In The End

1- Falling down

My mother starts with parting my knee-length red hair into three parts. My silky, thin hair is easily moveable, so my mother, with her dark-red-almost-black hair, pale skin, chocolate brown eyes, white dragon wings with blue tips, and curvy complexion, has no hassle doing so. She does a tight but nice braid and ties it at the end. "Thanks, mom." I say, folding my pale hands into my lap. My blue eyes, from my fathers side, dart to my reflection in the mirror. A 22 year old pale girl with lighter red hair then her mother, blue eyes, red dragon wings with no other colors and a curvy complexion stares back.

"You're welcome, honey. I always love-" before my mother can finish her sentence, my older sister by a year comes bursting into the room. Her raven black shoulder length hair, tan skin, and cold black eyes doesn't compare to the beauty of our Mother. "Something's attacking. Get your armor and weapons and let's go," Raven, yes that's her name, orders sternly. Mother gives her a look but Raven ignores it, walking out of the room, her black leather boots clanking lightly.

I jump up from the soft chair beneath me, stumbling over to Mother. She's already gotten half her armor on. I start to hurriedly jam my armor onto me, having my mother help me several times. Raven even came in once more to tell us, and I quote "hurry the hell up," because I was taking so long. I finally grab my weapons and run out the door.

I stop, making dust fly. Everywhere I look, burning buildings, crying children, dead bodies; you name it. What catches my eye was the enemies. Ugly creatures with flying ships. Their guns blasted people and killed them instantly. I gasp at the scenes taking action in front of me.

Next to me, a soldier gets blasted in the stomach. He falls to the ground and doesn't get back up. My eyes go wide with fear. Everywhere I turn, a new person is dead. I am so scarred.

My anger and fear sparks and builds until I can't handle it anymore. I start to change forms, my bones stretching along with the rest of my body. My wings grow, my nails get sharper, and I get leaner and slightly more muscular. I finish my transformation with a loud roar from my strong jaws, snorting in my dragon form. I jump into the air, beating my red wings.

I crash through the swarms of the aliens, making a path to their leader, a guy with raven black hair, pale skin, high cheekbones, and golden armor. "Leave my people alone!" I growl. He just smirks. He points his golden sceptre with a blue orb at the top at me, blasting it three times. I dodge the first two, but the third one catches my wing. I gasp a little as I hit the ground. I'm instantly up, growling lowly.

I race after him, stretching out my claws. But suddenly the unexpected happens. He disappears from his spot on the ground, appearing behind me in an instant. I swing around, hitting a small building with my tail, destroying it. I roar threateningly. He just smirks again. I charge after him, angry. I take a deep breath and feel the burning in my throat, knowing that my fire is hotter then blue fire. I shoot my violet fire but I only get his leg. Her cringes in agony, crying out loudly. I charge after him again, reaching him in mere seconds. I swipe my sharp claws at him, getting his side, making him bleed.

"You will pay for that, dragon," he says, his voice like velvet but filled with anger and pain. I just growl in return, challenging him. A movement running towards us catches my golden eyes. My eyes go wide when I see it's my mother in her silver armor, bow and arrow in hand. She's pointing the arrow at the black haired guy. "Mom!" I yell, startled. She shoots, but the arrow is deflected. Twice she shoots, but they miss. She reaches for another arrow, her last one, aims it at the guy, who is now glaring at her and paying no attention to me, and shoots. He grabs it before it reaches him, snapping it in two. Mother's eyes go wide, as do mine.

He aims his scepter at her, ready to shoot. "Mom!" I scream, jumping to the guy. But I'm too late. I tumble onto him as he shoots. I turn just in time to see Mother fall to the ground, still and lifeless.

I slowly look towards the guy, who's scrambled up, clutching his bleeding side from where I scratched him. I hiss, grabbing him. He gasps and drops his scepter. He swings his hand towards me, and at first I think he's just doing a lame attempt at hitting me, but then green magic shoots from his pale hand. It catches me in my eye. I fall backwards, clutching my eye and dropping the guy, who falls to the ground. My eye wouldn't be damage, but it did sting.

I transform back into my human form, scared now. The guy flies off somewhere after grabbing his scepter, i guess deciding he's done with me. My eyes travel over to my mother's body. I struggle with getting to her because my left eye is closed from the pain. "Mom..." I say weakly, feeling drained. I finally reach her. I clutch her lifeless body, tears roaming down my face. My hands find themselves grabbing her face gently, leaning over her slightly. My warm, salty tears fall to her face. "Mommy..." I whisper, feeling crushed.

Suddenly I'm being pulled backwards. "Stella! We have to get out of here! Leave her!" My oldest sister, Bethany, yells, clutching my shirt and pulling me back even though I scream at her to stop. "Stella!" My second youngest sister, Amanda, screams from a distance. I hear her running towards me, her footsteps thumping against the ground.

I push put of Bethany's grip, my braid flying. I flip my eyes to my four sisters, Bethany, Raven, Amanda, who's skin is a light tan and her hair is a full black the reaches her elbows, and our youngest sister, Charm, who's skin is a pale white and her hair is a dark brown. Yep, you guessed it. I'm the middle child. Joy...

Anyway, as Amanda rushes towards me to hug me, a big explosion erupts to our left. Fire shoots into the air mixed with smoke, parts of huts and houses crash to the ground with a thump! Amanda falls to the ground, grunting. "Amanda!" The rest of us scream.

I run towards her, grab her with the help of my other three sisters, and we run to the nearest escape pod. The escape pod is dug into the ground, so a certain button lays in the ground for when stuff like this happens. I start to dig furiously. My hand hits something metal and small. I pull it out of the ground, pressing the red button. (So typical)

We rush into the escape pod as soon as the door opens. It can fit all of us, so we have enough room to move our elbows. The escape pod starts rumbling and shaking, indicating it's taking off.

Once outside the atmosphere, we relax. "What... the hell..." I break the silence. "Don't Stella. It's not the time to be funny," Raven warns. "Who says I'm being funny?" I retort. "Me, now shut up before I make you," Raven growls. "Make me bi-" I start, but I'm interrupted by Bethany. "That's enough, both of you! You're acting like 6-year-olds!" She scolds.

"She started it!" I yell. Bethany just glares at me.

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We travel for hours, sitting in silence and glaring at each other. At one point, we all fell asleep. I'm the first to wake when the escape pod starts shaking and rumbling. "What?" I ask myself as I get up slowly. I peek out the window and am surprised at what is happening. A blue and brown-green planet rushes towards us. But that can't be. Planets don't really go forward, the go in circles, (or ovals) so we must be entering the atmosphere. Then suddenly it hits me. Where going to crash!

"WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIEEEE!" I screech, waking the others. "Stella, shut up!" Raven yells, not opening her eyes. "What's that shaking for? Quit it!" Raven yells angrily. "It's not me idiot!" I scream back. "What do you mean 'it's not you'?" Raven asks. "I mean, it's not me!" I yell. Everyone scrambles to the windows.

"What the hell!?" Bethany screams. We enter the atmosphere, falling to our butts because of the shaking. We finish going through the atmosphere and start flying through the sky. "When is this going to end!?" Charm screams. She spoke too soon. We crash through trees and animals, coming to a full stop in a tree.

I look around at my sisters, feeling like I'm going to throw up at any second. "What just happened?" One of us asks through the smoke.