This is the story I've been writing. I'll try to get a new chapter posted each day...or at least in the week. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:07:00 -0600 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:07:00 -0600 what's your favorite color?/// black and red what color is your hair?/// brown, blue, and blonde are you related to anyone famous?/// Geronimo what is your dream car?/// Hummer coffee, tea, or neither?/// tea and coffee beans what's your favorite room in your house?/// my room are you learning a foreign language?/// not now but i'm going to learn french do you wish you were taller?/// not really...i just wear high heels what's your dream job?// aerospace engineer or being in the air force what's your favorite animal?/// dragon (duh!) do you dislike Hannah Montana and/ or her music?// nope...not really.... okay...i tag Avatarlvr, jdsfrog, Adnarim, and the second person to comment on this... Becca(Alainia) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/488381/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:07:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/488381/ The Guardian Epic Book 2: The New World is gonna start being posted in the following week. This book will be much longer and will possibly take longer to read each chapter than what it does in the first book. I hope you enjoy the series as I continue to post it.   Alainia(Becca)-author of the Guardian Epic series http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/478013/ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:24:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/478013/ Alainia heard the sound of something sharp piercing flesh and spun around to see Jason lying on the ground with a sword in his chest. Her eyes widened in horror and tears stained her cheeks. David looked between her and Jason and a look of realization dawned on his face. "Ah," he sighed. "You loved him." David walked up to Alainia, pulling his sword out of Jason's chest making him wince in pain. "Well, let me just ease the pain in your heart." He raised his sword and lunged it at her, but before it even came within an inch of her chest, a whip of fire hit his hand making it burn. It was Lurik, holding an orange and red whip in one hand and a blue whip in the other. Seeing her chance to grab David's sword, Alainia dove for it and plunged it through his back and up through his head. David's eyes began to roll around in his head and he fell foward. Alainia nuged his body to make sure he was dead, and a pool of blood spilled out of his mouth. Satisfied, she hurried over to Jason and kneeled beside him. He took her hand. "I'm sorry I yelled at you so many times," Alainia whispered. Miecyzslaw ran over with her bag of healing potions and herbs. Alainia tried so hard to hold back her tears, but she couldn't. They came down her cheeks like little rivers. "No," gasped Jason. Miecyzslaw starting grinding up herbs and pouring a whole bunch of potions into a bowl. "It is I who should be sorry. I should have taught you more. Some place inside me said that you could handle the advanced work even though it was dangerous, but I didn't want to see you get hurt." He smiled weakly at her and put her hand against her cheek, wiping away her tears. "But now I see that I was wrong. I just wish we got to spend more time together instead of these past four months." "Me, too," Alainia said weakly. Miecyzslaw had then finshed the healing solution and tore open his shirt to reveal a gash that was at least three inches long and it looked as though it went very deep. Miecyzslaw caught her breath. "What is it?" Alainia asked nervously. "I...I can't heal that," she said. "It's beyond my skill. Even if I heal the outside, I won't be able to heal the gash that's in his heart. He will still die no matter what I do." Alainia's face became screwed up as she again tried to fight back the tears, but they came never-the-less. "Alainia," said Jason. She turned to him and saw that tears were coming out of his eyes too. "I know I'm going to die. So at least let me die with pride." Silver Moon walked over and nudged Jason's head affectionately. He turned to the silver-blue dragon and smiled. "You have been with me through so much," he said to him. "If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have been chosen to train Alainia. Thank you, and you will always be like a brother to me." He turned back to Alainia. "Take care of Silver Moon, Alainia. And most definately take care of Snow Fire. If she dies, you die. And if you die, she dies." He coughed violently. And without warning, Alainia leaned over him and kissed him one last time...   It was a sad and victorious day for the Guardian Academy. They won a great battle, but lost a brave Guardian in the process. When the demons saw that Alainia had killed David, Satasan's son, they fled back to the under water cavern where Satasan lived. Alainia knew that Satasan was going to try and strike the Academy again and again until it was either the Guardians or him that would fall. Who knows how long that would go on. Alainia spent the rest of the day in her room lying on her bed while everyone else had gone to the victory banquet. She didn't feel like celebrating at the moment. She already missed Jason so much. Miecyzslaw then came in to her room. "Hey," she said. "You going to be okay?" she came over and sat on the bed next to Alainia. "I think so," Alainia sighed. "I just never thought that Jason would actually leave me. I loved him so much." A tear rolled down her cheek. "It isn't fair!" She dug her head into her pillow crying her eyes out. She didn't know how much she could take. The fact that she had killed a man was enough to make Alainia have nighmares for months on end. "Well," Miecyzslaw put and arm around her best friend. "Life isn't always fair. But there is one place he's still alive." She smiled at Alainia as she looked up with a confused look in her face. "Because you loved him, he will live on in your heart." Alainia gave Miecyzslaw