This is my first fan-fiction! So excited! I know it kinda sucks and has a lot of grammatical mistakes but please review and tell me about my mistakes so I can correct them! And please don't be rude! This chapter is just an Introduction about everything after a year!

A cool breeze rustled the last leaves of the year, in the local park near a large mansion. It's fall. It has been kind of chilly out this year but this chill didn't seem to be bothering a girl who was sitting quietly on a bench with a book, spread out on her lap. Her whole attention was diverted to a family, playing nearby. A boy of maybe five was holding hands with a girl quite older than him. They were collection all the leaves from the ground and making small piles of them before jumping on them and falling on the ground. Their laughter rang out like a booming flower on a lonely sidewalk. Their parents were standing nearby, hugging each other and taking pictures of their small sweet family.

Bright crystal- like tears glistened in the jade green eyes of a young girl with beautiful, dark- red, almost brown hair. She was wearing a simple white hoodie on top of a green shirt and skinny jeans. She's a millionaire but she still didn't want attention. She didn't straighten her hair, didn't get highlights or wear super expensive clothes and didn't flirt with young guys of her age, unlike other girls. Amy just wanted to be simple like she had been before the clue hunt that had changed her whole life. And now watching the family play, she had a sudden longing to hug her parents. She was unaware of the book she was holding in her hands too hard that the pages started to rip out from the seam in the middle. She didn't care. She had been like this a lot after their clue hunt ended a year ago. She was now fifteen and had finished her first year at high school. She could remember herself being nervous at first but then it all went well in the end. She could barely remember any happy moments in her life from last year. She had spent most of the days in the library, even during lunch she ate like an elephant and dashed to the library to search on some different ancestry and history of famous people in the world. Unfortunately, she didn't find theirs as interesting as hers. Her family had been fighting for over 500 years and had at last settled in peace last year, all because of Amy and Dan, who were orphans and didn't have any special talents like other branches of their family.

But the war's not over yet. There's still another family out there, who is more powerful and crueller than us, Cahills. Vespers! She shuddered at this thought. She suddenly looked up as another boy of the same age as the girl, picked up her little brother by his collars and threw him on the ground a few feet away from his parents, who were not paying any attention until now, looked up and saw their son crying miserably. They searched for the trouble who had done this but he was gone just like their happiness. Amy couldn't stand it any longer. She snapped her book shut and searched her pocket for a few coins to pay the school librarian for the damage she had done to the book. She stood up and started walking towards her manor, HER manor. She wouldn't have believed it a year from now. Uncle Fiske had got Grace's mansion to be rebuilt after the fire, that had all been a set-up of Holts, destroyed it all. Alas! It was not the same. They couldn't bring back the old collection of books and other precious things of Grace. She still felt a sudden sadness creeping up her heart as she thought about the memorable days with Grace. Why all her loved ones died? Why her? "Stop now...you might start crying and you know that you don't want to cry. You are mature and sensible", Amy said to herself. She had been quite brave and had stopped stuttering. She smiled at this. She could also remember Dan THINKING (which was so unlike him) the other day when she had asked him some questions about 'an old man with beard' as Dan puts it. She had been searching on Shakespeare lately. She loved his 'full of love' quotes. She didn't know what has been happening to her. She just wanted to...be loved, the love that she didn't get from her parents, who died in the fire when she was six.

Hell Isabelle Kabra! Good for her now that she is in jail. She deserves it, Amy thought, But the damage's been already done. She reached out to knock on the door. They have added more security to the house. Now the lock had a symbol for each branch. She had forgotten her strange keys, with strange symbols of every branch of her family, in her backpack, which was now in her room. She just hoped Dan was home by now. Nellie had gone to her house to have dinner with her own family, Amy understands her. Uncle Fiske had gone to a party with his old Madrigal friends; Amy doubted that they just "discuss" some family matters. Anyways, she thought, It's their job. I don't want to get mixed up now. I will just go to my room and start reading some books from MY library. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Amy got Grace's room and the library that was secretly hidden behind the family crest. It's still made that way, on Amy's orders. But in the library, there were now books of Amy and of course her jade necklace that she put in a case secured by some secret codes. That's totally a Cahill idea. She felt smile inching up her face.

What the...what was taking so long for Dan to open a damn door! She had heard him saying something about Subway. Amy sighed. She would just have to wait outside for Dan to come up, eating his bunch of fast food from Subway. But when she was just about to put her book down, the door opened by the person she was least expecting to open the door of HER manor and from INSIDE! She remembered the face too well. This was the same face that had betrayed her a year ago and was now smiling at her in a way to impress girls( A/N I mean the 'other' girls), she was not going to fall for it again. Same brown eyes. Same gorgeous, dark- tanned skin. Same shiny- black hair. The same face that had come in her dreams a lot but she had almost forgotten him after the clue hunt, until now! She shoved her way inside without letting him speak. How dare he get in My Manor without my permission! Sure, Dan must have called him! I don't want to deal with him again but doesn't Dan already know that?

Hell Ian Cobra!