Largo
04-26-2008, 02:01 PM
First two chapters of a story im writeing.
I need some encouragment to finish this story. So any encouragment would be awsome. So if you have not read it feel free to read and critisize it all you want. Just take into mind that im not the smartest person, and the sentence structures, and spelling will suck. I hope you all enjoy it.
Also some of the words may be changed do to the forums filter. so if you see something that is strange and out of place try and realize this. haha
Im just starting to getting back into writeing it, and would love to get more ppls views on it. So if you got the time THANKS!!!
Blackout
Chapter 1
It was a most beautiful day outside. Just like all the others before it. The birds were singing, the trees were swaying, and the breeze was warm and soothing. Walking home from school was as joyful as always. The walk was a short one but that was okay. Eli had his usual plans for the day, and that always meant his legs would be sore upon his return home for dinner. Ten minutes from now, he would be out on his usual stroll through his backyard. Nevertheless, he enjoyed that short walk home just the same. Waving to every car, man, women and child to cross his path, there was something extra special about today but he just could not put his finger on it. His body knew it, yet his mind could not remember what it was.
"No matter." Eli told himself "I will remember it sooner or later".
Eli shrugged his shoulders and kept on walking to his house. Upon arriving home, he noticed his mother's car was not parked in the garage. "Hmm, that's unusual" he pondered to himself. He tossed his backpack into the front door, and was about to head out, when he noticed there was a message on the answer machine.
"Hey Eli sweetie, work has me doing a little extra today. I will be home in time, but eat a snack before, okay."
"No matter, I can wait a little longer for dinner, I don't need a snack. Besides the woods await." He thought as he was bounding out the door, and running for the backyard.
As he made his way farther into the woods, he just could not shake the thought he was missing something. "What could it be?" he kept thinking to himself. He pushed the thought aside once again continuing onward. He knew the path well; he has traveled it many times through his life, first with his brothers and now by himself. He was just about to cross a small little stream and he thought he should turn back home. "But why?" Glancing down at his watch. "Four o'clock, what is so important about four o'clock" Shrugging it off yet again, he continued over the stream, and down the path to his favorite place. "The Angels Playground" he called it. It was a big open field right in the middle of the woods. The field was full of flowers; colors to make even a rainbow jealous. If you were Lucky, and quite enough, you would be able to see the small creatures that would bask in the sun and soak up its warm rays. The first time he ever found this place was, when his older brothers felt it would be funny to leave him in the woods, and return home.
Eli peaked his head around a tree into the field so as not to disturb any of the animals. He was disappointed to see that there were no animals of any sort, but no matter he can still lie down and relax in the sweet smelling beauty of Mother Nature. "Time for my nap" Eli said as a smile slid across his face, and was quickly turned into a yawn. While Stretching, his eyes were searching around for a nice place to lie down. Finding his spot, a nice soft patch of extra grown grass, he slowly drifted into darkness and was fast sleep.
Upon waking up, he realized that he had dreamt of the day his brothers thought it funny to leave him behind. "Ha, they didn?t find it funny when Dad took his belt to their bottoms afterwards now did they" Smiling in remembrance of the occasion, his smile faded and his eyes widened. "Ah CRAP!" "DAD, oh geez!" He remembered now, he was supposed to be going with his mother to get dad at the airport today. Lifting himself up and on his feet, he began to run, stumble and get dizzy. "Whoa, maybe I should wake up a little bit first." Gaining his bearings, he continued down the path for home. He heard a faint noise in the distance, repeatedly, as he got closer; he made out what it was. It was his mother calling out his name. He realized that he was not too late. He still had time. Eli smiled at the thought, but suddenly he heard no more calling. His mother had given up. "She must be leaving, no!" At that time, Eli ditched the normal path, and ran straight line for the house. He was not familiar with the path he was taking but he was clearing all the necessary obstacles that wanted to slow him down, jumping over every low hanging tree limb, rock, stump, and stream that was in his way. As he was making good ground for the house, he saw a stump, not just some ordinary stump but a HUGE stump. He has never seen a tree that was as big as that would have been in these woods. He stopped thinking of the stump, leaped up on top of it and as he jumped from the other end, his eyes went wide, and he let out a scream. "OHHHHHHH HMMFFF" Then everything went Black.
When Eli finally came too, his head was spinning and his mouth tasted of blood. Slowly getting to one knee then the other, he tried pushing himself to his feet. He fell flat to the ground back onto his stomach. Lying there for a few minutes to catch his breath and allow his eyes time adjusted to the darkness. Turning himself over to his back, he lied there breathing heavily trying to look up at the stars. He could not see them though, just pitch black darkness and a slight glow of light above him. As his eyes adjusted, he found out to his surprise that he was not looking up at the sky, but an opening to a hole. "Ah man how, did I end up in this mess." He thought as he got to his feet. A slight dizziness overpowered him; he leaned up against the dirt and rock wall to support himself. "That has got to be at least ten feet high." Eli said allowed while inside he was hoping that the wall was strong enough for him to climb up. Searching for a sturdy grip on the wall. He reached around the darkness of his hole, and about an arms length above his head, he found one. Grasping on he pulled up and kicked his feet into the wall; climbing inch by inch, he made his way to the top. Only to find that three feet from the top it was all soft dirt and he could not go any further. Looking down he feared jumping up to try and reach the edge, but he really didn?t feel like falling again. "Come on chicken, little baby brother too scared." He heard his brothers taunting him. "SHUT UP! "IM NOT SCARED" Eli yelled out in his exasperation. However, it was only in his head. "Should I jump?" He asked himself. "Or should I climb down?"
