(author's notes: First of all, this story is NOT written just by me. It's
written mainly by me and Adi, with LOTS of help from Iris, and no help at
all from Ness, *cough cough*, who's 'supposed' to be the main character in
this story! So we all wrote it (except Ness).
(disclaimer: okay I don't own any of the Circle characters or Emelan and
all that other stuff)
10:37 by Lillian
CHAPTER ONE March 2002 ~~In the city of Bufezda, Iowa~~
Adriana Danzen did not like social studies class at this moment. In fact, she was wishing more and more that she wasn't an 8th grader in Bufezda Middle School. Her social studies class had just learned about Jack the Ripper, and were now watching a movie called "From Hell." Adi, who didn't like horror movies very much, really didn't want to see it at all. In fact, at this moment, she wanted to run screaming out of the room and go to science class. She liked science class. But being that it was part of the curriculum, she had to.
Adi looked fearfully up at the screen. It was a tense moment.the place the characters were was dark and you expected the killer to jump out at any moment. The rest of the kids were watching intently, they all loved horror movies-but that was probably because most of them were boys.
Immediately, something on the screen flashed and the person screamed. There was another flash-the killer had struck!
Adi screamed in alarm and jerked strongly in her chair. Upon her sudden fright, there was a flash of silver light.
And everything stopped. Just like that, it.stopped.
Adi looked around, confused. The TV had stopped, but then again, so had everything else. One of the people near Adi was throwing a paper airplane.and the paper airplane had stopped completely, frozen in midair as if someone pushed the pause button on the TV. Now Adi was confused. Why had everything stopped like that? Adi reached out one hand and poked the paper airplane. It moved slightly in the air, but still remained suspended in that odd way. She waved her hand in front of the person next to her's face-no response. "What is going on?" Adi cried in frustration. "Why is everything all stopped like this?" No response from anyone. It wasn't like Adi was expecting one. All Adi knew was that the molecules were suspended in the air. She didn't know HOW she knew, only that she knew. "Just move!" She exclaimed in frustration, banging her hand on the desk. There was another flash of light and everything started moving again. The TV continued to play, the paper airplane continued its flight and hit the blackboard. Adi was relieved that everything had started up again, but she was still confused.
What had happened.?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"200 drop spins, left hand, and I want no rolling up!" Came the voice of Diana Rian, the colorguard instructor for the Bufezda High School marching band. Lutra groaned. 200, left hand? She had a hard enough time doing 200 right hand!
Lutra Mendez was in 8th grade, in middle school, just as Adi was. She was also, however, the only middle school student to join the high school colorguard (which was part of the marching band). It was her first year, and she had no idea why she was doing this. Aha-her old guard instructor had conned her into it, that's why. She made it seem like 'no big deal.'
Hah.
But she had never known that Diana Rian would be her instructor. Diana was the instructor from, shall we say, H-E-double hockey sticks. Lutra thought she left her horns, tail, and pitchfork at home as to not scare the colorguard. But 200 left hand drop spins? That was just.preposterous!
Lutra sighed, going up to right shoulder at her instructor's command. What time was it, anyway? Lutra didn't need to look at her watch.she knew it was exactly 4:17. 4:17.and 32 seconds. She didn't know how she knew, just that she knew. Lutra looked at her watch. Sure enough, 4:17 and 32 seconds.
Lutra switched to left shoulder when she realized that Diana was glaring at her, and prepared for her 200 drop spins. "Ready, begin!" Diana began clapping as everyone did their spins. "Fast!" Lutra hissed to herself. "It's too fast, how do you expect me to keep up? Go SLOWER!" Lutra was frustrated.
Then, as if as an answer to her plea, things began to go.slower. Each drop spin seemed elongated, seemed to last several looong seconds. Lutra could pretty much keep up easily now. But now the seconds were longer. 33 seconds.33.33.33.each second seemed to last ten. "199.200." Diana's voice seemed long and drawn out, like the way voices sound in slow motion.
