Sorry took so long to update, I've been busy with school.

Anyway back to the story.

Chapter 2

I didn't mean to punch her, in reality it was her own fault, and I mean she slapped me first.

It's not fault my fault she has a black eye and I may have ruined her boyfriend's ability to have children.

I'm not a bad person, I'm just an emotionally unstable teen who has been bouncing from foster home to foster home.

Though her father, the principal, did not see it that way. So now I sat outside the principal's office fiddling with the silver moon charm around my neck. I could hear footsteps coming towards me. Which meant Jessica had dragged my friends into this. It was okay when she dragged Sam into these situations. Though the footsteps sounded too loud and too many to just be Sam. I looked up to see Sam, Piper and Vi walking towards me. Vi's face showed her to be confused about the situation. She'd never been called to the principal office before.

Our happy (if you could even call it happy) mood was soon dampened by the piercing glare of the principal. We walked into his office in silence and sat there for another five minutes until he finally broke the silence.

"Why'd you do it kids," he sighed.

"She started it," I grumbled.

"This is the third incident this month, first a stink bomb during spring dance, dying the school pool blue with heavy dye, do you know all those kids have refused to come to school now you've turned them blue." I could he was fed up, but what's a girl going to do in this dead end place.

"Well now they look smurfs," Vi giggled.

"Violet Gale this is no laughing manner," the principal said sternly. I rolled my eyes. This was going to be a long meeting.

"Tammy Astrid Wild how dare you go and get expelled. Do you know how hard it is to find a school in Riverdale that will take you now?" Jane yelled at me.

"Stop calling me by that name," I groaned.

"I can call you what you want, you're my daughter,"

"No I'm not, you only took me in because you pitied me," I growled showing my sharp canines.

"How dare you say that to your mother," Jane's husband Matthew said sternly.

"She's not my mother and you're not my father," I slammed my fist onto the cold wood of the kitchen table.

"I forbid you to see you're so called 'friends' anymore," Matthew yelled. My eyes widened in shock and my mother fell open.

"You- You can't do this," tears welled up in my eyes, "My so called 'friends' are more like family than you are."

"Go to your room," Jane sighed.

"Gladly," I sniffled before bolting up the stairs. I stormed into my room, slamming the door behind me. I screamed in frustration and ripped my posters from the wall, I smashed the crystal glass statues that I had gotten for my fifteenth birthday and slammed my fist into the wall, the wood splintering beneath my hand. I fell to my knees. My friends we're the only reason I hadn't killed myself, the only reason I hadn't run. My hand was covered in splinters and bleeding but I wasn't bothered to stop the blood. I pulled myself onto my bed the white sheets slowly being stained with my crimson blood. Pulling my knees to my chest I feel into a restless slumber.

When I awoke I was running again, head throbbing, white dress tangling around my ankles. But this time there was another girl running alongside me, her dark brown hair was done in a pixie cut style and she was wearing a dress almost identical to me but in red. I noticed her left hand was seemingly on fire, yet she didn't seem to be in pain. She yelled to me to keep running although she stopped running and turned the face the creature. I stopped also since I didn't want to abandon this strange girl.

"Charlotte," the creature hissed, it was midnight black and had glowing red eyes, and its body was almost humanoid yet almost reptilian.

"I will not let you get to Kari," the girl now Charlotte yelled. She yelled something that sounded like roar of the fire dragon and huge burst of fire came from her mouth. The creature screamed in pain as the blast hit its chest.

"You may hide now girl but I will find you, you and your cousin." It shrieked, "And I shall kill you first Princess," it pointed to me and a claw shot from finger and plunged into my chest.

"Kari," Charlotte screamed as she raced to my side. I fell my head hitting the tree behind me, the world started fading and the girl was screaming for me to stay awake. Black dots danced before my eyes.

"I'm sorry," was all I managed to whisper before the whole world went black.

I awoke to the lyrics to my current favorite song, I sat up confused until I realized it was my phone. I reached for the neon green iPhone from my bedside table and answered it.

"Hello," I said groggily.

"Kari, is that you," and unfamiliar voice yelled in my ear.

"Uh yeah, who is this," I said confused as I stared at the unknown caller ID on my phone.

"It's me your cousin, Charlotte." I suddenly recognized the voice as the same voice as the girl in my dream.

"Wh- What," I chocked.

