Airy Terrance Prologue

"Hey... Alex?" A young girl with chin-length, straight brown hair asked. Her lips were slightly puckered up and her focused on the small daisy in her hand as she plucked off the leaves one by one. "What do you think about magic?"

"Mm... I dunno." A sure-sounding voice answered. The girl was down on one knee, the other one pulled up to her chest, her chin resting on top. Her short curly brown hair was pulled up into a high ponytail, her eyes a bright brown-almost yellow-color that fixated on the girl in front of her. Alex focused on the girl's pale yellow dress, her face, then to the hands working on pulling the petals off one by one. "I guess it can exist."

"It does exist." The petal puller replied softly, her hazel eyes darting up to meet Alex, then back down on the daisy. "How could it not?" She pulled the last petal off and stared at it in her small, soft hand.

"You believe in magic?" Alex asked, a blank expression on her freckled face. A light breeze was blowing around them, it felt cool on their exposed skin.

"Yes." Straight hair smiled and let the breeze take the petal from her opening finger tips. They both watched as the petal did flips and twirls in the breeze. Then the girl reached for Alex's hand and gripped tightly. "Alex!" She gasped, her chest rising like it was hard to breath.

"Estelle?" Alex voice rose and cracked. Worry filled her eyes as her other hand reached out to grab Estelle shoulder.

"Pr-promise me-" Estelle inhaled sharply, and didn't breath out. "That you'll always be with me..." Alex's mouth hung agape.

"A, o-o-" Alex's voice cut out and her eyes widen. Estelle was breaking up into millions of little pieces and disappearing into thin air as with the world around them.

Alex's mouth moved as she screamed, but no words came out, and all sound in the world stopped as Estelle's pained face dissolved. Her shoulder disappeared and Alex was left groping the air, trying to hold onto her friend. Alex watched in horror as the last bit of Estelle, the hand she had been gripping to, left as well.

Then the darkness came in and took control.

...

Today is the day Estelle moves back. I can't wait. She thought softly to herself.

Alex opened her eyes to her bedroom with the same golden eyes from the dream. Sleeping on top of her blankets, in a bunk like bed, longer and lifted higher to compensate for her tall frame. Her curly hair was everywhere, and around shoulder length. It was a deep chocolate brown with natural and highlighted blond streaks. A light coating of freckles adorned her sun-tanned face, shoulders and arms. She wore a blank maroon t-shirt and black mesh shorts with a thick white seam. Her lips had a touch of pink, they moved slightly as she groaned from the bright light pouring into her room from the single uncovered window. The same gentle breeze was blowing through her window, the tangy smell of salt with it.

Alex laid the back of her right wrist on her forehead and her left hand gripped the sheets as her toes curled and then she did a big stretch. She let out the breath of air she had been holding and her muscles relaxed.

Estelle... Alex thought and she turned her head to the left and looked out at her room, everything neatly placed with the exception of a few books on the floor, and the slew of clothes that littered the room like trash at a garbage dump. Her right hand dragged down to the metal necklace she wore and her heart skipped a beat.

Shes here. In the city. Today.

With that information running through her head, she woke right up. She sat up and slipped her legs over the bed. She looked at the window, and slowly stood up. Being careful where she stepped, she made her way to the window while her heart started beating out of control.

She looked over the place where she had lived her entire life, Telluric City. A huge metropolis sitting on the ocean with a river dividing it into two, it was a highly advanced city that had gorgeous architecture in the financial, shopping, and government districts. A few run down parts just like with any city, yet a mostly beautiful place.

She gazed off to the farthest part of Telluric, the district she would be visiting shortly.

Airy Terrance.

The young student just stood there, staring at them. She held her body tense with her fists clenched, her head was cocked to the side. The strange material that covered her body made her look like a strange, alien creature. The tension in the air was so tight it felt like their lungs would give out. Then weird lining of her space suit 

SUPER HERO STORY

When I think about writing a comic, I want to make my stories deep. But I'm wondering how different people feel about reading a comic. I know comics are suppose to be entertaining, but if you think about The Watchmen, it is more of a deep, serious story verses a for-your-entertainment type comic. I love to read manga and comics, and I usually find Eastern stories to be more entertainment, while Western stories tend to be more serious with deep themes (I'm thinking along the lines of Marvel's X-Men and DC's Batman). I'm not saying Eastern doesn't have depth and I'm not saying Western isn't entertaining, I'm just saying what I find more often than the other.

