Chapter 2: Swept Away.

I followed after the two, a good four or five steps behind, eavesdroppong on their conversation. They sounded like lovers, the way they picked on each other -or rather the way she picked on him. Slowly, he brought his arm up behind her and draped it around her shoulders, but it didn't stay there very long. A loud sizzling noise came from the impact, smoke rising from his arm. He jumped away, looking at it. She laughed.

"It teaches you doesn't it?" She questioned with a large grin. Sharkboy rubbed at it and scowled as he continued to walk.

"Apparently it doesn't teach me enough." he grumbled. He looked back over his shoulder at me. I looked away, my face hidden in my hair. "You know, you can talk." He told me. Lavagirl looked over her shoulder as well. I just nodded. He stopped. I stopped, almost running into him. They both stared at me, making me feel unomfortable. "Talk." He demanded. Lavagirl nudged him.

"Sharkboy! Why can't you be nice to her?" She questioned. He glared at her.

"I'm not sure if you've noticed the cat ears, eyes or tail, but I have, and what they're telling me is she's a cat." He explained, pointing at me. She looked at me, then back at him and shrugged her shoulders.

"So, cats aren't nasty creatures, unless she's Siamese." She smiled. Didn't she ever stop smiling? I wanted to tell her I wasn't siamese, but when I opened my mouth, the dumbest thing ame out.

"You smell good." I said, looking at Sharkboy. He gasped and jumped backwards. Lavagirl looked at him confused. I took a step forward, causing him to back away. She smiled.

"Oh! I get it!" She nodded her head. We both stopped moving and looked at her. "You're a cat and Sharkboy's a fish! And cats eat fish!" I looked at her horrified then jumped away from him, my hands over my mouth.

"I'm Sorry!" I squealed. He remained in his defensive stance, crouched over.

"Don't get any ideas or I'll womp you!" He shook a fist at me. I swallowed hard. Lavagirl rolled her eyes and shook her head.

"Sharky, I know you wouldn't hit a girl, no matter how threatened you felt." He flashed her a looked as she started walking again.

"I would if I was a girl." He mumbled, following after her. I counted out exactly five steps between them and me before I started following again. It was quiet for a while, until I could bear it no more.

"Who is this Max? And will he know who I am?" I ran up in between them. Sharkboy jumped away from me, obviously out of distrust. Lavagirl nodded, smiling at her friend's behavior.

"Max dreamt up both Sharkboy and myself. Everything you see," She looked around, a proud expression on her face. "Everything was dreamt up by Max." I looked around, my lips pressed in a hard line.

"He must have a pretty good imagination." I muttered, looking at an amusement park off to my right. Sharkboy clenched his fists and stepped forward. I backed away from him, my eyes wide as he shook a fist at me.

"You have a lot of nerve to sit there and insult the person who made you!" He growled. Lavagirl jumped in front of him and tried to push him back, but he managed to push through, shoving her back with him. I backed up, my feet hitting a sheer drop.

"Sharkboy! Stop she wasn't insulting Max!" Lavagirl hollered. Losing my footing I fell backwards, being engulfed in water. Was this entire planet covered in water? I thrashed around, the current sucking me under. The water was cold as panic sunk in. I tried my hardest to swim, but it was no use. I didn't know how to, and I hated the water. I felt the air leave my lungs as my ribs began to hurt. I watched as the light began to disappear as I was being dragged under. A figure interupted my shimmering death, his eyes on me. I reached out to him as he swam towards me, a serious look on his face. I let the last bit of air bubbles go. Closing my eyes I agreed to let darkness take me.

Grabbing my hand Sharkboy turned and started to swim me back towards the surface, the water freezing the inside of my ears. We hit something hard, then his warm hand let go. The sound of pounding could be heard, but it got softer as the current sped up, before I knew it, I was no where near the two of them, surrounded in ice chunks, awaiting certain death in my new icy prison.