Faith and Hope - KRB (good books for high schoolers txt) 📗

Chapter 1
The bringer of faith and hope will be born on the day that the light is covered by the dark. She will bear extraordinary gifts, the ability to change form and the ability to wield the powers of the elements.

When the Bringer comes into full power on the eve of her 18th year, she will face many trials. She must be tested and found pure.

She will partner with the Son of the Moon and the Son of the Night, one in love and the other in friendship.

Only if all is done as has been foreseen, will she successfully unite the clans against the Under Lords and restore faith and hope to mankind.

If she fails, hope and faith will be lost forever.

Have you ever had one of those dreams where all you see are words instead of pictures? Well that’s what this dream was. The Prophecy of the Night kept running through my dreams. All my life my parents have told me that this prophecy is about me, but they have got to be crazy! I mean, ok, I was born on a solar eclipse, and both my parents are slayers, BIG DEAL! Okay I admit I can shape shift, but that could just be coincidence. It’s not like I can control all five elements, so see, they must be crazy. I’ve been lying in bed awake for the past 2 hours trying to figure this out, but I just can’t.
“Faith, you’re going to be late for training if you don’t hurry up!” My older brother Max yelled up the stairs at me. Sighing, I slowly rolled out of bed. I began to strip as I walked toward my closet, and put on a pair of my comfy clothes after throwing on a black sports bra. I’m so not looking forward to training today; I mean it’s my birthday for crying out loud! I run into the bathroom grabbing the brush and I begin to run it through my long blond hair. I throw my hair up into a ponytail and then step back from the mirror to get a good look at myself.
I’m not bad looking. I’m 5’7”; I have emerald green eyes, and long blonde hair. I’m tanned, and my body is well toned and fit. My body is toned due to all of the training I am forced to endure. With me being part of the slayers clan, and tonight being the night I turn 18, I get to join the hunt. As I stare at myself in the mirror my mind starts to run throw different scenarios of how tonight could play out. Stop it Faith you’re scaring your self, it’ll be fine. Take some deep breaths and calm down. Closing my eyes I begin to take a few calming breaths.
“Faith, no matter how long you stand there with your eyes closed, you’re not going to get anymore beautiful” says a deep voice from behind me. Startled I open my eyes and spin around with a metal nail file in hand ready to defend myself if I have to. I realize I am staring into a pair of emerald green eyes, the same as mine. “Max, what are you thinking scaring me like that?” I ask as I put the nail file down.
I turn back around to face him, and he is shaking with laughter. Rolling my eyes I push my way passed him, “If you haven’t noticed, we are going to be late for training!” I holler over my shoulder as I begin to run down the stairs. Max is by my side in just a few long strides. Max is 19 and he is my best friend right along with being my big brother. We have the same emerald eyes, and blond hair. He’s tanned like me from all the work we do outside, he is muscled, has a six pack, and the girls all look at him like he’s something to eat. YUCK!
I glance out of the corner of my eyes at him, and I can’t help but smile. “What are you smiling about Fai?” I realize that he has been staring at me. “Nothing!” I reply, “Hey Maxxy you want to race!” I say as I speed up and head to the training arena. I love the feel of the wind on my skin as I run, it’s exhilarating.
“Yeah, but try not to cry too much when I beat you” He tugs on my ponytail and runs passed me. I grin and begin to sprint after him. This is what I love about Max, he still loves to have fun, and hang with his baby sis. I run up to him and push him; he stumbles and falls behind me. “That was cheating Fai!” I hear him holler, and glance back to make sure he was ok. All I see is him sprinting full speed at me. Oh shit he is going to tackle me! I kick it into high gear and run as fast as I can to the training arena. As I reach for the handle of the door, I feel his body slam into mine. I’m gasping for air as we hit the ground. He is sitting on me and starts to tickle me. I’m gasping for breath and laughing like crazy. “Let….. Me….. Up….. Max!” I manage to get out between giggles.
