Hello to all. So, like I said before, the first chapter will show my two characters, Rachel and Max. So, enjoy. I hope you guys like it. I don't own anything.

Chapter 1: The Nightmare

Rachel's POV

I was walking around in a forest. It was dark. I have no idea where I was. I then heard noises in the bushes.

"Hello?" I said, frightened. The noise stopped and I continued to walk on. For some reason, this forest looked familiar. It's almost like I have been here before. As I continued to walk around, I stopped by a wall of vines to rest. However, when I leaned on the vines, I fell into a secret tunnel. As I walked out of the tunnel, I saw a tower. It had purple roof shingles, old white stones, and dying plants. As I looked at the tower, I heard the noise again. I turned around to find something coming up from the bushes.

"Hello?" I said, hoping that this was a dream.

"Hello, Rachel." The thing said, sounding that it was coming closer to me.

"H-how do you know my name?" I said, frightened. I trying to see if there was anything I could use to defeat myself. However, there wasn't.

"I'm your grandmother." She said, very eerie. As she came closer to me, I could see that she looked around maybe mid fifty. Her hair was black with many gray hairs. She had on a dark red dress and a black hood.

"Your mother didn't tell me about you." She said. The next thing I saw was her pulling a knife out of her hood.

"But, you're not going to escape me this time, flower." She said in a dark voice before pouncing at me.

I screamed and quickly woke up. It was just a dream. More like a nightmare.

Then, Max came in. We're twins; however we don't look like each other. He is probably two inches higher than me and has green eyes. I have brown eyes. However, the weirdest part of us is our hair. Max mostly has chocolate brown hair with a small size lock of golden blonde hair on his left side. While, I mostly have golden blond hair with a medium size lock of chocolate brown on my right side.

"IT'S 2'O CLOCK IN THE MORNING!" He shouted.

"Sorry, I had a nightmare." I tried to explain.

"What?" He said, even a little annoyed.

"It was some old lady saying that she was our grandmother."

"How is that scary?"

"She came at me with a knife." Max's pissed off look turned into a more understanding look.

"Are you ok?" He asked, a little calmer now.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, before our dad came into my room as well.

"Rachel, are you ok?" He asked. "I heard screaming."

"Yeah, I'm fine, Dad. I just had a bad dream." I explained again.

"Well, you kids better want go back to sleep." Dad instructed. "You're going to have a big day tomorrow." Max and I were going to a boarding school that we were accepted to just a few weeks ago.

"Oh, yay." Max said sarcastically, while going back to his room. "Boarding school is tomorrow. I can't wait."

"Are you sure you're ok?" Dad asked me again.

"Yeah, Dad. I'm fine." I said, before he left the room. Then, I got comfortable in my bed and closed my eyes. It took me a couple of minutes to fall asleep again. When I did, I dreamt of lanterns, tons of them. They were floating everywhere and came in all kinds of pinks and blues. The sight was so beautiful. While the lanterns were floating, I heard a song in the background.

Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine

Heal what has been hurt
Change the fates design
Save what has been lost
Bring back what once was mine
What once was mine

The voice was sweet and beautiful. I felt like I've heard the song before. It just felt so familiar and so did the voice. I just couldn't put my finger on it. I continued to dream about the lanterns before my alarm clock went off.

Well, that was the first chapter. I hope you guys like it. I'll try to include some of the other children in the next chapter. Bye.