CWWC challenge #3

This has to be really quick. I used all nine prompts. GO TEAM HALF-BLOOD!

Alexis had been hiking with her friend Marshall when they came to a fork in the path.

On a tree was a sign that said 'Here be Ferries.' Alexis laughed out loud, "Look at that sign, Marshall! Isn't it hilarious?"

Marshall grinned. "Yeah," he said, "Whoever made it clearly doesn't know how to spell fairies. F-A-I-R-I-E-S."

They both burst out laughing. "How about we go and see the 'ferries'!" Alexis said.

She started walking down the path and Marshall followed.

"Woah! What's that!?" Marshall exclaimed.

Alexis looked in the direction he was pointing. "What's what?" She asked.

"That!"

Alexis squinted. "I don't see anything. Are you trying to trick me?"

"No! Why would I do that? Agh, come on. I'll show you what I mean." He grabbed her hand and started to pull her off the path.

Alexis started to protest, "I don't think we should go- Wow!" Her words were stopped by an enormous cavern on the side of a small cliff. It little sparkly stones made it glitter. "Are those-" 

"Diamonds? I think so! They don't look like that fools gold stuff."

"How did I not see this?" Alexis whispered. Then something caught her eye. "Is it glowing down there?" She asked Marshall. She turned around. "Marshall?! Where are you? This isn't funny!" She started to bite her nails. "Marshall! Stop playing pranks please!" She started to panic. Where could he be!? She thought. Oh, what am I going to do? "Marshall Alexander Gretchen! You come out here right now!" She yelled. 

Did he go farther into the cave without me? She wondered. "I'm coming down there, Marshall!" Her voice echoed off the shiny walls. As she trudged the wall's crystals disappeared, and soon it was pitch black. She walked towards the odd glow, and in no time at all new why it was glowing. Her breath caught in her throat. Little blue butterflies were flying everywhere. They seemed to be stars against the now black cave. Several started to flutter around her head, but the closer she looked, the lesser they looked like butterflies. "Are you . . . , fairies?" She asked one of them. It flew up to her cheek and kissed her, and then it nodded. Several of the fairies chirping at her and flying behind her. "Go further?" Alexis asked. They all nodded. "O-Okay," she stammered and continued walking. 

Suddenly, a fairy squealed as loud and clear as day. Alexis covered her ears to block the shrill sound. "What is it?" She said over the loudness. The fairy stopped its ruckus and flew over to Alexis's ear. "Imagine there are magical worlds through mirrors guarded by ferrymen. Beware of your friend. He holds danger. And watch out for the stairs."

"Wait, what stairs? What's going on? What do you mean Marshall holds danger? Do you know where he is?" But the fairy had already flown away. "Ugh, thanks a lot." Alexis mumbled. She continued walking. She walked. And walked. And walked. "Will this ever end!?" Alexis said to no one in particular. Her voice echoed through the cavern. "I can't even see!" Well, her walking ended, but then she wished it hadn't. A faint light from somewhere above lit up a never ending staircase. Alexis went wide-eyed and muttered to herself, "I wish I had never wished for walking to end, because now I get climbing." She sighed, "I better start."

While she climbed she tried to count the stairs, but she gave up at step 1041. Her leg muscles burned, and her breathing became labored. She looked at the passing stairs as she moved along. All of a sudden, the stairs stopped. For some reason her feet expected to find more stairs, making her move forward. Alexis looked up just in time to bump into something. "Ow," she rubbed her nose softly and her eyes focused on a very intricately designed mirror. Its  glass looked more like ice than glass. In fact, when she reached out to touch it, she found that it was indeed glass. When she ran her finger over it she found that her fingertips sank into it. "Huh, " she muttered. She put a bit more pressure on her hands and they completely sank in. She gasped. She walked forward a bit and was sucked into the vortex.

She tried to scream, but no sound came out. She couldn't breathe, and she felt like thousands of pounds of ice had fallen onto her. She squeezed her eyes shut hoping that when she opened them the nightmare would be over. Abruptly, the air rushed into her lungs, making her gasp. Her eyes shot open, and the scream her vocal chords had been looking for came out. She was free falling straight from the sky, and the ground was hundreds of feet below her. As it grew nearer she shut her eyes closed again and couldn't help imagining her lifeless body surrounded slowly melting ice. No, don't think like that! Her head screamed, which was kind of hard since that was about to happen. No  Alexis! Die bravely! So much for self advice. 

