Story Chain!

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Story Chain!

Story Chain!

I think it would be fun to start a story chain. Each person can write a sentence or paragraph to the story. I'll begin...

Kelsey Rose woke up and sighed. It was the first day of school in a new town...

Ok, you continue the story. Don't be afraid to add mythical creatures, or wild adventures to the story.

submitted by Teresa, age 13, Michigan
(January 5, 2013 - 11:54 am)

Ok! I guess we finish the story and possibly write another. So, what happens now?

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(May 14, 2013 - 5:48 am)

Sounds good! Onward!

My thoughts were in a jumble, and I couldn't think straight. My parents had returned to the room, and my mom was talking me through the operation. My arm throbbed, and I knew the poison was slowly spreading. I didn't have long. 

"So you'll be here awhile," my mother finished, bring me back to awareness. "Wait, I can't!" I said, sitting bolt upright in bed.

My mother gently laid me back down, stroking my hair. The nurse went about her work, telling my parents the operation would take place early the next morning.

I was about to protest, when Sophie spoke in my mind, Wait till tonight. I sighed, and settled back in my pillows, closing my eyes, pretending to be exhausted. 

Finally, night fell. I swiftly climbed out of bed, and despite my throbbing arm, I managed to throw on my jeans, a deep green jacket top, and my boots. I stood by the door, listening. Footsteps echoed up and down the hall. No good, they'd spot me. Try the window Sophie spoke again in my mind. I ran over, and looked out. I was only on the second floor. I threw up the sash, which shockingly wasn't locked. Go figure. And climbed out, dangling from the sill. Not really wanting a Pollyanna syndrom, I carefully, checking my surrounding first, gripped hold of a drain pipe, which amazingly held my weight. I was about half a mile from the place where I'd met Sophie and Frank. So I set off at a brisk pace.

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Taday! Who's next?

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(May 14, 2013 - 9:18 pm)

I am! Sorry for making you wait so long...I've been too busy studying for my algebra I and health exams so I don't have to take them my freshman year. Oh, and I've been working on the Farewell Speech. Then we have awards and... You get the point.

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I returned to the same spot Frank had appeared to me a couple weeks ago... I mean earlier today. Nobody was there. I looked around, no secret portal either. I shrugged and sat down on a stump, trying to process the events of the day. Why did everyone think a bear attacked me? It was clearly Amnester. Was there some sort of a mist type thing like in those Percy Jackson books I read?

"What are you waiting for, Kelsey?!? Come on!" Sophie said. "How?"  Sophie sighed, "Just close your eyes and imagine you're here". I closed my eyes, picturing Frank and Sophie at Amnester's lair. Nothing happened. "Try it again", Sophie encouraged. 

I repeated the process. Again nothing happened. "Oh no. Just what I feared. When Amnester cut you it weakened your powers to a state of almost nothing. Soon, Amnester will have control of you and your powers. Beware! Stay there until Frank comes to..."

"Hello Kelsey! Remember me? Mwahhhahahahhaha!" Amnester's voice cackled in my brain. NO! NO! NO! I screamed. "What is wrong Kelsey? Afraid? Hahahahah!" Amnester laughed.  

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(May 21, 2013 - 3:05 pm)

Ah! SO SORRY! Onward!!!!

I screamed again and covered my ears, as if trying to block out his voice. But it just echoed in my mind, and then went silent. I knelt there, shivering on the ground. Already, my strength starting to wane. My mind started to go fuzzy. I started to forget things. Why was I here? "Sophie, Frank," I reminded myself. Who knows how long I would have stayed there like that, till I heard a voice behind me. "Kelsey?" I spun around. Frank stood there. I jumped and and grinned, but winced at my stinging arm. Frank put his arm around me, then glanced around. "Come on," he said, leading me toward the woods. "We need to get somewhere safe." I allowed myself to be lead. Amnester didn't speak in my mind, but I could still feel my powers slowly draining.

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Short, I know. But I don't have a lot of time. Sorry!

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(May 27, 2013 - 4:04 pm)

I couldn't think. I couldn't see. I couldn't hear. I was just being lead. Lead to someplace safe. I was numb. I was aching. I didn't want to be here. 

Frank stopped and helped me into a bed. Sophie came in with a box full of first aid supplies. Carefully, taking my arm she cleaned the wound and rubbed a clear ointment over it. "OWWW!" I yelled. "Shh. It is just a healing potion" Sophie said. I groaned. Then, she wrapped a sterile bandage around it. "Just rest, you'll need it." Sophie said as she left the room whispering furiously to Frank. I did as she said.

I woke up a day later, refreshed and ready for the adventure. I got out of bed and called to Sophie and Frank. No answer. "Maybe they are downstairs." I thought. Swinging open my door, a gush of wind met me. "What?" I thought.  I raced over to the window and looked around. I WAS IN THE SKY! My room was just floating around.

