This is the beginning of this book. Tell me what you think

By the way I will try doing the chapters in the view of the characters and occasionally in their voice

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Recap of the day:

I woke up like I normally do in the morning. I had breakfast and got ready for school. Normal Tuesday right?

Wrong.

I stepped out of my house into the milky morning light. For a morning it was rather warm out. Not that I minded. Shaking my thoughts clear I continued down the sidewalk, seeing the single tree where the bus came and picked me up, at the same time every morning.

A flash caught my eye, and I turned, looking across the sidewalk. There was a glass ball collecting light in the grass not to far away. When I looked closer I saw it was connected to a long, wooded pole. Curios, I walked over and picked it up, wondering why someone would leave such a thing in there yard.

Suddenly heat started radiating off its surface. The next thing I knew, the shone a pale green, illuminating the area faintly.

Shocked, my hands loosened, but I managed to keep it from falling out of my grip. Something about its glow told me it would be bad- very bad- if I dropped it. Not only would the glass shatter and cut my ankles, but it's radiance made it feel like some object from a fantasy world.

And objects from fantasy worlds always caused harm in movies, didn't they.

I had decided to keep the pole and was debating where to put it. I mean I can't put a 4 foot long poll in my school bag right? Just as I had this thought it shrunk to about a 3 inch long poll. I was a little freaked out but I put it away.

On the way to the bus I also ran into my friend Paul. The short, skinny boy waved to me, a silly grin on his face.

" Hey!" He shouted to me. " it's been a while! 13 hours! How are you doing pal?"

He asks as if in the time we hadn't seen eachother the world could have stopped. It's not actually that long though.

I smiled. His lame humor and puns were what brought us together as friends in the first place.

" I'm fine" I replied " how are you?"

Paul screamed "don't ask. Ahhhhh! Little man!"

At first I thought he was talking to me but that makes no sense since I'm 3 inches taller then Paul.

And he runs. I look around but don't see why he did that.

I wanted to ask him what was wrong but he was gone.

Once I got to school had a few classes then it got weird. But first, the not so weird part. Math class was almost normal. The teacher gave us a worksheet, I did it and handed it in. Then I felt the cold shiver or electricity run through my leg. I look at my leg to find my pocket sparking and smoking. I'm surprised it didn't set off a smoke alarm. I was a little confused. After that I went to get the next worksheet and decided to ignore the sparking pocket. As I started this worksheet I noticed a weird question that wasn't even in English. I went up to ask the teacher but they said to

"go back to work and ignore the question."

I then said

"Ok, thank you. Why is that there though?

The teacher then said

"I told you to go back to work didn't I?"

So I went back to work. Then she went and got a copy for herself. I considered why she would do that and thought that it might be a language she knew. I wondered why she wouldn't just tell me what it said and why it was even there. You may be wondering how this is almost normal. Well let's just say I have a pretty weird life.

Next, geography. My pocket continued to spark. The teacher gave us a small lesson then gave us a worksheet. A few of are classmates decided to have a little conversation in french. You see, the geography teacher doesn't know french. He prefers to, well, do geography. Again, on the worksheet there was a question in the other language. I thought about going to the geography teacher to ask but I knew I wouldn't get a straight answer.

Here is where it gets weird. As I was going to my science class I saw a man about the size of my fist walking to the gym. Was this what Paul had meant? Again I felt as if I had to follow. Bad idea now that I look back on it but I can't change that now. He entered the gym and I stayed outside the door. The principle was there talking to the gym teacher. As the little man came up to them they turned to him.

The little person said something I couldn't make out and both the gym teacher and the principle nodded. Now this confused me since neither of them listen to anyone. You may think I'm crazy for not being confused by anything yet that day but, hey, I'm me. Both of them knelt down to the ground and pulled out a short stick. Then they both turned to the wall opposite me.

The little man waved his hands. You may want to know how I could see that from here. Well be patient then. Out of the wall they were facing a tiger came. Now I'm wondering if I went crazy at the time but I left then and there. Oh yeah I should probably introduce myself.

My name is Fred karnaka and I'm 12 years old and live in Oklahoma. I'm in grade seven and go to lowasa names public school. Don't bother looking on a map. You won't find it anyway. I'm 5 foot 2 and some people say I'm curious while other just say I'm weird. Weird things happen all the time to me. The multiple language papers? A weekly occurrence. Little men? Not quiet as often? Never before has there been a glowing pole. You see? This is a weird day even for me.

Where was I? Oh yeah, I yeah just left. I went to science and got there just in time. We got a worksheet. No weird questions this time. Then There was a load crash in the gym and mr. Lokanuwa ( the science teacher ) mumbled something like

"Not again"

I barely registered this when the building shook. My pocket sparked again. I felt in my pocket and somehow that pole was there. I had never put it in my pocket. Was this what was sparking? Then it emitted a spark and realized it must be. I was freaked and realized I wouldn't be using the science sheet now so I wrapped it in the paper.

"Run!"

Yelled one of the other students.

"No! Stop!"

Yelled mr. Lokanuwa.

But it was pointless. In a massive effect everyone ran out the door. We all ran down the stairs to the gym. Someone slapped me in the knee but I ignored it and kept running. There was a loud clanging just as we were about to get there.

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Cliffhanger! Will keep writing please comment. Sorry about the length, will try to improve that.

This is dedicated to RobTheir for being an awesome writer and even without meaning to, inspiring me to write a story of my own.

Please don't stop here. Read 3-4 chapters before stopping. I hate it when people stop after one chapter. Give it a chance