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I have an idea that a girl moves to an apartment and in the basment she finds a dragon, named Athena, who was kidnaped and she has to return her home! XD

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((ME??!!?!?!?! Um....))

((I'll try, but I dont have much more time, but i'll write some tmorrow..))

((Here goes....)) Samantha got stiffly out of their family’s blue station wagon, stretching her legs after the long trip. She looked up at what was now going to be her new home. It was an apartment building and looked, she though, like it had defiantly seen better days. Grabbing her backpack, she followed her mother and father to the door, through the lobby, and up to their new living quarters. To be frank, it looked wore than the outside of the building; the beds looked especially hard and thin, the window was cracked and dust covered everything.
Samantha sat down on her small, firm bed an hour later after they had unpacked everything. Suddenly she felt a pricking in the corner of her eyes. She gripped her pillow and told herself as firmly as she could, You’re strong. You can handle this.
She went to bed, her head swimming with thoughts of despair. Why, of why did they have to move?

The moonlight seeped through the window, making her hair appear silver when it reality it was a very dark brown. Some people called it black. Samantha turned in her sleep, unaware of the adventurers the next week would bring.

They had moved at the end of the school year. She's be going into her Sophomore year at this new school at the end of summer.
Today, she had to do all her laundry that she hadn't washed since she moved here. At least it would give her something to do. Her mom, Lillith, had explained to her that the laundry was part of their rent in the apartment and all the machienes were in the basement. So she piled her whole wardrobe into the basket and squashed it down. Preparing for a dull afternoon in the basememt of the new apartment building.

((Ooooohh Lillith I like that name! Where'd you get it? I g2g now, bye DE!!!!))

Samantha walked down the stirs with her hamper looking for the laundry room, it was right underneath the stairs. She found the light switch and got her first look at the room, where an exciting adventure awaited her.

She selected the pink machine for her wash today, it was lined up on one side of the room with four other washers/dryers.

She dumped her first load into the wash tub along with the cleaning liquid and as it foamed and spun, she took out her book of Dragons...

(I just came up with it, cause I wasn't about to use a k name!)
It was a kids book really, not some modern baby book about smiling cartoonified dinosaurs, but an old book that she had always loved that had good drawings and underneath each drawing was a name. At the back it had some kids stories about dragon's society. It was kind of dark, and the dragons were proud and not the nicest creatures around, but they were in charge of the magical world. They were the court that judged all the major happenings that went on in that relm.
Maybe it was a little too creepy for a kids book, but it wasn't an adult book ether, she'd always loved it though, ever since her grandmother had found it in a box and given it to her when she was 8.

Samantha flipped through the Dragon Book, looking at her favorite pictures and reding some of her favorite qoutes.

She, as can be guessed, knew all of them by name. There was DragonLord, the biggest of all dragons and DragonClaw, the bravest of them...then there were little dragons and baby dragons and wise dragons and cruel dragons and even some evil ones. Oh! how she loved the book, she told herself and bored in the laundry room with her favourite book in her hand she wished she was magical or something magical would happen to her....

Suddenly there was a huge clunk as the washing machene changed to the spin cycle. She jumped, suprised by the noise and looked up from her book. Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open as she saw what had been startled out from behind the noisey machiene. It looked at her intently, or rather it looked at the book in her hands. "Where did you get that, human?" The voice was low, almost a growl, but definately feminine.

Samantha was surprised to see the dragon queen, she had violet eyes and violet hair, she wore a crown with a single violet coloured stone set in the middle and her robe was made of gold with violet trimming on it. The queen was saying something to Samantha and she couldn't hear a word as she felt dizzy and light headed seeing this apparition before her in a boring laundry room...

((Janeen hope you are better so you could post heehee, i'm going crazy wanting to post ))

((You can post!!!!!!!))

She stared at the strange person, confused and bewildered.

She said to Samantha, "Your job is to protect Athena from the evil of the world, and eventually send her home where she belongs." Before the girl could protest, or even wonder what was going on, the woman--no, girl, she looked not a year over fifteen--snatched Samantha's dragon book and vanished into thin air with a little pop!

((YAY!!))


"No wait, who's Athena?" she called out, into thin air it seemed as the violet person just disappeared as if she was never there. Samantha was totally disoriented, started to cry as she had just lost her favourite book, it had been a treasured possession from her childhood and she couldn't bear to be parted from it.

There was another pop!

((yippe!))

She stared around, had the girl returned? But no. It was only...a slip of paper? She picked up the paper. It read,

Who is Athena, you ask? She is the beginning of all your adventuers. P.S. Don't worry, I'll return your book.

~Holly

Was Holly the girl she'd seen?

yes she seemed to be...cos she knew about the book, i mean who would, since she took it... so thinking Samantha felt better. She didn't know what the adventure would be but she sure felt like a nice big one right about now....mmmmm! And she gathered all the clothes from the first wash, she still had the rest of the hamper to finish. She started the second wash cycle and decided to head off for a walk out in the sunshine, maybe a tall soda...

