Chapter 1

         I am Madelyn Brooks and I'm your average everyday girl. Go to school like every other normal girl does and deal with everyday problems like everyone else. Nothing is special about me or amazing that would blow your mind. My dad is Famous for being a chemist and my mom is like one of the best neuroscience specialists in the city. My brother as annoying as he can be sometimes and a total jerk, butI love him dearly. I have an average family doing normal things. Normal right? and nothing in the world is going to change that...at least nothing that I can think of.

          I'm here to explain how all that changed one day when what I call the "Golden Age" struck and changed everything. It started off as an average Monday of me getting up early in the morning getting myself ready for another day at school. I walk over to the mirror in my room rubbing my eyes and stretching. I yawn looking over at the clock see it was 6:51am. Me and my brother go to Clarkson Vile Academy. We are currently sophomores and today is the first day heading back into the year. I take my time leaving my room walking over to my brothers room banging on his door for him to get up and get dressed.

          Afterwards I went to the bathroom, closing the door behind looking into the mirror then sighing. I turn on the faucet as the water ran down quickly through the drain of the white marble sink. You've ever had that feeling that something was going to happen, but you didn't know what it was you only got a feeling? Well that's me. I wash my face and brush my teeth before getting in the shower letting the water rain down on me. I clean myself with a bar of soap as I reach over grabbing a small towel from the rack on the wall. Soon I start to get lost in my own thoughts to the point the water was just shooting down on me and I was staring off at it. Before I could realize that I was staring off, I heard a loud banging sound at the door of my annoying brother yelling for me to hurry up.

" Alright! Alright I'm coming Sebastian. Stop banging on the door"

" You've been in there too long! We're going to be late!" He says as I roll my eyes turning off the shower head.

          I step outside of the tub grabbing a towel wrapping myself in it opening the door walking pass my brother as he frowned.

" Aww man it's foggy now" he sighs as I giggle.

" You'll be alright...Now come on so we can get to school on time".

          I make my way back to my room noticing my mother was by my door holding a little box in her hand. I look at her curiously asking: " What's in the box?". She gives a faint smirk looking at me responding: " I know we haven't been on good terms, but I wanted to give you something to show that I'm willing to move on and that your still my little girl". I look at her blankly as she gives me the little box. I slowly open it not knowing what to say as I pull out a necklace with a small galaxy global that had my Initials inside glowing.

" Uh, Mom I don't know what to say..."

" That ain't all if you hold it up to the light you should be able to see stars shoot pass. Do you like it" She says.

" I love it!..Thanks mom"

          I get up walking over hugging her close to me as she hugs me back. She kissed me on the cheek and walks back out of my room. I smile as I test the necklace out by holding it up a little as I saw a ray of light circle around the global. It was hard because me and my mom never have really seen eye to eye on a lot of things. She is always working and has never really been there for me when I needed her to be. It's almost like she is more concerned most of the time with her job and clients more then me and my brother. I was willing to forgive her as long as she was willing to keep trying to do better.

          After having that moment I start to get myself together getting dressed and putting on the necklace. I look at myself in the mirror smiling softly thinking about how cute I looked. Soon after I walk down the hall down the stairs to the living room seeing my father on the couch watching tv. I walk pass leaning over kissing him on the cheek.

" Alright dad we're heading out now. Sebastian come on!"

          I turn waving by to my mom as our puppy Rex rushes over jumping up into my arms licking my cheek. Sebastian walks from the kitchen eating a bagel with his book bag on his shoulder.

" Aren't you going to eat sweetie?" Dad said.

" No I'll be fine. I'm not hungry anyway"

          Me and my brother walked out the house heading down the street to the bus stop. I sit on the bench as Sebastian was on his phone reading an article. I look over at him not able to help, but see the cover of the article topic: " The Justice League saves the day again".

" Your reading the new article?"

" Yeah it's about how the Justice League just saved a town from a meteor almost hitting it " he says smirking

          My brother has always been a fan of the justice league. He idols them so much, but yet he's never been the type to want to do what they do. Let him tell it he says it's too much and not meant for just anyone to do. Me on the other hand, I wish I could be a superhero just like them. Being able to have powers of my own and helping people is something I always dreamed of...to have a purpose. Even though I know that's never going to happen I can't help myself. I want to continue to strive to make a way for me to make a difference in the world.

