The Last Apprentice series is real and some really good books to read. They're a fantasy series and there are seven books so far in the series:
Revenge of the Witch
Curse of the Bane
Night of the Soul Stealer
Attack of the Fiend
Wrath of the Blood-Eye
Clash of the Demons
Rise of the Huntress
They are the one of the series I'm reading now (along with the Rangers Apprentice also a great series except it is mostly fiction.) I just barely got my hands on the new one. There is also two extra books called
The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors
The Coven of Witches
Also a really good ones (though I haven't read Coven of Witches) to read but read the warning on the back and don't read them after dark. JK I do it all the time and I am just fine with it.
"I'm so bored about being here in the hospital for so long." I said groaning. "I don't think I can stand being here a minute longer without going insane soon."
"You're not alone in that feeling at all Danni. It's so boring here you can only watch so much TV for so long without being bored to death. I don't need it either," Jessie looked at me, "but you do need it until you stop coughing and throwing up after your nearly fatal drowning. We almost lost you there. We're in here just so they can find out what we were being drugged with."
Mandy, Jessie, and I were in the same room together luckily so we could talk without having to leave the room. There was a cop outside the door in case the kidnapper came for us while we were still in the hospital.
"Isn't school out yet I mean it got to be after three," Mandy said looking at the clock that was way off and needed new batteries which the nurse had promised to fix but never did, "or have the HSR's forgotten we are here or worse exist for all it seems like they care?"
"Did our dear sweet second vice-president just take our groups name in vain?" Jackie walked in with almost all the HSR's in tow. "You know better than that and for your information dear sweet sister of mine we were all out shopping for you so don't be too mad at us."
"What were shopping for?" She asked. "Did your parents take you or did you go of your own accord?"
"We all were shopping for the three of you of our own accord of course." She grinned "Why else would we go shopping for after school without our parents dragging us all over town?"
"You were shopping for us? Why are you doing that?" I asked. "And please don't say you got us all clothes." I teased her.
"No it's gifts of course. We bought you gifts, get well soon gifts," Kyle said and started to dance tossing us each a stuffed animal. His energy was back on line exactly as it had been before but he was being a little gentler around the three of us.
All the stuffed animals were pretty big but not huge. Jessie had a tiger stuffed animal. Mandy's was a panda. Mine was a wolf.
"Have they caught our kidnapper yet?" I asked anxiously hopping to hear them say yes sticking the wolf next to me on the bed loving it because it was soft and we all loved soft stuff.
"No, but they, the Criminal Minds Team, promised not to give up until they do catch him," Kyle said as he stopped dancing to answer my question. "Not to mention they don't relish the idea of you three going back to school any time soon."
"What do you mean by that?" Mandy said. "We have to finish so we can graduate or someone is going to kill us like Danni."
"Of course someone will have to dig me up first my parents would do the job." I said "If I don't graduate then I'll be kicked out of my house and then there will be trouble."
"You can come live with me then and we can share my room." Jessie smiled "My mom absolutely loves you and would love you to come live with us."
"The reason they don't want you going back it because that means they have to keep track of four and the rest of the HSR's instead of just one," Kyle grinned. "They had to start doing that after we attacked Jedi. I think he's the one who took you."
Jackie gave us each a felt blanket.
"It wasn't Jedi who took us. I said spreading my blanket out over me with Trent's help just like Jessie and Mandy were doing with someone's help. "I would have recognized him. Not to mention he has red hair and the man who took us obviously had dark hair I saw a little of it when he turned his back on us one time and he started to his mask off but we still didn't see his face." I sighed and began to open a flat box Trent had handed to me after helping me with the blanket.
Trent explained as I opened it, "It took us all night last night to finish that for you so you better like it."
"Hey, that's my job. To stay up all night and not sleep in class unless the teacher is completely boring or has a monotone voice like Mrs. Lacy." I grinned; I could stay up all night and be wide awake most of the next day (with the wonderful help of sugar and caffeine but I stopped doing that when I started to get sick to my stomach on a daily basis.)
As I pulled a big white binder out of the box I looked at the front and gasped. "You didn't?" I squealed as I threw open the binder and started to cry, tears of joy and gratitude to my friends for typing up the Enchantments for me. All two hundred and eighty six pages were now typed up.
"There several different founts of the prophecy and chart," Trent hugged me. "We're glad you like it."
"Thank you," I cried. "I was wondering how long it would take me to type it all up when I finally finished writing it."
"Well Jackie can type over three hundred words a minute." Kyle laughed "I had to figure out what your misspelled words were supposed to be. Trent's good with grammar and so on and so forth so he edited it while Jackie typed and I read as she typed it all."
I held the new binder and my freshly typed story close to my chest. "I'm glad I have such excellent friends like you all that would do that for me. Thank you so much."
"No problem-o!" Kyle said jumping around and the three of us rolled our eyes. The old crazy Kyle was back once again.
Then Jessica rushed in. "Sorry I'm late. Thank goodness my parents had some gift cards they let me have." She said handing a box to each of us.
Jessie opened hers and pulled out a book.
"You got us all books?" Jessie was puzzled.
"The kind each of you would like." Jessica said
Jessie looked and the title and said "Hey this is my favorite series, Fable Haven, thanks Jessica."
Mandy opened hers and grinned "The new Anime series I've wanted to read and Anime books always have been my favorite!"
"Your turn Danni and I can't wait to see your face!" Jessica grinned. I opened it and I saw Revenge of the Witch first. "You got me The Last Apprentice series!" I shouted for joy.
