Prolouge
Annora Izon. That's who I am. My story starts way back, when I was born in a little old house. My mother Holly Izon and my father Izac Izon raised me the best they could. Now I shall let my memories take over the rest of the story, for my memories can tell my story the best.
Chapter 1
In a soccer field some five year olds were playing a friendly game of soccer. I was with them, as I usually was. I was always being told what a great player I was, I was the best out of everyone who played with us. I saw my dad running towards me with a grin on his face "Annora! Come quickly!" he shouted at me.
"Coming!" I yell back at him "I'll be back soon." I tell all my friends before running to my dad.
"Let's get home," he smiled at me "there is a big surprise waiting for us." he picked me up. I rode on my father's shoulders all the way home. When we arrived at the shabby old house I saw my mother cradling a little baby. My mom was pale and looked very tired. I walk towards them slowly "Is that a doll?" I ask my mom.
My mother smiles and shakes her head, "This is your little sister, Ava."
After a little bit I smiled, just realizing what this means. 'Oh boy! A little sister!' I think to myself 'I've got to tell my friends!' "Can I go play soccer again?" I ask my mom and dad. They shake their head yes and I sprint back to the soccer field. "Guess what everyone?!" I call out to them while still running, " I've got a baby sister!" I smiled and stop as I get there. Everyone looks my way and some of my friends think I'm SOOOO lucky. We get back to the soccer game, oddly fast for five year olds. I kick another goal. "Nice!" says my best friend, Annika.
"Thanks." I smile and start walking towards her. Suddenly, I'm stuck and can't move. Something under the ground has got my foot. "I'm stuck!" I scream in panic. The thing starts to drag me into the ground. All my friends are at my side. No one knows what is happening. No one knows what to do. I slowly get dragged underneath completely and I am gone on the surface of the earth.
Chapter 2
I'm sobbing. I have no clue where I am. Am I in the heavens? Am I dead?
"You are not dead little one." says a gruff voice. It's coming from below me. I look down and see I'm flying... Am I on a dragon?! I gasp as the black, scaley, flying thing looks up at me "Yes, I am a dragon. You now live beneath the surface. You now live in the Under Realm. The Dark Realm. The Evil Realm." The gruff voice comes from the dragon. Wait...dragons can talk? "And you are sentenced to live here forever."
"B-but why?" I sniffle in my five year old voice.
"Because," the dragon says "the queen wanted you, for some reason"
"I think you got the wrong person" I stubbornly say.
"No I don't." the dragon growls and he scratches my face with his spiky tail.
"owwwww!" I cry in pain. My tiny fingers reach up to touch the wound. Blood soaks my chubby little fingers instantly.
"You shall soon realize the ways that we live by down here." the dragon smiles evilly, "I'm just giving you a head start."
I keep quite the rest of the flight.
Chapter 3
I fell asleep at sometime through the long flight. I was awakened abruptly when I got there. The black dragon had flipped me off his back and I was falling towards the ground. "Aahhh!" I scream while I fall. I reach my hands and out in my attempt to break the fall. I land hard, my arms and legs took the worst of the fall though. A woman with completely black eyes came up to me. She held out a shadowy hand "Come child." She grinned, "I shan't do anything bad to you." The woman said. I let her help me up. "This way." She said taking off. I hesitate before following the shadowy figure. "I'm Senka," The woman introduced herself "I'm the care taker of all children until the age of 10." She said. "You are on of the handful of children from above the Dark Realm." she explained. "You're Annora Izon, right?"
"H-how do you know my name?" I ask.
"Everyone knows the names of the people from above." The woman smiled. She stopped suddenly and grabbed some keys from her dress. "Ah, here we are." She sighed opening a large black door in the middle of no where. "This is where you shall stay until you are ready. Good luck." She said shoving me in the door. I'm about to ask her a million questions when the door is shut behind me and I'm in a room with about 50 other kids.
Chapter 4
It is silent for a moment and I felt all the other kids eyes staring at me. I look up and see that most of them are already shadowy like Senka, but just a handful are kids like me, from the surface of the earth. All the shadowy kids start to whisper to each other. I gulp down my fears and force myself to smile "H-hello" I say with all my bravery. All of the shadow children ignore me and go back to what ever they were doing earlier. I walk over to the kids like me "H-hi" I stutter with a wobbly smile.
"Hi" they whisper back. One-two-three-four, there are four other children like me.
"I'm Annora." I say bravely "Who are you?"
"Zerak, Zeko, Anna, and Eri" Zerak introduces everyone.
"Nice to meet you." I say. I look around at the other children "Who are they?" I whisper to the other 'surface' kids.
"They are born here," Anna whispers back.
"There are too many to remember." Eri says as quietly as possible.
"And they don't like us very much." Zeko adds in.
I nod at all the information I get. "What are we suppose to do?" I ask. I usually played sports and standing around in a room wasn't very fun.
"We are waiting for Senka." Zerak sighs. "She is our care taker and our trainer."
Trainer? Trainer for what? "What do you mean trainer? What are we training for?" I ask. At that moment the shadow woman Senka walks in.
Annora as a little girl
Zerak as a little boy
Zeko as a little boy
Anna as a little girl
Eri as a little girl