At this time his arms made the choice for him, he started losing grip; he felt his strength escaping him. His legs started to wobble and down he went hugging the wall as it scraped his arms and knees. "Dang it!" He scolded himself. Slamming his fist to the ground. "All I had to do was jump." "How else am I going to get out of here?"
He sat there for a few minutes to gain his strength and give it another shot. Rubbing his arms and knees, he started drifting into thoughts of what his mom was thinking, if she even noticed him missing yet. "She surely must be home with Dad by now." Glancing down to see what time it was, he noticed that his watch was missing. "Dang it, I cant even tell how late I am." He palmed his way around the ground floor of this damned hole he was trapped in, searching for anything that would resemble his watch. As his hand extended the floor, he felt something move. "OH CRAP!" he yelled. Scrambling to his feet, backing up as close to his prison wall as he could. "I hate Snakes!" he cursed. He heard the rustling of leaves and dirt; the noise was getting closer and closer. "No stay away you stupid snake!" -SNAP- "What the." He heard a snapping of a branch as if someone had stepped on it. Now realizing that the noise was in fact above him.
"HELP!" he screamed "ANYONE! Please help."
"I'm over by this stump, can you hear me?" he asked expectantly "I am in a hole, can you get me out please?"
Time went by as if every second was a lifetime. "Um Hello, is there anyone up there?" He was looking up, wishing, hoping, and praying that he was not just hearing things. Slowly he started seeing a silhouette of someone's head. Letting out a deep breath of relief, " Pheww, I was beginning to think that you were just a figment of my imagination." He said laughingly as he smiled upwardly at the unknown shadow.
"Mbimuph omfh hunpherium" a soft gentle sounding voice mumbled.
"What was that, I am sorry, I didn't hear you too well." Eli said, his smile slipping away.
"Mbimuph omfh hunpherium" the same words were repeated.
"Can you plea..." suddenly interrupted. The ground began to shake, and a loud thunderous noise was getting louder and louder. The ground began to shake more violently with each second. Losing his balance, he fell to the ground. "What's going on." He said while wrapping his arms around his legs and blocking his ears.
As the ground began to steady, and the noise receded into the distance. Looking up Eli found that yet again he was alone. Getting back to his feet, he started to despair. "Did I just imagine it all?" Thinking to himself. "Was someone actually even there?"
Moments passed bye, as Eli wondered how he would get out, if he would get out. Not knowing what time it was he did not know if his mother would be worried about him yet or not, or even if she would think about looking off the path when searching for him. As his thoughts came and left him, so did his calm. Tears started to well up in his eyes. It was dark, damp, and cold. On top of that, he was stuck in a stupid hole with a small slithering snake. A tear started falling down his left cheek, at the same time he heard, "Mbimuph egonium portrite pigomuis."
Shifting his head up as fast as he could, he again noticed that same silhouette. This time it was throwing something down to him. Hearing small tapping along the side of the hole, stepping closer and closer to the sound, he felt around and found an end to the rope. "Grib yon tiqua ornagin." The strange shadow voiced to him.
"Thank you so much!" Smiling as his stomach untied itself and his worries left him. "I thought I hit my head harder then I did. Figured you were just my imagination again."
Grabbing onto the rope, and setting his feet to the wall, Eli began to climb towards the top of the hole as the rope was gradually being pulled upwards. "Boy am I glad that you came along." He said as he was nearing the top. Reaching forward as he got to the ridge, he was grasped firmly at the arm and pulled out of the hole to the ground. Lying on his back breathing heavily from his efforts, he gazed over to his savor, his eyes narrowed and confusion settled on his mind. "What is going on, where am I?"
Everything was different; the air was sweet, and full of fragrance, reminding him of his get away spot, "The Angels Playground". On top of the smell, all the trees where taller, bigger, all the leaves where huge, there was nothing that resembled the old woods. It was not even nighttime, the clouds, and the foliage was blocking out most of the lights rays. Turning around he saw his saviors back, as it was walking away. "Hey wait up, what has happened, where am I?" The long brown haired girl kept walking off. Catching up to her, Eli was finally able see her face. Such beauty, yet such dismay. He had never seen someone so absentminded of there surroundings.
"Um, Hello, my names Eli. I would like to thank you for helping me out of that hole." He said as he put out his hand.
The girl stopped, looked at the hand and moved her stare to his face. Their eyes met, Eli had never seen eyes as green and beautiful as those looking at him then. His heart was racing and his hand started to shake. He was never very good around girls, especially with ones as cute as this. ?Uhhh? getting nervous, he started to lower his hand, still stuck in her eyes. "Uhh umm..." Eli started asking something.
The girl suddenly mumbled some words, and put her attention to the sky. Sniffing the air while her eyes were bouncing left and right. Getting scared of his situation, Eli finally decided to lower his arm, only for it to be taken up almost being yanked out of its socket, they were off in a full run. Being pulled along, Eli's heart was racing. "Mioptiquet ohnisaur conivoris" the girl said as she was glancing back at him. Seconds later, the loud thunderous noise had returned. Along with its earth shattering quakes. Letting go of his hand the girl ducked under a tree limb and bounded for a hollowed out tree trunk. Jumping in, she motioned him to fallow. "No need to tell me twice." He thought. Jumping in beside her, there they sat motionless, until the noise had softened, and the ground began to settle.
