The House of Nobility

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

There is no limit to what has happened in my life to change the way I view the world. Does that make sense? It doesn't make sense. But then my life has never actually made sense, I have accidentally traveled the world and discovered that the gods have little to do with anything that has happened with climate, crime, or the environment. The gods like to act like they are these all-powerful beings that interfere when they are supposed to but, it's the kids like me, that do all the work while the gods just poke their heads in to say, "What's up?" and send kids like me on stupid missions to save the world. Is that fair to anyone? I didn't ask for this. Does this make sense now? My life is a disaster and unfortunately it all started the moment I was born.

I was born November 2nd to amazing parents, at least... I thought they were amazing... and I thought I was "born," in reality I was created and sent to two people who did a semi okay job raising me; my name is Altheia Evans I am officially 18 years old today and I officially want to die. I'm ready. I'm prepared. Everything is set up to work so that I can officially say "Peace out," to the gods and maybe live a normal life in the messed-up afterlife that supposedly exists within the god's world. See the god's world isn't the world I want to be in, I want to be normal and do normal things and not have to worry about the world coming to an end every hour of the day because of the stupid life I'm supposed to have.

Since I was a baby, weird things have happened to me. When I was one years old, I somehow managed to get out of my car seat and leap out of it and landed like four feet away perfectly fine and just kept running. When I was four years old, I swung from the jungle gym at school, did like four flips in the air and landed perfectly fine. All the while, the teachers are just screaming and the kids around me are pooping their pants in terror. Last year? Well last year my parents disappeared and that's when all this mess finally came to light. I mean I knew there was something stupid going on, I knew I was different, and I knew that there was an issue when I woke up one morning and discovered that my parents were nowhere to be found.

Here I am, trying to finish my Senior year of High School, getting ready to start the day with my friend Leanna and bam, my parents are gone. Granted, now I can say "hey, my parents have disappeared and whatever I'll figure it out," but that morning? That morning I just remember seeing red and seeing a blurring version of Leanna bursting into my house screaming my name. Was she actually screaming...? I can't quite remember, I remember screaming, but I can't remember if it was her screaming or if it was me screaming... There was a lot of screaming. Now, their room wasn't bloody and red, my eyesight just turned red, I remember feeling this surge of red power bursting through my soul. My soul exploded out of me, so much of it that I didn't wake up until like three days later.

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Three days later. I woke up in the palace of the gods and thought that everything was going to be different, I'd be different, and my life would be better. Maybe I won't feel so alone in this palace? When I woke up, in this beautiful palace where there were literal birds singing, I felt so isolated and so alone, what was going on.

"Leanna!" I screamed, "Where are you? What is this place, what's going on, where are my parents!?"

Leanna came running from literally out of nowhere. It was like the shadows just bent towards her; she was already by my side. "Shhhhh, Altheia, it's ok. It'll be okay. Diana will explain everything, but for now just wait. Just wait and be silent and relax and just breathe."

The earth started to move. I mean it literally started to move. I took a deep breath, and the earth shook a little, my heart raced a little faster and rocks started to come down a little. Literal rocks started to come down from the ceiling. "Where are we that rocks can even manage to rain down like this?" I cried to Leanna. All she did was stroke my hair, hug me a little tighter and work on calming me down. The earth stopped moving.