Unexplored Worlds: Extraordinary

Chapter 1

Author's note:

This is the first story I've written so don't expect too much.

Feel free to critique and tell me how to improve.

Enjoy :D

Chapter 1

Cold.

That was the only thing that I could feel. It hurt.

Then darkness.

It was constricting me.

Every time I tried to escape it, its hold only got tighter and tighter.

I couldn't move any part of my body.

I was frozen.

"Do not take advantage of it, there will always be consequences for everything you do." A deep, masculine voice said from above me.

That voice. I know that voice...

I tried to reach into my memory to place a face to the voice but my thawing brain could not manage that far.

Who is that...

My eyelids were begging to be separated, but the deep frost was still holding me tight. I tried to say something but my lips wouldn't move. Unanswered questions started filling up my head.

Take advantage of what?

Who is this man?

Where am I?

Silence.

"Help only comes to those who really deserve it". The voice said with finality. And with a gush of wind, the shadow that loomed over me was gone.

Suddenly, warmth took over my cold body and I sat up. I opened my eyes, almost dreading what I was going to see.

The first thing I saw was green, then pink. I was sitting in the middle of a beautiful meadow, thriving with all kinds of flora and fauna. The sun was in the midst of rising and it filled the meadow with orange light. I felt like I was in Paradise.

But, was I?

Something was off about this place.

"Well, duh. One minute you were-"

What was I doing?

"And the next minute you wake up here. Nothing strange about that, right?"

The voice in my head stated in a matter-of-fact tone. I really hated it sometimes.

I tried to recall what I was doing before I ended up in the middle of a meadow. A hazy picture of a room filled with tables and chairs flashed in my mind, the sound of voices surrounding me but I heard nothing. I could hear the gears of my brain jamming as the sudden amnesia fully took over.

Looking around, I saw that everything was standing still. There was no wind, no movement in the grass and it was eerily quiet. It was as if this was just a scene in a movie and somebody had paused it.

"Maybe, somebody had." Whispered a smaller, more timid voice at the back of my head.

Wait, what?

I shook my head at that thought. Pausing time only happened in books and movies. People can't just pause time.

"Maybe, you had."

I was just ordinary thirteen year old Tiffany Cameron, who was living a somewhat ordinary life, with ordinary parents, ordinary friends, going to an ordinary school with above average grades. There was no reason for that to change.