Dynamite

Prologue

An anxiety disorder: a mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities. That was what the doctor told 11-year-old Emma Charleston when she was rushed to the emergency room in the middle of the night.

Her first anxiety attack had awoken her in the middle of the night, and because of her asthma she had stopped breathing. Her mom, dad, and older brother rushed her to the hospital to figure out what was wrong with her.

"Don't worry; we'll get through this together," Emma's dad whispered to her in the hospital as she sobbed into his chest. He kissed her lightly on the top of her head and hugged her tightly as bitter tears silently and slowly rolled down his face. Emma's mom was also sobbing as Emma's older brother sadly comforted her.

That was three years ago. Emma now was 14 years old. She had chest-length, light brown hair with dark green eyes. She had braces as well. During the past three years, she suffering from anxiety, many anxiety attacks, and lots of bullying. She knew that only she could decide if she wanted to get rid of her anxiety. She made the choice to accept help, and she got medication to help deal with it. Emma now was an eighth grader at a school that taught middle school and high school. She went to Trailer West High with her 17-year-old brother Ethan Charleston, who was a junior there. He had ear-length, dark brown hair with light blue eyes.

Even though Emma still was dealing with her panic attacks and anxiety, it was slowly and suddenly getting less frequent. But the second quarter of school had just started, and stress was beginning to sink in.

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There was a 14-year-old boy sitting outside of his new home, staring at the star-filled sky. The next day was his first day at his new school. He was forced to move from Miami, Florida to San Francisco, California. All of his friends were across the country. He never wanted to move, and he still wished he never had.

The school he was going to was unlike any other school he ever went to. It was a school that taught seventh grade to twelfth grade. That school taught middle school and high school. He was nervous about the amount of kids there and who was going to be there. He wished he could fake an illness to not go to school, but his mom, dad, and sister knew him too well to know if he really was sick or not.

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The parents of Emma and Ethan Charleston, named Jake and Rose, were both lying in bed in the still darkness. They both thought the other one was asleep, but they really weren't. Something was bothering them both. Something large. Something that haunted their past, present, and future.

Since the day Jake and Rose Charleston destroyed the Dubleka race years ago, news about the aliens spread like wildfire. Because of the destruction they had caused of their secret hideout, people had gone to investigate. All they found were the bodies of the Dublekas, which they took to investigate. Experiments, tests, and more caused scientists and the world to come to this conclusion... they were aliens. Everyone knew about them now. They knew who they were, what they had looked like, and random facts about them including their ominous blood type, why they wanted to kill the world, and what planet they came from. But the world didn't know one thing. Who killed the Dublekas?

Jake and Rose wanted to keep it a secret between them, their kids, their best friend, and their kids' best friends. Nobody else knew that they were the ones who killed the Dublekas. And nobody else will ever know. Even though nobody knew, and everyone thought everything was fine, everything wasn't fine to them.

They were having hallucinations at day and dreams at night. They saw random, symbolized warnings that there was a secret about the Dublekas. Jake and Rose were very paranoid that there were more Dublekas somewhere. They didn't know where, how, or anything. All they knew was that there was a possibility of that. It terrified them to think about there being more Dublekas. They thought they had saved the world.

But little did Jake, Rose, or anybody know that the last Dubleka living could be right under their noses.

And little did the last Dubleka living know that he would soon become the world's biggest threat.