Beyond The Golden Gate

Chapter 5.

Annabelle's POV

When I arrived at the orphanage. The big red bricked house holds 24 kids and our guardian, Sarah. With the name 'Heaven's Souls' on a sign out front. I go inside the house and was about to go upstairs when I heard a voice, "where do you think your going, Annabelle?" I turn around to find Allen and two of his friends, the twins, Cameron Phillips and Mark Phillips. They both have brown hair, but Cameron has green eyes while Mark has brown.

"Upstairs..." I reply, confuse of what he wants now.

Allen smirks at me, "whatever then fatty." Allen walks away with his friends laughing with him. I roll my eyes as they go.

I go upstairs and into my room, I go into my bathroom and take a quick shower. I get out and put on some comfy pajama pants and a over sized T-shirt, I brush my hair and hear Sarah yell for everyone to come down for dinner. I go downstairs and eat my dinner which was pizza from 'Pizza Hut.' I ate really quick so I can go upstairs and pack for the trip and go to bed early. I got done and ran upstairs and into my room, I grab a bag from my closet and put it on my bed, opening it. I went back to my closet and grab three pairs of pants, one pair of shorts, five pair of shirts and one pair of my tennis shoes and two pairs of converse. After packing, I got into bed and shut off my bed side light and fell into the land of rainbow pooping unicorns and flying penguins.

Conner's POV

After leaving Annabelle in the field of flowers, me and Pride fly to the woods nearby and land by a big old oak tree. I hop off Pride, grab a bag that had food in it and feed Pride an apple. I grab me an apple and a hot dog pack, I got up and got some wood to make a fire I put them in a pile and stick the palm of my hand towards the sky and focus on my hand. I imagine a ball of fire in my hand in my mind and my hand starts to glow a reddish-orange color and a ball of fire springs from the palm of my hand, I shoot the ball to the wood pile, by turning my hand towards the pile. The ball of fire flys through the air and lights up the pile of wood. I smile and sit down by the fire and watch as Pride lies down across from me under a tree. I open the hot dog pack and grab a stick, I put the hot dog on the stick, put it over the fire and watch as it cooks. After it was done cooking, I took it off the stick and ate my hot dog. When I was done, I lie back on the ground and think about what happened before I met Annabelle.

*Flashback*

Pride and I were flying through the air to go meet the guys at our hangout spot, I felt like we were being followed so I kept an eye out for anything. I saw a flash of black go by put of the corner of my eye and turn towards it, nothing. I shrugged it off, I couldn't help but notice that Pride was on high alert. I patted her on her neck trying to calm her. Suddenly I felt a large force throw me off Pride, I brought out my wings to keep myself from falling to the ground. I look up to find all of the supernatural's worst enemy, Roberto. Roberto has curly brown hair and ugly green eyes.

"Hello Conner, how are you this fine afternoon?" he sneered, circling me. I scowled at him.

"It was good until you came," I forced a smile on my face that wanted to turn into a disgust real bad. But I didn't want to be rude. (note the sarcasm.) Roberto laughed, smirking.

"I'm sorry I ruined it then, but I think I can help you make to much more worse," he laughed, while quickly pulling out his sword and lunged at me with a flap of his wings.

I pulled my sword out and we connected our swords together with a 'clang,' Roberto pulled back his sword and swung it, I blocked his hit and make a swung of my own. It gives him a cut in the side, Roberto yelled out in pain and makes a fast swung with his fist and it connected with my stomach. I lurched backwards to recover from the hit, gasping.

I look up just in time to see Roberto give a roundhouse kick to my side, but I dodged the kick. I took my sword and swung it like a baseball bat, Roberto lurched back and dodged it. Roberto swung his sword, I couldn't dodge it in time so it grazed my left arm, I yelled, holding my arm and felt a little bit of blood running down my arm. I swung my sword but he dodged it, so I roundhouse kicked him in the side where I had hit earlier. He goes back and held his side once again, scowling at me.

I smirked, Roberto then sticks his sword straight out pointing right at me and lunged at me. I tried to dodge it, but it went into my right shoulder, it didn't go all the way in to go out the back or was it close enough to struck my heart, still it hurts.

Roberto pulled out his sword from my shoulder and grabbed me while laughing, "well that went better than I excepted. Enjoy your pain Conner." He then turned away and flew off, still laughing.

I suddenly grew weak and started to fall out of the sky. Everything went black as I hit the ground and surrendered myself to the darkness and pain free sleep.

*Flashback Over*

I look down at my bandages that Annabelle covered me with, gauze and tape. I carefully pulled off the gauze and tape to get a better look at my wounds and saw that my bruises are completely gone, my cut on my arm is healed, and my shoulder wound is almost gone. I look up at the starry sky and think about the guys and Belle, I hope the guys like Annabelle. With that thought, I fell asleep.

*The Next Day*

Annabelle's POV

When I awoke the next day, I looked over at my clock to see it read 5:30. I have an hour to get ready and eat breakfast, then walk to the meadow to meet up with Conner and Pride. I grab a pair of dark blue skinny jeans with a white tank top and pair that with my blue jean jacket, I grab my black converse, put them on. I go into my bathroom and put my hair into a pony tail, brushed my teeth and put on a little bit of eyeliner and mascara. I go back into my room with my hair brush and tooth brush, stick them in my bag, grab my bag and walk out of my room. I go downstairs and walk into the kitchen, I open the fridge and take out two apples, one for me and one for Pride. I then go to a cupboard and take out two granola bars, I eat my apple and granola bar and stick Conner's in my bag. I notice that now one else is up not even Sarah and she usually up at this time. I shrug and leave a note for Sarah.

Sarah,
I'm not gonna be home for a few days, I don't know for how long but I will be back sometime. I'm leaving after school to go on an adventure I'll try to call you if possible. See you later.
Annabelle

I leave the note on Sarah's desk in her office, look at the clock on her desk that says 6:25, and go out the door. Yes, I know I lied in the note, that I'm not going to school, I'm going with Conner instead but oh well. I start the 5 minute to the meadow, when I arrive at the meadow, I see Conner and Pride landing in the field. I walk over to them, waving.

"Hey Conner," I say as Conner hops off Pride, landing beside me.

"Hey, what's in the bag?" he asks, raising an eyebrow.

"I packed clothes for me, I also packed for you a granola bar and an apple for Pride." I say, handing Pride her apple and Conner his granola bar.

Conner opens the wrapper and takes a bite of it, while Pride eats her apple. "Thanks Belle," Conner says, smiling.

"No problem, I figured you didn't have breakfast yet so I brought some for you." I reply, waving off his 'thank you' like a boss.

Conner laughs, shaking his head in amusement. "So you ready to go?"

I nod, Conner gets on Pride first then gives me a hand up on her. He gets Pride running then she starts flapping her large wings, getting us in the air and we were off.

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