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(June 4, 2013 - 10:06 am)

TOP!

submitted by TOP
(May 25, 2013 - 2:33 pm)

"I knew it," I said, slapping my hand to my forehead, staggering away from the doorway. "I'm dead." I thought for a moment. "But I hadn't really expected Heaven to be my bedroom in the sky."

I heard a laugh from somewhere to the right. I gingerly leaned forward and peeked out the door. Sophie was gently hopping from one cloud to another toward me.

"No, you're not dead, though you were near it." She gently alighted in the doorframe, grinning at me. I had to still question whether or not I was really dead.

"Well, if I'm not dead, where am I?" Again, Sophie just laughed. "Frank moved the house to the sky, where he felt we'd be safer." Her face sombered then. "Are you all right?" She asked. "Well aside from the peculiar sensation of feeling alive and dead at the same time, and attempting to get over the shock of waking up on a cloud, yeah, I'd say I'd doing okay." But Sophie didn't smile. "That's not quite what I meant..." She hesitated. "I mean, your powers. After an attack like that from Amnester, and getting poisoned, and then him getting into your head, we're just not sure..." Her voice trailed off. She stared off into the sky, not looking me in the face. Fear churned in my stomach. Could Amenster really have done something to my powers? I focused, picturing my wings. Nothing happened. The effort, though, made me dizzy, and slightly naseous. 

"Don't try now!" Sophie said, startled at my pale face. "You're still to weak to try. But Frank wants to talk to you." 

 

Cappie says wath. No idea.

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(June 5, 2013 - 12:13 pm)

Frank came into the stuffy room and sat parallel to my bed, which I was forced to rest in by Sophie. "I hope you are physically feeling better, but I'm worried about your powers", Frank began. "Yes, I'm, uh, physically fine. I don't know about my powers though because Sophie dissuaded me from trying", I said. "It is dangerous for you to use your powers in this state. We need to take the next steps carefully; your life depends on it", Frank said. I gulped, but nodded, trusting in Frank's ability to keep me safe.

Frank rose from his chair and sauntered to the nearby window that showed white fluff zooming by. "We do not know how serious Amnester wounded your powers. He has the ability to trick us and make your powers malfunction, if - if he figured out how", Frank continued. "I doubt he could make my powers malfunction, he seems, well, not too smart", I said. Frank whirled around, his face furious. "Do not ever assume that! Amnester is more clever than he lets on. I know from experience", Frank said as his face scrunched into a scowl.

I was surprised. Surprised at Frank's temper, which was usually mild. I was even more surprised - and afraid - knowing that Amnester had defeated Frank in the past.

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(June 18, 2013 - 4:20 pm)

TOP! TOP! TOP! TOOOOOP!

submitted by Top
(June 18, 2013 - 4:55 pm)

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Ah! Sorry Teresa! I've been disgustingly busy, which is sad, it being
summer. *sigh* Anyhoots!

 

I shrank back slightly, rather startled. Great job, Kelsey! Now what?
I mentally chided myself. Amnester has already beaten Frank once. What do
you think you can do?

I sat there, staring at the covers thinking this, when Sophie grabbed my
shoulders and shook me. "Don't do that!" She nearly yelled. Now that,
I'll be honest, scared the heck out of me.

"What?"! I nearly shouted back. "That's Amnester," she said,
calming down slightly. "Amnester's making you think like that. He wants
you to think you can't do it. If you continue thinking like that, your powers
will never return." 

Frank, who was now standing beside Sophie, nodded in
agreement. "Kelsey, you need to focus all your attention, positive attention,
on regaining your powers," he said. "And no over exerting yourself,
you’re bound to kill yourself doing that,” Frank muttered leaving the room.
When the door shut, Sophie looked back at me. “Don’t feel too bad about him. He’s
just worried. He wants to make sure you get your powers back. You’re now the
only one who can beat Amnester.” I realized I had been holding my breath up to
now, I sighed. “No pressure, huh?” Sophie smiled at this. Suddenly, another
thought struck me. “Sophie, what happened to everyone else in the army?”

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submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(June 23, 2013 - 12:55 pm)

Sophie's lips pressed together like two pieces of bread in a sandwich. Instead of looking at me, her gaze shifted left to the nearby window. "They have, um, found a new home", Sophie said. I knew she was lying, and her attempts to make me not worry only made me anxious.

"Sophie, look at me in the eye and tell me that they have found a new home", I said. Sophie did and quickly turned away, but not fast enough to hide the tears in the corner of her eyes. "They, they aren't dead. Right?" I was nervous now. Sophie vigorously shook her head with her back still facing me. I sighed of relief. "Then why are you crying?" I timidly asked. She turned around, her eyes pink and wet. "Oh, Kelsey! I don't want this to worry you or put an end to your recovery, but your friends are captured by Amnester. I don't think they are dead, but Amnester can still use them for powers", Sophie cried. 

