Chapter 1:
The Black, rectangular, alarm clock beeped and flashed the numbers 8am. Over and over the buzzer rang until the thin fingers of a female clicked the snooze button. Next came a yawn, from under the brown, fitted, blanket, and a figure of a girl, in her early teens, and a long and well awaited stretched as she extended as far as her fingertips could reach. Dark red hair a mess and Hazel eyes opening as the sunlight peeked through the maroon curtains.
The sleepy look in her eyes began to wide, and brightens, as she remembered that on this day it was very important.
"A new school year!" She exclaimed, eagerly jumping from her bed. Feet thudding against the hard wood floor she ran to her closet and pulled out an outfit which had taken her hours to match the night before. Today was the day that she would enter middle school: along with the joy feeling butterflies well up inside of her. She threw on a pair of cropped; Black, Capri, pants and an orange shirt with the logo of her favorite book company. Next grabbing the brush from the top of her dresser: running the brush through her tangled hair making it smooth and silky looking. As all the strands fell to her lower back, making sure she looked good in the mirror, before grabbing her brown messenger back, Draping the strap over her left shoulder: bag hitting her right hip.
She smiled in the mirror and hastily made her way downstairs where the smell of eggs and bacon hit her nose.
Standing in the kitchen was her mother, brown hair tied in a bun, wearing her usual grey dress and apron, turned to her daughter with the sizzling pan in her right hand.
"Well you sure didn't waste any time coming down here," She laughed as the girl pulled up a seat to the table and began gulping down the milk that was placed in front of her.
"I was too excited to sleep last night!" the girl said taking a breath leaving no drop of the drink left.
Her mother smiled, "You really are getting too old for me Aiya. My little baby is growing up too quickly for me," She continued, scraping the eggs from the pan onto her daughters' plate. Aiya picked up her fork and scarfed the eggs down as fast as she could.
"Woah slow down, you're going to upset your stomach if you keep eating like that!" her mother warned, sitting in the chair across from Aiya, setting the cup of coffee down.
Aiya finished and jumped from her seat at the table, even making her mother jump an inch or two.
"I really hate to eat and run mom, but I want to meet my friends early today." She rushed slipping on her sneakers.
Her mother appearing in the hallway by the front door, "Just be careful out there, and remember don't go anywhere near the wall," she said as Aiya shut the door on her, Letting out a sigh, as she watched Aiya run around the corner of the house and was soon out of sight.
Running down the bricked path Aiya hit it at top speed, her adrenalin rushing to her legs pushed her to go faster and faster. That is, until "the wall" came within sight. This caused the girl to slow to a walk as she approached the ever tall brick structure. It was at least 5 meters tall and expanded past the sight of the keenest eye. It loomed over her as she looked up, only being able to see the blue sky and the tips of the leaves from the trees on the other side.
A long time ago, when Aiya was much younger, her father, mother and all the other grownups of the town would tell the children stories of horrifying beasts which lurked on the other side of the bricked wall. And that it was built to keep people safe and the bad creatures out.
Having to look at this great structure everyday for the past 13 years, she couldn't help but wonder, like most children her age, what was really on the other side. Why it was really built and why it was forbidden to even touch it.
It was in that moment she caught fast movement out of the corner of her eye. Aiya jumped and yelled looking to her left, but there was nothing there. Thinking her eyes had played tricks on her, she figured that was enough looking at the eyesore for one day. She turned back down the street towards the school, meeting her friends at the gate, reminiscing about the long summer and eventually starting the school day.
It was only one week later, that everything she thought she knew was about to change.
It had started out as a normal walk to school like she had done for years. Only today she had to drag herself from out of bed, pulling on her usual clothes and eating the breakfast her mom made for her everyday.
It was on this day she walked slower than usual, on the right side of her the town she lived in while on the left side the looming wall. The sky was grey and there were little sounds of the hustle and bustle of the townsfolk. It seemed like no one really wanted to be out at that time. But it was in that silence that the loudest roar, of a large beast, bellowed that it had echoed off of the wall.
