Wishes

Everyone had something to wish for. For Amanda it was to be normal like everyone else. She just wanted to fit in. She had moved schools at least 5 times in the past month. She had no friends and wanted to fit in.

She had tried almost everything, horseshoes and even attempting to find a four leaf clover. She was at her wits end until she had one last option. A website her old school friend had told her about. wishes: http://www.real-wishes.com. Amanda had entered the website and entered her wish. I wish I was Normal.

A new page had opened with a picture on it.


Free Spellcaster

Hmm, this isn't too bad. Amanda had thought to herself and waited for the wish to come true.

Adventure into the Unknown

Chapter 3: It’s you?

The two troops were looking concerned at my face. I was trying not to be looking confused and shocked. But it failed horribly.

“Josh? Zach?” I asked. Chris looked surprised. Ry and Robbie were both confused. They were too young to remember our brothers. Dom however, was angry. He was raging. And this wasn’t good.

“Dom, just breathe, there might be a logical explanation for this.” I attempted to re-assure him. This however, didn’t go too well.

“TEN YEARS AGO! YOU JUST ABANDONED US IN THE WOODS! FOR US TO NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!” He exploded shoving Zach and Josh. Chris and I both went to try and restrain him. Our brothers however, weren’t reacting at all.

“Listen, guys we had no choice.” Zach attempted to explain, but it wasn’t doing any good. He glanced over and recognised the droids.

“XE? AD?” Josh asked and walked over to them. Robbie blocked their way. “Robbie, you’ve grown. Last time we saw you, you were just a baby.” Josh said, walking over to him. Robbie was taking none of it.

“Step away from these droids.” He ordered and Josh and Zach both stood down.

“Miss Bex, if I can explain.” I glanced over to XE and the droid knew it was his cue to start. “Ten years ago, when your older siblings disappeared, your mum sent out a rescue team. This team was with the tri-force. We managed to get them back, but there were plans that the tri-force needed from the base. So we sent them back in. This time, they were Exo-Squadron troops. We thought we lost them. We never heard from them after we sent them away. This had meant that me and AD were sent into the base to recover the plans ourselves. We were then run out by a group of troops, who knew that we had stolen the plans.” XE finished explaining and we were shocked. They were sent undercover.

I took myself back to the cockpit and sat in silence. Maybe they had seen Eliza and Max while they were undercover. I missed those two the most. But that was because they were my older sisters and I looked up to them. The ship had steadied and I had realised why. We needed co-ordinates for our location.

“Hey Zach.” Was all I could say as I could see my brother’s reflection in the windscreen.

“The tri-force base is on a planet called Nagar. It’s in the Alpha system, so there’s some information.” He told me. “Look I know that you’re mad at us for not being there, but please hear me out. We were always looking out for you. When the Exo Squadron tried to kidnap you earlier, we told them that you were already dead. This meant that they couldn’t harm you, as it was impossible in their eyes.” He explained.

“Is mum there? At the base?” I asked. I haven’t seen or heard from her in years.

“Yeah, she should be.” He replied. I then went over to him and gave him the biggest hug ever. I still thought about him every day for the past ten years. I teared up and he just hugged me back, re-assuring me.

Ten minutes later, the alarms started to go off. This had caused us all to go into panic and we all felt something hit us.

“DOM! TAKE CONTROL!” I yelled at my twin. We all knew what to do and went into action stations. Ryan and Robbie both strapped into the seats in the lounge. Dom was on his own with the controls in the cockpit. Chris and I were both in the gun turrets. Our dad had come up with this idea in case we got attacked by Leap Fighters. That was the Exo Squadron’s fighter ships.

I strapped myself into the chair and placed the headphones on. The headphones were so you could hear the other person in the other turret. There was also a microphone to communicate with one another. I looked around in the turret using a joystick as a control. This had allowed me to look around the area by moving it left or right. The button in the middle was used to shoot the gun. It seemed simple enough. But it wasn’t.

I looked around and saw a huge fleet of Leap Fighters coming towards us.

“Bex, Leap Fighter coming your way. On your left.” Chris told me. I pulled down the targeter and locked down on my aim. I pressed the button numerous times and all of the shots hit the fighter.

