Origin of a Hero by Tracey West

Author:Tracey West [West, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Readers, Chapter Books, Media Tie-In, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9781338298420
Google: nbprDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Glimmer sat at her desk in Bright Moon and wrote in her diary.

“Dear Mom, I know you’ll never read this, but I have to write it somewhere,” she said out loud. “I feel like you don’t respect me.”

Whoosh! An arrow whizzed past Glimmer’s ear! It stuck with a thud into the wall beside her. A note unfurled from the arrow’s shaft: LOOK OUTSIDE.

Glimmer rolled her eyes, yanked the arrow from the wall, and then marched over to the open bedroom window.

“Watch it!” she called down in a loud whisper. “You almost hit me!”

A figure below pushed back its hood to reveal the friendly face of a teenage boy. He grinned up at Glimmer.

“Hey, Glimmer!” he shouted.

“Shhhh!” Glimmer warned. “Bow, what are you doing here?”

Normally, Glimmer would have been thrilled to see her best friend. She had missed him while she was stuck in Elberon. But the last thing she needed was to get in more trouble with her mom.

“Come down here!” Bow shouted.

“I can’t! I’m grounded!” Glimmer hissed.

“What?” Bow yelled. “I can’t hear you!”

Glimmer sighed with frustration. She teleported out of her room in a flash of pink sparkles and appeared behind Bow, shouting in his ear.

“I’m GROUNDED!” she told him.

Bow jumped. “Ah!”

Glimmer grabbed him and teleported both of them back to her room.

“Ugh! I’m so mad at my mom!” she complained.

Bow nodded as he began to fold and pick up the clothes that Glimmer had strewn around the floor.

“Is this about the siege on Elberon?” he asked.

“I was just trying to defend another one of our villages from falling into the Horde’s clutches!” she replied. “She stationed me all the way out there because it’s too remote to ever get attacked, but then it did, and it was my ONE CHANCE to prove that I can do this. But she acts like I can’t do anything because I’m just a princess. Ugh!”

She teleported up to her high, floating platform bed.

“That doesn’t make sense,” Bow said. “Everyone here is a princess! I’m, like, the only one who’s not a princess.”

Glimmer collapsed dramatically on her bed. “Tell that to my mom!”

Bow held up a folded sweater. “Hey, where does this go?”

“Bottom drawer,” Glimmer instructed.

Glimmer sometimes wondered how she and Bow had become friends. Bow could be compulsively neat, and Glimmer was sometimes careless and messy. Glimmer knew that she could spark to anger in a flash, while Bow usually kept his cool. But they bonded over their love of Bright Moon, and their desire to keep it safe from the Horde.

“Anyway, your mom might have a point,” Bow said. “The only reason you got out of there is because of your teleportation powers, and let’s face it, they don’t always work that well.”

Glimmer scowled. “Looking for support here, Bow!”

He climbed the floating steps to join her. “I’m just saying, if you want to prove yourself, it’s going to take more than running recklessly into any old battle. Luckily, I’ve got just the thing.”

He pulled out a small scanner pad. “Check this out.

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