Aiya stopped abruptly. Her head snapped towards the wall, her eyes wide in terror and curiosity, never in all her years alive had she ever heard a roar that loud. She looked around as some of the other people heard the noise as well, but pretended not to hear, or so they acted like they didn't hear it. Older grownups didn't even look in the walls direction while others scolded their children who asked what the noise even was. It seemed a bit odd to her.
Curiosity getting the better of her, Aiya ran the opposite direction of her school towards the park. It was there that trees and bushes hid her from view so that she could find a way to the other side. The wall had more wear and tear in it in most of the rural parts of the town where holes were forming on the lowers parts of its lining.
Taking yet another look around she peeked through the hold to see nothing but trees for miles and miles, or so it seemed like. She then placed her hand on the loose bricks, allowing herself to fit through a hole which she dug, dropping herself on the other side of the wall, for the first time ever.
Heart racing and palms sweating, she expected someone to catch her. Her eyes darted from one side to another, but there was not a soul in sight. She let out a quick breath as she moved forwards, pushing the brush out of her way. Having no path or set goal in mind, all she did was press on. Unaware that there was something or someone following her, watching her every movement.
What seemed like hours, Aiya finally came to a river. As blue as the sky itself and as clear as crystal, a waterfall lay just feet away from where she emerged from the forest. It had looked like a major rock slide had occurred because of the enormous boulders laying all around her.
But it was a whole new sound which caught her attention. Almost like a murmur in the background, it sounded like the voices of ….people.
"What are people doing way out here in the middle of nowhere?" She asked herself as she set out on foot, once again, this time through even thicker trees with enormous trunks and large green leaves falling around her. Just plain grass turned into what looked like a secret grassy path. A straight line leading towards something, or at least she hoped something.
Further and further, the sun reached its highest peak in the sky. She turned the corner of a large oak tree and came upon a strange sight. What looked like the ruins of an old town. The remains of what looked like a wall, was all but a pile of twigs. And two large planks of wood, laying on the right and left of her, doors maybe? It looked like there used to be words on them but was illegible. Walking past all the broken stone and wood, it looked as if the forest had begun taking over whatever was left.
"It looks eerie, almost like a huge war took place." Aiya said clutching the strap of her bag. Ashes of fallen buildings and trees growing to cover what was left, she walked just a tad further.
There was then a sudden flash. Aiya briefly saw the image of a male figure. One she could not recall ever seeing. She couldn't hear him, but it seemed as if he was talking to someone, her maybe?
Suddenly she got an awful headache and sat beneath one of the trees to catch her breath.
"What was that?" she asked holding her head.
There was then a jerk of the ground below her as the same roar hounded the air around her, this time closer.
The ground shook as a large beast emerged from under the ground. Its sharp fangs and claws like a wolf, with the sight of death in its eyes. Aiya was too scared to move an inch. This creature was several times larger than her and could easily eat her in one bite.
But there was then a shimmer of a metal object flying through the air as metal spikes, about twenty of them, hit the right side of the monster.
A roar of pain escaped its jaws as three figures came flying out of nowhere and surrounded the beast.
Aiya saw they were people. "Flying people?" she exclaimed to herself, thinking she had hit her head harder than she thought.
One of the people turned to her, placing his hands under her knees and around her shoulders, flying into the air and away from the pending battle.
Aiya and this mysterious boy landed on one of the tree branches furthest away from the action. Aiya could not take her eyes off of him. Jet black hair and coal black eyes. He turned his head to look at her, revealing a metal band across his forehead, with a strange symbol plastered across it. What looked like a leaf.
"Who are you?" the guy finally asked her after a long stare at each other.
Nothing could escape her lips, she was too stunned to even speak, eventually darkness consuming her as she passed out. Last hearing the boys voice over and over until it eventually faded away.
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