“One down, lots more to go!” I yelled in delight. As we shot the Fighters down, more and more started to come towards us. However, as we got to the edge of the Bravo System, the Fighters turned around. We found their weak spot. Finally.

I ran up the ladder to celebrate with Chris and Dom. We were all jumping around looking very pleased with ourselves. I headed back to the cockpit with Dom in tow and we both sat down looking relieved with ourselves.

“The computer recons we have another two hours before we reach Nagar. So I can finally sleep.” Dom announced and headed off to one of the bedrooms. That left me on my own again. I looked up out of the cockpit and saw lots of stars as they passed us. I thought it was beautiful, especially that I was on my own looking at them. I turned around as I saw the door open. I expected it to be Dom, but instead it was Josh.

We talked for the remainder of the journey. We only stopped when he said,

“Up there, straight ahead. Nagar. Home.” He said. I stopped smiling and my head dropped. We also now had different places that we called home. As well as more step-siblings and no-one would recognise us. Of course they would recognise our older siblings. Who wouldn’t? Especially if they were considered heroes to their home.

I started to panic. What if no-one wanted us there? What if they didn’t know that we existed even? I tried to turn the ship around, but it was too late. Dom had gone in to land on a new, unknown planet for us. And we didn’t know what was going to happen next.

Adventure into the Unknown

Chapter 2: The Exo-Squadron chase

The sun blared in my face and I tossed over to face the wall. It was early in the morning and I had a churning feeling in my stomach. Like something bad was going to happen. I slowly arose from my bed and got dressed. I had my gun holster strapped around my waist, so it was hidden amongst other things.

You’re probably wondering why a girl like me has a gun? Well, it all began a couple of months ago. That marked the first invasion from the Exo-Squadron. I was walking back from a day of hover racing with Dom and we encountered them. They were looking for what they called ‘Traitors’. They were people that were working with the tri-force. If anyone had found out what they were up to, well you would never see them again. Anyway, the person that the Exo-Squadron had was one of our old teachers, Mr Lisf. We were shocked to find out the truth. And what we witnessed next was gruesome. After the shooting, the squad turned and faced us. They raised their guns and we ran. There was just a blur of buildings and canopies, with blurred droids. We ran straight to the café to tell our dad what just happened. He gave us all guns to protect ourselves and told us to look out for each other.

As the door to the kitchen slid shut behind me, I noticed that something was wrong. My dad or step-mum weren’t in the kitchen as usual. I grabbed some toast and headed towards the café, where XE was behind the counter and my dad and step-mum were in the kitchen.

“Dad, I’m here!” I yelled over the plates to the kitchens.

“Great! We’re out of supplies, can you take Dom, Chris, Ry and Robbie with you to the markets?” He yelled back. That’s how we communicate in our family, by yelling.

“OK!” I signaled to my siblings and we left the café.

The market was bustling for a Saturday and the sun was gleaming, but when wasn’t it? Everything started without a hitch. Until the droids came. XE was trying to catch up with AD, but he wasn’t fast enough.

“Miss Bex! RUN!” He attempted to yell. I sprinted as fast as a Derus Leopard to find out what was wrong.

“XE what happened? I though you and AD were staying with the café.” I stated but I glanced over to where the café was.

There was smoke and people being ordered out by the unthinkable. The Exo-Squadron. Numerous troops were pushing the people onto their ship, with their hands on their heads. They had been captured. I glanced over again and saw my dad and step-mum amongst the people.

The next couple of minutes were a blur. I had lost nearly everyone in my family. Apart from my younger siblings. And it was my duty to look after them and the droids.

“I think that they are after us because of the plans.” XE deducted and I was shaking. My breathing had gotten heavier and heavier. The droids had stolen something from the Exo-Squadron. And we were the next victims. We were seen with them.

The squadron turned and looked at us. They were advancing towards us in a pack. Row by row, they were marching right at us. I yanked my sister’s arm and started to run. My brothers and the droids followed us as the squadron were getting quicker and closer. I closed my eyes and thought of my older siblings.

As we were running, I felt something in my pocket. I shoved my hand in there and pulled out a set of keys. The keys to our family ship. I was known to be a good pickpocket. Not in public, only at home.

