**Okay, so I've been thinking about this for a while and I really need a fellow writer with it**
America has fallen into the Pre-Civil war times and many families don't know what to do. With the men leaving home left and right to protect their own rights, the women are left with no protection whatsoever. Kingsley Barnes, however, is doing something that nobody would expect from the great great grandson of a once great Revolutionary War commander.
That's right.
He's taking his children, Benjamin and Storm Barnes and moving west. He's running from the coming war. He wishes to have no part in it, and he refuses to let his daughter stay home and 'hold the fort' as she had stated so boldly.
Benjamin Barnes is seventeen, tall and handsome. Every girls dream. Too bad he's heading out west like a scum bag to hide from the war. He doesn't like it at all and thinks its more dangerous with all the murderous indians that the war will be.
Storm is another story. She's sixteen and always looking for adventure. She often gets on her brother's nerves with her constant begging to take her with him where ever he goes so she's not left to do all the chores. Now, however, she's laughing in her brothers face because he has to do all the hard work.
Farther to the northwest, over one hudred miles away from the Barnes' farm that they're leaving behind resides a Native American Sioux tribe. They're very harsh to 'white men' as they refer to people of light skin tone, and don't take kindly to strangers. Their leader is Ptebloka Nahtaka, or Kicking Bull as he's referred to and he's different than other leaders. He allows white men to speak their reason for being in his land before killing them, or letting them go.
Kicking Bull's eldest son, Tokala Oiyokpa, or Dark Fox, is eighteen winters old, and much more vengeful against the white man. He wants no part of them and wishes them all the worst.
What happens when the Barnes family and the Sioux tribe cross paths? What happens when Storm Barnes and Dark Fox show their feelings towards each other?
What will happen I wonder?
Dark Fox (Tokala Oiyokpa)
Storm Barnes
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“Storm! Come now, Father’s getting angry!” Storm glared at the direction her brother’s tired voice was coming from as she bathed in a small creek. Personally, she didn’t care how angry they were. After all, it had been her father that told her to bathe. It wasn't her choice. Her horse, Quickstep, was on the bank a little ways down, drinking to his content before he moved on to eat some grass. Storm massaged her scalp, closing her eyes as she tilted her head back, letting the cool water rinse through her hair. She opened her blue eyes slowly and stepped out of the water, grabbing her towel and drying off. She slipped into her change of clothes and pulled her hair up into a bun before laying a hat over it. She whistled softly to Quickstep, who was automatically at her side.
"Hey boy," she smiled, running a slim hand down his nose before swinging herself onto his back. She led him off in a soft trot, meeting back with her bother and father.
"Again with the men's clothing Storm? Had I not known it was my daughter coming at us I probably would have shot you down." Her father teased, snapping the reigns on the two horses that pulled him and his wagon, which her brother was inside of, sleeping.
"I think wearing this is safer than wearing some dress. Dreadful things if I do say so myself." Her father chuckled and shook his head, the wagon picking up a little speed. "We're entering some indian territory aren't we father?" Storm asked softly, her eyes staring straight at smoke that was rising a little to the north.
"I'm afraid so," her father, Kingsley Barnes sighed.
"We'll be alright!" She clarified with a cheeky grin. "Won't we?" Her father never replied, only kept his eyes locked on the invisible path before him.
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