Sci-fi+StoryLA

On one special day in August there was a get-together with family and friends at the beach. I believe their names were Amanda, CC, Jordan, and Lisa. Lisa was CC and Jordan’s mom and Amanda had been a friend of the family for as long as she can remember. Amanda and CC were 10 years old and were best friends ever since birth. The reason they were there was for a pre-birthday party for Amanda since her birthday was in August. They were all getting tired of the sand so, they decided that they would take a dip in the cool, refreshing, salty, blue water.

They all were enjoying the water so much that they decided to go in just a little bit deeper. The water is now up to their waste. Amanda has always been one of the shier more cautious types. So when she saw that thing in the water, she wanted out. She didn’t want anything bad to happen. No one really knows why she was like this but she just always has been. Ever since 3 years ago, the year was 3027, when her grandmother died. Her grandmother was her everything. She died in a car crash with Amanda but she was ok. Her grandmother, on the other hand, was killed instantly. But back to the story at hand. She didn’t know exactly what the object was but, she knew she had never encountered one before. It was a triangular blue shape. CC said, “It’s a fin.” Amanda had learned about these fins on a hologram video once, it was now clear to her. The triangular object was indeed a fin and the fin either belonged to a dolphin or a shark. CC was very interested in the fin, she got closer. Amanda didn’t want anything to happen to her best friend so she got closer too. She started to see that is was a dolphin but she was still cautious. When suddenly she heard a loud scream. She knew the scream very well, it was CC. Amanda glanced around and didn’t see CC anywhere. Then the dolphin disappeared! Amanda knew she had to do something so… she went under! In a matter of seconds under water she had realized that she was able to breathe. So she went deeper into the water until she saw CC. CC was also able to breathe, she wasn’t scared at all she looked brave. Amanda had noticed that she was still with the dolphin so Amanda swam to her as fast as she could. When they started to swim away she followed them. Amanda finally caught up to them. She didn’t know how far away they were from the beach but she didn’t care she just wanted her friend back. She grabbed CC’s arm and started swimming in the direction that she came when she realized that CC was fighting to go back and getting loose from Amanda’s grip let her go back. CC swam right back to that dolphin as if she couldn’t leave it. Amanda went back to CC and discover another thing, they could talk underwater. So Amanda asked, “Why won’t you come back to the shore with me, CC?” “This dolphin needs my help.” CC replied “How would you know? It’s not like the dolphin can talk.” Amanda said with a cocky voice. As the dolphin said, “The name’s Squiggle and yes dolphins do indeed talk.” Amanda floated in the water astonished. This was the first time she had seen the dolphin up close and she realized that Squiggle had not a glass eye, not a plastic eye, but a robotic eye. She didn’t understand why Squiggle had it but wasn’t going to ask. “What, Shark got your tongue? No, that’s not the case you’re scared of a dolphin that is half robot. Well, your other human creature is helping me get my daughter, Drizzle, back, and if you’re interested you can come along.” Amanda nodded in agreement to go along for extra help. She was nervous and scared she had never been in the ocean this deep. CC was excited, brave and adventure seeking. She had nothing to worry about. The two girls continue to follow behind Squiggle. As they follow, CC asks, “What happened to your daughter that you need our help to save her.” “She got herself caught in a fishers net this morning and the ship has been stationary for weeks but I have no clue when it will move again,” Squiggle continues, “I just can’t get her lose. This was the only thing I could think of, I just hope that I am not too late.” When we arrived at the scene there was another dolphin along side of Drizzle. Her name was Hope, she must have been one of Drizzle’s best friends because of the way they looked at each other. We could see that Drizzle was frantic and was trying to escape. Amanda pulled a pocket knife out of her pocket- she forgot to take her shorts off before she got in the water so she felt like a complete idiot but she didn’t care. She was so busy fiddling around with it trying to find the blade, she had one of those fancy pocket knives with the screwdriver, a twisted pick, a bottle opener, and a bunch of other stuff, that when she had finally found the blade she dropped it into the deep, dark abyss of the ocean and since in was heavy it sank, and sank fast. They all tried going after it, even the dolphins, but it was no use they couldn’t find it. They were hopeless now. Amanda started to wonder why Hope looked so guilty that this had happened. Amanda pulled Hope aside and asked, “Are you ok?” Hope replied in an irritated manner, “Am I ok? Am I ok? Do I look ok to you? I’m not ok and if Driz gets kill it’s on my fins.” “How so?” Amanda asked nosily. “Well, Driz and I are always the first ones awake in the morning so today we decided to take a walk. We started to talk about where we rank in the pack. I had said that I ranked above Driz then we got in a big argument and she swam off. So I swam back to the pack thinking that if she is above me in rank then she doesn’t need my help getting back to us. I feel as stupid as a goldfish.” Hope said. “Wow! Well, I promise I am not going to let her die and if she does it will be on my hands not yours.” Amanda said with full and utter confidence. They both swam back to the net. When the two of them got close enough to see the panic in Drizzle’s eyes that wasn’t there before Hope swam right to her and started crying with her and Amanda, the most cautious, least adventurous, frightful person there knew that they couldn’t just float around waiting for the net to just untwine. So Amanda didn’t think about it she just started swimming down. No one had noticed she was gone until CC heard a faint familiar shout for help. CC looked around for Amanda then realized from bubbles floating to the surface, that Amanda had gone to find the pocket knife. CC went after her because she knew Amanda would do the same. Hope followed behind but squiggle stayed behind with Drizzle trying to keep her calm. CC and Hope can finally see Amanda she is just floating in the water with a purplish tint to her face and something shiny hooked around her finger. They swam to her as quick as possible. As they got closer they realized that Amanda had hit her head on a nearby piece of coral and wasn’t breathing but, she managed to find the pocket knife! CC took the pocket knife from Amanda and swam as fast as she could to the net where Drizzle and Squiggle were anxiously waiting for the three to return. Hope put Amanda on her back and swam quickly but made sure that she wouldn’t hurt Amanda, then again Amanda was unconscious so it didn’t make a difference. CC told Hope to take Amanda right to the surface while CC stayed back to cut Drizzle loose. Hope did follow orders very well and she followed these ones in fact she not only took her to the surface she took her back to Jordan and Lisa at the beach. When she got there she put Amanda above the surface. They spotted her right away, Jordan swam straight to her and carried her to the surface where the police are waiting. They take her right away to the ambulance. When they finally get Drizzle out of the net she thanks CC by nudging her all over and saying thank you thank you thank you! Drizzle and Squiggle offer to take CC back to the beach. CC then got on their backs and held on for dear life. Since they were robotic they could move extremely fast. When CC joined her family at the surface she turned to the dolphins and said, “Thank you for the best experience of my life. I will never forget you.” “We will never forget you either.” Squiggle said, “Tell your friend we say goodbye. Maybe you guys could come visit us again. If you do come visit us again just throw 5 sea shells at that buoy it’s an alarm that tells us to come near the shore.” She finished talking as if she was waiting for something to happen or for someone to say something. “Make sure that the sea shells are pretty!” Drizzle added filling in the awkward space but, not trying to which made it even funnier. They all laughed then realized that Hope was swimming back into the water looking for them not seeing them at the surface. That was it for that adventure and they all knew it so they said goodbye and CC went to find Amanda and Squiggle and Driz went to find Hope and join the pack again. When Amanda was well again CC and Amanda told their story but, no one believed them and that was ok, no one had to believe their story but the bad part was everyone said that it was impossible for that to happen but after all… “Without faith nothing is possible, with it nothing is impossible.”