Feb 27 2014

Chapter 1: The red jewel

It was an ordinary day. Nothing special to it. I was home alone, both of my parents were still at work. I sat in the living room watching TV and being bored. Usually I would have been on my computer surfing in the internet, but I had promised myself not to use computer during the whole week. After all, since I didn't have school for another week I had already spend too much time in front of the screen.

I turned off the TV. There was nothing good on that time of the day. I took off my glasses and closed my eyes in order to have a snooze but only few seconds later...

THUMP!

I jolted up, my eyes wide open, and looked around. There was nothing implying what had made that sound. Not even our dogs who usually bark at everything, seemed to have noticed anything. "Did I imagine it?" I put my glasses back on and walked up to the window facing our front yard to check if our neighbor, who had been working on his car, had noticed anything. Nope. He was still working on the car as if nothing unusual had happened.

"Am I hearing things?" I walked to the other side of the house to see if there was anything on the back yard. And there was.

In the middle of the yard was a small hole which I was sure hadn't been there before. And a glimmer of red light was coming from it.

I ran to get my coat and shoes so I could investigate the hole. "You guys aren't coming!" I told our dogs who wanted to follow me outside. I closed the backdoor quickly in front of them and walked up to the hole, cautiously. I didn't know what to expect to see in it.

"With my luck it's probably an alien egg that will hatch and end up eating my brains or something like that".

But it wasn't an alien or its egg. On the bottom of the hole, which was perfectly round shaped, lied something that looked like a red crystal. Even though I kinda knew touching it wouldn't probably be the smartest thing to do I knelt down and reached my hand out to touch it. "OUCH!" I yelped as the crystal gave me a small electric shock. It didn't really hurt that much but it did surprise me. It also irritated me. "Don't you start with me" I said out loud and grabbed the crystal.

What happened next was something that I will never forget. First it felt like a current of electricity went through my body all the way from my fingers to top of my head and down to my toes. I was blinded by a red flash and all I could see was blackness. And like if that wasn't enough I felt my body falling down backwards. A moment of feeling weightless... second of falling... and feeling of hitting water followed by feeling of sinking. I opened my eyes and the water made them hurt like crazy. I waved my arms and legs trying to get to the surface. Luckily I was only a few inches below. My eyes were still hurting from the bright flash and water but at least I could breath now.

My glasses were tainted by water droplets so I lifted them up to my forehead to have a better look around. Even without them I could tell it was a beautiful midday with no clouds on the blue sky. I looked around me to see an island or a shore where I could swim to and I felt my stomach plummeting after I realized there was no ground on sight. I stuck my tongue out to taste the water, hoping it wouldn't be salty seawater. I spat the water out from my mouth right after tasting it. Salty. "But it can't be. I don't live even near any seas." Then all the memories of the hole and the crystal came rushing back. I looked at my right hand. I was still holding the crystal thing. "Where the heck have you brought me?!" I yelled desperately. As you might have guessed the rock didn't answer.

"Crap crap crapcrapcrapcrapcrapCRAP". That was all I could think at that moment. "I'm all alone in the middle of a sea, no land anywhere, no food, no water, not even a frigging BOAT" Panic started to overcome me and I was about to cry but a sound of motor getting nearer made me stop at the spot. "A plane?" I looked up in the sky and in deed there was a plane coming towards the place I was. The hope of being rescued gave me strength to wave my arms in the air and yell from the top of my lungs for help. The jewel slipped from my hands and even tough a strange feeling made me want to dive down and get it back the surviving instinct forced me to wave my arms even faster. After all it was because of that rock that I ended up in this mess.

The plane was flying nearer and nearer and I hoped more than ever that the pilot would look down and see me. But the plane flew over me and continued flying away. My heart sank and the hope died like fly getting slapped with a newspaper. But then, the plane turned around and started to land near me. "Thank goodness that plane is seaplane. This has got to be the best coincidence ever!"

The seaplane made waves as it landed on the water and some water made it's way to my mouth again. As I coughed the water out I heard a voice asking:

"Hey, are you alright there?"

The voice made me freeze for a moment. Not because it was scary or anything, the voice was actually very friendly,but because I knew that voice. But it couldn't be. I turned around and saw the pilot who's voice it was. It was very close that my eyeballs didn't fall from my face.

The pilot was a bear. A grey furred bear wearing a yellowish pilot's shirt and a red cap.

But even that wasn't the most shocking thing. It was the fact that I knew the bear.

His name was Baloo. And that could mean only one thing.

"Holy crap! I'm in the world of Talespin!"

Author's note

And that was the first chapter of my story. Special thanks to AmazingWriteronWings. She encouraged me to start writing this story. She also has a story where her OC is in Talespin,and other stories that you might want to check out. =D
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