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Note:
Dear Michelle,
I indeed stole your idea for the names. This is an apology for whenever (or if) you ever read this.
Your Friend,
-ME XD
“They say, if your heart is pure enough, and you listen hard enough… you can hear the other worlds parallel to ours.”
A prestigious school.
A hundred kids with powers beyond your imagination.
A haunting secret on the walls.
A friendship that could out-last death.
A love that never had the chance to shine.
A war that had never ended.
An inner struggle between this world, and the one no one ever knew.
“They also say that if you listen long enough, they‘ll drag you into their world. By force."
Arilyn had no idea what she was getting into when she accepted the invitation from a school in Ireland - who the hell accepts an invite to a school there, when they’re in love with the USA? - during the summer of her senior year. The school was called Everwood for the Gifted. Ari should have known from the, “gifted,” part that she shouldn’t have gone, but no! The invite instead gave her an ego boost. She had accepted, and like their pamphlet said, they paid for everything: traveling expenses (First Class, baby) textbooks (Holy Shizznats! These things weigh a flipping ton), uniform (The plaid makes my thighs look fat), and even boarding.
Little did she know, that even if she had rejected the offer, they would have found a way to drag her to Ireland, and through the doors of Everwood… even if murder was necessary.
Along the way, she meets friends (Mina and Isabelle ;D), foes (CURSE YOU DANA! YOU, AND YOUR LACKEYS), and even love (Connor~ <3). But while she lives the life of teenager, something is brewing inside them all. A secret kept hidden for thousands of years, passing every generation by blood. It has been waiting to unleash itself, and now that all of the characters were in place, it was had been time to do its job.
Now with powers they could have never imagined possible, Arilyn and Co must find a way to end a war in a completely different dimension without losing themselves to the hands of fate…
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Ari Caree is a normal teenage girl trying to pass her senior year without repeating last year’s catastrophe. After being humiliated in front of the entire school, Ari was ready for a new start. But a few weeks before her public school started the school year, a letter, no return address, was sent to her doorstep. Her parents had immediately agreed to the invite. (Of course, after seeing it was an invite for gifted children, while their kid was plain as bread, what parent wouldn’t?)
Soon, Ari was off to Ireland, where the campus was. She, being from Cali, had never been out of the country before. During a stop in Kansas, she met Isabelle: a sweet girl from the country, with a real singing voice that could top any idol. The twosome hit it off well, and soon they were fast friends. A few hours later, when they made a two-day stop in New York, they met Mina. Mina was a mechanic with a few tricks up her sleeve. The three met, and it was like they had known each other all their lives… but Mina had a strange feeling she had known Ari and Isabelle, Izzy, much longer than that. At the time, Ari had joked, “Maybe we knew each other in a past life?” They had joked, and laughed.
But when they reached Everwood for the Gifted, their school, things began to happen. As they met other students, more and more things became apparent. Especially when IAM (Or MAI, or MIA, or even AMI. They never did make up their mind) met Dana Stephens, and her lackeys without names that matter. Dana, a rich girl, made it obvious that each girl had a power. These powers were not obvious, and most of the time it happened while the girls’ backs were turned, but it happened. Especially when love came into the picture, the powers would make itself clear. When Ari first laid eyes on Connor Montor, her powers came flying out of her back so much that even she noticed it.
And as the days passed, our threesome became more and more wary of the school’s presence. It was in the middle of a secluded valley; surrounded by forests that fogged up at the most random of times. The closest town was several miles away, and could only be reached by the bus of Everwood. Locals had told them that they were the first to ever go into the forest of Everwood, and return. Not only did this scare everyone in town, it also made them question the relic that the town was centered around, and even more so the teens of Everwood School.
Now this relic wasn’t very big, nor was it magnificent, but the secrets that it held were one-of-a-kind, and what would call magical. It had been around when the town was built over a thousand years ago. Many children had given the stone along with its carving many legends. One being that the stone was connected to the forest, and the stone was a guardian and a status keeper of the things inside. One elderly woman had told Izzy that the stone had glowed intensely around the time that she, along with the other children, had arrived. When Izzy had gotten to the stone, her first words were, “I’ve been here before. This stone is mine.” The rock had agreed by wrapping a stem ivy around her hand. The locals also said that there had never been anything of a school before this year; not even a whisper of it.
Back at school, the student began their school year without any words. To them, it felt like the first day of school, so they prepped themselves like they would for school. They all subconsciously headed for the auditorium. There, they met their principle. The man then proceeded to tell them a tale; a story of a war. And they had all listened, without noticing the slow and steady changes happening to their bodies. Some grew taller, others grew shorter. A few began to grow different colored hair, and a couple had their belly-buttons removed. But every single one of them had at least two changes: no matter how small the changes were, their eyes changed, as did their memories. Soon, the teens began remembering strange things. It started out as little things, but grew as the principle continued telling the story.
For Mina, she began remembering a sad story of a young elf orphaned at ten, and grew up to be a personal warrior to a prince. She was the color of the a water lily, and had nearly white eyes. Her short, layered hair was a extremely light shade of blue, usually considered white. The elf had lived in another realm before moving to a castle that looked similar to what the school looked like now, exclude the towers. It had many tunnels, and Mina knew she would have to check them out later. She fell in love with the sad look in the younger prince’s eyes. And after some time with her, he began to feel something too. The elf girl was proud, and she was cocky, but her smile was cold and uncaring. The girl was shaped to be a fixer, and she knew how everything was set, and how everything around her worked. In the end, it turned out the elf was killed by the younger prince she had trusted with her secrets. She had started crying during the telling.
Izzy was another story. She was brought back to the stone. But it wasn’t the town of Everlage, the warm, but humble town she had come to know, but a rural town made up of farms, and many exotic temples and shrines, dedicated to the millions of gods and goddesses a sprite would believe in. Her memoir was centered around a sprite that lived there, and the small shrine that her family had build on their farm - the stone that now is the center for Everlage. She was given to the prince of the castle as a peace offering, in which he accepted. She fell in love with him. She saw the sprite grow up to be a young woman, where she fought something that came from the sky. She then saw the sprite die protecting the stone that stood for everything she was. Izzy had stopped listening halfway through the tale, and had cried the rest of the time.
Ari’s story was similar to the others’: a story of a life she had never seen, but somehow felt comfortable with. Hers centered around a spirit, who had fought along side the other two, and had become close friends. It began by her human life ending at two, then being reborn as a spirit at seventeen (the same age as the others). She had learned the art of healing when she had died. Her family had died in Everlage years before the war had come. But when it did, fifteen years later, the spirit was revived. Ari just couldn’t believe it, and just listened to the principle’s story. She was making awkward crying (and very wet) noises unlike her friends, but similar to the rest of the girls in the room.
For an animal spirit, Connor wasn’t very sure what his visions were trying to tell him. All he knew is that he was a canine of some kind, and had a hatred for humans, exclude one. He was killed trying to protect that one, and was then revived again when he was needed to defend the Everwood forest.
Afterwards, the powers had become easier to manage.
…I might finish it, I might not. Probably not >____>
 Ukeire · Fri Jun 26, 2009 @ 08:09am · 0 Comments |
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