Snowy Jades

Chapter One


Karney Hogan

I looked over toward the horizon. The sun was rising for a new day. The orange mixed with the several colors of violet and blue shades were a gorgeous sight. But sadly I shouldn't think of it being such. I was about 50 miles away from home or more. I was being sent where you may ask? I should go back to the beginning.


I worked my way up the street, my best friend Christy Snow right beside me. She was just about a foot shorter than me, if not than 9 inches. Her dark blue hair that looked more like a bruise more than anything reached her ankles. Her hair flowed along with the soft blow of the wind that it was hard not to stare at her. Her pale skin complimented her hair and her light broken blue glass eyes that reflected the afternoon rays of the sun. She was the same age as me, and if we were both in a beauty contest she would have won the medal. She was just flawless to me.

The afternoon heat burned at my almost already tan skin. I inhaled and exhaled deeply. "Christy I-, well there's something I need to tell you."

She looked at me. "What is it?" Her eyes shone with curiosity. If emotion could make her more beautiful than she already was I would say she was an angel from above. Her voice sounded melodic to my ears.

I chuckled lightly. What was I thinking? "Well I- ugh, well- er. . ."

"Master Karney Hogan," Someone called my name.

I sighed a bit agitated, but turned around nonetheless to see my right hand: Jeremy Ukraine.

He was taller than me and sooner or later he'll be stronger than me also. I also grew up with him during our teen years. His IQ is close to Ace Kilarae's or my uncle Yusei Fudo's, which is saying a lot. His parents abandoned him when they were visiting Neo Domino. He was a native born from Germany and he was blonde haired and blue eyed. He knows many martial arts and is very powerful, physically and mentally. He was raised by my uncle Yusei and by one of my fathers: Jack Atlas.

His voice was deep with a sharp edge. Perfect for my right hand man!

"Jeremy, my friend. Is there something wrong?" I asked with a hint of irritation, without meaning to.

He nodded his head. "You are assigned to go to the pier to meet King Kacey and his daughter Princess Jade Longhorn, along with your parents and uncles. Apparently you caught the eye of the princess."

From the corner of my eye I saw Christy look heartbroken. Which, by the way, killed me upon seeing her like that.

I sighed angrily. "It better be good. Otherwise it would be a waste of time."

"I'll stay here and wait for you." Christy said out of nowhere.

I turned to look at her, unable to hide the surprise that crawled over me. "Are you sure? It could be a while until I return?"

She nodded her head. "Your job comes first Karney. I'll wait here for you. I will always wait for you!"

I smiled at her as she blushed lightly. "Thank you Christy. I'll be back as soon as I can."

With that I ran right after Jeremy toward the pier.


The salty wind hit my face once we entered the main part of the pier. Jeremy was ahead of me by 5 yards. I was still trying to find a way to get this- whatever it is- done quickly so I could get back to Christy so I could say the thing I wanted to say for awhile now.

As we neared a group of people, straight away I could tell two of them were from a royal family.

The king; King Kacey, had dark brown hair that was cut short from the tips of his ears. He wore purple robes with golden flower engravings and many rings on his fingers. His face looked proud and determined, but I could see fear very easily in his eyes. His eyes were a dark shade of green, with his skin being a coppery tan.

The female beside him that was 2 heads shorter than Kacey was twirling her long but curly brown hair. Her eyes were a green color and she had tan skin. She wore rosy pink robes and her face took on an expression of boredom. She was rather beautiful, but to tell you the truth now, I would pick Christy any day at any time in any situation. Just by her look I could tell her personality was horrible. She just had so many flaws to her that I could name right off from her appearance.

When her eyes met mine her bored expression became one of shock and surprise. Her eyes turned a darker shade and she looked away, blushing a bit and looking at her father.

When we neared them I could hear their conversation more clearly.

". . . Many think that sir, but as you can recall earlier in this conversation; unless you have something of ours on purpose and from force, we will attack if it comes to that."

Ah, so that's what Kacey was afraid of. We would attack him for other reasons . . . though many decades would have already have passed us then, he would probably no longer be breathing when we do attack. Maybe his descendent would mess that up. But as it looks it seems like the woman with him, Princess Jade; is his only child. He could possibly be here to form an alliance by marriage. And if so . . ., is that why I was summoned?

I swallowed loudly. I could tell from this woman's appearance that she'll be bossy. Like I said, she seemed like the girl to be the total opposite from what I'm used to: females like Christy.

Remembering her I sped up my pace. Better to get this done than to delay it. I want to get back to Christy!

As I neared the group I could feel the sea breeze against my skin that was burned earlier today. It felt good, even for how short lived it was.

I looked over to the horizon behind Kacey and Jade. The orange mixed with the purple and blue shades reminded me of violets, and Christy's hair for a millisecond. Violets are Christy's favorite flowers, maybe when I go back I should pick some up for her.

I looked at my father Crow and by the look on his face I could already tell I wouldn't enjoy this next bit.


Long story shorter than what I was making it sound like before, I did not see Christy at all the rest of that day. Nor did I get to tell her what was on my mind which actually bites. But what got under my skin more than that was that Princess Jade woman declaring me her "Lifelong partner!"

Trust me I literally gagged!

Sure she's good looking, but on the inside her personality is just plain horrible. Christy's personality is as beautiful as she is on the outside. Christy being attractive on the outside would be an added bonus, but I'm not like other guys so I shouldn't say that should I?

An island came into view along with the Horizon, which so happened to be where I was going.

Great, guess my torture starts as soon as it can! They said 7 days, that's about 168 hours. That's a week's worth of time before I was supposed to get here. How the heck did that happen?


Author's Note:

I loved the feedback from the first chapter guys, and I hope I could make it all up to you in the future to come. Now, where do you think King Kacey and Princess Jade Longhorn live?

I have a new poll up, so the last one ended sooner than it was supposed to because of this story!

Okay, now to tell you now: Every chapter will have an Author's Note at the end, or at the top if something important is up and might be repeated at the end of the story. This is so I can update my own readers of how the story will be progressed.

For starters this story will be the only one updated for awhile until A Place Burned and Sisters and Brothers: Mayhem Awaits get completed to the rightfully number of chapters; the 3:1 ratio.

Second would be that the first few chapters would be in separate points of views. Like this chapter was only Karney's P.O.V. The next chapter would be both Jade's and Christy's. The third would have Kacey's and Jeremy's P.O.V. This will go on for awhile until said otherwise.

Plus, I would like a review about the scenery/imagery I give the story, since I'm using this story to work on that right now little skill of mine. Plus I would like to know if the rating should be changed when it needs to since one work or chapter could mean a big difference for that rating.

To add on to working on scenery/imagery, this story also helps me with theme. The theme of this story should be easy to spot, but if not I'll tell you at the end of the story if you don't get it . . . and if I remember. But try to guess anyway for the heck of it!

And last before I leave to work on the next chapter, I would like to thank all my readers and the readers who just so happened to start reading this. Also I would like to thank FiringShootingStar for being my co-writer for this story, of course so give her some praise!

If so, read on and I will update more as soon as I can!

-Kyuki!

P.S.: I would like to thank FiringShootingStar and Destiny of Rose for their reviews and I hope that I could make the story good for all of you!