Hey readers! I'm back now with my fifth (sixth?) long-term story! I know that HERO isn't done yet, but that one will take a while to complete. So I've decided to start a new one that probably won't take as long.
I had my ideas up on my page and I got one response. (From my good friend Dixxy.) And he suggested that I write this one first. So thus I am.
The title came from the song by Three Doors Down. And because I like superheroes. I'm actually writing a story about superheroes on Fiction Press called SUPERHUMAN. Look it up and tell me what you guys think if it sounds interesting. (My pen name on there is Songbird123).
And as always, I do hope that you enjoy chapter one. =D
Cathy's POV
"What's in the box, Cath?" Danny asked, sounding a little suspicious. I giggled and turned back to my friends with my cardboard box.
"Oh this?" I asked. "Just a collection of some of the coolest stuff I found when I was helping Grandpa clean out the attic. Can you believe it? We've only been here a year, but we already have to clean out the attic!" The others laughed.
"And can we see some of the 'coolest stuff' you found in your attic?" Danny asked in reply. I nodded and moved over to the couch where all three of them were sitting and placed my box down on the floor next to the little coffee table. I sat down on the opposite side of the table as them and stared to rummage through my box until I found what I wanted to show them first.
"Look at this," I said, placing a white shell onto the table. "I know it's just a shell, but look at how pretty it is!"
"It's a perfect conch shell," Sam pointed out. "Those are hard to find naturally." She picked the shell up and turned it over in her hands. "And it feels real." Her smile made her golden brown eyes light up for a second. "That's so cool."
"Let me see it," Danny said, reaching for the shell as Sam passed it to him. I giggled at how mesmerized the jock was by the shell. "Hey Cath, did you know that you can hear the ocean through these?"
"Really?" I asked, sitting up and looking at the shell. "Is it true?"
"Try it," Danny responded, handing me the white conch. "You put your ear to the opening there on the side." I did what Danny told me, and sure enough I could hear waves.
"No way! That's so neat!" I exclaimed. Danny and Sam laughed.
"But it's not really the ocean guys," Sam pointed out.
"Then what is it?" I asked, looking at her in confusion. It definitely sounded like the ocean.
"I'm not sure. Chris, what're you actually hearing when you listen to a shell?" Sam asked, turning to the blunette next to her to find him asleep. "Chris?" Sam shook him slightly, and he snapped awake, blinking fast.
"What? What question are we on?" Chris asked, rubbing at his eyes to wake them up.
"We aren't working on homework anymore. Cathy's showing us her box of awesome stuff," Danny explained, leaning around Sam to look at his best friend. "When did you fall asleep on us?"
"I don't know," Chris answered. "But what was the question? Or was there a question?"
"Yeah. What do you actually hear when you put your ear to a conch shell?" Sam asked.
"The ocean," Chris answered. Danny and I cheered and high fived while Sam sighed. "Actually, I don't know."
"Fine. Don't believe me. Cathy what else is in your box?" Sam questioned, moving past being wrong. I stifled a smile and found my next item. I placed a smallish wooden box on the table that had a red rose painted on the top.
"Look at this," I said, opening the box so they could see the inside. As soon as I lifted the lid, a soft, sweet melody began to play and a little ballerina inside started to spin.
"A music box," Danny said with a nod. "My mom has one of those. I used to play with it when I was little and then I'd end up smashing my fingers inside and then my mom would tell me not to play with it anymore."
"Good story, Dan," Sam commented with an amused laugh.
"Isn't it beautiful?" I asked. "I love the song."
"The song is pretty," Sam said in reply. I smiled and closed the box and moved it to the side before picking out my next object.
"And this was something that must've just been put up there," I said, showing them a picture of the four of us that I loved. "It's the four of us from last fall when we went to the lake!" The other three looked at the picture, smiling with their eyes gleaming from happiness as they also remembered that day.
"Yes. That was great day," Danny said in response.
"And that frame is so pretty," Sam commented, her finger tracing the white frame with silver flowers etched into it.
"Isn't it? I don't remember ever putting this picture into a frame though," I replied, placing the picture on the side of the table to keep it there. "Now what else do I have to show you all…"
Suddenly, the alien alert went off. I guess it was now time to work. Chris got over to the super computer and started typing away.
