Dreams,
Chapter four, Pressure
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A/N: OK, this is chapter three. I don't like it, but I'm a huge Holly fan, so what happens in this chapter wouldn't really please me. More reviews before I update, please. I've decided that getting 10 reviews per chapter minimum, is what I'd like. Remember, the more reviews, the quicker I'll update. I hope you enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it. (I love a bit of drama, me!)
Replies:
becky: Thanks, is it original in a good way?
Spaza: Glad you've liked it this far. I agree, Foaly is kinda out of character. I'll work on it.
Laughing Dragoness: Glad you it. I'm updating.................
Niki Pound: Read the first reply to DaydreamqeenMisha, that'll tell you how I update so fast. Thanks for pointing out errors, you make a great critic. I'm glad you like it so far, I'll try and keep it up!
Red water rising: I'm glad you liked chapter 3. I agree with the Foaly n' Holly thing. Foaly does a little OOC. I'll fix it right now. (Well, later, as I'm sure you wanna read this chapter first?)
Monkeythebob: I'm glad you like it. It would be way cool if Eoin Colfer did a Holly / Trouble romance, but somehow, i don't think he will.
DaydreamqueenMisha: Review 1. I have already written this fic in a notepad, and type up a chapter every day, it doesn't take long because I don't need to think of a plot as I already have one. You'll have to wait to see what happens to Holly, cause I'm not telling! But you won't have to wait too long, if you read fast enough!
Review 2. you're not stupid. (at least i don't think you are!) You don't have to thank me, you deserved it, it's a good fic. Putting more emphasis on the H/T would be great! Thanks for putting me on faves and alerts! Glad you like family tree, I think that it's my best. And please UPDATE SOON!!!
The Kelp Family Apartment, Haven City.
Amber tossed and turned, and then as if someone had switched on a television set in her head, an image appeared. It was a shadowy figure, shrouded in darkness. Just a black shape. It was a fairy, she could tell. Whoever it was, was wearing a wing rig and she could just make out the pointed ears. Then, as quickly as it had come, the figure dissolved into blackness. Amber shivered in her sleep, was it a sign?
Tara Shuttle port
Holly stood on the docking platform. The chute seemed really empty even though it was out of season, it still surprised her. Surely it was full moon tonight? Usually all the fairies with an above ground visa, fought to get shuttle seats on full moon nights. Not tonight though.
She was alone, except for a maintenance gnome, who was up a ladder, attempting to fix the lights. He didn't seem to be having much luck though, as the docking platform was plunged into darkness. Holly groaned. Typical. Surely the shuttle port earned enough gold to have a decent lighting set-up. She could hear the rumble of the shuttle as it approached. She walked to the edge of the platform although she was hardly traveling in the rush hour, and doubted she would have to rush! Then, one thing happened, one thing that would change Holly's life forever. A pillar of hot air pressure shot straight up the chute. It took Holly by surprise, and she stumbled back wards, off balance. (A/N: You thought this was the accident didn't you? Not yet...)
Strong hands grasped her round the waist, steadying her. She was about to thank whoever was helping, when hands pushed her forwards, forwards, forwards into the abyss.
Holly let out a piercing scream that echoed round the chute walls.
It was thanks to her LEP recon uniform that she survived at all. The microfilaments in her jumpsuit reflected a great deal of the heat, but about 20% of it absorbed through the material with disastrous affects. Gravity dragged her down, but the immense air pressure pushed her up, up, up. She would have carried on rising until she was roasted alive but she collided with the floor of the shuttle that was now docked at the port. The shuttles magnetic docking nodes held her there, unconscious for three seconds, until the pilot of the shuttle, a female, Nettle Rosethorp picked her up on the shuttle's sensor plates. She retracted the nodes, bringing Holly inside the shuttle with them. Opening the Shuttles main doors she called to her passengers to get paramedic warlocks and the LEP.
Dreading what she'd find, Nettle made her way through the passenger seating area and through a hatch, leading to a compartment where the nodes, when retracted, were stored, for servicing and such like. On the floor, lay an unconscious form of a Lep officer, who by the looks of it was obviously headed for a mission as they were kitted out with wing rigs and a neutrino blaster. Both were now unusable. She was about to inspect the officer's wounds, when an LEP rapid response team spilled into the shuttle. Private Verbil escorted nettle from the shuttle, while the rest of the officers parted to let the medics through. All except Commander Root, who bent down and pressed a small inset silver button on the side of the officer's helmet. The visor slide up with a hiss, revealing a pale face. His fears were confirmed, Amber had been right. It was Captain Holly Short, Holly Kelp.
A/N: I'm sorry for the very short chapter, but I needed the suspense. Let me know what you think in your reviews. As i (think I) said before, my chapter lengths vary greatly.
Keep smiling!