AN: hello there ! :D so this is my new story that is related to the iron fey or king (idek) series! It takes place after the last book but there will be minor differences. I dont know how far I will get with this so please be patient although no one will probably read this lol please enjoy and review ! x

Iron King Series fanfic x

"C'mon Ellie! Get one more set it! You can do it!"

I groaned as I finished the last set of 8 reps with my 50 pound weight. I gently put the weight back on the rack and collapsed on the floor, breathing heavily. My vision was consumed with black dots and I felt like my lunch was going to make reappearance. Thankfully, a few moments later, as expected, I started to feel better.

"I bet that was worth it, wasn't it"

I craned my head to look at my best friend, Margret. She was looking at me with an amused expression.

"It always is," I agreed.

She helped me to my feet and I almost slipped, my hands were so sweaty.

"And just think," Margret began," in only two years we will finally get to go into the nevernever!"

I frowned. Two years was too long a wait, I wanted to go in now, I was ready to go now. We shut off all the lights on our way out, since we were almost always the last to the leave the gym.

"I'm going to hit the showers, I'll see you in our room," I said.

Margret nodded and we went our separate ways.

I grabbed my two favorite towels from the cupboard, taking a quick look around before I striped off my sweaty clothes and stepped into steaming hot water. I never felt like I was alone around here, that 'someone is watching you 'feeling came more often than not. I shook those thoughts away though and focused on the hot water that had begun to turn my skin a bright red.

I heard a buzzing sound and a movement at my toes caught my attention. It looked like a beetle only…it wasn't. The bug's backside was made of small plates of metal that glistened in the light.

I stepped on it with little force, but the bug's metal skin cut through my foot, causing me to let out a small shriek. The bug seemed to have disappeared, leaving a long gash on the bottom of my right foot.

I sighed, shutting of the water. Shampoo was overrated anyway.

I poked my head out of the curtain but my towels were nowhere in sight.

"Looking for these?" Someone spoke.

I eyed Andy coming in from the doorway and my face paled. He had tried to rape me once. I had barely gotten out of his grasp. Of course, he denied the whole thing.

He smirked at me with silver eyes as he shook my towels around in one hand.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

His golden hair ruffled a little as he walked, and he was dressed in a white t-shirt and loose sweatpants.

"Just visiting my favorite girl," he responded.

I wrung my hands on the shower curtain, bringing it up to my chin.

"Can I have my towel back? I need to get a good night sleep, tomorrows a big day," I muttered.

"Oh, is baby Ellie neeerrvvouss?" He teased, inches from my face.

I stood my ground; backing away would only show weakness.

"I actually plan on doing good," I challenged.

He put his hand on the shower curtain, his pinky overlapping mine and my heartbeat sped up.

"Andy, please," I whispered.

He licked his lips," you'll come around, they always do,"

As he turned away, thankfully dropping my towels, I thought I saw a slight point to his ears. When I blinked a second later though, his ears were perfectly rounded. I grabbed my towels and quickly wrapped them around me, not taking a second longer to run back to my room.

When I got back Margret was watching Criminal Minds on our small TV.

"What took you so long?" She asked, not taking her eyes away from the screen.

I walked over to my dresser and threw on a nightgown, throwing my dirty towels in the hamper before answering." I got carried away with my thoughts, lost track of time."

"I should have known," She laughed, turning around to look at me.

Margret had died her whole head a light pink about a month ago, and she was one of those people who could actually pull it off. Her brown eyes eyed me with genuine friendship. She was older than me by a year and 3 months, and it showed.

"You look a little shaken up," She observed.

"Just a little nervous about the trials tomorrow, that's all." I lied.

She gave me a sympathetic smile.

"Don't be! You're going to do great, I promise," She assured me.

We had these 'trials' every year. They were just to make sure we could advance to the next level in our training, and each year the trials got harder.

"Ok well time for bed! Sweet dreams!" Margret announced. Shutting off the lights.

I welcomed the darkness, curling up under my covers and closing my eyes.

When I was four I started to...see things.

Animals would talk to me, I could find faeries sleeping in flowers and girls with green skin and leaves for hair would come play with me in my sandbox. At first I thought this was absolutely magnificent. They would play with my hair and tell me secrets about the woods that they had heard in the wind.

My parents knew what I was capable of and they soon informed me of who those girls, and all of the other creatures I would see, what they were really like.

What they did to innocent people like me.

I was put into a training camp at the age of 6 with hundreds of other kinds from my area, so that when I was old enough I could go and get rid of these unnatural creatures. They called themselves the fey and they took enjoyment in human's misery. They fed off of our hopes and dreams. After all, if we didn't believe, then they didn't exist.

Ever since then it was drilled in my head that the fey were evil and needed to be destroyed. I had been taught about all the creatures in their home, the nevernever, and what they were capable of.

And soon, although not soon enough, I could avenge all of the human's deaths that the fey had caused.

That was my goal.