The Airman - The intro


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A thunderous droning could be heard, coming up from within the overcast clouds. Jace looked up, eyes straining against the blazing sun, arms hanging limply at his sides after a long hard day of tilling the soil.  

It was another airship. 

Blackened pipes pumping out steam from its coal furnaces, and a ginormous hull the size of a blue whale- it truly was what it name said it was. An airship.

Jace glanced wistfully at the sky, dreaming of soaring through the clouds with the wind in his face, clothes rustling, hair whipping-

“Jace! Come back in! What’s taking you so long you dunderhead!” 

His father’s voice cut through his thoughts

“Pa! Hold up! And what is a dunderhead even supposed to be!”

Jace ran back inside their hut, getting ready to repeat the monotonous cycle of eat, sleep, work, eat (And regularly...uh...release) that had been his life for all the 17 years that he’d lived for.

Before going back into their hut, Jace looked back up at the airship one last time

“Someday, you’ll be mine”

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Another sunrise, another morning, another day spent tilling the soil, another repeat. 

"Or will it be," He wondered, as he lay spread-eagle on his straw mattress, staring up at the mud roof of their squalid little hut. "Well, I'm gonna make sure it isn't!" 

He jumped off his straw mattress, jumped into his worn and torn boots and jumped out of the hut (and straight into fresh...uh...fertilizer), but uncaring of that and every single other issue in the world, he stood, basking in golden rays of the young sun

But his bliss was short lived as a wave of cold muddy water cheerfully sprayed all over his outstretched body.

"Phat! pthoo! Ptaht!" Jace spat out clods of grass and dirt and grass

"What the-" 

He stopped mid sentence

His face frozen into mask of shock and confusion.

And he stared.

"An airship?!! What's an airship doing h- Wait. No- it's way too small, looks more like a boat than a ship. But what IS it doing here?"  

His hands came to his chin and started to stroke his imaginary beard (he'd been trying to grow one for years but nothing had worked) something felt off- not just the mini airship in front of him but something else...

"Wait, hold on, why isn't Pa screaming at me to go to haul my butt to work already...Pa!"

"Pa! Pa! Where are-ughh!" His words were gagged mid sentence by a discolored rag that was stuffed into his mouth. He had no idea where the rag had come from, or what it was doing in his mouth; all he'd seen was a flash of black spring up from the air boat.

"Wait! which-who-what was tha-"


Before his brain could process what was happening, he went flying in the air, arms flapping and legs spasming behind him 

Thump! His body landed in the Air boat, where he was gagged by the smell of year old socks, and spoilt milk, and he fell into a fortunate slumber, just before he saw the moldy socks that were resting right above his head

His black cloaked captor grinned down at him with pearly white teeth that was a stark contrast to his travel weathered chocolate skin

"Well, boyo, looks like you're gonna be stuck with this old man for a while, " he said, running a hand through his nearly non-existent brown hair

"Well, off to the capital it is with you!" He vaulted back into the air boat, and sped off towards the cpital, with Jace bouncing in the back seat, occasionally colliding with used milk cartoons, unaware of what was waiting for him in the capital of Hurelum....



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