A/N: Hey, my friend Alexis and I wanted 2 try
writing a Riven fanfic, so don't flame us TOO much! Alexis and Katrina are REAL
ppl (they would b us) We don't own Riven/Myst, Atrus, or any other copyrighted
stuff mentioned in here. PLEEEEAAAASE review! Thanks.
Prologue
"Must you go Atrus?" he
asked, disappointed.
He
only nodded sadly.
"Will
you ever come back?"
"I
cannot….but, perhaps…there is a way you can come and see me. But you mustn't stay
long, time passes differently in my world." He reached into his jacket and
handed Phillip a leather-bound journal and a two necklaces. He smiled.
"For
your wife," he said indicating the necklaces. But Phillip shook his head,
"She'd never understand…but I will keep them."
Atrus
nodded. Silently he took out another journal and opened it.
"Oh,
and one more thing…you may only use the linking book on the minute of midnight
on a full moon." And gently touching his fingers to the page, he was gone.
Chapter 1
*Katrina*
"NO! Why'd you turn that
way? You were supposed to turn left! Not right! Katriiiiinaaa!"
My best friend Alexis threw her hands into the air, and cursed at the computer
screen. I laughed. She was getting very frustrated with the game. For the past
few hours, we had been playing Riven; one of our favorite games. I had been
making a lot of mistakes today with the game, causing Alexis to get more and
more frustrated. I made yet another wrong turn, and the ringing of the phone
saved me from Alexis.
"'Ello?" She paused for a
moment, "Yeah, hang on a sec. For you, Trin." Then she handed the phone to me.
"Hello?" I heard my mom's
voice on the other end. "Should we come over right now? ... Okay, we'll be over
in a few minutes then. Bye" I hung up the phone, and turned to Alexis. "You
wanna come with me to my grandpa's? He's selling his dad's house, and found
some big trunk full of stuff. My mom said we could come over and take what we
want from it." Alexis grinned and nodded. She loved looking through that kind
of stuff.
~~*~~
We found everyone in the living room, sitting
in the center of dozens of old boxes and furniture. My mom told us that the
trunk was in the master bedroom, so we could go through it there.
After lifting out many
old blankets and going through old notebooks, we found what really interested
us. I lifted out an old leather-bound book, with engravings on the sides.
"Alexis, look at this.
Doesn't this look like something from Riven?" I asked her just as she pulled
out a necklace with a charm of the Rebel Dagger on it. "How old is that game?
My grandparents must have been video game freaks or something to actually order
this stuff from the catalog . . . " I lifted out another necklace that had the
charm of the 5-point star from that door knocker in the village.
~~*~~
After a few hours of
going through the trunk and many other boxes, Alexis and I took our new things
and drove back to my house. Once back home, I fell back onto my waterbed, and
opened my new book.
"There's nothing in it!"
I flipped through the old, yellowed pages to find nothing written or drawn on
any of them. "You'd think someone would have written in here, or something
would be in it to make it more interesting." Alexis sat down next to me and glanced
through it, not amused. She was already wearing the Dagger necklace, which she
was obviously proud of. I took mine out of my pocket, and put it around my own
neck.
We both sat there in
silence for a while, looking at the charms. They were strange . . . they had
nothing engraved on it saying where it was made, or even the Cyan logo. I
started to notice that the parts of it weren't glued together, but welded
together. It was imperfect, like it was hand-made.
"I dunno, I think your
great-grandpa was a real nerd. I mean, either that or he had a lot of time to
weld stuff like this."
I shot her a look, but I
secretly agreed. Who really had the time or patience for making such detailed
stuff? Plus, it was from a computer game.
Soon we were interested
in other things. We went out and looked through the telescope like we always
did when it was a full moon.
Yawning, "What time is
it?" I asked.
"Quarter to midnight,"
she said, following suit and hiding a yawn.
"Let's go in and watch
somethin'."
"Yup."
~~*~~
A few minutes later I was
watching "Blue Streak" while Alexis checked through her suitcase and back pack
checking if she had everything to go to Florida. We were planning a trip to
celebrate both of us finally getting our driver's licenses.
"So, what's goin' on with
your parents?" I asked.
"Shit, I dunno. Mike is
somewhere in California with the secretary, therapist, my former babysitter,
whatever, I keep losing track. And Cheryl is on some business trip in Paris,
London, Madrid, I lose track of that too. I think she expects me to go with
Mike in a few days, but he's under the impression that it's her
month…you know, three months in a row."
I watched her
sympathetically while she explained her situation so easily. Like usual I
didn't know what to say. She never seemed to care anyways, but I knew she did.
Suddenly the journal fell
off the desk.
"Christ!" Alexis spun
around, sending her clothes flying. I reached out to put it away when I noticed
a picture in it. Hadn't the whole thing been blank?
"Hey!" it couldn't be…but
I was looking right at it.
"What?" she asked,
gathering the clothes from around the room. "Son of a…I folded these so
perfectly," she grumbled.
I looked closer. That
picture was definitely moving…
"For crying out loud,
what is it?" Alexis grabbed the book from my hands, but dropped it almost
immediately. "Holy Christ…whoa, that's a little redundant."
I picked it up and opened
it again. I was mesmerized. Unconsciously, I brushed my fingers across the
picture. Throughout my body I felt my molecules compacting and shifting.
"NO! YOU LOSER!
DOOOOOOON'T…" I felt myself drift away from Alexis's curses that became more
and more distant.
A/N: To avoid more
confusion, here's basically what just happened: In the prologue, Atrus is in THIS
world, saying goodbye to a good friend (Katrina's great-grandfather) it's
fanfiction, so we changed a few things. We made it so time passes a LOT slower
in Riven than in our world. Then it changes 2 present day, w/us at the
computer. We go 2 my grandpa's house 2 look through my great-grandpa's old
things, and find the stuff that Atrus left him so long ago. We use the book we
found to get 2 Riven. Get it so far? Hope so. PLEAAASE review! Hope that cleared it up for any1 that's
confused!!