Cosmic Chronicles

Episode 1. Same Place I've Always Been

"HA, gotcha!" a 17-year-old cried out triumphantly, then promptly fell flat on her face. "Oww..."

Sitting up, she blew a strand of hair from her face and pouted at the sight of a black and white dog – its breed Border Collie – seemingly laughing at her with its tongue lolling out. "Oh, hardy har ha! Dumb mutt..." the ravenette grumbled under her breath.

It barked and bounded over, licking her face. She laughed while pushing the dog away. "Go on, boy. Or girl, whichever. Then again, I'm not one talk... Well? Go! By now your owners must be worried outta their minds. We can't just play all day, anyhow. I gotta finish work. O.K.?" Chocolate brown eyes looked at the dog sternly, though they softened as it whined a bit. The teen ran a sunkissed hand through her wild mess of hair. She grinned as the dog gave her one more lick before bounding away.

Chuckling, the 17-year-old stood up from sitting on the grass while dusting off her pale grey pants and straightening her baggy purple T-shirt. She next grabbed her green and blue sneakers from the base of a nearby tree, hopped about on 1 bare foot while putting them on, grabbed a plastic bag filled with newspapers, and set off softly singing to the tune of Disney's 'Under the Sea':
"The grass is always greener
In somebody else's life.
I dream about going out there,
Someplace not full of strife." The ravenette grinned excitedly as she sang, ignoring all of the looks she received from bystanders thanks to her slightly-rising voice. Taking a deep breath as the summer breeze ruffled her jet-black hair, she started running on the streets of London, England while continuing to sing:
"Just look at this world around me,
It's fine but such a bore.
As the mundane surrounds me,
There's more I'm lookin' for!" Ducking through an alleyway while she also slowed down to a brisk walk, her voice quietened as the girl sang with a sad smile:
"To be free
To be me!
Life could be better,
I'd be no fretter,
If I were free…"

Coming to a stop as her song trailed off, the 17-year-old set about finishing her rounds in delivering commercial newspapers.

Once done, she stuffed the plastic bag into her pants' pocket and walked home in silence. "I'm baaack! Your lives just got better," the teenager announced with a cocky smirk as she entered the terraced house, kicking off her sneakers.

"Oh, SHUT UP, Alani!" a 12-year-girl snapped from her seat on a sofa as her big sister entered the living-room. "And stop standing in front of the T.V.!"

"Yeesh, sor-ree… Ever heard of strongmanners/strong?" the older ravenette questioned as she moved out of the way and placed fists on her hips.

"Like you're one to talk, freak!"

"Why cha little–!"

"ALANI!" The teen stopped her advance towards the younger girl, whom had already started kicking. She turned to their brunette father and gritted her teeth at the scolding that followed, infuriated further when she saw her sister smirking. The woman finished with: "She's just a kid."

"Fine," Alani deadpanned, then exited the room and went outside. She ignored the looks of fellow pedestrians for having no shoes on with practiced ease. That fuckin' little bastard! Mentally swearing up a storm, the ravenette wandered back into the park.

She climbed up a tree, her fury at the injustice having waned on the way to the park. Frowning sadly, Alani sat down on a thick branch. …That spoiled brat's right. I'm nothing but a freak that doesn't deserve to exist and a walking catastrophe the world would be better off without. She let out a broken laugh, then bit her lip while blinking back tears. Oh, screw it! Climbing higher, Alani dried the few tear droplets that escaped with her free hand as she went upwards. The teen soon reached the top of the tree.

The sky was its usual daytime shade of blue, the grey clouds from earlier making way for whiter ones thanks to the wind. Her lips twitched.I wish I could fly… Then I'd have so much fun soaring through the air like a human bird.

Alani was suddenly startled by a cracking sound. The alarmed girl only had enough time to glance down, feel dizzy due to the height, and scream as the branch gave way under her. She plummeted down!

FUUUCK! was her last thought before Alani's vision filled with cyan-tinted white light and purple-tinted black shadows.

A spacious room with the Sun its sole light source was eerily silent, its furnishings merely ragged cloths, a carpet with one of its ends a bit frayed and several very different vases. All of a sudden, the strange light and shadows filled it before fading to be concentrated at the center. They dissolved in sparkles, leaving behind an unconscious figure that hit the stone floor from a few inches high.

"Ouch. Anybody got the number of that truck?" Alani murmured as she slowly sat up. Her gaze swept through the room, the teen then blinking. I'm alive? Wait, where the hell am I?! Groaning, she laid back down. Screw it; I almost got my neck snapped, so I'm taking a nap!

A few hours later, Alani woke up from her fitful sleep. "What a dream…" She blinked. "HOLY SHTICK! It wasn't a dream!" Panicking, the 17-year-old got to her feet and started pacing. Her curiosity took over once she calmed down.

Alani looked around the broken room, then moved the largest cloth to look out the windowless opening on the wall. She gaped at the sight before her.

"Sweet mother of Sephiroth… I'm in AGRABAH ?!"

A.N.: Yeah, there's gonna be a fair bit of swearing and violence in this. Hence the M Rating. *scratches back of head while looking sheepish* Actually, it won't be outright filled with swearing an' violence; there'll just be a medium- or large-ish amount of both. Especially since the S.I. is just a regular person who won't be able to get through the various Disney movies completely unharmed (though she won't most likely die in the 1st movie she lands into either as that would end the story too quickly).
I don't give a damn about Alani's self-pity being totally pathetic in most people's eyes; she's meant to be HUMAN, i.e. imperfect & emotional (emotions are often stupid, b.t.w.)! I doubt there's a single person on Earth who hasn't pitied themselves at least once...
Inspired by DisneyOUATgirl1437's 'Straight on til Neverland' and Starswim's 'My Disney Adventure: Discovering the World of Magic'. *grins like a maniac* They're AWESOME! (Although, unfortunately, it'll be a looong while before the story's at the Neverland point. Unless I decide to write an A.U. covering it instead. Hmm…)
Disclaimer: NOTHING, except the plot (more or less) & Alani, is mine. All of the various Worlds, songs & characters are Disney's, just with twists to help me make sense of 'em in terms of logic. Songs especially will have their lyrics messed with to suit the situation. But I'll be keeping them as short as possible. :D

Question: I'm on the fence when it comes to the later Worlds. Your thoughts on movies 'The Lion King'/'Hercules'/'The Little Mermaid' /'Tarzan' /'Beauty and the Beast' /'Tangled' / 'Frozen'/'Cinderella'/'Princess and the Frog'? Or would making a separate story for each World be better, a bunch of sequels A.U. from a certain point onwards?

B.t.w. in any fanfics of mine the word Self-Insert (S.I.) refers to a character who lands into a fictional Universe rather than to myself doing that; they all have some of my personality traits & flaws, but are also very much based on a character from their canon 'verse. Alani is the exception as she is fully based on me (except for her looks & family coz I want this Original Character - O.C. - to still have at least something that's completely hers).

Hope this is actually good!