Author's note: Some, well most of this chapter was actually tacked on after
I planned to put this up. I felt like I needed something to make the story
longer. But then I remembered how I was planning to make the ending longer,
so I'm a little weird right now! This is going to be good but I'm not
exactly sure about how long some parts take. But I do know what I'm doing!
Oh and if by the end of this there are some fangirls who want to kill me
I'm sorry! I couldn't think of anything else! On with the show! Oh, and
thanks to everyone who even read this far!
Chapter 5:
Angie sat on the hillside watching Apallis rise (Apallis is the name of the star that gave Exaveivia it's light) as she thought about what to do next. "Well isn't obvious? You have to find Jim. You don't have that much time!" she thought. "Yeah but there's one problem. How in the heck do I get off thing?" Angie said angrily. The part of the hillside around the opening of the cove that she was sitting on was relatively flat. But the hillside itself was practically straight down. If she'd try to walk down she break her ankles or lose her balance and break other parts of her body.
"I should have stayed behind that waterfall while I had the chance." Then slowly, she had a thought, "...The waterfall...It has to get it's water somewhere!" She stood up and ran around the opening of the cove until she found a river.
"Well, now I've seen everything!" Angie said kneeling next to the large river. If someone else saw it they'd think it was a normal river until they noticed it flowed up the hill. "Ok this definitely weird!" "Quiet, it made our way off of this thing"
The river was more then wide enough to hold at least 5 people. As far as Angie could see the river flowed from another part of the island in the same direction Apallis rose. "Maybe if I slide down this thing I'll be able to find Jim somewhere along it" The river's current seemed strong but maybe the force of gravity would pull her down the hill. Hopefully without getting hurt. "Well, here goes nothing!" Angie said and plunged into the river.
~~~ "Well this is great." Jim said looking around. The only side of the mountain that led to the ground was completely dirt and rock and was dangerously sloped. "Now how do I get down?"
He looked around that when he noticed something very weird. Next to the farthest point of the mountain was a giant tree as tall as the mountain. The branches bare but looked strong enough to hold a person.
"It's not like I have any other choice." Jim said sighing and started unsteadily to the tree. "And here I thought I'd stop climbing after I got out of that valley".
~~~ Angie was constantly getting splashed in the face even though she was going down at a slow rate. "If I ever live through this I am going to kill whoever wrote the song 'Go Against The Grain'!" she thought. With all the water in her eyes she could barely see where she was going. (Or should I say sliding?)
She had no idea how long she spent sliding down but she suddenly dropped into a deep river. At first she didn't know what was going on until she got her head above water. She quickly looked around breathing heavily. On both sides the river there were tall golden wheat-fields slightly swaying in the breeze. Angie swam to the left of her with much difficulty. The current was very powerful and she wanted to get on dry land before it pulled her up the hill.
When she finally got onto the land she had to take a few minutes to rest. "Put that on the list of things I never want to do again!" she said breathing deeply. She stood up and walked into the wheat-field in the direction of Apallis. "Where are we going? I don't know. Then how come you're walking so fast? Because I want my clothes to dry off and the sooner I find Jim the sooner this whole nightmare is over. ...And the sooner he gets back to Cecile. QUIET!" she thought. Lots of times her mind would have arguments with herself. She had no idea where she was going, and she couldn't see things very well with the wheat towering over her head, but she wanted to get there fast.
~~~ Jim was having much trouble climbing down the limbs of gigantic tree. Since the branches were bare he kept on getting poked, prodded, and scratched at. Needless to say he was not having a good time. "About 30 more feet to go. Man, this is going to take a while!" he thought. He tried going down to next set of branches but his hair was caught on something. Jim looked behind him. The band that he used to hold back his ponytail was snagged on a small but solid branch. He tried to get it off. "I just had to keep my hair long, didn't I? I should have kept hair cut after my first year at the Academy!" he complained pulling at the branch. Suddenly he heard a snap but it wasn't from the branch. It was from the band. With all his pulling, it had spilt in two. "Great, just great", he shrugged it off and continued climbing down.
