Dawn

Chapter 3

        I was jolted awake in a cold sweat to the sound of someone coming down the stairs. I leaped up, grabbing my swords I’d laid next to me when I went to sleep, and spun to face the stairs once again. Violet and Kate must have been disturbed by my sudden movement because they stood as well.

        “Let me handle whoever this is.” I said. My voice had a colder tone than than usual and my eyes stung.

        “Alex?” Kate asked, obviously worried.

        I spun around to face them and they gasped in shock. I took this chance to knock them both unconscious so they wouldn't get in my way. Then I glanced up at the mirror and saw why they’d become so stunned. Even I was surprised. My usually silvery-gray eyes had changed. They looked like pale blue frozen spheres with glowing white cores. I could see with more precision and definition and the dark room had become as bright as though the light was on.

        On instinct I spun, throwing my sword like a javelin through the air at the person who had been just about to fire her bow and kill me from behind. As my sword flew through the air it transformed into a spear and impaled the pretty, silver haired girl through the throat, and into the wall behind her. She spasmed as the blood slowly drained from the wound. Then the shining white core’s of my eyes glowed a brilliant blue color and shards of ice extended from the blade, simultaneously tearing her head from her body and freezing all of the blood within her skull. As her body tumbled down the stairs, bleeding profusely, my eyes changed back and I fell to the floor in agony. My vision went black and I fell asleep once more.

        When I woke again it was dark out and Violet and Kate were awake and talking to one another quietly, “When is he gonna wake up?” Violet moaned.

        “I don't know when he’ll wake up Vi. All I know is that when I woke up he was unconscious and there was a body laying on the floor at the stairs. And that his eyes were back to normal.” Kate responded.

        I chose this moment to speak up, “How long have I been asleep?”

        “Alex!” Violet and Kate shouted. They leaped over to and hugged me, crying.

        “It’s one in the morning. You've been asleep since before I woke up just after noon! What the hell happened?” Kate shouted the question. I told them both what happened after I’d knocked them out, which I got an earful from Kate about, and about what my weapon and eyes had done.

        Kate glanced over at the spear in the wall and stood. She walked over and inspected the shaft of the spear. When she looked at the very bottom of it her eyes grew wide.

        “Alex? Do you know what this is?” she asked, her voice quivering with a mix of fear and excitement.

        “My dads old sword. Why?” I responded, curious as to why it was so important.

        “This isn't just any weapon Alex. This is a Transform Weapon. The sword form I would assume.”

        “Awesome! What does that mean?” I said with sarcasm.

        “It means that you now possess one of the fourteen most feared weapons in the world. All of them have an extremely bloody past and their wielders almost never survive past the age of forty.”

        Violet and I were now listening intently. This seemed really important, especially if I was the owner of one of these legendary, and extremely dangerous, weapons.”

        “There are two groups: the Transform weapons, Trans. Weapons for short, and the Conduit Weapons. You know what a Transform Weapon can do. It can take the shape of any other weapon its wielder has seen.”