BlueSword: young volunteers

Chapter 4: Annebeth

       Still running through the woods i turned around just to see trees, i ran for about five minutes after that then set her down. I grabbed the shield to find that she had fallen asleep, i sighed and layed down too and suddenly i was asleep too.

         I woke up to the sound of snapping tree branches, I looked up into the trees. Sure enough she was climbing a tree about ten feet in front of me, I yelled up to her, "what are you doing?" She looked down at me and then climbed down. I'm not sure if I noticed or not but she was blond, about a half-inch shorter than me but was in shape. I looked surprised I think because she looked away and smiled, I said "ummmm.... What's your name?" She quickly looked up and quietly said "Annebeth" I said "what were you doing in a orphanage?" That was stupid to say "isn't it obvious?" She exclaimed "how long have you been in the orphanage?" I asked, she replied "since i was born" "and how long ago was that?" I asked " she looked uncomfortable and replied quickly "thirteen years ago" I must've looked surprised again because she ran to the tree and climbed so fast she was at the "top" in less than ten seconds. I felt bad and left her alone for what seemed like an eternity, she finally said something to me. "Come up here please" she didn't say why but I did. I climbed up and looked around i don't know how it took me so long to find the tree house but i finally did it was huge, it had two floors, at least three bedrooms, and a bathroom. I looked around for her and she came flying down from on top of the tree house and landed in front of me, she helped me up and guided me into the house.         

When i finally got into the house it was bigger on the inside than on the outside, it had a entertainment room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and an extra room with an escape hatch. I almost fell down and lost all feeling in my legs, it was dusk and i've seen enough. I went to a bedroom and fell down onto a feather stuffed bed and pillow and fell asleep.

                                                     ------------Aaron's dream------------

I was in a gigantic bowl shape arena, and a fifteen-foot troll was in front of me then a sword appeared in my hands. I looked at it amazed at it's weird shape and it's ancient feel in my hands, the blade was completely straight, and extremely thin nothing that would fight in a battle more of just a decorative sword. Something inside me told me t swing at the troll, i hesitated, but the feeling was strong so i swung. To my surprise i missed but i hit it!! i was confused, i looked at the sword then i realized writing on the sword, it read: as tough as diamond, as smooth as a newborns skin, and as deadly as a cactus needle. Just then i realized that a cactus needle is so thin at the end that you can't see it. So it appears to jump out at you, the edge of this sword s just like that so thin you can't see the tip, so it jumps out at you. Just then i look up and the troll is swinging downward at me he screams at me "got you!!!!" he hit me (end of Aaron's dream) and i woke up suddenly to find a guards foot on my stomach,  could see just enough to read what was on his chest it said orphanage.

I tried to get up but i couldn't his boot was too heavy, i was running out of time when annebeth came out of no where and jumped on his head and started hitting him. I jolted up quickly and grabbed my sword, ran down to where they were and hit the guard on the head as hard as i could with the butt of my sword. He fell down and was dizzy trying to figure out what just happened, i grabbed everyhing i could carry, stuffed it in my backpack, and ran to the escape hatch burst down the door to find and entire camp of soldiers. I stopped annebeth form immediately jumping down and told her to look, she saw them too so we decided to escape by running on top of the trees. Well that was a big fail, we didn't get but fifteen feet and fell through the leeves, hit almost every tree branch, and landed on the leader. He dusted us off and stood up and looked at us with disappointment then all i remember was a foot and black.