The birds chirped as they landed on nearby branches and the breeze rustled through the trees and to the open window from the second story house as Heather lay in bed tossing and turning as a nearby book began to levitate and an explosion of magic exploded in the air leaving everything in the air. Heather turned towards the window as her eyebrows furrowed and she clenched her eyelids shut tightly.
The flowers bloomed in the sunlight as Heather sat in a field of beautiful and colorful flowers as she softly touched one. Suddenly the peaceful environment was shattered as she looked above to see a black hawk flapping its wings strongly above and a dragon took to the skies.
The dragon was simply beautiful with red and orange scales that had blue tips like a burning fire and the dragon had amber colored eyes. It was simply beautiful and created a sense of confidence as it flew over the land casting a shadow over the flowers. Heather's eyes locked with the dragons eyes and she thought that they could never be so beautiful then they were at that moment. She felt the wind around her swirl with power, almost magical.
Heather felt the wind pick up dramatically as she and the dragon removed their eyes from each other and she shielded her eyes as she felt an intense brightness light up the sky and she was suspended in air for a mere moment before she opened her eyes again and saw nothing but darkness. Suddenly a babies crying sounded from behind her and turned around startled and saw an orange spirit like thing holding a crying infant as the orange spirit looked around cautiously and the baby started to cry harder as the spirit girl looked down and hugged the baby tighter to her as she floated down the hallway.
Suddenly other spirit like creatures started to follow her and they were nothing like that orange one, there was a sense of evil and coldness about them, they started to chase her as the spirit ran faster and finally stopped, exhausted she opened a portal swirling with orange magic and held the baby to it. The baby started to cry harder and the girl hugged the baby tighter as her eyes dripped with tears and she pushed the baby through the portal as the evil spirits drew closer.
"You won't get her now" the spirit said defiantly as she closed the portal in a blink of the eye and she faced the spirts strongly with a defiant expression and she gave an unnoticeable sigh of relief because she completed her mission. Heather wondered what they were talking about as she watched the exchange between the four spirits.
"We shall see about that Daphne, one day we will have her and you will be sorry that you ever crossed us" the spirit up front said with a determined expression before the three joined hands and Daphne eyes filled with fear as she backed away and held her hands to her sides. The spirits muttered a spell under their breaths as they raised their hands and a ball of electric dark energy flew from their hands.
The spirits smirked maliciously as they eyed Daphne with a smug expression in their eyes and fired the spell right at her as Daphne screamed in pain. Heather couldn't take it anymore hearing her scream like that so she turned away and covered her eyes and whimpered slightly as she heard the screams and when they finally stopped she turned around and saw Daphne but she had no feet and no eyes, she was a spirit, a true spirit.
Heather covered her mouth with her hand and felt the tears prick in her eyes as she reached out to take Daphne's hand in hers but Daphne flickered and then the image faded so Heather was surrounded by darkness once more.
"Heather" A voice called out and Heather looked up to see a beautiful goddess like girl with flowing blonde hair and creamy skin with cyan blue eyes, so much like her own. She was wearing a white silk dress that revealed her legs and butterfly white wings.
"Who are you?" Heather asked in fear as she pushed her hands in front of her and her eyes shined with distrust.
"The spirit looked hurt for a moment, "Heather, please come to me, come to me Heather" She said as she held her hands out to Heather.
"Who are you?" Heather asked as she crossed her arms and looked up to the spirit again, "You know me, so why can't I know you?" She asked as she eyed the spirit curiously but with an expression that held calmness and composure.
"I am Amber, now heather, you need to be ready." Amber said as she looked around cautiously before her gaze settled onto Heather's.
"Ready?" Heather asked confused, "Ready for what?"
"I can't tell you" Amber replied, "It is against my rules and only fate will reveal itself to you, my dear Heather, an evil enemy is coming for you Heather" she looked at Heather to see absolute disbelief cross her features.
"Enemy?" Heather asked confused as she raised an eyebrow at the girl before her, "What kind of enemy and how will I be ready? Please tell me." Heather begged.
"I wish I could Heather, but then fate would change and nothing would be the same ever again" Amber said as she sighed wistfully. "I must go before they find me, if they find me they will come for you Heather" Amber said as she faded away.
"No!" Heather called out as she ran forward, "Please don't leave me Amber" Amber disappeared as Heather broke down and dropped to her knees because she was left in the darkness once more.
