By Kelandra Surisha
Pan stretched lazily and stood shaking the light layer of dew that covered her fairly uncovered features. She smiled and took a deep breathe of her surroundings. The deep scent of sweet pines filled her body, caressing her insides with its sweet aroma of heaven.
She smiled and sat up gazing dreamily around her. This was the type of place that she had only visited in her dreams. But this was no dream today. It was the place that she had always wished to be in. To be free from the gilded cage of the world, hide away from the deep forever threat of war. The place where she can finally be free to be herself, without anyone to push her into being something she wasn't.
A slight feeling of relief swept over her as she finally realized the truth of this place. She was free.
She stood and walked slowly over towards the natural fountain of water pooling down from the cliffs above. She slowly walked behind it ending up on the other side of the riverbank. Her cool wet hair stuck to her skin and her white bra clung tightly to her body. Usually she would feel uncomfortable wearing only a white bra and torn off blue jeans, but not today, not here. She shrugged and pushed herself into the cool pool away from the waterfall that had dampened her already. She felt a cool shudder go through her as her body adjusted to the temperature of the cool mountain river.
She relaxed and let the quiet current pull her lazily down the river slowly at first and get stronger as the water began to get shallower. She pushed her legs downwards feeling the bottom of the riverbed. She felt cool sharp rocks push themselves against her feet, trying profusely to break the skin. She pushed away from the rocks and put her might into swimming back up stream to wear it was deep. It wasn't too hard; the current wasn't strong in this little forgotten stream, a little piece of the Earth's early taste of heaven.
Pan felt all her worries flee from her as she finally let herself go from the world, letting her memories and thoughts push away.
It was good to be away from it all. It was nice to have a long break from reality, the reality that was so painful and hard that it could break even the strongest of souls into defeat. It could only be her crucial reality that could do something so horrible, that nothing could ever go right.
Nothing seemed important to Pan anymore. Nothing but relaxing in that cool pool of calmly shifting waters washing over her tired body, hitting her head and slowly curling down the rest of her body, caressing every inch that was her being, making it's cool way into her soul. She felt inner peace as she began to slowly sink to the calm bottom of the river…
Gasping and sputtering was heard as Pan came back to the surface a minute later. She had found herself half conscious on the bottom of the rushing riverbed, asleep in the calm swirling of blue abyss. She came sprawling forwards onto the side of the riverbank collapsing untidily onto the soft green grass of the crisp, dew-covered field. She relaxed as she steadied her breathing once more. She had to be careful of that. It was so peaceful that she could sleep anywhere in that cool little piece of unforgotten heaven. She smiled as she dug her face into the soft spikes of the fresh grass. She took in the deep scent of the dew covered grass and the deep caressing scent of the pines and relaxed once again, finding the grips of dark sleep creeping up upon her and crawling slowly into her eyelids, pulling them shut.
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The harsh aroma of smoke filled Pan's nostrils, choking her breathing into gasps. She came to spluttering on the ground scrounging for breath. She crawled lazily across the ground trying to escape the heat. No matter how fast she moved it kept reaching out to her like a demon from the deepest pits of hell. It latched out and pinned her to the ground as flames slowly came towards her, readying themselves to poor over her pale, white skin and dark ebony black hair.
Helplessness swept over Pan as she pulled herself up into a tight ball, covering her face and hands from the flames. She felt herself begin to rack with sobs, uncontrollable sobs that controlled her whole being. Death was the meaning of her sobs, so much death surrounding her. Sharp screams went out and were silenced as new ones began. Showing that many were dying at the hands of the dark blood red pieces of hell.
"Leave them alone!" she cried trying to pull herself to her feet. She felt the flames engulf her and push her back to the ground gasping for breath as smoke filled her nostrils and down to her lungs. "Please leave them alone!"
"You have only brought it upon yourself and everyone else in this world!" she heard something cry; she turned and gazed up into the flames. She could have sworn she gazed upon a woman covered with dark black, draping coat, and black flowing pants and black shoes. She had a long rimed black hat the sheltered her face. Pan heard a loud laugh escape the lips of the dark figure and more screams escaped from the invisible people around her. She felt pain course through her body and she let out a sharp painful scream and many whimpers.
"Please leave them alone…" she begged and tried profusely to get up. Once again as the smoke filled her nostrils, throat and lungs she felt herself collapse and finally this time it took it's toll on poor Pan, leaving her defenceless and out cold.
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Pan shot up breathing hard. She gazed furiously around her searching for the flames and peeling her ears to hear the loud screams of the poor people.
But no sounds and sites came to her. All she saw was the soft fall of the river's fountain, the water fall, and the soft grove of trees that connected to the deep forest. All she heard was the soft, relaxing, sound of the collapsing of the falling water upon the slowly seeping river.
Pan felt a tremor of relief flow through her as she pulled herself into a tight ball letting out a few low whimpers remembering the dreadful dream, no not a dream, a nightmare. She felt tears flow freely down her cheeks and she pulled her body even tighter to her legs.
"It can't happen…" she whispered. "It wont happen…I wont let the flames be once again…"
Pan softly let her left hand go letting it seep lazily through the grass. She stopped when the soft caressing touch of her fingers rested on soft metal.
She gripped the metal tightly in her grasp and pulled it into her body. She gazed upon the soft metal of gold, which was shaped as a heart lying upon a gold necklace. She popped open the soft gold heart and gazed upon the picture inside. It was a black and white picture of a young couple with their arms encircled around each other. She smiled as she gazed upon the faces, their happy faces; the woman was herself and the man, her one true love, Trunks. But they were not meant to be, she was not meant to be with anyone. But Trunks, he had so many women he could be with, he had millions to choose from, she had no man but him. She felt the fear of being alone grip her as silent tears rolled down her cheeks and onto the locket. She gazed sadly upon the inscription "The joys in the ride".
"Trunks I love you. Baby I'm sorry but this is for the best." Pan closed the locket silently and fastened it about her neck. "It's for the best."
End of Chapter One
Did you like it? I hope so. I did a lot of revamping to it since I originally released it and I'm proud of it. =).
Please review, I would love to hear your thoughts. Or e-mail me, I always love to receive e-mail from people.
Anyways I'm off. Have a good night (or day or whatever...=P)
-Kelandra Surisha