          Before I could say anything else on that matter the bus pulls up. Me and my brother got on and headed to school. On the way I couldn't help, but look out the window and see a girl in a green and white outfit flying pass up In the skyline. I tapped my brother for him to look as well, but by then the girl was gone.

"What now? I don't see anything" Sebastian says.

" Wait she was just here. It was a girl wearing a green and white outfit"

"Where?" Sebastian ask.

"She's gone now."

" A girl with green and white? Yeah that's Alaska girl" random girl say behind us.

"Who is she?" Sebastian ask.

" She is one of the newer heroes. She's been around for a year now actually. She isn't talked about much, but she has worked with the flash. There's been a lot going on that even she can't do alone." Random girl responses.

          When we got to school I went straight to my locker to put my bag in and get my books when one of my friends came over.

" Hey Madelyn." She says.

" Hey Maggie. What's up?"

" Nothing just wanted to let you know that they are passing out the new schedules in the office." Maggie says.

" oh ok. Thanks for letting me know"

          I close my locker door walking down the hall with my books in my hand as I find my brother and walk with him to the office. When we get there students were sitting outside on the benches while others were either standing outside or waiting inside. Sebastian walks in first asking the lady at the desk did she have a schedule for Brooks and she smiles nodding giving him two. He turns back around handing me mines as I smiled. As I go over my schedule I realized that me and Sebastian didn't have pretty much any of the same classes except for two which was: 4th period lunch and 6th period chemistry.

          After getting our schedule we both headed to our first period class which for me was history.When I get to class I went to sit in the of the three rows of seats in the middle of the class. Soon as the bell rang the teacher walks in with his cup of coffee and all the other students slowly started to transition. My friend Maggie walks in and I smile waving for her to sit next to me. As class was beginning to start a girl walks into the room and the teacher smirks asking him to introduce herself to the class.

" Hello everyone, My name is Jamie Reyes. Nice to meet you all. I just transferred here today," he says.

I lean over to Maggie whispering to her: " Ooooo he's cute"

          She smirks slightly shaking her head as I giggle. After the guy introduction was over class continued on for the next 25 mins. As soon as the bell rang the teacher shouted out for everyone to watch a video on the great wars of Oracle City as homework. Me and Maggie got up walking out to the hallway as we saw the new kid over talking to I guess some people he knew. One guy was muscular with black silk hair who wore a black shirt. The other guy was tall with blonde hair and tattoos down his arm. Last was some girl with long blonde hair.

" Uh Maggie Wait right here. I'm going to say hey"

" Um ok. Go ahead" she says.

          I slowly walk over clenching my books in my arms as I step aside to everyone's view.

" Um excuse me pardon my interruption, but I just wanted to say welcome clarkson vile Academy...Jamie right?"

          He stops his conversation and throws me a smirk as he nods politely raising his hand as I reach in to shake it a blue electric charge sparks from his finger tip shocking me.

"OW!"

" Oh shoot I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." He say semi worried.

" No. It's ok don't worry about"

I start to think to myself what just happen as I smiled turning to the others.

" Uh It's nice to meet you..um?" Jamie says lost.

"It's Madelyn"

" Madelyn that's a beautiful name. Well these are my friends, so don't feel shy" he informs me.

" Hi I'm Conner Kent"

" I'm Artemis Crook"

" I'm Jackson Hyde"

" Nice to meet you all" I say giving off a big smile.

" Oh and my friend is just over there her name is Maggie" I say pointing over to her as she waves.

" Cool. Well I'll see you around Madelyn. We should be getting to class" Jamie says.

" Yeah. Right. See you around"

          As the bell rang all the students in the hall started to go inside of their classrooms. Later on in the day is was lunchtime and me, Maggie and my brother all sat at the same table talking amongst ourselves of how our day was going so far. Of course as always my brother Sebastian had a issue.

" I believe my math teacher doesn't like me" he says

" why do you think that?" Maggie ask.

" Because she kept giving me a mean look every time I would stare off at the window, " he replies.

" well that's because you're supposed to be paying attention Mr. Brooks" I say giggling.

          I couldn't help, but look over noticing that Jamie and his friends were sitting at a team dialogue from our team only a few spots over. I watch as they laugh together and talk. I took a moment to notice that the guy named Conner wasn't eating his food. I started to go off into my thoughts wondering to myself what was it about them that rubbed me differently. At the moment some guy walks up to there table pointing out Conner as he knocks his tray on the floor. Conner leaped up clenching his fist as I noticed in the reflection of the light his eyes were flashing red. The guy continued to taunt Conner as he warns the guy to back off. The guy laughed and stepped forward as Conner grabs him by the shirt lifting him off his feet.

