Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:52:53 -0600
From: Jaedite <jaedite@gmail.com>
Subject: Shattered Destiny, The Chosen Saga, Ch. 1 "Freshman Dreams"

Shattered Destiny

A Chosen Story

Disclaimer:  Characters are the property of Batman_Hater, the world and
Centennial are specifically his creation; any resemblance between the
characters and any real life person is completely coincidental.  Please do not
copy or distribute the story without the author's permission.  This story
takes place in the same timeline as The Chosen.

Chapter Two: Feathers

     I wake up from a dreamless slumber, wait!  I didn't have the strange
dream about the black armored or white armored warriors.  Thanks for that, but
I still have school and as I am always waking up late.  I look at the clock on
the wall, it says 6:42am, and I guess I didn't even wake up late today.  If I
can just make it through the day without any visions, flashbacks, or whatever
those were yesterday, I will be fine.

     Starting the shower, I begin singing some song from the radio as the hot
water runs through my hair, down my chest, and drips off me.  I hear the faint
sound of my cell phone sounding off an alarm, telling me that I had to get out
of the shower and get ready for school.  There was no way I was planning on
power walking to the bus stop again and miss the huge breakfast mom would
make.

     "Jared's in the shower," I hear my little brother tell mom, they begin
speaking a little quieter and I can't make out what those two were talking
about.  I notice it is only a couple days until my birthday and knowing my
family there is bound to be some plans in the works, even though every year I
get annoyed with them because they tend to take it too far.  I can settle for
a cake, they want to have a party...  The money's cool though.

     As I enter the kitchen I notice that my brother is already stuffing his
face with mom's bacon omelets and hash browns, I sit at the table get three
strips of bacon, two tablespoons of scrambled eggs, and a couple of slices of
strawberry jam covered toast and begin digging in.

     "Jared, you worried me yesterday, I thought you were sick, but I guess it
was a 24 hour bug?!"  Mom says to me as she looks at me strangely for just a
couple of moments before taking a bite of her butter covered blueberry bagel.

     "I'm fine mom, I just had a long day yesterday, school wasn't as
uneventful as I wanted it to be," I reply between bites of toast and bacon.
"I hope today will be uneventful, but..."  I notice it's time for me to go to
the bus, "I gotta go to the bus stop, love ya mom, later lil bro," I say as I
get up from the table, plate already scraped clean, and head out the door.

     "Don't forget today's Tuesday Jared!" My bro yells after me.  I never
forget that Tuesday is the day we go to the Pizza Inn after school because mom
worked late.  I don't respond, but I do make it to the bus stop on time and
the bus is just turning the corner.

     As the bus pulls up, I get on and take the seat in the fourth row on
right side so I could look out the window.  I notice as we ride there is no
one on the left sided seat.  I take out my Zune and begin scrolling through my
playlist until I find the Anime Mastermix.  Yeah I made it myself.  And then...
I see darkness coming at me from all sides.

     A woman clad in white and gold appears in front of me, the light almost
blinding as my eyes had already gotten used to the darkness.  The woman seemed
to have an outline of huge beautiful wings, but they were not of her, they
were surrounding her, almost like a protective shell, or a rose about to
bloom.  She stared at me with her glowing eyes and smiled.  She said nothing,
just looked for a while and smiled again.  She pointed to her left and I
looked and was amazed.

     To our left was the world, the Earth, spinning in space, as she pointed,
we moved even closer to the land.  A very interesting thing I noticed as we
appeared closer to the ground, nothing was as it is now, there was no
pollution, the land was covered in forests, deserts, and natural beauty, not
the skyscrapers, dark clouds of pollution, and billions of people crowding the
planet.  It was amazing, as if I had been sent back to the past.

     I look towards the glowing angelic presence and notice a look of sadness
on her face as we speed away from the Earth again, towards the reddish planet
which held an ancient looking colony upon it.  Then a pair of eyes appears
over the colony, and seconds later, nothing, but debris...  The angelic presence
pulls us closer to see one building remaining, and a small figure of someone
or something standing holding a long staff pointed into the air.  As we came
closer I noticed it looked like me, a little older, but me.  I look to the
heavenly being in front of me, who smiles and vanishes pulling me back to the
bus.