"Opewignatio hutir nugon?" she said in a questioning voice. "I am sorry but I don't understand you." He said aloud, in a disheartened manor. "You don't even understand anything I am saying either do you." Stating the obvious did not help anything. Popping his head out of the tree trunk to have another look around, he had no idea where he was. Which way was home, or even if he was anywhere near home. His woods were no longer what they once were, but now a jungle full of animals, and vegetation at every step.
A sad look fell upon his face, he sat back down, in deep thought, "What is going on, what could have happened."
"Well I guess I am lost, can you help me out?" He said to the girl while she was feeling the shirt that he wore. She looked up noticing he was looking at her, took her hand from his shirt and stood up. Pulling him to his feet, she motioned him to follow.
"Where else am I supposed to go?" He said to himself amusingly. Putting one foot in front of the other, he started to follow this strange yet eerily soothing girl, through a jungle that he once new as his backyard.
Chapter 2
As the plane started its decent for the runway, there was turbulence bouncing the cabin around. "Hmmm, a bit more then usual." thought Eli's father. Quickly he checked to make sure his belt was secured and tight. The plane descended a bit more as it did the turbulence increased. A voice came over the intercom, "I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we are having a bit of a problem. The wind conditions are a bit too much for us to land at this time. We will have to try again from another approach. It should not be long. I'm sorry for the delay." The captain finished his apologies and the plane was ascending back into the sky.
Flipping through the day's newspaper Eli's mother was waiting patiently for her husbands to arrive. Tapping her foot at speeds seemed impossible, while every few minutes glancing at the clock. So, she wasn't waiting so patiently. She had already read through this particular paper twice, once at work in the morning and again, here, at the airport. It was the only thing to read around her so she made due.
Light came into Eli's world once again. The fire, which he and this strange girl built, had gone out. They walked for what seemed like miles yesterday. He could still feel the bruise on his leg, which he got from falling and slamming against a rock. At no time did the girl stumble though, like she was able see in the dark, she jumped over and stepped on everything and anything that got in her way. "Not so was the case for me though." Eli thought well he rubbed his leg to get rid of some of the soreness. When she realized it was much to dark for him to see she decided to stop for the night. They gathered wood and she started a fire within minutes. "I would like it if we could start up another fire." Eli wishfully thought.
Lifting his head from his mock pillow made of leaves, he noticed that the girl was no longer sleeping, nor around the camp site at all. Sitting up, he stretched, yawned, and scratched his head. "Man did I sleep well." He said to himself. "But I sure am sore." Getting up, he walked over to the pile of extra twigs and wood they gathered the night before. Stacking a few in his arms he brought them over to the now dampened fireplace. "Ah man how am I supposed to get it started when everything is damp like this." He tried anyways. Some of the embers from last nights fire were still a bit hot. So he stacked a few twigs on top and started blowing. It took him about 15 minutes, and many dizzy spells but he finally got some of the twigs ablaze. Slowly he added more and more till he had himself a nice little fire. "Now that's much better." He said while warming his hands. "I wonder where that girl ran off too." Looking around for any signs of any sort. "I sure hope she didn't leave me here"?
"Grroaurrrrrr." "Oh shut up you, I have nothing to give you." Eli told his stomach. "Grrrrroaurrrrrrrrrrrr." His stomach yelled back. "Yes yes I know but now is not the time." Standing up he stretched again. And again his stomached gave disapproval for their situation. "I wonder what my brothers would do in this situation, they were always much better in the woods then I was." "I am sure there is something that I can eat around here."
Stepping closer to the fire he warmed his hands one more time and added a few more pieces to the ever-growing fire. "Lets see what we can find around here, shall we tummy, hmmm?" He asked his stomach. "Grrraurrr" His stomach replied in agreement. As he started walking away from the campsite he realized that it was much colder then he thought. "I better not stray to far away, maybe she is close, maybe she could hear me if I called." He thought for one second, but on the other second he thought, "then again maybe I should be quite."
The girl was always mumbling things to him in a low voice. Whenever he would say anything above a whisper, she would turn around glare at him and put her finger to her mouth. "So I guess its best for now not to bring any attention to myself." He decided to walk back to his campsite and look around there for anything that was edible. He picked up a few pieces of wood he felt were drier then others, and added them to their stack they had built. Getting back to the campsite he found nothing but grass and mud and roots to eat, and his stomach wasn't jumping at the chance for any of that. He sat down next to his newly made fire added a few more pieces and slowly drifted back into his darkness.
"What is taking so long, I was told the flight was on time." Eli's mother's temper rose. She set the paper down and went in search of someone to ask. Maybe even some new reading material.
As the plane ascended back into the sky Eli's father double-checked his seat belt, making sure it was strapped tightly and secured. The old women sitting next to him just sat smiling. "Oh what a lovely ride this is isn't it sweet Stephie." The old women said to no one in particular. The turbulence kept getting worse every meter they rose into the sky. The cabin was shaking so fiercely it was almost alive.
Shock hit Eli at that moment, shock of some ones touch, and the sound of a voice. He was being shaken back and forth against the tree he fell asleep on.
