Game on (The Game #1)

Chapter 2 ... then there was a dragon

Shockingly enough the next weeks were kind of normal. Or at least I tried to pretend they were. I would wake up every day at 6:00 am, go to a local shop, buy everything I needed, go to a cafe to eat and go back home to help my father with his planting. Actually, that was just plain boring.

    One day, I was planting Sakura Blossom in our family backyard, enjoying myself. The birds were chirping, the sun was shining while the peace and quiet filled my soul with a very warm feeling.

“Reminder: The Council meeting is next week,” I heard a feminine yet quite loud voice behind me. I turned around, clearly startled, shovel in my hand ready to attack only to see Clarinaa McReaper aka the creepy girl next door. She stood there just a few inches shorter yet she was glowing with almighty pride and glory while her black dress and black hair made her evil green eyes stand out even more then the fact that she was barefoot.

“You know, a nice ‘Hello’ would be nice,” I mocked her. Or at least I tried to.

“Meeting. Next. Week, NoName. What, are you stupid?” she sassed me while her nose cringed as if she smelled rotten eggs.

“No, McCreep. But you are for thinking I am,” I told her seriously waiting for her to get offended.

“Oh, I don’t think. I KNOW,” she hissed and quickly hopped her way out of my backyard. Burn. I should have remembered that she Never under ANY circumstances gets offended.

Clarina is one tough cookie. I still remember the day I first met her… she threatened me to hit me till it stops hurting. No logic, I know. But despite the fact that she was my rival she was also a friend. A family friend.

“Brother! Big Brother! .... Storm” Marc’s voice projected in the whole garden, snapping me out of my thoughts

“What?” I asked but the loud sound of thunder silenced my question. ‘Thunder?’ I thought ‘impossible.’

“I storm is coming! Mother said we have to go home NOW!” Marc screamed trying to make his sentences short enough so that they could not be cut by the sudden thunder.

“You go and I’ll catch up!” I shouted.

“But…”

“GO!”I cut him off.

He knew better than to argue so he ran back to their house as quick as his legs could carry him.

I raised my head to the source of the water that was falling onto me, tickling my senses. You see this was the first time in centuries that rained in this country which is why I suddenly got an unwanted, disturbing feeling in my stomach. Great grandmother always told me that when it finally rains, darkness is going to start prevail. But I know that that is only a childish story. I was snapped out of my thoughts when the Earth started shaking. ‘Earthquake? Impossible!’

I started running towards my house but unfortunately when I reached it, all the doors and windows were already sealed. And so I did the one thing that came to my mind. I ran. I jumped over the garden fence and run all the way to Marlow’s, an old friend of mine, home. When I reached it I started thinking that maybe I am jinxed as his house was also on lock.

That was when a then seeming clever idea popped into my head.

I ran away from his house, down the street, up a hill and stopped in the middle of the first of the twin valleys and there it was… the secret grounds -my only hope for finding shelter aka Clarina ‘McCreap’s’ house.

    I still remember the pain I felt when walking to her house, the horror I felt when I saw the blood stains on the green grass surrounding the house, when right in front of me stood what like a mental house.