Lutra blinked. "This is odd." She thought. "The time of drop spins seemed to slow down for me. But why? And.how?" But as she said that, the seconds began to speed up again and go back to their normal pace. The seconds were once again seconds, the minutes minutes, and so on. As Lutra could tell, time had resumed its normal pace perfectly. But not for the time she had to do the drop spins.
How.strange.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ooh, are you going to read again, Vanessa?" "Yeah, read you're book!" "Yeah, and do my homework while you're at it!" In art class, Vanessa Matazi was surrounded by the taunting whispers of the boys in her class. They tried to make fun of her.of how she liked to read, and how she ALWAYS did perfect at clay building in art, and how she was rather smart. All the boys kept wanting her to do their homework for them.
"Go away." Nessa, or Ness, said, burying her head back into her book. "I won't go away until you do my homework!" Said Bobby, one of the boys. "Go away!" Ness repeated. "No!" Bobby snatched the book out of Ness's hands, running across the room with it. "No!" Ness exclaimed, getting up out of her chair. "My book! Give me back my book!" The bell chose that ill-chosen moment to ring.
Ness ran over to the other side of the room. She realized that unless the got her book back NOW, then she'd be late for her next class. And Ness hated to be late for anything, even more so than Lutra.
"Give me my book back!" She repeated. Bobby grinned tauntingly at her, passing the book from hand to hand. Ness was getting really annoyed. "I said, give that." Ness never reached the word 'back', because Bobby gave a funny gasp and dropped to the floor. Ness, alarmed, took a step back. Bobby was lying flat on the floor.literally. He seemed to have become. Two dimensional??
Ness, shocked, took her book. When she did, Bobby gasped again and became his normal self. He looked very pale.
"Keep your book!" He said, his voice suddenly quivering and afraid. He gave a scared look at Ness and ran out of the room. Ness, very confused herself, put her book back in her bookbag and ran out of the classroom. Weird.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was lunchtime in Bufezda Middle School. All three of them, Adi, Lutra, and Ness, went to middle school. They were in fact in 8th grade.
It was lunchtime, and after they ate lunch they went to the reading room. Their school had a thing called the reading room where you could go to read after you ate lunch. Since the three of them liked to read, they were there every single day.
They left the lunch room and went to the reading room, stopping briefly at Lutra's locker before they got there. Their friend Irisa Orawynn, or Iris, was already sitting there. Iris waved them over. She was busy working on her art homework-Iris was a very good artist. She always seemed to know the right balance of color perception and light. "Hey guys." Iris said to them as they sat down. "Hi, Iris." They all replied. Ness took out her book and started reading, while Adi and Lutra talked (and prepared to get yelled at by the teacher monitor for talking) (author's note: PASS LADY!!).
"You know," Adi began. "The strangest thing happened to me the other day." "What?" Lutra asked. Ness peered over her book to hear what Adi was saying. Adi then proceeded to tell her two friends that unusual incident in her social studies class in which she froze everything. "I honestly don't know what happened." Adi shook her head.
"You know, something weird happened to me like that too." Ness added, putting her book down to look at the two of them. The then told them about how she turned Bobby two dimensional in art. Lastly, Lutra told them about her stretching out the time of her drop spins at colorguard.
"Weird." Adi said, shaking her head. They all agreed how strange these incidents were, especially Ness turning Bobby two dimensional. "There HAS to be an explanation of some sort for this." Adi said. She didn't like unanswered questions. "I actually have no idea." Replied Ness.
Ness was usually very logical; she always had an answer for everything. But this time, she didn't have an answer for this.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
(author's note: Hannah, you can kill me for this later. *and Trey spontaneously combusts*)
After lunch, poor Adi was stuck with gym class, her least favorite class of the day. Adi, as well as her two other friends, despised gym. Adi changed into her gym clothes and then trudged into the large gym, her least favorite place to be. The teacher then said those dreaded words: "Line up in you're teams for softball!"
Adi sighed and got in line, into a nice safe place in the back. "Adi Danzen, you're up." The gym teacher said. Hey.that gym teacher had no business putting her as first up at bat! Adi scowled her best scowl at the gym teacher before taking the softball bat, feeling the molecules tightly packed in the wood.