a watery smile. "No offense," she said. "But that was kind of cheesy." Miecyzslaw started laughing. "Well, that's what I get for practicing in front of the mirror," she got up and got ready to head out the door. "I just hope that you will move on. And being the ruler of all univereses means that the ones who have given us these many abilities we have will allow you to visit Jason's heaven. And if he loves you as much as he says, then he might even visit you in your dreams." Alainia got up as well. "I guess I'll go down with you to the banquet," she sighed, slipping her feet into some flip-flops. Miecyzslaw waited for her. "And plus, even if I don't see Jason ever again, there's no point in morning over his death for the rest of my life. I guess I should just move on." "Yeah, you should," and the two of them left the bedroom and walked down to the Dinner Hall. Little did Alainia know that this Banquet would anounce her as the queen and that she would face even more dangers in the years to come."   The End... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/477390/ Fri, 8 Feb 2008 21:15:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/477390/ For the next few days, the Five and Jason waited anxiously for Satasan to arrive with his armies. They were all excited and scared at the same exact time. Codie would pace back and forth in front of the fire at night, and Lurik kept on walking over the edge to check to see if anything was coming. The rest of the group would just sit in their tents or keep looking over there shoulder thinking they heard something. Alainia was getting tired of waiting for something to happen, so she and Snow Fire decided to go for a flight. Meanwhile, Satasan sat upon his thrown made out of human bones in the crushing depths of the ocean. His sleek, black hair flowed over his shoulders and down his back and no one, not even his own son, could look into his cold, black eyes. Satasan's teeth were like shark's and were extremely yellow from eating raw fish all the time. He was burly and strongly built in the shoulders. His son, who was standing next to him, looked exactly like his father, only younger and with red eyes. A blood red demon came walking in to the throne room and bowed so low that his long, crooked nose almost touched the floor. "Ye Majesty," he said to Satasan in a gurgly voice. "Ye summond thee?" "Yes, General Murder," Satasan said in a voice that was as slick as his hair. "It's time to attack the Five Guardians." Murder looked up in shock, showing beady, black eyes. "Are ye sure 'tis time for thy battle?" the demon said in a trembling voice. "Do not question my choice!" yelled Satasan, making Murder cower back against the wall. "Send the attack now!" Satasan's son, David, snickered as Murder starting to shake all over. Satasan then turned to David. "Go with General Murder and go into the battle with the demons." At this, David stopped laughing. "B-but, Father!" he cried. "I can't go and fight. I'll surely die." "If that's the case, then so be it," David's mouth dropped open, but he closed it quickly in fear of being slapped on the cheek. He didn't expect his father to care about him. "Now go. You're a disgrace to me."   Alainia was now up on the cloud that had the Guardian Castle on it. She didn't see any point in becoming queen. She didn't ask for any of this to happen. It just did. Maybe I should just go back to Jeffern, she thought. It doesn't seem like the Battle is ever going to happen, so it doesn't really matter. Alainia walked back up to her room with Snow Fire slowly walking behind her. "Alainia?" Snow Fire said after a while. "What are you doing?" Alainia didn't answer at once, and she started to climb the stairwell to her room. Snow Fire growled in frustration. "Al?" the dragon tried again. It took Alainia a few seconds to realize that Snow Fire was trying to talk to her. "What?" she snapped. Snow Fire looked shocked at how Alainia had said this. Alainia never yelled at Snow Fire even if she was mad at her. "What are you doing?" Snow Fire asked as calmly as she could. "I'm going home," Alainia said in a sort of dreary voice. Snow Fire stopped walking, but Alainia kept on going. "You mean, you're going back to Jeffern?" "That's my home, so yeah," said Alainia. "I am going back." Snow Fire stepped in front of her, forcing Alainia to stop. "But you can't!" cried Snow Fire. "There's a war upon us and you just plan on leaving the Guardians against Satasan's armies? We don't stand a chance without you and Miecyzslaw being together." "I don't belong here, Snow," said Alainia sadly. "I never asked to be a Guardian and I didn't want to be one. And now I'm supposed to be the Queen of the Guardians?! I don't think so!" She marched off angrily and stormed into her room. She sighed and looked down at her hands. "And I can't watch Jason die. I just can't." Alainia wen to her dresser and pulled out all her clothes and put it in her bag. Snow Fire walked into the room and flopped down on her stomach. Then, out of no where, they heard a deafening shriek come from below the clouds. Satasan's armies were attacking the Guardians...   