OMG THE LINEY THING WORKS!...please tell me it works, if not i will be crushed. -cries in corner-

anyway, anyone whos reading this from my last one, congratulations ! ya found it! now, lets get on with the story.

HOLD IT! i just had an idea. if, by chance, the liney thing doesnt work, I'll make this bold and the next part underliney. the italics is part of the story, so dont skip it:p see you at the end of the chapter guys!

A dream, a half eaten orange, and Mondays.

“What the…” Before she could move, a figure appeared a little way away. Then another, and another. Soon there were five. Each surrounded by a different coloured aura. They were standing in a semi circle, looking down at something with its body hardly above the fog it the shape wasn’t the same as the rest of the figures. Almost like a dog

“You know why you are here?” A deep voice spoke from one of the aura surrounded beings.

“Yes.” Another voice sounded from lower to the ground. She tried to get a better look at the entities.

“And you know your task?” Another, female voice spoke. As she watched, she started to be able to pick out where the voices were coming from. The female one seemed to come from the blue entity.

“Yes.” The dark entity in the middle replied in the same respectful manner. She stood in silence, unable to speak.

“The fate of the warring world depends on you and your success to find the sixth summoner, D-”

A fifteen year old jolted up in her bed, awakened by the sound of her alarm clock going off. She sighed in annoyance and flopped back onto her bed. This dream had gotten further than ever.

“What does it mean?” She groaned. She was a firm believer that dreams had meanings. She looked to the side, where her big black dog was resting his head on the side of her bed, watching her.

“Morning Sax.” She reached over and scratched his head. He whined in response.

“Jesse! Are you awake?” Jesse’s mother called from down stairs.

“I’m coming!” Jesse called in response. She threw her covers off and pulled open her drawers in search of a shirt.

“Sax, fetch my jeans.” Jesse said. Sax sighed and found himself pulling her jeans off her desk chair and pulling them over to her. “Good boy.” She cooed and stroked his head again as she took her jeans. Sax turned away like he always did when she was changing. Jesse never knew why. It was almost like he didn’t want to see her changing.

“Jesse! Breakfast!” Her mother called.

“M’comin!” Jesse called back as she came down the stairs, Sax close at her heels. She jumped the last step and turned into the hall leading to the kitchen and lounge room.

“Finally.” Her mother joked. Jesse made a face and began to eat her toast. “Did you end up finishing that geography report?” Jesse smacked her forehead with the heel of her hand.

“Shit.” She said. Her mother gave her a look.

“Don’t swear. And I told you, if you don’t start focusing, you’ll get in trouble.” Her mother said with no sympathy. Jesse groaned. “Just email her. It will be fine.” Her mother pulled Jesse close as she passed and kissed her forehead. Jesse’s mother always said if something didn’t work out, email the teacher on the school system. If it didn’t work, she would have something to say about it. Jesse sighed and finished her toast just as she heard a car horn outside.

“That’ll be Tessa.” Jesse said as she reached for her bag. Tessa came every morning in a car with three of her many brothers. She had three older ones, two of which were twins and lived at home while the other had moved out, and the other boys were younger than her.

“Bye Sax.” Jesse scratched the black dog’s head as she ran to the front door and pulled it open.

“Move it, kid.” One of Tessa’s older brothers stuck his head out the driver’s window and yelled to her as she ran down the driveway. Jesse didn’t hear what was said next, but heard a distinct ‘ow!’. She ran around to the other side of the car and jumped in, next to her best friend.

“You finish you’re geography report?” Tessa asked the second Jesse buckled her seat belt.

“Why is the world suddenly obsessed with Geography?!” Jesse exclaimed as Tessa’s brother started up the car and drove to the main road.

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“Well, I’m off, Sax.” Jesse’s mother said to the dog. “Be good.” She said as she handed Sax a piece of ham. Sax chewed his ham and watched the older woman walk out the front door.

“Finally. Their gone.” He thought as he finished his treat. He focused his energy and did something no other dog could do.

Changed into a human form.

“Thank the Topaz god. I was getting tired holding that form for so long.” He said as he checked himself over, just to make sure everything was right. His hair was still growing back, after Jesse had decided he was too matted to brush properly, but didn’t look at stupid as when he first checked it. He still had his clothes, as a spell caster had put a spell on them so they would change with him. Having transformers changing on a battle field and suddenly be naked would just be embarrassing to their clan.

He walked over to the fridge and helped himself to some real food, not the stuff out of a can Jesse gave him every night. Since she didn’t know he was actually a human, he had to keep pretending he was a dog. He still had to get Jesse’s pendant He knew that if he got it, he could end the war that had been in his home since before he was born. The boy sat down at the kitchen bench and began to eat his breakfast, which consisted of an apple, an orange and some water. What else could he eat without someone noticing there was some food missing every night? If he took something that would be noticed, he took Jesse’s wallet and bought what ever it was from the shops. He had long since learned how the money worked here. Jesse always thought it was her mother taking it, anyway. The boy walked out onto the deck behind Jesse’s house and threw the apple core out to the compost heap. While he was out there, he stopped to look at one of the hills. Jesse had an open backyard, backed by hills and a creek running through the bottom. The creek went through a natural tunnel in one of the hills, and that was where he came from. On the other side of that tunnel, was his home.

