May 11
3
Chapter 9
THE DEATH ARENA
When I woke up I was tied down to a big metal thing. Above me, there was a ton bright yellow lights, but the strange thing was that they seemed to be floating in the air and there was nothing holding them up. I looked closer and I saw that they were small little lights that seemed to change shape every moment. They looked like the light that is inside a light bulb except there was not a single wire or piece of plastic. Then I looked down, and I noticed that I wasn’t tied down at all. I just couldn’t move, and there seemed to be a invisible force holding me down. I also noticed that I was in a big metal cabin, or maybe it was a little house, but ether way I didn’t like any of this at all. When the door opened, I caught a glimpse of the outside. There were a bunch of trees and a little village. The door slammed shut and it made a big loud noise that I had never heard before. I looked at the person that had opened the door and it was the same guard from the hotel.
“Well, well what have we here” the guard said in an extremely loud voice.
“It looks like Jake me,” he said laughing. He put up his hand and I felt myself float into the air. He picked up his other hand and pushed it forward and then the door swung open. He jerked his hand to the side, and I went flying out the door.
“Guess they didn’t even teach you how to block spells” said the guard. Just then James came flying out of one of the cabins, and a black-cloaked dude walked out of the door flexing his fingers. I looked around and saw a bunch of kids lying on the ground. Each one had someone standing by them and there were tons of cabins. There was a big wall that stretched high into the sky. It was so high that I could only see about one tenth of it.
“And I know that you are one of them,” said the guard after he had cleared his throat.
“One of who?” I asked in a scared voice.
“Them” he said.
“One of who!” I yelled.
“You’ll see… you’ll see” he said laughing. Then I felt myself fly into to the air. I was jerked slightly to the left but then floated to the big gigantic wall. What a dream I thought… I better wake myself up. I tried to smack myself, but the barrier wouldn’t let me move a muscle.
Hey that’s not supposed to happen, I’m supposed to wake up I thought.
“O this ain’t no dream,” he said and chuckled loudly. I thought that ‘ain’t’ wasn’t a word,” I said making fun of his grammar.
“Shut up!”, he growled so every one could hear him.
I was so startled, that I almost fell except the barrier wouldn’t let me.
Ok, this guy can ether read minds or he just guessed…so this is probably a dream. I floated past a kid that was still on the ground.
“I knew this was going to happen,” he mumbled. That didn’t help me at all. then a hole in the wall appeared and a few kids were thrown in there one by one they threw a kid in there and then it was my turn I landed with a loud thump I turned around and the hole closed up and then all of the black cape people were sitting in their seats I looked around even more carefully and then I saw that I was in gladiator arena the ground rumbled as a door opened and shadow men came in to the arena then there was a loud sound and one of the shadow men came up laughing and he stabbed a kid in the stomach and then that kid clutched his stomach and he melted into a black vapor. The clock dude people responded by laughing. and on the other hand I had seen them coming and I jumped out of the way of two incoming shadow dudes and I barely slashed his sword arm off and the other shadow dude turned into a puff of air (my specialty) and the armless one started to disintegrate and right after that a big explosion of rock appeared in front of me and knocked me off my feet completely then to walls came up on the side and spears were sent whizzing from in front and behind me and then spears came falling from the sky and I dodged all most all of them except the one that hit me right in the chest and broke in half darn that’s about the third rune wasted I said privately. Then this kid jumped in the air and his clothes turned to gold and he had a bright shining platinum sword that looked sharp enough to cut anything but he stayed in the air .I noticed a gray little storm cloud had started to form on his sword and then.
“Crash” a junior thunder blot struck a shadow dude that was about to slice him. He put his sword in the air and then the clouds started to swirl. he was about to point his sword at the guard then chains came up out of the ground and hooked onto every body and pulled them to the downward then the guard said.
“Impressive” the guard shouted some weird form of language and then I fell to the ground along with the others and it was all black. When I woke I was in the arena still and almost every one else was awake then the guard walked in with the rest of the people I had seen
earlier we will be watching you die today now every one to the cages I saw a bunch of cages and I figured that I had no choice but to listen. The last kid to his cage was pulled in to the arena and then this big door opened and then double headed lions jumped in to the arena and jumped on the kid I new what would happen and so I closed my eyes and when I opened them there was no kid and but a pile of settling dust then another kid was pulled out from his cage. But this kid cut the lions heads of clean and then a hole in the ground opened and then at lest five trolls climbed out and I new what was going to happen when the trolls got in at lest two feet away from him. as kids were sent up there I fell asleep.
