The Lunar Chronicles- Awakening

1. The weird dream

A/N: Hey guys!! So this is my first time writing anything like this. But my obsession with fantasy novels has made me write this book. It's my first try, so yeah I hope you like it!

                                                                                     Kriza

It was past 11 pm when the doorbell struck. I was already in bed by then as it had been a tiring day. I opened the door only to find 2 police officers standing there. My heart raced. why were they here? and at this time? my instincts told me something was wrong, very wrong.  

"Are you Miss Kriza Ivashkov?" the officer asked me. "Y-Yes. why the officer is something wrong?" "I am here to tell you that your sister Carmen has died in a terrible accident. I am so sorry for your loss but we'll need you for the identification and legal documentation and stuff." The whole world collapsed in front of me and I knew from that day onwards nothing was gonna be the same anymore. My fingers shook like leaves as I tried to lift the white cloth over a corpse that was being referred to as my sister. It was her. My beautiful sister Carmen was nothing but a dead corpse. It was a great shock to my parents who blamed each other for her death always since then. 

2 months later 

My mom and dad divorced each other and I started living alone in an apartment in New York. Unable to get over the grief, my life became even more miserable and the worst part was that I hadn't even shed a tear since her death. Everything inside me felt empty and gone. That's when my best friends Ari and Violet came along and helped me cope up with things so that I felt distracted. And things started getting better.

I was reading the newspaper when Ari came shouting in "We're going camping!! I've been waiting for this a long time and finally yayyy!!! Come one Kriz pack your bags. we're gonna go canoeing, fishing, we'll roast marshmallows while listening to horror stories, sleep under the stars it'll be so much fun!!" " ah yes I miss camping with Carmen..." and I lowered my eyes. " hey come on cheer up if Carmen was here she'd want you to live your life even though she wasn't here. she'd never want you to miss out on anything girl. so it's decided we're going tomorrow morning at 6 and me and vi will pick you up so DO NOT BE LATE! " she said with such an accent that I burst into bits of laughter. The day had set out and I was packing for tomorrow morning. After I was done I set the alarm to 5 am so that I wouldn't be late. That night I had a weird dream. 

The palace was huge and heavily guarded. As I wandered inside, I saw a throne room where an audience was being held. They weren't people more like creatures of hell. vampires, shifters, fae, warlocks, sorcerers, witches, and some I hadn't even heard of. (don't ask me how I knew them I just did) But their numbers were quite less as if it was a private assembly. The king who sat on the throne... No, he was too beautiful to be called a human; he was more of an angel except his aura radiated pure evil. He had the coldest gray eyes I'd ever seen and even though he was heavenly beautiful, the mangled scars across his arms made him look ugly." we have to kill her before they get to her, my lord" said, one council member. A sly smile played across the king. " We will not kill her" Deep silence. " Yes, my subjects instead we will compel her to side with us. We will use her as a pawn and destroy what's left of  Aurendel." The tone was so icy that it made me shiver. What were they talking about and most importantly who? " Wait I forbid you to talk any further. Someone watching us from the outside world" The king suddenly looked into my eyes unmistakenly knowing exactly where I was and said, "Hasn't anybody taught you to that eavesdropping is rude?"  And with those words from out of nowhere a pair of hands grasped at my throat leaving me without air as I choked. 

I jolted and sat right in my bed. huff..... thank goodness it was just a dream. I briefly looked at the clock only to realize that I was late. so late that I barely had time to brush my teeth. I hauled my bag out of the room at my doorstep. Just when I was about to open the door Ari and Vi came bursting in with a huge grin spread on their faces. "Are you ready Kriz? cause you're gonna have the time of your life" and sure enough, I did. As we headed towards the woods I kept thinking about the strange dream. But I shouldn't be worried it's just a dream, isn't it? or was it now...

A/N: Heyy guys!! hope you liked it and found it to be interesting. More is to come and give me chance on this one and well meet you in the next chapter!! (The first 2 chapters may be a bit boring but I promise as you go on reading you're really gonna like the story) also starting of the few chapters will be edited later. keep on reading!