CONQUER

chapter one

   The cold winter breeze blew across my face almost knocking my hat of. The bus horn drew me away from deep thought. I got in like any other day and sat but today seemed quite unusual, the atmosphere seemed different.

The bus stopped at its usual place, which was behind the school. On a usual day I would greet everyone on the bus while getting down but to day I didn't know one boy who sat far from me it was quite odd passing by and not knowing his name and what struck me the most was that he did not move his head just to see who was speaking to him. I got down from the bus and turned right. At first I jumped.it seemed like a big pink blob was hurdling towards my way, calling my name

"Is that a blob and is calling my name," I said

"Aaron!"

By the way where are my manners my name is Aronala Bailing but my friends call me Aaron. I'm Eighteen years old.

The blob came closer after squinting I finally saw it was Alana. She was covered in what looked like cotton candy her hi tops seemed to have marshmallows and caramel oozing from her shoes and her hair was covered in skittles as for her bag well there wasn't really much left of it.

" Um what happened to you did you get lost in Willy Wonka's factory or something."

"Wow that's what you tell a friend when their brothers plant a sugar bomb in your backpack and blows up the second you step out of the house". I asked looking at Alana so dazed and practically having a toothache just by looking at how much sugar and calories are covered all over her body.

Alana is a tall Asian girl. She's Eighteen as well but looks quite tall for a girl. Probably around 6"3. Many people found her to be beautiful. Her golden dyed locks shined especially in the morning when her hair would be gloss and shining into the morning sunrise. But today her hair was turning all the colours of the rainbow with the skittles melting on her hair. We had been friends since I could remember. We are so close people began to nickname us A and A. Alana is the middle child of ten siblings, eight boys and two girls her only sister was in college living her to fend for herself against her brothers. They were known for pranks and embarrassing her sister.

I looked at Alana with shock as though I had never seen sugar before. There was a rush of pain going through my foot I looked down and saw Alana stopping furiously at my foot that when my nerves stared working and I yelped in pain.

"Ouch. Why did you do that?" I aggressively questioned her,

" Aaron I was talking to you and you completely ignored me and you kept muttering panovians and death to yourself." She replied.

"Really this is the third time this week I'm worried"

"That what? You're insane don't worry I've always known you were but I never wanted to alarm you"

I sighed and rolled my eyes at her.

We walked together into the school building. It seemed everyone was chatting about something. The school monitor showed the local news channel. It seemed it was a report about an attack that happened in a neighbouring school. The intruders killed half the student body but not only that all the students killed looked gruesomely murdered leaving a mark behind. The mark seemed familiar to me .that when the wave hit me. The ground vibrated under my feet. It was happening again my body started aching my eyes were red all I could remember was a voice calling out to me no voice I have heard of it was distinct almost felt like dying it ached my soul and knocked me down.

Come I am in need of your help please come.

***

I was awake the whole room was quit dull and grey I looked up to see the nurses grim face looking at my vitals. It seemed my episode at school landed me in the hospital. I turned to look at the direction were Alana was seated staring boned face at her phone it seemed like she hadn't seen me wake up.