I'll inform you, the readers, now that Malinda Brandybuck is a self-insert. So far, if you haven't noticed the self-insert, then that means I'm doing my job in focusing on the story and not the character. Still, I have some work to do to keep the story in a natural setting. But for privacy purposes, at this point, I'm sticking with my pen name because we are moving onto the present and recent events.

This chapter is told in the first-person perspective, obviously.


Teaser:

Aftershock

It's hard to tell what happened next…

Was I captured by aliens, stolen away on their ship to be experimented on?

Did I meet Stitch, while I was there?

Did Frodo return safely to Father Time and his hobbit friends?

No one knows for sure, and I don't have any memory of what happened, that led to my entrance into Earth…

What I do remember, before my birth, was falling from space towards North America…

Then there was nothing but black…

Quite a shame I don't remember much, other than liking the black void before me…

I do remember someone talking with me…

Who was he? Where did he come from? His voice sounded an awful lot like Frodo's voice, even though I didn't know it then…

Then I heard a scream, and nearly thought it was my scream but it wasn't…

I don't remember seeing my parents. Just this bright light. Then there was nothing but black. That's the way the darkness came for a time, but I have a good memory to remember certain events in my life. As for my name: it's Aria Breuer and yes my memory was just like that. What followed afterwards was a bunch of events that doesn't lead into this story, but affected my life. Basically, I've been led on this small journey to discovery that I'm always going to be followed by Frodo and his friends. How they found me and what happened afterwards is a story on its own, but let's return to the story currently being told. I'll come in when the story wants me.