Unfortunately, Dan Savis the class loudmouth began his usual routine. He began taunting Adi, yelling random insults at her. He did that to everyone in the class, but Adi never cared for it that much. "I wish a big wad of.something.would come out and hit Dan Savis." Adi thought viciously to herself, gripping the bat.
Suddenly, there was a whoosh in the air. Adi turned around, and suddenly a big wad off.something.came out and hit Dan Savis. Dan looked confused, snapping his mouth shut, being that he was just hit by a wad of something.
"What was THAT?" The gym teacher exclaimed, staring at the thing on the floor. Adi, actually trying not to laugh, replied, "I think it was a.wad of something."
The teacher picked up the wad of something and looked at it strangely. "This is odd." The teacher said. The teacher threw out the wad of something, and gym class continued. But Dan Savis didn't bother Adi for the rest of the day.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ness was getting stressed out in math class. The teacher was confusing her, throwing wild and strange algebraic equations out at her. "Vanessa, would you kindly come up to the board and solve this one for us?" It was another confusing equation: combining like terms, something Ness never really understood. Ness, mortally afraid, walked up to the board and picked up the chalk. She stared at the problem on the board: x(3x+x2)-2x(3x2=7). She raised the chalk piece to the board and stopped, not knowing what to do now. "Need help, Ness?" A voice came out of the classroom. Most of the people in the class would start yelling at those who 'took too long.'
"I'm fine." Ness muttered. She continued at the equation, hearing more of the taunting voices. Why wouldn't they leave her alone?
Suddenly, things around Ness began flickering. The world seemed to be fading out from her vision, blending into something else. She turned around.the classroom seemed to be becoming fuzzier and blending with another place. She could half see the classroom, half see another place.a mountain top.with a city lying below, on the bottom. "Vanessa?" Came the teacher's querying voice, jerking her back to reality. The mountain faded, replaced entirely by the classroom itself.
"Vanessa, what happened? You seemed to be, fuzzy, blurry.?" The teacher was confused. Ness shrugged, equally confused. "I don't know." She replied. But Ness didn't have to finish the equation-the teacher got someone else.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"This.is a comma. A comma is used to." Mrs. Derkon, Lutra's 8th period reading/writing teacher, was being extremely boring. Of course, that was nothing new-she was ALWAYS boring. Lutra was leaning on her desk, head down, trying her hardest not to fall asleep, trying not to let her mind wander.
"Lutra!" Lutra jumped. The teacher was staring at her expectantly. "Can you read your introductory paragraph for the memoir to the class?" Lutra began shuffling through her papers, feeling a blush creep through her cheeks as she realized the was unprepared. She found her memoir, though, and began reading. "It was late in February 2001. It was a cold, cloudy day, with a hint of snow in the air." Mrs. Derkon cut Lutra off. "Lutra, you're introduction is shoddy. Let me see it." She then took Lutra's essay and began reading it out loud, criticizing it as often as possible.
Lutra tried to sink into her chair, but it was no use.the teacher continued. Lutra glared angrily. "Why is she doing this?" Lutra thought. "I wish a dilophosaurus would come and eat all these essays."
Then, upon her thinking that, Lutra felt a slight tug on something inside her. There was a blaze of silver light, and when the light cleared, standing over 16 feet tall in the middle of the classroom was..
A dilophosaurus?!
The dinosaur roared, then turned to look at Lutra before it grabbed a mouthful of nearby essay. Mrs. Derkon gave a look of complete amazement, confusion, disbelief, and anger that a dinosaur would DARE to disrupt her class. The dilophosaurus made its way around the room, eating essays and generally causing havoc.
Lutra, while being confused, just noted how out of time the dilo was. Finally, the creature stopped in front of Lutra's desk, blinking at her with its fierce eyes. It tilted its head, almost as if to say, "I have done my job here."