“We’re going somewhere else.” I half-yelled, half-whispered. I yanked my sister’s arm and ran down a side alley. The alley was thin and had broken hologram pieces everywhere. However, it was the quickest route to the spaceport. That’s where our ship was stored.

Half an hour later of running, trying to lose the Exo Squadron, we arrived at Dock 89. I saw the ship and started to charge at it. However, I was stopped in my tracks. There was a group of Exo Squadron troops blocking our way. Two of them came closer

“Stop!” The taller one ordered.

“Drop your weapons!” The shorter one ordered. They could see my laser gun in my holster. I slowly picked up my gun and bent down to place it on the ground in front of me.

“Mar- “The two troops were cut off by the other two troops behind them. They had been knocked out.

“If you want to live board the ship with us now. And grab your gun!” One of the troops ordered. That troop had a red stripe on their arm, so I guess that they were in charge. I didn’t argue and we clambered onto the ship, with my gun in hand. The two troops followed us onto the ship. I ran into the cockpit with Dom.

“Ignite the engines!” I ordered him and he pushed a blue button on the dashboard. “Good, now raise the shields.” He nodded again and pressed a series of switches. Our ship began to take off, and soon we were over the spaceport. I thrusted the controls forward to get our ship off the planet.

An hour into the journey, I switched the controls to cruise control and set off into the lounge. The two Exo Squadrons were there, but were being interrogated by Ry.

“RY! Leave them to me!” I shouted. I turned towards the troops. “Right, do as I say and no-one gets shot.” The troops nodded in return. I guess you could say that I was intimidating. “Take off your helmets.” Surprisingly they did as I asked. And I was shocked at who it was.

Adventure Into The Unknown

Adventure Into The Unknown
Chapter 1: Our home, Derus

It's been ten years, exactly since what happened on Omegi. I mean we had a whole memorial day at school for it. Dom was in charge of laying down the flowers for our year. Dom's my twin brother and other best friend in the family. He is tall, with dark brown hair. He also has dreamy blue eyes according to my close friends. A lot has happened in ten years. Let's start after the invasion.

After a long flight from Omegi, we were evacuated to a small planet called Derus. Derus was a mixture between a sand planet and a water planet. Our new village was on the sand half. My dad was running the cafe there, and my mum decided to become a nurse for the Triforce. That's our way of fighting against the Exo Squadron. However things went downhill. Our parents started arguing and eventually my mum packed up and left. My dad had always told me that her work needed her on another planet, so she thought that it would be safe to leave us here. It had only been two months of living on this new planet, and now I was without a mum and my older siblings.

A year later, my dad remarried someone called Michelle. She was nice enough and she also worked at the cafe. She already had three children from a previous relationship, so you could say that they were my step-siblings. Two of them were older than me, which made me more reserved. I didn't want new siblings at the time. I wanted my older siblings back.

Anyway, we are now back in the present. Dom and I are both sixteen. Chris had just turned thirteen, Ry is eleven and Robbie was ten. Poor Robbie. He doesn't remember my sister singing in the morning or my brothers constantly fighting. He doesn't remember much at all. He has heard all of the stories though.

After the memorial finished, we walked back to our house and brought out some pictures. We do this every single year. All of the pictures were taken before ten years ago. I still get tears in my eyes when I see my older sisters' faces.
"Who's that?" Robbie asked. He always forgets what they were called and we have to constantly remind him who they are, but we don't mind.
"The taller one is Zach, he was eleven but he would now be twenty-one. Next to him is Max, his twin. She would also be twenty-one now. There's Josh, who was nine when this happened. He would now be nineteen. And there's Eliza, she was only eight and now would be eighteen." I paused. Eliza was one of my favourites in the family. She would always look out for me. And we use to have to share a room. I miss her the most.

Half an hour later, our three step-siblings marched in. They only come on week-ends, as they live with their dad. Mark is the eldest, as he is nineteen, the same age Josh would have been. Izzi is the middle and she's seventeen. Then there's Paul, who's fourteen. They are alright, besides the fact that they always get me into trouble with my dad for anything.
"Hey Bex, did you go to the hover race yesterday, I swear I saw you racing." Izzi asked me, I had to be cautious because of the last time I went to the races.
"No, but if your mum finds out that you went she'll be gutted that you had lied to her about your whereabouts." That blackmail had landed me in huge trouble. Not just for blackmailing, but for racing yesterday. In punishment, I had to go droid shopping.

