Chapter 1: A Rude Awakening
I woke up with a migraine, and found myself in an odd place. It was a dark, open room with two levels and a carpet covering the lower level, a large vault next to a monitor, a TV off to the side, and strange doors leading to other rooms.
Then I realized: I couldn't remember anything! Not my name, where I come from, anything! Only thing I could barely remember was how I got here, but all I remembered was that I was sucked through a weird portal, then everything went white.
When I turned around, my jaw dropped. I saw a gigantic window covering an entire wall peering out into the void of space, and in the center of the view: a planet.
"Hello?" I called out, "Anybody home? I need help! I have amnesia!" I received no response. I decided to wait until someone returned. After about 5 minutes, I heard a strange noise coming from the second level, the vault being opened, then closed, and machinery humming to life as power and light returned.
Then, I heard a high-pitched gasp, and turned to see a little girl with brown hair, a purple and yellow large top hat, purple clothes, white pants, and a yellow cape, staring in shock at me.
"Um, hi?" I greeted awkwardly, "Is there an adult I can speak with?" The kid didn't respond, and I took a step forward, which seemed to alarm her. I stepped back and raised my hands to show I meant no harm, but she bolted toward me much faster than I ever could've expected, and I felt a hard whack to my face, knocking me down.
I cursed under my breath. I was blindfolded, and when the blindfold was taken off, I was tied to a wall.
The kid was standing in front of me, and she had a look of steep suspicion on her face. She was holding a blue starred umbrella. She made a motion with it and nodded her head, like she was beckoning me to speak.
"Okay, uh," I muttered, "How do I explain this?..."
She crossed her arms.
"Well, uh, I don't remember anything. Last thing I barely remember is being sucked into a weird vortex or portal. I don't know how I got here, where I was, where I'm going, anything. I need help, I know I don't belong here, I'll need guidance or something, I don't want to be homeless," I explained. Hopefully it was enough.
She raised an eyebrow.
"I'm not lying! I have no freaking clue what to do! Why would I lie?" I shouted, and she took a deep breath.
"Hmph," Was all she said, then she untied me and motioned for me to follow her. I followed her through a set of blue double doors into what seemed to be a large, nice, kitchen, except for the fact it was kind of a mess.
That was when I realized: She was alone on this ship. There were no adults, no other kids, no nobody. She looked through a telescope and motioned for me to stand near the telescope. She grabbed the lower part of my sweater and snapped her fingers, and everything turned to light blue.
A couple of seconds later, the blue dispersed and we found ourselves above a large market district in a strange island city.
Oh, wait.
In the air.
My acrophobia kicked in and I immediately began screaming as we fell to the ground. The kid landed gracefully and struck a pose, but me... I fell flat on my face and was lucky I didn't break my nose. She landed in a small alleyway, I landed on the roof of a building.
She looked at me dead seriously. I took the message well and clear. She didn't want to see me on her ship ever again. She then jumped towards a wall and bounced off of wall to wall to jump over a grate blocking her progress, and I stared in awe.
Wall jumping? That's an insanely impressive feat for anyone to accomplish, let alone a little girl. But, to be fair, she probably was an alien, she probably had superhuman qualities. Shaking the thought aside, I jumped down from the building, bending my knees when I landed, and looked around.
There were large, muscular men with big, bushy eyebrows and moustaches around the placae, wearing blue suits with white aprons, with messages inscribed on the aprons in red. I slowly and sheepishly walked over to one of them.
"Excuse me, sir, but can you help me?" I asked, and the man scowled at me.
"Mafia no help stranger. Mafia take from stranger," He grumbled, and I frowned.
"I don't have anything on me," I said sadly, "I don't remember who I am, where I come from, blah blah blah, anything, all I know is I don't belong here."
"Amnesia? Strange. No one in Mafia Town receive amnesia before," The Mafia man stated, "Very strange. Mafia must speak to boss about this."
"Okay..." I muttered, and the man walked away. Weird. A mafia of what seemed to be Italian chefs with Russian accents that speak in third-person. Wait, how did I remember what Italian and Russian meant?
I shook my head. I guess I still remembered terms, just not my memory itself. I sat down and relaxed for a little while before I heard a shout.
"What kind of man grabs an innocent little girl?!" A British, feminine voice shouted. Hearing this, I prepared to see what the commotion was all about when I saw the hatted kid run over in their direction.
She'd probably take care of it, she's talented.
I went back to relaxing for about an hour, when I decided to tour the town. I learned its population was 538, it was a fishing village, and that the Mafia weren't too kind to strangers. I wasn't attacked, though, I was just told to go away.
Other than the Mafia, though, it seemed like a not bad place to live. Perhaps I could join them and settle down. On my travels, I gathered some strange green orbs with gems in them, and, according to a more kind Mafia Goon, they were the money of the planet and I could use them to buy stuff.
I used them to buy some food, and found a place to eat it while I watched the sun set.
Yeah, this could work.