The three years

By Bubblegum411


The Terrible Medallion of Juno

Intro
A Window to the Future

I wasn’t supposed to be here, I knew that. But if not here, I had no place to be. And I had to be somewhere, because Michael Grey needed to be somewhere. And Michael Grey now needs me to be with him, because he was now Coughing up blood. But it isn’t blood. It is a silvery liquid that I have great reason to believe is, to my great dismay, his memories.
But how did I come to be in a pub called the Cantering Colt with gamblers and drunkards? How did I come to be here, tonight, of all places, holding in one hand a half finished glass of heart-throb rum in my hand, and necklace I had previously wrenched from my neck? had to fight that impulse to hurl it from my hand and to here it shatter, like glass, upon the wood floor. But I was bonded to it, and it was of the up most importance that I had it, but still I wished with almost my entire mind to throw it. IT had caused my nothing but trouble.


Prologue
The Turn of My Life
I’m Maddie. Maddie Raycitt. I was just like any ordinary girl in the Rain Cloud Clan. I went to School at Aurora Borealis Junior High School, I was failing in Pre- Algebra, and I excelled in Medieval Weaponry. I was a chief prankster and had tons of friends. My best friend of course, was Michael Grey. We’ve known each other forever, it seems. He was my co-conspirator at pranks and goof offs. Michael is almost the best student in school while I flunk nearly everything. He is my tutor at almost every subject in existence, or so it seems. My embarrassing mom calls us ‘study buddies’. We were on the same sports teams and are in the same clubs. I am a good artist while he still draws stick people. I spent most of my time wriggling out of chores at my family’s farm house and annoying my snobby ‘girlish’ elder sister Penny and picking on my younger sister Sophie.
Those were the good old days. Now my family and I live in terror. Of what? Another attack. 3 years ago the mightiest of all of the 26 clans, The Thunder Clan, invaded the Star Wood, and the Cloud Forest. I live in the Cloud Forest. 3 years ago, I was 10, and my mom wouldn’t tell me why they attacked so 'out of the blue'.
But on my 13th birthday, she told me. Their great leader, Lord Ares, was under the wicked spell of an evil god, by the name of......Herrikan. Herrrikan wanted nothing
more than war and suffering. Or at least so I thought. But he had a plan, for supreme power, which he craved above all. But I didn’t know it yet, and more than one way, it involved me. My mother also told me that It would be dangerous for us. I don’t know how my mom knew, she just did.
She was weird that way. She had gray eyes, and all the other members of the clan had blue. It was against the laws of nature to have eyes a different color than the high Lords and Ladies. With Lady Aphrodite as our Queen, no one in the Cloud Forest rested until the last of the Thunder Clan was dead. In my secret opinion, she was a ruthless queen. Unfortunately, she was one of the most powerful leaders in all of Crystelle. Apart from Ares and Diana of the Moonstar clan, she was the most powerful, so know one could dissuade her of her acts of evil. So ‘The Slaughter of the Thunderans’ has been going on for a while, though the Thunder Clan has kept us out, fortunately for them.




Chapter One
The Dull Beginning


I was sitting on the front porch in my grandmother’s rocking chair. For the first time in 3 years, I was at peace. Back and forth, back and forth. I thought to myself. The swish of the trees, awaiting a storm, the creak of the chair. I closed my eyes, savoring the one moment I had to myself. All rested for that one, special moment. That was until screaming broke the somewhat peaceful silence.
“MADDIE! Maddie, they’re coming! The Thunder Clan! They’re invading! HELP!!!!” That was Michael. Michael Grey. What was he shouting about now? I stared intently down the dirt path, winding through the trees. He should be coming ‘round that corner just about now….. “Maddie! Oh, there you are.” He sounded quite relieved.
“Michael, what the heck’s going on?” I asked him, cocking my head slightly.
“Just the Thunder Clan warriors showing up in the Cloud Forest!” He said exasperatedly. We looked at each other, sharing a look at pure horror. It was like all your worst nightmares all coming true, all at once.
“MOM!! PENNY!!” I screamed as I ran up the stairs to the house. It was starting to rain. Michael and I were in then house within seconds. I could hear my mom’s foot steps as she rushed into the hall.
“What in the name of Heaven is all this havoc about?” She was greatly irritated. She glared at us and commanded us to explain without words. I opened my mouth but no words came out.
“Mrs. Raycitt, please. The Thunder Clan, they’re here! Now! In Cloud Forest!” said Michael in a trembling voice. I watched my mother’s eyes widen in terror.
“Penny, come downstairs now! Penelope Grace, come down this minute!” screeched Mom. Penny’s footsteps could be heard as she hurled herself down the stairs.
“Mom, I heard it! On the radio! They’re invading!” She cried. I wasted no time. I raced up stairs. There was something I had to get. Once I got to my room, I ran straight to the dresser. As usual, the clothes were in complete disarray and the drawers open. I rummaged in the back of one of the drawers for a bit. Then my hand found what I was looking for. I pulled out a box. It had silver stars on it, and the words;

May the Stars watch over you,
My daughter
Love Forever,
Your Father

It was his only gift to me. A few tears rolled my cheeks. Not wanting to waste time, I took the key that hung on the chain around my neck off, and read the words engraved upon the key.
The Sky is a key to my love
I shoved the key into the keyhole and opened the box. Inside was a golden necklace, with an ornate gold piece with a crystallized diamond in the middle. I put the chain around my neck and stole one last glance at the beloved box. I raced down the stairs at break-neck speed, which I ended by crashing into the umbrella stand.
Penny was there, and my younger adopted sister Sophie was there too.
Penny rolled her eyes at me, but Sophie looked concerned. "Are you hurted, Maddie?" She asked her eyes wide. Truth be told, my head was throbbing, and my leg ached. But I wasn't about to tell that to a three-year-old. It would scare her, and god knows why she wasn't scared already.
"I'm fine, Sopohie," I told her, my eyes on my turquoise Chuck Taylor sneakers.
"Maddie! Get serious here! Mom's evacuating us into the war cellar, and I've got my hands full of supplies. You need to take Sophie." ordered my sister. She usually got to order me around, since I was thirteen and she was nineteen.