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***Flashback****
"Did you see that nice new necklace at Heltzerng?" A grubby looking boy mumbled hopping onto a trash bin and leaning against a dirty wall. A red headed girl rolled her eyes. Her cheeks were smeared and her fiery red hair needed to be brushed.
"Like we could ever afford one," She responded.
"There's always..." He left off, it was clear, though, that she understood what he was talking about, and the girl burst into laughter showing off rather dirty teeth.
"Hardly! No one in their right mind could ever manage to get out of that building with that pretty bauble without payin' for it." She said in-between laughs.
"It's only impossible for incompetent, uneducated fools," Said Aurelia, who had remained quiet, and out of the conversation until this moment. Her hand slapped over her mouth. That was a verrrrry bad choice of words.
"Blast, I didn't mean that." She mumbled. The red headed girl's eyes flashed in anger.
"And I suppose you could steal it?" The red headed girl challenged. Aurelia's face hardened in stubbornness, her eyes already showing her acceptance of the challenge. She never ever went back on a challenge.
"I could steal it easily!" She bragged. The redhead folded her arms and smirked.
"Prove it then." Aurelia glared angrily before nodding.
She managed to break into the building easily, crawling to the glass case that held the prize. Aurelia broke the glass and grabbed the necklace as the alarm sounded. She looked around before she dashed out. Sirens wailed in the near distance. The boy and girl were looking fearful as she came sprinting back. Scotland Yard was right behind her. Suddenly they heard the squealing of tires and saw a giant spotlight.
"Blast it!" The redhead cursed. The boy seemed to be frozen in fear, but he was mumbling something under his breath that sounded something like: "We're gonna be caught, we're gonna be caught, we're gonna be caught..."
"Aurelia this is YOUR fault! And since I didn't steal anything and he didn't steal anything..." she left off before pushing Aurelia into the light
"We have to get out of here!" She screamed. Aurelia froze; her eyes widened in fear before she noticed the people of Scotland Yard running towards her. Their uniforms were neatly pressed and stiff as they continued to run towards her. Aurelia finally blinked and, using a few rather graphic words, she dashed off and managed to climb to the top of building. "They'll have a harder time getting me up here," she thought, leaping from roof to roof.
**** End Flashback ****
Suddenly she saw a rather odd building that looked an awful lot like a ship.
PERFECT!!! She could hide in there easily! Aurelia leapt onto the ship and ran into what appeared to be the storage area. She curled up in a corner and yawned as she heard exclaims of surprise from the officers who were chasing her. There was a jolt that made the barrels surrounding her roll a bit, while Aurelia gave a quick glance to the glistening necklace clenched tightly in her hand and frowned.
"That was weird. Some "friends" those two were, but I got it," She mumbled before her eyelids grew heavy and she fell into a deep sleep, a small smile of triumph lighting her serene face.
What seemed to be a few hours later, Aurelia was jolted out of her sleep by the sound of large boots thundering over her head. She glared at the ceiling and sent a silent curse to who ever was enough of a barking mad idiot to be up at this time of the morning. Aurelia took the chance to scamper over to the window. As she cautiously peeked out, she felt as if she would faint. She was floating over an ocean towards an odd looking little island with a rather intriguing sparkle surrounding it. She nearly screamed. FOR GOODNESS SAKE WHAT WAS A BOAT DOING IN THE AIR?! Aurelia threw herself against the wall, as far away from the window as possible. Air.. flying.. not good! Scary! Bad!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After a while, when she had finally calmed down, Aurelia paused to think about what on earth had happened to her.
"Now what the devil have I gotten myself in to? And where the bloody hell AM I?!" she shrieked, immediately clamping a hand over her mouth and diving into her darkened corner. Luckily, it seemed that no one had heard her little outburst. She said a thankful prayer before settling comfortably in her corner. She just hoped that she wouldn't get sea… um, airsick.
Soon, though, she was trying to squeeze tighter into her corner as someone clambered down the stairs, muttering and cursing. She noticed the odd ripped off pants and shirt, as well as the eye patch and…the hat? Pirates? What on earth?
"Who the bloody hell does this guy think he is, Blackbeard?" The "pirate" suddenly stopped and looked around trying to find the voice. Aurelia was thoroughly berating herself for being such a bloody numbskull. She thought it was time to make a run for it, so she suddenly stood up and sprinted up the stairs. The pirate blinked stupidly before tearing after her seconds later. She barely listened to the shouts of "GET 'ER! COME BACK 'ERE YE STOWAWAY!" Aurelia saw the plank, ran to the end, and dove gracefully into the water.
Her head popped up a few moments later, while she tried to stay in the shadows of the ship. Aurelia could hear the pirate telling someone all that had happened, smirking just before her eyes lit up as she caught sight of a lagoon.
"Yessss!!! Lagoons equal good!" she thought with a smile. Aurelia quickly swam to the lagoon, pulled herself out of the water and spotted a nearby cliff, which could serve as a perfect diving board! Yay! Aurelia walked over, hardly noticing the squishing her shoes made on the ground. When she reached the cliff she kicked her shoes off, pulled off her shirt and laid the shirt out to dry before diving into the peaceful lagoon. As she came back up she thought she heard voices.