~~~ Angie kept on walking while she was nibbling on a piece of wheat she picked off a stalk. It didn't taste that bad, in fact it had no taste at all. "Well at least I know I won't starve to death", she said softly. She had been walking for nearly 2 hours and found nothing but wheat-field. Still, it gave her time to think. Mostly about Jim. But the more she thought about him, the more she tried to convince herself to get over him. "I mean, I was weird from the beginning! I don't think much has changed now!" she yelled as she kept walking. The scene then flashed through her head. 4 months earlier... Angie was walking down the long hallway next to Mr. Bluedwarf, the principal of the academy. For the 6th time this year she was being moved to another room. "A few more and I'll break last year's record of 9" she thought jokingly and gripped her bag firmly. "Now I hope you do not having any problems with your new roommate Mr. Hawkins. After him there aren't many people willing to share their room due to your past 'difficulties'" Mr. Bluedwarf said to her. "If you put me in one of the empty rooms I wouldn't have any problems," she groaned. "Miss Aguilar we've been through this. The empty rooms are for students who come in during the middle of the year. You came to the academy at the same time as the other students so you have to have a roommate" he said sternly. "Besides I think you'll get along with Mr. Hawkins. He seems as 'temperamental' as you are." "Great just what I need. Another slob who gets moody when I tell him to stop bothering me! I hope I get out of there in a week, the boys here are worst than the ones on Earth!" she thought angrily as they approached a door. Mr. Bluedwarf knocked a few times on it. A few seconds later a boy about Angie's age with brown hair and blue eyes opened it. "Mr. Hawkins this is your new roommate Miss. Aguilar. She has had a few problems with her former roommates and I thought that she might have better luck with you" "Yes sir," Mr. Hawkins or Jim said. "Good. I shall leave you two to get acquainted with each other. Good day" and with that he left the two of them alone. End flashback ~~~ It had been about 2 hours and Jim was finally done climbing the huge tree. He was glad to be on solid ground again. "Now to find Angie and get the hell out of here!" he said smoothing some of his hair back. It had gotten messed up while he was climbing. Jim remembered that when he was on the peak of the mountain, he saw that to the right of him there was nothing but trees and ocean. He started walking left, where there was more land. Jim was in what appeared to be like jungle territory. There were lots of trees, vines, and bushes. And they were all green. "That's weird. Who's ever heard of green plants? Sometimes they'll be blue but not green. That's just ridiculous!" he thought.
After about 10 minutes he heard something. It was a low growl coming behind one of the bushes. Even though he knew that he shouldn't Jim looked behind a bush and nearly stopped breathing. There he was, face to face with a black and yellow spotted, purple cheetah with bright lime-colored eyes. It looked like it was very, very hungry. Jim started running like mad with the cheetah following close behind him! He had nowhere to go unless he found somewhere to hide and quick! About 10 feet in front of him was a tree with a low branch that he could grab if he'd jump. He looked behind him. The cheetah was only about 10 feet behind him! Jim had only one chance. With all his might he ran towards the tree, jumped, grabbed the branch, and was on it seconds before the cheetah was about to rip him in 2!
Jim was well hidden underneath all the leaves and for some reason the cheetah made no attempt to climb the tree itself. "I wonder why?" Jim thought as he caught his breath. That's when he noticed something odd about the cheetah. On it's back it looked like someone had painted the word 'Sheila' in cursive writing with dark-brown paint. "Sheila", Jim said quietly. "I guess that's your name." The cheetah or 'Sheila' (as I'll now call her) did nothing but glare at Jim. Obviously she wasn't going to let him leave for a while. "You can't stay here forever!" Jim shouted fiercely. Sheila then gave him a look that seemed to say, "Neither can you" He had to admit that was true. One of them would have to give in..And hopefully it wouldn't be him.
"Is this wheat-field never going to end?" Angie groaned. Her feet were starting to get a little sore. The wind then started blowing the wheat in front on her to one side. That's when she saw something behind it. She ran straight in front of her and was more than happy to find something else besides wheat. But she then became disappointed when she realized that she had reached a dead-end. Even though she was out of the wheat-field she was now on a tan beach facing a sparkling bluish ocean. "Great! Just great! I just spent about 2 hours walking in the wrong direction!" Angie yelled. She just gave up then and sat in the sand. She turned her head to the sky. "Give me a sign! A hint! Anything!.I know you're up there! I know you are!" Angie yelled. "Oh, this is hopeless" she mumbled. "Just like everything else..."
