A/N – Another chapter out yeah! Thanks to my friends and The Write Philosophia I have a renewed determination to see this story through and do it as well as possible, thank you guy! Anyone who has already read the first chapter should read it again as I have almost doubled the size of it telling quite a bit more of the story. Hope you like the chapter!
Review Answers (because I personally love to see an authors reactions to my review):
- Yes I suppose you could say I have done this before if you really wanted to, meaning, I have a few random story "stubs" kind of lying around with the rest of my school work and notes and the like. I also did what you suggested, thank you so much for that by the way!
The Write Philosophia - I'm going to have to shorten your name it takes me about .5 seconds too long to write :P. I must tell you, I like that word and yes, you did spell that wrong the second time, the first time was correct, and I made the Prologue just a wee bit longer, but
"Karie Willows? Who in the worlds is Karie Willows?" a voice asked.
"Why she is our first Wanderer of course." a second voice answered.
"What you have been choosing the Wanderers without me! You all but promised me you would let me help!" the first voice practically screamed.
"Well brother, I know I said that but... it was just to shut you up." the second voice responded calmly.
"Fine! I will make my own Wanderers!" the first voice yelled angrily.
"No! Brother wait! You can't do that, it will upset the balance!" the second voice cried desperately.
"Alright how about I choose half of them and you chose the other half?" the first voice said after a moment of thought.
"I suppose that will have to do, but I must warn you, choose well brother." the second voice answered with a regretful sigh. Then... Karie woke up.
"Karie wake up!" Lily whispered fiercely as she shook Karie.
"Ugh stop it I'm awake," Karie moaned rolling over.
"Good come on we should go do something!"
"Like what? What could you possibly want me to do?"
"Well... we could start by getting some breakfast. And then maybe we can play some basketball?"
"Ugh its too early for basketball but I'm game for breakfast."
"Good works for me." Lily said with a shrug and then ending the conversation by walking out the door and down the stairs with Karie in tow.
Karie let herself to be half dragged around but only because she couldn't stop thinking of her bizarre dream. It seemed so real, even more so because it had just been a black background and those voices. She couldn't see even see who they belonged to. Of everything that was the part the bothered her most, not knowing who those people were, it wasn't that they knew her name or that she was a Wanderer, whatever that is, it was that she couldn't see their faces.
Lily broke her train of thought but shoving a bowl of cereal in front of her, she hadn't even realized how hungry she was until she saw the food. And, with Lily's command to "eat up" she tore into the cereal and had soon eaten every last piece... and the milk was accompanying it through her digestive system.
Lily stood nearby shaking her head in amazement simply repeating "Wow, she must've been hungry" like a broken record. "Stop staring at me!" I commanded after a second of listening to Lily.
"As you command ma'am" she said mockingly with a small curtsy.
"Don't mock me!" I said playfully my voice rising slightly with each word.
"Yes ma'am" Lily said saluting.
"I said stop it!"
"B-but its fun"
"Well lets go find something else that's 'fun'"
"Hmm how about Minecraft? We could try to find a good server, maybe something on the Xbox?"
"I like Minecraft, lets go look for a good server, do you have any types in mind? PVP? Adventure? Survival? I don't really want to do creative, but just about anything else works for me."
"Hmm I like adventure maps but I'm not really in the mood, same with PVP how about just nice, regular, survival?"
"Like I said, that works for me. Come on lets go" I said grabbing Lily and beginning to pull her down the stairs.
"I'm coming I'm coming!" Lily cried whilst trying to free myself from my grasp.
"Good!" I responded dragging Lily to the back of the basement where the computers were set up and plopping her into a chair. "Now, find me a server, I am going to read."
"Fine!"
"Aw" Lily groans as her phone goes off. Reaching into her pocket she pulls out her phone and checks it. "I have to go to fencing, the tournament starts next week! I'm so excited! I might be able to come back over later today, I'll text you" she said climbing the stairs to gather her stuff.
After a moment I got up to wish her luck at fencing and tell her goodbye. I got up just in time to do such and then walked back downstairs to attempt to bring myself closer to victory in the war against boredom.
Lily got in the car and watched as Karie turned and walked away. Then her mom pulled the car out of the driveway and started towards the fencing arena. When they got there Lily put on all her equipment and prepared for her "play fight" or "bout" epees with other members of her group. This would be her last round of practice duels before the tournament. She looked at the list of who had challenged her this week. Her first challenge was with Kylan, the bully of the group. Unfortunately, he was also the strongest of the group, by quite a bit. Lily knew that if she was going to win this she would have to be clever, and fast.
She was all suited up now, and knew who she was facing off against. So she began developing herself a strategy she could use to beat Kylan, or at least put on a good show. She believed she had a good plan but she knew that even the best plan only lasted until the first or second move. With that thought she look up at the time, waited for her duel to be announced and stepped onto the strip.