When she was 10 feet above the very hard ground, something took hold of her shirt and propelled her back into the sky. Alexis opened one eye, surprised to see the ground becoming farther away rather than closer. Am I flying? No. I must be dead already. My spirit must be floating up. But how come I don't see my body on the ground? She squirmed in the air and was finally able to see what was lifting her. A short squeal left her mouth, "Dragon!" It's enormous silver wings push air down, making her hair flutter everywhere. Very sharp talons gripped around her body. She felt like the fish prey of a hungry eagle. She took deep breaths and tried to steady her breathing. 

The dragon in all its silver glory flew to an old wooden bridge and sent Alexis sprawling on it. She sat up and spit wood splinters out of her mouth. "Thanks a lot!" She said angrily to the big beast sitting in front of her. It's enormous, cartoon-like, brown eyes seemed to bore into her very soul. It's scales shimmered, making it look like it was swimming in rainbows. It sat there for a little while longer, and then it flew off.

Alexis stared at the slowly disappearing speck in awe and surprise. "Uh, ok. What just happened? I have to be dreaming." She pinched her arm. "Ow!" She yelped. "Ok, so I'm not dreaming. What do I do now?" She new she was supposed to be looking for someone or something, but she couldn't quite grasp it. "Marshall!" She said, surprising herself after several minutes of severe thinking. She rubbed her forehead where a headache was starting to form. "Where could Marshall be?"

"You found it!" Someone said behind her. 

Alexis screamed and clutched her chest to face Marshall's grinning face. "Marshall!" She scolded, "Don't just sneak up on me like that!"

He just grinned wider, "Sorry." He sure didn't sound like it though. "Come on! I found something!" 

"What more is there to see?" Alexis grumbled, "I saw everything from a very scary birds eye view." 

Marshall laughed. "I saw. That's why that dragon went to get you. I sent it."

"So . . . You knew this place was here?" Alexis asked, confused.

"Hard climb wasn't it, huh?"

Alexis scowled. "You could've just come with me, and maybe I wouldn't have nearly died several times."

Marshall just shrugged and repeated, "I want to show you something."

"Fine!" Alexis threw up her hands, as if surrendering. Marshall smiled and grabbed her hand, tugging her off the bridge. "Where are we going?" Alexis asked after a few minutes of walking.

"It's a surprise." He wiggled his eyebrows.

"Please don't do that! It's creepy!" The motion reminded her of what the fairy had told her. She shook off that feeling of dread trickling down her spine. He would never betray her, let alone, hurt her!

He led her to a blue bush and pulled out a small brown box. "Open it, " he said.

"Um, OK," she took the box and pried it open with her fingernails. She gasped as dark mist floated up. She accidentally inhaled some and coughed. It tasted like smoke. She blinked it out of her eyes. Her eyelids seemed became heavy. She collapsed onto the ground.

Marshall stood over her. He was grinning maliciously. "They will be so proud of me. I have captured a Wanted at last."

He said more, but Alexis had gone unconscious.

She dreamt of horrible things. Wolves chased her. People died. Some were things she wished she could forget, but she couldn't. People were lost, rejected, and harassed. They were chased by unworldly beasts, and they were tortured.

Her eyes opened slowly. Everything was blurry, and she felt like she had a wet sandbag on her shoulders. Her wrists were bound to a tall wooden post. "Marshall?!" She called. She called out his name again and again. Hoping he would hear. Hoping he would care. She let her tears fall. "So this is what betrayal is," she whispered to herself.

She needed a hero. But who? Who could save her now? It dawned on her. She needed to be her own hero

"Paige?" Paige looked up from her desk. Her classroom was empty except for her teacher. "Paige, your detention is over. Is your paper done?" Paige nodded, stood up, left her story on her desk, and left quietly.

Sorry it's so long!

BIBPC, last challenge

OK, sooo, I'm officially the worst blogger ever. This is the first picture I'm posting for BIBPC, and I'm doing it for the last challenge! Oh well. I am awful at remembering certain things, soooo, yeah. The category is Photo Edits. Here is the original.