After about ten minutes of trying to persuade Alainia into staying, Snow Fire finally took off with Alainia on her back. They were both nervous about the battle and they didn't know what to do exactly, but Alainia had a hunch that she would know what to do after they got there. Snow Fire dove down to the stationary cloud at a ninety degree angle. Alainia looked at what was going on on the cloud. Miecyzslaw was swinging her sword this way and that, cutting down all the demons that trried to kill her or get in her way. Lurik was right now using his sword in one hand and a fire whip in the other. He knocked over a blue demon and drove his sword into its chest. Blood was everywhere Alainia looked. She then remembered that she didn't see Jason anywhere. Just then, Snow Fire landed in the middle of the great battle and let out a roar that shook everyone and everything. Alainia unsheathed her sword and attacked a boy that wasn't much older than her and had black hair and red eyes. The boy sensed her coming and unsheathed his own sword. The swords clanged against each other. "Who are you?!" cried Alainia. The boy swung his sword around and made for her leg. Suddenly, the sword veared off course as if being pushed aside by an invisible shield. Alainia stared down at her leg in amazement. The boy had a look of horror on his face, but it was quickly replaced by rage. "I might ask you the same thing, your leige," his voice was icy and it sent chills up Alainia's spine. "I am Satasan's son, David. A.K.A. your worst night mare!' And he let out a roar of rage and attacked Alainia. Speaking a run-on sentence in the language Anglo-Saxon and a flash of blue light erupted around her, sending David sprawling across the floor. Alainia walked up to him and kicked his sword out of his hand. "Actually," she looked down at his bruised face. "I think it's the other way around. I'm Queen Alainia Montez and your worst nightmare." But David's face had an expression that Alainia had not expected. He was smiling. She heard a wizzing coming from behind her and realized that something was coming at her. Turning around, Alainia screamed. A swarm of flying demons came swooping in and she collapsed in a heap. Everything went black and the Battle echoed around her...   Jason heard a scream and quicklt turned around to see demons scratching at Alainia's face. Her screaming continued and blood went everywhere, though it wasn't hers. Even though Alainia was screaming bloody murder, the demons' screams were much louder and shriller than her's by far. Through Alainia's screams, Jason could identify a Anglo-Saxon incantation being cast. Just then, a flash of blue, red, green, and white light surrounded her and there was a loud bang. "Oh my," exclaimed Miecyzslaw, who had walked up next to Jason and was covered in blood and her clothes were stained with mud. "I can't believe it." "What?" asked Jason turning to her, but not before cutting down a mini demon that was coming towards them with an arm already cut off. "She's actually combining all her powers with Snow Fire's," Miecyzslaw breathed. "If she does that, she'll be able to actually tranform into a dragon herself." She paused and her next words were as thought she were actually choking on them. "There's only problem though." "And what is that," Jason shot an arrow at a demon that was gettin ready to attack Alainia. Miecyzslaw took a deep breath. "If Snow Fire is killed, which most likely will happen, then Alainia will die as well," Jason looked at her in horror. Now he knew why he was destined to die in the Battle. It wasn't just to protect Alaini, but Snow Fire as well, a dragon that represented all of the elements. Jason unsheathed his sword and ran towards David who was now getting up and getting ready to attack Alainia. David must have sensed that Jason was running towards him, for he slashed the sword in his direction. The blade barely missed Jason's head. And within a few seconds, David and Jason were in a life threatening battle over who would get to Alainia or Snow Fire first. The battle between the two of them lasted for quite a while and bursts of colorful light kept on leaking through Alainia, who was know standing up with her hands raised in front of her as though she were pushing against a wall, and was muttering in the ancient language of dragon's the whole time. Jason and David continued fighting, but then there was a sudden pain in Jason's chest. He looked down and saw that a sword was sticking out of his chest...   To be continued... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/468305/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:30:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/468305/ I'm no longer going to be a HS kid   My mom's putting me back into public school. But I'll make sure that I have enough time to post a new chapter. Oh and in case not all of you know, a new book is going to be coming out soon on the blog Writers101...it's a username that i share with Twister980 and we're writing a story together...but that's not the only new story that's coming soon...the next story that's going to be on this blog is a book i'm going to write called Wolf-Girl anyways...i hope you enjoy it for it's going to be coming out soon. Talk to you later! Becca(Alainia) p.s. the next chapter in the Guardian Epic will be posted possibly on Sunday... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/458184/ Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:30:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/458184/ It wasn't just Alainia that night who didn't get any sleep. The rest of the Five stayed up that night preparing themselves for the Battle as well. Lurik had gotten himself in his suit of armor, and this wasn't the kind of suit of armor that nights from the Mideival times wore. This particular suit of armor had every weapon imaginable that can slay a magical creature built into it, but it is as light as a feather making it easy to move in. He then practiced his fireball throwing and a bit of water ball. There was also Pier and Codie, who shared a dorm. Pier dressed up in shorts and a T-shirt and pulled on some black hunting boots. But these weren't just any kind of shorts and T-shirt. These pieces of cloth were made of the standered protection cloth that produced an invisble sheild around him, this way he looked unprotected and whatever was attacking would attack him first. Codie, on the other hand, just grabbed his special sunglasses that could see anything invisible when he put them on, his boomerang (that was sharp enough to even cut steel), his venom sword (which had Wyvern dragon venom on it), and his water ball gloves. Then there is Miecyzslaw, who has now been known to be called Missy. She did her best to look over every single text book she had on healing. After she had done that, she went and got on her battle suit. It was her own invention. It was a kind of suit