          Everyone in the lunchroom attention shot off in their direction as the security guards start to rush over. Jackson quickly jumped up telling Conner to chill out as he let's go dropping the guy on the floor. Jackson looks over asking the guy only once to back off before turning to speak to Conner. The guy got up swinging his arm and Jackson dodged it turning flipping the guy over on the wall. Security Guards order Jackson to let the guy go or everyone involved was going to be in big trouble. Jackson nods doing what he was told stepping back as one guard grabs the guy taking him to the office and the other asking for Conner to come over and talk to him.

" Are you ok?" Security Guard asks Conner.

" Yeah I'm fine." Conner replies.

"Listen You look like a nice kid. Don't let these knuckleheads get to you son. Can you do that for me?" He asks.

Conner sighs, but nod responding with: "Ok."

Conner goes back to his table sitting down as Jackson and him talk about what just happened. Everyone in the lunchroom moments later went back to what they were doing. Sebastian and I looked at each other as we saw one of the guards come back into the lunch room. I couldn't help, but continue to notice the odd signs they gave off as I looked over at Maggie and whispered: " what was with that guy. He must have a issue with their friend or something".

" well yeah earlier in the hallway Conner accidentally bumped him and didn't apologize." Maggie explains.

"Was he upset or something?" I ask.

          Maggie shrugs her shoulders shaking her head unaware of what the real issue was. Before anything more  could be said out of nowhere the ground starts to shake and the school building starts to rumble. Everyone in the lunch room started to question what was going on and it was only when the shaking got worse did people start to panic. Outside the school on to the streets, cars were swerving out of control, poles were falling crashing into buildings and people were running screaming. The security guards in the school ordered everyone to start moving toward the safe area built into the school and to take cover.

" It's an earthquake! We are under attack again" Someone shouted as others panicked.

          I look around not knowing what to do keeping my brother and Maggie close to me. As we got together everyone was starting to follow the security guard and other staff out the lunch room. I noticed that Jamie and his friends weren't around anymore. I look around as I see that they were sneaking out the doors that were uncovered and for some reason I felt the need to follow them. I turn looking back at Maggie and Sebastian telling them to follow me. Once we got around the security guard as his attention was mainly on making sure everyone was ok we sneak out the double doors. Once in the hallway we turn to see the crew rushing out to the back of the school into the yard. We follow along making sure not to make it seem that we were following them as it was a little hard being the ground was still shaking dramatically.

          Once at the door we slightly open it peaking out only to see them standing in the middle of the field looking around for what was causing the unexpected quake.

" This isn't right guys we shouldn't be spying on them" Sebastian say as I tell him to be quiet.

" He's right we're supposed to be with the rest of the class maybe they are going to go get help" Maggie continues on.

" Then why would they separate from the rest of the group to go off alone?"

          Before Maggie could even respond we noticed that a flash of light came from out in the yard as we watched Jamie body get coated with a blue like armor. Jackson arm tattoos glowed white as he pulled a blade made out of water from his bag. Conner threw his jacket to the ground ripping his clothes off as underneath he was wearing a red and black suit with his giant S symbol on his chest. At that moment, all three of them took to the sky and Artemis was in a green combat outfit springing up the buildings stairs and ledges. My eyes widened as I couldn't believe what we just saw. I knew that something was off about Jamie and his friends the moment he tried to shake my hand, but nothing like this. I couldn't believe that we went to school with the heroes that we read about in the articles and for some reason I got a chill through my system.

" No way! We go to school with superheroes!?" Sebastian whisper loudly.

" This is insane. It's so cool!" I say

" I can't believe this! Wait, what's that!?" She says pointing up at the sky as everything started to crumble and break apart when a black hole start to tear through the sky.

          At that moment everything that could move was starting to get sucked up into the sky as the strange black hole started to tear the sky apart and thunder started to spark from it.

" It's like a Dimension rift!"

"A what?!"Sebastian questions.

" A dimension rift we learned about last year. It's like a crack, split, or break between dimensions from one end to another"

Things start to get worse as the sky started to turn dark. Storms started to erupt, twisters imploded from the sky, and explosions started to happen all over Oracle City.

" Guys this is bad, this is really bad!" Maggie says .

            Before we knew it the building fully started to break apart as the ceiling started to come down right on top of us.

" Ahhhh!"

To be continued.....