Hey, this is a book I've been writing and hope to one day get published, but I want to share it with everyone first. Feel free to reply and keep up to date with the chapters through this forum. Your opinions will shape the book greatly and help me a ton! Warning, throughout some of the chapters there is language that is better suited for 13+
What would you do if within one summer day you and four of your friends went to your favorite hang-out place and suddenly it turned into a portal to another world?. Well that's exactly what happens to Link, Allison, Vannessa, Zavier, and Marcus.With each one having a talking familiar, and a new girl named A-may, they find out there's more to themselves than just a few teenagers in high school. When their partnering familiars reveal that they are the reincarnations of the six Sentakus who onced saved the mythical world from the Kages, and that everyone is counting on them to save it again, they aren't sure if they have the power to do so. With the help of new friends, and some nifty elemental magic, they must protect this new world from the Kages, Mejin, and maybe even themselves.
If you are ready for an adventure read ahead.
Chapter 1: The Swamp
Link opened his ice blue eyes to the sunlight shining into his room. Stretching out his arms, he kicked his feet side ways of the bed. With a great night sleep and a new day available it looked like things were looking up, for once.
It had been planned that his friend, Allison, and him would walk around town. Across from his bed, on the wall, was a mirror and dresser. Link looked into it and rubbed at his eyes a bit. Which made him notice his hair was anything but untangled, “Oh well.”
With a shrug of his shoulders and a shake of his hair like one would do with wet hair, he walked over to his bed-stand. He gave a glare at the liquor bottle and tossed it in the trash. Quickly he picked up his cellphone and continued back over to his dresser. The dirty blond randomly grabbed out a brown camo t-shirt and a pair of baggy jeans from the drawer before slamming it shut. Without a care in the world he sprinted down the stairs;jumping off the last few, he grinned to himself. It was the end of summer and that meant the last few minutes of adventure.
“Hey, where you going?”
Link looked behind him to see his younger sister, Lisa, “Going to hang out with my friend. Why you do care?”
Lisa flicked her long dirty blond hair with her hand, “Cause I asked.” The annoying sister-like teasing voice flowed from her pale lips
“Cause I can,” he mocked his sister as he went to grabbed something to eat. Which before anyone could say anything was grabbed and scarfed down his throat. Putting the bowl and spoon into the sink he ran out the door. Barely off his street he got a text from Allison:
Can u hurry up? Waiting @ pool
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Allison sat outside the pool area and waited for one of her best friends. The grass was still a bit damn from the night left behind. It was a Monday and this meant it was the one day out of the week that the pool was closed. Also that meant the one day out of the week her and the gang weren't at the pool swimming. That which had made her decide to make plans with one of her best friends. “Sheesh, what’s taking him so long?”
The 4”9’ teenager blew her bright red bangs from her face and leaned her back against the wall. She wore one of her fave outfits, a black tank top with red skinny jeans and a black head band. The shirt had a collar to it that was red and just visible between was a black chain choker with a cyan crystal heart attached to it. All of a sudden as she listened to her iPod she had this urge to invite her other friends. Allison pulled out her cell and gave a text to her best friends Vanessa, Zavier, and Marcus.
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Vanessa was combing her dark brunette hair when she got a text from her best friend, Allison:
Hey yall wondering if ya wanted 2 walk around town with Link and me?
She quickly set her hairbrush to the side and got on a pair of black skinny jeans and a navy, skin tight, long shirt. Then she landed backwards onto her bed and gave a text back to her friend:
Where u meeting @?
She lied on her bed for awhile and let thoughts of food wonder through her head. She had just gotten to soda types when the text message came in:
@ the pool, cu soon V
The brunette stood up on her bed and causally walked off. The floor gave a thump as she landed. Quickly she ran back to mirror area and grabbed a silver necklace with a rose pendant. “Mama, Allison wants me to go hang out with her. Can you drive me over?” Her mother agreed to do so, but grumbled the whole way there while Vanessa looked boredly out the window.
By the time she got there Link was laying down on the grass playing some Hollywood Undead music with Allison beside him. V ran to Allison and the two hugged each other, “Made it! Though my mother wasn't any help. Where we going?”
“No idea,” Link said with a smile before he went back to mouthing the lyrics to his song. Which by now was 'American Tragedy' by Hollywood Undead.