I'm pretty sure this is the unedited one. Here is the edited one.

Isn't beautiful? Megan must be so proud! I hope you enjoyed! I'll probably have my next CWWC story by tonight. Bye y'all!

CWWC challenge #2

Yay! Next story! Sooooo, this one is a bit confusing, but I tried to edit it to make it a little less confusing. It's probably not my best work. Here  it is! I used all three prompts.

I have a hard life. My dad was killed in a car wreck, I was practically failing middle school, and my mom hates me.

Ding ding dong!!!! "I'll get it!" I yelled. I stomped down the stairs to our front hall and opened the door. No one. I steeped out of the house and looked around outside for a sign of laughing and running kids. Nothing. I trudged back to the door grumpily. People were constantly ding dong ditching us, and it was starting to get annoying. Apparently it was the thing. I didn't  even know why I kept answering the door now days!

When I got to the door frame I tripped over something that was definitely not there 5 minutes ago. After I scrambled to my feet I looked at the foreign object that just so happened to be there. It was a box. Big surprise! I studied it closer. In dry eraser marker it said BAD MEMORIES! DO NOT OPEN! 

"Whatever," I muttered, "This is probably another one of their pranks." But my curiosity got the best of me. I lugged the surprisingly heavy box to my bedroom. I started to pull at the tape with my fingernails, but whoever packaged the box put way to many layers of tape.

I sauntered back down to the kitchen and got a very sharp knife from a drawer. "Knife time," I murmured. I walked back up the stairs.

When I got back to my room, I started to have second doubts. "Stop being silly!" I scowled at myself. "It's just a prank." 

I stabbed right in the center of the tape and sliced off all the layers. A sharp wind made me fly back against the wall. I groaned as I sat up. "What in the wor-" I started to say, but something made me stop.

From the now open box came a rush of stars and little planets. They circled around me, making feel like I was in my own little universe. "Woah," I whispered.

But then the planets and stars began to change. They formed little pictures and words. The biggest sentence among them was SHE NEEDED A HERO, SO SHE BECAME HER OWN.  The words swirled around me, and everything went dark.

I dreamt of a girl sitting in a classroom. It was filled with kids, but she looked like the oldest. Suddenly they all turned to mist and were rushed away. Then the girl stood up so abruptly it startled me. Don't run! She said, but the words sounded like was trying to speak underwater. Don't run! She repeated, Fight.

What?! I asked. The image faded, and I appeared on a tall rocky cliff. I stood on the very edge and nearly lost my balance and fell, but before I could, a strong arm pulled me up. It was the girl. Our eyes met. Her eyes were like none others. They were like all the constellations combined. Miniature moons shone, and the background was the darkest shade of blue you could ever imagine.

I needed a hero, but I couldn't find one. So I became my own. I saved myself. Everything around me melted into oblivion and my eyes shot open. The box was still there, and the stars remained. I then realized the purpose of everything. I had to become my own hero. And so I did.

This is a bit shorter than the last one. I hope you enjoyed!

CWWC challenge #1

Yup! That's right! It's CWWC time! I didn't have a blog last time I did CWWC, so, here is your amazing chance to read my awesome stories! GO TEAM HALF-BLOOD! I used all three prompts.

I looked at the clock. Ten more seconds. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Riiiiiiiiiiiing! I leaped out of my chair and stuffed everything in my backpack as fast as I could. I ran the entire way home, flung my backpack in a chair, ran up the stairs, and slammed my bedroom door shut behind me. I steadied my breathing from my run and turned on my fan to keep me cool. Then I slowly walked to my mirror.

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show me the land behind it all," I muttered. I brushed my hand across the glass, but instead of a smooth glassy surface, the mirror rippled like water. My reflection blurred and fogged, and the mirror no longer showed me my appearance.

In front of me I saw a captivating world. There were rushing water falls and beautiful trees that you could never imagine. Mist rose up from the ground and in the middle of it all was a bridge. On the bridge sat a girl reading a book. And beside her sat a beautiful dragon. It had luminescent silver scales. Whenever it moved it shimmered to a aesthetic blue-green color. It had long swirly spikes coming of of it. And it's eyes. It's eyes were the most beautiful thing in the world. You couldn't tell their color. They seemed to change every time you looked away, but it had such sweet softness in them.

