Maia ( Book One of The Time Bubble)

Chapter 1: The Story

The birds flew by as I ran past the undisturbed trees. My heart hammering in my chest and the wind pulling at my hair. I chance looking back; in fear the two boys I ran from were behind me. My feet began to slowly ache as they pound away at the ground. I wasn't angry but the situation at hand made my head hurt with plans of escape, then I tripped on something maybe a rock. I heard deep chuckles above my head and wait a second. Then I felt it, the familiar sting in my back as I was roughly picked up off the ground by my arms. I came face to face with Mandory Coin and Max Maroon, I felt my heart drop to my stomach in utter dread.

Let me introduce myself, my name is Nina LiAnne, I'm 16 years old and I get bullied by the two moron's in front of me. They bully me because I'm a weak and pathetic "human". You must be wondering what the heck that means. Well I live in a world where all kinds of people and things are accepted. Except for some people in my kind. I'm a mixture of Fox and an Angel, they call us kitshi. It's not easy for some of us especially when you're the future ruler of a world that has a barrier around it. I know all about the barrier, I created it.

Back to the situation at hand I try to negotiate with the two of them.

"Come on guys don't you have something more worthy of your time?" I said as two of their followers hold me still. I really am trying to get out of these hands but it's of no use.

They scoffed at the suggestion like it was an insult.

"Why would we do that? After all the running we did to catch up to you to give you your lesson; a decent lesson at that. You offend us, Nina!" Mandory spoke as his face came closer to my own. I had hoped in vain to be left alone; it isn't like I did anything wrong to them!

Pulled out of my thoughts by the harsh sting I felt on my cheek, I tuned back to the sound around me. "You humans are so unfocused, we were talking to you nitwit!" Max yelled.

"As we were say, we're going to the denser part of the park and we expect you to not put up a struggle. Do you understand?" I nod and start heading toward the very familiar area.

Approaching said area, they start pushing me around in between the four of them. I hear a whimper of pain fall from my lips as I fall to the ground. "You want to know what you did today Nina" without waiting for a response he continued "you were ignoring us all day again today and to be honest we're tired of you getting away with this attitude."

It was so nice this week, the whole week I was left untouched, but all things must end at some point. I always wondered why they never went after my twin siblings. There were three of us with almost identical faces in total. I was the eldest by a couple of long minutes; I was also the only one they would hurt.

It was two against one now, as Mandory and Max kicked my stomach till I coughed up blood. My stomach most likely an ugly purple color. They picked me up and carried me all the way over to the pond and threw me in. I fake like I can't swim and slowly descend to the eerily dark bottom pit of the lake. They always left me in the lake and expected me to swim all on my own.

The funny thing is when Mandory left with the other two guy's completely max jumped into the water and retrieves me. "you idiot! You scared me half to death, don't do that. Don't do that again!" He whispered into my ear and I think my cold heart skipped a beat. He carried me home and followed me to my room. "I knew you wouldn't be the one to let me drown in water. You probably want to end my life yourself. Isn't it funny how that works, Max."

I probably shouldn't have said that, I ended up against the wall; his arms entrapping me. "I'm not the enemy Nina. You don't understand how much I actually protect you." He growled in my ear. He sounded frustrated with himself. Max sighed and hugged me close to him; then he backed away from me and left. My heart hammered in my chest and my ears and tail popped out.

From that day I knew this wouldn't be the first wild heart throb I had.