Soul Thorn:
Week 5
Monday: 9/19/11
Nothing much happened today. Even though we will no longer perform Monster Aden's having us practice it some more until he can decide on a new song for us to learn. The ecto radiation on my lips doesn't make my food taste funny, which is a good thing. I guess. Planted the seeds I got today watered everything. Going to have to add some feeding sticks for the sprouts tomorrow. Emma told us she would let us watch the footage from the campfire after she has edited it. My ecto radiation hasn't spread much just faded a little bit more.
Tuesday: 9/20/11
Aden's narrowed his song choices down to three songs. Pain by Three days grace, Haunted by Evanescence, and Mirror I forgot who he said it was by. I looked them up and played them on YouTube; I like both Pain by Three and Haunted. I didn't look up Mirror because I didn't know who it was by. Aden's trying to convince me to switch with him sometimes. Most of the time I'll play guitar while he sings but he wants to some times have it where he plays guitar and I sing which I'm not so sure about. But if I do decide to agree with him it will only be a few songs here and there. I won't sing no more than four songs though this whole year, if I do decide to. My ecto radiation has grown about an inch on my arm and two on my legs right at the top of my knees.
Wednesday: 9/21/11
I think my plants are alive. Well the sprouts are not so much the seeds. And by alive I mean as in watching you and thinking alive. But it's probably is just my imagination; I hope so. Emma finished editing the videos and she's let us watch them this afternoon. And she's let us pick some of the scenes that will be in the video. Thankfully I didn't see my little mistake on the videos. And I'm not going to let Aden know this but I decided to sing a few songs. I listened to Mirror and it's by Barlow Girl. I think I'm going to sing it in one of our future performances. My ecto radiation is now at the bottom of my nose, thankfully this doesn't have a smell to it, about halfway covering my hand and starting to spread on my thumb and it has started to cover my knees.
Thursday: 9/22/11
Sam woke up that morning sleepily. "Agh I need some caffeine." Sam said when she woke up. 'I'll get some coffee during breakfast. And I am so not staying out too late again today.' Sam had stayed out late last night to practice with intangibility. Sam went to a vacant area away from the camp to practice with her ghost powers. Flying was very easy for her and didn't take much out of her but practicing with everything else was torture because it drained a lot of energy out of her. She went through her regular routine of taking a shower, getting dressed, and fixing her hair.
"Good morning Sam." Emma said as Sam walked out of the bathroom.
"Ditto." Sam said and started to plunder through the draw on her desk looking for the sheet of paper she started to write a poem on.
"You okay?" Emma asks. "You seem tired."
"I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Found it." Sam says as she pulls a sheet out of the draw.
"What's that?" Emma asks.
"A poem I started to write. I'm going to finish it later on today." Sam explains.
"Cool. Should we wake the twins up?" Emma asks. I look over at them they were both zonked out. Sam lets out a sigh.
"I'll wake them up; you go ahead and get changed." Sam says.
"Alright." Emma says and takes some clothes into the bathroom, completely ignoring the evil grin on Sam's face.
"Aden! Matt! Wake up." Sam says in a sing song voice. Neither of them moves and Sam's grin got wider. 'They might be mad at me for doing this but they'll get over it. Eventually.' Sam aims one of her fingers at Aden's butt a pale blue glow making a sphere shape at the tip. And a small little blast leaves her finger and hits Aden.
"Ah!" Aden yells and jumps up to his feet. "What was that for!" He yells glaring at me.
"Can you guys keep it down?" Matt says sitting up in his bed looking around the room groggily.
"Time to get up." Sam says her voice still sing songy but with a hint of laughter behind it.
'Laughter truly is the best medicine.' Sam thinks to herself feeling a bit more awake, giggling at what just happened.
"That was just mean " Aden complains.
"Well next time wake up before I have to wake you up." Sam says calmly as she puts the paper into her bag.
"Good you got them up. Did I hear one of you scream?" Emma asks as she walks out the bathroom.
"Yep." Sam answers causing Aden to glare at her.
"Stupid Halfa " Aden says under his breath. But no one heard the supposed insult.
"Hurry up and get ready you two so we can go." Emma says as she packs her book-bag up.
"I'm first!" Matt says and grabs some clothes and dashes off to the bathroom. After the twins where done getting ready we left the dorm and headed towards the cafeteria. Sam still felt drowsy so she got in the small coffee shop set up in the cafeteria.
"I'll have a French vanilla frappe." Sam said when she got up to the cashier.
