Journey of a Lifetime, by Oz's sister

[Ozymandias]

Sitting in class, staring off into oblivion I sits at my desk listening to Cross Fade on my CD player, doodling in a note book after a history test. My name is Krystean. I am 5’3 and weigh 125 pounds. I have bright blue eyes and brown hair. I’m in 11 grade. As I look up at the clock on the wall at the back of the class room the bell rings. I turn off my CD player and put it in my backpack along with note books. I swings my bag on my back and starts out of the class. When I exit the class I make a left and make my way to my locker. Like normal the halls aren’t really crowded.

As I start to enter my combination my friend Joe who has a class near my locker stops and talks.

“Hey what’s up?”

“ Nothing, same old crap. How ‘bout you?”, I reply.

Joe starts to make a answer but at that point one of the really hot guys who all the girls and even some of the guys like, walks by.

“ Oh, my God! He is so freaking HOT!”

“ Yeah. He is hot. But not like I will ever have a guy like that”.

“ Don’t put your self down like that. You will get a guy like that some day”.

“Only if they get their heads out of their asses long enough to notice me. And that won’t be any time soon.”

Joe can’t help but laugh.

“ What’s so funny?” I ask completely bewildered about what he is laughing at.

“This is why I love ya, people never know when you are going to speak your mind. And when you do it’s brilliant!”

“ Thanks”, I say sarcastically.

“Lets head up stars to class”.

I shut my locker and head up the blue stares that lead to the social studies complex. As we walk a strange uneasy feeling. Kind of like some thing bad is going to happen but you don’t know if it is your mind playing a trick on you or not. I just dismiss the feeling and forget about it. Joe heads to his class and so do I. When I get to the door way of my class look in and continues in. I take my normal seat, second deak from the front.
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All of my class mates float into the room all at once just barely making it into class before the tardy bell rings. I barely pay attention to what my teacher has to say. Like always I get out one of my note books and start doodling. The doodles range from jewelry designs to miscellaneous figures and shapes. Before I know class is almost over.

“ I’ll see you all on Monday. Have a good weekend!” the teacher says.
I pack up my things and head to lunch.


When I get to my normal lunch table all of the normal people I with are sitting there. Josh, Ashley, Brit, George, Amanda and Kerry. George was being his typical self in thinking of disgusting perverted thoughts and making everyone laugh their asses off.

“ Okay, what are you laughing at now George”, Krys asks all ready predicting the answer.

“ Kerry forked Josh, again!” and he starts cracking up with laughter. Now one thing you need to understand about George is that any thing that you can say he can probably turn it around and make a crude humor with it.

I just smile and take my normal seat between George and Amanda. Laughter is shared between the seven of us. Fries are thrown at George, Nerds are thrown at Josh, and even more laughter. Lunch went by and so they all had to go to class to endure homework and lectures. All parted ways except for George and I who always walk to fifth hour together. George was making one of his famous comments about me landing my in a mental institute.

“ And Zach is one of the guards, looks in on you and asks him self why did I ever date her?”, George says.

“Yeah but Tiff is there too”, I say back.

“ Why will Tiff be there?”

“ Cuz she had to live with Zach!” As soon that is said George and I start cracking up with laughter about the whole thing.

Zach is my ex-boyfriend. He is blonde, blue eyes wears glasses and is about 5’8. Tiff is his younger sister who is 5’4 dirty blonde hair and also wears glasses.

“ Will you come and visit me when I go crazy, George?” I ask him.

“ Well, duh! I’m going to bring you Japanese comics” he replies. George starts pretending to be Gollum from the Lord of the Rings. “My precious……”

Once again they both start cracking up with laughter. As they get closer to George’s class Chad comes up the says.

“Hey! George! What have I told you about being with Krys?” Chad says jokingly to George.

“Sorry”, I say to Chad, “ George can’t help himself. I’m too much for him to resist. Kind of like last night with you and George last night, but I’m not supposed to know that” .

“ O, baby! That was fun!” Chad replies jokingly.

We all start laughing . But it was cut short because I had to go my locker (down stairs) to get my book for math and go to class. The hall way was almost completely empty. I quickly opened my locker grabbed my math book and headed to the math complex. At the end of the hall way to the left of my locker.

Surprisingly my last two classes passed by really quick. It seemed like five minuets a go I had just walked into math class and started talking to Alec. Now I was in science and I only had five minutes till the bell rings and I could finally go home. As I looked at the clock time seemed to tick by so slowly. Seconds felt like minuets. Minuets left like hours. But with out time to spare the bell finally rang and I made my way to my bus.

As I hurry from that strange feeling comes back but this time its stronger and just won’t seem to go away. I quickly make my way to my bus so I can turn on my CD player and try to make the feeling go away.