that could repair itself and her. Not to mention it will allow her to shape shift. This will be an advantage for she has mastered how to shape shift into a dragon. Just then, she heard a noise behind her. Missy swung around, making her black and orange hair go everywhere, and saw Bjorn standing in the doorway. "What do you think you're doing?" he asked. "I'm preparing for the Battle that's coming at the crack of dawn," she spat at him. Bjorn sighed and walked over to her and pulled up a chair. "Missy," he put his hand on her shoulder. "You don't know what a battle can be like." "Excuse me?" Missy scoffed. "I think I know heck of a lot more about it than you do. At least I'm not running away from a fight like you did. Because of you, Codie and Alainia don't have any parents." These words cut Bjorn as deep as a sword. "I didn't run away," he said simply. "Oh yeah?" Missy shouted. "Then what was it that you did?! Went for reinforcments?! Alexandria Montez, Alainia's mother, told you to stay put! And what did you do? You ran! Alainia and Codie have suffered from your actions and your choices!" They were quiet for a long time. Missy breathing heavily. "You don't understand," he whispered hoarsely. "I was about to lose the one I loved, and I still lost her." "Yeah well, Alainia suffered more than you know. She knew what happened to her parents and she still trusted you. She said she knew who you were when she first saw you." Bjorn looked up at her. "She knew?" he asked shakily. "She's known, Bjorn," sighed Missy. She put on her belt and pulled on a jacket. Just because the suit was practically indestructable, that didn't mean that it imune to coldness. "Alainia knows everything. You can't hide anything from her because Jason intruduced her to her telepathy powers." "Oh," Bjorn got up to leave. "It's almost dawn. You better go wake up Ice Moon and get ready to head out." He walked out the door. Missy watched him leave. She got up and went to wake up Ice Moon, but he was already awake and listening to the conversation. They were silent until dawn and they left for Alainia's room.   Alainia was already on Snow Fire's back and the ceiling was already open and they could see clouds that were painted in rainbow colors. They couldn't see the sun yet, but they knew they would soon. "Al," whispered Pier. "Where is this stationary cloud you were telling us about?" Alainia sighed. "Actually," she said finally. "I have no idea where it is. I guess we just have to look for the cloud that's not moving. There aren't that many clouds in the sky today, so it shouldn't be too hard." As the rest of the Five came into the room, Alainia couldn't help but wonder what was going to happen to Jason. If he really was going to die, then why wasn't he doing his best to make his last days the best? "Hey!" came a familiar voice from the doorway. Alainia spun around and saw Jason standing in the doorway in full armor and his silver-blue dragon, Silver Moon, was standing behind him, fifty feet tall and a wing span of over a hundred and fifty feet. Alainia then noticed that he had a big smile on his face. "Thought you guys might like some help finding that stationary cloud." He winked at her and she smiled back. "Alright, you guys," called Alainia. "Let's get going." And the others lifted out of the room on the back of their dragons. She then turned to Jason who was climbing onto Silver Moon's back. "Jason, what do you think you're doing?" "What do you mean?" he turned around and looked at her. "Why are you coming with us?" she asked. "Aren't destined to die?" "Well, yeah," he shrugged. "But if I do die, I want to die with honor. I don't want to die knowing that I was a coward and I ran away from the legendary Battle." "Legendary?" Alainia cocked an eyebrow. "It hasn't even happened yet." "Well, the soon to be legendary," Jason said. "Alainia! Jason!" called Missy from over head. "Are you coming or what?" Snow Fire then flapped her wings and took off without warning Alainia. When they got up there, Missy looked at me with a strange look on her face. A look that Alainia had never seen before. She then turned around and flew away from them and Alainia followed.   It was noon when the Five and Jason finally found the stationary cloud. It was right over an ocean where the Coucil of Races suspected Satasan's army might attack. Since the merpeople had fled, it was going to take all the Guardians in the academy to move the cloud. You know how dragons have special powers? Well, Guardians didn't only have the water and fire ball powers. Actually, all the dragons powers could be channeled into the Guardian so that they, too, had the same exact powers. No one, not even the oldest Guardian in the academy, knew quite how this happened...it just did. At the moment, Pier and Lurik were setting up the tents that they would be camping in. Of course, it might have been easier if they let Moon Beam help them. "No, no, no!" cried out Lurik. "That pole is supposed to go there in the middle! Not sticking out of the roof!" "Sorry!" shouted Pier. "Maybe you should stop standing around and just help!" "Well, you know what! I-" "All right, you two," Alainia stepped in. "Just give it a rest. If we're going to be fighting Satasan's armies, then we need to not be fighting amongst ourselves. Get a grip, okay?" And she walked towards Snow Fire. The red and white dragon let out a low sigh that erupted from her belly. "What is it this time, Alainia?" Snow Fire asked as Alainia sat down next to her. "Nothing," she said not looking into Snow Fire's blue eyes. "I've known you all my life, Al," she said, starting up and arguement. "I think I should know when something's wrong." Snow Fire moved her head towards Alainia. The delicious smell of cherry pie came from the dragon's nostrils. Cherries had quickly become Snow Fire's favorite food, and it was why she was so strong. "There's nothing wrong, Snow Fire," Alainia said crossly holding her head high. "And if there was, I would tell you." Snow Fire rolled her blue eyes and let