Disclaimer: I do not own Harvest Moon.


Prologue: Everything Disappeared

Ana smiled, her red lips curving upwards, blue eyes sparkling. Normally, her eyes were solemn, but when she smiled her whole face lit up. She put down her Wii remote, sighing happily. Her new game- Tree of Tranquility- was brilliant, she was already utterly absorbed. She loved the characters, Candace, the quiet, polite girl who preferred being ignored. Renee, the polite, animal loving girl who works at Brownie Ranch. Chase, the kind, chatty bartender. All of them! Ana still played her DS Harvest Moon game, and sometimes her gameboy Harvest Moon game if she was feeling nostalgic.

Ana flicked her short, black hair over one shoulder, deciding to take a break from the Wii. She'd always loved Harvest Moon, since it had first come out on Gameboy. Her now thoughtful blue eyes clouded over as she dreamed of the towns, the villages and valleys of Harvest Moon, the worlds of colourful wonder that she found solace in. Ana grinned, bright white teeth sparkling, thinking of the characters she always married in her games. On her DS male game, she always picked Celia, the quiet, kindly farm girl. She disliked Lumina, the spoilt rich girl brat, Flora, the archaelogist weirdo, and Muffy, whom she deemed a bitch. Occasionally, she picked Nami, or some of the 'special' wives, but she always preferred Celia On the DS 'Cute' game, she'd always married Gray, her favourite male character in the whole series. In the Gameboy version, it was Mary, although she'd also married every single other girl at least twice.

Since Ana had bought Tree of Tranquility, she'd been obsessed about playing it and Harvest Moon, even going so far as to blow off her friends when they asked to meet her. Some of my friends understand, Ana thought bitterly, standing up to gaze at Harvest Moon posters on her walls, and then shook her head, mentally correcting herself. Sheri understands, she thought, staring at a ToT poster. Sheri Ai was Ana's closest friend, who was also obsessed with Harvest Moon. This shared trait allowed them to spend more and more time together, discussing HM and their favourite characters. Sheri's favourite, a rare, slightly rude cowboy called Vaughn, wasn't really Ana's type. However, Gray, the bronze-haired blacksmith, was definitely her type. Definitely, Ana thought dreamily. Again, she shook her head. Stop dreaming about a character from a game! she scolded herself. He's not real! You'll never meet him!

Ana's laptop beeped, and she turned and pounced on her bed, where her laptop lay charging. Before she looked at the message, her gaze flicked over her room. It was average sized, with a fairly wide single bed under the large window, that looked out at the sky above. Ana lived right at the top of her house, and as a treat for having to go up so many stairs her parents had granted her a large TV and a Wii to play it on... in her room! She kept all her consoles up here, her DS, her gameboy, her Wii, and her laptop. Ana clicked onto the MSN messenger window, and a message popped up from Sheri.

Sheri~nya: hi, Ana!

Ana-chan: hey, Shez. How goes ToT?

Sheri~nya: 'tis alright. XD I was mining!

Ana-chan: any good stuff?

Sheri~nya: nah, just junk. :( how about you?

Ana-chan: yeah, it's going pretty well. I'm going after Renee.

Sheri~nya: she's cool. you about to go back on?

Ana-chan: yeah ^^ guilty as charged, Shez!

Sheri~nya: how did I guess...?

Ana logged off, Sheri doing the same, and ran to her Wii, snatching up the white remote. As she opened her game, she felt a peculiar sensation running through her hands and up her arms, right through her body.

"Huh?" she cried in a soft voice, surprised.

Suddenly, everything disappeared, with a strange tinkle of music.