my draw and pulled out my mascara. I put it on my eye lashes which shielded my unusual eyes. They were a hazel type of colour, but instead of being mixtures of brown, they were mixtures of gold, brown, blue and green. Personally, I hated my eyes, but my mother said that was my most lovable quality and that all the guys would be swooning over my because of them. I don't believe her.
I got dressed into tight light blue jeans which had a hole on one knee and grass stain on the other knee. Don't ask, I like to do extreme sports. I also wore a pair worn out black sneakers and a red top with black writing on it. Those were the school tops, red and black. Shoes and pants weren't in the curriculum. And that I was glad of, because many people wanted my school to be like the arch rival school. They got the girls to wear knee high skirts that matched the top and the skirt couldn't be any higher than below the knee, if it was, you got sent home to get changed. They also had to wear platform shoes all the time too. Ugh, the horror.
I put my sweatband on my left wrist and then gave my hair a flick to put it behind my shoulder, and then I jumped down the stairs to meet up with my mother. My father was already at work. The moment my mother turned to look at me, to wish me a good morning, she sighed in disgust at my attire.
"Anna, isn't it about time those jeans went into the trash?" she asked me disgustedly. I gave her a pouting look.
"Mum, they only have one hole and they aren't even fading out yet, so no way are they going in the trash!" I replied. She sighed.
"I kept telling your father we should have put you in Stadum's Academy! Maybe then, you'd be more lady like!" she muttered to herself. I sighed, ignoring her, walking over and getting my bag ready for school. I only had four lessons, they're split, into a double, recess, a single then a double, then lunch, then the last double, then home time!
I had PE, Art, English and then Maths. I don't know why I was in art, I don't have any artistic material anywhere in my body, and the class is boring too. I'm glad it was a single today. And Maths, ugh, don't even remind me!! I can't stand it!! I'm probably failing maths, which wouldn't be a surprise to me, but my parents are very strict about my grade. Anywhere below a B and I have to take extra time off my activities to study the lesson I got the C or below in.
Honestly, a C is supposed to be the expected amount, then a B is for more than expected and an A is exceptional. I don't know why they fuss so much! It's not like I'm going to be anything like my older sister is!
At age 17, with long below waist beautiful chocolate brown hair, topaz coloured eyes and peaches and cream coloured skin is my outstanding sister Grace. She's two years older than me and works part time at a beauty salon. That's where she is right now. She's excelling in school and has outstanding grades. Basically, she's everything I'm not. She's graceful, she's lady like, she's polite, she's nice to anyone, she never judges, she has a boyfriend, she's basically perfect! I envy her, but I don't envy her to the point that I hate her, I love her with all my heart, but I just wish sometimes people would talk about me the way they do her. She's the centre of every crowd and everyone just loves her. She's not stubborn, she does what she's told but most of all, she's strong at heart.
I'm so stubborn you could say there was a bomb in the room, and I still wouldn't flee unless I had everything I wanted from that room. That just shows the difference between us, and I sometimes think mum wishes I was like Grace. Dad just accepts me for who I am, he's the one that let me get into the extreme sports and that; mum disapproved of it, right from the start. It wasn't 'lady-like' for young girls to be sliding in grass, getting covered in mud and jumping from cliffs or climbing mountains, etc. But enough of that.
I then walked back into the kitchen and sat down as mum dished up scrambled eggs on toast. I had two pieces of toast and they were usually covered in a mountain of scrambled egg. I grabbed my knife and fork and dug in. Once I was finished, I stood and took my plate into the sink. I looked up at the time, then walked back into the kitchen, saying goodbye to mum, then walking into the passage way, grabbing my bag and jumping out the door. Because of my clumsiness, I ended up falling flat on my nose.
I heard a deep voice chuckle in laughter. I slowly looked up to see David, one of my best friends.
"Getting clumsy again are we Anna?" he asked. He had black, fairly long hair, tan skin with deep blue eyes that could dig all the way into your soul in one second. And his eyes were also the opening to his soul as well. That's one thing David and I had in common, we both had unusual eyes. He was wearing a red and black top, just like mine, and he was wearing black long baggy pants with red sneakers. He wore his favourite black and red wrist band on his right wrist.
