Within a few days I was beyond the orbit of Pluto. I looked around an noticed everything around moving very quickly. I then realized I was going near the speed of light and time was slowing down for me. Even so, supplies would not last long enough to get to the nearest star so I gravity-slingshot off the nearest large body of matter and flew toward Jupiter. I figured I could gravity-slingshot off that to reach the Earth. However, I ran out of anti-matter and the energy of the spacecraft shut off, leaving the cold of space to cool the ship down quickly.
I realized the danger I was in, so I crash landed on the Jovian moon Europa. The native Europans found me on top of the ice sheet that covered the entire planet. These explorers were much like the ones on Earth exploring the North Pole, and they acted as if they had made a great discovery of a species living above the ice. They took me back on the long journey through the ice tunnels into the sheets.
They seemed like a friendly race and tried to feed me what they had. It was not the best of food, but they didn't seem to like it much either so I figured it was just rotten and not the normal diet of the Europans. They tried communicating with me but failed epically and gave up. Even so, they did make attempts to teach me their language, but the structures of their mouths are so different I found myself incapable of speaking it.
Several weeks later, we reached the ocean. They seemed rather annoyed that I could not breathe in the water, but they found some air for me to breathe anyway. We began a journey through the rather bright oceans, lit up by massive volcanoes beneath us. There were huge columns of lava shooting up through the water before cooling and sinking back down. We boarded a large craft that seemed rather like a sailboat except it used the warm currents of the ocean to sail along.
The sailing-submarine went along at a high speed and we saw others zooming by. Every once in a while we had to dodge a large burst of lava, but these were infrequent and not a large danger. The only real danger that came to us was leaving a current, something that happened a few times and required us to row back into one; this was hard to do because the currents were invisible.
Soon we reached a large underwater city built around a volcano. The lava glowed very bright and lit up the streets of the city. Many of the Europans were in the streets. Our ship came to the city and was tied up at a port. We were heartily greeted by many and soon a crowd surrounded us, amazed by me and the return of people from a place that was not even known to exist. What was above the ice was not known, and few thought it existed. The existence of me proved them wrong.
I would have said the view from the port was great except that it wasn't. Though the volcano I stood on rose very high up, the light of the volcano did not shine far enough to see what was below. A few streams of lava I could see, but not much else.
A Europan grabbed me and indicated that I should swim toward the palace near the port. I began swimming with a few Europans, not knowing what would happen next.
To Be Continued... Or not.
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