Ian Hecox
We were suspended in midair, my hands firmly grasping the boy's red shirt. A bright orange light came from the sky, an awesome and peaceful view, then a gust of cold wind blew against my face, giving me shivers. The images of houses grew larger, we were landing.
"Ian?" The kid coughed, "You're choking me." I noticed that I tugged on his shirt so hard that the collar went to his neck.
"Oh sorry." I let go of his shirt, but I realized that my hands were still cuffed. Wrong decision, idiot.
I fell, but my yells were cut short as the kid caught me by my left foot, holding me upside-down. Again.
"IAN!" Anthony panicked and he quickly drove the car faster down.
But then I felt my foot slipping off. "Oh No! NO NO!" I screamed as my foot slowly slipped off my shoe.
"Whoa!" The kid exclaimed, "Hold on!"
"HOW CAN I HOLD ON WHEN I'M CUFFED?!" I shouted back.
And then, POP! There goes my foot.
"NOOOOO!" Anthony let out the loudest yell he had as I fell headlong back to the earth. The images of houses grew bigger, there was no stopping it. This is it, I closed my eyes, scared to look at where I was gonna hit.
Then a wet feeling covered my entire body.
Water.
I opened my eyes and water came rushing in, preventing me from seeing clearly, I was swimming in it. My foot touched the very bottom: it was made of tiles. Some water got into my mouth and I tasted chlorine: a pool.
I was relieved that this pool was here or Anthony would have been scraping my remains from the pavement.
My lungs were running out of breath, I kicked on the tiled floor and swam upwards with my cuffed hands struggling to pull myself to the top. My head rose to the surface, and I took in a huge gasp of air. My hair ended up covering my eyes, I parted them with my hands to be able to see through, it was a backyard swimming pool.
I felt a pull on my pants below, and before I knew it I was back underwater, something was pulling on my pants, I was hooked on something. I tried swimming away from it, but it was too powerful. It pulled me back to the surface, feet first.
"Look, Benny Jean! I caught a live mermaid!" I heard someone say. My view was upside down, my arms and my unhooked leg hanging like a ragdoll. I shook the water from my head and looked at the man: he was wearing faded a cap on his head, blue jeans, army boots, a blue vest and a long sleeved camouflage shirt underneath.
Another guy entered the scene, this one I recognized easily, a man with a pink lawn flamingo in his arms, Benny Jean, Anthony's former movie partner.
"What is it Cletus?" Benny Jean asked.
"Look, a Mermaid!" This Cletus guy pointed to me, Benny Jean looked at me.
"M-mermaid? I'm a man." I said.
"More like an underwater mushroom!" He laughed, "—wait, you look familiar, it's Lan, right?"
"It's IAN." I sighed. Why do some people misread my name as 'Lan'?! I mean, come on, it has those little horns on the side to make it look like the letter 'I'.
Benny Jean slapped Cletus. "You idiot, that's not a mermaid! Let him down." He commanded. Cletus fumbled his fishing rod and pressed a button, dropping me back in the water. I swam to the gutter and climbed out of the pool, "What are you doing in my pool?" Benny Jean questioned my sudden appearance.
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SMOSH THROUGH TIME: The Exciting Middle Part (Book Two)
FanfictionThe SECOND BOOK of the SIX-PART EPIC SMOSH SAGA which was divided into TWO TRILOGIES, making this the SECOND book in the 'Original Trilogy'. Written from October 31, 2014 to January 03, 2015. ___________ Just as they thought that everything was back...