The droid depot is where everyone gets house droids from. They can also be used for businesses. Ours are used for the cafe mainly, but they sometimes come home. Our recent droid had just broken, so my dad and I set off to buy a new one. Once we got to the depot, I saw the perfect one.
"I am XE-350 at your service." It had said walking over.
"What services can you provide for a cafe?" My dad asked the silver droid.
"I can easily take orders, as I have an impeccable memory, and I have the ability to speak many languages to your different types of customers." XE replied. The droid spoke in a calmly manner and was cautious of what to say.
"We'll take this one, Bex can you please go and choose an AD unit?" My dad asked me and I nodded in return. As I walked over to all of the AD units, I started to make mental notes about each of them.
"I think this unit will do." I said to the salesman and the AD-400 unit had started to follow me. It was apparent that AD and XE had already met each other.

As I was cleaning the AD unit, I asked XE,
"Who were your previous owners?" However, XE looked ashamed to say.
"We were placed undercover in the Exo Squadron base. By the Triforce." XE had finally said. I was shocked and curious to know more.
"I heard what you said XE," Dom had said as he came into my room. "But please answer this. Did you see any of the troops without their helmets on?" He continued to speak.
"I'm sorry Master Dom, but we didn't. We were placed undercover." At that point, Chris, Ry and Robbie were also in my room.
"What were you looking for?" Chris had asked. She had always been curious since the disappearance of our older siblings.
“Plans for the- “ The droid went silent, cutting off his last sentence. We could tell that he wasn’t supposed to reveal anything. We knew how secretive the Triforce were and that they couldn’t reveal anything. Maybe it was because our mum had said that she was sworn to secrecy and that we couldn’t see her, as it would endanger everyone. I secretly knew that she didn’t want to lose us and had wanted to protect us.

As the sun was coming down over our home, I sat on the roof and thought to myself about what the droids had revealed. What if they had seen my siblings? And what if they were hiding more information from us.

Adventure Into The Unknown - Prologue

Adventure Into The Unknown
Prologue

Where I lived was once a beautiful planet. It was covered in grass and it had lots of nature. There was a forest by my house with a huge lake in the middle. In the summer, I use to walk up to the lake with my siblings and we use to go swimming in the lake. Our parents didn't mind, as long as we all stuck together. There were nine of us altogether, including myself. I had four older siblings and four younger siblings. My older siblings always cared for us, especially when it was just us lot alone. My younger siblings always make us smile and laugh.

One day we had decided to go out, just us nine. What we didn't know was that it was going to be the last time that we were all going to be together. As we set back to the house after a long day out building dens in the wood, my sister decided that it was getting late and we should head back. I traipsed back to the house while holding my sister's hand. I had a huge refusal to head back, I wanted to stay out for longer. If we did stay, then this story wouldn't have existed. However that wasn't the case.

At the forest clearing, I could see the fear in my siblings eyes.
"Stay here, we'll be back." My brother told my younger siblings and I. He nodded to our older siblings and they ran off. We ran back to the dens, but as I looked over my shoulder for our siblings I could see the destruction that was happening. It was them. The Exo Squadron. They were soldiers that were made up of cyborgs. They were once humans, but the Exo Squadron takes them away at any age and makes them forget who they were and then train them to be soldiers. It's everyone's nightmare.

After an hour of waiting and waiting, we decided to head back home. That's when we witnessed it happening. Our older siblings were being taken away by the Exo Squadron troops.
"NO! BRING THEM BACK! COME BACK!" I shouted at the soldiers, running after their ship. I had tears streaming down my eyes as the ship took off. I dropped to my knees and broke down. As I went back towards where we lived, I could see ashes and remains of my childhood home. Our planet soon became uninhabitable and we had to move. I had the weight of being the oldest on my shoulders as I soon realised that my older siblings weren't coming back.

Undercover Witch - Chapter 1: It was an accident

Chapter 1: It was an accident

Jemma Hardgrave was bored. Her pen was tapping the science lab desk she sat at as she stared aimlessly at the board. Her pen taps were getting louder and louder by the minute. The class she was in all had empty faces, staring at nothing. Jemma’s biology teacher was the most boring by far. His voice droned on and on, it had lost interest in her class. They were learning about inheritance and classification in both humans and animals. Jemma’s eyes were slowly drooping, and were about to come to a close when something disturbed her.