out a low rumble that passed as a sigh for a dragon. "No you wouldn't," Snow Fire said grumpily. The dragon turned her back on Alainia making her fall over. She growled and pound her fists into the ground. Alainia got up and walked over to the edge of the cloud and looked down at the ocean. Looking up at the stars, Alainia realized that there was something wrong with her...and there was a reason. It was Jason. "You know," came a voice from behind her. Alainia spun around and saw Jason standing right behind her. "It's not going to help being mad at your best friends. I'm still going to die." "But you can't," tears stung Alainia's eyes. "I won't let it happen." Jason walked towards her and took her hands in his own. "Alainia," he said softly. "If I'm going to die, then I'm going to die protecting you. I don't know if you know this, but Satasan isn't trying just to gain power over the Guardians. He's trying to gain power over you, the most powerful Guardian since time began." Alainia smiled and big, fat tears rolled down her cheeks. Now that they got everything worked out, they had to start doing something that was going to be the hardest part of this Battle. Waiting....     To be continued....   p.s. Coming soon: The Battle between Alainia and Satasan http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/458170/ Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:12:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/458170/ I posted the next chapter (finally) and i just wanted to point out that at the bottom (not the very bottom) there's a new chat box that I'm using. Hope you all enjoy the chapter and hope to talk to you in the chat room.   Becca(Alainia) <3 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/457557/ Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:07:01 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/457557/ 8 things I am passionate about 1. God 2. music 3. singing 4.drawing 5. writing stories 6. swim team 7.math 8. science 8 things I want to do before I die 1. get married (lol) 2. do God's work in people's lives 3. read all the books in the world (i love to read) 4. become and aerospace engineer 5. sing in front of millions of people 6. learn how to play the piano 7. ? 8. ? 8 things I say often 1. hey 2. what's up? 3. Chickens go moo! (inside joke with me and my friends) 4. Dear Lord (I pray quite a lot) 5. Muahahahaha! 6. ? 7.? 8.? 8 books I have read recently 1. The Lost Years of Merlin (by T.A.Barron) 2. This Present Darkness (?) 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (by J.K. Rowling) 4. The Great Tree of Avalon: the Dark Prophecy (T.A.Barron) 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 8 songs I could listen over and over 1. A Million Voices (BarlowGirl) 2. Comatose (Skillet) 3. East and West (Casting Crowns) 4. Winds of Change (Kutless?) 5. Rebirthing (Skillet) 6. G.N.O. (Miley Cyrus) 7. ? 8. ? 8 things that attract me to to my best friend 1. I'm extremely random 2. I make up jokes out of no where 3. I defend my friends when they're being picked on 4. I do a lot of sports 5. My singing 6. ? 7. ? 8. ? 8 things that I have learned this year 1. Quantitative oberservations 2. Constellations and their stories 3. How to play a very complicated song in band 4. That I might be going to Mexico for a Mission's trip 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. ?   ok...I tag...Avatarlvr, FlameOn, tofast4u14, and the third person to post a comment...ENJOY! :P http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/454919/ Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:43:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/454919/ For the next three days, the Five were in the library whenever they could looking up everything about combat. Alainia and Miecyzslaw's dragons had had a sudden growth spurt and were now over thirty feet long. Snow Fire and Ice Moon were learning to fly together and Miecyzslaw and Alainia would go out and practice riding on their dragons at night. Tonight was espiecally special because the rest of the members of the Five were going to go and ride on their dragons with them for once. "I can't wait to ride on Moon Wing," Codie said. Moon Wing was his dragon and she was practically transparent. Instead of breathing fire, she would beathe moon beams which can destroy anything. "I've never rode on her before because I'm a guy...which I really do not get." The group started to laugh. At the moment, they were in the Dinner Hall eating lunch. Today they were eating meatloaf, which most of the time didn't look like meatloaf. Lurik was picking at his food and he made a face. "I swear," he said pushing his plate away from him. "This meatloaf is just a bunch of left overs compressed into a tiny block." The others muttered in agreement. "You think it's safe to add salt?" joked Pier. "Or do you think it will explode?" "Hopefully not," said Miecyzslaw. She took a bite and looked as though she was going to gag. "Don't hurt yourself," said Codie. Alainia was just sitting there picking at her food and eating it, not caring that it taste horrible. "Al? Are you okay? You've hardly spoken to us these past few days." "Huh?" Alainia looked up. "Oh, sorry. I was just thinking about this so called Battle." "Why are you thinking about it so much?" asked Pier. "I mean, it's not like someone's supposed to be killed is it?" Miecyzslaw rolled her eyes and whopped him upside the head. "Ow! What in the world was that for?!" She gestured at Alainia and mouthed the word Jason. "Oh...well, I was just joking." Alainia got up and went to put her tray away. Miecyzslaw turned to look at Pier. Everyone there except for Pier knew that Jason was destined to die in the Battle. Miecyzslaw explained what was going to happen. "Well I didn't know!" cried Pier. He folded his arms and leaned back in his chair. "Nobody tells me this kind of stuff anymore." "Then ask," said Codie getting up from his seat. "Come on you guys. Maybe flying will get Alainia's mind off of Jason." And the rest of the group