HOMEPAGE LIBRARY

"Hi," I say. The girl puts her knife into her pocket. "Hey," says Serena. She looks at the girl suspiciously but then turns away. "I'm Luna, you?" I ask. Serena grabs my arm. "Please, give us a moment," she says to the unknown girl and drags me behind a tree. "What?" I ask. "Luna. We can't just go around asking random strangers in the woods for their names!" she yells. "Well she can help us, I think all of us even those BlueHawk people don't want to get bombed by aliens!" I yell. "Well, what if she's part of BlueHawk, she'll pretend to be nice and them back stab us and eat us! They're cannibals! CANNIBALS!" screams Serena. "Well wouldn't she be with he whole clan?" I yell. Serena sighs. "No,"she says. "BlueHawk is... interesting. They're motto is: every man for himself. They all separate so each clan member goes their own way. They only see each other to eat, sleep and occasionally robbing." she explains. "Well, she could be a wanderer!" I say. "You mean those people who run away from their clans for some stupid reason?" she asks. "Serena! They're not stupid! That's rude! But yes, the people who run away from their clans for a COMPLETELY VALID reason." I say. "Fine."says Serena. We walk back to the girl who is eating a purple-ish berry. "Uh, sorry about that... what clan are you from?" asks Serena. "Uh... I ran away from my clan... I used to be part of SilverWing though. " says the girl. I shoot Serena a look that says HAHA TOLD YOU. Serena rolls her eyes. She looks back at the girl. "I'm Serena." announces Serena. She held out her hand for the girl to shake. "Liza." says the girl. She hesitates for a moment but shakes Serena's hand. "So why did you run away?" I ask. " I was 5, I think. My older sister, Lynna and I were best friends, and had been for a while. We were at the playground. I remember digging around in the sand. I remember Lynna dangling on the swing set. I remember Lynna saying that she was running away, and me not believing her. I remember being devastated when she was gone the next morning. From that day forward, though I was just 5, I knew that I had to find Lynna. I would do it if it killed me.It's been 7 years, and I still haven't found her. I just hope she hasn't joined Bluehawk. I don't know much about them, but I remember my mom saying something about how they were low-lie bandits and to stay away from them. Luckily, I haven't encountered them yet." says Liza. She starts fiddling with a locket on her neck. "They are low life bandits. They're cannibals for Pete's sake. " mutters Serena. "Oh, mom didn't tell me that," says Liza. "They killed my dad." says Serena. "What?" I ask. "Yeah." says Serena.
"My dad was out hunting with two others from the clan. He had brought me along with him in the supposedly "safe" part of the forest were there were no bears and stuff. Little did we know that a few BlueHawk members were planning to take over the camp and steal our stuff. Luckily they got a little hungry and wanted a "snack" and since we were the only ones there. They attacked us from the trees. My dad and a friend fought them off while the other guy rushed me back the the camp and alerted the rest of the clan. I don't know what happened after that until all the warriors ran out of their camp and they're they were, 3 BlueHawk members covered in fresh blood. The manged to hold them off very easily cause 23 is way more than 3 but soon after that, it was clear that my dad and his friend were never coming home again. Some of the warriors headed out to where they were slaughtered and devoured. All they could find were a pile of bones. That was when I decided I wanted to be a warrior. The warriors didn't know that BlueHawk was coming but they held them off and tried to find my dad and his friend. I hope that someday I will find the location of the BlueHawk clan and prevent them from terrorizing us." said Serena. I could tell she was trying not to cry.
"Well since everyone's sharing their backstories, I will too," I say. Serena and Liza turn to me. Me and my parents weren't really that close. I talked to my brother a lot. We got in fights like normal siblings and hated each other for a really long time. But then as we grew farther apart from our parents, we grew closer together. Still, it didn't stop us from playing pranks and jokes on each other. We still hated each other. One day, our parents stop talking to us altogether. They never spoke to each other again or their children. They sent us to camps and made us sleep there overnight. It was cold since they were no blankets. They would lock the doors every night so we couldn't come home to whatever was left of it. After a while, the people who ran the camp started to catch on and they sent our parents out of the clan. I have never seen them since and I hope I never do again. The next day, we were supposed to get foster parents. My brother, Cole didn't like this so he told me he would run away. I had the option to stay or go with him. I chose to stay. I remember him giving me a laser pointer to "signal" if there was danger and he would come. I used to believe this until I realized that he might not ever see it again. My foster parents were nice. They encouraged me and helped me. They acted like real parents. When I was 13, I joined the warrior's clan. There I met Serena and Elison. For the next year I wanted to find Cole but never did. I gave up and assumed he either joined another clan or was dead." I say. We all were silent. Probably thinking about how we all lost somebody and how they were either dead of most likely dead. "I'll start a campfire." says Serena. "It's getting late," she says. It was only six but we could use the extra warmth. We all sat there for a minute, not daring to break the silence. Then we heard strange voices coming from the woods. We all drew our weapons. Elison's crossbow, my metal bat and Liza's knife. There was another unwelcome silence before out of the bushes came two boys and a girl. I recognized them immediately by their shirts as members of the BlueHawk clan.