Nariko-Sohma

My eyes flashed open. I had been dreaming again. I sighed and got out of bed. "Kailei, sweetie, time to get up!" I heard my mother yell. "Got it, mom!" I called back. My mother was pretty cool. She looked like someone who used to be a supermodel, even though she never had been. She ran a recording studio in Mannhatten. We didn't look much alike, even when I was little. She'd always had curly, dark mahogany hair. Her skin was nicely tanned, with a few birthmarks here and there. When I was little, my blonde hair had been bobbed, my bangs braided on the side of my face. Now my hair was as long as my waist, with purple streaks dyed into it. I

I looked down in amazment. The valley was humongous. There were mismatched buildings, a large forest, a tall, sky blue farmhouse, a rock wall, and an arena. Lots of the buildings looked like new, Greek temples. I gazed at it in shock, my eyes almost popping out of my head. "I—IT'S HUGE!" James laughed on my right, and leaned down next to my ear. "You wanna know what's REALLY fun?" "S-sure… " "THIS!" He shoved my back and I fell face first and started rolling and tumbling down the hill. I was screaming my head off, and I could hear James laughing behind me, rolling down as well. When I hit the bottom, I sat up and cleared away my

I'd always known I was special. My mom always told me so when she'd show me pictures from when I was small. She'd tell me how one day, I'd be written about in history books. I'd smile and rest my head against the picture book and let her soothing voice take over all of my senses, and all my problems would disappear. But Marriene Everett wasn't around to melt my problems now. Instead, there was my two friends, Gryphon and Angelia (Angel) tied up with me like cattle at a rodeo. Angel and I had been playing jump rope when it had happened. Gryphon was sitting in the side of the gutter in the little alleyway next to our apartment complex, mutter