Adira Hunter (DoM)

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## Adira Hunter

Adira is a female wolf and one of the main characters in the Dawn of Magic series

## Fate

Alive

**Adira Hunter** is a twelve-year-old female wolf with tri-colored fur. She is the main protagonist of the Dawn of Magic book. She is the best friend to Bekah and the girlfriend to Ethan, and she aims to protect Bekah and understand her predicament while keeping her friend group and life intact.

## History

Adira makes note of the chilly weather from earlier in the day as she reads a book on her backporch. Strange colors fill the sky, and she watches them with intent. Then, she changes into a wolf and rushes into her bathroom to look at herself in the mirror. Adira details what happened after everyone changed into animals and explains how at school she learned that animals could write and draw, so now the class has homework. Adira sits with her friends Bekah, Lauren, and Lily at lunch, eats her food, and encourages her friends to go outside with her. Adira challenges Bekah to a race and Bekah agrees, beating Adira by sliding on her stomach down a hill, but crashes into a tree. Kevin approaches the two and asks if Bekah is okay. Adira notes that while Kevin is not her crush, she thinks he is okay, and thinks he likes her. She then sees Ethan and waves to him. Adira sees Bekah swooning at her and hits her, telling her not to tease her about Ethan or else she would tease her about Nathan, Bekah's crush.

Adira encourages her friends to spy on Ethan and Kevin's group and they agree. Adira overhears Kevin admitting to Nathan that he likes Lily, and Adira can't wait to share the news with Lily. Adira hears Ethan asking his group if they know who might like him and get startled by Bekah. She then tells Lily that Kevin might like her, and Lily flips out. Adira tunes in on the conversation again and listens to Nathan and Ian bicker about whether Emma is a nerd and she grows uncomfortable with what Nathan says about her. When Kian notices the girls, Adira tells them to run away.

Back in class, Adira takes notes during a language arts lesson and notices how some kids have a hard time writing. Her teacher, Mrs. Harrington announces that the class will visit the band room to try some instruments. At the band room, Adira tries out the trombone but embarrasses herself in front of her classmates by creating a farting sound on it. Adira wanders over to the clarinet and blows into it too hard, making a screeching sound. She jumps back and bares her teeth at the instrument, and the lady holding the clarinet starts laughing. Adira blows softer into it, but it doesn't make a sound. Then, Mrs. Harrington gathers her and her classmates and heads back to class.

In her science class, while taking notes, she realizes that Nathan is sitting in Ethan's desk. She waits until Nathan goes to use the restroom before writing Ethan a note, making it sound like it was coming from Nathan. The note tells him that the author knows had a crush on Ethan. After Adira slips the note into Ethan's desk, Bekah discovers it, bringing the attention of the entire class to Adira. Adira tells the class that she wrote a letter to her friend from Mrs. Neilson's class, who sat at Ethan's desk during rotations. At that moment, Ethan enters the room to retrieve something and overhears Adira talking about his desk. He reads her note, casting doubt on who the letter was intended for, and Adira lies that she didn't write that. Ethan believes her claim, and after he leaves, Bekah and Lily laugh at her.

Adira states that she decided to pick up the clarinet in the school band and is excited that Ethan is also in band too. On her birthday, she goes to school and some people wish her a happy birthday. When she comes home, her mom announces that she and her siblings are going swimming, and she becomes excited because she wanted to know what it felt swimming as a wolf. At the rec center, she lays out her belongings and goes with her brother to the wave pool. Adira reminds Joseph how he liked to do front flips into the pool the previous year and wants him to do one. When he hesitates, Adira flips her brother over into the pool. After he climbs out, she does a flip herself into the pool and the initial impact surprises her. Joseph joins her quickly. After a little bit, they exit the water to meet up with Rachel and Katrina. Adira asks if anyone wants to get food, but only Katrina says yes. After a lunch consisting of sausage pizza, she meets up with her siblings at the wave pool. Rachel points out a double rainbow over then, and when Katrina asks if Adira is having the best birthday ever, she enthusiastically says yes.

Mrs. Harrington calls on Adira to recite the home-row keys on the keyboard, and she names them correct. She thinks back to how everyone treats her older now that she's twelve and that her friends look up to her as a big sister. Adira becomes offended when Mrs. Harrington says she expects everyone to type at thirty words per minute when in fact she can type much faster than that. Adira remembers back to the previous day, when she and Rachel walked home in the stormy weather, and her aunt came to pick them up in her car. She no tes that the weather that day wasn't much of an improvement. Adira accomplishes a typing assignment, packs up to go home, and talks to Bekah about the storm on her way out. Adira walks into the parking lot and meets up with her siblings, but her mom is not there to pick them up. They walk home, but the storm lets up before they reach home.

On a Friday afternoon, Adira stands outside basking in the sunshine. She details how she doodled during her first recess, hung out with her friends during the second recess, watched a movie in Mrs. Neilson's room, and enjoyed Airheads. When she walks through the front door, her mom tells her to get something to eat, and as she watches her mom pack a day bag, she hypothesizes that the family is going hiking, and she begs her mom not to go. Her mom, after having enough of her wailing, cuffs her on the head. Adira gets in the car with the rest of the family, but realizes that they're heading away from the hiking trails. When her mom announces they are going to spend the afternoon at Lagoon, Adira and her siblings flip out. Her excitement diminishes when they get on the freeway and hit immense traffic. Adira is so exasperated by the speed that she howls, and her mom snaps at her.

