I'm sorry this took me so long to put out. I had a hard time starting it. I know where I want it to go but I couldn't figure out how to start…. So if this chapter is really bad I apologize. Hopefully it will get better.

18 March 2013: So I'm going through and doing a little editing and updating now.

The Story Begins

"Van! Get Up! We do still have school today ya know!"

A low sleepy growl came in response to the voice coming from his doorway. It was too early to get up. Especially with the training he had done last night.

The girl in the doorway to Van's room groaned as she realized that her older brother wasn't going to be getting out of bed any time soon. She had hoped that for once he wouldn't be glued to his bed. Well if he thought that she would leave him alone to sleep through the morning he was dead wrong. Slowly and quietly she crept into her brother's room. She managed to come to the side of Van's bed without disturbing his sleep. Taking a deep breath she quickly threw back his covers and yelled in his ear. "Get up you lazy bum! We have school today!"

Van instantly shot up, "Aahh!" Not being able to calm himself he fell off the bed on the other side. He landed on his butt on the floor tangled up in his sheets from the waist down. "What the hell do you think you're doing Merle!"

"If you would have just gotten up when I told you to I wouldn't have had to do that. Besides we have to go to school in about thirty minutes." Feeling content Merle left her brother's room.

"Did you get him up?"

"Yeah…I think so… but tomorrow you get to wake him up. I think he's beginning to go back to sleep after I wake him up."

Merle's eldest brother laughed. "I'll get him next time."

"Folken, Merle, is Van up yet?"

"Merle says Van doesn't want to get up Mom."

Folken and Merle's mother sighed. "Get him up somehow, otherwise you'll be late for school."

Once their mother left Folken smirked. "I'll get him up." He turned and went back upstairs to his brother's room.

"What are you going to do?"

"You'll see."

Walking into Van's room Folken came up to Van's bed. Van had gotten back into bed and fallen asleep again after his sister had left. Folken leaned down towards Van's ear. "Van… Maria Adele is here…"

"What!" Van sprung up in bed. Now he was wide-awake. Looking around quickly he found that he was alone in the room with just his siblings. With an irritated glare he found that his brother and sister were trying to hold in their laughter. "You liar!"

Folken just smirked. "I'm leaving in ten minutes. If you're not ready Merle and I will leave without you and you can walk or take the bus to school. Your pick."