Destined Girl

Ch.1: I Have This Feeling

"I'm heading off to school Pa!" I shouted to my father who was in the kitchen, finishing up his meal.

"Alright, be careful!"

I smiled and ran out the door with my sack that was attached to my back. I ran over to my horse that was tied up against a post. I picked up the saddle that sat next to her and set it on her back. I strapped it to her back and untied her, I bridled her up and lifted myself up to her back. I pat her mane.

"Alright Alainn" I whispered to her. "Just like normal"

I picked up the reins and snapped my wrists, nudged her side and she broke into a full gallop. She trampled up to the road and we rode down the dirt road leading to the town.

My name is Maddy, Maddy O'Neill. I am a girl with blue eyes and shaggy, but short brown hair. My skin is pale and has these weird blue arrows that go up and down my body, across my arms and legs and up to my head and then at the middle of my forehead, the arrow ends, as if pointing to my nose. This wasn't a birthmark, I could tell you that much.

My life has been weird lately, lately I've been finding myself up at night staring at the full moon, I also felt myself became a powerful beast when I got furious and I also spotted myself stronger than ever when the sun rose.

This isn't symptoms of any sickness, but I do believe that I am going mad.

My horse rode into the small town named Gainsville. I lived on a farm outside of the town about a mile down the road. I attend the School House to get myself a well education, although I am one of few girls who actually take that chance to get educated, but my father believes that a good education brings a good life.

However, most boys at my school does not think the same way that I do. They harass me in any way they can. I arrived at the schoolhouse and pulled my horse to a stop. I jumped off Alainn and tied her up to a nearby tree. I pulled out a carrot and set it under her mouth, she gripped it and chewed it down.

I pat her neck, heading over to two familiar boys.

"Mornin' Sam and Tommy" I greeted.

"Looky here," Sam greeted. "Miss Maddy O'Neil"

I gave a good hearty laugh.

"How's it been?" Tommy asked.

"Nice and easy" I replied. "Pa had a bit of an issue with the stock yesterday"

"I heard he's travelin' out to Hareton" Sam said.

"Yep out to buy us a new cow," I said. "Folly is gettin' too old to milk"

"Gonna butcher it?" Tommy asked.

"Nah," I replied. "We'll let her die when her time's around"

"Your nice and kind to that old hag" Sam said. "Pa would butcher our cows when it reached the olden age"

I nodded.

"Not a nice thing believe me" Sam said.

"Sam gets to degusted by it, so I have to help Pa" Tommy chimed in. I smiled.

"Looks like Miss O'Neil arrived to school," said a voice. I turned and saw Johnny and his posy of three. I glared at him.

"What do you want Johnny?" I demanded.

"Nothin'" he said.

Johnny was a bully at my school, though practically all the girls fawn over him. Johnny is tall, has short brown hair, mud color brown eyes and tanned muscles underneath his loose shirt and trousers. The girls don't see the real Johnny and I'm always the one who doesn't fawn over him. His other three friends was Frank, a small boy with black shaggy hair and green eyes, his friend Garland who is tall but lanky, he has pale green eyes and is the twin brother to Frank, his other friend is Will, he is a boy who is always confused who to friends too, he always seems lost and I can see it in his brown eyes, I see that he is a very passionate towards his beliefs but yet he is too shy to show his pride.

I glared at Johnny. He hadn't moved form his spot.

"How's your Pa Maddy?" he asked in a spitting tone.

"He's alright," I said as I gazed into his eyes. Two girls walked passed us.

"Hey Johnny" the girls said in unison, in a dreamily tone. I gagged.

"Jealous much?" he asked.

"Never was, never will be" I claimed with much pride as I crossed my arms.

"Then why did you make that sound?" Johnny questioned, he quirked an eyebrow.

"'Cause those girls don't see the real you Johnny Tamlin." I replied. "They're to into your little looks you got goin' there bucko."

He looked at his arms and began to show off his muscle.

"That ain't anythin'" I replied. "My mother has more muscle than that"

"That is if you knew your mother" Johnny spat. I lunged at him but Tommy gripped my shoulder.

"No Maddy," Tommy said. He shot a glare at Johnny. "Get lost loser"

Johnny shrugged and walked away.

"What was with that?" Sam asked.

