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Chapter 1): Two Strangers with News

My name is Anara Jane Smith. I live in a country called Zafria. North of us is the country of Pikta, and East, West, and South of is the Sea of Callion. Here we have legends and stories just like everywhere else. There are the nursery rhymes, and the children rhymes. There are those cute little bedtime stories that mothers tell to their children to get them to sleep. But there are also the adventure stories. The story where the hero struggles through his quest and saves the world. Here, we have the legend of The Defender, and like every other citizen of Zafria, I have heard it more times than I can count.

When our land was created, there was one pure substance in existence. It was known as The Blue Crystal. The Blue Crystal was known for its power and protection abilities, but it also had a purpose. Whenever we were in dire need of help. A girl, somewhere, was born. She would be considered a miracle birth because she would be born without a heart, but she would be alive. But this miracle would only last until she was 15. At 15, she must go through the surgery to the Blue Crystal implanted where her heart should be. And after the surgery, she would be known as The Defender. The Defender could only be a girl. The Defender was meant to aid our country into going down the right path.

So far, in our history, there has only been one Defender and she aided us when the Piktans tried to take over Zafria. We won and our country flourished. But she had died in battle, the Blue Crystal was removed and she was given a proper funeral.

For awhile, the peace created held. The Emperor ruled over us and we began to prosper and make progress. But the Emperor did not want us to progress. He wanted us to stay how we were because he was afraid that if we developed advanced technology, we would rise against him. Our country became split. The Unitans (people in favor of the Emperor) on one side and the Freetarians (people against the Emperor) on the other side of the border. For awhile, we lived as peaceful silent neighbors. Until the Freetarian bases near the border began to be attacked. They put up defenses against the Unitans and it has been that way for 15 years. Now, we are all just waiting for The Defender to surface and bring us peace once again.

I always ignored the story. I just thought it was just another story. Just another tall tale. Until the day, everything I knew in my life changed.

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BEEEP! The intercom interrupts my gym teacher's hard lecture on proper push-ups.

"Mr. Logan?" a woman's voice comes through the speaker in the ceiling.

"Yeah!" he hollers back.

"I need Anara Smith, to the front office please. Anara Smith."

Mr. Logan looks around the room until he spots me. He motions for me to leave and then yells back, "She's on her way!"

I get up off the floor and head toward the locker room. After quickly changing back into my clothes and gathering my stuff, I trudge down the hall towards the office. I was probably in trouble for destruction, again. The first time had been blowing up my Math teacher's laptop. He was in Intensive Care, but that's what he gets for telling me I was a hopeless stupid case of dumbness that was a waste of his time. I don't take insults very well. But I didn't care anymore. I had realized by now that I had a knack for destruction. It was just how I took care of things.

I had reached the doors of the office. Through the glass I saw three people talking. One was the school principal, one was a tall woman in a long white lab coat with a clipboard in one hand. The last person was the tallest man I'd ever seen. He was in a Freetarian military uniform. I knocked on the door and immediately they stopped talking. My principal, looking extremely nervous, opened the door.

"Anara, please come in." he greeted.

I stepped in and he rushed to pull a chair out for me.

"Here, you are welcome to sit."

I sat down and looked at the two strangers. This was way too weird.

"Can I get you anything Miss Anara? A drink perhaps?" my principal asked.

I stared at him in astonishment. This was way way too weird. I mean, first he opens the door for me, then he pulls out a chair, he calls me Miss Anara, and now he wants to get me a drink? Weird. Something was up. I shake my head no and he bows.Bows!

"Anara, we need to talk." The woman is the first to speak.

I turn to her, and ask "What about?"

"You."

The man steps up and speaks, "We need you to come fight the Unitan army."

I'm surprised at how deep his voice is, but I look at him like he's crazy. Which he must be, since he wants me to fight an army.

"Are you insane?" I yell at him.

"No."

"Then you must be kidding."

"I never joke."

"Clearly."

"We want you to fight, Anara." The woman answers.

I stare at them, my mouth wide open. Clearly they don't understand how insane they sound.

"Close your mouth, dear. It looks barbaric."

I closed my moth but I continued to glare at her. She simply looked away. I turned back to the tall man.

"So you're serious."

"Yes"

"Proof that you are officially crazy."

None of them answered to that statement. Probably cause it's true I thought.

"So why am I here?"

Now my principal spoke.

"You're The Defender, Anara."

Yep! She's the defender. But I bet you knew that. Anyways, hope you enjoyed it :) PLEASE REVIEW! Pretty please with a cherry on top :)