Myth Camp- Chapter 3

                    Abigail was getting out of the jacuzzi placed in her limo. She took her towel dried herself and got dressed into her worst clothes she could find at home (still they were more expensive than what normal people could afford). A lovely t-shirt, a denim jacket, jeans and pink boots. She brushed her hair and tied it into a pony tail. The butler opened the door and let her out of the car. She and her mum went in threw a big gate with a big sign saying “Myth Camp” with a foot print picture on it. They went into a lovely wooden hut. The whole place was very beautiful but Abi thought it was ugly and dirty. At a desk at the end of the room in the hut sat a tall woman with blue eyes and a big smile. Her ears were big and her nose was small. Her back was very straight which made her look even taller and she was sitting cross-legged. To Abigail Anna (she saw her name on the name tag) seemed confident and very cheerful even thou she was in such a terrible forest filled with bugs. While Anna saw a nice 15 year old girl with fashionable clothes that seemed unhappy because of where she was. Abigail’s mum signed some papers and the teen was sent to her cabin and set her things out. On her way she saw something very strange.    

               The strange thing Abigail saw was not a monster it was a seven year old girl with gray eyes, brown hair and one arm. Lila was struggling to carry her big and heavy bag. If you looked closer you would notice she tightly clenched a piece of paper in her arm and was very happy to be in the forest. She didn’t notice blond haired Abigail staring at her, maybe it was because she was too exited or maybe because Lila was used to people freaked out by her appearance.  The stones in the camp were normal but to her they seemed rounder and the dark grass seemed greener.  She noticed how beautifully everything was painted and how well everything looked together. She knew it would look great on a painting because even thou she was only 7 she loved art and was great at it, loads of the people in the adoption center praised her for it.  The reception hut where Abigail was few minutes ago was occupied by a plump woman and her daughter. She sat on a bench in front of the hut and took out a copy out of her bag. She started sketching and didn’t even notice when the mother and child went out and Anna came up to her. Anna seemed different than other people she looked at Lila like she was normal and didn’t seem to care about her arm.

“You must be Lila nice to meet you, you’re a great artist, I absolutely love your picture”, Anna said in a warm voice looking at Lila’s copy and shock Lila’s hand.

“Hello and thank you, is this where you drop the forms miss?”, Lila asked quietly.

“Yes, come on in and call me Anna”, she answered.

         When the paper work was done Lila went to her new home for the summer and in it found Abigail unpacking herself.

          Erika also went alone because her granny was too weak to go with her. She thought that was great because she could run away without her granny being there and do something that had nothing to do with the camp for the next few weeks, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it because she kept remembering how proud her guardian was when she walked to the bus station. She had another great plan; she pretended to drop her admission sheet and pretended not to notice so nobody accused her of not wanting to go. She didn’t have luck with that plan either because people kept saying things like “look, you dropped this” or “I this yours, you don’t want to miss such fun”, one person even accused her of littering. The whole problem was that she hated the idea of going to the camp.  She hated legends because she was a very realistic thinker. The thing that scared her the most was that she might actually change which was doubtful but possible. Even thou Erika was not a tiny bit creative she could imagine the owner of the camp looking down on her but Anna didn’t. The twelve year old was surprised when Anna wasn’t acting like she was better after reading her file but she didn’t show it, Erika as usual acted very confident and a little arrogant. She looked at the woman, she was beautiful but her brown hair was a mess. Erika left her papers and went to the cabin number 3 that seemed like her most unlucky number at that time. It was very warm but a little windy so her black hair kept covering her pail face and small green eyes. When she opened the door and saw two girls in the cabin she said “ Oh great, so now not only I have to go to this camp, I will have to live with these two” in her head and she was so angry she didn’t even notice Lila’s missing limb.

            Suzie was so exited she couldn’t sit still in her car sit.

-Dad don’t call me your muffin in front of everyone please! – Suzie asked politely.

 -Won’t, can I call you Suzie or maybe I should call you my baby. - Her dad said laughing.

- OMG dad, just call me Susan, k. - she answered to her dad’s joke that she didn’t like.