His ears suddenly perked up when he heard the front door open. He charged back inside, put the glass in the sink and hid the orange in the oven, before changing back into a dog. Jesse’s mother walked in to find Sax exactly where she left him, wearing an innocent yet nervous expression.

“What’s wrong, boy?” Jesse’s mother knelt down and massaged behind Sax’s ear. He tried in vain to ignore how nice it was.

“He’s probably just spooked because he smelt me coming in.” Jesse’s mother was followed by her own mother, whom Sax only knew as ‘Nan’.

“Oh, don’t be ridiculous, Mum.” Jesse’s mother straightened up and put her bag on the counter.

“Really, Stephanie. This dog is special. I can tell.” Nan looked at Sax with a glint in her eyes, like she knew something no one else did. Sax could only think of the bad things that would happen if she did know who he really was, the Banished Black Dingo, believed to posses a demon inside him. But no one in this world knew about that, right? So he swallowed his pride and did the only thing that would make him seem like a common mutt.

He lifted his leg, and marked his territory on the side of the bench. Stephanie gasped and attempted to shoo him out of the room, while her mother began to laugh loudly. Stephanie quickly slid the glass door closed behind the big dog and turned back to her mother, who was still laughing.

“Mother! The dog just peed all over the bench and you’re laughing?!” Jesse’s mother cried.

“Hey, it’s not my job to clean it up!” Nan said between laughs. Stephanie shook her head and walked to the oven, where she was planning to put on some chops for lunch.

“How the hell did this get in here?!” she exclaimed as she held up a half eaten orange.

This caused Nan to go into another laughing fit.

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“Toby, just find a park already!” Tessa leant over the front seat to talk into her older brother’s ear.

“It’s hard when their all taken! I told you we would be late, but noooo! We had to stop to wait for you to get your lunch!” Toby shot back.

“Guys, shut up. Toby, just drop us off at the front and we will tell your teacher that you’re gonna be late because there were no parks left.” Toby’s twin brother, Mark, reasoned. Jesse was staring out the window, day dreaming. She let out a sigh, which caught Tessa’s attention.

“What?” She sat back in her seat as Toby made a U-turn and headed back to the entrance of their school.

“Huh? Oh, nothing.” Jesse faced Tessa.

“Seriously, what?” Tessa questioned.

“Nothing!” Jesse laughed. Tessa made a face.

“It’s probably something to do with your secret boyfriend.” Tessa grinned.

“I do not have a boyfriend!” Jesse cried. She regretted ever telling Tessa she had once had a dream where she caught a boy going through her fridge during the night. Jesse had screamed and the boy disappeared. But the weird thing was, it seemed so real.

“Ok, we know Jesse doesn’t have a boy friend. Who could really deal with her temper any way?” Mark turned and grinned at Jesse. His grin was the same as Tessa’s. Jesse had long since realised that it was a family thing between all the McKnight’s. The only difference was Tessa’s when she was about to do something sneaky. Jesse scowled.

“I don’t have a temper.” She replied.

“You do when someone calls you short. Or even touches your necklace.” Tessa pointed to the large, circular pendant on a thin black rope around Jesse’s neck. It was silver with an X running through the middle, and five gems set in it. Each was positioned on a point of the X, and one in the middle.

“Because I’m NOT short, and this used to be Douglas’.” Jesse held the pendant in her hand, and thought of her lost brother. Tessa had forgotten that was still, after a number of years, a sore spot, but Mark beat her in breaking the mood.

“But your temper can’t compete with Tessa’s when Julian steals her book and she has a broom.” He said casually. It was Tessa’s turn to scowl.

“Or when he tells everyone what she said in her sleep the night before.” Toby added. Tessa reached up and pulled on Toby’s ears.

“And you idiots listen to him! I don’t go around telling people what you do when you sneak out, Toby!” Tessa kept yanking on her older brother’s ears.

“Tessa! Stop! You’ll make him crash the car!” Mark yelled while Jesse attempted to pull her friend away from her brother. Toby pulled up at the front of the school and waited for them to get out. Mark and Jesse got out quickly, not wanting to wait for Toby to say something else that would annoy Tessa.

“Bye, big brother.” Tessa had turned on her little sister charm and planted kiss on his cheek as she opened her door. Toby reacted by pushing her away and rubbing where she had kissed.

“Move it Tessa! We’re all late.” Mark yelled as he began to run into the large, public school. Tessa followed, running beside Jesse.

Tessa and Jesse finally made it to their class room, sat in their seats and started panting.

“Girls? Are you ok?” the teacher asked.

“When did the school get this big?!” Tessa exclaimed. Jesse looked up, and realised they had a substitute teacher. Wait, that wasn’t a substitute. That was Mr Kart. Jesse looked around her and realised the whole room was staring at them. Suddenly a male’s voice erupted from behind them.

“TESSA! JESSE! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING IN HERE?!” the friends turned to see Mark, who was two grades above them. Jesse and Tessa looked at each other in horror as they finally realised what was wrong.

“WRONG ROOM!” Jesse cried as she grabbed her bag again and bolted out the door, remembering on Mondays their class was in a different room.

“I HATE FUCKIN’ MONDAYS!” Tessa roared, following Jesse down the hall.