Where the Fish Swim
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Category:
Fantasy & Science Fiction › General
Rating:
Adult +
Chapters:
7
Views:
857
Reviews:
4
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
Chapter 4
Where the Fish Swim – Chapter 4
Peace…..Tranquility….Warmth…All feels right. I don’t care where I am. It feels so good. There is not a worry in the world here. I just drift through nothingness. It feels as if I am floating in pure sunshine.
The sunshine dims a bit as I feel a small sting in my chest. (How….why am I in pain?) The pain increases and I am ripped from my sunshine bath. (Why am I in pain? Why am I here?)
As my brain slowly putters into consciousness, I lay there. (Wait. I know. That creature hit me) my brain concludes still uncaring.
(Why was I attacked? Wait…I was in school….Kari’s house…Mom…) my brain suddenly snaps fully awake. “Kari!” I scream out jolting my head up with my eyes wide open.
As I jolt up, I clench my eyes shut and clutch my chest with my right hand as pain surges through my being as if I have jagged fish bones in my blood.
I am suddenly made aware of the world around me as I feel a drop of something warm splatter against the back of my left hand. I open my eyes to see what it is as I hear a sob.
Hikari has been kneeling by me and is crying. I had felt so warm because she had been resting my head in her lap. “Kari-chan?” I question to her as I reach out and put a hand on her shoulder.
Kari looks up at me, her eyes streaming with warm tears. The second our eyes make contact, she lunges at me and clings to my chest crying. She has never cried to me before, so I am shocked at first, but quickly get over it and hug her to my chest to try and comfort her.
We sit there for a while. As Hikari soaks my chest with her tears, I look up at a strange sound.
Sitting on the branch of a blue leafed tree, is an odd bird that I have never seen before. It is about a foot tall, with a puffed out chest and a big crest standing on top of its head. The odd bird is colored green with what appears to be yellow stars covering its body. The oddest thing about this bird is that its head appears to be on fire with a brilliant pink flame.
As if this bird knows I am curious, it tilts its head to the sire and makes the same odd noise from before, but much louder this time. “Kugreil!!” it screeches so loud that even Hikari’s head jerks up in surprise.
“W-What’s that thing” Hikari chokes out, wiping her eyes. “I never read about any bird like this in my textbooks before. It appears to look like a….”Hikari starts to ramble off textbook information. I smile and shake my head. (Leave it to Kari to be a bookworm, even in times of desperation.)
“Ummm...Kari. Sorry, to interrupt your new discovery, but where are we?” This question brings Hikari back as she looks around. “And exactly how did we get here? What happened?” I add.
“We appear to be in a temperate climate zone that consists of plant and animal species that I have never read about or seen” She rattles off to me. I stare at her with my mouth open for a few seconds before replying “That’s nice, but it does not tell me where we are”
She shoots daggers at me for several seconds before saying “It means that were lost idiot”
“Who the hell are you calling idiot!?”
“Still don’t know? I rest my case”
“Shut the hell up! I’m just not a bookworm like you!”
“I’m not a bookworm! I just do what I am told to do!”
“You don’t have to listen to everything our teacher and parents tell us to-“ Kiroshi ends his sentence sharply. Hikari is now staring at the ground with tears in her eyes.
“I’m sorry Kari….I forgot” it is true. That routine argument had washed away the bad memories for a few minutes, but at the mention of our teacher and parents, they all flooded back.
I reach out and hug Hikari. “I’m sorry…I forgot...”
“No…It’s fine...”
“How did we get here?” I ask breaking the awkward silence. All I remember is there being a bright light covering me as…” I stop. I don’t want to mention the horrible event that we had just come from. I don’t want to think of the fact that I will never see my mom or dad again.
Kari looks up are replies “I thought you were going to get killed, but then it felt as if my body overloaded and I can’t really remember anything else. Next think I remember is waking up and seeing your unconscious form laying one the ground and bleeding from the cuts to your chest. So I used the cloth over your chest to create a bandage, just like they taught three years ago in class.” She looks down at the ground as if to focus on a pebble and continues. “You weren’t waking up, so I put your head…” She stops and blushes. Suddenly the memory of the warm feeling as my head lay in her lap returned to me and I look away, as to not let her know I was also blushing.