Like the manga Naruto Shippuden, it's entertaining, yet it has deep themes that are running through it all the time. It's an allegory that younger children and more mature readers can follow and love. I'll be honest: I have always read it because I liked it, but once it got serious, I really started to love it. I tend to really love a story that has conflicts in morals and ethics, and NS has received that a lot. But it still isn't 100% serious.

I'm far more interested into serious type stories, and I'm wondering if others are as well. Would my story interest you?

I want to make a serious super-hero type story in which the 'school' (loose term here) is the 'government'. It involves separating the students from society at a young age and they are put behind the walls of the school to be trained to protect the people and civilization. The Earth is run over by 'monsters' that stay away from the bigger cities (with few exceptions). When the students are close to graduation, they are allowed to roam away from the school on missions in singles or small groups, which usually just involves being something like a mall cop, roam around and stop trouble when spotted or called upon. The students are highly censored, to be 'built' and trained in the most top efficient manner without access to art, culture, literature or music. There have been groups of students who have had access to such things, and wished to rebel against the Headmistress. But all the rebellions have failed, and in response the Headmistress had the students slaughtered. The rules in the academy are tight, very tight, and the punishments are so harsh that students dieing from them is not all that common. The school doesn't know whats going on the outside, and the common don't know whats going on in the inside.

The plot of the story is loose, but it's about one of top students who gets assigned a mission on the outside, and gets caught in a mass landslide with a group and she ends up doing her duty to protect them, and has to lead them out of an underground cavern. From there, she seems to keep running into one of the girls from the group and develops a strange relationship with her. From there develops problems as she slowly learns of the outside and wishes to escape, but unfortunately, shes too scared to disobey the Headmistress.

But, what are your opinions on make a story serious vs. entertaining? A serious story that has random gags, or a funnier story that gets serious at some parts? Allegories? What are people's opinions on bringing in government into comics?

Adventures of Ian and Alexandria

Ian---
Ian is a young gentleman who has a deep taste of adventure and a intense love for his girlfriend. He's a sharp, yet clumsy, young man who can sneak around very diligently, especially on the hunt for treasure. He avoids the lobster colony (since they have a warrant for his arrest on accounts of slander towards them involving communism) but has a soft spot for the lonely yeti that resides at the top of the Yeti Pass. The young princess of Chateau au Corail considers Ian a big brother and would love to go adventuring with him and Alexandria. Ian has an intense fear of Dinosaur Swamp, and he loves to go swimming at Mermaid Cove.

Alexandria---
Alex is a mature young women who dresses punk and loves exploring for treasure. She lives with her Ian. A very intelligent girl who has a strength superior to Ian's, she's quiet and shy around strangers yet has a heart of gold and is a very caring individual. She helps out Ian quite a bit during their adventures, to the point that he's just an embarrassment, yet she stays faithfully by his side every day as they travel Emily Island in the hopes of finding something great that will put them down in the history books. She's very good with the bigger and far more wilder animals on the island. She has many hidden talents, and a dark past, that slowly comes out bit by bit as her relationship with Ian deepens.

New Ideas

Adventures of Ian and Alexandria.
Ian and Alexandria are a pair of adventurers who love to explore the land they live in.
-Genre: Serious humor, Adult, fantasy, adventure
-Main Characters: Ian and Alexandria

Super Hero Story #1.
In a world where super heroes are trained in a government-run academy until graduation, superheroes are ranked from D to A, with A ruling over metropolises and A-Danger areas, D ranks are partnered and sent to small towns to help out with smaller monsters and minor threats. A C-Ranked is graduated and sent to the dual-cities-on-the-river, where it starts off as a quick fight, but ends up falling in love at first-rescue. But is our C-Rank all who he seems to be?
-Genre:
-Main Characters: ??? and Madeline

Young Romance Story.
A short story about a lonely, 16-year-old girl who gets a new neighbor over the summer, the young 16-year-old amateur boxer, Matthew, who aspires to enter the Youth World boxing Federation when he turns 18.
-Genre: Boxing, Romance, Drama
-Main Characters: Matthew and Sophia

Super Hero Story #2.
A darker story then the one above, in which a world is over-run by monsters, the (tentative title) Academy is the governement. The students are hand selected at a young age and from there are placed in The Academy while others are scattered. In the Academy, there is no such thing as art or music or literature, it's all about fighting and battles and becoming stronger. From the academy, they are taught Battle Tactics, War Strategies, Math, Science, Monsters, Fighting skills, and lots and lots of training. The only videos they watch are propaganda and they have a false-sense of the what the people on the outside world think. They are trained to be machines to fight monsters. When a 'law' is broken, the punishments are intense and harsh.