A/N: This is set to follow my "Tenth Member" series. It's not necessary to read them first, but I'm going to reference it enough in this story so it might be a good idea.
I got this idea as soon as the movie came out this Christmas. Now that Tenth Member is finished, I decided to go ahead and write this. I wasn't going to post it until it was finished, but the story seems to be going underway alright. I want to see the response, and also get ideas! Please do review with ideas/suggestions/constructive criticism.
Without Further ado:
The Fifteenth Member: A Completely Unexpected Journey
Prologue
"Move over!"
Kylie Turney honked her horn repeatedly as some asshole in a red sports car cut her off right at her exit.
Then she took a deep breath. Three years. That was about how long it had been since she had last been seriously injured. Had there been bumps and bruises? Sure. There was even one particularly scary instance when she twisted her ankle in the middle of a tennis match, but a little ice and it was okay. It had been three years since she had been in the emergency room, and she desperately hoped to keep it up.
Her teammates had dubbed it the miracle of the century when Kylie, the then freshman tennis star, played for whole week without falling over her own feet. Then a second week. She actually played for the whole month without incident. Before her serious coma, Kylie would stumble around practically all day. Ever since the coma however, she was practically injury free.
The now eighteen-year-old Kylie attributed this streak of luck not to the coma, but to a certain set of events that happened during. She spent time in this place called "Middle Earth", It was stuck in the Middle Ages, but she made some of the most wonderful friends known to any species. She even died for them. For weeks she walked around convinced that she would walk around some corner and be back, but it never happened. Eventually, she convinced herself that these were just dreams. Not that she ever spoke of these dreams. It was too crazy.
Not that any of it mattered. Now she was on her way to high school graduation, and from there to Oregon State University.
HONK!
At least, if she survived the traffic first.
She screamed and honked at the ludicrous driver in the blue suburban. What was it with drivers and ten o'clock in the morning? It was as if that's when they let all the crazies out. To make matters worse, little drops of rain began to splash on her windshield.
"Ugh!" she growled.
The rain suddenly came down in torrents. But she was in Seattle… she was used to driving in the rain. She'd been driving for nearly two years now and still no accidents.
But every single other driver seemed to forget how to function. People started swerving dangerously.
"Idiots," she hissed. Just then, Kylie completely lost control of her own car. It seemed to develop a mind of its own. Not only did it fail to take the alternate exit, but it turned the other way. The steering wheel turned a complete eighty degrees on its own. The car spun around.
How was this possible?
Then it stopped. Kylie tried to regain control of the motor vehicle, but it was too late. She screamed as the black sedan crashed into her head-on at nearly sixty miles per hour.