"I must say it was job get them all including the new one Coven of Witches which I almost didn't get because that was the last one on the shelf!" She said
"Thank you, thank you." I said pulling out the first book.
"Now we have something to do." Jessie said "Read it aloud Danni. I'm curious what you like so much about this series."
"Okay." I started to read Revenge of the Witch the first book of the Last Appearance series aloud and all my friends sat down to listen as I read. We took turns when I got tired.
We read until the doctors told our friends they had to leave so we could get a good night's sleep.
"Are you really sure this is a very good idea for them to being going back to school all ready Hotch?" JJ asked as they pulled up in front of Kyle house to make sure he was safe on his way to school sense we all wanted to still go the normal way, walking together. Well, what we thought was normal. We all had learned as HSR's there is no really such thing as normal. It was one of our many mottos, 'What's normal? There is no such thing as normal. What's normal for one person is strange to another so there is no such thing as normal.'
"None of us really relished the idea of this at all JJ," Gideon said. "Still you know we owe it to these kids. Remember the last four cases they turned up on and helped us out. Especially that one in West Virginia, The Bossy Serial Killer, they noticed all the victims were all were actually all blond though the age, physical type, and sex didn't matter. He just was dying their hair blond because he hated blonds for some reason. It was because of his sister told him he was inferior and he never got over how she and their dad treated him while he was growing up and they were both blond."
"You're right we couldn't have solved that case without their help." JJ nodded, "but what I mean is do you think that we should not let them go anywhere before we find their attacker. It's suicidal after he tried to kill Danni he could try and kill them all while they are at school."
"I know what you're thinking, JJ, but their parents want them to go on as business is normal and they need to graduate from High School. Though Danni did say after her mother said normal, 'What's normal? What's normal to us is not normal to others. So there is no such thing as normal.' I said this before we came we are going to make sure their attacker doesn't get another chance to hurt them. We owe them that much at least now."
Kyle suddenly came out of his house and waved as he saw them waiting across the street for him. He turned to walk up the street. They followed as he stopped at Mandy's. She came out and they continued walking. The Criminal Minds Crew followed as we walked to the school together talking like old buddies which we were. Then they parked in the almost full parking lot and went inside. The school I got to tell you is more like a very busy zoo in the morning then anything. Jocks meeting in teams, cheerleaders fixing their hair and makeup with hand held mirrors or spraying perfume all over the place, fan groups following the object of their group's affection, and of course, the HSR's is one of the larger groups in the place standing or sitting around in the commons area as we arrived. Kyle was checking a notebook with a list of names to make sure they all were there.
"Josh's missing. Tori's missing. Jackie's….." Next thing you knew he was on the ground his notebook flew from his hand. "Running at me again to knock me down once more for fun and to break her record of the most times she did this in a week."
"Got you my friend aka brother and the HSR's recorder Kyle," Jackie shouted.
"Okay now you've got me twice this week," Kyle said pushing her off him and getting up going to grab his note book from where it had flown.
"Sorry I'm late," Tori hurried over to us. "The bus was late today I felt like I was waiting forever for it to come to pick me up."
"Breakfast time!" I shouted over the talking.
"All the little tables are all full by now," Logan arrived at that point. "And there was a last minute early morning today so Trent will be a while."
"The tables won't be full for long," Jessie said. "Those little tables are our assigned seats remember."
We all ran to the lunchroom. The Criminal Minds clan was actually having a fun time trying to keep track of us, the leaders of the HSR's group.
The little tables were quickly vacated by people when we entered sense we always sat there, that is the exception of five HSR's already in their spots waiting for the rest of us to arrive. We sat down and started talking. Trent came in a few minutes later and he handed me a little note.
I started jumping up and down in my seat squealing.
"What?" Jessie said as I stopped jumping.
"Mrs. Wharton told me that if we could get Danni to get all her blocking down she would remain in the Beauty and the Beast Musical as Belle," He said smiling then he turned back to me, "Elise and many others want you to come to all early mornings that we aren't assigned so we can work with you. Elise wants to help you even though she'd get your part after your ordeal she doesn't care what part she gets anymore. Mrs. Wharton heard about it too and that's why she told us that if you learn your blocking and do them well when she tests us then you'll remain as Belle." Trent smiled and said "To tell you the truth as the Beast I'd rather dance with you. No offence to Elise but she wants to lead in the dances not me. Mrs. Wharton has noticed and told her not to but she just doesn't stop doing that. It's driving me mad. You let me lead you. I know that when I went to Prom with you a last year."
"Consider it done," I smiled. "You won't have to suffer dancing with Elise much longer my dear Prince. Besides I'll have no problem learning the blocking, for some weird reason I have always has this photographic memory when it comes to blocking in plays or shows."
Suddenly the bell rang.
"Parting of the ways now, you all have a good day." I said as Jessie, Mandy, and I left the lunch room with a few others that separated when we got to the halls or intersections.
Hotch, Gideon, JJ, and Reid all followed us girls, while Morgan went with Kyle who had left all ready left o do some catch up work.
I walked Mandy and Jessie to their governent class and then Trent caught up with us. "She's blocking 'Be Our Guest' today so we need to hurry because Elise and many others including me aren't in that number so we can start teaching you all the main scenes with me."
"See you sisters later." I shouted to Mandy and Jessie as I ran down the hall with Trent and the other actors in our group as Jessie and Mandy entered the classroom together with big smiles on their faces. As Reid did his best to follow us. We were as normal as all HSR's are which is strange to everyone else but we didn't care what they thought. We decided after a long time to just be ourselves because fitting in and being ourselves was an impossible task but to us it didn't matter anymore because HSR's learned not to care about being in the popular crowds anymore.