When she went back down into the basement later to put everything in the dryer, she noticed something wasn't right. Everything was in the right places and nothing had changed, but it seemed almost like everything was tlted sideways.
Samantha shook her head and tried to get rid of the feeling. Quickly she put her clothes in the dryer and started it. She hurried towards the stairs, but something made her stop just as her foot landed on the first step. She turned around. This feeling was just as odd as the room ffelt, but it was different. There was someone in the room with her.

((why was it tilted?))

((oooooooooooooooooo!))

She came back into the room, a little bit scared. She could hear her heart beating start to thump _Thunmp-THump..

The room seemed to have a haze in it now, like someone was blowing a mist for special effects. She could almost feel the presence, not quite human, but she couldn't make out what it could be. Strangely she felt no fear of the stranger in the room.

((Not tilted, as in everything was sideways, her perception of things was wrong, she wasn't seeing them like she normally would.))

The stranger stepped forward in the light, it was a beautiful teenage girl with long silver blonde hair and bright purple eyes. She smiled with her pink mouth and spoke inside Samantha's head in a silvery smooth voice, "!!!!!Athena!!!!!!help me!!!!!!"

((????????????????????))

AS suddenly as she had come, she vanished in a puff of green fog.

((I'm confused))

((yeah me too, ))

((wow the last post was LAST YEAR OMG!))

((This stor y died.))

(what was it about?))

((A girl who meets a dragon in her basement.))

((aha i remember something about it))

((since i:m bored i might be able to do something.))
Suddenly there was a huge clunk as the washing machene changed to the spin cycle. She jumped, suprised by the noise. wow, had she just fallen asleep? what a wierd dream. she jumped down off the machiene she had been sitting on and waited for the spin cycle to finish so she could put her clothes in the dryer. then after starting another load (she:d had a lot of laundry) she went back upstairs to their apartment. she walked in and dropped her book on the floor in shock. The girl from her dream was sitting on the couch talking to her mom!
"oh sammy there you are! this is Athena she:s our downstairs neighbor and decided to come up here to meet you bacause you]re the same age! Oh my gosh! I:m gonna be late for my job interview!" Lillith darted into their kitchen and went racing past clutching a paper filled file and her purse, trying to pull on her shoes at the same time. "you girls have fun! I:m off!" with a slammed door she was gone.

Athena locked eyes with Samantha, and her mouth lifted upward ever so slightly. "That's not really why I'm here, you know. I just look young."
"I...I thought you were a dream!"
She scoffed. "Dream? Certainly not. Come, sit." She patted the sofa.

((i have absolutely no clue so here goes...))

I:d rather stand."
The girl smirked again. "Have it your own way, but you should learn to trust me. We may be together for quite some time." she raised her eyebrows ever so slightly, questioning, eager for Samantha:s reply.
"uh, right. So about that, how about you explain and then I:ll decide wether i go along with this whole thing." The truth was that she had no real idea what she was saying, her mind was in such a whirl of `what is this?!`

AThena was pleased with the effect she was having on the poor young grl, she had been doing so much laundry Athena had decided to come up t her room and get a background on her.

"So...have you chosen?" she raised an eyebrow at the girl

"chosen what! I have no idea what you are talking about!"
The pale, blond girl smirked again. she said in an offhanded way, "you know human faces are so mobile, my own face could never move this much before we relied more on other forms of comunication than facial expression."
Samantha was getting her head back on her shoulders. "OK, explain what is going on and who you are and what i:m supposed to be choosing i can:t give you any answers untli i know what you are asking."
Athena nodded, thinking the girl my not be completely useless, she was able to keep mostly calm. "Very well. As you know my name is Athena. I am a dragon.

Samantha said, "Dragon" she felt her body going jelly and she sat down heavily on a nearby chair, unluckily it was a rocking chair and tpped back violently. Samantha shrieked, "gahhhh..." but soon recovered her composure, "you mean like real dragon, like in my book that i read over and over..." she looked at her book in amazement and back at the girl's face , she had a feeling she was being fooled mightily.

Athena sat rock still for a long moment , all this emotion in Samantha was new to her like she had explained before. Dragons rarely used expressions, they knew no fear or any other human emotion. She watched the girl, not sure if she could trust her with her secret.

Samantha said, "Dragon" she felt her body going jelly and she sat down heavily on a nearby chair, unluckily it was a rocking chair and tpped back violently. Samantha shrieked, "gahhhh..." but soon recovered her composure, "you mean like real dragon, like in my book that i read over and over..." she looked at her book in amazement and back at the girl's face , she had a feeling she was being fooled mightily.

Athena sat rock still for a long moment , all this emotion in Samantha was new to her like she had explained before. Dragons rarely used expressions, they knew no fear or any other human emotion. She watched the girl, not sure if she could trust her with her secret.