May 11
3
Chapter 8
THE ATTACK
I woke up and then unlocked my door and walked down the hall and I went down the stairs and when I got to the bottom of the stairs I saw James over on the computer. I wanted to ignore James and so I quietly walked past the door and into the kitchen and I made myself some breakfast then James came in screaming
“The sky’s getting dark”
“The sky is supposed to get light in the morning” I said
“That’s exactly my point” James said still panting.
“Then show me” I said in an important voice. And then he pulled my arm and dragged me into the computer room when I looked up I saw that there was a big black cloud cruising the sky and it looked like a swarm of flies flying across the sky that seemed to go for ever horizontally and it was slowly growing bigger every second, then a bright green glow was sent into the air and the source seemed to come from behind the hill and then I looked up and the whole sky was dark when.
“Zap” there was a flash of light in the sky and then one of our trees was gone and instead there was a flaming fire then another bolt came down from the sky and shattered the window that me and James were looking through. By that time there were lightning bolts everywhere then there was a loud noise I looked that direction and an arrow was sent whistling past my foot.
“Wham” I was lying on the ground and there was a big hole in my shirt and everything around me was on fire I turned around and I saw James running out of the door and he was sent back in the house when a lightning bolt hit him in the stomach James doubled over and fell on the ground. I looked back were the window should have been and I saw at least fifty trolls smashing everything in their path coming my way
“Help” James screamed. I looked to see were James had gone but he wasn’t anywhere in sight
“James” I screamed as I got up to go and see were James was. When I got to the door James was fighting a shadow and there was a sword in his hand and it was made out of a thin sheet of air and the shadow person was holding a big shield with a black swirl in the middle and spikes on the edges and he had a black helmet and to top it all off he had black armor that seemed to be blacker than black and it seemed to go four ever if you looked at it. Every time James would look at the armor he seemed to go all hypnotized until he was smacked with a sword I went and jumped behind James but I saw the shadow dude lying on the ground with blood oozing out and he was fading away.
“well I think you passed the test” I said then I saw my parents run down the stairs as soon as they set foot out of the house they started to they were being thrown into the sky I ran outside and the sky was as black as black could be and they were being sucked into a vortex and then they were gone this must be a dream I thought. Then I heard an echo and I sounded like my mom’s voice and it said.
“Run” and then it faded away, I think that James heard it to because he ran off. I ran to the closest exit and that was a hole in the wall, I saw a glint far of in the distance that must be James but to my surprise it was not James or anything close to him it was a troll in shining armor then I heard James scream and then the troll hit me with his branch I went flying across the lawn and when I looked up I saw the same guard that I had seen at the hotel.
“Nice to see you again” he said. All of the sudden I couldn’t move and I thought of everything that had happened in the last few minutes.
“Zap” Then I felt an electric shock go through my body and everything went black. My last few memories were James disappearing and my parents getting captured.
Jan 11
29
Chapter 7 I MEET A GROUP OF FRIENDLY VISITERS
I opened my eyes and I was rewarded with a ferocious smack and I moved out of the way of the next smack not sure what was happening and then I opened my eyes wider and I saw my big fluffy pillow that’s why my head seemed lower than usual I thought. And then I noticed it was in the hands of James coming down for the next hit not again I thought.
“It’s about time you wake up I have been whacking you with this pillow four ever” he yelled and whacked me in the face with my pillow for the fourth time
“Stop it, I’m getting up” I said screaming. After I realized that he was going to hit me with that pillow until something happened to him so I threw up my foot and then James was lying on the floor I bolted down the stairs and I was about open the door when I remembered that I had fell asleep on the floor on the exact spot that I was on now then James jumped on my back and I fell down and my head hit the door and then some one opened it and that didn’t help me either.
