THE LONG JOURNY

It had only been a week into the journey and Amri was starting to feel

lonely. She longed for some one to talk to but did not know who to

trust or where to go. She only knew to head on to where she was told.

She had already passed the end of her valley and felt sad at the loss

but knew to move on. After living in a valley for all her life, she

only knew what mountains were.

Leaving the mountains felt like she was leaving a fenced in yard. Out

into the world where trouble, pain, and hate thrive on lost souls like

hers. However, what Amri did not know was she had a follower. A kind

of secret admirer.

He was a few years older then she; He saw her one-day while she was by

the creek playing. He wonted to say hi but knew he should not. He

could tell she was a mixed blood, a forbidden thing among his people.

He was one of the last Anlec people.

Sadly his family was killed in a war and he was left out in the woods

alone with his fairy companion to guide him and care for him. He

learned from her all the ways of the Anlecs how they fought what they

fought for and why it is important for an Anlec to stay hidden.

According

to his fairy, Anlecs were the first-born. They learned all the farming

techniques and how to build. Finally, some one found out how to

produce electricity. However, at that time the younger tribes thought

the Anlecs were plotting agenst them.

Mostly because they knew, the Anlecs were smarter. In an attempt to

flee from the war, they created a floating city. Therefore, no one

would ever know where the Anlecs were and no one could start a war

against them. All went well until a dark sorcerer came and threatened

to destroy the city unless all the young maidens were brought to him.

So all the young maidens were brought and he made them vanish into air

one by one until there was non-left. He then cackled and casted curs

on the only woman left that the babies from then on would all be males

and no more females would be born. Then in a puff of smoke, he

suddenly vanished. For the last years When there were still woman, one

thousand babies were born and not a single one a girl. All hope was

lost. In a vain attempt to find the maidens, several family's departed

from the floating city and traveled back to earth.

One of them was the Siruka family. Nothing special or nothing out of

the ordinary about them. However, there only baby son would some day

be alone. That was ten-year's ago when he was five. When he was five,

a terrible accident took both of their lives.

They were out on a horse ride throe the woods when suddenly the horses

were spooked. His father's horse was the first to bolt, and then his

mother's horse was next. He was with his mother and knew something bad

was happening. Out of desperation his mother throe him off the horse

and he watched horrified as his mother and father were slammed into an

over hanging tree branch with a sickening crunch. The horses kept

running but his parents were still on the ground.

When he approached them, they were lifeless and dead. His mother's

face was so badly disfigured he got sick. It was then the family fairy

came to him and took care of him. He never left that forest until he

came to a creek one day.

That was where he met a young mixed girl She was a definite mixed

blood. She was about eight and he was thirteen. Thou the age

differences were different he felt as thou she was meant for him. Like

a perfect angel.

Since then he has maid it a job to watch her while she was out and

protect her when he felt there was danger. The night all the armed men

were at her house he was trying to make sense of it all. In addition,

just when he was getting ready to comedown they left. Slowly he made

his way down to the girl's house and peeked in throe a window. What he

saw at first made his hart skip a beat. The girl was on the floor

dead, but then a small hidden cuberd opened and out came his angel.

Out of fear that she would see him he slipped back into the shadows.

After awhile she came out dressed in old female war armor. It had to

date back to when the maidens were taken from the floating city. Could

it be that she is a descendent from one of these women?

She looked off into the distance and started walking to the open part

of the mountains surrounding the little house. It was then he noticed

how grown up she looked in that outfit. Her hair was a bright red with

streaks of brown, green, orange, blue, and small strands of white. Her

skin was a light tannish color, and her body was still chubby from

baby fat, but one could tell she would grow to a well- proportioned

woman someday.

It was then that he decided to reveal his self to her. He did not wont

to just jump out and say hay I have been watching you since I met you

at the creek. He needed to do something that would make her wont to be

with him. He knew the area quit well and already had a plan.

Amri was thinking about how she was going to make it by her self when

she heard some one yelling for help. From the sound of it was a man.

Quickly she ran to where the sound was coming from and what she saw

made her heart skip a beat. A man was pinned under a fallen tree.

However, that was not what took her breath away. She recognized him as

the ghost boy that always followed her around in the woods.

She thought he was a spirit but never knew it was a person. He had

long silver hair that was pulled back into a ponytail; he wore a sky

blue tunic and white leggings and a white undershirt. His skin was a

pale blue but his eyes were a color she had never seen before. They

seamed to be all the colors at once, but non-in particular. They were

like diamonds that shone on their own.

"Well are you going to help me or just stand there looking at me like

you have seen a ghost." Amri quickly went to his back and grabbed him

by his shoulders

" Do you think I could pull you out or is the tree to much on you to

do that?"

"I think you can just pull me." When Amri felt his skin, she felt

calmer and more confident about her self. Like she knew who he was and

knew not to fear him. When he was pulled out from under the tree he

stood up but fell back down. "I think I hurt my leg. Do you mind if I

tag along with you for a while?"

"Why, you would tag along anyway?" That took him by surprise. Had she

known about him all this time? "Don't act so surprised, I know who and

what you are, you're a ghost and if I say you can follow me, you will

and you might hurt me."

"I am not a ghost, I am a man, or a teenage boy, how ever you wont to

look at it."

" Then why have you been following me where ever I go, and how is it

then if you are not a ghost that you can disappear so easily?" He gave

a slight smile and looked at Amri

" Do you really think I would hurt you?" Amri just gave him a blank

stare. "You are right I have been following you. I have been following

you for the past five years. But I never knew you could see me."

"Five years, you have been following me for five years, why haven't

you talked to me?" He looked down and in a whisper

" I thought of you as a sister, and I didn't wont to take the risk of

you hating me so I thought it best to stay out of your life and keep

you safe from afar."

Amri did not know what to say. He seamed like a good person, and she

had a longing in her heart for him, it was a deep longing that she

never felt before as if she was apart of him but never knew it. Amri

then smiled and held her hand out to him. " Hello My name is Amri,

will you be joining me on my journey."

With a smile he took her hand and stood up. "Nice to meet you Amri, my name is Silvrius, I would love to follow you on your journey ." Then they walked on further from the hart of the forest into a world unknown.