"Grawkpe oorp!" "Grawkpe oorp!" He heard.
His eyes opened and he was pulled to his feet. The girl had finally returned, and woke him. He couldn't help but smile at her. Her face was so close to him as she was shaking him awake, and now in the daylight, he saw what a beauty she was. Shying away from him, she turned and reached into her backpack, pulled out a small bag and tossed it to him.
"What is this?" he asked curiously. "And what is that smell, is that fish cooking over the fire?"
"Grraurrrrrrr" his stomached rejoiced. "Grraurrr, Graurr"
She turned away from him walked over to the fire and pulled off one of the sticks from the fire. Handing it to Eli she smiled and grabbed her own fish. Now with both hands holding something he set the bag down. Then leaned the pike with the fish on it against a rock. Picked up the bag, he looked inside. "Mmmm, I love mushroom!" he said very sincerely. "Thank you so much." The girl looked up from the fish she was eating mumbled a few words, smiled and commenced to eat her fish some more.
When they were both done with there meals, the girl offered him some water from her cantina, which he took very graciously, and they started on there way again.
"Gwerur war honely fibit gawys jow." The girl mumbled only a few steps into there, what Eli hopes to be short walk for the day.
"I am really sorry, I can't understand anything that you are saying." Eli frowned "But I am really happy for all the help you are giving me. Thank you for breakfast as well, it was very good." The girl smiled and waved him to follow her.
Eli didn't realize it earlier, but this girl had a weapon on her side. It looked like a gun, but a bit strange to be a gun at the same time. "Apparently there is a good reason to keep quite in this place." From then on, anything he had to say either consisted of asking for water, or asking why she wouldn't let him stop for a break. More like whining for lack of a rest. Yet even his whining he kept at low volume. So that he wouldn?t have to see why this girl was carrying a weapon.
She allowed him to stop, which seemed a rare enough occasion, for about 5 minutes. He was definitely grateful for those 5 minutes. It's just he needed a bit longer is all, and it seemed as if she hasn?t give him his 5-minute break for such a long time.
As they reached the top of what seemed to Eli as an endless hill. He bent down, and collapsed on the ground to catch his breath. Which seemed to have run away from him before they had even decided to tackle the hill.
"Gwet op klook." The girl said when she realized he was taking a break.
"Yah yah, I am getting up, I just need to catch my breath, and I will be right behind you. Just one second...or maybe two." He said exasperatingly.
Giving him a nudge with her shoe, he looked up at her and saw her pointing off in the distance.
"Okay, okay, I am getting up."
Standing up he wiped the dirt off that he collected while climbing the hill. The girl was looking at him, he noticed, she smiled and pointed out off in the distance again. Eli followed her finger and gazed out from their hilltop.
"Very pretty. I don't think I have seen such a sunset as this." He said while still searching for that breath he had lost.
"Gwo Gwo Gwo, Klook!" she pointed again and again.
Suddenly realizing what it was that she was pointing at. "Awesome! Is that where we are headed?" He asked with a renewed strength.
The girl nodded her head, and waved him to follow her down the hill. "It doesn't look so far away, we should be there in no time"?
No time has ever felt so long as this particular "No time". But on the bright side, he was able to get a few more of those 5-minute breaks he was asking for. It was getting darker and darker every step they each took. So it didn?t take long for it to be pitch black yet again.
"Im sorry, but I can't see again, I really don't feel like falling and hurting myself again. Can we stop for the night?" Eli asked and pleaded at the same time ever so nicely.
"Gwo Gwo" the girl said. She turned around grabbed him by the arm and led him through a few more steps and a few more leaves and over a few more rocks. Until he finally saw a light off in the distance. Letting go of his arm she walked faster towards the big cement building that the light was attached to. Trudging behind as always he kept pace. Making their way around each corner seemed as if it was endless, but he had light, so he couldn't complain. Finally they rounded a corner and instead of the normal cement wall, there stood a door at the far end.
Gazing at the door, Eli didn't realize that the girl had stopped in front of him. "Ooof, Owe im sorry, I didn't see you stop. Are we going into that door over there"? The girl didn't move or answer him. She just sniffed the air and looked around. "What's the matte...eerr?" He started saying as she grabed him again by the arm and sprinted for the door. "Why are we running?" Elis question was answered before he could even wait for a response. "BOOM" and again "BOOM" sounding closer and closer with each ground quake. The light on the wall started to move back and forth, casting there shadows on the ground then over the trees and on the ground again and again. Eli's heart raced as he and this stranger ran to the door of a building he had no clue about, in a jungle that he used to call his back yard.
As they approached the door the girl let go of his arm. Stopped and opened up a panel where the door handle should have been. She entered in a key code and the door slid open, they rushed in and the door slid back shut again. Both of them panting and sweating from their run to the door. Was it exhaustion that she was sweating from or was it fear. Fear for whatever that noise was. He would of asked her but he knew he wouldn't understand her answer. Once the noise receded, and the shaking once again stopped. He looked down to where the girl was sitting and found that she was no longer there. In a panic he looked up, looked around and all he saw was darkness, there was a light coming from what looked like a doorway off in the distance. Suddenly he noticed a silhouette pass through the door.
"Hey wait, where are you going!" "What am I supposed to do?" he yelled in despair. "Alone again." He realized. "Back in the dark and alone again."