I finally make it to my bus, practically running down the isle to my seat at the back. I throw my stuff in the seat and tear out my CD player turn it on and slip into my own mind. There my is perfect. The school was not full of jack-asses, I had a boyfriend who loved me to death and stupid people didn’t talk to me.

But soon the time came to get off the bus and make my way home. The feeling that some thing is wrong still hung in the pit of my stomach. It doesn’t take long for me to make me way down the street. I finally got the end of my drive way and studied the house to see if anything was wrong. Cream color siding with dark green shutters. My car, a 1993 Mercury Topaz, was sitting in the drive way along with a Geo Storm which was going to be my younger brother Bill’s car when he got his drivers license. Mom’s Jimmy and Dad’s Tahoe were gone because they were both at work. My youngest brother Ty noticed that some ting was wrong.

“Krys? Are you okay?”, he asked me.

Yeah, I’m okay. I just have a strange feeling”, I replied.
“Are you sure?”

“Yes already”.

As we walk toward the garage entrance, I just can’t shake the feeling that something is wrong. We got to the white door leading to the inside the garage. Ty opens the door and walks in, I follow slowly. Stepping in I look around and nothing is out of place. My Dad’s work bench is exactly the same, the skis were placed, as always, by the sliding door, every thing where it belongs. As I turn toward the door leading to the inside the house I almost expect to see a robber or a terrifying demon from a book in black robes that I have read about to be standing there. But there was only the stairs leading down to the house and the wooden door.

“It’s all in my head”, I whisper to my self , “It’s all in my head”.

“What’s all in your head?”

“Nothing”, I lye to my brother knowing that if I said any thing to him, he would flip out and not sleep. Ty looks at me though able to read my mind. “ I have had a weird day”.

“ Okay then. You have just been acting weird since we got off the bus”.

“ God d**n! If I say I’m fine, then I’m fine”.

“ Jeez! Don’t bite my head off cause your in a bad mood!”

“Shut up and go inside Ty”.

“ Fine!”

With that final word Ty ran inside and slammed in the door behind him. Left standing there alone I decided that I might as well go inside and apologize. Still with the faint since of uneasy ness as I processed in the house. Hoping that nothing would be wrong.

[ladygoldberry]

WHATS FRIGGIN WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ozymandias]

I reach for the door knob and enter the house. I look at the kitchen and it is the same except for a few new dirty dishes from my parents like a few dirty mugs or plates. But as I turn to the left I realize that a strange woman was sitting at the table.

She had light brown hair pulled back in a braid that had a few strands in her face. She looked to be in her late twenties and was wearing what looked like deer skin pants, with leather boots, possibly a cotton shirt, and a long coat made out of some strange material that I have never seen before.

“ Who are you and what are you doing in my house?”, I asked her.

“ I have been waiting for you, Krystean. My name is Bellona. I sent here to find you.”

“ How do you know my name and what do you want with me?”

“I do not have time to answer all of you questions now. I have to take you to Zeoranow before some one arrives to stop me from taking you to where you are needed”, she said and with out hast she got up grabbed me by my arm forcing me to drop my bag and said, “Ziih icuk!”

To me this just sounded like a bunch of gobble de gook. But as soon as got got done saying this a door appeared in the center of the kitchen. It was rounded at the top then went strait down to the floor. There was a light that emanate from it.

I stood there awe stricken. Completely amazed with what was going on.

“ This has to be a dream. Wake up Krys. WAKE UP!”

With those as my final words the woman called Bellona shoved me threw the door. Where this passage lead I don’t know. All I know is that this must be a dream. I must have fallen a sleep in literature class while reading some sort of crazy story. I wanted to wake up, but I didn’t.

Going threw this door or what ever it was, I was flipping head over heels. It was like I was almost flying. I felt so weightless for all of the ten seconds that it took to travel through. When I came threw the other endi landed hard on the cool ground on my butt.

I had landed about four feet from the door away. Bellona emerged a second after me. As I looked around I realized that I was in the middle of a forest. The tops of the trees are a hundred feet in the air some even taller than that.

“ Get up, we have a little bit of walking to do”, Bellona said.

“ Don’t you think you owe me an explanation?”, I said getting up off the ground.

“ What do you mean?”, she said looking back at me.

“Well, you just kidnapped me from my house and took me to this crazy place.”

“ This is not the time for questions. They will be all answered as soon as we arrive to a safe spot. But until then you need to be quiet so we do not run into unwanted company”.

“ But….”

“No buts. Just follow me”.

I followed her into the forest. The trees were oak and maple. The leaves bright green. The ground was scattered with dead leaves, rocks, and acorns.

I had no idea were she was leading me. Bellona seemed to be wondering aimlessly threw the forest. After ten minuets I noticed that there was a path that she was following. It wasn’t used very often.