“Maxwell, let your sister up. Have you two forgotten that you have training?!” My fathers voice rings out from the door way. Max jumps to his feet grabbing my hand and pulling me up with him. “No Sir” Max replies as he ducks under fathers arm to enter the training arena. I can’t help but smile as I watch Max rush into the arena. “Good morning Daddy, how are you this fine morning?” I ask in my sweetest voice. A smile spreads a crossed his face and he leans down and kisses my forehead, “Happy birthday Angel, and no you’re not getting out of training.” He winks and walks into the arena. Sometimes I swear he can read minds. Well come on Faith lets go beat up on the boys! I heave a sigh and then follow him into the arena.
As soon as I step inside I look around. Our arena is the size of a football field. It has all our training equipment; targets for archery practice, dummies to work on decapitation and vampire staking, and a lot of other items.
I slowly make my way over to Max who is standing with two other guys that I knew Hunter, and Damon. “Hey there Fai, you ready for training?” Hunter asks with a huge grin. Hunter is a good looking 19 year old guy, he has a well defined jaw, long black hair, brown eyes that were so dark they looked black, and is about five inches taller then me. He thinks he is god’s gift to women. I roll my eyes, “Are you ready to lose again, Hunter?” He grins and wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me close to him. “Baby I let you win. I love rolling around on the ground with you” He looks down at me and winks. Oh brother, he is a sleaze. I look up at him with a sweet smile. “Don’t ever call me baby” I say in a dangerously calm voice. I pull out of his grasp and move towards Max. Before I got very far Hunter grabbed my wrist and pulled me back to him. “Little girl haven’t you ever learned to respect your elders?!” Hunter snarls into my ear.
Max sees everything going on and starts to take a step towards me to try and help. He must have seen the look in my eyes because the instant he looked at my face he stopped and smiled. I jabbed my elbow deep into his side, grabbed his wrist and spun out his hold. I wrenched his arm behind him kicking his legs out from under him, holding his wrist in a way that must have been uncomfortable to him; I planted my knee in the center of his back. I lean down and whisper in his ear, “The only I’m respectful to my adults is if they deserve it” Suddenly I feel myself being pulled off of Hunter. “Down girl, you don’t want to break him” I hear Damon chuckle behind me. “Awl I was only having fun” I fake whine. Damon puts me down on the floor and hands me my weighted gloves. “Thanks D” I say with a smile.
Training went perfectly; Hunter left me alone for the rest of the day. I ended up with a few bruises but other then that I felt great. I ran into the house and up to the bathroom to take a nice hot shower. I slowly undressed and jumped in the shower and let the hot water run over my sore muscles. As I began to relax, I heard a light tap on the door. “Who is it” I ask irritably. “It’s Max” Why is Max knocking on the door? “What do you want Max, I’m kinda trying to shower!” I say as I stick my head under the water. I could hear the door opening and closing quietly. Sighing I look out at Max, “What’s up Maxxy?” He looks into my eyes his filled with worry. “I’m worried about you going out tonight” He looks down at the floor. “I’ll be fine Max, I’ll have you and dad there with me” I can’t help but smile at the way he cares about me. “I know, I’m just worried…. I mean you’re my baby sister. I just don’t want anything to happen to you”
“Max, can you get me the towel right there” I indicate at the fluffy green towel that is hanging behind his head. He hands it to me and I wrap it around myself and climb out of the shower. “Max I’ll be fine” I wrap my arms around his waste and hug him tightly, “Don’t worry ok?” I look up and stare into his eyes…. Everything will be just fine. He smiles at me and kisses my forehead, “Since when did you get so self-confident?” He teasingly chucks me under the chin. “Since I’ve had such an awesome big brother like you to look after me” I say and squeeze around him and run into my room to get dressed.

Chapter 2
As soon as I got into my room, I started going through my closet to find something to wear. Lets see it’s my first hunt what do I wear! Around 6:30 I was still in my closet looking for something to wear. How about we go leather! I got to the back of my closet and found the perfect outfit. A pair of leather pants that lace up the sides and a red, a black Harem bodice corset that ends above the navel, black and red leather arm bands that, and black knee high boots with no heel. I throw my clothes on and run to the bathroom and run a brush threw my hair and throw it up into a high ponytail.
“Whoa, are you going to a vampire night club, or going hunting?” Max teasingly asks from the door way. I spin around to give him the full view of my outfit, “Hey I had to look the part…. Can’t let Buffy the Vampire Slayer out do me” Max cracks up laughing. “Ok you knuckle head, lets go get our weapons” He grabs my hand