Published April 14, 2011
My name is Chiara Sage Elixir. I have just turned sixteen. I am not human, not anymore, and I'm being hunted by society. I can't hide forever, so I'm telling you this story now. I can't promise you my story will end well, so read at your own risk.
-Chiara
Chapter 1
"Let me out, dammit!" i screamed, kicking the wall hard enough to hurt myself. I had been running from Dr. Shay and her goons since I was fourteen, and now, only days after i turned sixteen, she finally manged to get me. "Cara! stop! This isn't helping." Devany scolded me. She was a year younger then me, but had always been the more calm rational-thinker, where I just went on instinct and went on wild rampages with no real plan. Devany and I aren't human, not after Dr. Shay started experimenting on us, and now we have 'gifts'. I can create protective shields, energy blasts, and move things with a flick of my wrist, Devany can astral project, mind read, and elemental manipulation. We are both telepathics (in other word we can communicate through our minds) and have heightened senses.
"Cara! For goodness-sake, i know you can hear me! if you don't- know what, that's it." She hurtled a plastic bouncy-ball at me. i closed my eyes, held up my hand, and imagined the ball flying back at her. I opened my eyes in time to see Devany duck and the bouncy-ball hit the opposite wall. "Hilarious," She grumbled, turning her back to me. "I thought it was. Hey, Devie, don't be like that." I said, but my best friend continued to give me the cold shoulder.
This was pretty routine for us. I piss her off, she throws something, i deflect it, i make a snide comment, she ignores me for an hour (or until she can no longer take the silence). The normalcy of our quarry almost made me forget we where locked in this horrid place. Almost. Sighing I sat on the bed next to my friend and put my arms around her. "I'm sorry Devany." I apologized, a rare thing for me. "I'm just annoyed that we are stuck in this place, again. And the fact that i have to add a 'again' to the end of that sentence just makes it all the more irritating." i confessed.
Devany sighed and pulled away from me.
"i know, Cara. I'm just as ticked about this as you are, but we aren't fighting each other. not supposed to anyways. We're fighting Dr. Shay. don't forget that. Now take a cool-down, and get some rest. I'll wake you if anything major happens, though i doubt it will."
I slumped across the little and curled up on my bed. despite all my nerves and anxiety, i feel asleep quickly, drifting off into a world of dreams.
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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
First Impression: This seems like a pretty fun premise here at first glance, and it is certainly quite interesting. I think you've presented a really neat idea that I haven't seen tooo often before aand this is a interesting pair of main characters here.
Anyway let's get right to it,
Okay...well that escalated rather quickly...the first part really appears to be going at a very normal pace in the actual present tense, and the all of a sudden that appears to be somewhat in the past and everything speeds up all of a sudden into this borlderline expositiony bit there...and that kind of ruins the pace of this opening paragraph here. It is still interesting but the pace is quite a bit off here.
Well now at least it seems to be on the right present tense, so that's a good sing to get things off on here...and we get to see a bit of the interaction between these two friends here..which is quite neat..I also like you show off their powers a little there through this little argument.
Hmm, well it looks like the arguments are mostly in good fun although I don't know how a friendship where they argue so often that its considered a common occurence and the arguments actually escalate this much can be an actual healthy one...although I suppose you can argue that they are under quit some stress here in this scenario.
Well, I think this would make for a decent little start here to this story...you manage to capture the essence of what's going on and if it wasn't for that little bit of sudden exposition in the first paragraph, this would be pretty much without noticeable issues.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
Overall: Overall, besides the one or two issues that I could see scattered about, I think this manages to do its job as the start to a story pretty well. As far as a chapter one goes, this one succeeds in making me want to read more, so I'd say it does its job effectively.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
Hi, Dare2Bme, I'm new here as well. I'm gonna do a quick review on your story.
The first thing that I noticed was your format. It would be much easier to read if you would hit the enter key after you finish a paragraph.
A lot of your wording made the piece feel kind of weird and hard to read.
This makes it seem like she was just taken, but the ending reads like this had been a recurring event. I think you need to slow down a bit, and really delve into the characters. You're jumping around too much throughout this piece. Let the readers get to know Cara by her actions.
Sentences like that make the reader go back and think about what they're reading. As a writer you are supposed to be manipulating our emotion. A strange sentence that takes the reader out of the story and turns on our little editors will take away from what you are really trying to portray.
Overall, the plot isn't really my cup of tea, but there is something there. I think if you expound on the ideas you already have you could make a great story.
You need to work on capitalizing your I's and your beginning of sentences. I would also say to make it slightly long and give a bit more detail. Besides that, I congratulate you on this wonderful story and will be waiting for more ^^ Good luck and Happy Writing!!!
Soulkana<3