My first Fanfic Woohoo!
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Bella opened her eyes and sat up, yawning, feeling strangely light and agile. In the moonlight her long blonde hair looked almost white, and her blue eyes reflected silver.
She found that she was sitting on some soft grass with her two best friends lying sound asleep next to her. She looked around, then gasped - everything was so beautiful; there were millions of stars sprinkled across the sky, and the bright crescent moon lit not only her hair and eyes but her whole surroundings in an ethereal light. She thought the sky looked different somehow, but her sleepy brain didn't think much of it.
Instead she focused again on her surroundings. She and her friends were on the top of a round hill surrounded by rolling fields of grass. Other than a few trees there was nothing else in sight.
'Wow, it looks so pretty and peaceful' she thought with a contented smile on her face.
Her smile lasted for a few seconds and was then replaced with a look of horror when her groggy brain realised that she and her friends were sleeping on a random hill in the middle of nowhere.
"Oh shit! Where are we? How did we get here? What's going on? Why don't I remember?"
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Her friend Shanii stirred and woke up, and looked around with sleepy green eyes. Bits of grass stuck out of her short black hair in a tangled mess. She turned to Bella and murmured:
"Ohh, hey Bella, How's'it goin? Ooh look its Layla... I'mma pushher down the hill hehehehe" Shanii crawled over to the curly-haired girl asleep next to her, and was about to push her down the hill before Bella intervened.
"Awww Bella why not? Shanii whined. "I wanna push her down the hill... wait... hill?... why did I wake up on a hill?...
ERMAGOD WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?! BELLA WHAT'S GOING ON? ANSWER ME!"
Shanii grabbed Bella's shoulders and starting shaking her.
"BELLAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"I don't know!" Bella glared at her violent friend.
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Next to them, Layla woke up with a big yawn and stretch. She stood up, looked around for about a minute, then lay back down on the ground and was about to go back to sleep when Bella kicked her.
"Meh, go away." Layla grumbled. "I need my beauty sleep"
'Really? We've woken up in the middle of no where and that's all you care about?' Bella thought and she sighed. 'That's Layla for you. never gives a shit about anything. I swear, to make up for the fact that she's a genius the rational part of her brain is missing...'
Shanii started rolling down the hill. "Weeeeeeee!"
Bella looked at Shanii. 'And that one doesn't even have a brain...'
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She sighed and turned back to Layla who was still lying on the ground with her eyes closed.
"Layla, look around us. Don't you think it's odd that you woke up in a place you've never seen before in your life?"
"No..."
Bella facepalmed. 'I don't even want to know...'
"...Anyway, do you know how we got here?"
Layla slowly opened her eyes and looked at Bella.
"You want to know how we got here..." she said slowly.
Shanii had gotten bored with rolling down the hill and was now sitting next to Layla making a daisy chain.
"Yes" Bella replied.
"I don't remember anything, but based on the evidence around us I do have a theory..."
"do tell"
"The three of us died and instead of passing on, we were sent to another dimension by a godly figure who was bored and thought it would be entertaining"
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The two girls reacted very differently to what they heard their friend say.
"WHAT! WE DIED? BUT I DON'T FEEL DEAD LAYLA AND I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Shanii jumped up, destroying her daisy chain in the process. "LAYLA WHAT DO WE DO? BRING US BACK TO LIFE LAYLA!" She fell to her knees in front of Layla and starting rolling around on the ground, sobbing uncontrollably. Shanii always took Layla's words like Gospel.
Bella was a lot less easy to convince. She knew that Layla was incredibly smart, but this she wouldn't believe. "Haha. Very funny. Seriously, tell us how we got here."
"I just did, and I'll say it again. The three of us died in a traffic accident, and instead of passing on we were sent to another world by a godly figure who was bored and thought that it would be entertaining"
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This made Bella pause. Having been friends with Layla for years, she knew that the only thing that rivalled Layla's brains was her laziness. The fact that Layla actually bothered to repeat herself meant that what she said was most definitely true. But the idea was so ridiculous that Bella simply couldn't believe it without proof.
"What's your evidence?" She asked.
"Everything around us"
"Explain."
"Nah, can't be bothered."
"Layla! you just said that the three of us died! I think that's something worth taking the time to explain!"
Layla sighed. "Fine. But never again. From now on just accept that I'm always right like Shanii does. Explaining things to people who think they're smart is such a pain..."
She sighed again. "It's obvious that we aren't on earth, 'cause the stars are different. And the force of gravity isn't as strong."
"Ooh really? How do you know that?" Shanii jumped up and asked, her big green eyes full of curiosity. It was hard to believe that she had been sobbing uncontrollably moments before.
"The moon looks a lot smaller, which means it's either further away, or it just has a smaller mass. Both of these things suggest that there is less gravity here than in earth. And you can feel it."
"Ooh! That's so cool! Does that mean I have super strength then?" Shanii ran to a giant tree that was growing nearby, hugged as much of the trunk as she could, and uprooted it. "Guys look at what I did!"
Layla didn't react at all whereas Bella was wide-eyed with shock.
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"Okay... So we're in another world... But what's this about dying?" She inquired.
"It isn't possible to live in multiple dimensions. So if we were to be alive in this one we must have died in our old one."
"Riiight... And how do you know this?"
"I read a book on interdimensional travel when I was eight."
"You came to this conclusion because of a book you read when you were eight?
"It was written by a renowned physicist about twenty years ago. It was pretty good read, although I disagree with his loophole theory because according to the-"
"Okay you read a good book! But that doesn't explain the godly figure part of your theory." Bella quickly interjected. Despite being too lazy to finish a conversation, Layla could talk about science for hours. Unfortunately, it was the kind of science that people of average intelligence like Bella (and people of no intelligence like Shanii) could never hope to comprehend.
"The godly figure part is common knowledge. Different ideas about the afterlife are present all over the media and in religion, but one that everyone has heard of is the theory that upon passing away one is sent somewhere else, and there is always a godly figure involved. Be it Hades or a shinigami, the overall idea is the same."
"Whats a shiniga-" Shanii started to say.
"Death god." Layla snapped, and then pointed at Bella. "I can't be bothered explaining any more to the non-believer over there, so maybe instead of wondering about how we got here you could try wondering about where here is." She closed her eyes and promptly ignored them.
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All was silent as Shanii and Bella processed what Layla had just said...
"OH MY GOD WHERE THE HELL ARE WE!" Shanii screamed.
Then a book fell from the sky and hit her head.
"Ouch! What the hell was that?"
Bella picked the book up from the ground and read the title.
~An Intensive Study on the Theory of Interdimensional Travel by Arthur Portal~
"It's a book on interdimentional travel."
"Hey maybe it's the book that Layla read! Lets read it!" Shanii said excitedly.
"If it's something that Layla read then I doubt that we would understand a word of it."
"Oh yeah, the only things that Layla reads are science books and ****"
"WHAT! Layla reads ****!"
"Yeah, don't you?" Layla said, who found that ignoring them took far too much effort.
Bella blushed and muttered something under her breath.
"Anyway, lets see what's in this book..."
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Dat was de first chapter! (no duh).
(update) Anyways, looking back on it I realise that this chapter wasn't terribly entertaining but i promise that it gets better from here onwards! Pinky promise!
Especially if you're a weirdo like me. So read on! You wont regret it!