Dunkim

New Generation: Chapter 1

Alex's POV

"Daddy?" I asked, running down the stairs.

"What is it?" Dad asked, whipping around a corner.

"Can Beca come over?" I asked.

"I'm sorry pumpkin, but Beca is training today." Dad said. Beca has been training to control her elven magic. Sometimes, she'll touch a plant and it will grow ten times it size.

"It's okay dad, what about Annabeth?" I asked, hoping my other friend could come over.

"I'll have to ask her parents. But, if she is allowed, Annabeth may come over." Dad said. He picked up his phone and called Annabeth's parents.

"Hi Lewis, it's Duncan...I'm good, you?... good, good. Look, does Annabeth want to come over to my house for a little... to hang out with Alex... okay great... do you want me to pick her up?... okay see you Lewis." Dad hung up.

"So she can come over?" I asked, a smile on my face.

"Yes, her mum, Hannah is dropping her off." Dad said.

"Okay! Thanks dad" I said. I hurried to the front door and waited for my friend to arrive. I waited for a couple of minutes before there was a knock on the door. I opened the door to see my smiling, dirty blond haired friend.

"Alex!" She said, giving me a giant hug.

"Hey Annabeth!" I said, returning the hug.

"Let's go to your room." Annabeth said. I agreed as we hurried upstairs. We collapsed on my bed.

Annabeth nudged me. I nudged her back. She nudged me harder. I hit her with a pillow. Soon enough, we were having a full out pillow fight.

"On guard!" I yelled, hitting Annabeth with my pillow.

"Back down!" Annabeth said, hitting me with her pillow.

"Never!" I said, dodging another swing from Annabeth's pillow. Mum opened the door and Annabeth and I froze mid fight. Mum walked over to us, picked us a pillow, and started hitting us with it.

"Feel the wrath of my pillow!" Mum yelled, hitting Annabeth with her pillow. We all started laughing and soon we had all fell to the floor clutching our stomachs. We were laughing too hard. Duncan walked in. I looked first from Annabeth then to Mum. We all had a silent agreement. We started attacking Duncan with our pillows.

"Ah!" Duncan screamed, getting hit with all three of our pillows.

"You sound like a girl." I commented, laughing as my pillow made contact with dad's stomach.

"I do not!" Dad said, although it was slightly muffled my Anna's pillow.

"Calm down girly!" Mum said, hitting him with her pillow.

"Stop it!" Dad yelled, but there was no real need. We had all collapsed onto the ground laughing. Then, Mum became stiff and moaned.

"Kim, what's wrong?" Duncan asked, kneeling beside her.

"The flux..." Mum said, her purple self being picked up bridal style by dad.

"Girls go play and so girly stuff, don't bother Kim and I." I said, carrying mum out of the room. I felt the happiness seep out of me. 

"Why don't we go to my house?" Annabeth suggested, putting a comforting hand on my shoulder. I nodded and we left. After telling my dad where we were going of course.

When we got to Annabeth's house, she opened the door and we went inside. Lewis was at the kitchen table looking at plans for stuff. He looked up when he heard the door open. One look at my face and he was beside me.

"Alex, what happened?" He asked, looking at my red eyes. Annabeth explained about mum and Lewis was looking very sorry.

"I'm so sorry Alex, you can stay here as long as you would like." Lewis said, "I'll go tell Hannah." He went to tell Hannah, who was sitting in the other room. Hannah was mum's best friend, surely she would know what to do. I wasn't disappointed.

"Hi Alex. Lewis told me what happened. I think that you should tell Rythian, he might know what to do." Hannah said, coming to talk to me. I nodded and wiped a tear from my eye.

"Thanks H-H-H-Hannah." I said, not letting tears fall from my eyes. Hannah and Lewis took me and Annabeth to Uncle Rythian's house. I knocked and Rythian answered.

"Hi Alex, Annabeth." He said, looking cheerful. When he saw the look on our faces, his happiness perpetrated. "What's wrong girls?"

"Mum..." I managed to say, then I burst into tears. Zoey must've heard m because a second later she was in the doorway.

"Rythian, what'd you do?" She asked, looking at my sad face.

"Nothing! It's something about Kim." Rythian said.

"Kim? Come in girls." Zoey said, allowing us to come in.

"What happened to Kim?" Uncle Rythian asked, sitting us down on a black couch. Again Annabeth explained, when she was done I was in tears and Rythian was looking stony.

"Kim could die from this." Rythian explained, causing my tears to turn into sobs that racked my body.

"You can cure her though, right Rythian?" Aunt Zoey asked, putting a comforting arm around my shoulder.

"I might." Rythian said, "Maybe."

Evelyn's POV

I was upstairs in my room. When I heard someone crying downstairs. I snuck onto the stairs and saw my cousin/friend Alex and my other friend Annabeth. Asher, my twin, came up behind me.

"You heard them too huh?" Asher asked, looking at my friends.

"Yeah." I whispered.

"Casual walking down in 3, 2..." Asher said.

"1" We said in unison. We strolled down the stairs, when we saw the group we pretended to be surprised. I ran over my Alex, who was crying.

"What happened?" I asked, holding my friend in a tight hug.

"Mum might die!" She said, burying her head into my shoulder. I stood there in shock.

"Don't worry, my Dad, Asher, and I will save her." I said, after a hesitation. I looked over Alex's shoulder and gave dad the We-better-do-this-or-else sorta look. I was going to help my best friend. 

They left me to think.