Elizabeth: Guardian of Water

Chapter 9: Travels

I always wanted to go to Paris. The thing is I always wanted to go for fun, friends, family, boyfriends. But here I am walking on the pavement of Paris, itself, without any fun. Totally not what I wanted. Yeah, not the best trip ever, but at least the mime was on my side.

I was walking the the street more. People were smiling at me for my performances. One guy I thought was funny with it.

"Bonjour, you're the lady with the tricks of water- things. Anyway, I like it, it's cool, also it sorta scares me." Then he laughed a little and walked away. I thought to myself, that's the point.

3 minutes later a woman wearing a beret was looking around frantically. She had on a long red- velvet coat, black sunglasses, light blue jeans, and around 2 inch heels. Her hair was blonde-like color and also had gloves on. And I swear she looked down every corner, every street, but then she stopped when she looked at me. She tried to run over, but it looked more like a baby learning it's first steps. Moving, but stumbling along the way.

"Bonjour, Ça va?" I started at her blankly. First I didn't know who she was second, she spoke informally to me. Still don't know her. She continued. "Allow me to explain. I've heard about you before. Yes, and I've heard your very powerful, but where did you come from? I mean, I haven't seen you around Paris before. And you barely français." She wanted an answer, she reminded me of Brooke. I wondered if she was Brooke.

"Um, bonjour. je m'appelle Elizabeth. Can I speak English? This is harder for me to do." I think her eyes meant yes, they widened and her eyebrows were raised. "Anyway so I'm not from here. I'm from Connecticut......" I explained the rest to her. She listened, but I don't know what it meant. What'd she want from me that I could give?

"Oh, so you have no idea where your friends are? Well I would say go to Russia. Not only does it seem fun to go to, but it has a beautiful scenery." I saw her smile. It had friendliness, and tricks, lots and lots of tricks. But she reached down into her purse. She pulled out a ball of money- American money. "Here is $700 use it wisely." With that said she trotted away.

I was so confused, it's not everyday you just drop into Paris then a random lady gives you $700. Actually it never happens! A man looked up at the money. He must have overheard my conversation with that lady.

"You know, you should go to Russia. I mean take a chance that one of your friends could be there. I mean you know they're not here, take the chance. There's honestly nothing to lose." The man was right and wrong. I had around $700 to lose, but none of my friends went to the same place. I had to check, like it or not.

The airport was crowded. I had to pull out my new dictionary to translate. I was glad I didn't have a bag or anything to check or pay extra for. I was seat 174, it seemed like a good seat at least. While boarding the plane, a lady started speaking to me in french. I didn't know what to say, so i just went oui. That's yes in case you didn't know.

The isle was thin and hard to get through. When I got to my seat a little girl was in the middle. I went to the window seat, which was mine. The little girl had to be no older than 7. she had one big light brown braid hanging over her shoulder. She wore pink sketchers, a dolphin t-shirt, and black yoga pants. Her eyes were a green color and had a bff necklace on. I was wondering where her parents were.

"Bonjour, comment t'appelles-tu?" She looked at me worried. She wasn't french. THANK GOD.

"Um, bonjour... I don't speak your words."

"Don't worry, I don't either. My name's Elizabeth I have a pretty weird story, but I'll save that for later. What's your name?"

"I'm Ally. I have a pretty weird story to. I'll tell it now. You see my parents went on a sight-seeing world trip. But it was so much money that they only had enough to buy for 3 people. So they took themselves and my batty older sister. They just needed her there with them! So I got a lot of money and had Robert, a family friend, bring me in a suitcase to Russia. They should be in Russia now. I got out of the suitcase 'cause I didn't want to spend THAT much time in such a tiny space."

For a 7 year old, I think, she loved to talk now it was my turn. "Well Ally, my weird story is that I went back in time. It was like magic. Speaking of which." I formed a water ball in my hands. Her eyes filled with wonder and happiness. She smile until she heard wheels rolling.

"AH, a flight attendant! Hide me!" She crawled under my seat as the lady passed by us. I was gonna tell her to come out when some guy came to our seats.

"WHOA, is this seat taken?"

"Yes, yes it is."

"Well I don't care. I want a seat with the hot girl sitting in it." Now he was creeping me out. "So, what's your number?" I froze his lips before he said more. He still tried to speak so I froze him entirely. Then I shrunk him and put him in the bag with the others. Ally finally came out.

"WHOA, what just happened?" I showed her the ice figure of the boy. She took the entire bag of ice figures and started playing with them.

"Just be careful. I plan to unfreeze them..... at some point." She smiled, nodded, and kept on playing with them. She made me smile. What a cute girl that played with some of the people I hate or are think are creepy. Then I told her the rest of my story. She stopped.

"So, people think you froze the world?"

"Yeah, that's it."

"But it can happen right, because you froze all these people?" I looked at her. she looked at me in silence. "Everyone we are departing, so please turn of electronics and enjoy the flight." It broke the silence.

"Ally, your right, I could have. But I really wouldn't." She believed me. She was 7 not 13 like my friends.

"Okay, Liz, I'll trust you. I'll even help if you want me to." This was good, more people knew my secret. She even offered to help. I felt Russia wasn't going to be a waste of time anymore. This was gonna be good.