A/N: Here's the first chapter! I tried to make up all the names, so if these are anyone's names, I'm sorry. I know it's short, but that's were it felt like the right spot. I'm already writing the next chapter. Please review!!!
Chapter 1
Kathara grumbled to herself as she walked home from school, kicking at the pieces of gravel that had migrated onto the sidewalk. The note from her teacher in her pocket was doom.
Earlier that day, Kathara's science teacher had stopped her and given her the note, promising to email her mom if she did not give the note to her. Kathara's grade had dropped to a D+ in the months since Christmas - Definitely not a good thing when you're a Senior hoping to get into a good college. She had tried to keep her grades up, she really had, but with her cat dying, her best friend moving to Arizona, and her parents getting a divorce, it wasn't easy. If she tried to escape into her books, or space out, her grades dropped even farther. It seemed like there was no hope.
It wasn't as if she was bothered by the other kids - with her auburn hair, greenish-blue eyes, and friendly personality, she was actually pretty popular. But that wasn't what she wanted. Kathara wanted to get into a good college and become a scientist, or an author, or SOMETHING respectable and enjoyable.
Kathara looked at the book in her hand - her copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, which she had gotten for Christmas four years ago, in a complete set. She was rereading the trilogy for the seventh time, but even that was no good. If she couldn't get her grades up by June...and she almost certainly couldn't...then she was doomed to an uneducated, boring, normal, useless life. And that was one thing she wouldn't be able to stand. She kicked at a piece of gravel extra hard and watched it go flying and hit a tree. Her mom had always said that trouble came in threes, and she hoped it was true, so that this would be the end of it. Maybe it would be followed by a phenomenal good luck streak, and she would get her grades up after all!
Cheered by this thought, she walked a little taller and faster, a half-smile beginning to form on her lips. So what if Liana had moved to Arizona? They would have been seperated when they went to college, anyway. Who knows, maybe they'd meet again someday!
Abruptly, Kathara stepped in a puddle. She hadn't seen it coming, and it shouldn't have been there anyway - it was to dry for rain, and too cold today for watering plants. She shrugged and kept going. Then she noticed that she had cut her foot on something, right through the shoe. She searched through the puddle, and found a small piece of glass, black as night. She wondered where it came from, as she had never seen anything like that glass before - glass just didn't come in that kind of black. She started to shake her head and stand up.
All of a sudden, something tore her backpack off, and she fell over backwards. Giving a short cry, Kathara looked up...into the face of the ugliest creature she had ever seen. She threw her fist in its face and rolled over to attempt to get up. Then she felt an agonizing pain in her back - no, five points of pain. She screamed and tried to get away or kick it in the knee or ANYTHING. But the monster had grabbed her head and was literally carrying her by her head and her back - Kathara had now realized it was the thing's claaws in her back - towards the puddle. The beast thrust her head towards the puddle. Kathara closed her eyes and tensed in anticapation of impact with the concrete sidewalk, still struggling as her head was slammed down...
...into nothing.
A/N: Again, please review! And thanks to anyone who's reading my story.
Chapter 1
Kathara grumbled to herself as she walked home from school, kicking at the pieces of gravel that had migrated onto the sidewalk. The note from her teacher in her pocket was doom.
Earlier that day, Kathara's science teacher had stopped her and given her the note, promising to email her mom if she did not give the note to her. Kathara's grade had dropped to a D+ in the months since Christmas - Definitely not a good thing when you're a Senior hoping to get into a good college. She had tried to keep her grades up, she really had, but with her cat dying, her best friend moving to Arizona, and her parents getting a divorce, it wasn't easy. If she tried to escape into her books, or space out, her grades dropped even farther. It seemed like there was no hope.
It wasn't as if she was bothered by the other kids - with her auburn hair, greenish-blue eyes, and friendly personality, she was actually pretty popular. But that wasn't what she wanted. Kathara wanted to get into a good college and become a scientist, or an author, or SOMETHING respectable and enjoyable.
Kathara looked at the book in her hand - her copy of The Fellowship of the Ring, which she had gotten for Christmas four years ago, in a complete set. She was rereading the trilogy for the seventh time, but even that was no good. If she couldn't get her grades up by June...and she almost certainly couldn't...then she was doomed to an uneducated, boring, normal, useless life. And that was one thing she wouldn't be able to stand. She kicked at a piece of gravel extra hard and watched it go flying and hit a tree. Her mom had always said that trouble came in threes, and she hoped it was true, so that this would be the end of it. Maybe it would be followed by a phenomenal good luck streak, and she would get her grades up after all!
Cheered by this thought, she walked a little taller and faster, a half-smile beginning to form on her lips. So what if Liana had moved to Arizona? They would have been seperated when they went to college, anyway. Who knows, maybe they'd meet again someday!
Abruptly, Kathara stepped in a puddle. She hadn't seen it coming, and it shouldn't have been there anyway - it was to dry for rain, and too cold today for watering plants. She shrugged and kept going. Then she noticed that she had cut her foot on something, right through the shoe. She searched through the puddle, and found a small piece of glass, black as night. She wondered where it came from, as she had never seen anything like that glass before - glass just didn't come in that kind of black. She started to shake her head and stand up.
All of a sudden, something tore her backpack off, and she fell over backwards. Giving a short cry, Kathara looked up...into the face of the ugliest creature she had ever seen. She threw her fist in its face and rolled over to attempt to get up. Then she felt an agonizing pain in her back - no, five points of pain. She screamed and tried to get away or kick it in the knee or ANYTHING. But the monster had grabbed her head and was literally carrying her by her head and her back - Kathara had now realized it was the thing's claaws in her back - towards the puddle. The beast thrust her head towards the puddle. Kathara closed her eyes and tensed in anticapation of impact with the concrete sidewalk, still struggling as her head was slammed down...
...into nothing.
A/N: Again, please review! And thanks to anyone who's reading my story.