Chapter 7- Intrepid Explorer
Olivia's POV
The crowd falls silent as Alph, Brittany, and a man who is introduced as the great Captain Charlie come onstage. These huge black box-shaped cameras move around trying to get perfect shots-I've heard this thing is being broadcast live all over Koppai.
The three tell stories from their adventure on "PNF-404", the planet on which they found the fruit. Whoa, a maybe-sentient glob of goop that captured... Captain Olimar?! Wow, if Brittany knew he was our uncle... (assuming she doesn't know-well, wouldn't she have said so? Yeah, I don't think she knows.)
But anyway, I had never in my previous life imagined that my family was so amazingly peculiar. Hah! But then again, I guess I only recently found out about our amazing peculiarity, so I guess everything makes sense. Except that glob of golden goo, that sounds creepy.
Suddenly, someone taps my shoulder. I whip around, wanting to yell at them for interrupting my watching my cousin speak. (She was very confident, I must say. And I think I made it clear that I'm very interested in the latest issues on Koppai.) But I remember my manners and say instead, "Excuse me. Hi. I'm kind of watching my cous-"
"YOU WILL BE SILENT" a ghostlike voice floats out from the figure in front of me. "YOUR COUSIN SHALL SOON BE... NO. NOW IS NOT THE TIME. I SHALL NOT TELL YOU NOW. BUT SHE IS IN DANGER."
"Who, Brittany?" I ask, then laugh. "Nice try, freak. She's totally safe. She's not in danger!"
"YOU CANNOT TELL ANYONE" the voice continues in a flat, droning, robotic-sounding tone.
"I think i must!" I argue, irritated and confused without trying to show that I have no idea what's going on but trying to take responsibility anyway. You know that voice? Yeah, that voice. That's the voice I used.
"YOU MAY NOT OR I SHALL HAVE THE SAME THING HAPPEN TO YOU." The voice gets louder, more angry but still gray and robotic, with this harsh electronic buzzing sound like it's coming out of a computer speaker or something.
"Geez, angry," I mutter. still irritated.
"SILENCE, OLIVIA," the voice commands. Still loud, obnoxiously computerized-sounding. I want to scream. Maybe even punch the dark, purple-covered figure from which the voice is coming. But of course I don't. Who even knows what the thing is made of. Like I even want to know.
"You're not the boss of me!" I say. Words of a second grader, sure, but true just the same. "And how did you know my-" The figure turns around sharply and disappears. "Kay, bye!"
"Who was that?" Bella asks, popping up beside me.
"Man, I wish I knew," I sigh angrily. "WHoever it was said Brittany's in danger, but they didn't say why or how. Maybe it's a dumb joke."
"SILENCE. YOU MUST TELL NO ONE,"I hear the voice again.
"We won't!" Bella and I blurt simultaneously, afraid.
"Yeah, sure this is nooothing to worry about," Bella growls sarcastically.
"I was just- aah, forget it," I mumble.
LATER THAT NIGHT
We're at Brittany's house enjoying dinner together as a family. Bella and I exchange worried glances, over and over again, but we know we can't breathe a word to anyone else about the unidentified voice.
It's really starting to make my brain go nuts. I might start thinking one thing, but then something else will come up and soon enough I'm imagining things in my brain I can't describe fully, but that are superdangerous and freak me out like crazy.
WHY THE HECK CAN'T I JUST SPILL IT AND GET IT OVER WITH?! AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
For now though, I'm still wonder what the heck "in danger" was referring to. Danger has many possible meanings.
I try to go to sleep that night, but it's almost impossible! I start tossing and turning, and when I do fall asleep, I dream of being trapped in a dark, nearly black ocean. The ghostlike voice echoes in my head. "YOUR COUSIN IS IN DANGER... YOU MUST TELL NO ONE..."
Then I hear Brittany's voice from earlier today at the celebration. "Oh yeah, I guess you didn't know. Hah! How dumb of me. I helped save Koppai..."
Then it's the ghost voice again. "NO ONE.. NO ONE..."
It seems to keep switching back and forth while Islowly begin to suffocate in the black ocean water until I wake up, sweating and gasping for breath. The icy cold ocean water felt so real. The suffocating did too. I'm just stuck in that upright position on my bed 'till I remember I'm in reality again and there's no black ocean trying to drown me. BUT STILL!
It's still really weird how I didn't know Britt went to PNF-404. But now that barely means anything at all to me anymore. If her life's in danger now, what if I'm the one who has to save her?! To HAVE to step up and take all that pressure, even if I'm some young, small, random 13-year-old with no idea what she's doing.
Questions float around in my head, making me totally insane from the inside out. I roll over, finding no comfort, yet refuse to leave my bed for two whole hours.
Authors Note
Dunn dunn DUNNNNN! I honestly don't remember where the whole plot-twist came from when I first wrote this but, you know. Still kind of insane.
GUESS WHAT. I only have a couple of chapters to go until I have to start writing the rest of them. (See, what's going on is I have like 8 chapters already written, but I stopped writing them for a while until I started the next chapter up again, but I didn't finish it so I;m going to have to at some point or another. :P
And I know I made this new antagonist seem really creepy and bad in this chapter, but from the next chapter on it's not as freakish. It doesn't talk as much, it doesn't act like a stalker just walking up to you and knowing your name. It's still the same amount of evil, but less creepy. Maybe. idk xP
Well, later. Hopefully next chapter'll be up by tomorrow or the next day.
And hopefully this rereading of this chapter won't give me (or you) nightmares tonight. Yeesh!
