Chapter 4

" What are we going to do?"

" This is bad, this is very bad."

I felt my side. They stole my sword. There was nothing else to do... I sat up quickly. The girl with black curly hair and the Cori were with me. The girl was pacing . The boy sitting on a stool with his head in his hands.

My head throbbed.

" Whoa, not so fast." The girl said and rushed to my side. " Hi, I'm Courtney."

I laid back down...

" What happened to me?"

The boy with brown hair came in. " Well technically... When you were trying to kill Cori... You stepped between two rocks got your foot stuck and twisted your ankle. Then you fell and your head hit a very sharp rock and punctured your skull."

At that moment I realized the throbbing in my ankle, which was wrapped also.
A boy poked his head through the tent entrance. " Then blood started gushing out and you started having random spasms..."

" Jimmy!" The girl named Courtney yelled.

" Did that really happen?" I asked.

" Well sort of but..."

" Why are you being so nice? She tried to kill us!" Cori said.

" She's been unconscious for two days!" Courtney yelled back.

"Ugghhh" I groaned and blacked out.

Chapter 3

I was there for 10 and a half years. Training. Kabobing dummies. I was the only girl  training to fight. The rest of the girls were being taught to be spies. Wearing corsets and beautiful dresses. When I was ten I wondered why I wasn't like them. But Xivvu set me straight.

" If you were like those other girls you wouldn't be able to see me!"

Not that this was the most tragic news of my life. But Uncle Xivvu was the only person I knew personally.

When I was 12 I started training other students. At 13 I was working with the adults spearing hay. And at 14 I was training the adults. I'd been training them till my 16th birthday. When Uncle Xivvu told me it was my time. I would be sent on a mission. I was to find a boy name Corinath. I was told his features and was brushed away.

So I was on a mission. With one measly idea of the guy I was sent to kill.

I searched for him for seven months! When I finally found tracks. The tracks I was anticipating...

And then it all happened so fast...

I popped out of the woods and drew my sword. Corinath shouted orders and the girls started running towards the lake. The four boys waiting for me to make the first move.

After a few cuts with my sword, the three other boys were given orders to follow the girls.

The boy name Corinath and I clashed swords for awhile. He was good... Really good. But I kept up. At about the point were neither of us could take it any longer. He dashed away following the others...

Chapter 2

" What are we going to do with her?" a deep voice said.

" I don't know... I'm not ready to have another child." a gentle but strong woman replied. " Not after what happened."

" You know I can take care of this..."

"No. We will find another way."


***

" What can I do for you ma'am?"

" I need her appearance changed..."the woman said " She needs to blond... with deep gray eyes... relativity dark skin too..."

" May I ask why?" the wizard asked.

"No, you may not." the woman replied sternly.

***

" Well hello little recruit!" a man said. "Aren't you sweet!"

I stood there staring at the man blankly.

"Were'd you find her?" The man said with a totally different attitude.

"We found her in the woods. Lugging a fresh dear around." A soldier said. " She has a nice little home out there."

" What's your name little girl?"

I shrugged my shoulders.

" You mean to say you don't have a name?"

I nodded.

" Well what do you want to be called?" the man said " Elizabeth?"

I shook my head violently.

" Well?" he said.

" Marti." I said.

" Marti? Not very womanly."

I shrugged once again.

" Martisse then. Marti."

" Find her a dorm!" he yelled and stormed out.

Chapter 1

I was prancing down the creek, making sure to watch my footing. A blond boy about my age in front of me, running across the stones. The boy or man shall I say Master Xiivu had sent me to kill. He had shaggy hair and was wearing a black sleevless shirt loose pants and black boots. He had a leather breast plate on. His hands and wrists werebinded like he was practicing sword play.

In front of me he was getting close to the other side of the creek where all of his "friends" were waiting ready for battle. The boy "Corinath" I figured out later, was about 20 feet away from his friends.

15,

10,

5,

There.

He turned around quickly to face me, sword in hand. He centered himself in the middle of the half circle. Next to him a teen about the same age as Corinath with auburn hair. Her body was well built. She was wearing mens pants and a loose long sleeve shirt gathered at the side. Something I'd never seen a woman wear before.

Next to her another girl the same age. She wore a long pale green skirt and a t-shirt. Her wavy hair was pulled back in a ponytail with a bright green scrunchy.

Next to her a boy with dark shaggy hair with a sophisticated look on his face. He wore dark pants and a long sleeve shirt and strapling boots.

And next to him another boy with straight dark hair hanging down on his forehead. He had stunning green eyes.

On the other side of Corinath a boy. He had dark brown hair and dark eyes. He wore a button up shirt and pant.

Next to him a beautiful girl. With dark curly hair and light violet eyes. Her face was bright yet serious. She wore a pale purple dress.
I remember glancing at them and quickly trying to think of a plan...

But I didn't need to. With that one glance up I stepped on to what I thought was solid ground... My foot twisted and I screamed, my knees collapsed. I remember them rushing towards me... Then everything went black.