*Previous flashback continued* "Well", Jim started. "My first name is Jim and.what are you doing?" Angie had started circling around him for some reason. "First basis inspection. I sort of do it with all the human boys I meet. This is the first time a guy has ever stood still so that scores you some extra points," she said. "Ok.so how do I rank up?" Jim said playing along.111111111111 "Pretty darn well. You don't seem to annoy or tease people and seem to have an urge to prove yourself. You look like you might be a little stubborn sometimes but so am I, among other things, so hopefully we'll get along." "How did you get that conclusion?" "You'd be surprised how much you can learn from a face" "Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't judge by a book by its cover?" Jim said sort of stunned. "Yes, but if a book didn't have it's cover, how would you know the title?" "What's that suppose to mean?" "I'm not sure. Some psychological thing, I don't know. I'm in no mood for explanations right now. But either way my name is Angie and it's not short for anything." "Ok." Jim said a little cautious. "If you think I'm weird I don't blame you. All my former roommates think I'm weird if not worst" "You're really not making a good impression you know that?" "Yeah but once you've tried to make a good impression like about 14 times during the last two years you get pretty tried of it" Angie said wearily. *End flashback*
Angie had no idea how long she spent sitting in the sand but suddenly something small tapped on her foot. She looked up (she had sort of rolled herself up with her arms on her knees and her head on her arms) and she starred at a creature that she had never seen before. It's head had light- brown fuzz sticking up and ivory-yellow beak but its body seemed nothing but a little ball of soft copper-colored fur. It had no arms but it had small duck-like feet. "Hi" Angie said softly. "If you don't mind, I'd like to be left alone. I'm waiting for a sign" "Termya" the creature said in a small high-pitched voice. "That must be what you are.You know, you're kinda cute" Angie laughed a little. She lowered her left hand. The creature or 'Termya (pronounced 'ter- MY-ah') bird' slowly nuzzled her hand. "hmm. Moue-ma", the Termya bird said. "Moue-ma?" Angie said puzzled. She thought for a moment, ".Momma? No, I'm not your mother!" "Moue-ma!" it said with black puppy-like eyes. "Oh.even intergalactic species know how to do the puppy look!" Angie said slightly annoyed. Actually, she was more amused than annoyed. After all, she couldn't leave the poor thing alone. It was kind of like her. Practically helpless. She stood up holding the tiny Termya bird in her hand. She thought about it and sighed. "All-right. I guess it won't kill me to pretend to be your mother for a little while" she said smiling a little. The Termya bird yipped and nuzzled against her cheek. Angie bent down and put it back on the sand. It started running up the beach very quickly. "Hey! Wait up!" Angie laughed and ran to catch up with it. She was completely unaware of what she was getting into.
To be continued.
Author's Note: *Whew* That took a long time for me to write! If it's not that good I'm sorry, the next one will be better! I'm also sorry for not really having Jim's point of view on this. I didn't really have that much to work with. If you're wondering where I'm going with this, it's going to
be sort of a life lesson thing. Just trust me,. please? Bye!
Chapter 5:
Angie sat on the hillside watching Apallis rise (Apallis is the name of the star that gave Exaveivia it's light) as she thought about what to do next. "Well isn't obvious? You have to find Jim. You don't have that much time!" she thought. "Yeah but there's one problem. How in the heck do I get off thing?" Angie said angrily. The part of the hillside around the opening of the cove that she was sitting on was relatively flat. But the hillside itself was practically straight down. If she'd try to walk down she break her ankles or lose her balance and break other parts of her body.
"I should have stayed behind that waterfall while I had the chance." Then slowly, she had a thought, "...The waterfall...It has to get it's water somewhere!" She stood up and ran around the opening of the cove until she found a river.
"Well, now I've seen everything!" Angie said kneeling next to the large river. If someone else saw it they'd think it was a normal river until they noticed it flowed up the hill. "Ok this definitely weird!" "Quiet, it made our way off of this thing"
The river was more then wide enough to hold at least 5 people. As far as Angie could see the river flowed from another part of the island in the same direction Apallis rose. "Maybe if I slide down this thing I'll be able to find Jim somewhere along it" The river's current seemed strong but maybe the force of gravity would pull her down the hill. Hopefully without getting hurt. "Well, here goes nothing!" Angie said and plunged into the river.
~~~ "Well this is great." Jim said looking around. The only side of the mountain that led to the ground was completely dirt and rock and was dangerously sloped. "Now how do I get down?"
He looked around that when he noticed something very weird. Next to the farthest point of the mountain was a giant tree as tall as the mountain. The branches bare but looked strong enough to hold a person.
"It's not like I have any other choice." Jim said sighing and started unsteadily to the tree. "And here I thought I'd stop climbing after I got out of that valley".
~~~ Angie was constantly getting splashed in the face even though she was going down at a slow rate. "If I ever live through this I am going to kill whoever wrote the song 'Go Against The Grain'!" she thought. With all the water in her eyes she could barely see where she was going. (Or should I say sliding?)