"Please this is an emergency, gather you friends and met me at the dam, please come quickly." The call suddenly cut off leaving me in silence. How was this possible, why didn't this 'cousin' come find me years ago. I stumbled as I pulled myself off my bed and onto the floor. Whoever this chick was she needed my help. I dragged myself to bathroom and started calling Vi. I held the phone between my ear and my shoulder as I washed the splinters and dry blood from the wound in my hand.

"Come on, pick up, pick up." I whispered to myself as poured a shitload of antiseptic onto my hand.

"Kari why are you calling me at one in the morning?" I heard Vi groan.

"Vi this is an emergency I need you to meet me outside my house in five minutes, bring Piper," I said quickly.

"Why?"

"Just do it please, look I'll meet you there ok." I hung up and immediately started to dial Sam's number. Hopefully he might be in a good enough mood for me to convince him.

Five minutes later the three appeared and I explained the situation.

"And that's why I need you guys here," I finished my recount of the dream and the call.

"You sure it's the same voice Kari," Sam said.

"Yes, I'm one hundred percent sure, now let's go,"

We snuck through the streets in absolute silence arriving at the dam ten minutes later.

"You sure they said here," Piper whispered.

"Charlotte was kind of rushed so she didn't say exactly where," I whispered back looking round.

"Kari!" I heard Charlotte's voice yell out. We all spun round to see Charlotte and another girl with bright aqua hair race towards us.

"That them?" Violet whispered to me.

My earrings jingled as I looked down at Vi, "That's Charlotte alright but I don't know who the other girl is."

It was only a minute later I finally got a good look at the two girl that called me here, Charlotte looked identical to my dream though her outfit was quite different. She wore a light blue tank top and a half cut beige leather jacket with a pair of white jeans and red converse, her friend on the other hand went with something less revealing. Her neon aqua hair fell below her shoulders and stood out against her black turtle neck sweater and gray mini skirt. Although wearing high heel boots she still was a couple of centimeters shorter than Charlotte.

"Thank god you came Kari," she puffed, "I was worried you weren't going to come."

"Well it's not often I get a call from some person I've never met claiming to be my cousin," I said.

"Look we don't have much time, their coming for us." She flicked her head behind before turning to look at me.

"Who's coming," I looked at her confused.

"Our uncle, the one who sent the nightmare demon after you,"

"Wait you know about my nightmares," I stood there shocked trying to understand this mess I had been dragged into.

"Kari," the voice that haunted my dreams for years now rang out across the lake.

The aqua haired girl spoke for the first time since meeting her, "Charlotte we must go now,"

"Go open the portal then Nora," Charlotte sighed.

"Wait, what. A portal. What are you saying?" Sam questioned Charlotte.

"We must leave immediately, I don't have time to explain," I looked behind her to see the girl Nora holding hands up in the air mumbling something.

"Nora! How's that portal coming along," Charlotte turned her head.

"It's coming slowly. You know water's not my element." Nora's eyes were closed now and the dam water was starting to rise.

"Well try to hurry it along," Charlotte was walking towards the edge of the water. We could see strange black shadows racing across the water, "we should have brought Roselyn,"

"What would have she been able to do?" Nora answered. The water had begun to shape like a circle and seemed to be glowing a luminescent shade of blue.

"She's the master of shadows, she'd think of something," Charlotte said as threw a ball of fire across the dam colliding with a bunch of shadows.

"Okay, what the fuck is happening?" Sam stated.

"The King of Irida is trying to kill Kari and me, he's finally tracked us to this realm and is sending his shadow minions after us." She shrugged.

"And why is this King trying to kill you," Piper raised her eyebrows.

"Don't ask me," Charlotte shrugged again calmly throwing another ball of fire across the water.

"Portals open!" Nora yelled.

"That's our queue, who's going first," Charlotte turned and smiled at us.

"I'll go," Vi smiled.

"Vi you're not actually thinking about going, are you?" Piper looked shocked.

I went and stood next to Vi, "Why wouldn't she? I mean it may be our only escape from this stupid town,"

"I agree," Sam shrugged and stood beside us.

"Are you coming or not Piper," Nora questioned.

"If these guys are coming I might as well," she rolled her eyes.

We stood in front of the portal. Its bright blue flickered.

"Let's do this," and with that we stepped into the portal.