AN: IM SORRY! DON'T SHOOT ME PLEASE! IT WASN'T MY FAULT! Ok it was my fault, I'm extremely lazy and I will admit that but that doesn't give me the excuse to randomly disappear for months after only two chapters. The truth is I have absolutely no idea where I'm going with this and when I started it I was just kind of writing it with no plot in mind, so if anyone has any ideas on where this could go please PM me and I will give you credit for the idea. I also had this written for awhile but I didn't put it out because I wanted to make it longer, it seems unfair that you wait this long and I only give you this much but good news: this is my last week of school so I will have all summer to write more and I promise I actually will. Enough of my rambling, on with the story! (Please note I don't have a Beta)
Disclaimer: I don't own Terra Nova
Bright, that was the first word to come to mind as Emily stepped through the portal. An unnatural light glowed from what she guessed was the sun, blinding her momentarily and causing her to fall on her hands and knees and her giant bag to go rolling off to the side.
The next word was air, she needed to breath, the air was just so much different here, and her body just couldn't recognize it and her lungs could not grasp even a small bit of oxygen.
Suddenly something was cupped over her mouth, she tried to lean away from it in fear but someone grabbed the back of her neck and her face was forced into it. Emily finally realized that the thing was an oxygen mask and relaxed. She took a deep breath and looked up at the woman who was helping her; the woman had darker skin and a kind face that was currently twisted into a look of worry as she watched her. Emily held her hand up and made a symbol that she was ok. She got up and collected her bag; she then let the woman lead her over to a tree where she sat down to lean against it.
The woman left as the next person came through and Emily figured it would be fine to take off the mask. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, the air was just so…. Clean, it was nice and Emily immediately decided she liked this fresh air much better than that poor excuse back in 2149. She took another breath.
She opened her eyes to take a look around, she saw a lot of green, but it was a good green, bushes and grass and trees, not some polluted mess. She looked at the soldiers and saw that most were in defensive positions with their phasers pointed toward the portal. She could even see some snipers hiding in the bushes. "What the…" She muttered under her breath. What's going on? She asked herself while silently thanking God that these people had not mistaken her for a threat, she didn't see how anyone could get through this army alone.
She wondered why they would bother to bring through all the men she saw back on the platform, there are plenty of soldiers here already. Unless…Unless they're the threat. Realization dawned on her as she figured out the real reason all those men were so big. But why? She wondered I thought Terra Nova was supposed to be a safe new haven, and why bother sending me through? Probably to mislead them and get them to back down, she looked around again, it didn't work.
She suddenly became scared as she realized that she could have possibly arrived in the middle of a war, but maybe I'm over-reacting again. Yes, that's what it was. The middle of a war? Ha, yeah right. She scolded herself for her over-active imagination and softly laughed out loud at her misleading thoughts, causing some of the soldiers to look at her weirdly.
One of the soldiers, the commander to be exact, was staring at the girl in a most peculiar way, she looked familiar to him. His face morphed into a mixture of confusion, shock, worry and happiness as he realized exactly who the girl was. "Emily!"
Emily looked up at the sound of her name, there was a man running toward her and even with his hair considerably whiter than the last time she saw him, there was no mistaking who this man was. "Uncle Taylor!"
All her previous thoughts disappeared as she quickly got up and ran to him, a beaming smile upon her face.
She wrapped her small arms around him. "It's you! It's really you!" She yelled, not daring to let go of him in fear of him disappearing.
"Emily! What are you doing here?" He pulled back and put his hands on her shoulders so that he could get a good look at her face, her small arms didn't leave him as she gazed up at him, looking several years younger than her actual age, yet older than the child he knew.
Emily just continued gazing up at him in disbelief, she couldn't believe that after all these years she finally got to see her family again, or at least a quarter of it.
"Emily? Are you alright? Say something!" Commander Taylor almost shouted. He was getting some looks from the soldiers around him and he realized that he was distracting them so he led her a good ways away from the portal taking her bag with him.
"I can't believe I get to see you again." She whispered clinging to him tighter, she knew she was acting kind of like a child but you would as well if you hadn't seen someone who is like a father figure to you in so many years.
Taylor could see she was distressed so he decided to lay off the questions for a while, he was sure there would be plenty of time later for that so instead he just tried to comfort her. "It's alright Emily I'm here, its ok now."
After a few minutes Emily let go and wiped away the tears that were pouring down her face. "Sorry" She said softly, the proceeded to look around when she noticed Taylor had dragged them away to the back of the group. "So this is Terra Nova huh?" She asked.
Talyor let out a little chuckle before replying "Yes, although the actual city is in that direction." He pointed of in some direction opposite to the portal.
She was about to ask him if that was where her mother was when she was suddenly pushed in that direction with the order of "RUN!" by Taylor. She didn't know why she had to run but the desperation in Taylors voice was enough to get her legs moving. She hadn't gotten very far when a large gust of air sent her flying. She landed awkwardly on her stomach a few meters ahead and although she was in a great deal of pain she knew she had to keep going so she got up and kept running.
She ran for what felt like hours before she felt she had ran far enough. Emily collapsed on the ground and could feel her wrist throbbing from pain, she must have landed on it when she fell.
That was her last thought before she was swept into darkness
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