“Yeah…well” I say to change the subject. “Great. Now my kimono is ruined.” (Now I have to go around bare-chested.)
“Your welcome!” she snaps at me.
I start to rub the back of my head awkwardly, “Well…whatever. Let’s find out where we are. There has to be someone around that can tell us” I offer her my hand and pull her to her feet. “Let’s head this way”
“Why that way?”
“I have a good feeling about going that way.”
I don’t like your feeling! That way is away from the river!”
“So what?”
“So what??” She replies furiously. “Civilizations were formed near water sources! Don’t you ever listen in class?”
“Nope!” I reply proudly,
“Moron!”
“Fine! You can go that way, but I am headed this way!”
As I start to walk away, I hear her start to say “But…” But before she can say any more I head the booming voice of what sounds to be a man yell “Idiot!”
I look back at her confused, but she is as confused as I am. As she walks hurriedly towards me I hear the voice boom again. “Idiot” It repeats.
This time I see where it comes from. That weird bird seems to be the one saying it. I pick up a stone from the ground in my rage of being insulted a bird and chuck it at the bird. The results of this throw surprise the hell out of me.
The stone flies out of my hand at such a great speed that it appears to be no more than a momentary gray streak. It apparently missed the bird, but it hit the tree the bird was sitting on with a great splintering sound that sent fragments of the tree flying everywhere.
The bird gives a squawk of indignation and flies off hurriedly.
Hikari stares at me with wide eyes and mouth wide open and I do the same except I am looking from my hand to the smoking, gaping hole in the tree and then to the trees behind it that also now have smoking holes from the travel path of that single stone I threw.
“What the hell did I do?”
Created by Ben Schoedel 10/17/05
I hope you like the fourth installment of Where the Fish Swim. Please leave a review for it. Reviews inspire me to continue to do work on this series, so if you want more you must review this! Muahahaha!
You can also e-mail me at benschoedel@hotmail.com if you want. Thanks for reading! Until Next time!
Peace…..Tranquility….Warmth…All feels right. I don’t care where I am. It feels so good. There is not a worry in the world here. I just drift through nothingness. It feels as if I am floating in pure sunshine.
The sunshine dims a bit as I feel a small sting in my chest. (How….why am I in pain?) The pain increases and I am ripped from my sunshine bath. (Why am I in pain? Why am I here?)
As my brain slowly putters into consciousness, I lay there. (Wait. I know. That creature hit me) my brain concludes still uncaring.
(Why was I attacked? Wait…I was in school….Kari’s house…Mom…) my brain suddenly snaps fully awake. “Kari!” I scream out jolting my head up with my eyes wide open.
As I jolt up, I clench my eyes shut and clutch my chest with my right hand as pain surges through my being as if I have jagged fish bones in my blood.
I am suddenly made aware of the world around me as I feel a drop of something warm splatter against the back of my left hand. I open my eyes to see what it is as I hear a sob.
Hikari has been kneeling by me and is crying. I had felt so warm because she had been resting my head in her lap. “Kari-chan?” I question to her as I reach out and put a hand on her shoulder.
Kari looks up at me, her eyes streaming with warm tears. The second our eyes make contact, she lunges at me and clings to my chest crying. She has never cried to me before, so I am shocked at first, but quickly get over it and hug her to my chest to try and comfort her.
We sit there for a while. As Hikari soaks my chest with her tears, I look up at a strange sound.
Sitting on the branch of a blue leafed tree, is an odd bird that I have never seen before. It is about a foot tall, with a puffed out chest and a big crest standing on top of its head. The odd bird is colored green with what appears to be yellow stars covering its body. The oddest thing about this bird is that its head appears to be on fire with a brilliant pink flame.
As if this bird knows I am curious, it tilts its head to the sire and makes the same odd noise from before, but much louder this time. “Kugreil!!” it screeches so loud that even Hikari’s head jerks up in surprise.