"$2.50." The guy says as someone else makes Sam her frappe. Sam hands him the money and takes her drink. She goes though the breakfast line and grabs a piece of fruit and bread, and goes take a seat with her friends.
"I'm so tired is it Saturday yet?" Sam asked her friends.
"Nope but it will be soon. Thankfully." Aden says.
"I didn't have time to let ya'll watch it this morning but if ya'll want after lunch we can watch the final product of the completed video." Emma offers.
"Cool." Matt says.
"Alright. I can't wait." Sam says giving Emma a smile.
The bell rings signaling time to go to class.
Aden, Matt, and Sam walk to building 7. Going their separate ways once they get inside. The twins headed upstairs as Sam went to her classroom on the first floor.
Mr. Byers was still having us goof around on the guitars so class went by fast. The first half Sam played a few things here and there working on finding a sound she liked. The second half of the time was used to look up the song Mirror which was by Barlow Girl. She also looked up the music sheets for the three songs and saved them to her flash drive. Then she read for the remaining few minutes, waiting for the bell to ring.
When the bell rings Sam puts her book into her bag and walks out the classroom. Going up the stairs to the fourth floor.
"Hey Sam." A voice says from behind Sam. Sam turns around to find Amber.
"Oh... Hey Amber. You joining us for practice this morning?" Sam asks.
"Yeah me and Nikki are going to join ya'll this morning like we usually do." Amber answers.
"Okay." Sam says as they reach the door. Sam opens it and holds it open for Amber.
"Thank you." Amber says as she walks into the room.
Sam walks into the room to see that the twins where already there. Now they just needed to wait for Nikki to show up.
"Are we going to be working on Monster some more or are we going to begin a new song?" Sam asks.
"We are done with Monster so we will be starting a new song today." Aden says sitting down on the ground looking at some sheets of paper.
"Really?" Nikki asks as she walks into the room. "We can finally start something new?"
"Yes. At least that's the plan." Aden says to her not looking up from his paper.
"So what song are we going to do?" Sam asks.
"Pain by Three Days Grace." Aden answers.
"Alright. So we're just going to practice our parts right?" Amber asks. "Before we do the whole song."
"Yep. Will be practicing on our own for a few days and hopefully, by Monday, each of us will know our parts well enough to go through the song." Matt says.
"I went ahead and printed out sheets for everyone." Aden says and hands each of us a copy of the song.
"Okay." Sam says and takes a seat next to one of the walls in the room and takes her guitar out. She was about to play when Amber made a suggestion.
"Can we listen to the song while we practice?" Amber said.
Aden thinks about it for a moment and says "Sure why not." He takes a CD and puts it into the radio.
It must have been the original CD because it had voices singing the lyrics and people playing the instruments. Sam listened to the whole song once before she started to practice, trying to get her timing right with the song.
There wasn't much going on besides practicing so the class went by fast. The bell rang, signaling it was time for third period to start.
It was now time for Sam to go to the music reading class which was on the second floor. Sam packed her bags and headed to class. The teacher had given them assigned seats. Sam's seat was in the third row in the middle desk. On the desk was a sheet for music to be written on but was blank and beside that sheet was a list of all the different notes and the rest and it told you how to draw them.
The teachers had us draw the notes and rest for the class period. This was pretty easy except for the quarter rest which was very tricky to write. The class did this for the whole class period. Every time they finished one sheet the teacher gave them another. Sam did three and a half sheets before the bell rang. It was now time for Sam to go to the green houses to take care of her plants.
Sam packed her bags and left the room when the bell rang to go to the green houses. Today she had to plant the seeds, water, and look for feeding sticks. When Sam reached her greenhouse she unlocked the door and set her stuff down on the ground near the door. She put on her gardening gloves and picked up the small hand sized rake. She raked through the empty boxes of dirt to smooth it out and then used her finger to make a hole to put the seeds in. When she was done doing that to all the boxes, she picked up the bags of seeds and started to plant them. Re-raking the dirt to cover the seeds. When she was done planting she took her gloves off and grabbed the hose to get ready to water. She picked up the hose and turned the facet on. She felt something brush against her shoulder. She figured it was just a bug so she swatted at her shoulder when she feels her hand brush against leaves. She turns her head just to come face to face with a plant.
"Ah "Sam says as she jumps back slightly.