"That was a pretty nice dive for a two-legged person," Someone said haughtily. Aurelia spun around in the water to see numerous heads pop out from under the water. She watched as some came and pulled themselves onto the rocks. Her eyes widened in surprise to see, not two human legs, but a very fishy tail.
"Mermaids? You...fins? This is incredible!" Aurelia said blinking. She rubbed her eyes before staring at the mermaids again.
"Wow! This is so amazing! This is supposed to be in books, not in some lagoon near some ship that flies in some random island somewhere in the universe" Aurelia stated. The mermaids stared at her, slight surprise written upon their arrogant faces. A small blonde one swam over to Aurelia and smiled.
"What are you doing in our lagoon?" the small one asked. Aurelia quickly told the sea girl her story, starting with stealing the necklace and ending in the escape from the weird pirate guy. By the time she was done, all of the mermaids were paying full attention to the "two-legged girl". The mermaids did love a good story after all.
"You came here on that ship? And you swam from there to the lagoon?" One asked. Aurelia nodded silently.
"Where did you come from?" The small one asked her. Aurelia grinned.
"From London, It's a damn good city, but don't think I actually like stealing; I've just had to my whole life..."she trailed off, the mermaids eyes were huge in wonder. Aurelia looked up to notice that the sky was slowly darkening and it was getting rather chilly.
"Do you guys know where I possibly could stay for the night?" She suddenly asked. The mermaids looked at each other and seemed to come to a silent agreement.
"We can take you to a cave, the entrance is through a tunnel behind there," One said pointing to the waterfall. Aurelia ran and got her shirt and shoes before taking a deep breath and diving under the water. The mermaids swam around her and pointed out a dark hole in the rock wall. Aurelia cautiously swam through, her lungs burning from lack of air. She popped her head into the cave. The water's floor sloped upwards precipitately and was immediately followed by hard stone. Somehow light managed to seep into the room, reflecting upon the water and bouncing onto the walls creating the image that the walls were shimmering with some secret magic. Within the room there were giant pillars where stalagmites and stalactites had met. In-between two of these pillars and the wall of the cave, a thin barrier of granite grew up to about her waist. That area would do for a bedroom if Aurelia were stuck here for a while. It created at least some privacy in case an overly friendly mermaid decided to drop by for a surprise visit.
It was dark and damp, but had a homey atmosphere that drew away all gloomy feelings, Aurelia smiled in delight. The cave was perfect. She pulled herself out of the water and turned to the four mermaids who had followed her to make sure she was okay.
"Thank you so much! This is so perfect!" She exclaimed, a smile lighting up her face. The mermaids also smiled before saying their goodnights and disappearing under the dark water. Aurelia slowly looked around the cave nodding to herself, a grin spreading across her countenance. She yawned before curling up behind the mini wall. She pillowed her head on her arm and was soon fast asleep.
She woke with the sun shinning in her eyes. She blearily opened her eyes, rubbed the sleep out of them and glared at the offending area in which sunlight was shinning through. "Curtains. As soon as possible, curtains," she grouched to herself. Aurelia's curiosity finally overcame her grouchiness, only by a little though, and she finally stood up and went to check out where the sunlight was streaming through. She saw a pile of stone blocks, which she slowly began shoving over to the side, maybe they could be used for something other than really bad sun blocks. She smiled when she saw a hole large enough to crawl through, but small enough not to be noticed the night before in her quick scan of the cave. Aurelia shrugged before climbing onto her hands and knees and crawling through the small tunnel. She noticed small holes that allowed light and air to filter in, but which probably remained hardly noticeable from the surface. She finally pushed aside a large blooming bush to find herself in a jungle area.
Suddenly a boy landed in a near by clearing and she quickly hid behind the bush again. The boy seemed rugged (even if he was wearing what appeared to be green tights) and was handsome with his soft brown eyes and reddish hair. He looked a bit taller than she was, but he looked to be about her age with a childish innocence to him. It was odd. Her eyes wide in astonishment as she watched a little glowing thing land on his shoulder, and her eyes grew even wider as he seemed to just fly away. That was insane! She crawled out of the tunnel and walked into the clearing. She looked up to the sky and saw a speck against the sky. That must have been him! WHERE THE BLOODY HELL WAS SHE?!?!?!?!
Aurelia stared at her stomach as it gave out a very unladylike growling. She was sure the people in Calcutta could have heard it grumbling in protest to not having much food for the past two days. Aurelia sighed. It looked like before she did any more exploring she would need some food.