I need some encouragment to finish this story. So any encouragment would be awsome. So if you have not read it feel free to read and critisize it all you want. Just take into mind that im not the smartest person, and the sentence structures, and spelling will suck. I hope you all enjoy it.
Also some of the words may be changed do to the forums filter. so if you see something that is strange and out of place try and realize this. haha
Im just starting to getting back into writeing it, and would love to get more ppls views on it. So if you got the time THANKS!!!
Blackout
Chapter 1
It was a most beautiful day outside. Just like all the others before it. The birds were singing, the trees were swaying, and the breeze was warm and soothing. Walking home from school was as joyful as always. The walk was a short one but that was okay. Eli had his usual plans for the day, and that always meant his legs would be sore upon his return home for dinner. Ten minutes from now, he would be out on his usual stroll through his backyard. Nevertheless, he enjoyed that short walk home just the same. Waving to every car, man, women and child to cross his path, there was something extra special about today but he just could not put his finger on it. His body knew it, yet his mind could not remember what it was.
"No matter." Eli told himself "I will remember it sooner or later".
Eli shrugged his shoulders and kept on walking to his house. Upon arriving home, he noticed his mother's car was not parked in the garage. "Hmm, that's unusual" he pondered to himself. He tossed his backpack into the front door, and was about to head out, when he noticed there was a message on the answer machine.
"Hey Eli sweetie, work has me doing a little extra today. I will be home in time, but eat a snack before, okay."
"No matter, I can wait a little longer for dinner, I don't need a snack. Besides the woods await." He thought as he was bounding out the door, and running for the backyard.
As he made his way farther into the woods, he just could not shake the thought he was missing something. "What could it be?" he kept thinking to himself. He pushed the thought aside once again continuing onward. He knew the path well; he has traveled it many times through his life, first with his brothers and now by himself. He was just about to cross a small little stream and he thought he should turn back home. "But why?" Glancing down at his watch. "Four o'clock, what is so important about four o'clock" Shrugging it off yet again, he continued over the stream, and down the path to his favorite place. "The Angels Playground" he called it. It was a big open field right in the middle of the woods. The field was full of flowers; colors to make even a rainbow jealous. If you were Lucky, and quite enough, you would be able to see the small creatures that would bask in the sun and soak up its warm rays. The first time he ever found this place was, when his older brothers felt it would be funny to leave him in the woods, and return home.
Eli peaked his head around a tree into the field so as not to disturb any of the animals. He was disappointed to see that there were no animals of any sort, but no matter he can still lie down and relax in the sweet smelling beauty of Mother Nature. "Time for my nap" Eli said as a smile slid across his face, and was quickly turned into a yawn. While Stretching, his eyes were searching around for a nice place to lie down. Finding his spot, a nice soft patch of extra grown grass, he slowly drifted into darkness and was fast sleep.
Upon waking up, he realized that he had dreamt of the day his brothers thought it funny to leave him behind. "Ha, they didn?t find it funny when Dad took his belt to their bottoms afterwards now did they" Smiling in remembrance of the occasion, his smile faded and his eyes widened. "Ah CRAP!" "DAD, oh geez!" He remembered now, he was supposed to be going with his mother to get dad at the airport today. Lifting himself up and on his feet, he began to run, stumble and get dizzy. "Whoa, maybe I should wake up a little bit first." Gaining his bearings, he continued down the path for home. He heard a faint noise in the distance, repeatedly, as he got closer; he made out what it was. It was his mother calling out his name. He realized that he was not too late. He still had time. Eli smiled at the thought, but suddenly he heard no more calling. His mother had given up. "She must be leaving, no!" At that time, Eli ditched the normal path, and ran straight line for the house. He was not familiar with the path he was taking but he was clearing all the necessary obstacles that wanted to slow him down, jumping over every low hanging tree limb, rock, stump, and stream that was in his way. As he was making good ground for the house, he saw a stump, not just some ordinary stump but a HUGE stump. He has never seen a tree that was as big as that would have been in these woods. He stopped thinking of the stump, leaped up on top of it and as he jumped from the other end, his eyes went wide, and he let out a scream. "OHHHHHHH HMMFFF" Then everything went Black.
When Eli finally came too, his head was spinning and his mouth tasted of blood. Slowly getting to one knee then the other, he tried pushing himself to his feet. He fell flat to the ground back onto his stomach. Lying there for a few minutes to catch his breath and allow his eyes time adjusted to the darkness. Turning himself over to his back, he lied there breathing heavily trying to look up at the stars. He could not see them though, just pitch black darkness and a slight glow of light above him. As his eyes adjusted, he found out to his surprise that he was not looking up at the sky, but an opening to a hole. "Ah man how, did I end up in this mess." He thought as he got to his feet. A slight dizziness overpowered him; he leaned up against the dirt and rock wall to support himself. "That has got to be at least ten feet high." Eli said allowed while inside he was hoping that the wall was strong enough for him to climb up. Searching for a sturdy grip on the wall. He reached around the darkness of his hole, and about an arms length above his head, he found one. Grasping on he pulled up and kicked his feet into the wall; climbing inch by inch, he made his way to the top. Only to find that three feet from the top it was all soft dirt and he could not go any further. Looking down he feared jumping up to try and reach the edge, but he really didn?t feel like falling again. "Come on chicken, little baby brother too scared." He heard his brothers taunting him. "SHUT UP! "IM NOT SCARED" Eli yelled out in his exasperation. However, it was only in his head. "Should I jump?" He asked himself. "Or should I climb down?"
