Hearth

Chapter One- The Beginning of Hearth

This story begins in a small house, in the middle of nowhere where a 13 year old boy with dark brown hair is playing a game by himself. That boy is me. My name is Hearth. In the corner of my eye I saw a silhouette of a man walking towards me. My mom and I live in the middle of nowhere, so I get excited whenever a visitor comes. So, I rushed over to greet the new visitor. When I got closer, I saw that the man was in a black suit and sunglasses, my mom rushed over too.

"Hello, Mrs. Silverton, my name is Mr. Yélego." Said the man.

"Hello, umm, how did you know my name?" said My Mom.

"Not important. I'm here to investigate your house."

"Ok, come in."

Mom brings the man into the house and the man starts to investigate the house. He goes in the attic and comes back looking very disappointed, then he begins to look in the basement, at this point my mom and I are in the kitchen. Then I hear a noise in the basement, so I go to check on Mr. Yélego. I go into the basement and I'm horrified to see a creature with long arms and no facial features. It looks at me and talks in the voice of Mr. Yélego.

"Hello, Hearth, I found what I'm looking for so I'll be off."

He held up a silver stone that emitted some sort of light, the creature walked towards me. I was frozen with terror.

"Move!" Said a familiar voice.

It was Mr. Yélego but this one had a nicer tone in his voice, and behind him was my mother looking terrified. I looked back and the creature had, what looked like a thunderstorm in its hand. The creature shot it at me the real Mr. Yélego pushed me out of the way, but the lightning still hit me on the forehead. I fell to the ground but before I blacked out I saw the creature explode in a blaze of lightning.

I woke up in my bedroom the next day. I went in the bathroom thinking it must have been a bad dream, but I knew it wasn't when I looked in the mirror and saw that I had a light blue strip of hair in the left side of my head. I rushed downstairs to see my mom talking to Mr. Yélego. They both looked at me and my mom ran over to me and hugged me, then she told me to sit down.

"Honey, Mr. Yélego and I think you should go to... a special place."

"The thing that gave you that," he pointed at my hair. "Is called a doppelganger. It can take form of any being, and I've never seen anyone kill one."

"But I didn't kill it, you did."

"No Hearth, that bolt of lightning that hit you usually kills people, but when it hit you, some force stopped it from killing you.

"So honey" My mom said "You need to go pack your things and go with with Mr. Yélego.
Ok?"

"But mom" I started

"Honey please"

"O-Ok

So, I got my stuff and went back to the kitchen, where Mr. Yélego was waiting by the door with my mom. Mom hugged me and said, I love you. Then Mr. Yélego put my stuff in his car and we drove away.