“Jemma, are you paying attention?” A voice sharply said as Jemma was woken after nearly falling asleep. She wiped her long brown hair from her face and looked around. She could see her short, stumpy biology teacher, Mr Pyron glaring at her. Mr Pyron was in his mid 50’s and was nearly bald. He was wearing a stained white shirt and a red and white tie. His black trousers were at the floor as they were too long for him. However, you could just see his clean, polished black shoes. At the school, Mr Pyron was the least liked teacher, as he was the most boring in the whole school.

“Yes, sir?” Jemma said as innocently as possible. She glanced to her left where her friends, Max and Billie were sitting. Max was tall, with a good build. He had dirty blond hair and blue eyes. Billie was also tall, she had mid-length curly dirty blond hair and green eyes. No-one would be able to tell that they are siblings, non-identical twins to be exact. They looked at her with the sense of worry, as the knew what was going on, while she took a little nap.

“What is the classification for Lizards?” Mr Pyron asked, narrowing his eyes, knowing that Jemma would get the question wrong. For the past five lessons, she hadn’t paid attention or did her homework for Biology.

“Erm-” She paused to think of a good answer, but her brain stopped when Mr Pyron interrupted her train of thoughts.

“If you would have been kind enough to pay attention in my lessons then you would know. Now for your homework, page two hundred and ten please, due on Tuesday.” Mr Pyron finished his word sharply, as the bell went. Everyone in Jemma’s class were desperate to get out of their morning Biology lesson, and to their next class. Max and Billie waited for Jemma to put everything in her messenger bag and they walked out the classroom and down the stairs.

The next lesson was History and everyone was excited for the lesson. It was either because of their new teacher Miss Appleburr, or it was because of their projects that they were starting. As the trio walked into the History Classroom, they were greeted by a familiar face. Adam Niwe. He had been one of the more popular people in their year who had a tendency to be a bully. He had brown hair with a swept fringe, and brown eyes. Like Max, Adam also had a good build.

“Well, well, well, look who it is.” He sneered at Jemma. Both Adam and Jemma hated each other. Once they had been good friends, but all that changed in Year 8. Both of them hadn’t spoken to each other since then.

“Can you move Adam?” Max asked politely. Max was known for his politeness towards other people, which often got him into trouble, as that got him bullied. Adam however didn’t accept it.

“What did you just say?” Adam rudely asked with a tone of ‘Do-You-Want-To-Start-With-Me’ in his voice.

“He said move, or I’ll get involved.” Billie said, stepping forward. Everyone knows that Billie is tougher than Max, even though he is older than her. They also know that she isn’t afraid to start a fight with anyone.

“What’s going on out here?” A soft voice asked, and stepping into the doorframe was Miss Appleburr. She was in her early twenties and had just qualified to be a secondary school History Teacher. She was wearing a floral skirt, with a white blouse and red heels. She had long brown hair and sparkling green eyes. Everyone agreed that she made an impression on the boys and they were hard to impress.

“Nothing, Miss” Adam replied going red in the face. This made Jemma wonder, did Adam have a crush on Miss Appleburr? Adam hurried inside, quickly followed by Max, then Billie and finally Jemma. Jemma’s desk was next to the window and the radiator, so her seat was good in both winter and summer. As Jemma sat down, Miss Appleburr addressed the class.

“Now class, today as you may know we are starting our class project. The requirements of this project are that you have to be in groups of four and the project is based on local history. This means that you can base the project on anything around the local area. The project is due in a month, as a showcase with the school’s best work from across the subject areas. Today is the research day before the project starts. Now get into your groups.” Miss Appleburr instructed her class of students. Max, Billie and Jemma all glanced at each other to work in a group with them. Max and Billie walked over to Jemma’s table and they sat as a group of three. However that was all about to change. Adam walked over.

“Hey losers, I’m supposed to work with you.” He said as his way of greeting the trio. Miss Appleburr walked over to the group of four from Adam’s old group.