The plant reacts to her fear and gets away from her. Looking at the plant Sam can see a thin ghostly aura to it. She also saw that it was one of the sprouts. It was a long stem with leaves on it that came from one of the nearby pots that she had planted an apple tree in. The plant grew longer and came up to Sam. Sam who was still scared and terrified lifted her hands up in self-defense as the plant got closer to her, too scared to move. To Sam's surprise the plant nudged against her hand, as if to tell her it's all right. Then it went to her other hand which was holding the hose that was pouring water and the plant took a shower. Before Sam could move the plant wrapped itself around Sam's wrist and starts to pull her up. The sprout shrinks back to its normal size as it gets closer to the pot. It was dragging Sam over to water its roots.
Sam was in shock but was starting to calm down now but the fact that the plant was moving and acting as if it had a mind of its own was still scaring her. Sam was now at the pot watching as the tree sprout took another shower before shrinking down to its original size. Sam kept watering the plant until the soil was good and moist. Then she dropped the hoes on the ground and ran out of the room. She opened the door and runs out.
"This can't be happening." She says as she goes to the entrance of the gate enclosed area. But then she remembered something. Ghosts have cores. Danny has an ice core and Vlad has a fire core. 'Maybe I have an earth core.' Sam thinks to herself. She turns around to look at her green house. She saw that one side of the green house was full of fresh green leaves. They all seemed to be looking straight at her.
Sam is hesitant but heads back to the green house. As she reached for the handle on the door one of the nearby plants that is close to the door grows and opens the door for Sam.
"Um Thank you " Sam says and strokes the plant to help calm her nerves. "This is just too weird."
Sam walks over to the hose and picks it up. She turns around to see all of the plants staring at her.
"Will ya'll stop staring at me? I'm not trying to be rude but right now I'm kinda freaking out so if ya'll don't mind could you act normal?" Sam asks the plants. To Sam's surprise they listen to her and shrink back to normal and stop moving. "Thanks." Sam says and begins to water the rest of the plants.
"Okay all done." Sam says when she is finished. "Do ya'll feel better now?" Sam asks. A lot of the plants shake their leaves up and down as if to say yes.
"Good. And as long as ya'll keep the moving and super growing to a minimum I will eventually get used to it and it won't bother me. But you might want to take it slow. I'll let you know when though." Sam tells the plants as she turns the water off and goes to sit down next to her stuff.
Sam looks at her phone to find that there is only ten minutes left of class. During the few minutes Sam had to wait for the bell to ring; she straightens the greenhouse up a bit.
When the bell rings Sam grabs her bags and opens the door. "Bye." Sam says as she opens the door and closing it behind her locking it before she leaves. She sees a few of the plants wave at her as she leaves.
Sam wasn't too hungry so she sends Aden a text.
'Not hungry going to ghost zone to practice a bit.'
As Sam walks to the pond portal Aden responds to her text.
'Just don't be late. And make sure you're careful.'
'No promises.' Sam thinks to herself. When she gets to the pond she hides her bags in a bush. She takes a look at her surroundings making sure no one was watching her. To her luck no one was there. She jumps into the pond and lands on a floating rock.
"Now how am I going to remember how to get back to this portal?" Sam asks herself out loud. "Wait if I do have an Earth core I should be able to " Sam starts to say but her voice trails off. "Yep that should work!" Sam says happily and claps her hands together. She looks down at the rock and finds exactly what she is looking for. A small patch of grass. She focuses her energy on the grass willing it to grow taller and longer. She cut one blade of grass off by itself a formed some sort of grappling hook out of it. She takes three more of them off and braids them together to make a rope that she loops it through the make shift grappling hook. She then uses the grass that is still attached to the rock to tie to the rope. She then went back through the portal holding onto the grappling hook she made and turned intangible she went through the ground and attached the grappling hook onto so tree roots. She got back out of the ground and turned back to normal. She was about to jump back into the portal when she heard the bell ring.
"Oh well guess I could see if my idea worked tomorrow." Sam says to herself as she walks over to the bush her bag and guitar where hidden in and takes them out. She then hurries off to band practice.
"Hey Sam glad you made it." Aden says as she walks into the room.
"Why would I want to miss practice?" I ask all innocently.
"You do relies you are late right?" Matt whispers into her ear as she walks past him.
"Opps "Sam says slightly above a whisper.
"Didn't think so." Matt says to her.
"I'm sorry Aden I was at the pond listening to my iPod and when I turned it off I heard a bell ring and thought it was the first bell not the late bell." Sam says as she puts her bags on the ground and starts to take her guitar out of its case.
"Well at least it's a good excuse." Aden answers. "Now let's get to work."
"But what about Amber and Nikki?" Sam asks when she realizes they aren't in the room with them.
