A chill ran Delila's back. Were was she? She wondered about, not really doing anything. She stumbled over some twigs, and when she looked at her cut hands, the blood was oozing out her palms. She was losing to much blood! Then she was drowning, in blood. She panicked, swimming upward. When she broke the surface, she heard a blood-boiling scream. It was her mother's.
Delila screamed, and woke with terror glazed in her eyes. She ran outside, to her back porch. In the starless night she saw a body, a lifeless body. Delila ran to the body to see it was her mother's. Delila's tears fell into her mother's blond hair. Her father came rushing outside, tears in his eyes, too. He put his hand on Delila's shoulder.
When Delila lifted her head she saw a note, written in her mother's blood. It read: "Near the end of the eighth month, the Constellation will be ready, and that signifies my return to earth. You will meet me at the Polar Cave. You will know where because the Polar star will be above it, and the Polar star is in the Constellation. There I will end this prophecy, once and for all."
Delila looked at her father and nodded. This meant a whole lot more training, but she would not let her mother die in vain. No Aset would pay for this. Delila spent the night by her mother, while her father sat on the porch looking into the stars.
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Delila looked at the ground as she walked, not really paying attention to what was going on around her. Then she ran into Samantha, who was also crying. "What's wrong, Sammie?" Delila asked wiping her tears.
"It turns out that my date last night was a prank. Some 11th grader name Derick did that, and Brady was in on it. I fell so embarrassed!" Sammie screamed, and leaned into Delila to cry some more.
"Its OK, Sammie. Don't cry, everything will be all right." But Delila's voice broke when she said that. Though she was relieved that Sammie did not notice. They walked together into a market place with lots of colors. They stumbled around not doing much when Delila got a call from her dad. "I got to go, Sammie, see you tomorrow!" And with that Delila was off.
"Hey, dad!" Delila called. She searched through the house to find he was not there. Delila's heart fluttered, and fear spread through her. She called again and again. Nothing. Then her phone beeped. It was a text message from her dad saying to meet her in the park. Delila sighed with relief. She walked to the park. When she arrived she saw her dad and raced off to see him.
"Now, Delila, do you know why I have brought you here?" He asked. Delila shook her head. "Well, I am about to bring you into a place of secrecy, a place where our ancestors have trained for centuries. It has been forgotten, except to those who live there, and the newest Stars and their mentors." He finished off with a smile on his face, as if her was remembering his own times.
Delila followed him into a forest. He then held out his palm, and a shimmering ten-point star appeared. He pressed to a tree with a drawn star carved into it. The tree glowed turquoise and a ten-point star appeared on the tree. A hole opened up and they stepped through. There was a large dome building, and many beautiful plants surrounded it. They walked around the building, and there was Delila's great grandmother, whom she thought to be dead.