"The alert is coming from the woods," he said. "Let's go team!" We all suited up and ran out the door, ready for action.
Sam's POV
"Getting anything, Chris?" I asked our blue member, who was currently in possession of the a-scan.
"There's something close. But I'm not getting a direct signal from any specific place," Chris replied, moving the machine all over, scanning every inch of the area. "It's almost like it's a presence instead of an actual being and or object." I nodded, rustling through the bushes nearest to me, checking for anything that could be our target. I could hear the others doing the same thing.
"By the sounds of that explanation, we could be here all night," I said after a few minutes of silence in which we found absolutely nothing. "I know it may not sound good, and trust me, I don't want to be up all night either, but I mean, if that's what has to happen to keep the city safe then we have to."
"No one was arguing with you," Danny pointed out.
"But I know that you in particular were about to," I replied, giving the jock a look. He shrugged with a nod, silently admitting that this was the truth. He then turned around and began looking again. Cathy and Chris did the same. So I went back to searching through the forest too.
I don't know why, but I personally felt guilty about the possibility that we could be staying out super late on a school night. I mean, it was only quarter to ten right now, which wasn't all that late, but the way this mission was going, it could take a long time. We'd been searching for an hour and found not a trace of any sort of alien activity.
I thought about each of my teammates as I pushed forward through a bush to examine another section of the woods. Cathy would probably be alright. I know she had all of her homework done, but then again she had mentioned wanting to work a little more on our science project. Now that would have to wait until tomorrow unless she wanted to do it at two in the morning.
Then there was Chris, who was falling asleep earlier this evening. And that still had me confused. Chris was the kind of kid who never really got tired ever. He could stay up for hours one night to finish a report and be able to make it through the entire next day. I don't know what was up with him now, but I hoped we could get finished here quick for his sake.
And Danny. Danny just wouldn't be happy tomorrow if he didn't get enough sleep. And it was not good when that boy was tired…
"Guys! I found something!" Cathy called suddenly. I turned around and ran back through the bush, looking for my blonde friend. I caught sight of her pink suit before anything else and I ran over to her.
"What is it?" I asked as I heard Chris and Danny run up behind me.
"I don't know, but it's glowing," Cathy answered, pointing to the grass in front of her that was glowing yellow.
"Whoa cool," Danny said. "But what is it?"
"I can't think of anything it could be," Cathy replied.
"It looks kind of like something fell from the sky and crashed here and then slid across the grass that way," Chris said, pointing in the direction that the glowing grass was leading.
"Then let's go check it out," Danny said in response, hopping over a bush and taking off in the direction of the glow. The rest of us followed him. As we followed the strange glowing stuff, the light it was giving off got brighter and brighter. And then, the forest gave way to a small clearing and inside the cleared area sat a large rock like formation that was glowing yellow just like the trail we'd followed.
"Bingo," Danny said as all four of us gathered around to look at the object. "Now what is it?"
"It looks like a glowing rock," Cathy replied. "I mean, I know that's totally stating the obvious but, what else really is there to say?"
"Right. We don't really know anything else about it," I said in response. "Is this our alien object, Chris?"
"Oh yeah," he answered, holding the a-scan up to the rock. "This thing has major signals coming off of it. Looks like we've found our target. Now the question is what to do with it."
"I think we need to get it back to the clubhouse so we can further examine it," I suggested.
"Sounds good. But how are we going to get it there? It probably weighs more than the four of us combined times ten," Danny responded.
"Easy. We do this," Chris replied, pulling out his vacuvator and sucking the rock into the little glass tube. "And then we break it out when we get back. Easy as that." Danny gave his friend a look.
"Stop being so smart," the brunette commented before leading us back out of the woods. Cathy and I laughed as Chris just shook as head and followed Danny. I really did love these guys. And I was also pretty happy that we'd been able to wrap this mission up before the time got too late. Now we'd probably all be on our way home before ten thirty. Well, we'd hopefully be on our way home then. It all depended on how long it would take to identify our new, glowing object.
End chapter one.
Chapter 2 is already in the making. So stay tuned. ;D
Just a little note: pay attention to some of the smaller details. They will mean something later. Just saying….
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