Hello my fellow readers, I am just letting you guys know that when you see (~~~...~~~) it means that the character is having a dream. Also when you see italics (not including titles of books and etc.) in the story, it means that the character is reading from a book or in this case a diary.


Chapter 7: Dear Diary

Miko was sleeping soundly when she heard heavy footsteps. She opened one sleepy eye to see Bulkhead going to his room to power down. Miko looked at her phone to see the time. The phone read that it was twenty minutes after midnight. She let out a yawn and fell back to sleep.

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I was walking in a dark forest when I heard someone crying. I called out, "Who's there?" I heard nothing but dead silence for a while, until I heard something. "You shouldn't be here" was all it said. I started walking again when something or someone rushed past me.

I started shivering after what ever that thing was disappeared. That's when I saw it. I saw a dark figure standing right in front of me, hiding in the shadows. I gasped in horror that I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. I was petrified. I couldn't move, speak, or even blink. I just stood there with the creature before me.

Its yellow eyes were glowing with the faint gleam from the full moon. I could see its icy breath in the moonlight that it made my blood turn to ice. It made a step closer to me. I made a shaky step back. Then I heard it growl as it opened its wings and pounced on me.

I was pinned to the cold forest floor as the creature was sinking its claws in my shoulders. Then the light of the full moon came and shown its light on the creature. The creature had a bluish reptile face with silver horns and furry light blue bangs. I noticed a glowing gem embedded in its chest. It bared its fangs and hissed.

I gasped and tried not to cry. I struggled under its grasp but failed to break free. The creature was leaning in, getting closer and closer to my neck. I could feel its warm breath breathing on my cold skin. I closed my eyes so that I wouldn't look at the monster. It opened its jaw as I shrieked, and was about to bite it when it stopped.

I was confused so I opened one eye and saw it looking at my necklace. I held my breath for what felt like hours before I started to relax a bit. The creature must have noticed because it looked up at me. It narrowed its eyes as it spoke harshly, "Where did you get that?"

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Miko woke up from her nightmare and sat up quickly. She breathed heavily for a few minutes before she calmed down. She checked her phone, which read that it was five minutes till five o'clock. Miko groaned and said, "Ugh, I can't go back to sleep now."

She looked around the room and thought about what to do till Bulkhead wakes up. "Hmm, what to do, what to do." Her eyes scanned the room till it looked at the cyborg's sack bag. "Hmm, I could read that Journal of hers." Her hands inched their way towards the bag until she could feel the soft fabric of the bag.

She brought it closer until it was right next to her sleeping bag. Then she got up to go get a flashlight from one of her bags so that she could read. She ferreted through the bags until her hand grasped the handle of the flashlight. She then walked back to her sleeping bag, jumped in it, dug into the girl's bag, brought out the Journal, turned on the flashlight, and started to read it.

June 10, 2008

Dear Dairy,

Today must be the worst day in my entire life! Everyone is dead. These robotic organisms called Decepticons have captured me. And I am paying the cost for even existing! It all started after school two days ago.

I came home on the last day of school with my older brother, Damon, and my little sister, Maria. Damon was driving us home because he got his driver's license. Plus my parents are working late today, which sucks. Anyway, on our way home I was fiddling with powers in the back seat.

My brother noticed it and said, "You shouldn't be doing that."

I looked up at him and replied, "No one is going to notice. I mean we are in the middle of an empty road."

He just shook his head and rolled his eyes. Maria on the other hand was intrigued with my capabilities. She would always watch me with big eyes full of fascination whenever I use my elemental powers.

As Damon turned to our driveway, I stopped experimenting my powers and started to gather my things. We got out of the car and went inside the house. Damon was exhausted from driving for an hour that he plopped on the couch. Maria and I snickered to each other as we started to run up the stairs to fly out the windows.

"You two better not be flying out the windows again you twerps!" exclaimed Damon. We just ignored him and opened the upstairs' window. We transformed into our demotic form. We heard footsteps coming upstairs.

"Ah oh, looks like he is coming," chirped my little sis.

"Then let's get flapping" I said as I started to flap my big wings. I made a running start. I heard our brother cursing at me, but I was already taking off. I flew out the window and up towards the sky.

I felt the warm summer sun on my scales and the cool wind underneath my wing tips. I started to laugh as I did some aerial tricks until; party popper flew out the window to get me. I yelped when I felt my tail being pulled. I turned around and saw Damon (in his demonic form) pulling me back inside.

I couldn't fly away. I was dragged back inside. He closed the window and turned towards me to give me another one of his lectors. I just droned out of his babbling big brother talk about we can't be flying around during the day and bla bla bla. I had to endure the same lector with my parents later that night. God, I just want to be free and fly the skies all day long without a care in the world.

They grounded me for the rest of the night and tomorrow from flying. The next day was very bizarre that I thought it was a weird dream. Yesterday I was just practicing my elemental powers like I do every morning, but this time was different.

I was conjuring up a crystal when I felt something different. My hands were glowing a blue color as if it was emitting some kind of energy. After I was done, I blue crystal was in the palm of my hands. I didn't know what it was because it didn't look like any other crystal on Earth. I told my parents and even showed it to them. They were silent for a few minutes.

"Honey, there's something that we need to tell you" said my mom.

"What?" I asked not knowing what to expect.

My father sighed and said, "You are not our biological daughter."

My heart skipped a beat that I thought I was dead for a second.

He continued, "You see Lu, your birth parents wanted to keep you safe from their enemies, so they entrusted us to raise you as one of our own."

"They died trying to protect you because you were unique," said mom.

I was on the verge of tears. "So, I am all alone. That I have no one?"

They both shook their heads and mom replied, "No, you are not alone. You have us, your siblings, and your friend"

"You are still our daughter, and you will always be my little Lu Lu," said my dad.

I started to cry. They came and hugged me in a tight embrace. Then my brother and sister, who overheard the conversation, came into the room and hugged me. After a while, they broke away from the embrace. I asked mom, "What was my real name?"

Mom smiled at me and replied, "Your real name is Saphira Nightwing. Your mother named you Saphira because your scales were like sapphires."

I smiled at my real name that my mother gave me before she died. I like it, it sounded beautiful and majestic. Also it reminded me of the dragon in the book Eragon. I promised myself that I would cherish my real name in memory of my birth parents.

Then everything went downhill fast because June 10 is the day that my family dies one by one and where my life turns darker and darker by the hour.

~To Be Continued~