         The radio was playing loudly and Susan’s dad was badly singing to it. The music didn’t stop her from falling asleep and when she woke up they were on the camp’s grounds. She tied up her dark hair into a plat and put on her anti animal cruelty, organic lip-gloss.  Her parents had a lot of money but you couldn’t see it looking at them or their clothes, house or car because they give most of it away to charities helping animals and the environment. Everything in her house was made from recyclable material so as the camp which made her very happy and even her car was eco-friendly. They walked down an alley surrounded by loads of flowers and trees and she could name every single one of them and that’s exactly what she did impressing her that with her knowledge. She kept seeing animals and birds hidden well enough for most people to miss. She felt like that was where she was meant to be. Her dad dropped of the papers and kissed her tan chick before leaving her to go have fun in the camp. For a second she felt lonely but then she saw a rare butterfly and got carried away into her own imaginative and beautiful world. She loved the lovely smell of the forest and the diverse colors of the environment around her. If she could she would run after a squirrel or a fox but she knew she needed to unpack herself and she was excited about meeting her new roommates. 

Life As A Half Goddess- Prologue

Every story has a beginning and this one starts with a question. The question may seem like a simple one, but it’s not. The question is, “who am I?”, not in the general way meaning who you think you are but the question is about me, the narrator of this story.  

        I don’t have a name and I don’t belong anywhere. I am a beautiful girl but I’m a deadly animal. I am a goddess yet I’m mortal. The easiest way to answer the question is a short story about a girl even more dangerous and beautiful than me. Her name changed as centuries went by but the meaning of it was always the same Nature.  Her race of gods was the oldest and was worshiped by people of the Stone Age. Nature was the most loving and beautiful of all goddesses. She had cat eyes and golden hair that that fell all the way down to her feet. She was the human’s favourite god and they worshiped her more than the powerful king of gods. She was a ruler of nature as her name suggests and she cared about everything that was alive. She had the power to bring to life but also to kill. Then only way to kill her was by stabbing her in the heart with a magical dagger but except from that she was immortal. She grew plants for the people and provided them with animals. She cared about everyone and was mostly always happy except when she had o kill. Nowadays she’d be called mother nature and being her didn’t only mean good things but in order to keep the world synchronised she had to also bring death as well as life. Yet she loved her powers and used them as well she could. Nature was also one of the few gods that came down from the heavens to the people. Usually she’d come down in a dress made of leaves and flowers, with her blond hair tied in a plat. Bare footed she walked into the village and help them. But as people became smarter and build civilizations they forgot about the old ways. They believed in new, fake gods and stopped caring about nature. It made the gods angry and most of them never helped people again. Nature was very depressed but tried to keep some nature and pure life in the world. It was a very hard job since people started polluting the earth and killing the forests in it. Of course she never came down in her human form but in the shape of a small brown bird or invisible mist. She hid in the shadows until one day she saw a man. He had coal black hair and ocean blue eyes. He was a ranger with a pure heart; he also loved nature as much as Nature herself. His name was John and he was an extraordinary ordinary human. Nature fell in love with him and came down to earth first as a deer and later as a girl she really was. They loved each other and met in the forest everyday for a few months. One sunny summer day John brought Nature over to a clearing and gave her a rose with a ring on it. Nature accepted the proposal and they got married in a small chapel. Nature knew the other Gods would not be happy with her so the couple kept moving from town to town and lived in small huts in forests, hiding.

      After a few years of running, hiding and loving Nature became pregnant and wasn’t able to move any more.  When the girl was born her parents loved her a lot. She had black hair and clever green eyes. Like her parents she loved nature.  They lived together peacefully until the little girl was 3 months. At that time the Gods found their location and attacked. The man knew nothing about his wife’s magic until the other Gods came down. Luckily Nature hid her daughter before they came for her. The girl was very little but not stupid. She knew she had to be quite and all she could do was listen to the screaming above her as she sat in the basement. Her mother fought bravely but unfortunately her killing powers didn’t work on other gods. She managed to take down some minor gods but then the powerful ones came and killed her husband. Nature’s heart broke and she stopped  fighting and let the gods put her out of her misery. After hours of screaming and fighting everything went quite and the baby started crying because she understood she became an orphan. When a family of foxes came to take her out she saw her beautiful mother lying on the ground covered in blood drained of her power , her golden hair covering her face. The stupid human’s blamed her parent’s death on an animal attack and killed a family of wolfs. The little girl grew up with animals and when she was 3 her powers started manifesting. She could turn into any animal and understood their speech. She also had a special connection with nature and helped plants grow. But unlike her mother she couldn’t bring back to life or kill and of course she wasn’t immortal because of the human blood in her veins. She grew up to be a beautiful, pale  girl with long, shiny black her. She lived happily in the forest with her family of animals. She never forgot the scene in the hut when her parents died. She grew up hating all gods and all she wanted was revenge.