She had no idea how long she spent sliding down but she suddenly dropped into a deep river. At first she didn't know what was going on until she got her head above water. She quickly looked around breathing heavily. On both sides the river there were tall golden wheat-fields slightly swaying in the breeze. Angie swam to the left of her with much difficulty. The current was very powerful and she wanted to get on dry land before it pulled her up the hill.
When she finally got onto the land she had to take a few minutes to rest. "Put that on the list of things I never want to do again!" she said breathing deeply. She stood up and walked into the wheat-field in the direction of Apallis. "Where are we going? I don't know. Then how come you're walking so fast? Because I want my clothes to dry off and the sooner I find Jim the sooner this whole nightmare is over. ...And the sooner he gets back to Cecile. QUIET!" she thought. Lots of times her mind would have arguments with herself. She had no idea where she was going, and she couldn't see things very well with the wheat towering over her head, but she wanted to get there fast.
~~~ Jim was having much trouble climbing down the limbs of gigantic tree. Since the branches were bare he kept on getting poked, prodded, and scratched at. Needless to say he was not having a good time. "About 30 more feet to go. Man, this is going to take a while!" he thought. He tried going down to next set of branches but his hair was caught on something. Jim looked behind him. The band that he used to hold back his ponytail was snagged on a small but solid branch. He tried to get it off. "I just had to keep my hair long, didn't I? I should have kept hair cut after my first year at the Academy!" he complained pulling at the branch. Suddenly he heard a snap but it wasn't from the branch. It was from the band. With all his pulling, it had spilt in two. "Great, just great", he shrugged it off and continued climbing down.
~~~ Angie kept on walking while she was nibbling on a piece of wheat she picked off a stalk. It didn't taste that bad, in fact it had no taste at all. "Well at least I know I won't starve to death", she said softly. She had been walking for nearly 2 hours and found nothing but wheat-field. Still, it gave her time to think. Mostly about Jim. But the more she thought about him, the more she tried to convince herself to get over him. "I mean, I was weird from the beginning! I don't think much has changed now!" she yelled as she kept walking. The scene then flashed through her head. 4 months earlier... Angie was walking down the long hallway next to Mr. Bluedwarf, the principal of the academy. For the 6th time this year she was being moved to another room. "A few more and I'll break last year's record of 9" she thought jokingly and gripped her bag firmly. "Now I hope you do not having any problems with your new roommate Mr. Hawkins. After him there aren't many people willing to share their room due to your past 'difficulties'" Mr. Bluedwarf said to her. "If you put me in one of the empty rooms I wouldn't have any problems," she groaned. "Miss Aguilar we've been through this. The empty rooms are for students who come in during the middle of the year. You came to the academy at the same time as the other students so you have to have a roommate" he said sternly. "Besides I think you'll get along with Mr. Hawkins. He seems as 'temperamental' as you are." "Great just what I need. Another slob who gets moody when I tell him to stop bothering me! I hope I get out of there in a week, the boys here are worst than the ones on Earth!" she thought angrily as they approached a door. Mr. Bluedwarf knocked a few times on it. A few seconds later a boy about Angie's age with brown hair and blue eyes opened it. "Mr. Hawkins this is your new roommate Miss. Aguilar. She has had a few problems with her former roommates and I thought that she might have better luck with you" "Yes sir," Mr. Hawkins or Jim said. "Good. I shall leave you two to get acquainted with each other. Good day" and with that he left the two of them alone. End flashback ~~~ It had been about 2 hours and Jim was finally done climbing the huge tree. He was glad to be on solid ground again. "Now to find Angie and get the hell out of here!" he said smoothing some of his hair back. It had gotten messed up while he was climbing. Jim remembered that when he was on the peak of the mountain, he saw that to the right of him there was nothing but trees and ocean. He started walking left, where there was more land. Jim was in what appeared to be like jungle territory. There were lots of trees, vines, and bushes. And they were all green. "That's weird. Who's ever heard of green plants? Sometimes they'll be blue but not green. That's just ridiculous!" he thought.
After about 10 minutes he heard something. It was a low growl coming behind one of the bushes. Even though he knew that he shouldn't Jim looked behind a bush and nearly stopped breathing. There he was, face to face with a black and yellow spotted, purple cheetah with bright lime-colored eyes. It looked like it was very, very hungry. Jim started running like mad with the cheetah following close behind him! He had nowhere to go unless he found somewhere to hide and quick! About 10 feet in front of him was a tree with a low branch that he could grab if he'd jump. He looked behind him. The cheetah was only about 10 feet behind him! Jim had only one chance. With all his might he ran towards the tree, jumped, grabbed the branch, and was on it seconds before the cheetah was about to rip him in 2!