Lutra looked around. The essays were either eaten or ripped to shreds. The rest of the room was in shambles. "You can go home now, I guess." Lutra whispered. There was another flash of silver light and the dinosaur was gone. Lutra felt another tug on that invisible something, and suddenly felt strangely exhausted, as if she had just run a mile. But the teacher didn't assign any more essays.
10:37 by Lillian
CHAPTER ONE March 2002 ~~In the city of Bufezda, Iowa~~
Adriana Danzen did not like social studies class at this moment. In fact, she was wishing more and more that she wasn't an 8th grader in Bufezda Middle School. Her social studies class had just learned about Jack the Ripper, and were now watching a movie called "From Hell." Adi, who didn't like horror movies very much, really didn't want to see it at all. In fact, at this moment, she wanted to run screaming out of the room and go to science class. She liked science class. But being that it was part of the curriculum, she had to.
Adi looked fearfully up at the screen. It was a tense moment.the place the characters were was dark and you expected the killer to jump out at any moment. The rest of the kids were watching intently, they all loved horror movies-but that was probably because most of them were boys.
Immediately, something on the screen flashed and the person screamed. There was another flash-the killer had struck!
Adi screamed in alarm and jerked strongly in her chair. Upon her sudden fright, there was a flash of silver light.
And everything stopped. Just like that, it.stopped.
Adi looked around, confused. The TV had stopped, but then again, so had everything else. One of the people near Adi was throwing a paper airplane.and the paper airplane had stopped completely, frozen in midair as if someone pushed the pause button on the TV. Now Adi was confused. Why had everything stopped like that? Adi reached out one hand and poked the paper airplane. It moved slightly in the air, but still remained suspended in that odd way. She waved her hand in front of the person next to her's face-no response. "What is going on?" Adi cried in frustration. "Why is everything all stopped like this?" No response from anyone. It wasn't like Adi was expecting one. All Adi knew was that the molecules were suspended in the air. She didn't know HOW she knew, only that she knew. "Just move!" She exclaimed in frustration, banging her hand on the desk. There was another flash of light and everything started moving again. The TV continued to play, the paper airplane continued its flight and hit the blackboard. Adi was relieved that everything had started up again, but she was still confused.
What had happened.?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"200 drop spins, left hand, and I want no rolling up!" Came the voice of Diana Rian, the colorguard instructor for the Bufezda High School marching band. Lutra groaned. 200, left hand? She had a hard enough time doing 200 right hand!
Lutra Mendez was in 8th grade, in middle school, just as Adi was. She was also, however, the only middle school student to join the high school colorguard (which was part of the marching band). It was her first year, and she had no idea why she was doing this. Aha-her old guard instructor had conned her into it, that's why. She made it seem like 'no big deal.'
Hah.
But she had never known that Diana Rian would be her instructor. Diana was the instructor from, shall we say, H-E-double hockey sticks. Lutra thought she left her horns, tail, and pitchfork at home as to not scare the colorguard. But 200 left hand drop spins? That was just.preposterous!
Lutra sighed, going up to right shoulder at her instructor's command. What time was it, anyway? Lutra didn't need to look at her watch.she knew it was exactly 4:17. 4:17.and 32 seconds. She didn't know how she knew, just that she knew. Lutra looked at her watch. Sure enough, 4:17 and 32 seconds.
Lutra switched to left shoulder when she realized that Diana was glaring at her, and prepared for her 200 drop spins. "Ready, begin!" Diana began clapping as everyone did their spins. "Fast!" Lutra hissed to herself. "It's too fast, how do you expect me to keep up? Go SLOWER!" Lutra was frustrated.
Then, as if as an answer to her plea, things began to go.slower. Each drop spin seemed elongated, seemed to last several looong seconds. Lutra could pretty much keep up easily now. But now the seconds were longer. 33 seconds.33.33.33.each second seemed to last ten. "199.200." Diana's voice seemed long and drawn out, like the way voices sound in slow motion.
Lutra blinked. "This is odd." She thought. "The time of drop spins seemed to slow down for me. But why? And.how?" But as she said that, the seconds began to speed up again and go back to their normal pace. The seconds were once again seconds, the minutes minutes, and so on. As Lutra could tell, time had resumed its normal pace perfectly. But not for the time she had to do the drop spins.