"I never knew my Ma" I said. "Just seein' all of you have mothers, makes me with I had my own"

"I'm sure you had a mother sometime in your life" Sam assured.

"What Johnny said was true, I wish I knew my mother," I said. "All I have is Pa and you guys"

"Been a rough life for ya hasn't it?" Tommy asked.

"I don't know," I said. "I was found when I was 10 years old. I couldn't remember my past"

"What do you mean by that?" Tommy asked.

"I don't have a real family," I said. "That is if I can remember, I don't remember anything about my past before I was ten."

"Could you be from the Air Nomads?" Sam asked.

"What?" I asked in a confused tone.

"You have an arrow on your head and on your arms," he said. He looked down at my legs. "And yer legs"

"That's impossible" I said. "All the Air Nomads were wiped out years back"

"That's true" Tommy said. "I know for sure you come from a faraway place"

"I'm sure of that too" I agreed. "I just wish I knew where"

We walked into the schoolhouse and we took our seats, I carefully took out my parchment and grabbed my small tattered textbook. I took out a pencil as well. Our teacher came in from the back door.

"Good morning class" she greeted.

"Good morning Ms. Fisher" we all replied. Ms. Fisher was a middle-aged woman who wore big rimmed glasses on a golden chain, she also had white-gray hair and had soft brown eyes. She was beginning to have wrinkles above her eyes and on her cheeks.

"Has everyone done their homework on the Hopi Tribe?" she asked. We nodded. "Now come on, don't be shy please pass your homework up if you have done it"

I took out my paper and passed it forward to Johnny who sat in front of me. He picked it up and stared at it. I knew even though I could see the back of his head, he was plotting something. He took my paper and slid it onto his lap without the teacher looking. He soon scribbled something on it and turned it in, That made me filled with rage. Ms. Fisher came by.

"Maddy where is your homework?" she scolded me.

"What Johnny just turned in" I muttered.

"Maddy there is no accusing in my class" Ms. Fisher told me.

"I'm serious" I said. "I passed my homework forward and Johnny just claimed it as his own"

Ms. Fisher looked at the paper.

"It doesn't look like it" she said, clueless.

"Never mind," I said. "I'll turn it in tomorrow"

"Very well" she said as if she forgot I accused Johnny.

The day was long and annoying, finally I exited the schoolhouse when I heard Ms. Fisher's voice.

"Maddy, can you stay?" she asked me. I turned around. I nodded and headed back to the small house. I entered the room again as she led me to her desk, she sat down.

"Is something wrong Maddy?" she asked.

"No why?" I asked.

"You seem lost these days," she said. "This morning I saw you talking to Tommy and Sam, there was no laughter from what I heard. I always hear the laughter of you three."

"So your questioning why we were talking more serious today?" I asked, polite as possible. She nodded. "We were just talking"

"You weren't paying attention at all today, which isn't like you" she told me.

"It's been rough lately," I said. "Not much sleep, a lot more work and a lot more questions"

"What do you mean about a lot more questions?" she asked.

"Every night I end up with this feeling that I am needed somewhere else," I told her. "But I don't know where"

It was the first time I told anybody about this feeling.

"Is is home?" she asked.

"I don't really know," I said, sadly. "Two years ago I was found with no memory of home and sure as hell this town ain't my real home"

"I never heard that story before" she said. "And I believe you, by just looking at you, you don't seem to be from here"

"I feel that too," I said. "Look at me Ms. Fisher. I don't see kids with arrows on their body"

I showed her my hands and she looked at me.

"My first idea is that your from the Air Nomads," she said. "But they were wiped out years ago"

"That was my first impression too" I muttered.

"Very well Maddy," she said. She looked at me. "Maddy, you are someone interesting and I am sure your feeling will be solved soon enough."

"I hope so too" I said.

"You can forget the homework assignment" she said. "You have better things to think about"

I nodded my thanks and bid a farewell. I soon made my way home on Alainn's back. I walked into the house and noticed Pa wasn't here.

"Probably workin' with the chickens" I said to myself. I walked up the small stairs and into my room.

My room was small, it had a comfortable bed and a small table for my lamp and such. I also had a small dresser to keep my clothes it.

I sat on my bed and laid down on it, ready for sleep to take over in which it did.

To be continued.

I know not a very good start but have had a writer's block when writing this chapter. Sucks bad I know. Please comment!