The red-head shrugged, “Mainly? Just walk around randomly. That's the normal thing anyways. I know we're going to the swamp later, but maybe that burnt out house. Really haven’t planned where-“
“As long as we’re doing something worth wild who cares?” The three friends turned to the direction of the voice. Two boys were coming down the cobblestone road.
“Hey Zaiver, Marcus!” Allison said with a wave.
The shorter boy of the two put his hands behind his head. “Sorry it took so long,” with a look towards Marcus, “but slowpoke here forgot his phone at home, again. We had to go back to get it, again.”
“I ran this time,” Marcus crossed his arms with an irritated grunt. Then he turned his eyes towards the group. “You know we could just walk around from one place to another. I say we start with the swamp. It's been awhile since we all went down there.”
Link turned off his music and sat up in the grass, “Sounds good to me.”
“To be honest,” Marcus put his left hand to his short brunette hair, “as long as I can get home to play my new video game, I’m game for anything.” The group all chuckled and began to walk up the road. They walked through the uncrowded streets laughing and joking about stuff that would happen when they got back to school next week. Link had begun to play more music and now him and Marcus were singing the lyrics in their loudest voices possible. A few cars that went by glared at the two, but they kept being roudy anyways. Allison was sharing with Vanessa about some new store at the mall. And Zavier seemed content just to walk with the group. Not to long later they got to a right turn in the road, and a forest on the left. Near the end of the forest there was what looked like a smashed down pathway. Allison ran through first followed by Vanessa. And what they never knew was fate was laughing at their innocence.
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SPLASH
“Hey, I didn't come here to get a bath!”
Zavier laughed and then said apologetically, “Oops, sorry Vanessa. I didn’t mean to mess up your do. If you were sitting farther away you wouldn't have gotten any water on you!” V just sighed and looked at the ripples in the swamp.
“V, it’s just water you know,” the red head replied, trying to reason with her friend.
“I know but it ain’t just water. It’s just ew...”
A frog that had been sitting on log near the edge of the shore hopped onto a log just in between the group. It gave a loud croak and everyone turned their heads over to it. The frog croaked again and dived into the water. Hopping onto another log floating in the swamp it paused for a bit. Zavier threw another rock into the swamp, and the frog dived into center of the swamp. The ripples were larger than any normal splash would make. The ripples left what looked like a beam of light from the center. “What’s that?” Marcus’s hand was in mid-air ready to throw another stone.
“Froggy!” Link responded squinting his eyes and smiling broadly, but he quickly gave a shrug and realized no one thought it was funny.
“Link, I didn’t mean the Frog, look,” The long-haired blond rolled his eyes with a look of 'I realized that.' Marcus pointed right at the beam of light. As he did so a lightning shaped crack caused the water to crumbled like glass. Two shrill shrieks from the girls were came from behind him. “I didn't do it!”
The other four friends gawked at at the cracking water. It fell down on the swamp floor in pieces of glass. The fish from the swamp floated up in bubbles into the air around the friends. Many frogs croaked loudly into the forest around them. A ditch was left from where the beam of light used to be. The rocks that were thrown in by the boys were in a perfect circle around the ditch in the floor. Suddenly, the wind picked up and the sunlit sky turned to night. Small puddles poured out from bellow each stone and began to circle around them making small moats around each stone. Fire blazed into a pillar form from the top of each rock. The fire then bent to the right until the streams connected into a circle. Flowers and grass grew with abundant speed around the swamp ground. Lightning cracked to form the shape of a dragon in the now starlit sky. In the sky a crescent moon sat directly above the lake.
“What the hell,” Vannessa's voice rang through the night.
“I say, that was the coolest thing I've eve seen!” Link looked at the group and then back at the circle. Marcus and Zavier began to walk forward towards the circle of elements. Without much else of a thought Link followed the two into the circle. With that step a veil seemed to fall over him. From afar a blue mist formed around him, and as such a yellow and orange mist flowed between the other two boys.
The girls looked at each other with disbelief at the supernatural experience between them. Allison sighed at the typical curiosity of the boys. “We should probably join them before they do something stupid.”
The brunette nodded her head vigorously and walked forward clutching Allison's arm. ”This is really bad idea.”
“Probably... but we can't just leave them to do something stupid, at least alone. Can we?” The clutching girl shrugged her shoulders and Allison felt for her black chain necklace with the crystal heart..