The family soon arrives at the amusement park, and Adira is shocked at the sights, smells, and sounds. While walking with her dad, Rachel, and Joseph to get food, she runs off after the aroma becomes overpowering and is surprised that her dad yelled her to come back, even though him and her siblings were a meat-eaters. The courtyard that contains the food comes into view and she again dashes away and gets her food and drink. Rachel asks her if she heart her father tell her not to get more than two cups of soda, and she replies that she didn't. Adira watches her younger brothers on the little kid rides and herself enjoys rollercoasters until sunset. Then, she leaves for home, thinking about the day as her family drives home.

Adira sits outside doodling in a notebook when Kevin approaches her. She notes that he'd been paying her more attention lately. He asks her if she'd heard of the new waterfall exhibit, and she says no. Kevin tells her about the popularity of the location, including a rumor that there was something behind a door behind the waterfall. Bekah then walks over to Adira and Kevin and sends Kevin away. Adira inquires about her strange and rude behavior, but Bekah accuses her of knowing Bekah's "secret." Adira growls in frustration, startling Bekah, and she apologizes. It starts to rain, and Adira reflects on her dad's claim that the weather was unusual. Lily bounds up to Adira and Bekah and announces that Kevin said hi to her, and Adira sarcastically expresses disbelief. She asks her friends about the waterfall, and Bekah snaps at her, saying she doesn't want to hear about anyone's lies. Adira insults Bekah but feels guilty about doing so. After earning an apology from her, Adira assumes that the two had a "friendly fight."

Adira writes the plans for her future thirteenth birthday and shows it to her mom, but it overwhelms her because of how extravagant it is and her mom tells her to go to bed. Adira argues back and gets kicked by her mother. Adira bemoans that she won't have an exciting birthday party but understands how excessive it seems. Then, she remembers back to Kevin talking about the waterfall and asks her mom if she could go on a walk. She runs over to the waterfall, goes behind the water, and finds the door. Adira hears scratching and snuffling behind it and she tries to turn the doorknob, but has no success. She then sits on a rock and waits for a few minutes before running home.

Adira pokes fun at Ethan wearing a turkey hat to school and talks briefly about the Transformation before play-fighting with him. Then, Bekah interrupts them and tells them to stop playing. When Lauren and Lily come over and ask what was happening, Bekah begins to tell them that Adira and Ethan were "flirting," but Adira jumps on her to stop her from finishing. Then, Adira accuses Bekah of acting weird, insulting people, and embarrassing them. Bekah starts to tell her about the Furies but stops herself and escapes the conversation. Lauren pulls Adira behind the portable and explains that the Furies want to kill Bekah and that she should forget the conversation and leave Bekah alone.

Adira spends the next three days alone during recess, drawing or working on her school work. She hears Lauren call to Bekah to talk to her and Adira eavesdrops on them, listening on Bekah and Lauren talk about the Furies, her hometown, and other lore. Adira is surprised when Kevin enters the conversation. After the three part ways, Adira replays part of the discussion in her head and hears a foreign voice, startling her.

While at a school assembly, Adira gets rewarded for writing a story that advances to district-level, and she thinks back to how much work she's put into the short story. Everyone in her class congratulates her except for Bekah. Lauren tells her not to be offended by it, but Adira instead goes off on how frustrated she is that she'd had to ignore Bekah for two weeks. Lauren chides Adira for using the Furies' name out of frustration and tells her that the Furies were behind the transformation and that they want to kill Bekah. Lauren encourages Adira to continue to leave Bekah alone. Adira then goes to get a free donut given out by the school to whoever entered the contest. As she retrieves her treat, Ethan comes up to her to complement her story, and Adira embarrasses herself by rambling about how long it took. Ethan informs her that Bekah had been acting strange, but she tunes out his words because she thinks his Australian accent sounds cute when he's stressed. Ethan then asks her what Bekah's problem was, and Adira tells him nothing is wrong, staying true to what she promised Lauren. They playfight briefly before Bekah approaches them and tells Ethan that she's going to take Adira. Bekah apologizes for mistreating Adira, citing her stress with the Furies, and Adira asks if she was/is a criminal; Bekah confirms this. Adira says sorry about pestering Bekah about her problems. Before the two walk back to class, Adira runs to retrieve her trophy and donut, but becomes disconcerted after seeing a pair of eyes watching her from the crowd.

Adira is anxious before entering a party hosted by her fellow classmate Karter. She embarrasses Bekah in front of seveal of her classmates by teasing her about Nathan. Adira and her friends enter the mansion and she promptly gets overwhelmed by the sights, smells, and sounds. The group visits the rooms inside the house. Adira responds snidely to a playful jest by Bekah and Bekah asks her if everything is alright, to which she says yes. Then, Ethan finds Adira and invites her to eat some of the food provided.

## Trivia

### Interesting facts

* Adira is based off the author who's pen name is identical to this character's.
	+ That includes her friends in six grade, her family members (with the exception of Joseph, who had to have his name changed from Ethan to not confuse the readers with Ethan, Adira's boyfriend), aquaintances (including teachers and classmates), crush, life experiences, and personality, to some extent.
	+ The author began to write this story while crushing on a real-life Ethan Haynes, who never turned out to be her boyfriend. That's okay. He's a dirty, backstabbing, double girlfriend double-crosser anyway.

### Author statements

* Adira's personality is a bit different than the author's. Adira in the story is more sociable and confident, but she is also awkward (or quirky, however you'd like to see it), friendly, and protective like the author.

### Mistakes

* The author always imagined Adira to have white fur and green eyes and admits that she lost track of how she'd described Adira over the story.

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## References and citations

1. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 2, page 1
2. ↑ Dawn of Magic, prologue, page 2
3. ↑ Dawn of Magic, chapter 4, page 5