     I gasp, and the people on the seat in front of me and behind me stop
talking and look at me with surprise, then go back to their conversations.  I
look to the left and see Kevin and Chad sitting across from me.  I glance in
their direction and notice a crown on Chad's head, I glance back and it's
gone.  How strange?!  Both of them are laughing and grinning the whole rest of
the ride.

     The bus stops at the school and we all get off, I go straight to my
locker and begin getting my books for first period.

     "Jared, you ready for the grueling practice coach has in store for us
today?"  Kevin says as he seemingly appears behind me.

     "Na, I wasn't even thinking of practice yet, I'm still thinking about
second period English," I reply to him as I finally get the last book I needed
for class, "It was nice chattin but I don't wanna be late," I say as I begin
walking towards my math class, which went by uneventful.  Then it was on to
Second Period English.

      Once I get to class I notice that Chad's already there and as soon as
Kevin enters he beelines it straight towards Chad.  As he approaches Chad he
looks at his watch and points showing Chad something, who looks wide eyed and
laughs as the bell rung at that moment.  Ms. Routh walked in at that precise
moment and smiled to the class.

     "Today class, we are going to read The Once and Future King.  Does anyone
know what the books about?"
     One hand shoots straight in the air, "Yes?" Ms. Routh says as she sends
the Chad a smile, "You know what the book's about, tell us?"

     He looks like he's about to do something or make a smart remark, but
Kevin pipes up, "Camelot and the legend of Merlin and King Arthur."  Chad
glares at him and starts writing something in his notebook.

     "That's right!" Ms. Routh says a she begins her lecture and tells us to
read the first 3 chapters for tomorrow's discussion.

     But for some strange reason, things were not what they seemed, and this
was only the beginning.  I only realized this because I fell into a dream
again, waking dreams...  I could still see and hear Ms. Routh as she told us
about Arthurian Legends.  But what I was living was...

     The Celestia Palace on the moon was very beautiful, there was a woman
holding a royal scepter and a royal dress with the a diamond seal, her face
shrouded in darkness but a very strange thing was happening above him, the
surface was covered in a darkness which was unlike any other.  Two eyes
appeared above it and it seemed to blink and the palace began to quake and
chunks of the beautiful crystalline metals began to break into pieces.  The
woman calmly lifts up her scepter and sends a blast of pure holy light between
the two eyes which shuddered from the blast.  An eye turns read and dark
energy falls towards the woman who is hit and she fades into nothingness along
with the palace on the moon...

     A moment later I was somewhere else, I couldn't tell where I was except
that there was a disc hovering above a volcano.  A woman, who looked similar
to the last, yet younger, was standing there, her clouded face looking towards
the skies, yet again I see those two menacing eyes glaring down upon the disc.
The woman had a red circlet in her hair and held a wand with a ruby on the
tip; the bottom had a garnet on it.  She was twirling it like a baton and
flames were twirling towards the eyes.  But just as I saw before, a dark wave
slammed into this woman and she vanished, the disc and volcano shared her
fate, along with everyone else on this world...

     The heavenly being appeared before me and spoke for the first time, "You
are to find these two women, who are important to the Chosen," she didn't
explain who or what the Chosen were, but eight images appeared, four same
guys, each guy in black armor and also in white armor.  "To win the true
battle, you must help them, never show yourself until the women are awakened
though, it is important."

     The being smiled at me and told me, "One who is always at odds, and one
who was there for the beginning.  This is how you will know the two women who
must be awakened.  There is someone contacting you, answer him, he will help
you, but do not interfere with is duty.  You will not truly awaken until the
Chosen do...  It is a safeguard, for only the Champion of Magic can counter your
power..."

     And that is when I worried, counter?  Not augment?  But the presence had
already left me and I found myself in the hallway at my locker pulling out the
next subject books I needed.  The rest of the day passes by without any more
visions, when I get out of soccer practice, I notice a feather attached to my
backpack.

~Remember my words Jared~


      JARED --
      PLEASE REPLY
      -- N. R.

      This was the email I saw when I opened it.  I send a reply and moments
later, a man appears facing me from my body mirror on my wall.  Shocked, I
look at the mirror again and see my own reflection, then comes the knock on my
window.  I get off the bed and walk towards the window seeing an outline of a
man, I pull back the curtains, lift the blinds, and open the window...