Chapter 1

Intro
“Dear, my child, truly sorry that I can not keep you.
When you become older you will know why I can
not have you at my side. I truly wish that I can raise
you the way I was raised but I can not. I have left
you something to remind you of me, keep it with you
at all times; I will find you latter in life.”
Read the note given to three different children, who it just so happened, they were on three different neighboring planets.

CHAPTER 1
Flare, Best and Worst Birthday Ever

“I wish I had your hair, it is so soft. Just why do you keep it so long?” Emma asked as she brushed Flares long blond hair. “I mean come on, I do not let mine get past my chin, and on top of that how do you just keep it down?” Emma has always been a tom boy.
“Well maybe I like my hair, long.” Flare said
“Girls like you are why I am not girly.”
“What did I do?”
“Your pretty and you do not even try! You can not look me in the eye and say that guys do not just absolutely love you, added onto that you’re the only one I have ever seen with red eyes.”
“I have never seen anyone else with green eyes, and I say green is better.” Flare said as she played with the small emerald ring, the only thing she has from her mother.
“Ya, well there contacts!” Emma’s face now red with embarrassment “Come on lets go home, I have a surprise waiting for you. And I will give you one hint, it is because it is your birthday.”
“It is? Wow, how time flies, right?”

The house, witch was more of a hole than anything else, was the same as ever on the outside: but the inside was full of decorations and in the center of everything was a cake. The normally grey and dull room was now colorful, happy.
Flare, dumbfounded, slowly walked up to the cake. “You did this?” She said pointing her finger from the cake to all the way around the room.
“I sure did, I also got you some gifts. Would you like cake or presents first?” Emma was now pulling out gifts of all sizes from the strangest places, behind the door, under the bed, out of the desk, even out of some of the larger decorations. “I think in all I got you ten presents, but only one cake.”
“Were did you get the money for this?” Flare asked as she got some plates out of the small cabinet.
“I have been saving up just for this; also I took on a second job. If it wasn’t your birthday I would tell you to get a job too. ACHOO!” Emma, seeming surprised by the sneeze, started looking around franticly.
“Are you alright? Do you need some help?”
“There is a cat somewhere, I am allergic to cats!”
Without thinking Flare got up and went to the door. Without fail there was a cat, it was a small one. It seemed odd; it didn’t run like other animals did. ‘Maybe it is a newborn? It has to be otherwise it would run?’ Flare thought, as she picked it up. It was also a strange color, it was a bright green.
“Get it out! Please before I sneeze all on the cake!” Emma hollered as she plugged her nose
Flare did just that, and once she was about ten feat from the door she set the cat down. “Shoo, hurry get out.” She whispered to the creature. I did nothing, just sat there, as if it was waiting for something. Giving up she decided to turn back and let the thing be open pray for any scientist. As she walked away the cat walked with her. “Arg! Shoo, go away, get out of here.”
“You can not tell me what to do; I’m here for you anyway. Follow me.” The cat spoke! That was enough for Flare to be scared. It sounded like a small child. “Come on I do not have all day, I have to get out of here and go find the Shifter! Now, Tracker, follow!”
“Birthday party first, then fine I will follow you, and who is this Tracker, and Shifter?” Flare asked, and turned to make sure Emma wasn’t watching, talking to a cat might be a little to much for her, it was almost to much for Flare.
“You are the Tracker, and do not worry about who the Shifter is! You will meat them in no time.” The voice had changed; it was now slightly higher pitched as if the cat had hit puberty?
Flares turned back around to find a girl standing were the cat was. She was tall, although everyone was tall to Flare. The girl was probably about five foot nine, were short little Flare was four foot two. The girl had short bright green hair that looked like it had never seen a brush. Her eyes matched her hair other than the fact of her pupils were just like a cat’s.
“Come on, I have to make sure you keep your word, and I can not go in there as a cat now can I?” The girl said “Also, stop staring its not nice.” Flare obviously had no idea she had been staring.
Back inside the house, Emma was cutting the cake, and setting up the presents.
“Hey Emma, can you get one more plait? We have one extra person.” Flare motioned to the new green haired girl.
“Hello, Emma was it?” She held out her hand to shake; she was rejected with an evil look. “Well, pleased to meet you, I have heard all about you from Flare. My name is Ivy.”
“Oh, have you?” Emma said, suddenly surprised at this fact. “What did she tell you about me?”
“Just how you are her best friend ever, and practically her sister!” Ivy said happily. “And its fine I do not really like cake that much, I’m just here to make sure Flare isn’t going to bale on me again.”
Emma raised her head to look at Flare with a curios look. “You had plans? You never told me about this, and again?”
“What!” Flare’s yell was cut off by Ivy’s hand telling her to stop.
Ivy then bowed her head “I’m sorry I thought you knew, although she didn’t know herself. My apology” She then held out her hand again, this time she was successful.
Just as Emma touched Ivy to shake she sneezed. “Okay I know the cat is back, somebody get the cat away form here or I’m going to call the scientists.” Just like that Ivy jumped back, and decided to stay away from Emma the rest of the time she is here.
It remained uneventful until the present time came.
“Some of the gifts aren’t from me, they have cards in them.” Emma announced
“Oh!” Flares eyes got wide when she opened the first one and it had a card. Only three gifts were not from Emma, which makes seven out of ten from her best friend ever.
Flare ended up getting a pair of phone gloves that are rare collector items because they change color, a pair of purple hover shoes, a new two layered light purple shirt, a green back pack, a diamond necklace she saw in the store a few days before, and four of the exact same thing,(each rapped individually) hats, all different shades of purple.
“Okay I’m glad you know I like purple, so are you going to give me a hint on what time last one is?” Flare asked, eyeing the oddly shaped gift. It looked like she tried to rap a ball.
“I’m not actually sure ‘what’ it is but I do know what it ‘dose’, so go on open it.” Emma said as she slid the gift across the table. Ivy who was in the corner paying no attention looked up at this, knowing this was what she has been waiting for.
The gift was much like a ball but it had a hole in it. “Um, so what is this for?” Flare asked “I mean I appreciate the gift but what and why?”
“It is the shell opener.” Ivy spoke up
“You mean for like nuts? Do not we have one already?”
“No shell of this world, your friend here she stole it, only because she knows you want to get out and explore. Can we go now?” Ivy said in a tone that showed she was tired of waiting.
“Emma, did you really steal it?” Flare’s face went from full of joy to concern.
“Well, yes but you have to go, it was in vision that I saw in the lab!-“
“Lab! Your job in ‘The Lab’! Emma you do not know what your doing, there not good people, because of them we have to work literally to death before we get any information about the outside worlds!” Flares face now reflected her name.
“Look I packed your bag, let’s go!” Demanded Ivy holding up the bag Flare just received, now filled with her gifts and two extra changes of clothes.
“They do that to protect you; please do not get mad at me.” Emma was now starting to cry “I was just trying to help; they came to me asking if I would work for them.”
Ivy now has the round ball over her hand and half of her four-arm. “Let’s go Flare!” She yelled and grabbed Flare’s arm
Once outside Ivy pointed her arm straight up, and just as she did the ball turned into a spike and went all the way up, when it came back down everything was still for only a second before both of the girls sprang upward to the newly found hole.
The last thing Flare heard and saw was Emma being tackled to the ground by a group of ‘Lab Workers’ and Emma screaming that she was sorry.
TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 2