User blog:Oblivion1001/Undaunted

Prologue:

I have to run faster, to escape the shadows, though I know I never will. Not after the fire. Smoke coils around the dark pine trees, leading to the steep, rough mountain. Where am I... my head hurts. I look around before finally seeing where I am.

Then it's pitch black and I am falling, my mouth open in a scream but it's like someone has pressed a mute button and I can't ehar myself. I land.

I'm alone.

In the dark.

Chapter 1:

I sit bolt upright in my bed, the effects of the dream fading away. I have the same dream every night. It's too weird. I stretch, and my little brother Jesse looks in. When he sees me, he grins and runs into my room. "Hey Anna," he yells, clearly oblivious to the fact that I only just woke up. "Get ready for the thing."

Oh yes. The "thing". I don't really know too much about the "thing," only that it was the funeral for someone seriously important. I get up and get dressed. Usual clothes, since I' not exactly rich, but not poor. What I'm



wearing is better than a T-shirt and sweatpants. Jesse's talking al about the cemetary on the car ride. "Guys... Jesse, cool it," Suzanna mumbles from the driver's seat. She's our older sister. She's 19.

Of course, it wasn't very exciting sitting around waiting for things to end. I saw our cousins. There were our classically beautiful cousins, Mackenzie and Cotto, both talking to the priest and looking like they had been crying. Obviously fake. Also obviously part of their cuteness act. Cotto was at least nicer than Mackenzie. They both had straight blond hair and unnaturally blue eyes, and were both awful.

Dawn Woods, another girl, sat near us. She was nice enough, I've met her once before.

"Come on," Jesse mutters to me, leading me away from her. Suddenly, right there in the cemetary, there's a huge burst of static.

"What was that?" my brother gasps. I pry him off me and send him sprawling in the dirt.

The priest begins talking as if it never happened, but now everyone listens to him.

"Now... one of the things that Thomas Yglacious --"

"So THAT's his name!"

"Shut up, Jesse."

"... wanted to accomplish in his life were..."

The priest paused for dramatic effect. It worked. Everyone caught their breath. He looked straight into my eyes.

"He wanted to discover the four elements that would create the strongest elixir in the world. It could control life, death, and anything else."

We exchange glances, me and my brother.

"They are all here," the priest says, booting up an image on a very high-tech, non-priest like computer.

Then the place where we will be finding these elements comes into view. It's the same as my dreams.

The same place.

I stand up abrtuptly. All talking ceases.

"Anna... sit down," Jesse whispers. "You're attracting attention!"

I obey him.

The priest continues. "These people will have the best chance of survival while looking for these elements... the fire element, the wind, the rain, and the... the last is... no one knows."

"You said survival," a snarky voice comes from the back of the room. "So it'll be dangerous, yes?"

"Yes it will, Mackenzie. Your name is also on the list."

"Read it."

"Do not rush me, girl."

He brandishes his list and begins to tick off names.

"Dawn Woods."

Dawn rises.

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