At this time his arms made the choice for him, he started losing grip; he felt his strength escaping him. His legs started to wobble and down he went hugging the wall as it scraped his arms and knees. "Dang it!" He scolded himself. Slamming his fist to the ground. "All I had to do was jump." "How else am I going to get out of here?"
He sat there for a few minutes to gain his strength and give it another shot. Rubbing his arms and knees, he started drifting into thoughts of what his mom was thinking, if she even noticed him missing yet. "She surely must be home with Dad by now." Glancing down to see what time it was, he noticed that his watch was missing. "Dang it, I cant even tell how late I am." He palmed his way around the ground floor of this damned hole he was trapped in, searching for anything that would resemble his watch. As his hand extended the floor, he felt something move. "OH CRAP!" he yelled. Scrambling to his feet, backing up as close to his prison wall as he could. "I hate Snakes!" he cursed. He heard the rustling of leaves and dirt; the noise was getting closer and closer. "No stay away you stupid snake!" -SNAP- "What the." He heard a snapping of a branch as if someone had stepped on it. Now realizing that the noise was in fact above him.
"HELP!" he screamed "ANYONE! Please help."
"I'm over by this stump, can you hear me?" he asked expectantly "I am in a hole, can you get me out please?"
Time went by as if every second was a lifetime. "Um Hello, is there anyone up there?" He was looking up, wishing, hoping, and praying that he was not just hearing things. Slowly he started seeing a silhouette of someone's head. Letting out a deep breath of relief, " Pheww, I was beginning to think that you were just a figment of my imagination." He said laughingly as he smiled upwardly at the unknown shadow.
"Mbimuph omfh hunpherium" a soft gentle sounding voice mumbled.
"What was that, I am sorry, I didn't hear you too well." Eli said, his smile slipping away.
"Mbimuph omfh hunpherium" the same words were repeated.
"Can you plea..." suddenly interrupted. The ground began to shake, and a loud thunderous noise was getting louder and louder. The ground began to shake more violently with each second. Losing his balance, he fell to the ground. "What's going on." He said while wrapping his arms around his legs and blocking his ears.
As the ground began to steady, and the noise receded into the distance. Looking up Eli found that yet again he was alone. Getting back to his feet, he started to despair. "Did I just imagine it all?" Thinking to himself. "Was someone actually even there?"
Moments passed bye, as Eli wondered how he would get out, if he would get out. Not knowing what time it was he did not know if his mother would be worried about him yet or not, or even if she would think about looking off the path when searching for him. As his thoughts came and left him, so did his calm. Tears started to well up in his eyes. It was dark, damp, and cold. On top of that, he was stuck in a stupid hole with a small slithering snake. A tear started falling down his left cheek, at the same time he heard, "Mbimuph egonium portrite pigomuis."
Shifting his head up as fast as he could, he again noticed that same silhouette. This time it was throwing something down to him. Hearing small tapping along the side of the hole, stepping closer and closer to the sound, he felt around and found an end to the rope. "Grib yon tiqua ornagin." The strange shadow voiced to him.
"Thank you so much!" Smiling as his stomach untied itself and his worries left him. "I thought I hit my head harder then I did. Figured you were just my imagination again."
Grabbing onto the rope, and setting his feet to the wall, Eli began to climb towards the top of the hole as the rope was gradually being pulled upwards. "Boy am I glad that you came along." He said as he was nearing the top. Reaching forward as he got to the ridge, he was grasped firmly at the arm and pulled out of the hole to the ground. Lying on his back breathing heavily from his efforts, he gazed over to his savor, his eyes narrowed and confusion settled on his mind. "What is going on, where am I?"
Everything was different; the air was sweet, and full of fragrance, reminding him of his get away spot, "The Angels Playground". On top of the smell, all the trees where taller, bigger, all the leaves where huge, there was nothing that resembled the old woods. It was not even nighttime, the clouds, and the foliage was blocking out most of the lights rays. Turning around he saw his saviors back, as it was walking away. "Hey wait up, what has happened, where am I?" The long brown haired girl kept walking off. Catching up to her, Eli was finally able see her face. Such beauty, yet such dismay. He had never seen someone so absentminded of there surroundings.
"Um, Hello, my names Eli. I would like to thank you for helping me out of that hole." He said as he put out his hand.
The girl stopped, looked at the hand and moved her stare to his face. Their eyes met, Eli had never seen eyes as green and beautiful as those looking at him then. His heart was racing and his hand started to shake. He was never very good around girls, especially with ones as cute as this. ?Uhhh? getting nervous, he started to lower his hand, still stuck in her eyes. "Uhh umm..." Eli started asking something.
The girl suddenly mumbled some words, and put her attention to the sky. Sniffing the air while her eyes were bouncing left and right. Getting scared of his situation, Eli finally decided to lower his arm, only for it to be taken up almost being yanked out of its socket, they were off in a full run. Being pulled along, Eli's heart was racing. "Mioptiquet ohnisaur conivoris" the girl said as she was glancing back at him. Seconds later, the loud thunderous noise had returned. Along with its earth shattering quakes. Letting go of his hand the girl ducked under a tree limb and bounded for a hollowed out tree trunk. Jumping in, she motioned him to fallow. "No need to tell me twice." He thought. Jumping in beside her, there they sat motionless, until the noise had softened, and the ground began to settle.