She looked up and saw a crib siting in the middle of a beautifully decorated room holding a sleeping infant, Heather peered down onto the girl before a dark mass swept through the room and grabbed the baby before disappearing leaving behind one thing, a black necklace. Suddenly she spotted a necklace that dangled off of the dresser that was a diamond heart and grabbed it before she put it on her neck, feeling comforted by it she saw the time pass as the sun rose in the sky and two people entered the room with a little boy and girl behind them as the woman cried ins hock and broke down as the man collected her in his arms.
Heather could not believe what she was seeing as she watched the family breakdown, their faces were blurred and unclear but heather had no idea if this really happened or not. Heather blinked back tears as she watched the family until they disappeared but Heather still felt the necklace around her neck filling her with a sense of strangeness and power. Suddenly the dragon from earlier appeared again before breathing its fumes against Heather as she closed her eyes and screamed.
Heather sat straight upwards as she woke up in a cold sweat as the blankets twisted around her and she laid back down again realizing it was all just a dream. She put a hand to her neck when she froze, the necklace was still there, and she removed it and watched as it glistened under the sunlight as she looked up in curiosity before she put it back on.
She pulled the covers off of her as the cat shifted in her bed, she but a loving hand on the cats head before she walked to her closet and flung open the door. She grabbed a white off the shoulder crop top with long light blue jeans and some dark red converses and she pulled her hair up into a hair tie. She walked to the bathroom and brushed her teeth before she walked won stairs and listened to her parents talking in the kitchen.
"Ashley, Heather wasn't acting like herself last night and you know it" Her father said.
"David, we should talk to her instead of acting like this, it is ridiculous David" Her mother responded as she walked to the fridge and opened it.
"But Ashley" Her father started but Jennifer walked into the room and he stopped his sentence.
"You know" Jennifer began, "She could be hearing you guys right now and the more you do this, the more you prove to her that she was right, so man up and grow up and actually talk to her instead of acting like some girl teenagers."
Heather walked into the room and sat down next to Jennifer, she avoided her parent's gazes right now and their gaping mouths. The family ate in silence until Heather broke it, "come on Jenn we better get to school' Heather stated as she dumped her plate into the trash before she placed it into the sink.
Jenn got up and did the same thing that her older sister did before she grabbed her bag with her sister and they both walked outside of the door and to the car. Once in the car they were both silent.
"So I am guessing you heard what they said, huh?" Jennifer guessed as her face broke out into a sheepish grin, but it faded once she saw that Heather's face remained like stone. She sighed before she turned to the window wondering if she could somehow talk to her sister, she definitely did not want the last family fight to involve doing this, which was them all just avoiding each other.
"Why do they keep saying stuff like that?" Heather asked calmly as she focused her eyes on the road.
Jennifer sighed in frustration, "I don't know, I wish they didn't because they know that birth parents are a touchy subject for you." Her gaze faltered to her jeans as she picked at a loose thread.
"I don't blame any of this on you Jenny I am just hurt, that is all" Heather said as she parked the car at the school and turned to face Jennifer and took both of her hands and hers, "Jenn you are my little sister and my best friend, I can't physically or mentally stay mad at you, and you know my mad switch" The two girls both chuckled, "Don't worry, whatever happens nothing will change between us.
Or will it?
That was the voice that whispered in her ears causing her to shiver slightly but Jennifer didn't notice, they both got out of the car and walked together to the school. They cut paths as Heather walked to her locker then to her first class. She just remembered what she had said to the new kids and felt a pang of guilt for doing that to them but decided against it, something was different and definitely suspicious about them. How had they known that she was adopted, barely anyone other than her friends knew, but accusing them of doing something like how she originally thought wasn't right either?
Finally she arrived at the classroom and saw that her seat partner was here and knew that he was avoiding her gaze as was the other two new kids. She sat down in her seat and looked out of the window as she saw a bird with red wings flutter to a branch just outside of the window and look straight at her. She looked at it for a moment or so before the teachers voice cut off her process of thought.
"Ok class today we will work on your math book pages, you will take notes as you complete pages 169 tow 175, work with your seat partners to get this done and when you are done, which will not be likely for most of you." He eyed the trouble makers in an obvious undertone, "You will be able to study for an upcoming quiz this Friday" Most of the class groaned in annoyance. "Ok begin your work and get it done" He said as he sat on his desk and the groups got together to work on the classwork, most of them goofing off before her gaze shifted to a bored Brandon.
She grabbed her book before she opened to the assigned page and started to copy down notes, she wrote them and did not even notice that Brandon was staring at her while he whispered with Laura and Carter.
