DISCLIAMER: I do not own the Circle or the characters and places in this story that are in Tammy's books!
Aerial woke up with a start, but when she did she wished she had never opened her eyes. What she saw scared the living daylights out of her. She was falling. Falling into a sea of blue water. It was coming closer and closer and Aerial knew that when she fell in there was no way that she could swim to shore. The only land that she could see from her bird's eye view was what looked to be miles away. Oh, God,' she thought. I don't want to die now! Help me please! Somebody, Anybody, help me!'
That was the last thing that Aerial thought because the next minute she had plunged into the ice cold waters of the sea. In her shock, she drew in a deep breath, but found that water and not air filled her lungs. Aerial fought to get to the surface and just as she began to see the light of the sun's rays above the water, she felt something pull her down again. She looked down in panic and saw that a single tendril of seaweed had wrapped itself around her leg. Aerial shook her leg furiously attempting to dislodge the seaweed but it clung tightly to her leg.
Aerial's eye's widened and she could feel her eyes stinging with the salt water. So this was it. Her last living moments. So this was how it felt to have life so close to you but being unable to reach it. To have life dangled in front of you only to have it pulled back from you in one split second because one piece of seaweed, one insignificant piece of plant life had decided that it liked you and wanted to be with you forever, even if it meant dragging you to your death. Dragging you down into the depths of the sea. Aerial shuddered as she thought this. Her breath was slowly leaving her, her life slowly slipping out of her grasp. 'NO!' she thought fiercely! 'NO! I will not die this way!' Aerial grabbed her pendant with one hand and with the other she slowly stretched out her arm attempting to break through the surface of the water and just as slowly, something began to happen.
A light blue wisp of something began to escape from her hand and slowly, ever so slowly; the water began to drain from beneath her. Aerial could feel air begin to seep into her lungs. The water, however, continued to drain into that little wisp of something that was still coming out of Aerial's hand. Soon, Aerial was standing on the sand on the sea floor. She looked up and around her on all four sides were walls of water. If she looked close enough into the water, she could see tiny fish peeping curiously at her.
Aerial was astonished. Was this a dream? Aerial pinched her herself, but nothing happened. Well this is just great,' Aerial thought. I'm stuck in the middle of walls of water with no where to go and meanwhile everyone at my stupid new school is probably wondering where I went and whispering about the scary new girl. I'll probably have to change schools again. Just wonderful. So much for making a good impression!' Aerial sat on the ground and sobbed. I hate this place!' she thought as she started to shiver because of her wet clothes. I just want to get to land! Somewhere where there are actual people!' With that Aerial looked up and to her astonishment, the space between the walls was widening until it made a sort of path. In the distance Aerial could see a small town. Well,' she thought. I might as well follow it. There's nothing else to do.' She sighed and began to follow the path to the town, hoping that the people there would be nothing like Jenny.
Finally finished typing! I hoped everyone liked this chapter. In the next chapter I promise Aerial will meet the Circle. That is if I write another chapter. I need REVIEWS! Well I don't need them but I WANT them. If more people review I will write the next chapter. Please no flames but constructive criticism is welcome and so are ideas and suggestions as to what should happen to Aerial and the Circle in future chapters. I forgot to put a Disclaimer on my first chapter but OH WELL! I'm sure that everyone knows that I do not own the Circle or the other characters that you recognize from Tammy's books (and if you didn't know that, well I just told you). I do, however, own Aerial and the plot. I might forget to add disclaimers to future chapters so if you forget that I don't own the stuff that I just said I don't own, refer to this chapter and read the disclaimer above. Ok then. TTFN!
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Silkdragon: Wow! Thanks for the great review! I'm glad you liked the pendant idea. I didn't exactly use your idea of what should happen when Aerial shows up in Emelan, but your idea kind of gave me the idea of Aerial appearing over water. Thanks!