User:ItzAdreen/My first part of my novel

Wow, it's been a long time since I've been on Wikia.

Now, I told you that I'm writing a novel, and I've already finished the first part. So I thought about showing you the first bit of my novel.

Hope you enjoy!

PROLOGUE

‘''Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to Aqua. Happy Birthday to you!’ ''

Aqua blew out the candles on the cake, and then everyone cheered and clapped with joy. Her mother gave her a kiss on the cheek, her father gave her a big high five and her seven-year-old brother, Riven, gave her a big bear hug and saying that he couldn’t believe that Aqua is already five-years-old.

Aqua cut a piece of cake, and started to feed her family, while her father takes pictures with his camera. Finally, it was Aqua’s turn to have a bite. The cake tastes of rich vanilla along with chocolate icing – what a tasty, rich, glorious taste you would get. Her mother always makes the best cakes and knows what flavours to add to make them delicious.

Riven played a playlist of cheery, hopeful songs to celebrate her sister’s birthday. Mum went to her room to fetch something and Dad started to cut Aqua’s birthday cake into pieces, then he put four pieces of cake on four tissues and leaving the rest behind so the whole neighbourhood could have one.

After a while, Mummy was holding a box that was making a jingling noise inside while she was coming back to the living room. ‘Aqua,’ she called, ‘come here. I have a present for you.’

When she mentioned “present”, Aqua skidded over to her mother and sat on her lap. The box in Mum’s hand was black as a raven, and inside was a stunning black necklace that holds a gem which was light-blue like the sky. The necklace was really identical to Riven’s chain that he always wears around his neck. Although, the colour of his gem is much, much darker than mine – almost look like navy-blue.

‘The gem on the necklace is an aquamarine,’ Mummy said.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Hey, that’s my name!’ Aqua replied.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Her mother smiled. ‘That’s because I named you after this priceless gem. Aquamarines are very, very, very rare; it’s one of my favourite gems in the world. My great-great-great-a-thousand times-great Grandmother found this gem in a place a long time ago.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘And where is that, Mummy?’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Her mother hesitated for a moment. Then she replied, ‘A city that she visited when she was. . . probably ten or twelve. But I bet the city is gone by now. The place was extremely ancient, so ancient that people think it’s a myth.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘So, the city is destroyed?’ Aqua asked from her.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘You could say that,’ Mum said. ‘She has given this necklace to her daughter, and her daughter gave it to her daughter and her daughter gave it to her daughter and so on. My mother gave me this necklace when I was five, so now, it’s time to continue the tradition’. She put the necklace around Aqua’s neck and combined the endings together. Mum looked directly into Aqua’s sea-blue eyes. ‘Promise me, that you will never, ever take this necklace off? It’s very important to you and to me.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua nodded. ‘I promise, Mummy.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">She smiled. ‘Good. Now, come on, let’s dance!’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua got off and her mum pulled her to the centre of the living room and danced around. Soon, Dad joined in whom then started to do the funky-chicken dance – which made Aqua giggle, and then Riven jumped in. They danced around, holding hands and sang along to the songs that played. They took short breaks to capture their breaths and went to get drinks, and continue to dance and have more fun.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Tonight’s weather was perfect for Aqua’s birthday. On the black sky, there was a small amount of stars that were twinkling. The lustrous moon was shining down on Crystal Cove, making the village actually gleam like a crystal.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">After a few hours, around ten or eleven, it was time to end the party, which made Aqua feel sad because she wanted more time to celebrate her birthday. She could cry and moan so her parents would give up and offer her fifteen more minutes to continue the party, but she was too exhausted.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">She yawned and her eyelids were getting too heavy. So she gave up, and let the sleepiness take control. She collapsed on the sofa and slept like a baby.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">                                                               *          *          *

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">''<span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">BOOM! ''

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua woke up instantly at the sound of thunder.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">It was two hours past midnight. The night sky wasn’t shining with stars anymore, instead, it was covered with ferocious grey clouds that made a flickering light as a sign that lightning occurred in the distance. The rain kept on repeating a rhythm of becoming too heavy and then after that, small drizzles occurred.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">There were red and blue flashes outside her window. Aqua got off her bed to see what was going on, and saw four police cars, an ambulance, and more than four police officers outside her house, getting soaked in the rain. She saw her Father, in his coat, getting wet as well, talking to a police officer while the officer wrote down on a notepad.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua ran out of her room, skidded along the dark hallway and followed the light that was coming from the living room. She stopped at the view of her living room. The whole room was trashed. The windows were cracked and broken, leaving glass pieces on the floor. The cupboards were fallen down; the picture frames of her family were all smashed and the walls had small holes. There was blood that soaked into the white carpet. It’s as if there was a hurricane.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Two people, one man and one woman, was in the living room wearing coats, looking really tired and alert at the same time. They were walking around the room, kneeling down and investigating the whole area.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua saw her brother sitting on the doorway, facing outside and getting a bit wet.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Riv?’ Aqua called. Riven turned around. His hair was black as jet, his eyes were red from crying and his cheeks were red from wiping away too many tears.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘What’s wrong?’ Aqua asked as she walked over to him. ‘What happened to our living room? Why are the police and the ambulance here? Why is there blood on the carpet?’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Riven hesitated for a moment. Then he replied, ‘It’s Mum. She was stabbed.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua’s mouth fell open. ‘How?’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Riven shrugged. ‘I don’t know. All I know is that I heard sounds coming from the living room, and I saw Mum lying on the floor, clutching her stomach. She was bleeding – very badly. Dad was there as well, he called the police and the ambulance, and that’s when they started to search the whole house and asked Dad questions.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Will Mum be alright?’ Aqua asked him.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘I don’t know,’ Riven muttered.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua stood up and walked outside, not caring that she’ll get wet. Her brother called her to come back. But she ignored him. She walked around the front yard, and finally saw her – her mother, laying on a coma unconscious.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Mummy!’ Aqua yelled and ran up to her, but a police officer stopped her by grabbing her wrist.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Sorry, kid, but no one can see her,’ said the officer.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘But I want to see her!’ Aqua protested. ‘I want to see my Mummy!’ She struggled to let go, but

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">his grip was too strong. ‘Please,’ she pleaded. ‘I just want to see her.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">He didn’t let go. ‘Not now, kid. But, you can see your mother when she gets better.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘No!’ Aqua protested. ‘I want to see her now!’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The policeman looked annoyed and opened his mouth to say something, but he was stopped by Aqua’s Dad chipping in.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Sir, why don’t I take care of my daughter,’ Dad offered.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The policeman nodded, let go of Aqua’s hand, and walked away.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘Daddy, can I see Mummy?’ Aqua asked.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Her Dad knelt down so he could look at her properly. ‘You cannot see her now, baby.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘But I want to,’ Aqua said, her eyes started to tear up. ‘I want to see if she’ll be okay.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">‘The hospital will make sure that she will be fine,’ Dad told her, wiping away a tear from his daughter’s eyes. ‘Don’t worry, baby, she’ll be safe as long as the angels are there with her. The angels will keep her safe and well.’

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Aqua hoped her father was right. She turned to the ambulance and watched as it rode off into the road and off to the hospital. She made a silent prayer to God, his angels, Jesus and his Mother, St. Anne, St. Agatha, and St. James the Greater, to heal her and keep her safe. All she has to do is hope that they have heard her prayer.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Okay, so that's it. Hope you've find it interesting. Oh, and make sure to give me a WWW (What Went Well) and a EBI (Even Better If)

<p class="MsoNormal"> Have a great day!

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