Ivar

My life...

I was a pretty normal kid, at least I thought I was: I was the star football player, my girlfriend was the head cheerleader, and my grades were, well, straight A's. I had no idea what I was thinking.

My family life was far from normal too but, I had never thought anything of it. I had four siblings, three sisters and one brother. All the sisters were older than me, most had moved out and married or were in college, or both. My brother had come as a little bit of a surprise, my mom had been forty-four when he was born. I guess the surprise was that he lived not that he came. He was born with a bone marrow deficiency and I was the only perfect match they could find. Fortunately, I was in good health and they could harvest a great deal of marrow and put it in him. Unfortunately, he had become quite attached to me, not that he remembered anything I was just the older brother and he adored me since dad was away all the time.

I was told that I had saved his life, well he never acted like it. He was a pest to be sure and always tried following me when I was out with Jessica, or any of my other girlfriends I'd had before her. I was just lucky Jessica didn't mind him occasionally being around. She was the most amazing girl I'd ever met. She laughed at my completely stupid jokes, and not laughing at me either. I suppose she probably made a lot of girls jealous because of the attention I paid her but, she had no idea how jealous the other guys in the school were that she was my girl. It was a good thing I'd taken self-defense classes. Even though I hadn't wanted them my dad had insisted. I'd lost count around twenty for the number of fights I'd been in over her, not that I'd wanted to get in them it was just that the first guy I beat was a gang member and so well... You get the idea.

My dreams...

I wanted to play football, but I think I wanted to marry Jessica more, as silly as that sounds. I mean I'd only known her since the beginning of this school year, but that didn't matter in my head. I'd pictured us owning our own house in the country and no one coming to bother us, just owning some stock like my dad was teaching me on the rare occasion he was home. The football dream hadn't completely slipped away but I wasn't betting everything on it. It was more of, if they wanted me for their college team I'd go if not then I wouldn't worry about it.

Everything changed last night, I was lying in bed around four in the morning and I couldn't get the words or images out of my head. The light had spoken to each of us but had only spoken the personal words loud enough for the one it was meant for to hear it. It had told me I'd have power of the earth like had never been known in the history of this world or any other world. It explained I had to keep my word and my honor in order to retain this power too and it warned all of us of the coming enemy. Well it had given me specific instruction concerning that and the instruction nearly tore me to pieces and I knew I had to find a different path.