AN: Here is the first chapter as promised. I will try to make updates everyday since I'm out of school for the summer. Don't forget to review! I can't make my writing better if you don't review.

Eleanor's Darkness

Stranger In A Strange Land

Eleanor awoke as the sun's rays penetrated the window's of her bathysphere. Eleanor cursed as her eyes began to water. She had spent all of her life under the darkest depths of the ocean with no exposure to ultraviolet rays at all. Except for high class tanning booths, there were no concentrated sources of light in Rapture at all and Eleanor never had the chance to use one of booths. She stumbled blindly out of bed and tripped over a foot stool.

"Shit! Damn this sun light…" Eleanor kind of felt herself NOT wanting to know what sunshine felt like at this moment. She knew her eyes would eventually adjust to the ultraviolet rays emanating from the great sphere in the sky but until then she was pretty much as blind as a boxed jellyfish. Eleanor stumbled over to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Her pitch black raven hair was unkempt, her skin was deathly pale, and her eyes were watering and blood shot red. She wouldn't be able to do a thing about the last two but she could at least wash her hair while she took a shower. Eleanor turned on the water and stripped herself of her filthy white dress. She really liked that dress but it was just to raggedy. Maybe she could find something else to wear around here.

When she thought she was clean enough she rapped a towel around her lithe form and started to look around the bathysphere for some clothes. While she was exploring she came upon a door that looked like one of the automatic doors you would find throughout Rapture. The door was locked however but when Eleanor looked to the right of the door there was a code lock. Eleanor looked into her vast memories and found a way to hack the door, what was inside didn't really surprise her in the slightest. Inside the room was a Vita-Chamber, Gatherer's Garden, Circus Of Values, and other various vending machines found throughout Rapture. Eleanor looked to her right and found crates marked clothing and other goods. Sinclair really wasn't kidding when he said he was going to sale as much as Rapture away to the world powers as possible.

Eleanor walked over to the crates of clothing and started looking through them. These clothes must be from the surface because she has never seen anyone wearing anything like these in Rapture before. She picked out a dress that looked kind of like her old one but stopped just above her knees, a black jacket with a hood, and some black boots that came to just below her knees. When she was finished she looked to the Gatherer's Garden. She still had some ADAM left so she decided to buy two plasmids. She already had Incinerate so she decided to buy Winter Blast and Electro Bolt.

(AN: Her Plasmid Powers work like Fontaine's did in the last level of Bioshock.)

She probably would never use them again but better safe than sorry right? Eleanor exited the back room and into the bedroom once more. Even though there was no threat from Splicer's on the surface she did not like being unarmed, so she hid her ADAM needle that was equipped on the left arm of her Big Sister suit under her sleeve. Fully satisfied, she went into the kitchen area looking for something eat. Not surprising, all there was to eat was fish. She shrugged and turned on the stove and got a frying pan out of the cabinet.

As she was making her breakfast she heard the sound of a ships blow horn. Eleanor stopped what she doing and ran outside. There was a large ship coming straight for her bathysphere and it wasn't slowing down. The ship collided with her small vessel and her head hit the hull of the bathysphere with a loud crack. She was knocked out unconscious.

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Eleanor slowly came back to the realm of consciousness to find herself in a strange unfamiliar room. She sat herself into an upright position and rubbed her head.

"What…, what happened?"

"I see your up." Eleanor jumped out of the bead and grabbed the nearest person to her and picked him up by the collar.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa I'm not gonna try anything!" Eleanor looked over the man in her grip. He was at least in his early thirties, and he was wearing what seemed to be a captain's uniform.

"Sorry… umm, who are you exactly and where am I?" Eleanor asked as she put the man back on his feet.

"The names Curtis, Captain Curtis at your service." 'Damn this girl is strong.' "And you are…"

"Eleanor Lamb."

"Well Ms. Lamb, you took a nasty blow to the head there. Our medical staff said that you had suffered a concussion and wouldn't wake up until tomorrow, but I see that they underestimated your physical fitness seeing that it has only been thirty minutes."

Eleanor just nodded her head, she knew very well of her healing capabilities because of the ADAM slug she was host to but Curtis didn't need to know that. She was considered a freak in Rapture so she would be considered even more of a freak up here if anyone were to find out.

"As for where you are this is my Cruise Ship, I was just taking a bunch of vacationers back to the U.S after their vacation at Hawaii."

Eleanor got a confused look on her face. Rapture was built under the Mid-Atlantic between Greenland and Iceland…how far did she drift out?

"We also saved your bathysphere, had my crew check the confines to make sure everything was ok."

Eleanor's raven black hair cascaded over her face, hiding her expression from view.

"Really…?"

"Sorry for the breach of privacy, we just wanted to see if we did any major damage to the vessel. We didn't find anything though."

"Are you sure?" asked Eleanor.

"Quite sure, dinner will be starting up on deck in about ten minutes. Don't worry about paying, is free of charge." He patted Eleanor's shoulder and walked out of the room, returning to his captain duties.

Eleanor looked out of her window, a grim look on her face. She had to get to the bathysphere to make sure that the Gatherer's Garden machine has not been tampered with. If she found that someone has been messing with it or even worse has gained a plasmid…

She couldn't risk it.

The entire ship would have to be neutralized. Men, women,…children. All of them, she couldn't afford a Splicer reaching the main land.

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