“Loser” James laughed and ran away what a great way to open the door for a young man I thought. I picked up a big stick and ran after James just wait till I open your head for you I thought and I threw the big stick I was holding in my hand and then as I ran over the hill and there was a big yellow puffy cloud and now James gone. I realized that I had kept my eyes open for awhile now I blinked and I was in the stupid training arena place again. I looked around and I saw James walking threw the wall
“Wait” I said and ran after James when I came out of the other side of the wall and I saw a big arena and James was standing in one of them and he was fighting this weird looking creature it was small though. I kept walking and as I walked past James he looked at me and then the little dude knocked James out of the arena.
“Hey I was winning” James screamed. I jumped in the area with a green ring and then little man popped out and he had a little sword and he tried to stab me but I dodged that and then another guy popped out from behind me and they both started swinging there swords I jumped into the air as both of the swords went flying under me and for some reason I kept going into the air and then I fell towards the ground when I landed somehow I kept my balance and when I looked up I saw the little dudes on the ground and they were cut in half and there was wires all over the ground” well that was easy”
As soon as I jumped out of the green ring the arena flipped over and every thing was gone that had previously been on there walked all the way over to the last one and then a big troll jumped out and then the ground shook and it flung me into the air and when I landed I barely dodged his big tree he was holding and then another troll jumped out of the ground right next to me and just about squashed me and then one of the trolls hit me with there tree and knocked me across the floor
“Is this a test or a death trap” I said quietly. Then they both jumped into the air and they were about to kill me when all of the sudden my legs started moving and they begin to feel like air and then I was on top of the troll and there was a air sword in my hand and then the troll didn’t have a head and as it was falling I jumped of and landed in front the other troll and my hands started moving like they had there own brain but I thought that I was supposed to control my hands when I looked up I saw that both of the trolls were dead.
“Well did I pass that test” I asked and then NAME said
“you have gone through a month worth of tests in one day but that was only because you skipped about one fourth of them all and so I guessed that you did pass so its time to go to the camp… after you save your house me” and James left our mouths hanging open and then we were at our house in the front yard
“Well that was very exiting” I said in a bored voice. Then I heard a loud and important voice.
“I think that they found out when the attack is” the voice said.
“Can we switch the date to tomorrow” a weaker voice said.
“Well…I don’t know, you’re the one that got promoted to leader” the other voice said stretching the word you’re. I crawled over the hill and I saw the black cape dudes with the pointy hats
“Well the invasion is tomorrow right” one of the funky cloths dudes said.
“Well I guess there was no reason in coming here” the other guy said. And then they were gone. I ran up to my house and I opened the door and I slowly climbed the stairs and walked to my room and I collapsed on my floor.
Oct 10
26
Aaron crawled out of bed wondering when they were going to Pelegarn. Half asleep he walked down the stairs.
“Just on time” Jacor said.
“Huh”
“Were going to Pelegarn in an hour or two, better go get ready” he said.
“What happened to the deer?”
Jacor grinned. “You’ll see” Aaron went and picked up his boots and put on leather vest. He ran down the stairs and out the door over to the target, grabbed his unstrung bow and strapped his quiver to his back. Aaron walked over to the wheat field and there was some jerky hanging over a stick. Aaron went back into his house grabbed his leather bag and ran over to Jacor. “Time to go” Jacor said and walked out side and he grabbed the jerky and put it in his pack. Aaron followed Jacor out into the wheat field and to the path that lead to the trade route and he started walking. Vernast was built close to the main trade route and was on the opposite side of the road then Shem and Hemlist. As the city Vernast grew bigger in popularity the people built a road that went for about one hundred miles. The road went up and connected to the main trade route going up into Pelegarn. Aaron grew tired unwilling to tell Jacor. He wanted to show his older brother that he was a real man. Finely he could stand it no longer, and was about to tell Jacor that they should take a rest when Jacor himself requested a stop. Aaron sat down on the rocky ground he could see the small streets and houses off in the distance. “Catch” a piece of jerky collided with his face and in a hurry slid right into his lap. He popped it into his mouth enjoying the flavor.