“W-What’s that thing” Hikari chokes out, wiping her eyes. “I never read about any bird like this in my textbooks before. It appears to look like a….”Hikari starts to ramble off textbook information. I smile and shake my head. (Leave it to Kari to be a bookworm, even in times of desperation.)
“Ummm...Kari. Sorry, to interrupt your new discovery, but where are we?” This question brings Hikari back as she looks around. “And exactly how did we get here? What happened?” I add.
“We appear to be in a temperate climate zone that consists of plant and animal species that I have never read about or seen” She rattles off to me. I stare at her with my mouth open for a few seconds before replying “That’s nice, but it does not tell me where we are”
She shoots daggers at me for several seconds before saying “It means that were lost idiot”
“Who the hell are you calling idiot!?”
“Still don’t know? I rest my case”
“Shut the hell up! I’m just not a bookworm like you!”
“I’m not a bookworm! I just do what I am told to do!”
“You don’t have to listen to everything our teacher and parents tell us to-“ Kiroshi ends his sentence sharply. Hikari is now staring at the ground with tears in her eyes.
“I’m sorry Kari….I forgot” it is true. That routine argument had washed away the bad memories for a few minutes, but at the mention of our teacher and parents, they all flooded back.
I reach out and hug Hikari. “I’m sorry…I forgot...”
“No…It’s fine...”
“How did we get here?” I ask breaking the awkward silence. All I remember is there being a bright light covering me as…” I stop. I don’t want to mention the horrible event that we had just come from. I don’t want to think of the fact that I will never see my mom or dad again.
Kari looks up are replies “I thought you were going to get killed, but then it felt as if my body overloaded and I can’t really remember anything else. Next think I remember is waking up and seeing your unconscious form laying one the ground and bleeding from the cuts to your chest. So I used the cloth over your chest to create a bandage, just like they taught three years ago in class.” She looks down at the ground as if to focus on a pebble and continues. “You weren’t waking up, so I put your head…” She stops and blushes. Suddenly the memory of the warm feeling as my head lay in her lap returned to me and I look away, as to not let her know I was also blushing.
“Yeah…well” I say to change the subject. “Great. Now my kimono is ruined.” (Now I have to go around bare-chested.)
“Your welcome!” she snaps at me.
I start to rub the back of my head awkwardly, “Well…whatever. Let’s find out where we are. There has to be someone around that can tell us” I offer her my hand and pull her to her feet. “Let’s head this way”
“Why that way?”
“I have a good feeling about going that way.”
I don’t like your feeling! That way is away from the river!”
“So what?”
“So what??” She replies furiously. “Civilizations were formed near water sources! Don’t you ever listen in class?”
“Nope!” I reply proudly,
“Moron!”
“Fine! You can go that way, but I am headed this way!”
As I start to walk away, I hear her start to say “But…” But before she can say any more I head the booming voice of what sounds to be a man yell “Idiot!”
I look back at her confused, but she is as confused as I am. As she walks hurriedly towards me I hear the voice boom again. “Idiot” It repeats.
This time I see where it comes from. That weird bird seems to be the one saying it. I pick up a stone from the ground in my rage of being insulted a bird and chuck it at the bird. The results of this throw surprise the hell out of me.
The stone flies out of my hand at such a great speed that it appears to be no more than a momentary gray streak. It apparently missed the bird, but it hit the tree the bird was sitting on with a great splintering sound that sent fragments of the tree flying everywhere.
The bird gives a squawk of indignation and flies off hurriedly.
Hikari stares at me with wide eyes and mouth wide open and I do the same except I am looking from my hand to the smoking, gaping hole in the tree and then to the trees behind it that also now have smoking holes from the travel path of that single stone I threw.
“What the hell did I do?”
Created by Ben Schoedel 10/17/05
I hope you like the fourth installment of Where the Fish Swim. Please leave a review for it. Reviews inspire me to continue to do work on this series, so if you want more you must review this! Muahahaha!
You can also e-mail me at benschoedel@hotmail.com if you want. Thanks for reading! Until Next time!