I wanted ever so much to just reach my hand and touch this creature. I wanted to feel it's icy smooth scales again. Why had they made me leave that wonderful world filled with magic and dreams? I would never be able to go back. No! I will go back! I thought, I will see my dragon again. 

I made up my mind. I slowly and carefully reached my hand out. I touched the rippling glass and the tips of my fingers seemed to melt against the surface. I continued to reach further in. The cool liquid in the mirror surrounded my arm, making me shiver. The liquid reached my shoulder, and I stepped into the abyss.

I was immersed in ice, frozen in time. I couldn't breathe or feel anything. The sensation passed, and I collapsed on to the ground. At first I had no feeling, but soon I regained my consciousness. I lifted my head wearily and gazed intently at the slowly melting ice surrounding me.

I sat up and propped myself up against a tree. I was here. I was home, but something was missing. I stood up abruptly. The Ferrymen. They would feel my presence soon. I would have to leave. But first, I was going to see my dragon. I didn't care that I had been banished. I had to see my dragon. I ran. 

I had no ida how long I had been running, but finally I reached a familiar clearing. In front of me was that bridge. The bridge I had sat on with my dragon every day. The bridge I had read to her on. When I had been banished I had thought I had heard her whisper, "I will wait Natasha. I will wait faithfully waiting for your return. I will stay on our bridge, forever waiting."

I looked at the withering bridge covered in vines and roses. It's decaying wood was just as gray and withered as it had been. but something was missing. My dragon wasn't there. I fell to my knees, and blinked back my icy tears. My dragon was gone. They had taken her. And I would never see her again. Ever.  

I hope you enjoyed!

Oops, and randomness

Allright, y'all! I am absolutely the worst blogger in the world. When did I last post? Maybe, I don't know, Three weeks ago? Ug. I am the worst.

Sooo, here is me just standing at the beach. Why am I not wearing a swimsuit? The water was as cold as the arctic. It was, like, 60 degrees.

This is a cartoon character I made up. He's a dog bone. I haven't named him yet. Put in the comments on what I should name him!

Guys, this is a squid made of gingerbread. Isn't it amazing? I literally freaked out when I saw it. And I didn't make it, mind you.

Preeeetty. This picture was taken in 2012. I was, I think, 7 or 8. Peacocks aren't as awesome as owls#annabethchase#athena#heroesofolympus#percyjacksonandtheolympians.

Here is some music I think y'all should totally look up.

1. Mascara-Megan Nicole

2. Drag Me Down-Cover, Kurt Hugo Schnieder

3. Take Flight- Lindsey Stirling

4. Safe With Me-Megan Nicole

5. Maps-Maroon Five

6. Escape-Megan Nicole

7. Stand by You-Rachel Platten

Enjoy this awesome music!

I hope y'all enjoyed this little post. I promise I'll post more often. I have to go clean my room and get ready for gymnastics. Danielle in and out.

Sorry, and Updates

I'm am very sorry for the long absence. I have been very busy. Anyways, now that I have said the unwilled, onto the updates! Sup ya'll! I have had a large amount of happenings in the past few weeks. Let me see, I'll start with the exciting news first. We got pet parakeets! They're both boys (We think, according to my older brother they're since he already had a pet parakeet named Orvenia. Don't ask. He had a weird assortment of names. It was originally Orve, but then he studied her more closely and found out that she was a girl. She died when he was 14. So two years later we have decided to get two parakeets) We hope they're both boys, or else we'll end up with eggs to take care of too. We're still training them, but they're feeding from our hands and have gotten on my brothers hand, so that's good progress.

  II am really obsessed with Megan Nicole (you need to check her out! NOW!). I love her songs Escape, Flashlight(cover), and her love song mashup. Awesome!
  That's all for today! Bye ya'll!

BIBPC entry #5 and #6

Wussup home slice! Jk. Hi ya'll! Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been really busy. (having lived in the south for my whole life and never leaving once, please expect the ya'll at the beginning of most of my posts.) Ok, so here my entries for category #5 and #6. Hopefully Megan will add the points for #5 :/. 

 

The first one is for #5 and the second one is for #6.

Smiles!

-Danielle

P.S. Don't worry. I will be posting other stuff soon.