Jim was well hidden underneath all the leaves and for some reason the cheetah made no attempt to climb the tree itself. "I wonder why?" Jim thought as he caught his breath. That's when he noticed something odd about the cheetah. On it's back it looked like someone had painted the word 'Sheila' in cursive writing with dark-brown paint. "Sheila", Jim said quietly. "I guess that's your name." The cheetah or 'Sheila' (as I'll now call her) did nothing but glare at Jim. Obviously she wasn't going to let him leave for a while. "You can't stay here forever!" Jim shouted fiercely. Sheila then gave him a look that seemed to say, "Neither can you" He had to admit that was true. One of them would have to give in..And hopefully it wouldn't be him.
"Is this wheat-field never going to end?" Angie groaned. Her feet were starting to get a little sore. The wind then started blowing the wheat in front on her to one side. That's when she saw something behind it. She ran straight in front of her and was more than happy to find something else besides wheat. But she then became disappointed when she realized that she had reached a dead-end. Even though she was out of the wheat-field she was now on a tan beach facing a sparkling bluish ocean. "Great! Just great! I just spent about 2 hours walking in the wrong direction!" Angie yelled. She just gave up then and sat in the sand. She turned her head to the sky. "Give me a sign! A hint! Anything!.I know you're up there! I know you are!" Angie yelled. "Oh, this is hopeless" she mumbled. "Just like everything else..."
*Previous flashback continued* "Well", Jim started. "My first name is Jim and.what are you doing?" Angie had started circling around him for some reason. "First basis inspection. I sort of do it with all the human boys I meet. This is the first time a guy has ever stood still so that scores you some extra points," she said. "Ok.so how do I rank up?" Jim said playing along.111111111111 "Pretty darn well. You don't seem to annoy or tease people and seem to have an urge to prove yourself. You look like you might be a little stubborn sometimes but so am I, among other things, so hopefully we'll get along." "How did you get that conclusion?" "You'd be surprised how much you can learn from a face" "Didn't anyone ever tell you that you can't judge by a book by its cover?" Jim said sort of stunned. "Yes, but if a book didn't have it's cover, how would you know the title?" "What's that suppose to mean?" "I'm not sure. Some psychological thing, I don't know. I'm in no mood for explanations right now. But either way my name is Angie and it's not short for anything." "Ok." Jim said a little cautious. "If you think I'm weird I don't blame you. All my former roommates think I'm weird if not worst" "You're really not making a good impression you know that?" "Yeah but once you've tried to make a good impression like about 14 times during the last two years you get pretty tried of it" Angie said wearily. *End flashback*
Angie had no idea how long she spent sitting in the sand but suddenly something small tapped on her foot. She looked up (she had sort of rolled herself up with her arms on her knees and her head on her arms) and she starred at a creature that she had never seen before. It's head had light- brown fuzz sticking up and ivory-yellow beak but its body seemed nothing but a little ball of soft copper-colored fur. It had no arms but it had small duck-like feet. "Hi" Angie said softly. "If you don't mind, I'd like to be left alone. I'm waiting for a sign" "Termya" the creature said in a small high-pitched voice. "That must be what you are.You know, you're kinda cute" Angie laughed a little. She lowered her left hand. The creature or 'Termya (pronounced 'ter- MY-ah') bird' slowly nuzzled her hand. "hmm. Moue-ma", the Termya bird said. "Moue-ma?" Angie said puzzled. She thought for a moment, ".Momma? No, I'm not your mother!" "Moue-ma!" it said with black puppy-like eyes. "Oh.even intergalactic species know how to do the puppy look!" Angie said slightly annoyed. Actually, she was more amused than annoyed. After all, she couldn't leave the poor thing alone. It was kind of like her. Practically helpless. She stood up holding the tiny Termya bird in her hand. She thought about it and sighed. "All-right. I guess it won't kill me to pretend to be your mother for a little while" she said smiling a little. The Termya bird yipped and nuzzled against her cheek. Angie bent down and put it back on the sand. It started running up the beach very quickly. "Hey! Wait up!" Angie laughed and ran to catch up with it. She was completely unaware of what she was getting into.
To be continued.
Author's Note: *Whew* That took a long time for me to write! If it's not that good I'm sorry, the next one will be better! I'm also sorry for not really having Jim's point of view on this. I didn't really have that much to work with. If you're wondering where I'm going with this, it's going to
be sort of a life lesson thing. Just trust me,. please? Bye!