Okay, another fic from me. But come on! I just can't let my characters go! Especially Jade, and LittleMidgett probably knows what I'm talking about too…
So, may I introduce my new story, Back To Our Beginning, and hope you all like it… you don't even have to know my characters this time… howz that?
Geez, I feel like I'm doing a mini-series for you people… so here goes!
Chapter One: History Repeats
Present day…
I stared out the window, watching as a little bee made its way towards a few lavender plants in the garden outside. It was beautiful out there.
"Uh, Jade?"
Too bad I had to be inside on this beautiful day.
"Huh? What?"
Studying maths.
"Can you help me with this?"
Well, more like helping Rachel and Jake with their math homework. I'd finished ten minutes before. Not like I wanted to or anything. Just wanted to get it out of the way.
Honestly.
I turned my attention to the problem Jake was pointing to.
"Oh that's easy. Just times Q and R, and you get the S amount. Simple"
"Oh. Ah… ok, I'll trust you on that one" He worked it out, scribbling away in his math book. Bor-ring!
I saw Rachel was getting frustrated from across the table, and sighed, getting up and walking around to help her out. Tom came home, giving me the jitters as he talked to me like we were best buddies. But I knew what was inside his head. I knew. And I didn't like it one bit.
"Looks like you could teach me something about math" he laughed, took a bite of the apple he had, slapping me on the back before taking off upstairs.
"Ignore him" Jake muttered.
"I intended to" I replied, but patted Jake's shoulder in assurance.
"Well get him back, don't worry"
"I know" He said softly, then turned his attention entirely on his work. I packed my bag, ready to leave when they were just about done, yawning and wishing I didn't have to go home to the three little monsters that were related to me. Oh well, you can't get everything you wanted.
"So, no more to do tonight?" I asked Jake.
"Nup. No… problems we need to take care of. Perhaps we can all have a good night's sleep for once" he smiled up at me, those dark eyes having me mesmerised for a moment. I saw the pain behind them, as well as the fact that each time I even mentioned the Yeerks, he'd age about fifty years. Or Crayak. Neither of us liked Crayak very much. Then again, who would like an all-powerful god like creature trying to kill you 24/7? Hands please?
Didn't think so.
I hefted my bag over my shoulder, knowing I'd have to go home to god knows what mess left by my brother and sisters. Sadly, a sudden beeping and flashing from a certain watch that one of us had stopped me in my tracks. My head shot up to look at Jake. He nodded, indicating for me to go to the kitchen. Just as I did, I heard Rachel groan and say,
"Why do you always have to jinx everything!" They followed me in, where I pressed the buttons needed to answer it.
"Ithiell? Amanda? What is it?" I hissed, hoping they'd remember to keep their voices down as well. The screen lit up, and Ithiell's face appeared on the screen. Seconds later went staticy, then back to Ithiell's face, then staticy again. It went on like that as Ithiell started speaking.
"Jade, we……… help! Terinans are……… not looking very……… please, get the oth-……… come with you. We need everyone if we're going…"
"Ithiell? Ithiell! What…" But it was too late. The signal was lost.
"Give me that" Rachel tried to pull it from my wrist, but Jake stopped her.
"That wasn't the watch"
"You're right Jake. It was something else. Either that or it's worse down there than they're saying"
"But… I thought Terinans had made peace with the Chanaibens?"
"There are still rogues out there. Maybe they've all finally banded together and come here for a last attempt or something. I don't know" I looked down at the watch, feeling fear creeping inside my heart.
"Well whatever is going on down there, we need to get there and help them, fast" Jake hissed. I nodded.
"You got that damn right"
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6 years before…
"Carry on, keep-a-romancin'. Carry on, carry on dancing" I sang as I skated backwards, working on my footwork. I needed to get my moves right before the next weekend, otherwise the coach wouldn't consider me for teaching. And I wanted to be taught. So here I was, roller skating down the street, singing Savage Garden's Carry on Dancing song on my old mix tape. I saw a neighbour watering their lawn giving me funny looks. I shrugged and smiled at her, continuing to skate along.
"Stars and planets taking shape, a stolen kiss has come too late" I sung it loud, I sung it proud. Why not?
I hardly noticed the blond-haired girl waiting at the end of the street until I practically ran into her.
"Whoa!" I cried, skidding to a stop and yanking off my headphones off. She smiled at me, tapping her foot a little.
"Uh… oh! No! Don't tell me…"
"Yes JD, you missed it. Matt's birthday. He's twelve!"
JD. My former nickname. As short as you could ever get my name. Ever.
"Oh Mand I am so sorry! I thought it was tomorrow! Wait, its the third today, isn't it?"
"No, fourth. I thought you were coming-"
"I was! Well, I thought today was… aw no! I missed seeing the professional ice-skaters yesterday! Darn!"
"Jade, my brother-"
"Oh come on Mandy, he doesn't even like me. He'd be glad I wasn't there"
She sighed, pushing a stray curl back away from her face. She knew I was right. Matt couldn't stand me. I was too much of a tomboy for his liking. Connor, her other brother, thought I was just a doll. Literally. He'd once dressed me up like a doll. Mind you, I was barely a year old, and he was about six.
"Well, I guess" she sighed, then looked me up and down. She was wearing black leggings under a freaky blue kind of skirt, with a white t-shirt. I was wearing daggy jeans and a black Jurassic Park top. Big difference. But somehow, Amanda and I seemed to be best friends in spite of our differences.
"So, want to go get something to eat"
Amanda laughed at me "JD, do you ever think about anything besides food?"