got up and went to put their trays in the bin up by the area where they would get their food. Miecyzslaw ran up and caught up with Alainia. "Hey," she said looking at Alainia. "Are you going to be okay?" She nodded. "No you're not. Just forget about it. Just because one of the dragons in the Council forsaw it doesn't mean it's going to happen." "But what if it does?" said Alainia turning to her. "It very well might. So far, the dragon has been right about everything." "No he wasn't," she pointed out. "He wasn't right about us listening in on the Council last week." "Yeah well, we got lucky." Miecyzslaw laughed. The boys caught up with them and they went up to Alainia's room. In the big red room were five dragons, making it extremely cramped. There was a blend of blue, red, white, cream, green, and black. Alainia walked up to Snow Fire and smiled. "You ready?" asked Snow Fire. Alainia nodded and clambered onto the dragon's back. "Then let's go!" and Snow Fire walked over to the corner of the room and pulled a lever. The floor began to shake and the room became dark. The others climbed onto their own dragons and they all looked up at the ceiling, but there was no ceiling to look up to. They were now looking up at the starry night sky. It had been three months since they first arrived at the Guardian Castle. Now, they were riding on dragons and were getting ready to go through a war. Snow Fire spread her wings and lifted into the sky. The other four followed. They flew away from the cloud and over a vast ocean. There was a full moon that night and you couldn't even see Moon Beam 'cause she blended in with the light. All you could see was Codie floating in midair. "Come on," called Lurik. "Let's go check out Jeffern." "No, we can't," Miecyzslaw called back. "We have to practice our flying so we'll be ready for the Battle in two weeks. We don't have time to go to Jeffern." "Oh come on," whined Codie. "I mean we haven't been to Jeffern in three months." "And don't you think it would be a good idea to see our families again?" asked Pier. "It would be a bad idea if we got caught not being in our rooms back in the castle," reasoned Alainia. "We're not even allowed to be out in the sky at night." "Then why are we even out here in the first place?" asked Pier's black dragon, Shadow. "Won't we get in trouble?" "Maybe," said Snow Fire. "But since Alainia's the queen, whatever she says pretty much goes." "Well," Moon Beam did a flip in midair making Codie sway a little. "Let's make the best of our time and have some fun." And they flew off into the night sky. Lurik's dragon, Devine (Lurik had named him after her mother) did a series of back flips. Lurik shouted out with joy and waved his hands in the air. Laughing, Alainia lost her balance and almost fell off of Snow Fire. The Five circled around each other and got into battle formation, which looked just like a flying V, the formation in which geese and ducks usually fly in. Alainia was in the front with Codie and Pier on the right side of the V and Miecyzslaw and Lurik on the left side of the V. From this formation they usually could attack from any angle. This was one of the most criticle formations in the book Battle Choices: Formations, Fighting Stances, ect. Miecyzslaw had checked it out from the library. There were over a hundred different flying formations and it would take at least three months to explain them all. The Five decided that they would stick with the six most basic formations. Alainia and Lurik were still working on their fire balls and the rest of the five were working on their water balls. Lurik had actually managed to master the fire whip before Alainia could which was a surprise to all of them. Miecyzslaw had been practicing her healing abilities and went over each and every book she had from the Healing Academy. Since she was the only one that could actually heal anyone, she had to be protected throughout the whole Battle. "Shouldn't we tell Jason and Bjorn that we're doing this?" Alainia asked Miecyzslaw after the gang got in from their flight. "I wouldn't worry about it," she answered after taking the saddle off of Ice Moon's back. "I mean it's not like their going to-" she cut off and stopped dead in her tracks. Right in front of the two girls was Jason and Bjorn looking down on them with their arms folded. "-find out." "What do you two think your doing?" Jason towered over Alainia, who cowered back against the wall. Snow Fire growled at him. "Don't even think about it, Snow Fire! I'm not in the mood!" he said to the dragon. Miecyzslaw hated it when someone would yell at Alainia like this, and she found that she didn't like it when someone would yell at Snow Fire either. "Look, Jason," Miecyzslaw stepped in between Jason and Alainia. "We were just practicing some battle formations so we would be prepared for the Battle. You don't have to yell at Alainia and Snow Fire because of this! She's upset enough about the fact that you're supposedly going to be killed! So just chill alright?" Jason looked at her menacingly. "You're in as much trouble as Alainia is in, Missy," Bjorn stepped in. Miecyzslaw laughed. "Oh yeah?" she scoffed. "Prove it!" Just then, Pier, Lurik, and Codie showed up in the doorway of Alainia's room. They must have heard Jason and Bjorn yelling, for their fists were clenched and they looked very angry. Codie looked at Miecyzslaw. The Five Guardians stick together, came his voice in her head. She smiled and turned back to Bjorn and Jason. "Alainia is the Queen and as far as I'm concerned whatever she says goes!" Alainia must have mustered up some courage for now she was standing up straight, fists and teeth clenched, and an angry look in her eye. "You have to understand, Jason," Alainia said calmly. "We've been practicing these formations for three weeks now! The five of us don't want you to die-" Pier coughed. "-and so we've been making sure that we were ready for whatever might come at us. Lurik and I have been working on our fire powers and Codie and Pier have been working