"Opewignatio hutir nugon?" she said in a questioning voice. "I am sorry but I don't understand you." He said aloud, in a disheartened manor. "You don't even understand anything I am saying either do you." Stating the obvious did not help anything. Popping his head out of the tree trunk to have another look around, he had no idea where he was. Which way was home, or even if he was anywhere near home. His woods were no longer what they once were, but now a jungle full of animals, and vegetation at every step.
A sad look fell upon his face, he sat back down, in deep thought, "What is going on, what could have happened."
"Well I guess I am lost, can you help me out?" He said to the girl while she was feeling the shirt that he wore. She looked up noticing he was looking at her, took her hand from his shirt and stood up. Pulling him to his feet, she motioned him to follow.
"Where else am I supposed to go?" He said to himself amusingly. Putting one foot in front of the other, he started to follow this strange yet eerily soothing girl, through a jungle that he once new as his backyard.
Chapter 2
As the plane started its decent for the runway, there was turbulence bouncing the cabin around. "Hmmm, a bit more then usual." thought Eli's father. Quickly he checked to make sure his belt was secured and tight. The plane descended a bit more as it did the turbulence increased. A voice came over the intercom, "I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we are having a bit of a problem. The wind conditions are a bit too much for us to land at this time. We will have to try again from another approach. It should not be long. I'm sorry for the delay." The captain finished his apologies and the plane was ascending back into the sky.
Flipping through the day's newspaper Eli's mother was waiting patiently for her husbands to arrive. Tapping her foot at speeds seemed impossible, while every few minutes glancing at the clock. So, she wasn't waiting so patiently. She had already read through this particular paper twice, once at work in the morning and again, here, at the airport. It was the only thing to read around her so she made due.
Light came into Eli's world once again. The fire, which he and this strange girl built, had gone out. They walked for what seemed like miles yesterday. He could still feel the bruise on his leg, which he got from falling and slamming against a rock. At no time did the girl stumble though, like she was able see in the dark, she jumped over and stepped on everything and anything that got in her way. "Not so was the case for me though." Eli thought well he rubbed his leg to get rid of some of the soreness. When she realized it was much to dark for him to see she decided to stop for the night. They gathered wood and she started a fire within minutes. "I would like it if we could start up another fire." Eli wishfully thought.
Lifting his head from his mock pillow made of leaves, he noticed that the girl was no longer sleeping, nor around the camp site at all. Sitting up, he stretched, yawned, and scratched his head. "Man did I sleep well." He said to himself. "But I sure am sore." Getting up, he walked over to the pile of extra twigs and wood they gathered the night before. Stacking a few in his arms he brought them over to the now dampened fireplace. "Ah man how am I supposed to get it started when everything is damp like this." He tried anyways. Some of the embers from last nights fire were still a bit hot. So he stacked a few twigs on top and started blowing. It took him about 15 minutes, and many dizzy spells but he finally got some of the twigs ablaze. Slowly he added more and more till he had himself a nice little fire. "Now that's much better." He said while warming his hands. "I wonder where that girl ran off too." Looking around for any signs of any sort. "I sure hope she didn't leave me here"?
"Grroaurrrrrr." "Oh shut up you, I have nothing to give you." Eli told his stomach. "Grrrrroaurrrrrrrrrrrr." His stomach yelled back. "Yes yes I know but now is not the time." Standing up he stretched again. And again his stomached gave disapproval for their situation. "I wonder what my brothers would do in this situation, they were always much better in the woods then I was." "I am sure there is something that I can eat around here."
Stepping closer to the fire he warmed his hands one more time and added a few more pieces to the ever-growing fire. "Lets see what we can find around here, shall we tummy, hmmm?" He asked his stomach. "Grrraurrr" His stomach replied in agreement. As he started walking away from the campsite he realized that it was much colder then he thought. "I better not stray to far away, maybe she is close, maybe she could hear me if I called." He thought for one second, but on the other second he thought, "then again maybe I should be quite."
The girl was always mumbling things to him in a low voice. Whenever he would say anything above a whisper, she would turn around glare at him and put her finger to her mouth. "So I guess its best for now not to bring any attention to myself." He decided to walk back to his campsite and look around there for anything that was edible. He picked up a few pieces of wood he felt were drier then others, and added them to their stack they had built. Getting back to the campsite he found nothing but grass and mud and roots to eat, and his stomach wasn't jumping at the chance for any of that. He sat down next to his newly made fire added a few more pieces and slowly drifted back into his darkness.
"What is taking so long, I was told the flight was on time." Eli's mother's temper rose. She set the paper down and went in search of someone to ask. Maybe even some new reading material.
As the plane ascended back into the sky Eli's father double-checked his seat belt, making sure it was strapped tightly and secured. The old women sitting next to him just sat smiling. "Oh what a lovely ride this is isn't it sweet Stephie." The old women said to no one in particular. The turbulence kept getting worse every meter they rose into the sky. The cabin was shaking so fiercely it was almost alive.
Shock hit Eli at that moment, shock of some ones touch, and the sound of a voice. He was being shaken back and forth against the tree he fell asleep on.