"Sure. Skating"
She laughed again, and we started to make our way down the street.
It wasn't long before I saw a dark-haired boy from our street coming towards us.
"Who's he?" I whispered to Amanda. Mind you, by then I'd taken my skates off and was wearing just thick socks on my feet. She smiled at me.
"That's Robert. Lives almost right across from me. Not a bad guy either"
"Eww! Did you forget? Cooties!"
"Oh Jade! How melodramatic can you get?"
"Do you even know what that word means?"
"Uh…" At that very second 'Robert' reached us. Black curls fell over his face, and the colour of his eyes almost made me shiver they were such an icy blue colour.
"Um… hi Amanda. I was wondering if… if I could talk to…" he trailed off and looked at me, looking like he was about to run.
"Come with us to get 'brunch' as Jade calls it. We can talk then" Amanda flashed that amazing smile she always seemed to have, and Robert blushed and turned his face away.
"Well, it's… I'll come back later"
"No, stay. We don't mind if you tag along"
"You… are you sure?"
Amanda nudged me, none to gently, and I managed to say,
"Not a problem"
We started walking again, and soon we were all talking like we'd known each other for a while. Robert brushed his own curls out of his face, and-
Ba-BOOOOOMM!
An explosion made us jump and stop in our tracks.
"What the heck!" I cried as there was another, smaller explosion. I turned to where the sound was coming from.
"The woods" Robert muttered.
"Let's go!" I cried, bolting in that direction with Robert right beside me.
"Hey, wait! We don't…"
"Come on Mandy, let's go find us an adventure!"
I knew she'd be right behind me. Well, us now. Robert slowly managed to get ahead of me, running as fast as he could. The 'shy' Robert was gone, replaced by someone almost like me. Almost. Besides the cooties.
We reached the edge of the woods, both of us ploughing in. Amanda, I knew, was hot on our heels.
"Guys, it could be dangerous!"
"Oh come on, it's the woods. What could be dangerous about the woods?"
"She's right. Well, sort of"
"Hey! Who asked-" I never got to finish, because at that moment we reached the edge of a meadow, stopping dead in our tracks. Amanda practically fell over us, each of us gasping at what we saw.
Aliens, two or three kinds, were firing blasters or whatever, as well as slicing and dicing each other up.
"What the…"
"No way…"
"Oh god, please let us just have walked in on a movie set"
"I uh…I don't think so" Robert muttered. I felt my feet were now stinging from the hard pavement, but I was hardly aware of it as I looked at what had to be hundreds of aliens fighting in a meadow.
One of them looked like a gigantic snake with arms. It had fangs and a mouth and stuff like a snake, but there were spikes going down its back. And some on its tail. And did I mention the horrid colour of these things? They almost made me want to gag.
The second one was a pretty blue-white colour. It had softer edges, like a gigantic lizard, and had big bright green eyes, nasty-looking teeth and claws, and a wicked long thick tail that I saw go whipping left and right on one of them. Amazing.
The last was like the second, only aqua, and had cat-like ears. Both of them had skin like a dolphins; smooth and rubbery it looked like.
"This aint no movie" I muttered, watching as these things cut each other up with weird looking weapons and stuff like the phasers on Star-Trek. They shot some weird blue light, and the others shot a bright red light. I saw one further off from us fall, and two of the weird snake things towered over it.
"No!" Robert cried, snatching one of my skates from my hand and running into the melee.
"Robert don't!" I cried, running in after him and watching in horror as he tossed my skate at one of the snake things, hitting it right on its back. It rounded, saw him, and seconds later Robert dodged left, with the thing after him.
I ducked something coming at me, and then heard Amanda scream.
I looked over, watching as she fought against the grip of one of these snake-thingys, watching as it opened its mouth in a wide grin. Amanda screamed again, fighting harder.
"Mandy!" I screamed, then realised I still had one skate and threw it blindly at the creature. It hit the damn thing dead centre between the eyes, and it fell, letting go of Amanda as it did.
Guess joining the taking up baseball was worth it. I thought with some satisfaction. Too bad the good feeling only lasted a few seconds.
Tsssssssewwwww!
Something shot past my arm, and seconds later I felt my skin burning, with a gaping hole in my shirt. I screamed in agony, unable to keep it in. This couldn't be real! I couldn't be here, and my arm should not have just been barely missed by a freakin Star-Trek phaser!
"Oh god…" I turned left and right, only seeing destruction. A snake-thing cut a neat line in a blue things throat, bluish blood spilling everywhere. Including on me.
"Ahhhh! NO! NOOOO!" I ran blindly. I had to get out!
"Argh!" I cried as something cut deep into my left leg. Something sharp. I fell, hollering in pain. Before I knew it there was a snake-things face in front of me, it smiled.
"Human" it hissed, looking curiously… if you could call that look curious… down at me.
I used a word I'd heard Connor and my older cousin Nicolas use once. The thing looked confused. Then it raised something like a sword, only shaped in a semi-circle, like a crescent moon, and began to bring it down on me.
Ba-BOOOOMM!
Another explosion from much closer, and I covered my ears as there were horrible shrieks and screams from all around. But it was enough for snake-thing to forget about me.
I hobbled up, screaming in blind terror, and started to run as fast as I could, not knowing where I was going, just knowing I was getting THE HELL OUT OF THERE!
Unfortunately, I crashed into something, and fell backwards, barely aware I was falling. Then… nothing.
Want to take a guess what she ran into? Huh? Huh?
Well, I thought it would be a 'Jade' thing to do anyway. Next chapter; what is the creature staring down at her from above? If you don't know, find out!