on their water powers. Miecyzslaw has even become as much as a master as I am at weapons and now could possibly be the Head Mistress of the Healing Academy." The three boys in the doorway then moved and joined Alainia and Miecyzslaw. Pier stood next to Alainia and Codie and Lurik stood next to Miecyzslaw. Snow Fire moved in closer behind them. "Jason," Alainia stepped closer to him. "I don't want you to go. That's why we've been doing this. Please don't tell the Council of Races." "Well," Jason said nervously. "They kind of already know." They all groaned at the same time. "What do you mean 'they already know'?" asked Lurik. Bjorn started to sweat and Jason shuffled his feet. "We kind of already knew that you were sneaking out at night to do this," said Bjorn. "So we went and told the Council." "Oh that's just great!" shouted Codie. "We're now going to be kicked out of the Academy!" The Five looked at each other. "Thank you Bjorn and Jason!" "Come on," said Alainia shoving past Jason and turning to look at the rest of the group. "We best go and pack." She gave Jason one last look that she gave to people when she wanted to make them feel guilty. The others followed her. "Alainia," Pier ran up to catch up with her. "Are we really going to leave?" "I guess so," she sighed. "I might be the Queen and everything, but I don't have any power over the Council of Races. Not until the royal ceremony and I officially become the Queen of the Guardians." "Well," said Codie as they entered the hallway. "Where are we going to go then?" Alainia turned to look at them. "We're going to the stationary cloud that the Council were talking about. There, we will battle Satasan and his army." "I don't think we're ready, though," said Lurik. "We're ready," Alainia assured him. "We will leave tomorrow and dawn. Get some sleep and be ready to leave a second's notice." The Five broke apart. All accept Pier. He stayed behind and just looked at Alainia. "What?" she said. "It's just..." Pier tried to put his thoughts into words. "You're so...different. You used to be scared to even climb a tree. Now, you're leading a...a band of rebels. What happened to that innocent girl I used to know?" Alainia sighed. She had a feeling that he would ask this question soon. "I found out the truth and my fate changed," she finally said. "But not just my fate, me as well. I guess that when you know that people are counting on you...it really changes your priorities. My birthday is coming soon and when I turn fifteen, I'm going to be married. I found that out because Miecyzslaw and I spend so much time in the library. I found the book of laws in which the Guardians live by." "Who are you going to marry?" he asked. "I don't know yet," she sighed. "But I need to find out soon. I have twelve months left...and time passes by quickly here." "Oh, okay," Pier turned around. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow morning." And he headed for his room. Alainia watched him leave. Then, out of no where, she remebered that tomorrow was her fourteenth birthday. "We're going to battle on my birthday," she whispered to herself. "Tomorrow's going to be a handful." She walked back to her room hoping that Bjorn and Jason had left. When she got in, all she saw was Snow Fire. "You okay?" asked the dragon. "Yeah, I'm fine," she said. "You better get to sleep. It's a big day tomorrow and we need to be up at dawn." "What about you?" Snow Fire asked. "Me?" she waved her hand at Snow Fire. "I'm going to be preparing for The Battle."   To be continued... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/444149/ Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:07:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/444149/ After Miecyzslaw had finished with Weaponry, she went to go find Alainia, Lurik, and Codie. She found them out by the tree next to the lake. She was then surprised to find that Pier was with them. "What are you doing out here?" Miecyzslaw asked him when she got to the tree. "What?" Pier looked startled and started messing with his blonde hair. "I don't get a hello?" He stood up and the two of them gave each other a friendly hug. "I'm so glad I'm hanging out with you guys again. I don't know how much longer I could stand all of Zoe's posse trying to be exactly like her." The group started laughing for Zoe and her posse just came marching out of the castle and the posse was making a bad attempt in trying to copy how Zoe walked exactly. "Alainia," said Miecyzslaw walking over to the tree. "Did you tell them what we heard in the Council room yet?" "No," she said. The three boys turned and looked at her. Taking a deep breath, Alainia started to explain what they were going to do. "You all know that I'm supposed to be queen just like my mum was." They all nodded. "Well, Satasan is still alive and he has been building an army for the past seven years. In that time, he now has enough winged demons, goblins, and who knows what else to take down the entire Guardian castle. In the Council room, Missy and I heard that the only people that can beat Satasan are us five." "Actually," interrupted Miecyzslaw. "It was supposed to be me and Alainia, but they think that you three should be involved."  