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Chapter 3): I glow blue

I really do. I really do have to be The Defender. Since I'm fifteen my body can't live without a heart anymore. So if I reject the surgery, I'll die.

They had told me everything they knew. Tracy any of this and The General (the really tall man) had known since I was born. Dr. Michaels (the woman in the lab coat) had done the surgery for the last Defender. Apparently, she is the guardian of The Blue Crystal so she's immortal.

I have to go through surgery to get the Crystal implanted in my chest so that I can live. Fun right? After that, The General is taking me to the Army Base for training. So I am basically being forced into a life I don't want. Aren't I just a lucky little girl?

I woke up and I was in a hospital room. I could tell because the walls were solid white, and so was everything else. Machines beeped around me and several tubes were connected to my body. I looked down at my chest through the hospital gown. Where my heart was supposed to be (which I guess I never had), there was a blue light glowing. Suddenly a nurse walked in.

"Oh!" she exclaimed, "You're awake." Then she dashed out, leaving me very confused. She returned with several other people, including Dr. Michaels.

"Ah, Anara. It's so good to see that you are awake." She smiled at me.

I flinched away from her. Ever since I had found out she was immortal, I had done my best to avoid her.

"How long have I been unconscious?' I asked her.

She wrote down something on her clipboard and looked from it to me, and then kept writing. She then seemed to realize that she had been asked a question.

"Oh, at least a week." She answered.

I blinked, shocked. Wow, it had been awhile.

"Why am I glowing blue?"

She turned her head towards me and spoke, "It's just the Blue Crystal. As soon as your body adjusts, it won't glow as brightly."

I fell back onto the pillows behind me. Great. I thought, Now I glow blue. Just another abnormality to add to my ongoing list.

"When can I leave?" I asked.

"Tonight. The General will come pick you up secretly and take you to the Army Base for training."

"Great, that sounds fantastic." I said, sarcastically.

She glared at me, but said nothing and wrote down a few more things on her clipboard.

"A nurse will be here shortly with your lunch." She said, and then she left.

I sighed. I had never imagined myself as The Defender when I grew up.

At around midnight, I am secretly wheeled out into the hallways of the hospital. I am wheeled into the elevator, which we took up to the roof. A helicopter is there, waiting to take me away. They load me onto the helicopter, still in the hospital bed. I look out the window by my head and see Dr. Michaels waving goodbye.

I lay back and look around. I am surrounded by men in uniforms. Questions run through my mind that have been bothering me. What if I can't help my country? What if I fail? Worry and fear invade my mind as I drift to sleep, unprepared for what awaits me in my dreams.

I'm running. I don't know why, but I am. I'm in a solid black outfit and boots with a bow on my back and a sword in my hand.

"You have to keep running, Anara." A voice says from beside me. I turn and I see a boy. He's taller than me and has shaggy blonde hair and his eyes are emerald green. He stops running beside me and I stop too.

"No, Anara. You have to keep running. You've got to go. I'll be fine."

I don't want to leave him. We both turn as the sound of horses hooves comes from behind us.

"Run!" he yells at me. He pushes me and I stumble on.

"Whatever you do, don't turn back!" he yells after me.

I keep running. From the sounds of swords clashing, I know they have found him. I hear a cry of pain and I pray it's not him.

Suddenly, I know I have to try and help him, but when I turn around the forest I had been running through is gone. I am in a room, alone. I sit on the floor and cry.

"He looked so perfect, so nice." I say to myself. "I bet he's dead. I bet he's dead and gone, just because I ran and didn't stay and help."

I feel a hand on back and I look up. A woman, that looks about 20, is standing behind me. Her face is kind and welcoming.

"What's wrong, sweetie?" she asks.

I look at her, afraid to explain to a complete stranger.

She laughs, "It's okay if you wish not to tell me. Trust me, I understand."

"Who are you?"

"Ah, and the questions begin. I am Santiera. I was the first defender."

I look up at her with new respect. "Then how are you here? With me?"

"As the Defender, when I die, my…let's say presence…stays in the Crystal for the next Defender's aid."

"Oh, okay."

The room around us begins to shake violently. "What is going on?" I yell.

"I believe you are being woken up." She begins to fade. "We will meet again, Anara."

And with that said, I was shaken awake from my dream world.

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