Just when you think you know yourself. Just when you think you know who you are, you’re brought back to where you began. I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that way. In fact, that’s exactly how I felt back then, when I knew nothing; when I was a normal kid with a normal life. Before I became what I am today. Before I became…well you know: a Supernatural. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1n0hYrDZsx
My name is Blake, and this is my story about a kid who thought he was normal. A kid who discovered who he was meant to be. This is my story, which I’m writing, and I’m going to keep writing until the day I die. Welcome to the world you never really knew. I felt like I had been injected with crazy juice. My blood was boiling; my eyes were alert and ever-watchful. My palms were sweaty. I felt great. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSbOWaYKyZV
It was my first boys’ volleyball game at my new school. I was walking in blind, which was quite unsettling. I had no idea what we were up against. I didn’t even know all of the players’ names on my team. Just go with what you know, I told myself. That’s all I was betting on. The rest would just find its way in by the end of the game. A hand clasped my shoulder. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0ZZjm9VNy
“You ready, newbie?” I looked up to see Allen. He was my mentor on the team until I got the hang of everything. He was a little taller than me, with a handsome face and special sports goggles that I presumed helped him see on the court without his glasses. He was kind of my current role model, but I didn’t want to tell him that. He’d think I was crazy. His shirt was wet like he’d worked out before the game. I nodded. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexwVvZ1oDe
“I hope so. I’m honestly kind of on the nervous side.”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjhPsx6BVd
“Hey, don’t sweat it,” he said, crossing his arms in that awesome way I would never perfect. “You’ll do fine. I’ve seen you on the court. You’re a volleyball-playing machine.” 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNniOSXw4S
I smiled, hoping I wasn’t blushing. He was so supportive, it was impossible not to believe in yourself. I scanned the court. It was hard to believe it was the same one we’d practiced on. Parents, relatives, teachers, and students lined the gym in stadium seating. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ83SxuJA3hP
A big banner hung on one side of the court next to the scoreboard. A mascot for our team, the stinger bees, roamed around and took pictures with fans that made the mistake of making eye-contact. The honey bees, our team cheerleaders, were practicing stunts in decorative black and yellow outfits. They waved at us players like were some iconic boy band that happened to replace the team. Some players waved back. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTFrLhOt4jf
A loudspeaker announcer began to talk over the intercom, explaining some rules and thanking everyone for coming. My heart beat faster. Then everything got weird. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0KImSZJsj7
Two girls walked in from the far exits. They were dressed weirdly. The taller girl looked in her teens with long legs held in black jeans and a sleeveless camouflage-patterned T-shirt. She wore two belts that made her look like some kind of mechanic. Her hair was dark and wavy. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKYsHGrhsPD
Next to her was a little girl. She was dressed in some sort of wizard costume with a big floppy pointed hat that covered most of her face. She was barefoot, but her feet looked remarkably clean. She carried a stick. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdoQ4fPKCt
In a second they were staring at him. The scariest part was that I felt like I should have known them. The little one starts pointing at me and I drop eye contact. I can’t get the strange pair out of my head. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ33NUvSPkfD
I tugged Allen’s shirt as he was putting away his water bottle. “What’s up, kiddo? You going to faint?”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsYndvG6opW
“You see those girls over there?” I ask, pointing at them.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV2ig8gQzWT
“Don’t they look unusual?” Allen laughed.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRTfR27tGle
“Don’t they all?”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKP0ps4zC0
“Look,” I demanded. I felt like they were somehow really important to me now. Allen looked up and his face paled. He looks at me quickly.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡswNerZUntS
“No.” He was lying. I could tell. I pressed on.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIe0lbts7r
“They’re over there. One’s tall with black clothes. The other is the biggest fan of wizards I have ever seen. Over there, by the soda machine. Don’t you see them?” I sounded crazy, but I felt like I was close to something.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26bF4rET50
He chuckled. “Yeah right. Don’t worry my friend. Every player goes crazy in his first game. No, no. You’re pranking me! I get it.” 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzm6JQB97H8
I threw up my arms in expiration. “I’m not joking! This is important.” 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZn2mK6aqk
Then he looks me good hard in the eyes and says. “I. Don’t. See. Them.” 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvU1bilHAyW
Liar.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgV4VlZ3c9i
The loudspeaker turns off and the crowd roars. I didn’t feel like playing. I felt mixed up and all over the place. I wanted to whine to Allen, but he was acting strange too. Must have been something in the air.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvggWUts49t
I looked back at the soda machine. The girls were gone. The announcer began to call players onto the field. I recognized a couple. They called David, and TJ and Allen. Then they call me and the world falls apart.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAlzV6MQP5e
Alarms began to ring out in the building. Everyone began to walk quickly towards the doors. The loudspeaker began shouting in a loud voice for everyone to keep calm and keep moving. I looked for Allen, but he was lost in the crowds.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrW2Od8acs
I followed the other volleyball players to leave through the gym doors, but at the last minute, someone grabs my arm. I look back to see a girl. Her hair was piled on her head in a weird style. Her eyes were painted Egyptian style and were as cold as ice. She was by far the scariest girl I had ever seen.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnzAP6jcX0A
“Stay,” she commanded and called to someone far off. I didn’t want to. Just looking at her made me want to bolt.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtoVAKMpyxG
“No,” I squeaked, and turned for the exit. A red energy field filled the doorway. I turned and there she was.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxI7HdA4h3o
“Stay,” she repeated, her eyes glistening coldly. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhr4kH4TPFu
Sweat trickled down my forehead. She reached out her hands to touch me, but I slid out of her reach. She snarled, her nose wrinkling. A boy stood near her with a dark expression. His eyes looked red and his hair was very black. The girl looked at him. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYtqowPMkgO
“Keep him still!” Suddenly the boy was no more. A shadow slinked the floor. It curled around my ankles and tripped me to the ground. The girl stood over me.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHvJ6xQLnia
“Stay,” she taunted. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ64Lahrar6V
I tried to get up but the shadow had my legs. I wanted to be free. I wanted to run away and find Allen. I wouldn’t care if he thought I was crazy. I had to tell somebody. Suddenly my arms were tugged from behind and I was swept off the floor. My head and upper body were being hung by something.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAmVBK9SFmU
Not something. Someone. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw the little wizard girl. She was doing something. The person holding me began to drag me out. I looked up and saw the mechanic girl. She wasn’t looking as me as she dragged her prize through the now open doors. I yelled at her to let me go. She grunted, even though she didn’t seem to hear me.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7LVctJz7u
“HEY!” I sparked angrily.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZdhVqOqyk
The wizard girl dashed out of the gym and picked up my legs. She was strong and made picking up a teenage boy look effortless. Still, she didn’t look older than ten. I dangled as they ran with me like a hunted animal. They put me in the back of a car. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbr1fQKh0tg
The mechanic girl was buckling herself in the driver’s seat, even though she seemed too young to drive. The wizard girl with the red hair sat in the passenger seat and chewed on her stick. Before I could protest, the mechanic girl started the car and speeded out of the school parking lot.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OqnXZLnFn
I tried to scream for help, but my yells were lost in the chaos and the roars of the car’s engine. The car hurtled down the highway. We had to break every traffic rule in the book, I guessed. But my mind wasn’t in the right place. Who could blame me?706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpy1F5Z8joP
I was just kidnapped by a teenager and a miniature wizard. The teen was in the driver’s seat, jerking the steering wheel around street corners. The wizard hid behind her hands in the passenger seat and muttered barely audible comments.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncOx5iPS2w
“Let me go!” I cried as I tried to open the door, hoping for a daredevil escape, disappointed to find the door locked.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRcbAx098C
“Child safety lock? You’re joking.” I muttered after tinkering with the door handle. I turned towards the front. They weren’t even listening to me!706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvyArC9wQZ
“Where are you taking me!?” I asked as I picked myself off the seat the last turn had blasted me into.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dzYyOiHCr
The girl driving finally spoke. “You are in so much trouble.” I raised an eyebrow.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZTbTd91n6F
“What? What did I do?”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCM4Y5qo5Mu
“Do you realize just how much trouble you’re in?”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UoIaCzqjg
“No,” I said calmly. I crossed my arms defiantly.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1JoJDSeBw
The driver snorted. “Lena, can you drive?” The wizard girl nodded behind her hands.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjZdDtE6fcQ
I thought the driver would pull over, but she nimbly climbed out of her seat and was replaced by Lena, the wizard girl in a matter of seconds. I shook my head in disbelief. She just asked and ALLOWED a ten-year-old to drive! Who WERE these people? The girl looked at me. Her startling blue eyes flashed with irritation.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2nY5Gl2Oi
“What is your name?”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWH7usTziBk
“Uh……my name is Blake. Who in the world are you?” She sighed.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ2LD8tEQrR
“My name is Blanca, but I’m known to all as Rim. Tell me this right now. Do you know those people from the gym? The ones we delivered you from?” She looked me in the eyes, but I gave her my honest answer.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH7k6CVBqi
“No.”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGl5HRwej5E
“You…” She began.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQr1zkvNT6
She was interrupted by a beeping from the radio console. A digitalized voice beckoned, “INCOMING CALL.”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtF7dvLQ4uD
“Accept,” Rim answered evenly.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdS59lrHN97
A screen folded down from the car roof, like the ones you see in the minivans. A boy’s face appeared on the screen. The thing that surprised me the most was I knew the boy. It was Allen.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1NS5L73F9k
“Are you guys okay? I’m sorry, I should have stayed but they blocked the exits before I could intervene. I just have to lead off the kid…..”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqhVC6f9qh
“Allen!” I said. He looked at me and his eyes bugged.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjiE0sSmwB
“DAH! Blake!” His eyes met Rims. “What is HE doing in YOUR CAR!?” 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0jzFSgY7N
Rim put her hands on her hips. “Long story. Okay, long story short, he knew too much. They almost got to him. He needs to know everything.” I pushed myself to the center of the view.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxm1SYLSt04
“Everything? Allen, what is she talking about? What’s going on?” Allen looked like he was about to faint.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ38T1Z0anXG
“Don’t worry! These people are taking you to the mental hospital! You hit your head really hard during the game and……” He trailed off when he saw I wasn’t buying it. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZWMRUatK8
Rim rolled her eyes. “You’re a worse liar than me, Allen, and I’m a horrible liar.” Allen looked offended but stared at me straight in the eyes.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqeLfijF4J
“What did you see?”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdZkFSgIgm
“Huh? What do you…”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVax4kpmqMT
“WHAT DID YOU SEE, BLAKE!” He spits.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMkjQkXWTO
I had never seen him so nervous and serious in all my life. This couldn’t be the same guy I met on the court just minutes ago. I stammered a bit of the story with the scary girl and the shadow boy. Allen looked distraught. His eyes were wild and big but serious all the same. He pressed his lips together.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphPJ4E46U1
“Tell him, Rim. Slowly. I’ll see you all back in the city. Good luck.” The screen blinked to black. I looked at Rim, who was taking the time to adjust one of her belt buckles. 706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHUBOexfxx
“What is he talking about? What city? What’s this big secret?” She looked at me with slight pity.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWokDDWxH4
“You’ll find out soon enough, but I’ll give you a sneak peek. You might just be the most wanted boy alive.” She thought for a moment.706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6dg2b5qFCZ
“And you’re not who you think you are.”706Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHOINTGrv1
and then Add to home screen.