“Want to stay here for the night”
“Hm…oh…ok” Aaron said looking around at the trees on either side of the path it didn’t look too comfy. Aaron and Jacor finding a small clearing unpacked the leather tent and crawled onto the dirt floor. Not long after he heard the soft snores of Jacor. Unable to fall asleep he thought about the next day hearing a twig snap outside of the clearing about twenty meters from the tent along with a harsh string of language. Aaron grabbed his bow and notched an arrow into place. Pushing aside the flap he crawled out and saw a group of three armored warriors. He crawled back inside hoping they would go away. Aaron heard a metal gear pulling pack a string and an arrow flying through the air followed by several others creating holes in the tent. Another arrow landed near Jacor awakening him from his deep slumber. Startled he looked up at Aaron who had a arrow placed on the left side of his bow followed by a twang and two screams from out side the tent. Aaron winced, if he didn’t shoot these men he and Jacor would surly die. He crawled out of the tent and into the bushes unnoticed by the warrior who crawled towards the tent turning his back to Aaron. Letting go of the bow an arrow struck the man in the back and he fell. Slowly he crawled over to have a look at the device in the man’s hand it was a small hand-held crossbow. Down at Vernast cross bows were not a common weapon for they were rare and expensive and rarely came with the traders. Only the rich people had crossbows but never used them hiding the crossbows in their trophy rooms.
They only people that had crossbows were the ones in the king’s army who rarely traveled to the small city of Vernast, unless there was a real problem. Aaron wondering what they might be looking for grabbed the crossbow and threw it into the tent taking of the armor and throwing it into the tent. Aaron didn’t like Armor much or gears, strings and wires it was all just to confusing and it just didn’t feel right. An arrow and a bow were both simpler then a crossbow, doing the same thing as the crossbow and in his opinion doing it a lot better too. Leather chaps a leather vest some gloves and boots was all he needed not some big hunk of metal. Aaron had, had some bad experiences with heavy armor and two handed swords, last year Jacor had been teaching him the ways of the sword. He had taken a swing at Jacor who in return, swung his sword in a long ark and in one fluid moment, disabled his shield and sword. Aarons sword flung back and smacked him flat in the face, leaving a dark bruise, scarlet blood trickled down the side of his face. Aaron winced at the thought.
“Can I have that” Jacor said completely awake this time. Jacor did not care if he killed something, or maybe he was just good at masking his emotions.
“You can have it all” Aaron replied. Jacor dragged it all into the tent and went back into his deep sleep. Aaron circled the tent and listened for sounds of any unfortunate solders. He walked over to the brick paved road and back to the tent, crawled into the tent and fell asleep.
“Aaron, wake up…‘Aaron’!”
“Ok” Aaron replied. It was early in the morning and the sun peeked over the hills and sand dunes. The only trees were around were the ones around the village witch was almost big enough to be referred to as a forest,. Aaron packed all his things. As Aaron crawled out of the tent and saw a shinning figure blocking the light.
“Hi Aaron” said the shinning figure.
“Aren’t you going to sell those” I replied.
“Yah… I guess they ‘are’ worth a lot,” Jacor said. He was eating some of the jerky and tossed some to Aaron. Jacor packed everything into his huge bag and the rest into Aarons.
“Isn’t all that armor heavy” I asked.
“Not really” he said. I knew he just wanted to wear the armor. We walked up the brick path. Aaron and Jacor could not see Vernast any longer.
“Lets go” Jacor said. Aaron and Jacor walked up the path looking for Sand Fountains witch was a desert with metal hollow chunks in the ground that was filled with water and sand, building up pressure and either spewing out sand like a fountain or the sand would slowly flow out of the metal. But sometimes they exploded throwing metal shards and steaming water threw the air. It is said that the metal was thrown here by flying men who crashed into the ground thousands of years ago. There are also legends of large hairy with metal helmets and swords coming in from the coast and long ships. The large men traded the knowledge of the sword for some priceless riches. There have been multiple sites of long ships in the sea just out of the eyesight of the witnesses.
