Chapter #4 Planning the Escape

I woke up from my sleep and saw the other kids picking up clay from the ground and molding it into bricks for the new dens. Molding a clump of clay into a brick I thought if maybe I could escape and go home. I tried to memorize a plan to escape. When It's evening, maybe I could escape and help the others too! But I have to see who I can trust........ I looked around and found a girl the same age as me. I got up from the hay stack and went over to talk to her. "Hi, my name is Blossom. What's your name?" I asked her curiously. "Oh hi, I'm Precious," She smiled talking to me. "How are you?" I added to the conversation. "Great and you?" Precious said while plowing the field. "Good," I lied. It was horrible! No food, no breaks, no water, nothing! "It's good to have someone to talk to. Nightshadow never lets us ta-" "Hey! Stop talking and get back to work! Those dens won't build themselves you know!" Nightshadow cut off. "We could whisper maybe," I suggested. "Good idea. I don't think he'll notice." she said quietly. "Have any of the animals ever thought of escaping?" I asked. "Yes, all of them have and I have too. It's so horrible here. We tried it in so many different ways! We tried to escape in breaks, at evening, when Nightshadow was eating his meals, even when the guards took a bathroom break!" Precious told me. Picking up a shovel I told Precious,"I have a great idea! What if all the animals and us dressed up in camouflage at evening when all the guards and Nightshadow were sleeping!" "That would be good but guards are on duty guarding each one of our tents.." Precious said. "We can go out through the back and sneak off!" I replied with excitement. "Great idea! I'll go and tell the others animals secretly!" she said as she went over to the other animals pretending that she was getting a shovel. "At least I planned my escape," I said to myself ,"and a new friend."

Chapter #3 Discovering the Kidnapper

The next thing I new was someone pulling off the black bag from my head. Staring around I wondered who would do such a horrible thing, kidnapping someone when they were picking berries. Then I heard footsteps coming my way. A wolf walked in front of me and said, " Hello, I'm Nightshadow. You must be wondering why we have taken you away from your home, we did this because we need people to work our new settlement." I looked at him confused and thought he was joking. "You're settlement?" I asked curiously. "Yes a settlement. I am the leader of a pack and we moved to a new area of land so we can make a home. We need people to start building the dens and plowing for the new farm." I looked at him again still in shock knowing that I might never be able to see my home again. Also that I would never see Liza. "So are you taking me as you're prisoner..?" I asked wondering if i could ever go back home. "Well.. yes I guess that is the right way to put it. After maybe ten years we will let you free again." Nightshadow said to me. I yelled, "ten years? What I can't be away from my home that long! Liza will be wondering were I am!" He stared at me for a while thinking of something. "Liza? You know Liza?" he asked. "Yes I have lived with here for 4 years since I was born!" I yelled even louder. "How can you speak so well? Plus we cannot let her find you! She is a shaman, she'll take you home and ban me from ever seeing Jamaa again!" "That's your problem not mine! I know how to speak so well cause a shaman taught me.. Anyways I'll be in the most populating places so she can find me!" I replied to the nasty wolf. "Lightshadow, Thunderrock, take this girl to the new settlement so she can start plowing the farm!" Nightshadow called out to the some warriors. "What you can't do that!" I said quickly. "Oh ya, watch me." He looked at me and then saw me being taken to the farm. The warriors threw me in a pile of dirt and said I had to start plowing the fields. I looked around and saw other hopeless kids just like me working on back breaking work. I joined in afraid that the warriors might punish me if I didn't do what I was told. After an hour of plowing the fields Nightshadow came and said we could take a one minute break but we would go and start working on the new homes for the clan. I felt so tired I could sleep anywhere. Then I found a huge pile of hay and fell into a deep sleep.

Chapter #2 Kidnapped at Dawn

When I heard the sound of my home-made alarm clock go off I knew it was time to go picking for our breakfast's berries. I dressed up, put my blue locket on, opened the door, and headed outside. Liza and I always had blueberry jam on bread for breakfast. We would make the whole breakfast ourselves. I was in charge of picking the blueberries and making the jam, and Liza was in charge of making the bread. Liza was still sleeping so I had to be quiet when I was picking the berries. I looked around the garden and found a new bush that I have never seen before. It was  filled with raspberries and roses. "What a interesting bush," I said to myself. Picking the raspberries and roses from the bush I heard a twig crack from the forest. "Hello..?" I called out waiting for an answer. I saw some gleaming blue eyes staring at me. Then I noticed something, the eyes looked so familiar! It was my mom, at least I thought it was. But my hopes faded away when I realised that parents must have already passed away. I went up closer and said hello again. No answer. Then the eyes quickly dashed across the woods and disappeared. "That's odd...." I quickly said. Then I heard another twig crack form the other side. I turned around, but it was too late. Someone had already put a black bag over my head.

Chapter #1 The Very Beginning

As any regular day for me, I woke wake up and saw my temporarily guardian, Liza the shaman.

I lived with her since the first day I was born. When I was born, my parents decided that they couldn't have enough gems to take care of me. So one night they wrapped me in a white blanket and left me out on Liza's welcome mat so she could take care of me. My mother put a blue heart locket around my necklace. Inside was a picture of her . She wanted to let me know that they will always love me no matter what. That morning when Liza went outside to feel the fresh air she saw me right in front of  her door. She picked me up and looked around for who left me there. Then she decided that she would take care of me until someone would adopt me. Looking at how small I was, she named me Blossom, the tiniest bud of the flowers. Now since every day for the past 4 years of my life she has taken care of me. Anyways after I woke up, I went downstairs ate breakfast ,and opened the door to play outside. I went on the swings and felt the gentle breeze across my face. Looking up at the sky I  wondered, would my parents ever come back to get me?