"Grawkpe oorp!" "Grawkpe oorp!" He heard.
His eyes opened and he was pulled to his feet. The girl had finally returned, and woke him. He couldn't help but smile at her. Her face was so close to him as she was shaking him awake, and now in the daylight, he saw what a beauty she was. Shying away from him, she turned and reached into her backpack, pulled out a small bag and tossed it to him.
"What is this?" he asked curiously. "And what is that smell, is that fish cooking over the fire?"
"Grraurrrrrrr" his stomached rejoiced. "Grraurrr, Graurr"
She turned away from him walked over to the fire and pulled off one of the sticks from the fire. Handing it to Eli she smiled and grabbed her own fish. Now with both hands holding something he set the bag down. Then leaned the pike with the fish on it against a rock. Picked up the bag, he looked inside. "Mmmm, I love mushroom!" he said very sincerely. "Thank you so much." The girl looked up from the fish she was eating mumbled a few words, smiled and commenced to eat her fish some more.
When they were both done with there meals, the girl offered him some water from her cantina, which he took very graciously, and they started on there way again.
"Gwerur war honely fibit gawys jow." The girl mumbled only a few steps into there, what Eli hopes to be short walk for the day.
"I am really sorry, I can't understand anything that you are saying." Eli frowned "But I am really happy for all the help you are giving me. Thank you for breakfast as well, it was very good." The girl smiled and waved him to follow her.
Eli didn't realize it earlier, but this girl had a weapon on her side. It looked like a gun, but a bit strange to be a gun at the same time. "Apparently there is a good reason to keep quite in this place." From then on, anything he had to say either consisted of asking for water, or asking why she wouldn't let him stop for a break. More like whining for lack of a rest. Yet even his whining he kept at low volume. So that he wouldn?t have to see why this girl was carrying a weapon.
She allowed him to stop, which seemed a rare enough occasion, for about 5 minutes. He was definitely grateful for those 5 minutes. It's just he needed a bit longer is all, and it seemed as if she hasn?t give him his 5-minute break for such a long time.
As they reached the top of what seemed to Eli as an endless hill. He bent down, and collapsed on the ground to catch his breath. Which seemed to have run away from him before they had even decided to tackle the hill.
"Gwet op klook." The girl said when she realized he was taking a break.
"Yah yah, I am getting up, I just need to catch my breath, and I will be right behind you. Just one second...or maybe two." He said exasperatingly.
Giving him a nudge with her shoe, he looked up at her and saw her pointing off in the distance.
"Okay, okay, I am getting up."
Standing up he wiped the dirt off that he collected while climbing the hill. The girl was looking at him, he noticed, she smiled and pointed out off in the distance again. Eli followed her finger and gazed out from their hilltop.
"Very pretty. I don't think I have seen such a sunset as this." He said while still searching for that breath he had lost.
"Gwo Gwo Gwo, Klook!" she pointed again and again.
Suddenly realizing what it was that she was pointing at. "Awesome! Is that where we are headed?" He asked with a renewed strength.
The girl nodded her head, and waved him to follow her down the hill. "It doesn't look so far away, we should be there in no time"?
No time has ever felt so long as this particular "No time". But on the bright side, he was able to get a few more of those 5-minute breaks he was asking for. It was getting darker and darker every step they each took. So it didn?t take long for it to be pitch black yet again.
"Im sorry, but I can't see again, I really don't feel like falling and hurting myself again. Can we stop for the night?" Eli asked and pleaded at the same time ever so nicely.
"Gwo Gwo" the girl said. She turned around grabbed him by the arm and led him through a few more steps and a few more leaves and over a few more rocks. Until he finally saw a light off in the distance. Letting go of his arm she walked faster towards the big cement building that the light was attached to. Trudging behind as always he kept pace. Making their way around each corner seemed as if it was endless, but he had light, so he couldn't complain. Finally they rounded a corner and instead of the normal cement wall, there stood a door at the far end.
Gazing at the door, Eli didn't realize that the girl had stopped in front of him. "Ooof, Owe im sorry, I didn't see you stop. Are we going into that door over there"? The girl didn't move or answer him. She just sniffed the air and looked around. "What's the matte...eerr?" He started saying as she grabed him again by the arm and sprinted for the door. "Why are we running?" Elis question was answered before he could even wait for a response. "BOOM" and again "BOOM" sounding closer and closer with each ground quake. The light on the wall started to move back and forth, casting there shadows on the ground then over the trees and on the ground again and again. Eli's heart raced as he and this stranger ran to the door of a building he had no clue about, in a jungle that he used to call his back yard.
As they approached the door the girl let go of his arm. Stopped and opened up a panel where the door handle should have been. She entered in a key code and the door slid open, they rushed in and the door slid back shut again. Both of them panting and sweating from their run to the door. Was it exhaustion that she was sweating from or was it fear. Fear for whatever that noise was. He would of asked her but he knew he wouldn't understand her answer. Once the noise receded, and the shaking once again stopped. He looked down to where the girl was sitting and found that she was no longer there. In a panic he looked up, looked around and all he saw was darkness, there was a light coming from what looked like a doorway off in the distance. Suddenly he noticed a silhouette pass through the door.
"Hey wait, where are you going!" "What am I supposed to do?" he yelled in despair. "Alone again." He realized. "Back in the dark and alone again."