How.strange.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Ooh, are you going to read again, Vanessa?" "Yeah, read you're book!" "Yeah, and do my homework while you're at it!" In art class, Vanessa Matazi was surrounded by the taunting whispers of the boys in her class. They tried to make fun of her.of how she liked to read, and how she ALWAYS did perfect at clay building in art, and how she was rather smart. All the boys kept wanting her to do their homework for them.
"Go away." Nessa, or Ness, said, burying her head back into her book. "I won't go away until you do my homework!" Said Bobby, one of the boys. "Go away!" Ness repeated. "No!" Bobby snatched the book out of Ness's hands, running across the room with it. "No!" Ness exclaimed, getting up out of her chair. "My book! Give me back my book!" The bell chose that ill-chosen moment to ring.
Ness ran over to the other side of the room. She realized that unless the got her book back NOW, then she'd be late for her next class. And Ness hated to be late for anything, even more so than Lutra.
"Give me my book back!" She repeated. Bobby grinned tauntingly at her, passing the book from hand to hand. Ness was getting really annoyed. "I said, give that." Ness never reached the word 'back', because Bobby gave a funny gasp and dropped to the floor. Ness, alarmed, took a step back. Bobby was lying flat on the floor.literally. He seemed to have become. Two dimensional??
Ness, shocked, took her book. When she did, Bobby gasped again and became his normal self. He looked very pale.
"Keep your book!" He said, his voice suddenly quivering and afraid. He gave a scared look at Ness and ran out of the room. Ness, very confused herself, put her book back in her bookbag and ran out of the classroom. Weird.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was lunchtime in Bufezda Middle School. All three of them, Adi, Lutra, and Ness, went to middle school. They were in fact in 8th grade.
It was lunchtime, and after they ate lunch they went to the reading room. Their school had a thing called the reading room where you could go to read after you ate lunch. Since the three of them liked to read, they were there every single day.
They left the lunch room and went to the reading room, stopping briefly at Lutra's locker before they got there. Their friend Irisa Orawynn, or Iris, was already sitting there. Iris waved them over. She was busy working on her art homework-Iris was a very good artist. She always seemed to know the right balance of color perception and light. "Hey guys." Iris said to them as they sat down. "Hi, Iris." They all replied. Ness took out her book and started reading, while Adi and Lutra talked (and prepared to get yelled at by the teacher monitor for talking) (author's note: PASS LADY!!).
"You know," Adi began. "The strangest thing happened to me the other day." "What?" Lutra asked. Ness peered over her book to hear what Adi was saying. Adi then proceeded to tell her two friends that unusual incident in her social studies class in which she froze everything. "I honestly don't know what happened." Adi shook her head.
"You know, something weird happened to me like that too." Ness added, putting her book down to look at the two of them. The then told them about how she turned Bobby two dimensional in art. Lastly, Lutra told them about her stretching out the time of her drop spins at colorguard.
"Weird." Adi said, shaking her head. They all agreed how strange these incidents were, especially Ness turning Bobby two dimensional. "There HAS to be an explanation of some sort for this." Adi said. She didn't like unanswered questions. "I actually have no idea." Replied Ness.
Ness was usually very logical; she always had an answer for everything. But this time, she didn't have an answer for this.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
(author's note: Hannah, you can kill me for this later. *and Trey spontaneously combusts*)
After lunch, poor Adi was stuck with gym class, her least favorite class of the day. Adi, as well as her two other friends, despised gym. Adi changed into her gym clothes and then trudged into the large gym, her least favorite place to be. The teacher then said those dreaded words: "Line up in you're teams for softball!"
Adi sighed and got in line, into a nice safe place in the back. "Adi Danzen, you're up." The gym teacher said. Hey.that gym teacher had no business putting her as first up at bat! Adi scowled her best scowl at the gym teacher before taking the softball bat, feeling the molecules tightly packed in the wood.
