Trenica

  




​Dark and Void, I’m drifting through a never ending spiral of darkness. A whooshing noise is the only sound I hear. The last thing I remember is a deafening explosion, and then everyone was crying and running. But they couldn’t escape from whatever it was; that including me.

                My best friend Sofia and I were having a lovely picnic, at Galveston Bay, where other people were hanging out. It was a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon, the day the 4 year war between America, and Trenica (an alien planet) ended. Or so we thought.
               
                 “I’m so glad all the fighting is over. I was getting tired of hearing explosions and such in the distance. It’s all pointless anyway.” Sofia said. She didn’t believe in settling problems with violence.
               
                   “I feel the same way, but sometimes it’s the only way to get something done.” I said to her.

                    She rolled her eyes. “Jessie if you really believe that, why didn’t you join them?”

                “I never said that I wanted to fight, I’m not the violent type either. But I’m just saying that talking doesn’t always solve the problem.”

                “Well I still think that if the Americans weren’t so nosy, they wouldn’t have even found Trenica!” Here we go again.

                     Did I mention that Sofia was a foreign exchange student from Germany?

                    “But-”

                     I was cut off short by an ear-piercing shrill that was so loud; we had to cover our ears.

                    They’re back!

                That's where the running and crying came in. Everyone tried to run away and save their families but it was no use. I was suddenly knocked sideways, hitting my head hard on a tree; that how I ended up here. I don’t know where everybody else is, but I feel like I’ve been floating through this empty space for hours, but it’s probably been only minutes. I don’t even know if I’m dead or alive. I try to move around but I can’t feel my body at all. Suddenly, a blinding flash of white light shines all around me. Then I’m falling and all the feeling in my body returns to me.

                     “Aaaaaaah!”

                    I slow down a little as the blinding light fades away and water forms beneath me. I hit the surprisingly warm water with a splash. I resurface and catch my breath, trying to swim to the shore some feet away. I barely swim 2 strokes before a loud humming sound fills my ears. At first I think its bugs, and then the water starts shaking and I’m spinning.

                    A whirlpool! I’m going to drown!

               But instead of the water filling my lungs, I’m falling again through the small dark gap the whirlpool made.

                I pass by odd looking species of fish. Blue starfish with tiny yellow eyes, red sharks with round teeth and even sea horses the same size as me!            

                    What is this place?

                   I approach the sandy bottom at amazing speed and screaming my head off. Amazingly the ground sinks in as I hit the bottom.

                Here I go again.
              
​                But before I go under, I see a large faded sign that says:
                                    
                                             Welcome to Trenica

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