Chapter One

Okay, so Persephone, Alve, and Alicia are included in this chaper. The others will be introduced next chapter which will proabably be out tomorrow!

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Persephone took a deep breath as she opened her eyes. She blinked a few times and used her left hand to shield her eyes from the bright sun shining down at her. She sighed as her almost turquoise eyes scanned her surroundings. She could see a forest in the distance, but other than that it was just a large meadow with small trails leading to the forest that surrounded it. These were Persephone's favorite types of places, just nature for miles, a place that she could stay and remain undisturbed. She pushed herself off the ground and got the small pieces of grass and dirt out of her pastel pink hair.

"I must've fallen asleep," she muttered to herself. If she were to be honest, it really wasn't an unusual occurrence. She felt so relaxed in these types of places so she often found herself dozing off.

Persephone brushed the grass off her black leggings and then proceeded to do so to her hoodie as well. She walked to one of the trails leading to the forest and followed it, one of them had to lead somewhere, right? It's not that she didn't remember how she'd gotten here... okay, maybe it was a little blurry but she always liked a challenge.

She started jogging as she came closer and closer to the green forest. She entered the forest as she continued to jog down the trail. She jogged past loads of trees, bushes and other things you would typically would find in a forest. But, then she saw something in the distance. She picked up her pace and ran towards the thing, curious to as what it was. As she came closer to the blurry thing in the distance she realized what it was. A large building of some sort, like a mansion.

"What is that doing here?" Persephone said to herself. You weren't supposed to find mansions in the middle of the forest, she knew that. Of course, then and right there- almost like some cliche movie she felt a sharp, but weak pain on her neck. "Oh my god, this is not happening."

Persephone stumbled slightly as the world turned blurry, she stumbled to the nearest tree which she leaned against. "Σκατά"

Black spots danced over her vision as she felt herself start to give in to unconsciousness. The spots now seemed to move in a coordinated pattern, and they only grew faster and faster. After a little less than a minute Persephone internally groaned as her eyelids closed and she fell to the ground.

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Alve- who was currently a crow- flew over a city, not that he knew which city it was. He glared at the bright lights that came from the skyscrapers. He felt the wind in his feathers as he flew, and it was a feeling that he truly enjoyed. He dove down to get closer to the city to see if he could find any crime to fight. Not even after five minutes of searching he found something and it was cliche as can be. A young girl, probably in her late teens, was walking down a dark alley and didn't notice the creepy looking dude following her. This is gonna end in disaster, Alve though. He swept down, changing into his human form mid-dive. He flipped through the air and landed on a roof. He was about to jump down and stop the crime before it happened but the man quickened his pace and grabbed the woman's wrist.

The woman let out a scared shriek as the man pulled her closer to him. Alve cursed himself for not acting sooner as he jumped down to the ground and landed with a soft thump. He quickly delivered a roundhouse kick to the man's face. Then he used his forearm to break his grip on the young woman. The woman ran off as soon as the man lost his grip on her, thankfully she didn't run deeper into the dark alley. No, she ran back out of it, into the light of the city.

Alve delivered a swift, but powerful, punch to the man's gut. He then sweeped the man's feet under him and smiled to himself as the man hit the ground. As the man had hit his head on the ground he quickly lost consciousness and Alve thought it was a job done well. He was about to turn into a crow again and look for more crime to stop- or even better, prevent when he felt someone staring at him. Sure, it was only a gut feeling, but his gut feeling was usually right. Alve quickly got into a defensive position, ready for a fight. But he wasn't attacked, not in the way he expected. He felt a sharp pain to his chest, close to his heart. He looked down at his chest and saw a small device sitting here.

He tried to pull it out to no avail, it was just stuck there. Nothing seemed to happen which was a relief to Alve, but then a light turned on- a red light. Then he started panicking. Red light meant bad news, at the sudden feeling of dizziness only supported that theory. The world started to twist and turn, and Alve knew that the world didn't do that. Then his eyes felt unbearably heavy and he did what his body told him to do, he closed them and the world faded to black.

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Alicia groaned as she was met with a dead end in her math homework. She swore under her breath and continued to work, trying to find some solution. Several minutes later she put her pen down- she didn't give up, no, she was just taking a little break. She opened her window and climbed onto the roof and closed it after her. Then she turned into a sugar glider and flew down to the ground, landing on the soft grass. She turned back into herself and followed the sidewalk. She decided to walk her normal route, a quick walk around the neighborhood. Even before she started walking she knew this was a bad idea, but she did it anyway.

Alicia walked past the lights, and all the dimly lit houses. Her sneakers made almost no sound as she walked, something she had trained for. She walked past the park, where she could barely make out a dark figure standing. Alicia furrowed her eyebrows in confusion. Who would be at the park past midnight? She walked towards the dark figure, curiosity taking over.

"Alicia James," a female voice said. Alicia tensed, how did she know her name? "I've been looking for you."

"Um," Alicia said. "Could you be any less cliche?"

She could practically feel the person rolling her eyes, but she didn't really care about that. She wanted to know who this person is and how they knew her name. "How do you know my name?"

The person took of their hood, showing a pale with green eyes. Her blonde hair shone slightly in the dim light. "I need you to come with me."

"Uh, why?" Alicia asked.

"We don't have time for questions," the woman said sternly.

"Oh, like that's gonna make me trust you," Alicia replied sarcastically.

"And I don't have time for your sarcasm," she continued. "We either do this the easy way, or the hard way."

At this Alicia burst out laughing. "Do you have any idea of how stupid you sound? And, how about we just don't do whatever you want."

"You don't understand-" the woman started, but was rudely cut off my Alicia.

"Yeah, right," Alicia said and started to walk away. Alicia heard a weird sound and then a weird feeling at the back of her neck. Alicia felt at the spot where the feeling had come from and felt something there. She turned towards the woman and saw her with a blowpipe in her hands.

"Like I said, the easy way or the hard way," the woman said.

"So this was the, what? Hard way?" Alicia asked.

"For you," the woman said. "Not for me."

"Is that seriously a blowpipe?" Alicia asked.

"Yes, and?" the woman said, and that was when the world started to blur. It didn't refocus, like it would on a camera, it just grew blurrier and blurrier until all Alicia could see were blurred colors.

It was like this for a moment, then the world faded to black

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