"Brandon it doesn't matter if she was suspicious of us and that she had the right to, we are only staying here until we find the girl not so you can befriend her." Laura whispered as she looked down towards her own book.
"But I have to work with her for most of my classes" Brandon whispered back.
"There will be other girls for you to toy with while we're here so just get your assignment done before I blind you" Laura whispered back.
Heather started on question 1 when she heard Brandon let out a cough to get her attention, her gaze shifted to him as he looked at her, studying her, she felt her cheeks heat up but didn't care, "What?" She asked softly.
"We need to work together to get this work done so let's get it done" Brandon said as he opened his notebook and took some notes.
"Do you want me to wait for you?" Heather asked softly.
Brandon nodded as he jotted down a few notes before he finally got to the first question where he noticed that Heather was working on. "Ok let's get the first question done" He said as they began to work together and eventually they completed it before class was over and Heather looked out of the window.
She looked outside with a normal face when she thought of her weird dream last night, she had weird dreams before, everyone has one from time to time, but that night was more vivid and seemed more real, Daphne and Amber, who are they and are they really out there somewhere and who was that baby? So many questions for just one weird dream, she shouldn't worry about it but something was off, something wasn't right about the dream and the fact that she kept seeing dragons. She saw dragons and fire a lot when she was little but never one like that.
The dream itself felt magical and it felt like she was surrounded with magic and power, something really powerful surrounded her last night and she wanted to know what, maybe that library could help her decipher her dream.
The bell finally rang and Heather was startled at first, but then she shook it off and walked out of the class room and to her second classroom. She walked in and saw that her partner was Carter. She walked to her table and sat down next to Carter as he shifted awkwardly. "So I guess we are partners" He said as he rubbed his head.
"Yeah I guess we are" Heather said as she nodded her head when the teacher walked in.
"Ok class, today we are going to create a new diamond like substance, so get out your test tubes and come and grab the ingredients on the board" The female teacher commanded as she took a seat at the desk up front.
Carter and Heather walked up front and they both grabbed some of the ingredients before they sat down and took notes of the lab and did it in almost silence, other than to confirm their answers.
They finally finished and had to decide what color they both wanted and what the colors they wanted to support their crystal. "How about we do a fire theme?" Heather suggested softly as she picked up the red, orange, yellow, and blue.
"Sure" Carter nodded his head in agreement as Heather smiled, he wanted to do a fire theme anyways because his mom was a fire fairy and it only seemed fitting, the reason Heather wanted to was beyond him.
So together they both started to design it and it turned out to be a beautiful flame crystal and carter and Heather both wanted to take a picture of it to send to their parents because only one person can keep it. "So do you want it?" Heather asked softly.
"Nah but can I take a picture of it after class?" Carter asked.
Heather laughed, "Of course you can, you designed it too" Heather pointed out as they talked as the crystal dried.
Carter chuckled as he felt kind of stupid for thinking that she would say no, he only knew her for a day to know that she was one of those people who had a heart of gold.
"That is beautiful Carter and Heather" The teacher commented, "A+" She said as she continued on to the other groups.
They both smiled at each other as they continued to talk about almost everything other than family, Carter knew better than to bring up family to Heather and Heather wanted to smile in appreciation. Heather knew that she didn't like Carter like that; he was like a big brother to her and not a crush.
The bell rang as they both walked to the lunch room and parted ways; "Hey girls" Heather smiled as she sat down, Tracy was at the table this time with a fake smile on her face.
"Hey heather" Tracy said startling Heather slightly.
Alison rolled her eyes in annoyance as they talked until heather remembered that she wanted to go to the library to find something about her dream. "I am going to head to the library, see you girls in gym" Heather waved as she left and walked to the library and started to wonder the aisles to find something before she felt her hand shock when she touched a book.
Heather looked around her before she picked out the book that had dreams on it with a blue book cover. She went to sit down and opened the book to see what its pages held. She fluttered to the first page and soon the wind picked up and the pages moved causing Heather to close her eyes. When she opened them she was shocked to see that it was on a certain page.
The page had a dragon like the one she had seen in her dream before and she started to read the passage.
"Dreams involving Dragons are usually signs to the past or to an interest to fire, fire is usually a sign for warmth and for comfort and heat. Fire was used by cavemen to find items and to see in the darkness. Dragons sometimes, however, represent keys to the past and for many who believe in magic it is a sign of power and strength and for those to have dreams like these more than once it represent that they are lost and have no past that they remember. It is memory and for those who have it is usually lost and trying to find themselves. There is usually a trigger for the dragon to appear."