    I am the little girl and I miss my mother and father terribly but I learned how to live without them and take care of myself. Everything would of been perfect if the hunters didn’t come

I think this is the most emotional piece of writing I ever wrote and I hope I will write more soon, I decided to have to stories so people can pick which one they like more. By the way I'm reading "The Golem's Eye".

Myth Camp-chapter 2

                                         Chapter 2
 

                   Of course it was not easy for Anna to open the camp and she had many difficulties to overcome, but she was not alone, she had her forest friends. She started working as a waitress in a small burger place and rented a room in a motel near the forest. She then with a little luck she got a better job after a while she started working in a hotel as cleaner and started earning bigger money. It was not enough to open a camp, it was barely enough for her to save anything after paying her bills and buying food. Of course Anna was too dedicated to give up her dream. She was a very hard working and stubborn. Every week she went to the forest with treats for the only people (well not exactly people) that never failed her. The next job she got was very good and thanks to that job the camp was opened. A very wealthy family was looking for a babysitter for their two kids and when they saw how nice Anna was to them they decided to hire her. The young girl took the job and worked 5 days a week taking care of 3 year old twins Pamela and Markus. After working for 2 years Anna became best friends with the mother of the kids, Catherina. Catherina was a very independent woman and knew how to take care of her own business because her husband always went to places all over the world and sometimes had to work there for over a month not coming home. When Anna’s birthday came her boss and her best friend that knew what her dream was gave her the money to buy a big piece of land big enough for her and her friends to live on and open a camp. Of course Catherina did not believe in any of the things Anna did but she wanted her friends dream to come. She didn’t only give her money for the land she also gave her money for whatever she needed to built and get for the camp.

“I can’t take that, Catherina that’s a lot of money”, Anna said

“Not for me, anyways it’s been you dream forever Anna”, Catherina answered.

“Thanks, but are you sure?” Anna said with a smile on her face because she was happy.

“A hundred percent sure, good luck”, Catherina ended the conversation and left the room

           That was how Anna got the money but that was only the beginning of opening a camp.

           Next Anna had to get electricity and water (her best human friend hired her a crew of great workers to do it, her friends were not capable of doing things like pluming), paint the place (she and her friends did it very well) and build everything she needed to open a camp. She saved money because she did not need to hire anybody for building, her friends worked for her and they did it for free. They built a big hut where meals would be served, she built huts where girls could sleep, an office, a terrace, a dock at the lake and of course she fenced the whole area because she didn’t want any uninvited guests to see what goes on in the camp. She and her helpers also built a lovely entrance gate. She had to also build fake environments like a snow world and a dessert which had glass walls and roofs around them.

              Next she had to order furniture. Anna was a very eco-friendly and that is why most of the furniture she bought was made from recyclable materials. She put 4 beds in each sleeping hut. She put lovely tables in the cafeteria and supplied the kitchen with the best things she could. The terrace was furnished with hammocks, benches and a grill. Her office had things any office has. After the camp was filled with furniture Anna decorated it. At the end it looked great. She designed brochures with the help of Catherina and her children who were already 4 when she finished building. Catherina also organized an advertisement in the paper and on television. That’s how most people found out about it. Anna also started a website and everything was ready for the next month when the girls were coming.

(Hope you like it because I had a great time writingt this but these next few chapters I wrote long ago and now I'm working on chapter 6)

Myth Camp- Chapter 1

                                         Chapter 1
 

                             Susie woke up early in the morning. She knew that because the sun was still hiding behind the mountains. She was very excited about a certain thing that would happen when her parents wake up. She couldn’t sleep; the clock seemed to move very slowly. The little girl got up at looked at her bag, her mum packed it 2 days before and checked it a few times but Susie still opened the bag to see if everything she needed was in it. She sat back up on her bed and read the brochure that she read many times before. “A magical experience at The Myth Camp. Improving children’s creativity and social skills.” she read quietly.  Of course both Susie and her parents knew she didn’t lack neither of the above, but the 11 year old begged them till she was allowed to go because she loved adventures and wildlife. The girl liked animals (It was probably because her family owned a zoo) and adventures but nothing could prepare her for what was about to happen whenever it got light.

