Shipwreck
~~~~~~~~~~Dream~~~~~~~~~~
"Bekkaaa..." is all I hear as I'm thrown from my perch off the front of the boat. I hit the water and get the wind knocked out of me. When I catch my breath I see a jagged flash of light and the boat goes up in flames. Then everything goes dark as I get dragged under the black water.
~~~~~~~~~Dream ends~~~~~~~~
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Goes my alarm clock and I wake up suddenly, breathing hard from shock as I take in my surroundings. I'm in my bedroom, not the ocean. But I swear that I was wet and it felt like something was pulling me under so I couldn't breath. I look down and I realize that I'm drenched in sweat, and laying half on the floor, half on my bed, and to top it off, my blankets are on the verge of strangling me. No wonder I have such vivid dreams, I practically reenact them in my sleep...
"But it was so real and every day that I've had this dream it has become more clear and complete." I mumble to myself. Then I look at the time and rush out of the house, "Shoot I'm gonna be late to school for the fifth time this week (thanks to the dream) and today is the field trip." I say as I rush into the school and take my seat as if nothing happened.
"Okay, now that we are all here we can get on the boat." Says my teacher and shooting a glare at me. With that we start our voyage to the dock where the boat awaited us. I froze on the spot, that was the boat from my dream. And no matter how much I protested I was pushed on with the crowd. Everyone was so excited even though we went boating once every year, but it was because this is the time when we are truly free.
So when I am on the boat and it starts up, I walk to my place at the front (ever since I was little, I always liked to stand at the front with my arms out, eyes closed, with the cool sea breeze blowing on my face). I AM FLYING, on the wind, soaring over the open water and with that all my fears vanished. For a moment, I didn't have a care in the world.
But when then it suddenly got silent I opened my eyes thinking that something was wrong. And when I turned around everyone was either staring at the large-black clouds that were quickly approaching...or looking at me wondering what to do, since I've always been the person who knew what to do. I scan their anxious faces and slowly turn back around, then my blood freezes as I realize what is going to happen.
"Everyone put a lifejacket on, bend down, and hold on!" I scream as the wind picks up my voice and carries the fear in it to my classmates. They trust me with their lives and I can't fail them, not now. As they all grab a lifejacket, I search frantically for the spare one I keep in the tip of the boat for me. It's not there...It's as if something is trying to make my nightmare come true. I swear, I was the only one who knew about the secret place where I kept my lifejacket.
I turn around and that is when all breaks loose. The wave's got to be 15 feet high and the wind was cranked up to full blast. Then as if on cue, a fiery bolt of lighting sears through the illuminated sky into the black water crackling it with electricity. I hold on for dear life as our small boat skyrockets into the air and collides with a wave larger than a house. I get thrown from my perch in slow motion as I hear someone call my name.
"Bekkaaa..." says a voice and I search sea of faces on the boat silently saying goodbye to each and everyone separately.
"HOLD ON!" I scream as my last words to my friends that are left behind right before I hit the water. Then the flash of light hits the boat in a flurry of energy and flames and I know its over.
Something snags my foot, and I know that its no use until I see a faint light shining in clear blue water. People who say kicking and screaming gets you nowhere, lied, because for a moment I was free and swam my hardest towards the light. Until I'm caught again so I place my hope in the only thing left, a hand. I have no clue who the hand belongs to but its my life line so I hang on. When I feel like I'm about to burst the hand's owner pulls out a wing-like thing and my foot comes loose. We both fall tumbling out of the water and land next to each other.
As soon as I surfaced the water I crawl up onto the sand and curl into a ball and mumble to myself, "They're all gone...No one left...All dead and its my fault...I'm all alone" I say over and over through choked sobs.
"Its all right, your safe now, I've got you." Says the boy while he holds me close and tries to calm me down. Through my tears and wet hair, I see that he looks around tall and has bluish-silver hair with two deep pools of turquoise eyes. He looks like he's 16.
As I start to calm down a boy with brown hair that spikes out at all angles runs up to us.
"Who are you-" he starts to say sarcastically but the silver-haired boy covers his mouth,
"Sora, don't scare her, be kind." Says the silver-haired boy,
"Sorry" mumbles Sora through the silver-haired boy's hand, but he is still curious so he asks again, "who are you." He says nicely, but then sticks his tongue out at the other boy's head.
"I'm Bekka, nice to meet you Sora." I say quietly,
"Where did you come from?"
I scratch my head trying to think back to this morning, but all I can remember is a big storm and a boat. But wait the boat has a symbol on it, Twilight Town! Thats it. "Twilight Town." I blurt out then cover my mouth when they look at me strangly. "Thats where I'm from, Twilight Town." I repete as if trying to see if its real.
"Did someone say Twilight Town?" asks a red haired girl, as she walks out of a house. "Who are you?" she asked politely and waved, "I'm Kairi."
"I'm Bekka" I say shyly.
"Nice to meet you Bekka, and Welcome to Destiny Island." Kairi says as she sweeps her hand across the whole island.
"If you want we can sleep out here tonight. Its really pretty under the stars once the suns set." says Sora suddenly and we all realize that its getting dark.
"I'll go get blankets, Sora can you make a fire-" Kairi starts to say but the silver-haired boy inturrepts her,
"I wouldn't trust Sora with fire if I were you." he says with a smirk to a pouting Sora.
"But your not, I'm me and I trust him." she says and walks back to the house.
Until then, I hadn't realized that he was still holding me, but the silver-haird boy didn't seem to notice, and that was fine with me. It was like he was shilding me from something. I wonder if he knew what he was saving?
"Sora, no put that down right now." he said nervously as Sora waved the piece of wood, that he amazingly got to catch fire, crazily in front of us, teasing the silver-haired boy.
"Its okay, he's just joking." I say trying to calm him down.
"Yah, I know. I've known Sora my whole life. He does stuff like that a lot." says the silver-haired boy then he chuckles to himself.
After a while, Sora finally gets a steady fire going, and Kairi walked out of the house with heaps of blankets.
"It gets pretty cold out here. Here you go Bekka. And she splits up the rest between herself and the two boys. The minuet Sora gets his blanket, he is out like a light. The next person to go to sleep is Kairi. That leaves me and silver-hair still awake.
"Hey, Mr. silver-head, what's your name?" I say while yawing, about to fall asleep.
He laughs a little before saying. "Riku. My name is Riku."
"Goodnight...Riku." I yawn then drift off to sleep leaning on his sholder, I had a long day.
"Goodnight Bekka." Riku says, but I'm already asleep.
A/N Sow this was my first chapter. I hope you all liked it. I know it's probably still full of spelling and grammer errors. Also sorry it's short, I will try to make the next ones longer. Hopefully I will go back and fix them. So tell me what you think. I'm gonna try to get the next chapter up soon.