“So, you’re going to be group seven and what is your topic on?” She asked the group of students who looked upset at the thought of being in the same group. They all started to look uncertain in what they should take on for the project.

“How about history of the school?” She suggested, as the group looked up. They all nodded in response and Miss Appleburr continued what she was saying, “The school has a lot of history from what I’ve heard, so why don’t you first draw a floor plan of the school now. You can do it during this lesson.” The four of them nodded and put their chairs under the desk and walked out of the classroom.

Adam led the way, like he knew what he was doing, being closely followed by Max and then Billie and Jemma walking behind them in a pair. The school corridors were all tight corners from left and right. Also the school was built up on three floors, so drawing a floor plan was going to be very hard.

“You lot keep up!” Adam barked as he led the way. Five minutes later after walking around the school, they took a break by the hall stage door. Jemma lent on the wall next to her and felt something give way.

“Arrgh!” She yelled as a hole was visible and Jemma was on the other side.

“Jem, are you alright?” Billie yelled through and shone a light from what looked like a phone. The three other students looked at Jemma, who was on the floor at the bottom of some stairs.

“Yeah, I’m fine and I’ve found a door!” Jemma yelled back. Max, Billie and Adam walked down the stone stairs to where Jemma was now standing by a wooden door. The door looked older than the other doors to the classrooms in the school. This door looked at least 100 years old and was starting to decay.

“Well, try to open it.” Adam quietly spoke. This had caused his fellow classmates to stare at him in shock, as he was being nice to them for once. Max went over to the door and pushed it in. It creaked open. The light from Billie’s phone shone into the room, where there was what looked like magic books and cauldrons. Jemma had seen the Harry Potter movies when she was younger with her older siblings, but she had never believed in magic herself.

One by one, the four students walked into the room cautiously. They looked around and saw potion vials and ingredients for potions. Jemma walked over to an older book on a stand that was labeled, ‘The Big Book of Monsters and Creatures’. On the back of the book, it said ‘Warning: Once this book is opened, the place that you are in will change’. Jemma grinned to herself and opened the book. It looked like it hadn’t been opened. Never. The contents of the book were all on Vampires, Mummies and Werewolves.

“This is all baloney, magic and magical, mythical creatures.” Jemma stated to the others who just stared at her. She closed the book and rejoined the others, who were looking at the articles on the wall.

“Apparently our school isn’t as it seems, it has reports of magic back in the 1960’s.” Adam informed the others. The teachers at their school had been adamant that magic was a fraud and that magicians were just con artists.

“Let’s go back to history and write up about this.” Max suggested and the group turned on their heel and walked back up the stone steps, closing the door to the secret room that they had just found behind them. However when they reached the hall, the group froze in shock.

“Uh-oh” Jemma whispered and the group stared at her and back at what they just saw.

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Possession

Possession

When they saw me walking down the corridor with it in my hands, everyone walked on the opposite side of the corridor to me. I got to my next lesson and my teacher told me to dispose of it and never go near it again. How could something so small be so harmful? I ignored my teacher's advice and went home with it in my pocket. I had found it in the canteen on the floor at school. I had thought that someone dropped it. I showed my Grandma it and she instantly recognised it as her own.

She sat me down at the kitchen table and told me the full story. Her great-great grandmother owned a ring, the same one I had in my possession. She said that her family had owned the ring for generations and then it had vanished after her dad's death. I then thought maybe the ring had something to do with his death. After all it did vanish right after he died.

Later on the ring had to be gone, but weird things were happening. My younger sister never came home and my mum was acting very strange. I took the ring to our local jewellers and he examined it. He told me that it was made in 1887 with a three dimensional queen's head. He then explained the truth. Back in 1887, when the ring was made, one of our ancestor's bought the ring and gave it to his wife, although his spirit was trapped in there because someone had put a curse on it. He was trying to still get the family fortune for only him.

I took the ring back to school the next day and tried to help my ancestor, along with my two friends. We learnt that he had a fear of being rejected and losing the family fortune, which was in fact the ring. When my Grandma's dad put the ring on, the spirit thought that he was trying to take the fortune and killed him. I explained to the spirit that I was family and that I was trying to keep the ring safe. He allowed that to happen and let anyone who I gave my permission to to touch the ring. The spirit was finally set free after 300 years of waiting.