a heroes book

chapter 3 Home?

The boat saw me. The moment I saw the boat turn towards the island my emotions got the best of me. Was this really happening or was I really going home. What would home look like after so long and would my family even recognize me? I started to wonder what my mother looks like and how my father would look. There it was, the boat, not even 10 feet from the shore. I grabbed the staff as fast as I could and about 5 minutes later I was heading home. The crew was trying to talk to me but I could not understand a word that they were saying but there was one thing I understood. They all wanted to know why I have this strange looking staff. My heart was racing out of my chest. I was going home so why was I so afraid. I kept telling myself to calm down and that all will be ok. Nothing worked. Why did I feel this fear? I went to bed and I hoped that the fear would go away. When I woke she was there Carra, she was just looking at me and for the first time I saw her smile. I asked her why she was smiling. 

she said " because you are finally getting what you want, to go home and see your family"

" there is a problem if I want to go home than why am I so afraid to go home"

" James you have not been home for 6 years. The reason why you are afraid to go home is because you have no idea what is left there."

" I did not realize I was gone for 6 years. My family must have forgotten me by now they must have moved on. I'm not the same person that I was when I disappeared. I can only hope that they will still accept me."

" your family will be glad to see you I know it."

" how do you know after all for all I know you could be just made up in my head, maybe I have lost my mind for being gone for so long."

" 1 I am not in your head and 2 your family loves you and they will always love you no matter what you do and they will always miss you when you are gone."

I took a moment to think about what she said but I was interrupted by one of the guards he was pointing to outside so I went out and before I walked out of the door I turned back to see carra but she was gone. Whatever she was, she was something I have never seen before. As I walked out of the room and onto the deck I could see buildings when I got off the boat I went to the police station. Turns out I was in japan one of the cops sent a translator over and told me that I will be on a plane to Ashville in a matter of 1 hour. I know that they were expecting me to be happy but I felt nothing, not even the fear, it was as if it just went away. As the plane landed I got on and when it lifted off there was an uncomfortable feeling rushing through my body.

When I fell asleep I had a nightmare of my death. I was running from this huge creature with slick black skin, red eyes, horns that would make trees seem like toothpicks and in its left hand the creature held an axe and on the creature's chest was a symbol that was red. I had the staff in my hand and all of the sudden I stopped and my eyes turned a bright red and then I slammed the staff into the ground and split the ground and made the beast fall but by doing so I fell as well.

When I woke it felt like my heart was going to jump out of my chest and as I looked down the staff it was glowing red the same color as my eyes were in the dream. What was going on and more importantly how could I stop it. As my heart slowed down the glow started to fade. But what made it glow the same color as my eyes did in the dream and more importantly why? As time passed so did my thoughts. It felt like the fly home would take forever but I did not mind for some reason I was not in a rush to go home but more to go back. It was about 3 days later I landed and for a moment I could not step off the plane it was like I froze in time. Memories of the island started to come back, the time when I first met carra, the time when I found the staff. That did not matter anymore there were more important things to worry about, my family. There it was right in front of me not 3 feet from me, home, when I opened the door they were all there mother, father, sister 

" Mother, father, little sis, it's good to see you all. I feared something may have happened to one of you during my time away. Little sis (aka little ballerina) no words can describe how much I missed your silly little jokes that you had for me."

 Mother (aka Meredith) said " well we are glad that you are safe and finally home"

" yea it's good to be home."

Little sis ( aka chloe) said " I feared you were dead, you just disappeared. I thought you went to stay at a friend's house for a few days but after a few weeks of not returning my phone calls I knew there was something wrong. I went to your funeral." It was at that moment my little sister (who is now 14) started to cry. And ran over to hug me. Father (aka lukas) just looked at me and smiled and I could not help but to reflect one back. I was home after 6 years of being in the middle of nowhere. I went to my room and it was the same as when I left it. For six years no one in the house stepped inside of my room. Man I had a lot of dusting to do.

" It was good to see your family was it not."

" good god carra you nearly gave me a heart attack but yes it was good to see them again but."

"But what."

" well it's just that they're in pain even after my return I am not sure if they will ever be completely healed"

" James, you have been gone for 6 years, your family thought you were dead for 6 years. They are not in pain there recovering there probably waiting for you to join them for dinner. You have no idea on how happy they are knowing that they get to eat another meal with there only son."

" your right, I'm just overthinking it. Oh hay something strange happened with the staff when I was on the plane, it started to glow when I had a nightmare."

" the staff was responding in that way because it could tell you were in distress so it tried to power itself up to help you but you did not have it in your hand so no energy could go through it. No energy, no magic."

"ok thanks"

When I went down to join my family for dinner it was silent. No one broke the silence for about 30 minutes and then that's when I asked what had changed during my absence. The first thing my father said was football. I zoned out. I thought about being on the island for some reason I could not help myself. What was wrong with me, my family was right in front of me and all I could think about was the island. It is strange to think that for some reason I felt more at home on the island than I do here.