Alainia looked at her. "Sorry, continue." "Anyways," she started again. "I think that we should go to the library and start preparing for the Battle that we're going to fight in. Jason and Bjorn are supposed to be on this stationary cloud with us and help us with the Battle. Jason said he's destined to die in the Battle and I think that this might be true because he's the youngest trainer ever and everything." "That stinks," said Codie and Lurik at the same time. "But it would be a good idea if we went to the library and read up all the battle formations, how to read and use runes, how to use swords and magic, and, of course, we need to freshen up on our water ball skills." "And you and Lurik should work on your fire ball throwing," said Pier. "That way you can burn the goblins and winged demons and not just soak them to slow them down. Your fire balls could actually kill them." "Yeah," piped up Lurik. "It's been a while since I've played with fire." The ground suddenly shook. "What in the world?" shouted Codie. The rumbling came again. "Is there something wrong with the cloud?" "I think the merpeople are making a storm!" shouted Miecyzslaw over the rumbling. "It's thunder!" And sure enough, they saw lighting pass overhead and a great big rumble followed. The group all covered their ears. "Why are they doing this?!" called Alainia. "I don't know!" called Miecyzslaw back. "But I'm going to find out!" and she ran straight into the lake and dove down into the depths once again. She swam as fast as she could and her breathing quickened with every stroke. Closer and closer she got to the underwater palace. It was just as she had remembered it. However, there was something a bit different. As Miecyzslaw swam over the gate and started to swim towards the castle, she saw that everything was diserted. Entering the castle, she ran for the throne room where she was hoping Bjorn's mother would be there. "Hello?" she called out. "Is anyone there?" There was no answer. Cracking the door a little bit, she peeked inside. There was nobody in the throne room. "Where is everybody?" There was another rumbling, but a little louder. Walking up to the throne, Miecyzslaw looked around. Behind the throne there was a door that was shaking villontly. She opened it and looked inside the door and saw a clear window on the floor looking down on the world below. At the moment they were over an ocean. "Wow," breathed Miecyzslaw. "I didn't think there would ever be something like this underwater." She looked around hoping to find some trace of the merpeople, but they were no where to be seen. Where could they have gone? She pictured a bunch of people with different colored tails lying dead on the sea floor. Some of them were bleeding or crying out in pain, but none of them were going to survive. Miecyzslaw shivered. Thinking that she wasn't going to find anybody, Miecyzslaw made her way out of the castle and back up to the surface. The rumbling was still happening, but it wasn't as loud anymore. Looking up, she saw the whole group was looking at her. "Did you find anything?" asked Pier. Miecyzslaw shook her head. "There was nothing down there," Mieyzslaw tried to say calmly. "It was almost as though that the castle was a ruin and that the merpeople had become extinct. It was so weird. And then there was a room that I hadn't noticed before. It was behind the throne and it was really mysterious. There was a window floor that looked down below. I didn't think there would be something like that underwater, but this was strange. It felt as though the room was the one that was shaking, not the cloud." "The room was shaking?" asked Alainia and Codie at the same time. "How can that be?" asked Lurik. "Rooms can't shake...can they?" "As far as I know," said Miecyzslaw. "In a world like this, it seems possible." "Has anyone noticed that the rumbling has stopped?" asked Pier. And sure enough, there was no more rumbling and no more lightening. Pier and Alainia exchange glances. "Come on. If we're going to be ready for this big battle, we're going to need to get to the library." So the group got up and headed for the library. Once they got there, Miecyzslaw went straight to the section about underwater creatures. Skimming the bookshelf, she finally found a book about merpeople. She searched through it and finally came up with something about the room. It said: "Usually, the queen of the merpeople will have what is called The Room of the Living. The Room of the Living is a secret room that the queen may use whenever her people are in trouble to escape to the world below the cloud lakes they live in. The room will usually have a window on the bottom as though it were a floor and only merpeople can pass through it..." It continued on and on. Apparently this Room of the Living was really important. Putting the book back on the shelf, Miecyzslaw went to go find the others. She found them gathered around a table each reading a different book. Randomly, she picked a book from the shelf and sat down next to Codie who was pouring over three different books which only contained runes. "That a good book?" asked Miecyzslaw looking over his shoulder reading the page he was on. He looked up and smiled. "I'm trying to figure out different combinations I can use with my water ball techniques," Codie explained. "Did you know that if I make the water ball spin fast enough I can make it into a water rope and use it as a whip?" "Wow," said Lurik. "Alainia and I might be able to do that with a fire ball too, but we might want to check it out first, just in case." He nudged Alainia in the ribs and she whacked him in the stomach. When they were eight years old, Alainia had accedently set a tree on fire and Codie, Lurik, and Pier had to put it out together. "Um," Alainia began. "Now that we're a group again, I thought maybe we should give ourselves a name." "Yeah?" said Pier. "Like what?" "I don't know," Alainia closed the book on different fighting stances. "I was hoping one of you guys would come up with an idea." "How about this," said Codie. "The Royal Council. That way we sound more powerful than the Council of Races." "Nah," Alainia waved her hand at him. "That sounds too...formal." "I got one," piped in Miecyzslaw. "How about the Dragon Riders?" "But not all of can ride our dragons yet," said Alainia. "And plus, I think there's a book called Dragon Riders." "Here's a good one," said Pier. "The Five Guardians." The group nodded in agreement. "Yeah," Alainia sat there thinking for a little bit. "I like that. It's not too formal and it doesn't sound like some story title." "The Five Guardians it is," said Codie.   To be continued... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/442402/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:38:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/alainia/442402/