Hope was walking to school. She felt the breeze brushing across her young, red cheeks. She paused at the crossing, hesitated and then crossed. Hope is a 13 year old girl. She has long brown hair and bright blue eyes, as blue as the oceans with lightly freckled cheeks and a very pink face. She was re living the moment when the man in the black robe came and told her that she was the chosen one, and she had 24 hours to choose to come and do the quest to save all mankind or die an excruciating death. Her thoughts were rushing through her mind like a maze. What was she to do? She knew the right thing to do was to take the quest, but she could stay home and wait until the end of the world comes? Who was going on the adventure with me and what will my map do? These were all questions that she didn’t have an answer for, but soon she was going to because Hope just came up with the idea of taking the quest!
Later that night Hope lay in bed her 24 hours were almost up. Hope took in deep breaths. She turned to look at her bedside clock. It was 2 minutes to midnight. So close, but Hope’s mind was made up. She wanted to be a hero; she wanted to save her family, her only friend Isabel and the whole of mankind. Her heart was pounding hard. 1 minute to midnight. Hope felt sick. 30 seconds now. Hope closed her eyes and hoped her family would be ok. She was putting herself in danger for them. It was her or the world. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. It was dead on midnight and she saw a silhouette out the window as the clock struck 12. Hope could hear the bushes being pushed around and twigs being trod on. The man in the black robe obviously didn’t care if he was seen or not, he was making so much noise. Hope stared at him. She saw following him were two smaller figures. They looked small in the distance. The man in the black robe decided to make a big entrance he smashed Hope’s bedroom window with an axe. Glass went everywhere. Now that he was closer, Hope could see his face clearer. And the two smaller figures didn’t look that small anymore. They were about her size. They were a girl and a boy. The boy was taller than the girl by about an inch and a half. The girl had blonde ringlets, she was wearing black leggings, with a white t-shirt that has a butterfly printed on it, and her eyes were a magnificent green. But on the other hand the boy was a mess. His white V neck t-shirt was covered in dirt; his jeans were ripped and tattered up. As Hope was eyeing the two she saw a sword hanging from the boy’s waist. Then the man in the black robe interrupted her thoughts. “These are- he started, but Hope interrupted. “What is your name? I am tired of thinking of you as ‘the man in the black robe’ please tell me if I am going to do this quest you may as well tell me your name.”The man in the black smiled “I am Dero.” Hope thought for a minute, then realised that Dero was waiting for an answer. Hope just smiled and nodded. “These two are trained fighters.” He said pointing to the two kids at the door.
“They have been in many fights in our world and others, but have never had a task like this.” “They will explain your task to you on your way because we don’t have enough time.” Their names are Grace and Luke and are far more experienced than you in what you are doing so please, please be careful Hope my darling. Here is your weapon Hope, the bow and arrow. You will get one day to practice using this along with Grace on the dagger and Luke on the sword You will be practicing in my land of Alickas Lair and will have real life people to practice with.”
“You only have one day and you start......NOW!”
