“Aurora’s Light”

Chapter 1

  You would think just for once she could have a normal day. A normal day with no incidents, but no, not her, not in the slightest chance. One minute Aurora was in her room minding her own business and the next she was on her ass in the sand of some freaking desert. Standing up she looked around dusting her stitch pjs off, a scowl of irritation crossing her features, before looking up and screaming , “ of all the places to put me, I had to end up here!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH”, feeling impetuous and with no one around to see her she stomped her feet several times like a child feeling no satisfaction as her feet sank into the hot burning sand beneath her. Starting to sweat almost immediately, she decided perhaps conserving her energy for the time being would be best.

Picking up the stone around her neck she pressed the center in , and promptly sat down to wait. Her father and his team would get the ping of her location and he would know it had happened again and send a retrieval team after her. This had been happening since she was five. Starting with her first incident, she had gone from in front of the tv in her room to the kitchen in a matter of seconds . It just so happened that her mother and father were in there fighting about God knows what when she popped in. Her parents had looked shocked, maybe a little terrified, while she on the other hand had thought it was a game they were playing. 

Oh yes, It had seemed great at first, until her little trips found her in locations further and further away as she began to get older. At the same time those locations seemed to be rife with trouble. What was this exactly, well she had dubbed it involuntary teleportation, cause you know being a big movie buff she thought Jumper seemed like a great example to lead from. 

Her parents had dubbed it the transferences. Most could guess this came from her father being military. In a sense her father being a high ranked general in the military had its perks, but at the same time, it was his main excuse for keeping her hidden from the world. Her mother, being a well paid Account Director, had immediately gone from working abroad, to working from home. Much to her annoyance it meant her mother controlled her day to day life, up until she had turned Eighteen , at which point, she immediately took her life back, as much as she could. There were certain things her parents would never agree to for obvious reasons. Like her living alone. What she would give for a normal life. Hell to even have friends, would be amazing, but no. Not her this screwed up lot was her life. 

 There were of course other gifts she had, but much like the teleportation she had no control of them. Healing, telekinesis…. Telekinesis, ha, Aurora smirked at the irony. She had tried to use it once. Once was enough to learn she would definitely never try to again. The one time she had actually tried she had ended up smacking herself in the face with a book. Leaving her with a broken nose that had also caused what looked like two black eyes to go along with it. Yeahhhhh, she had Matilda to thank for that one.   Apparently movies weren't the greatest thing to use for learning advice. She looked down at the watch on her wrist as it began to ring, sighing as she saw it was her dad, she swiped to answer, groaning as he began his long list of directives on what she was to do until the retrieval team arrived.

She tuned him out for a moment, as a weird looking large cloud sped towards her from the horizon. Here eyes closed as she realized just what that cloud was. 

 “Hey, dad not to cut you short, but um I do believe there is a dust storm rushing towards me, and I have no shelter or anything to protect myself from it, what did you say the team's ETA was, cause ima need them to learn my gifts and teleport here in the next five mins.” her tone came across as sarcastic, because at this point she was used to things going from bad to worse. No sense in panicking when it never helped to begin with. On the plus side her dads rigorous training regimen kept her in great shape. Which meant if he could tell her how to survive she could put it into action. 

“This is not the time for your jokes Aurora, the dese….”

Aurora growled with impatience and practically yelled through the phone, “Dad this isn’t one of my jokes, unless you want me to die,now would be a great time to give me some sound advice!!”

The line went silent for a few a pause making her wonder if she had lost connection before he spoke calmly, “Alright, listen carefully, we don't have much time, I need you to look around see if you can find a high Dune , your also going to need to rip the bottom half of your shirt off, and tie it around your face, this will help you breath, when the sands start kicking up…” right before the line began to cut out and disconnected.

“Greeaatt, anything else wants to go wrong today, I mean we cant do much worse than we are now….” jumping to her feet she began to run for the highest dune close to her, and began climbing. Her legs were burning by the time she reached the top , looking over her shoulder she could tell she probably had less than five minutes before the storm hit her location. Taking off at a run, she slid and stumbled her way to the bottom of the other side before quickly beginning to dig out a small burrow with her hands. The wind began to kick up sending sand flying, telling her her time was almost up. She growled in aggravation as sweat dripped down her temples and into her eyes making them burn even more. Apparently not only did sandstorms cause service issues, but they traveled fast too because her visibility was decreasing by the minute. How did she always find herself in these situations? It was like fate had picked her to be the butt of its jokes or something.

Moving with haste she climbed down into the depression of the burrow she had created and proceeded to rip the bottom half of her shirt off quickly. Tying it around her face, she closed her eyes turning into the burrow, just as the storm came over the top of the dune. She wasn’t sure what startled her more, the harsh sting of the sand as it whipped against her body and face, or the sudden hot heat that pressed against her back out of nowhere. Darkness and quiet suddenly surrounded her as a blanket of thickness covered her, and an arm wrapped around her middle. Aurora's eyes widened as a scream of panic built in her throat. Who the fuck had just popped up behind her. Because she knew damn well her fathers team was nowhere near her location. Well she had asked for fate to throw the next bone at her and apparently it was ready to deliver.

Next Chapter : Darius's Arrival