I was shocked. I had raised my army, only to have them captured. I was devastated, but the situation helped renew my determination to defeated Amnester. 

 

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(June 23, 2013 - 7:36 pm)

I lay there for a long time, thoughts moving rapidly through my head. Sophie had left me to rest, and I used the solitude to my advantage. After making sure Sophie was gone, I slipped out of bed, and carefully tested my powers. A flicker of something passed through me, but that was it. That alone exhausted me. I climbed back into bed, and quickly fell asleep.

I started dreaming immediately after I fell asleep. I was standing in a clearing. It looked familiar, and suddenly I realized it was the same clearing where I called on my linixie bretheren. Then I was standing at the campsite, then the cabin, the castle, the treetops where Amnester first held me captive, the bus stop, then... It stopped. I wasn't anywhere.

Suddenly I was standing in Amnester's castle. It was a vast, stone chamber. Candles burned along the walls. My entire army was huddled before Amnester, who started to slowly walk among them. He was talking, though I couldn't hear what he was saying, but already I could feel such a sick, nausiating fear rushing through me. He stopped in front of one of the smaller linixies. A young girl. She stood firm in front of me, but I knew something bad was about to happen. Just before it did, everything was gone.

Then the world went dark. I couldn't see anything. I started to suffocate. I could hear Amnester taunting me. I wanted to scream. Just as I thought I was dying, a saw a light, like a train at the end of a tunnel. I felt a burning all around me, coursing through my veins. I felt stronger, stronger than I'd ever felt before. I could feel my linixie power returning. No, not just returning, becoming empowered, ten fold. I wanted to scream, this time for joy.

I jerked awake. I knew I had been asleep, but I knew everything that I had just seen and felt was real. I got out of bed, threw on a dark purple shirt, dark green pants, and boots. I glanced over at the door. I knew that Sophie and Frank would be worried when they found me gone, but I also knew I wasn't about to pull them into this. Not after last time. I pushed open the window, and knelt on the sill. I gently shut my eyes, and felt my linixie powers course through me. My wings appeared. I leaned forward, dropping off the window sill, and soared off into the fading evening light.

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So, I know it's a lot. This whole scene just hit me, and I decided to write it. You can tweak it or anything if you want.

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(June 26, 2013 - 8:11 pm)

My destination was Amnester's castle. I knew that I had a vision of something that either was currently happening or happening in the near future. Soaring above green tree tops and under the bright blue sky, I felt happy. I knew that this time I'd defeat Amnester and save this world. Suddenly, the sky darkened and the trees were now grey. I was approaching his castle.

I swooped down towards the closed metal gate. Trapped. Or was I? Calling upon my linixie powers in addition to my confidence, I turned invisible. Something that had never happened before and that Frank thought of as impossible.  Slipping through the door, I saw Meredith and Iggy. They made my blood boil. They were laughing about something and saying something about linixies. Hmm. I decided to follow them.

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(July 3, 2013 - 4:30 pm)

Sorry Teresa! I've been trying to get to this! I had started, but then my computer shut down.

 

I hovered gently above them, beating my wings slowly and gently, to be sure they couldn't hear me. 

"He has special plans for the linixies," Iggy was telling Meredith. "He plans to take their powers."

"How will he do that?" Meredith asked, evidently bothered that Iggy knew more than she. "Only a linixie can use or borrow anothe linixie's power."

"Exactly," Iggy smirked. "He has control over Kelsey Rose, though she doesn't realize to what extent. She currently think she's right as rain. In time, she'll still probably be able to use her powers, but no matter what she thinks, Amnester will still have ultimate control!"

"Wait," Meredith said slowing. "Won't taking the linixie's powers kill them? I know linixies can use eachother's powers, but I've never heard of one completely taking another's. They more, just, loan it out. I've heard that a linixie without it's powers will die."

Iggy just stared at her bored. "And your point is? They may, they may not die. We don't know. And who cares? We don't need them themselves, just their power."

Meredith shrugged, and she and Iggy continued on. But I remained where I was, horror struck.

Amnester can't still use me. I'm in complete control now, aren't I? I have full use of my powers now. He can't overrule me. Can he?

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule
(July 6, 2013 - 4:22 pm)

Iggy and Meredith must have been wrong, I am in control of myself. Or am I?

I should have never left the safety of the flying room. Sophie and Frank must be worried about me. How could I mess this and everything else up?

I sat there in the middle of the floor crying. This is not how I planned this to go. I wanted to go home, where my life was normal. Or at least as normal as possible after moving.

A new thought struck me. Linixies were in danger and someone had to help them. It couldn't be Amnester, Meredith or Iggy, unless they had a change of had, which I highly doubted. It had to be me and only me.   

submitted by Teresa, age 14, Michigan
(July 7, 2013 - 2:30 pm)