It's been three months since I've found my history and the legendary loot of a thousand worlds. It's like yesterday I wished that I was in the place where I belonged. Who knew a wish can change a life? I was living in an abusive orphanage that was about to kick me out on the streets and then I was in the dimension of Treasure Planet and a once in a lifetime opportunity knocked on my door. Yeah, I found Captain Flint's loot on Treasure Planet thanks to a map but, I found something else out. My past. I'm from this dimension and related to Jim. I've also gotten to a healthy weight for my age and became more open around my friends and family.
Amelia got me a recommendation to attend the Interstellar Academy with my brother and I'm the youngest student they ever accepted. I'll never forget the looks I got when I entered the school with Jim. The older students gawked at me and treated me like a foreign species. Over time they got used to me being around and some forgot I even existed.
The school is a boarding school on the country side of the planet Apprende. I had learned that the many planets in throughout the galaxies were named after simple words and phrases of old languages like French, Spanish, and Chinese (all of these languages from Earth are called Terran) for example. Montressor is French for my treasure which kinda made sense of why the planet focuses on mining. Apprende is French for learn and the Academy is the most famous school on planet and among the best of the best. In every town there's a private or boarding school. Public schools were on other planets and I did see a few high schools back home.
I had my own room since the school board thought that if I had roommates, the older girls would play pranks on me and taunt me. I love my private room and had all the space for me to be me. Of course there were separate dorms for boys and girls and I payed Jim visits once a week. Boys and girls couldn't be in the same dorm after nine pm and you have to be in your own dorm after that time.
There is going to be a week break from school and I sat in my last class tapping my pencil boringly on my notebook. My uniform is like my brother's but girls had the option to wear skirts. I mainly wore pants but when I ran out I wore skirts until I turned them in for laundry. The class is History of the Etherium where the students learned about various of universes and galaxies, old and new, and the unique history of each one.
The teacher was rambling on about the Coral Galaxy and how its first settlers were from somewhere. I zoned out and was writing a sentence in my book Lost, a survival story about a lost hiker but, nobody finds him and he has to learn how to make it before the upcoming winter kills him. The bell rang and I picked up my stuff and stopped by my locker to put away my textbooks and grab some other notebooks full of my stories. The locker door slammed shut almost crushing my pinkie.
I looked up and saw a girl who looks human but had bright orange butterfly wings. Her bright yellow hair almost blinded me since she puts gallons of bright gel on it to keep it smooth. "Hey Toddler." She said. I ignored her and went to my dorm. When I closed the door I pulled out a bag and packed enough things for the week away.
I grabbed my bag and left my dorm and walked to the boys dormitories. I walked up three flights of stairs and knocked on his door. It opened and I came face to face with an alien with blue dragon like scales for skin, snake like teeth and gold eyes, a gator like tail with jet black hair. He glared down at me. "What do you want?" He asked in a gruff voice.
"I'm looking for my brother." I said keeping calm despite how nervous I felt. The guy is intimidating! He looked at me and busted out laughing.
"You must be Emma, I'm Owen his roommate." He said and held out a hand with claws on them to shake. I shook it and he turned around and yelled over his shoulder.
"Hawkins! Your sister is here!" He said and I faintly heard the sound of water running. "He's in the shower, you're free to come in and wait." He opened the door wider and I walked in.
The room had two beds and desks each on the left and right sides of the room and I hid under the bed after throwing my bag under. "What are you doing?" Owen asked after he got on his knees and looked at me.
"Waiting," I responded. Then the bathroom door swung open and a saw the bare feet of my brother. I hid my eyes behind my hands. I know I'm ruthless with scaring him but I have standards of when I pull them! I heard shuffling as he grabbed clothes and went back into the bathroom. A few seconds later and came out in clothes and when he was near the bed I reached out and grabbed his ankle.
Jim let out a scream and Owen was laughing. I let go of his ankle and crawled out laughing. "You fell for it!" I said in between laughs. Jim glared at me.
"You always do that!" He said.
"You ready to go home for the week?"
"Yeah, come on."
He grabbed his bag, said bye to his roommate and we walked to the local spaceport. We boarded the ship and went to the Montessor Spaceport. I stood at the rails of the ship's bow and stared at the stars. "Montressor Spaceport!" The lookout yelled. I picked up my bag and met up with Jim and we walked off the ship. We found Mom quickly and went home.
I dropped my stuff in my room and I ran to the shed. I opened the door and smiled seeing my solarsurfer hanging on the wall. The next day after the opening night for the new Inn Jim had spent time building a solarsurfer for me. It was black and had a black sail with purple lights to absorb the light. The tip was also purple and so was the top part of where I would put my feet at. The handles were gray and as a thank you I let Jim borrow span style The Darkest Minds series. It had taken a few tries but I managed to master the activity and learned a few stunts.
I grabbed the bottom of it and pushed it off the hooks. I took it outside and started it up and just as I got on I heard the sound of another surfer being started. I turned around and saw my brother on his and we flew to the gorge. Today, he's gonna teach me a new stunt but before we got there something was being hurled at the cliff. It was moving fast and I didn't see what it was.
It crashed into the ground making a thud and I changed my course to the object. I slowed down once I got on the cliff and turned it off. "What is that?" Jim asked when he got off his.
"I don't know." I said and walked closer. As I did I realized what it was and my heart stopped. It was a red, roundish vehicle with red wings and a blue generator like thing on one of them. The glass dome like roof was covered in dust and I wiped my hands on the glass to clear the dust and my eyes met four other pairs. The passengers screamed in shock and I backed up. Looks like we're having guests tonight.