                          Unlike Suzie, Erika woke up as late as she could and her granny had to go to her room a few times before the girl got up. She dreaded what was going to happen very soon. She loved her granny and listened to everything she said. That’s why Erika’s grandma felt very confused because it was the first time her granddaughter was angry with her. Everyone in the neighborhood knew about Erika’s bad behavior. She was always very cheeky to everyone except her granny, was mean to kids at school and nearly never did things she was asked for.  Her granny didn’t think her angel was bad she thought Erika was misunderstood and sad. That’s exactly what was wrong with Erika her parents died when she was 6 years old and now the 12 year old was struggling. She thought that if she had to be sad why were other people happy and that’s why she made their lives worse. Her teacher told each other how Erika was the stupidest girl they had to teach and that she had absolutely no talents. They were very wrong, Erika was very smart, but she didn’t try and when she sang everyone that heard her felt happier, but she would never try out for the school choir because according to Erika it was lame.  Her only friend was a beagle that lived with her and her granny for many years in their small, cozy house. “A summer camp for children over 7 and under 15. Manny fun activities including a daily walk to the forest to teach children how to interact with nature.” Erika read slowly before throwing the pamphlet into her bin. She knew her granny wanted the best for her but the girl was not at all happy with her granny’s idea.  On the other hand she understood that it was all her fault because she was not very creative and you could not call her very social and that’s the reason granny Margaret picked the “Myth Camp” not a the “Karate for girls camp”.

       Lila like the rest woke up with a certain thought on her mind. She felt proud because she with nobody’s help saved up the money to go to the camp. She woke up when she heard the alarm on her clock. She wanted to get up earlier but her roommates made a lot of noise that evening and didn’t let poor Lila sleep. The girl was used to that because she spent her whole life living with the two girls that shared a room with her in the orphanage. Her mother was still a teenager when Lila was born and gave her away because she didn’t want her. Nobody wanted her even thou young children are usually adopted first. Maybe it was her big grey eyes that didn’t seem to be the right size for her pale little face, maybe it was the “rags” she was wearing or maybe it was that Lila had no right arm since the day she was born and all the workers pitied her because they knew she was a lovely child. She got up checked if the money was in her purse and when she knew it was all there she put on her slippers and went to the bathroom. She could not wait to get out of the noisy orphanage for the summer.   

     Abigail rang the golden bell 2 times, sat up on her water bed and waited for the maid to bring her pancakes and tea on a silver tray. The girl’s dad was a rich business man and her mum was a model. She lived in a mansion so big that it would take another book to describe how beautiful it was and tell you at least 2 lines about every room in the house. She was very spoiled and got everything she wanted, she didn’t exactly have no friends, she had many girls that came to her house to play, but I’m not sure they real friends or did they pretend to be just to use her to get stuff and do stuff their parents could not afford.  After eating she got dressed into designer clothes and sat in a chair and started thinking what color of earrings matched her outfit the best, she was 14 and style and her chihuahua Diamond were all she cared about. She hated her older sister and competed with her all the time, the sisters also made each other’s lives harder, but what her sister did on Abigail’s birthday crossed the line. Everyone knew that the spoiled brat hated dirt and nature and no one could imagine such a bad present to give to her. She found a ticket in an envelope she got of her sister and was about to throw it out because she saw it was about a camp near a forest she definitely did not want to go to but then something happened and she was forced to go.

“When I got it I thought of you sis, don’t throw it away,” she said in an angels voice and gave an evil grin in Abigail’s direction.

“Go to that camp!!! I rather go to hell SIS”, she answered angrily

“ Don’t be mean to your sister she gave you it as a present and your going and that’s it Abi”, her parents said and sent her to her room because they believed her sister’s lie about how she thought the girl would like it.

That is how she was in her room saying bye to her dog and ready to go to the camp of nightmares as she called it. All the other three girls were on their way to the camp too.

(Hope you like it and I will post more tomorrow. By the way I'm reading "Dark Visions".

 

"Myth Camp"- prologue

                                            Prologue

Every parent that ever lived knows that children have a great imagination and believe in things that adults don’t. They see things like fairies; hear things like footsteps at night and kids treat life like a big adventure.

         When Anna was a little girl she would go into the forest and come back with interesting stories about a furry Sasquatch she played skipping with her or a sparkly fairy that thought her dancing. Not only she wrote and told stories of mythological creatures she also drew them with great detail. Her parents thought that when their daughter would grow up her wild and magical friends would disappear but her creativity grew even more. When Anna turned 12 and still believed in things most kids grow out of her parent forbid her to go to the forest. She hated them for it and still sneaked out to the forest to see her friends. When Anna turned 18 she moved out and even though she was no longer a child she still believed in cryptids. Her dream was to open a camp that she could invite children to learn about her life time friends. 

(Sorry about any spelling or grammar mistakes but english is not my first language and any critism and comments are appreciated)