"They want to practice on their own until everyone gets their parts down." Matt answers.
"Oh "Sam says and turns her head to look out the window. "It's cause of me."
"A little bit but you're a beginner Sam your still learning and they can't blame you for that and besides we all sound horrible right now cause it's a new song. They don't want to get in your way and they don't want you to get in theirs; that's all it is." Aden tells her.
"But what about you and Matt?" Sam asks turning her head to face Aden.
"Right now Matt has some sort of serious lyric writing thing going on so he's doing that instead of practicing. And I always practice a song before I even introduce it to a group so I'm good. I'm just staying in here to help you if you need it." Aden says sitting down and leans against the wall.
"Okay." Sam answers and gets to work. After a lot of practicing and failing Sam asks Aden for help. He goes on the computer to look up the cords for Sam and print out the sheets for her.
"Here you go Sam." Aden says to her as he hands her the sheets. "And another thing you could do is practice the finger positioning on your palm to help you out." Aden says and demonstrates for her.
"Thanks Aden." Sam says and goes back to practicing for the last few minutes of class.
When the bell rings for class to end Sam puts her guitar back in its case and stuffs her chord sheet into her bag.
"See ya later twins." Sam says as she walks out the door.
"Bye!" She hears the two call after her as she leaves.
Sam was now off to building 4 her free write class. The class is basically like a study hall only instead of working on homework you have to write or read. The teacher told us that each week we have to turn something in to show that we did do some work and after that we could read in class. Sam keeps on forgetting to grab the paper with the poem she started to write so she has been working on some of the other lines and brain storming ideas for the poem.
Sam had just got to class and sat down in her seat just as the bell rang. The teacher took a quick attendance and told the class to get to work. Sam took out the poem and the brainstorming sheets.
Sam read over the poem.
Like the sea I am calm,
Like a fire I am fierce,
Like the earth I am courageous,
Like the wind I am strong.
On a nice, beautiful day the sea is calm,
But when there is a storm the sea shows its rage,
Crashing, swirling, pulling, killing,
Fighting for the peace to come back.
Burning brightly a fire gives you warmth,
When under control but when set free it is fierce,
Burning, scorching, destroying, killing
Fighting for control and independence.
Then she read over her notes to see if anything was useful. She sees a few things she can us and gets to work on the fourth stanza.
The earth is a beautiful and courageous place,
Full of life and death,
Quaking, shaking, tumbling, killing,
Fighting for what she believes is right,
Sam reads over her new stanza and nods her head in approval and gets to work on the fifth one.
The air gives us strength as the day goes on,
But the air is tired of helping,
Blowing, sucking, slicing, killing,
Fighting so we will spread our wings.
Sam rereads the poem. Satisfied with the results she walks up to the teacher to show him what she worked on for the week. He checks her name off the list and tells her to go back to her seat. Sam puts the poem into her bag and takes out the book she has been reading.
The bell rings signaling the end of class Sam puts her book up and leaves the class. Sam goes to the dorm only to find that she is the only on there.
'You know I never got to practice earlier.' Sam thinks to herself as she puts her bags on her bed and takes her phone out.
'Didn't get to practice earlier so going to try again I'll be back before lights out. Hopefully.' Sam text Aden.
She opens the window next to her bed and turns invisible. She flies out the window and towards the pond.
Friday 9/23/11:
My Grappling hook idea worked! And I didn't realize this yesterday but the rock is pretty big. It's almost the same size as our dorm room. And with my new found earth powers I can shape grass and moss into dummies to use for practice. And because I didn't stay out too late I wasn't sleepy this morning. One bad thing is that now that I'm practicing more, Nikki and Amber are practicing by themselves. Aden and Matt likes to ask a million and one questions. My ecto radiation now covers my knees and is at the base of my fingers.
Saturday 9/24/11:
Aden and Matt begged me to take them to the ghost zone. They want to meet Wulf and see Amorpho in his true form. I told them I didn't know where to find Amorpho and I wasn't sure if Wulf wanted to have company. So I told them I would have to ask Wulf about that. They seemed a little depressed by this but oh well. They might be my new friends but I don't trust them as much as I did Tucker and Danny. My ecto radiation has grown about and half an inch onto my fingers. The radiation on my legs is starting to curl around to the back of my legs now.
Demon Butterfly: Okay i want to continue this story and i will but... cause of the lack in reviews i am going to take a break and work on my other stories. But if reviews pick up i will continue. After chap 15 is posted i will decide if i should take a break or continue.