HOMEPAGE LIBRARY

The owner of the boot stepped into view. She looked about Serena's age, maybe older. She had light brown hair that was half dyed blood red, and grey eyes, just like mine, which widened.
"L-Liza?' she barely whispered.
I ran into my sister's arms and felt tears dampening her denim overalls. When i backed away, i saw another girl with really messy curly black hair. I yelped at first glance. The girl stood there grinning, chewing on what looked like a piece of tree bark.
I stared at her for a second. She stared right back, still smiling cockily. She turned to Lynna and spat out some words that sounded like 'Whozat?"
"Oh." said Lynna. "Liza, this is my friend, Rin." she said, motioning at the girl. "Rin, this is my little sister, Liza."
"Sup." said Rin.
"And you are...?" said Lynna, looking at Luna, who was standing there awkwardly.
When she noticed that Lynna was talking to her, she seemed embarrassed.
"Oh!" she said. "Hi, I'm Luna."
"So how did you guys find us?" i ask.
"We heard some bozo shrieking FALALALALALA! So we came this way." said Rin. Luna's face turned red. I snickered.
'What's so funny?" asked Rin.
"Nothing." i said.
We stood for a minute.
"What's with your clothes, Rin?" asked Luna.
"Why would you ask som-" i start.
"What do you mean?" asked Rin.
"Its kinda... showy." said Luna.
I looked at Rin's attire. She had an olive green tube-tank under her leather jacket, and one of those 'fashionable' holes right above the 'chest'. Showy? you could say that again.
"At least I'm wearing clothes at all." she said, still grinning.
"Uh, lets get back to camp!" said Lynna, changing the subject.
"Camp?" i ask.
"oh, i suppose i owe an explanation, don't i." said Lynna. "I'll tell you when we get there."
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Luckily, this 'camp' wasn't very far away, we only had to walk for a few minutes. I saw a hand carved sign that read
CAMP CRESCENTRUN
Up ahead, i saw a couple tents and a small campfire.
"Are you guys the only ones here?" i ask as we continue walking towards the tents.
"Oh, no." said Lynna. There are a few others, Courtney, Lora, Cole, Shi-"
"Did you just say Cole?" interrupted Luna. "Did i hear right?"
"Yes, Cole." said Lynna.
"So where are they all?" i asked.
"Uh..." she said. "They like to sleep late."
"As leaders of the clan, we usually get up first." said Rin.
As if on cue, the closest tent started rustling. A short girl with curly reddish hair crawled out. Her hair was even messier than Rin's, which made since since she had just gotten up. She didn't look like a morning person.
"Rise and shine, Lora!" said Rin excitedly, ruffling her hair, making it even worse. The girl frowned and pulled the collar of her shirt.
She flattened her hair as much as she could and eyed Luna and me.
"Lora, this is my sister and her friend." said Lynna.
Lora stuck out her hand, and her frown loosened into more of a scowl.
"Name's Lora, if you couldn't already guess. Welcome to CrescentRun." she said flatly.
I shook her hand.
"Im Liza." i said.
"Luna." said Luna. (duh)
After the introduction, Lora trudged over to the fire and sat cross-legged next to it.
"Does she hate us already?" i ask.
"No, she's just not the most enthusiastic person." said Rin. "Courtney, on the other hand..."
"Come on, guys." said Lynna. "Something tells me I'm not the only hungry one."
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We sat around the fire waiting for Lynna, who was getting some food from the so called 'stock tent'. Rin told us it was basically a storage tent.
Luna and I had been making small talk with Lora. Apparently, she had gotten kicked out of her clan, FireClaw, due to some 'gamble that she shouldn't have placed'. She didn't get to specific on that subject. All of a sudden, a girl jumped on Lora from behind.
"HeLLO!" she yelled, almost sending them both rolling into the fire. Lora, who was being squashed by the girl, winced and pushed her off.
"Good morning, Courtney." groaned Lora. Courtney stood up. She was slightly taller than Lora, and aside from that, was pretty much her polar opposite. Lora wore a dark grey short-sleeved turtleneck, Courtney wore a bright red head tie thing and a pastel sheer-sleeved blouse. Lora had long curly dark hair, Courtney had short, straight blonde hair. Lora acted very anti-social, Courtney was super bubbly and nice.
"Who are you two?' she asked Luna and me. "Are you intruders?"
"Um, no." said Luna.
"I'm Lynna's sister." i said. "Liza."
"Im luna."
"Oh, okay!" she said, sitting down. "Im Courtney."
"I expected you to pull a sword out on us or something." laughed Luna.
"Oh, i don't even have one!" said Courtney. "I don't fight much, i mostly gather food and stuff."
While we were talking, another girl had stopped and talked to Rin. When she left, i asked her who it was.
"Oh, that's Shino." said Rin. "She's Japanese. She went to help Lynna."
"Oh." i said.
Pretty shortly after, Lynna and Shino came back. Shino looked a kind of like Luna, but older and with black straight hair.
They had a bunch of food, such as deer meat jerky, wild berries of some sort, and a small container of maple syrup. it surprisingly tasted good with the jerky.
I hadn't eaten such good food for years. Literally.
As we were chowing down, i heard a tent rustling. i was too busy eating to look behind me to see who came out, until Rin looked over my head and said 'hey babe'.
I looked around and saw a boy with spiky black and green hair and red eyes. Luna apparently had the same idea and looked too. She gasped.