The Prophecy

Chapter 1

Running away

In my room... crying... again.... I could hear my parents fighting over me. Papa was upset. Mom was trying to defend me. I just wanted to get out of this tangled mess. My arms were trembling, my head felt heavy, I punched my fist into my pillow letting all the anger and hatred into it. I felt drained and my dog jumped and realized I was in pain. She crawled over to me, and layed on my lap comforting me. I imagined myself being asleep for about 3 hours in my bed, ending the day and waking up the next morning and starting a new day. It always made me feel better. My whole body felt heavy, but could be picked up like a feather. I was tired and had to give up. My body felt disconnected from my racing mind. I had to go and clear my mind.

I took my bow, jumped out of the window to the tree and ran as fast as possible, jumping from branch to branch in the thunderstorm. Eventually, I ran to the edge of the beach. I yelled into the ocean "WHY ME" and collapsed.

I woke up on the shore. My throat was dry from crying so much. While I was walking home I noticed the guards. There were many around the forest. I saw their battle scars and some even lost limbs from all the tsunamis. I frowned. The tsunamis have been getting worse. A few days ago one of the tsunamis almost swept my sister away. A guard was there and snatched her up before the tsunami killed her. I know the eclipse is coming soon, and soon I'll be battling a tsunami twice the size of the Unimaginable before it takes the entire continent.

I went into the bushes and slipped past all the guards. I made it back to my room, threw myself on the bed and sighed. My mother came bursting into my room and screamed. She ran to me and hugged me but I was sensing a lecture. I hugged her back when my father also burst into the room. I froze. He embraced me as well but it was hard to hug him back. They didn't say anything just stared. But they didn't have to say anything, I could hear their thoughts.

After a while my dad left to attend to an emergency. My mom looked at me.

"We were so worried," she said sadly, "I'm sorry about last night, but please don't run away again," she looked at me with big wet eyes.

I did feel bad then, "I'm sorry I won't do it again, I just had to clear my head," I said.

She sighed and hugged me tighter,''I'm so sorry, we don't know what you are going through, but please talk to us."

"Ok," I said. I couldn't hurt my family so I added, "I hate my stupid prophecy, that's why I run away from my problems. That is why I'm constantly running away. It is the only time I can clear my head and relax out of the entire day."

"We wish we could reverse it, but we will work on it Iris," my mom paused and the silence was unbearable.

"You can't run away from your problems though, Iris. Sometimes you just have to face them," but even she knew how weak that sounded. But she was also right. I hugged her and she pulled me in and stroked my hair. Then as if the gods were listening the siren went off.

My dad ran into the room, panting, "a Tsunami! Big one!"