Unfortunately, Dan Savis the class loudmouth began his usual routine. He began taunting Adi, yelling random insults at her. He did that to everyone in the class, but Adi never cared for it that much. "I wish a big wad of.something.would come out and hit Dan Savis." Adi thought viciously to herself, gripping the bat.
Suddenly, there was a whoosh in the air. Adi turned around, and suddenly a big wad off.something.came out and hit Dan Savis. Dan looked confused, snapping his mouth shut, being that he was just hit by a wad of something.
"What was THAT?" The gym teacher exclaimed, staring at the thing on the floor. Adi, actually trying not to laugh, replied, "I think it was a.wad of something."
The teacher picked up the wad of something and looked at it strangely. "This is odd." The teacher said. The teacher threw out the wad of something, and gym class continued. But Dan Savis didn't bother Adi for the rest of the day.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ness was getting stressed out in math class. The teacher was confusing her, throwing wild and strange algebraic equations out at her. "Vanessa, would you kindly come up to the board and solve this one for us?" It was another confusing equation: combining like terms, something Ness never really understood. Ness, mortally afraid, walked up to the board and picked up the chalk. She stared at the problem on the board: x(3x+x2)-2x(3x2=7). She raised the chalk piece to the board and stopped, not knowing what to do now. "Need help, Ness?" A voice came out of the classroom. Most of the people in the class would start yelling at those who 'took too long.'
"I'm fine." Ness muttered. She continued at the equation, hearing more of the taunting voices. Why wouldn't they leave her alone?
Suddenly, things around Ness began flickering. The world seemed to be fading out from her vision, blending into something else. She turned around.the classroom seemed to be becoming fuzzier and blending with another place. She could half see the classroom, half see another place.a mountain top.with a city lying below, on the bottom. "Vanessa?" Came the teacher's querying voice, jerking her back to reality. The mountain faded, replaced entirely by the classroom itself.
"Vanessa, what happened? You seemed to be, fuzzy, blurry.?" The teacher was confused. Ness shrugged, equally confused. "I don't know." She replied. But Ness didn't have to finish the equation-the teacher got someone else.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"This.is a comma. A comma is used to." Mrs. Derkon, Lutra's 8th period reading/writing teacher, was being extremely boring. Of course, that was nothing new-she was ALWAYS boring. Lutra was leaning on her desk, head down, trying her hardest not to fall asleep, trying not to let her mind wander.
"Lutra!" Lutra jumped. The teacher was staring at her expectantly. "Can you read your introductory paragraph for the memoir to the class?" Lutra began shuffling through her papers, feeling a blush creep through her cheeks as she realized the was unprepared. She found her memoir, though, and began reading. "It was late in February 2001. It was a cold, cloudy day, with a hint of snow in the air." Mrs. Derkon cut Lutra off. "Lutra, you're introduction is shoddy. Let me see it." She then took Lutra's essay and began reading it out loud, criticizing it as often as possible.
Lutra tried to sink into her chair, but it was no use.the teacher continued. Lutra glared angrily. "Why is she doing this?" Lutra thought. "I wish a dilophosaurus would come and eat all these essays."
Then, upon her thinking that, Lutra felt a slight tug on something inside her. There was a blaze of silver light, and when the light cleared, standing over 16 feet tall in the middle of the classroom was..
A dilophosaurus?!
The dinosaur roared, then turned to look at Lutra before it grabbed a mouthful of nearby essay. Mrs. Derkon gave a look of complete amazement, confusion, disbelief, and anger that a dinosaur would DARE to disrupt her class. The dilophosaurus made its way around the room, eating essays and generally causing havoc.
Lutra, while being confused, just noted how out of time the dilo was. Finally, the creature stopped in front of Lutra's desk, blinking at her with its fierce eyes. It tilted its head, almost as if to say, "I have done my job here."
Lutra looked around. The essays were either eaten or ripped to shreds. The rest of the room was in shambles. "You can go home now, I guess." Lutra whispered. There was another flash of silver light and the dinosaur was gone. Lutra felt another tug on that invisible something, and suddenly felt strangely exhausted, as if she had just run a mile. But the teacher didn't assign any more essays.