A few hours later Aurelia found herself spying on an Indian encampment. Well, they should have food, right? A glint of mischief lit up her eyes. Ah well, time to do what she did best. Aurelia's ears heard a foot that appeared to be trying to remain quiet, come up behind her, and she tore off running towards the encampment feeling a hiss of hands wrap around the air where she just was. She heard an Indian cry behind her and quickly dashed into a tent. Her panicked face quickly turned into a giant smile. Just her luck, the storage tent
"How convenient of them." She said, her eyes laughing. She quickly dived behind a leather sac of potatoes incase one of them followed her in here. Potatoes were good. She grew absolutely still as she saw a person slowly peek into the tent. His eyes narrowed as he searched for any sign of movement. Aurelia held her breath. She had been in this situation way to many times to not know what to do. He finally left and she silently grabbed an empty sac and filled with a lot of different food, and random supplies, a few pieces of cloth for blankets (or curtains), and a comb among other things. She saw a small dagger in the corner and grabbed that too. She was about to lift the corner of the tent before she brought back her hand, as if she were trying to avoid a viper that had just snapped its jaws at her.
"Sloppy, sloppy..." She mumbled under her breath before poking a small hole into the tent and peering through it. Just as she had suspected, Indians, waiting for someone to crawl out.
"Blast it all!" She hissed. She circled the tent and found one area where it wasn't surrounded. (It was a rather large tent after all.) She suspected that there were people with bows and arrows ready to strike if she sprinted out there. But she was faster than an arrow any day, wasn't she? Had she ever even had to run away from arrows being shot at her? Blast! Now was the time to find out how fast she really was! A grin lit up her face as she did a couple of stretches, toted the sack of food on her back, and tore out of the tent as if hell were on her heels. She zigzagged as she heard the whoosh of arrows behind her. Finally she saw her bush, dived into it, perfect aim to throw her body into the tunnel. She spied the Indians rushing past, let out a smirk and tacked up a piece of cloth at the entrance, just to make it look better. More camouflage. She slid to the bottom on another piece of cloth, laughing gaily as she did and tacked cloth to the bottom of the tunnel as well. The rest of the day was spent putting together her 'house.'
Soon she had a very comfortable looking bed, she had used the blocks covering the tunnel to make a mini cupboard for her food, and a few place rugs to keep her feet warm, or for her to lounge on. This house was far from being done but she'd just have to steal some more stuff at some later date.
The next day, Aurelia could be found sunbathing on a rock, the sun was still high in the sky. Her skin turning to a shade of brown. The mermaids were on surrounding rocks laughing amongst themselves, playing with their hair, or also just lazily lounging upon the rocks. Suddenly a cheerful melody of a flute sounded. All the mermaids started to excitedly look up to the sky all the while squealing at the top of their lungs.
"IT'S PETER!" Aurelia slowly sat up, wincing at the high pitched voices, stretched out her arms, and looked around.
"Who the bloody hell is Peter?" She mumbled. Pearl, the small blonde mermaid smiled happily.
"Why Peter Pan of course! He comes to visit us sometimes! He's so dreamy! And adventurous! And brave! And strong! And handsome!" She exclaimed, her eyes shinning. Aurelia raised an eyebrow, stood up and hopped from rock to rock to the shore. She gave a small little wave to her mermaid friends.
"I think I'll go explore some more. Meet this Peter chap some other time." She shouted out. Most of the mermaids didn't even acknowledge her, but instead surrounded... that boy that Aurelia saw yesterday! He was happily flirting with the finned females, not seeming to have a care in the world. Peter looked up and his eyes locked with hers. She rolled her eyes before spinning on her heel and walking into the leafy cover of the jungle. Suddenly she found the boy hovering in front of her. Aurelia shrieked, backed up, tripped and fell onto her behind. He laughed and she jumped up, furious.
"Don't DO THAT!" She shrieked. He merely smiled.
"Who are you?" Peter asked. She raised an eyebrow.
"Aurelia," she answered.
"I'm Peter Pan!" He said puffing his chest out importantly. She raised an eyebrow as he stood there like a peacock. He appeared to be waiting for her to give him some sort of reaction. She blinked.
"Um, it was nice, um, meeting you?" She asked wondering if that's what he was waiting for. He stared at her curiously.
"You're strange for a girl." He mumbled analyzing her. Her eyes narrowed. "Hey! I'm not the one voluntarily wearing green panty hose here, so between the two of us, I don't think I'm the strange one," Peter's jaw dropped in shock. Since when did girls talk like this? Weren't normal girls supposed to clasp their hands together, with their eyes shinning and say in a dreamy voice, "Oh Peter..." At least, that's what Wendy did, and Tiger Lily, and the mermaids.
In the mean time Aurelia tossed her hair over her shoulder, and sashayed past Peter.
"Well, perhaps we'll meet again Pan." She dropped in a sickeningly sweet voice dripping with sarcasm. With that she disappeared deeper into the forest.
Authors notes: Yes she's really modern, I like modern girls, besides.. Scotland yard... thats a bit modern don't you think? alarm systems? Sorry if this is a bit.. weird.. and I made up the name of the jewelry store.. it sounded good! ^_^ Next chapter may be out next week or so.. maybe two weeks.. Kristen and I are busy clams ya know!