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Chapter 1

The taxi pulled up to a street in Cospublic. The pamphlet said it was a big city but wow it is way bigger than the booklet said. Just looking at it and comparing it to Trapise is like comparing how fast a snail can run and how cast a cheetah can run. I walk around town trying to find a hotel. I see a bunch of restraunts and houses but not any hotels. With no luck I go sit down and pull out my phone.
“Excuse me but you dropped this.” Someone says.
“Huh?” I look up. The first thing I see is a guy with short dark brown hair. I look down at his had and realize i dropped my mini notebook. “Oh thanks, I didn’t realize I dropped this.” I say referring to my mini note book.
“It’s my pleasure.” He says smiling and I can see his white teeth. He opens his mouth to say something but there is a scream and metal hitting brick. “That’s coming from town square!” He says. I follow him to the center of town. I smell blood before I see it. There is a girl with the brightest blue hair i have ever seen. I look down and that she has a dagger sticking out of her leg. “MYST!” He yells running over to a girl who just got stabbed.
I start running over with him when I hear two little girls scream. I turn around and see two little girls with long black wavy hair being surrounded by three people who look like they are from the military. “Here take my bag! I have some supplies that might help her!” I throw him my bag then run in front of the two girls. “Leave them alone!” I say.
“Why don’t you go run home little girl and wait for us to come and get you.” The guy says his sword in hand.
“And why don’t you leave these girls alone.” I say getting frustrated and reaching down for my pole witch isn't there.
“Get out of our way!” The other guy says.
He swings his sword at me. He puts a good gash in my arm just above my elbow. “So that’s how you want to play.” I say kicking him in the gut.
One of them swings their sword at me I duck then come back up grabbing his arm and swinging him into the other guy. They both slam to the ground unconscious.
“Holy shit! Her hair just turned red!” The last guy says.
My vision gets brighter with anger. I kick him in the side. He doubles over in pain. With his free hand he swings his sword and cuts my shin. Furious I throw him against the wall and he slumps to the ground unconscious. I turn around.
“You two should head home. You will be safer there.” I tell them two little girls. They nod their eyes wide running off. When I turn around the last person I expected to run into was standing in front of me. Quin, he still had that evil smile on his face. The shaggy blond hair framing his face and his bright blue eyes looking around before focusing on me.
“Look what we have here.” The Quin says
“Quin? What are you doing here? Don’t tell me you are here to become the most powerful supernatural ever cause, well that will just be sad.” I say putting my hand on my hip.
“That’s exactly why I am here though. If I take enough magic then I will become the strongest person ever. Then I will rule the world.” He smiles then laughs the wickedest laugh.
I laugh. “That’s all you came for? So cheesy you sound like a horribly written story book. See you later.” I say. He is so stupid he talks as if he is still a five year old. The scary part is he always makes sense. I turn around and start walking away. I get about two steps when he hooks his foot around my feet and causes me to fall on my face. I spring up and face him.
“Don’t you ever get stronger? It seems that every time I see you, you are just as week as last time.” He says
I kick him in the knee cap causing him to fall. He winces, stands up and pulls out his sword. Instinctively I reach for my pole but it’s not there because I left it in the bag. He swings I duck, I didn’t expect him to come from the side so he ends up putting a good gash in my arm. He swings again I duck this time ready for the other blow ducking and kicking him in the shin. I can feel my head getting a little fuzzy from the blood loss.
He grins “Now that wasn’t very nice.” He says still grinning.
I stagger he takes that as a sign of weakness and strikes. I duck to slow and he slices my arm. I manage to get a few good hits in before I get too dizzy. He swings, I do a backflip out of the way, nope too slow he makes a nice gash in my leg. He manages to swipe me off my feet. When I hit the ground I pass out. Right before I pass out I see someone attack Quin.
When I regain consciousness the first thing I notice is all my wounds have been attended to. Oh shit how much blood did I lose? I am only slightly dizzy so either I lost a lot of blood or someone already fixed that for me. The next thing I notice as I stand up is that I am still in the area where I fought Quin.
“Finally your up I was starting to think you would be out for a while. You had lost a lot of blood so it would have made sense.” The person says voice full of concern and a little speck of happiness but then it was gone when he said.
I look around to see where the person is but I don’t see anyone. “Who are you?” I ask hoping to follow his voice so I can find him.
“I am over here.” He says like he knew I was going to be looking for him. His voice comes from the trees. I start walking over there to look for him when my foot hooks on a root that is arching above the ground. I start to fall and for some reason I turn around instead of trying to catch myself I was going to land on my back. Instead of landing on the ground I feel someone catch me. “I’m Taco.” The guy from before says right behind me.