“Aaron! Pay attention” Aaron had started to wander off of the path. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw it. There were fountains of sand and moving layers of sand and shining jewels. Aaron quickened his pace and looked back, there was few trees and lots of cactus. Jacor pointed far past sands “There it is”
Oct 10
26
Chapter 6
TRANING CAN TAKE FOR EVER
I got up and walked past James’s room and then all of the sudden there was doorknob in my face and I was on the laying ground and I saw James running the opposite way. I slowly got up and then walked down the stairs then I saw my dad up making break feast but that was weird because he usually sleeps in as I got the bottom of the stair case my dad said
“Time for your training”
“What training” I asked.
“Just go to the pillars and then you’ll be fine” he said. But I wasn’t listening so what are you making
“eggs and pancakes” he said. Oh boy my favorite I said in my head. I went and sat down at the table and started eating my eggs when there was a noise outside me and James bolted off our chairs and then out of the house when we got outside James grabbed me and pulled over to the pillars as soon as I got close to them I disappeared into a puff of yellow smoke and then me and James were in that same training arena we were in yesterday then I saw NAME in the back ground and then he said
“Well are you going to start”
“What do I do” I asked
“watch me” he said and then he went over to a spot that looked like a obstacle course and then he said
“first you need to be quick and fast like ninjas so in my opinion I think that you should start with the obstacle course with the red border but its not my choice” I looked at the obstacle course that NAME had pointed out and it looked the easiest so I went over to it but I was wrong and then all of the sudden a big axe came swinging down at me from the side and at the last second I dodged it and then a big stick came up from out of the ground in front of me and the then blades popped out and then the stick started to spin and some how I dodged them all and then big block came up from the ground and I jumped over that too and then when I hit the ground I slid under another axe that was coming at me from and then I looked up and saw a spear fall from the ceiling and then I put my hand in the way and I thought that I was doomed and to my surprise a air blade that looked like a flying saucer appeared and then it collided with the spear and they both blew up and made a funny popping noise. James and NAME stared at me in silence
“Well did I do good” I asked. And then NAME cleared his throat and said.
“And that is one of the many times when these elementals come in handy” he said acting like he was the best.
“Did I do well” I asked louder this time
“uh…yes” he said quickly. Then I saw him pull out a paper and right a few sentences and then it flouted into the air and disappeared leaving a cloud of yellow sparks behind it then he stood up and said “James turn” and then James walked over to the obstacle course, biting on his fingers the whole way to the obstacle course then he jumped in he went under the axe then over the blades and the block and then under the second axe and then the spear came crashing down on him but then I noticed that were it had hit there was a little air blade and then there was a sickening crack and the spear split in two
“ah and there some thing I for got to tell you, when you are about to get killed and you don’t use your runes they will protect you” he said.
So if I was you I would carry more then one rune…and oh yeah if you if you pass the test then you will be sent to camp.
“what test” I asked then he pointed and all of the obstacles I was hoping a different answer.
“Uh… NAME should we go and get some more of those rune things” “sure just get about twenty of them and you will be fine” he said and then he pointed his hand at me and James and then we were at the pillar.
“Well I will go first” James said. And then he walked between the four pieces of the cube and then he said THE SPELL and then an air rune came up from the pillar and then another and another until he had twenty runes. On the other hand when I got to the summoning spot I got at least forty runes just in case. As soon as I got off the summoning spot me and James appeared back with NAME and his training arena thing I went and jumped on to the second obstacle course which had a green border around it then about ten axes started to swing back and fourth. I slid under the first one missing it by inches and then I jumped over the one that was connected to the floor this happened until I reach the last two when I saw them I almost fainted there was on the ceiling and one on the ground and they were swinging right then left and they were to close together so I couldn’t jump between them then I got an idea and then I threw a rune and as it hit the swinging axes there was a horrible sound and then I slid to the end of the course but I didn’t hesitate I jumped up and then I landed on the course with a orange boarder I went from course to course when I was done I laid on the ground thinking about all of the courses I had done. I was done with the whole test in one day
“well in the human world it would be time for you two to go to bed so see you tomorrow… oh I almost forgot be ready for your next section of the test” he said. Second section I thought. And then he waved his wand and then we were at our front door. “Hey Jake do you think that he will teach us how to teleport” he asked curiously.
“I don’t know… but I do know something and that something is that we might never finish are training” I told him bitterly. We walked into the house and then I collapsed on the flour and then James fell to the ground half way up the stairs and then everything went black.