Title: Dreams and Nightmares
Author: GoddessEryn Rating: M Summary: A new dolphinback arrives on Dinotopia. Karl learns something about her he never wanted to know about anyone. A story about a dream I had after watching the miniseries. My very first story. Disclaimer: Only Aeryn, Marty, Joey, and the tribe of meateaters are mine. Everything and everybody belongs to someone else. Not sure who, but not me.
Author's Note: The whole story is fictional. Nothing written here has ever happened to me or anyone I know in real life. I apologize to anyone that finds anything offensive or too real.
> > Aeryn understanding dinosaurs speaking in saurian
Chapter 1: The Arrival
The ship tossed and bucked on the waves. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Aeryn was thrown against a wall. "Marty! Joey!" she screamed again and again. Rain streamed through her blazing red hair, plastering her hair and clothes to her body. Brushing a strand off her face with a shaky hand, she frantically looked around. Stumbling to the rear deck, Aeryn screamed again. There was not a soul to be seen anywhere. Everyone had abandoned ship, taking every raft and floatation device that could be found.
Lightning continued to flash and thunder continued to rumble. The wind screamed and the waves crashed. A huge wave swept over the boat. At the same moment another wave swelled under the ship and lifted it. The resulting lift and sweep caused Aeryn to be bodily flung off the ship and into sea.
Her six-foot frame hit the water with a bone-rattling smack and began to sink. When she hit the water she felt something in her left knee snap and her left hip was dislocated, but she instantly lost consciousness. Aeryn sank for a moment before her brain realized she was in trouble and woke her up. She swam to the surface in panic.
"MARTY!" she screamed when she broke the water. Her deep violet eyes scanned the water, but all she could see was rain, lightning and ocean. "Marty..." Aeryn sobbed. She continued to tread the water as best she could without her left leg, which hung nearly useless in the water.
Wave after wave swept over her head until a large one pushed her under and wouldn't let her up. After what seemed like an eternity Aeryn broke the surface with a gasp. She struggled with the surf for what seemed like days. She couldn't last long against the fury of the sea. Exhausted, she couldn't keep her head above water. Slowly she sank.
Aeryn struggled weakly to rise, but to no avail. Finally she gave up and let herself sink. She couldn't hold her breath any longer and felt her lungs start to fill with water when she opened her mouth. I'm sorry Marty... Her last coherent thought faded as the blackness swallowed her.
She felt something firm lift her body. As she broke the surface, she coughed and inhaled. Vomiting water, she lay limply against the slightly warm thing now holding her above water. Aeryn opened her eyes just a little against the rain and raging waves. She couldn't focus them and could feel herself slipping back into unconsciousness, but before the black swallowed her one last time, she could just make out a vaguely dolphin-shaped form beneath her. Don't worry. I will take you there. The voice was the last thing she remembered.
