My joy exceeding my speed, I shot up toward the golden sunlight. Higher and higher I rose and all the time I was thinking "for once in a billion trillion years I will be able to truly be part of the water cycle..." I continued nearer and nearer to the surface, so much so that I could now see the round shape of the sun. But once I was within feet of my golden sunlight dream, I started to slow down, and eventually was caught into the wave where I had started. I was incredibly sad that my dream of reaching the golden sunlight as now within feet of me and I had no way of coming in contact it.
For a few minutes more I traveled at this new, higher level. I was soon delighted to see for the first time an actual speck of land come over the horizon. I tried to get a better view for I had never seen land before, but for one a water drop can not move itself, and two, as I did I noticed a bulge near the surface of the water. As it grew it increased in strength and eventually started to suck me into it in one big swoosh. I was pulled up and to my joy I was on the surface of a huge wave. I looked out among the world, bright as a diamond, shining in all the glorious light of the warm, golden sun. For a few short moments I just enjoyed the fact that I was finally on the surface and I was finally going to live my dream.
But just as soon as the joy started, it ended. I quickly came to the realization that I was riding a huge wave on a collision course of the hard land. And on top of that, the place I was about to hit was a city, or that's what it looked like, with all of it's people running around and screaming in macaronic languages. A loud, ringing noise soon screamed out among the town. I then realized, that I was on something called a "tsunami." A sand grain had told me about them, long and expansive, a great line of water that crashes into cities and kills almost everything in it's path. My moment of joy went from the happiness of being released from a trap after billions of trillions of years, to the dread that I was about to become part of something that killed hundreds of human beings.
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The Water Drop's Quest
AdventureFor the majority of my life, I floated deep down in the Atlantic ocean, following currents as they chose to pull me. I was at the very depths of the ocean, so deep that every so often I would skim the sandy sea floor and make companions out of all t...