After forty more minuets we reached a small shack. As I neared it I noticed that it was made by stacking huge logs horizontally with dried mud packed in the cracks in between to keep the wind and cold out. The roof was made with tall grass that made a pyramid like roof.

Bellona got to the door first and opened it, “ Get in. we still are not safe.”

I walked in and she followed and put a board across the inside of the door. Instead of a dirt floor it was cobble stone with arrange of different color stones and shapes. The rest of the house was a typical old, old time style one room house. Two bunk beds were against the wall to the left and at the back, a stove on the right side, and finally a trunk near the foot of one of the beds.

“ We need to find you some new clothes so you will blend in easily”, Bellona said as she walked over to the trunk opened it and started shifting the clothes inside. Finally she pulled out a black cloak, a pair of deer skin pants, a white cotton shirt ( like hers), along with a pair snake skin boots.

“ Change into these”, she said handing them to me, “ And after that put your old clothes in the stove to burn them.” Bellona walked over to the stove shoved in some logs the were sitting by it waved her hand and said, “ Tehu”. Fire came to life in the stove.

“ Why I am here and were here is”, I said as I changed into my new clothes.

“ We are in Zeoranow. You are here because you are the one who save this world and your own”.

“But why me? I’m no one special”, I say.

“It has always been you. Now you should get some sleep now because we have a long distance to travel tomorrow”, she said as I finished changing, took my old clothes and tossed them in the fire.

We got in to bed and quickly fell asleep. Well I sat there a minuet because a thought had crossed my mind, I could escape. I could find a way home. But I didn’t even know were I was and would probably get lost and end up getting killed. But as soon as my head hit the bed I was out like a light.

“ Wake up Krystean, it is time to go”, came a voice of a woman.

“ Mom, it’s Saturday. I had this really weird dream last night” I sad as I opened my eyes I realized that it wasn’t a dream, “Oh crap!”

“ What is that ring?”

“ This is my high school class ring”.

“You should take that off so that no one realizes that it is not form our world”, Bellona said.

“I’m not taking it off. If any one asks were I got it I’ll say it was a old gift from my grandma”.

“ Fine but try and keep it out of site. If a thief sees it they will try to take it.”.

“ Okay”, I sad and my stomach started to growl. “ What are we going to eat?”

“ I have some dried fish, meat, and nuts we will eat on our way. Get your boots on and your cloak it is chilly out side”. So pulled on my boots which I was surprised how comfortable they were a long with the pants I wore. I put on my cloak, Bellona put out the fire, grabbed her bag, and we headed out.

“ Eat this. It will give you energy”, she said handing me a piece of dried meat and we start walking away from the small cabin. When I bit into it I remembered eating jerky with my dad. Then the thought of never seeing my family and friends ever again. This brought tears to my eyes.

Thoughts of never seeing my family or friends again filled me with sadness. I guess my feeling of something was going to happen was right. Then it hit me, I will nevr see them ever. I am stuck here.

“ You won’t be here for ever. Only until the threat is defeated”, Bellona said looking at me.

“ What if don’t and fail?”

“ Lets not think of that right now. If you listen to what I teach you and try your hardest when training there is no reason why you should not be able to defeat it”.

“What is this evil any way?”
“ Centuries ago a man called William Johanus went in search of the secrets of vampires”, she started to say but I cut in.

“ But vampires don’t exist. They are only scary movie characters and fairy tale monsters to scare little kids”.

“ That is what we all thought until Johanus reached a secret tomb of the last vampire who lived. There he studied the left over scripts that told of when they lived, how , and why when humans and the magic took back the world. In that last vampires journal it told of how to bring them back. Do not ask me how because the person who knows is Johanus. He has brought the vampires back from the dead”, she explained to me.

“But how is all this tied to me?”

“An ancestor of yours was the one who killed the last vampire. The Profits realized only descendants with the inherited power will stand a chance against him and the others that he has created over the centuries that he has lived”.

“Do they know I’m hear now?”

“Only Johanus knows that a descendant will come to kill him. The others have been ordered to bring any one who is not from this world to him. If Johanus gets you that will be the end for both my world and yours”.

“ Why my world too?”

“He will try to use you as a trap and get me. With the extensive knowledge I have he can reach your world and take over both worlds. With all that power he will be more powerful than the one your ancestor killed”.

“ How did all this get placed on me? It was bad when I had to do my homework, chores, and remember to work out for skiing. How will I manage to save both worlds. This is too much for me”, I say continuing to follow Bellona through the woods.

“ You will be great Krystean”, she says looking at me with confidence.

“And will you stop calling Krystean. It bugs me when people do that. Call me Krys.”

“Fine. I will call you Krys if you call me Bell”.

“Sure”, I say a little confused as we kept walking.