"And are you getting your homework done on time?" I asked him in a cheeky matter. David isn't an A grade student, just like me, but his parents didn't give a damn, not like mine do. But don't get me wrong, they care about him, but they just don't care about whether he's an all A's student or not, they just love him for him.
David chuckled again, reaching down, lending me a hand. I accepted and he helped me up.
"And you're getting as cheeky as ever!" he said jokingly at me. I poked my tongue out at him.
"And ruder as ever!" he added. I walked past him, pretending to strut.
"Tell someone who cares!" I joked with him. I turned to look at him to see he was grinning and his teeth were a glistening white. I also thought I almost saw a sparkle shine from his teeth too.
"You guys bickering again?" yelled a young female voice. David and I turned to see a hyper young girl, our age, with shoulder high curly blonde hair with brown streaks, tan skin and pale blue eyes. She was wearing the same black and red shirt and also wore a black, red and brown chequered mini skirt with black thongs. She wore our trade mark wrist band as well, which was black and red, just like mine and David's on her right wrist.
"Of course not Jackie!! David was just telling me I was getting cheeky and rude again!!" I replied back to Jackie with an innocent smile on my face. Jackie was a sweet, innocent girl, who was so delicate you could give her a flick on the arm and she would feel it more than any of us would. But she's anything but weak; she's probably the strongest girl I've ever met! She's skinny, beautiful and extremely talented. She loves art and she's basically what stops me from going insane during art.
"Right! I'll believe that when I see it!" she said sarcastically, folding her thing arms over her chest.
"Hey guys!!" yelled another voice, this time male. We turned to see a boy with unusual hair. He had short, spiky blue/silver hair, with hazel eyes, the same top, blue loose jeans and blue sneakers with the wrist band on his left wrist and olive coloured skin running towards us.
"So, what'd I miss?" he asked us in a playful way.
"Oh, nothing much Rob!" we all said at the same time. I held my left wrist, David held out his right, so did Jackie and Rob held out his left. Our fists met in the middle, our wrist bands all matching and our small group together again.
We pulled our wrists away then we all walked to school.
"Hey guys, I don't know if I'm going crazy or what, but over the past week I've been having all these weird dreams about this one girl. She looks totally different to me, but I feel we're connected somehow. They're not the same every time, they're more like memories, because they keep flashing from one to the other. She's always with different people in each new clip and there's this one lady who's appeared three times trying to capture her. Only once has this guy appeared, and he was so loyal to her, he was ready to die for her. I don't know if it means anything, but I feel something weird is going to happen." I said to them. Everyone was staring at me like I'd said something so shocking I could have slapped them in the face and they wouldn't have stopped staring.
"What? Was it too much to take in?" I asked.
"What were their names?" asked David.
"Katie was the young girl, Cameron was the young boy and Maria was the woman that was trying to capture Katie and kill Cameron." I answered.
"Katie was a young 15 year old girl who disappeared 1 year ago after saving the galaxy from Maria, in Maria's final curtain call, she was frozen in time, however, both Cameron and Katie never returned from that fight. All the planets were restored from Maria's meddling. Practically everyone in the galaxy knows about Katie and Cameron, cause Katie was searching for him in her quest to stop Maria." Said Jackie.
"Well, I certainly didn't! I think I know what really happened during that final battle. Katie and Cameron actually were about to lose when a young girl with short brown hair and chocolate brown eyes appeared. She froze Maria and encased Katie and Cameron in some sort of protective capsule, she then told them to sleep and suddenly they fell asleep so quickly they fell backwards and were separated. That's when I woke up, falling out of bed." I finished with a giggle.
"I think somehow we're all connected with Katie and Cameron, cause I've been having lots of dreams about Cameron too." Said David.
"You've been having those dreams too? Mine have been of Maria, unusually!" said Jackie.
"Mine's been of that weird girl you mentioned Anna." Said Rob.
"Well, I think this must mean I'm connected to Katie, Cameron's connected to David, Maria's connected to Jackie and the mystery girl is connected to Rob. But what this all means is a mystery to me. What unusual events will happen next?" I asked. Everyone shrugged their shoulders, not knowing what the future may hold. And personally, I felt it was horrible and dark, and I didn't want to know, because I had a gut wrenching feeling, and it was tearing me apart from the inside.