Heather was baffled and flipped to the next page which involved more about dragons; she wanted to find something about items appearing from your dreams onto you. Suddenly the bell rang and she marked her spot before she dashed out of the library with her book to her English class. She walked in to be seated next to Natalie and Willow. She sat down in her seat and had the book under her pencil case to hide the fact that she had been looking up something about her dreams.
She began to read her favorite story, from when she was an early teenager, Sweep. It was a good book, her parents had not approved of it but they still allowed her to read it. Sweep was a book about a girl Morgan Rowlands, discovering her past and finding the guy for her or her muirn beatha dan. Muirn beatha dan is another word for soul mate, she loved that story.
Heather was writing notes from the first book; she was doing six books since there were fifteen books in total of the series. She jotted down the notes as she completed the book report assigned to them from their teacher for next Tuesday.
Heather did that the entire class period then went to gym which she had with all of her friends and all of the girls and guys. She was changing into her outfit, which was a white t-shirt and some grey shorts with some white knee high socks and sneakers. Her hair was still held back into a pony tail.
She and her friends walked out, none of them were talking as they went to a random area on the bleachers. Suddenly the teacher blew the whistle as she announced that they were playing dodge ball. She split them up into two teams and soon they were launching balls across the court and then it was only heather and Tracy left in the game. Tracy threw a ball at Heather, aiming for her head and almost hit her until Heather dodged and threw a ball at Tracy who didn't dodge in time.
"Ugh, you brat, you ruined my nail" Tracy screamed as she angrily glared at Heather to everyone's shock.
She stormed off leaving Heather with her mouth gaping open and soon they all walked to their next classes.
Later that night:
Heather was doing her homework in her room as she left the window open and a cool breeze rustled in through the window. Why had Tracy snapped at her like that earlier? She wondered as she looked down at her homework and soon she finished and started to read the Dream's book and found her page and started to scan it for the objects but she found nothing.
She sighed as she pulled a hand through her hair and sat back into the desk chair and then decided to go to bed with Fira and soon she snuggled into the blankets and turned off her lamp and fell asleep.
Heather opened her eyes and she was back into the field of flowers again but this time without warning the field disappeared and she was on a long corridor with men wearing golden armor standing in front of a door to her left. Curiously she walked past the door and saw the sleeping infant in the cradle. She walked up to the infant and this time the necklace wasn't near the bed and she saw the infant sleeping soundly when the black mass entered through the cracks underneath the main door and crept up to the bed.
Heather could do nothing but watch as she saw the black ass swarm through the room and saw it grab the baby before disappearing leaving behind the black necklace. But instead of watching the family come in and mourn the loss of their baby she was swept through the forest outside of an area and watched as the black mass swarmed away with the baby in its arms and soon the baby disappeared and so did the black mass. Suddenly she just sat outside of the woods as a golden light erupted form behind her and she turned to see Amber again.
"Heather, it is so good to finally reach you again." Amber said as she took Heather's hand into hers, "I have been worried about you"
"Amber why did this necklace appear on my neck after I grabbed it when I woke up?" Heather asked as she grabbed the necklace into the palm of her hand.
Amber sighed and closed her eyes, "I can't tell you much Heather but it is a key to your past, I used my energy to send it to you" amber said as she opened her eyes and she looked Heather in her eyes.
"How?" Heather asked curiously.
Amber looked around her feeling watched as she turned back to Heather with an alarmed expression, "I wish I could stay longer Heather but I have to go, they are coming." Amber said as she started to disappear.
"Who are they?" Heather asked as she reached out to grab Amber but her hand slipped through amber's and Amber gave a faint smile and opened her mouth to respond before she disappeared and Heather felt so alone.
Suddenly a loud dragons roar could be heard throughout the forest as a dragon, like the one she had seen before flew to the skies and Heather felt that the dragon was so strong, stronger than anything she had ever seen before.
The dragon flew towards her and breathed its flaming breath on her again as she screamed and closed her eyes tightly but when she opened them she felt comforted by its breath. She started to glow an orange color and then she turned around feeling something behind her.
Heather woke up drenched in cold sweat and soon she reached down to bet the cat that was lying next to her pillow. She softly touched the cat and soon looked over at the time, 3:15 am; she almost gasped out loud but calmed her nerves and soon looked outside her open window. She sat up and soon clutched the necklace around her neck before she fell back to sleep, but it was filled with endless nightmares. She tossed and turned as a dark shadow cast itself over her bed.