Something at the back of my mind says the name sounds familiar so does the voice. I chalk it up to the actual food taco because I have no idea where we could have met before. “Thanks.” I say referring to catching me. I try to stand up but my ankle sends a searing hot pain of needles down my foot. I lose my balance trying to ease the pain. Taco grabs my elbow for support. “I think I sprained my ankle.” I say cringing, awesome I am still slightly dizzy and I sprained my ankle. He puts my arm around his neck and helps me walk to the town square where there are people tending to the wounded. Taco helps me walk to a bench.
“Stay right there I will be right back.” He say helping me sit then walking off. From the back I see his black hair cut just below the hair line so it sags a little. He has somewhat dark skin from being out in the sun to much it looks like. He comes back with someone trailing behind him.
He has more of a redish orange hair. He is carrying a first aid kit.The guy comes over and starts examining my foot. “Yep she is going to need a brace.” He says.
I groan. “Great just ****ing great.” I say frustrated. “How long?” I ask him.
AHE looks up at me and I see his dark blue eyes just staring at me. “A week, two at most depending what you do.” He says. Phew I thought it would be for like a month or something crazy like that. He gets up walks away and comes back with a thick brace. He straps it on my foot.
“You expect me to wear this for a week? Nope, not possible, never going to happen, absolutely not, no way.” I say. I didn’t expect him to come out with that there is no way that is staying on my foot.
“You have to. If you don’t then the injury will just get worse.” He says to me.
I look at Taco for support and nods telling me that I have to do it. “Ugh fine but only for a week no longer than that.” I tell him
“That should be long enough.” He says satisfied. He heads off to go help someone else.
The guy from earlier, the one who yelled Myst comes over and it occurs to me that my bags are still in the park. I ask them if they know where the hotel is they tell me where it is. We talk for a while then Taco offers to show me where the hotel is. I accept but tell him that I need to get my bags. We go to the park grab my bags then head to the hotel. We get there, I get a room, the lady gives me my room key. I say goodbye to Taco. I look at my card room 20. I head up to room 20. I put my bags down lay on the bed and slowly drift off to sleep. The next day there is a knock on my door. I get up and open it.
“Blue Crystal?” The guy from before who put the brace on my foot asks.
“That’s me why?” I ask him.
“I have come for your check up on your foot.” He says.
“Ugh fine, come in.” I let him in.
He spends the next five minutes examining my foot. “Well it looks like your foot is fine no need for this anymore.” He says taking off the brace. “You have made a miraculous recovery. Most people would still be in their brace.” He sighs. “Though you will still have to be careful. If you are too rough on your foot then you might dislocate it.” He says.
“Ok.” I say relieved that I don’t have to wear that stupid brace.
“I will be taking my leave.” He says.
He leaves. I get dressed for the day then head out. As I am walking through town I see the guy that helped my st out walking toward town square. I really need to catch his name once he throws it my way. I jog to catch up with him.
“Hey how’s Myst doing?” I ask him
“Oh she is doing great.” He says. “So how are you feeling?” he asks me.
“Oh I’m fine, where you headed?” I ask him.
“Oh I am helping repair the city.” He tells me.
“Can I help?” I ask him.
Someone walks up. “Hey guys!” Taco says. I recognize ize his voice imideantly.
“Hey Taco!” I say.
“Sup dude.” Jerry says.
“You helping repair?” I ask him.
“Hell yeah.” He says.
When we arrive there are people waiting for us. “Guys this is Blue.” Taco says. “This is Jerry,” He says pointing to the guy that helped Myst. “Myst,” He says pointing to the girl Jerry helped. “Emma,” The girl he points to is about the same height as Myst but she has Pink hair. “Doc,” He points to someone about the same height as him and same hair color but they have their differences. I also notice that he is the same guy that put that brace on my foot. “And of course me.” He finishes. “Ok now that introductions are out of the way let’s figure out jobs.” He scans everyone. “Emma & Doc you two work on the posts. Myst and Jerry you two work on the right half we got the left.” Everyone goes to a cart that is sitting over to the side full of supplies. There are two carts, one on the left and one on the right. He turns to me. “I hope it's ok I am working with you.” He asks his pricing bright blue eyes staring at me.
“Yeah it's fine.” I say heading over to the right side of the town center. “Ok we are going to need some bricks, Brick glue, a dagger, wood, nails, a hammer, and……” I stop and think. “Oh I will need paint.”
I turn to him and see him smiling. I pretend that I didn’t see him smiling. We both go and get supplies. We head back to out area and I deal with the brick walls. I take my dagger out cutting the bricks out and gluing in new bricks. Everyone finishes around the same time.
“The place looks good.” I say admiring our hard work.
“Yea, it looks amazing!” Doc says. “Hey who wants lunch?” He asks.
“I do I am starving.” Emma says.
“Yeah and we can thank Blue.” Jerry says.
“True, even though she didn’t do any work.” Doc teases.
I punch him but it doesn’t even phase him.
“See what I mean? She isn’t even strong.” He says.
I shove him. “You keep telling yourself that, then maybe one day it will come true.”
“Let’s go eat I am starving.” Taco says.
We all nod. We walk through the streets until we come to a building that says “Golden Café”

That's the first chapter of my book. Did I put too much detail or not enough? I have a hard time with details.

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