((i didn:t really mean they don:t have feelings, just that they don]t express them, I mean can you imagine a lizard trying to raise it]s eyebrows inquiringly?))

"Yes, the same as in your book. If you truely have read it as throughly as you said you would have noticed that all the aristocracy and infants have violet irises. Have you expierenced a human before with eyes of this shade?" Athena gestured toward her own eyes. Samantha shook her head vigorously. Athena decided that this human was not as she had been led to believe, and would not tell her everything.
"I have been given a task in the world of humans. I am a dragon and therefore cannot stay in this world without being hosted by a resident of this world. That is your task. Hosting involves keeping me informed on rules and regulations of this place, as well as providing food and drink and protection for this frail human form I am currently in. For as long as I am in this world I cannot change back into my real form."
Samantha was still suprised and feeling a bit overwelmed both by what Athena was saying and by the way in which she said it, it was as if she was talking to a Victorian era Lady. "Wh...wait, don:t you have like powerful dragon magic to protect yourself with? With that how would I protect you better than you can yourself?"
Athena looked as if she was loosing patience. This girl was quite ignorant. "It is true that dragons have great magic, but while those abilities we do have cannot be mirrored by any other being of magic, our control is limited. Similar to what I explained moments ago about facial expresions. We do not have the ability to do simple spells that any common mage can accomplish because we simply are not ment to do so. That is where your responsibility lies. As a human you can control my magic in ways that I can not hope to."

Samantha said, "ummm...are you saying you are my genie and if i rub your lam lamp you will do as i say?" at which AThena merely stared at her her violet irises contracting and dilating giving her an even stranger and other dimensional look than before. If you looked at her closely she was quite different from humans but you would never see that if you just happened to glance at her. She had a really striking appearance and would be considered pretty even in Samantha's dull high school. Samantha grew concerned she had maybe said the wrong thing to the dragon before her..."I'm sorry are ou ok?" she asked Athena.

The dragon slowly seemed to relax and said, "I do not understand you human girl, a mortal and quite weak to me. But unfortunately I need you for a few days" she said regally or was that dragonly.

Samantha felt hysteria rising in her, this was too strange a coincidence, her reading the book and the dragon appearing before her. "I have just moved here, I go to my school everyday and try to keep up with the rest of my class. What can I do for you that others could not?" she asked.

"you were chosen by the queen. Why she picked you of all the humans i know not, but chosen you were and now you must choose to help me or not. I will tell you no more until you do."

Samantha grew serious at the mention of the queen, so there was a dragon queen, wonder why the books hadn't spoken of a queen...she said, "My mom...I can't lie to her...what needs to be done, you can't tell me to do something I may not know how to do"

"You will do what you can do. And learn what you must, I dare say. I do not ask for haste in your decision for what I have told you is no doubt much for a human mind to handle never mind that is one so young as yours."
"You:re asking me to answer wether i:ll help you or not, but you won:t tell me what I:m supposed to be helping with or wether or not it will be dangerous, and if i know anything about fantasy stuff it almost alwasy turns out WAY more dangerous than the characters involved in the books think. I can:t and won:t promice you anything, wether yo:re a dragon like you say or not. i don:t make promices i don:t know i can keep. so i won:t say i:ll help you, not like what you]re asking. but i will be able to help you a little."
They both sat in silence for a long while listening to the clock ticking in the kitchen and the tv being turned on loudly in the apartment next door. Athana had been watching Samantha:s face closely, and now she observed the light of determination in her eyes that had sprung from the girl:s decision. She had been confused and gotten frustrated, but instead of deciding on anger her mind had made a not unwise decision.

Athena sighed quite suddenly , the sound almost as soft as a human sigh. Samantha gaped, she had no idea the dragon could mimic human emotions that well...she began to reconsider and hmmmeddd ""ummm...look my mom will be back any minute do you have a place you go to for sleeping and stuff?" she asked hoping the dragon would forgive her decision not to get invovlved with dragon saving business, she had school she had a million things to do she ...well she just didn't what to do anything just then.

Athena looked at her very slemnly like she was hurt, "you have courage i give you that...you refuse a dragon not knowing what powers i may have" she ignored the girl's suggestion that she leave for home or wherever. "Courage comes from spirit and that's what i need at the moment. A Spirited Human to Save all dragons forever" SHe seemed to glow purple halo as she said the word with passion. Samantha grew uneasy, she was being pushed into saying yes and she didnt want to say yes. She cried, "I'm sorry...!"

"Fear me not human child," Athena said with a touch of benevolence in her voice, despite the smug look on her face. Samantha wondered if that was just because dragons usually only had one expression on lizard like faces, but that didn't seem right. In her book they all wore differing and unique looks. Athena stood and walked toward the door of the apartment. "I need you. I will return when you must take action. Tell no one of why I came to you," she commanded in a voice that showed she was used to being obeyed. With that she walked out the door and when Samantha rushed to open it on a whim a moment after Athena had left. She had disappeared, the hallway was empty.