"La de da...another boring hour-and-a-half of Government." I yawned, not knowing that the teacher was right behind me. "Well excuuuuuuuuuse me if Government is not your favorite class!" she retorted and thundered to the chalkboard. She furiously scribbled a bunch of illegible instructions for the class. She then sat down and wrote me up for rudeness. I rolled my eyes and sat as close to the door as I could. 'Only a week into school and I am already getting written up. They should make a law against writing up seniors!' I thought to myself happily. Less than a year was all that I had left. I pulled out my portfolio and grabbed a few sheets of drawing paper. This was the best class for sketching people. I had only a few people in my class and they were good-looking. I set to work sketching the new boy.
I finished the sketch and a strange feeling came over me, like I was being watched. A knock sounded at the door, which startled me. The teacher answered it and stepped back, eyes wide with fright. "I would like to see Amber please. It is important and she wont be coming back to class." A gruff voice said. I threw my books in my bag and began to walk out the door when I saw a huge figure standing there. It had on a dark green and maroon armor-type thing. Swords stuck out from odd places all over it. I stepped back and exclaimed that I was not going anywhere with that thing. It grabbed me and threw me against the wall across the hallway. I felt like I would pass out, but fought it. I took off down the hallway.
I turned just as a bullwhip flashed by. It grazed my thigh, cutting through the thick denim of my jeans and leaving a thin line of blood. I ran full speed down the long hall and turned again to the right. I ran all the way down to the water fountain and turned right and went to the office. I gasped for them to call 911 and took off out the other door, dropping my books. I shouted for them to get my stuff to my parents if I didn't make it back. Just then, a dagger broke through the door I had just entered, flew through the small office and through the door I was about to exit through and finally came to rest in the concrete wall opposite the door. I whimpered, looking helpless, and dashed through the door. I sprinted down the hall, out the door to the left, across the campus and parking lot to the music hall and cowered in the girls bathroom. Gasping, I looked in the mirror and was amazed at what I saw.
I had gotten much skinnier, my hair was longer and a beautiful shade of red, and I was wearing a sailor shirt with a pleated skirt! I backed away from the mirror in fright. What happened to me? I hopped up onto a toilet, and, using the walls of the stall, hoisted myself through the construction hole in the ceiling just as the thing burst through the bathroom door. I climbed through the series of construction walkways they built for repair and dropped through a hole into the Choir Hall. The students screamed as I dropped through and I hissed for them to be quiet. Too late. It came barging into the Choir Hall and grabbed me, kicking and screaming. I searched the room or friends and saw Matt. "Matthew! Tell my parents I will come back when I can! I promise! It is me, Amber! I promise!" I screamed desperately, still flailing wildly. Gasps went through the room. "Amber?" they murmured. The thing formed a portal which he pulled me through. I blacked out from exhaustion and fear.
Flowers? Are those flowers I smell? I shook my head and opened my eyes. I was in an orchard. Trees surrounded me on all sides. They had beautiful pink cherry blossoms on them. I knew they were just that from watching so many Japanese Animations, but why was I surrounded by them? Cherry blossom trees are oriental and are from places like China, and…Japan. I wouldn't be seeing one unless… "You were in Japan?" a voice finished my thoughts. Startled, I quickly glanced around me. No one else was here. Then where is the voice coming from? "From me" it said as a figure appeared. It looked a bit like a girl, but as it moved closer I could see that it was a boy. He wore a dark-colored armor thing just like a Ronin Warrior in sub-armor. It was Anubis from Ronin Warriors! He looked familiar, though, but not in the sense as from the Ronin Warriors anime. He looked like.....what I saw...when I looked in the mirror! I looked like Anubis! What the hell happened to me and how can I reverse it! "You can't reverse it and this is your true self. You are my twin sister, and a warlord. You have an armor also. You belong here with me." he said aloud. I looked at him, then down, then at him again and laughed. "I am dreaming, right? I dream like this all the time! Ha ha ha ha! This is a dream. I wrote all of this and now I am just dreaming it a little more realistically than usual! Ok! Time to wake up!!!" I said hysterically. He smiled a bit sympathetically, knowing that this must be a big change for me, but quickly became serious again. "Talpa wishes to talk to you now." he said and dissappeared.
A huge armor-looking floating head appeared. "Hello Amber! So nice to see you again. I assure you that you will not escape again!" it boomed. "What the HELL are you talking about?!?!" I screamed. "I don't know anything except that I use to watch you all in a cartoon. I made all of this up! I can't be living it! I want to go home!" I screamed. Talpa laughed. "Good! You need to experience a great deal of fear. It will turn you back tu us quickly, and increase your anger and battle drive! Be afraid and angry!" he said happily. He dissappeared and I angrily kicked a nearby tree. In an instant, the trees transformed into hot, molten lava. I screamed in agony and kicked through it to escape the burning, but I saw no escape. It never numbed, but instead all I felt was a burning, throbbing pain. It dissappeared and I was back at the orchard again, but I still felt the burning. "See how convincing I can be!" Talpa shouted. I balled up and cried. Anubis appeared and looked like he was fighting to get to me. He finally made it through and rushed to my side. "Are you ok?" he soothed. He picked me up and lay me in his lap. He stroked my hair and whispered soothing things in my ear, like a mother would a child that had just fallen off of a bicycle. I quit my sobbing and just sniffled. I had never experienced that much pain before in my entire life. He hugged me tightly and cursed Talpa. "How dare he attempt to incinerate my own kin in front of me!" he muttered. I lay against his chest and breathed slowly, trying to regain whatever sanity I had left. I finally felt myself drift off into darkness. I awoke breathing heavily. Had it all been only a dream? I hope it was not telling the future or something. I have had several of those dreams lately. What do they mean? I looked around. Where was I? I saw trees and telephone poles and weird-looking houses, one of which seemed oddly familiar, though I had never seen it before. I stood and went to the door, not knowing who would answer.