Darkness, that's the first thing I see. It's dark, it's cold and I'm scared. Something is covering me, if I move even the slightest inch I hear a crunching sound. I can't get up; the atmosphere is too heavy, or I'm just too weak. Then all of a sudden, the weight blows off me; as if it's light as air. Now it's bright, so bright that it hurts my eyes. I'm so confused.
I decide to open my eyes and right in front of me is a luminous orb. The moon, it's so bright that it feels like all the fear and darkness just melt off me. I try to get up again but it was no use, I'm still too weak. Then I start to rise, as if someone's lifting me. I look around startled to see who's there, but I see no one but trees.
Fear strikes me again as I start to struggle against the invisible force. I'm really high up now, so high that I stop moving so it won't drop me. It makes me face the moon and yet again the fear just goes away. As I'm being lowered to the ground I can't keep my eyes off the sliver blaze, as if it has me in a trance. My feet touch the ground and I hear that crunch again, I look down desperately to see what's causing the sound. On the ground is the most pristine bed of beautifully coloured leaves. I pick up a handful of them and look back up at the moon.
"Your name is Autumn leaves," I don't even have to look around to see who it is; it's the moon.
"Thank you," I say.
I then look back down at the leaves in my hand; they're reddish tones, all with their own unique colour. Confused, I look up at the trees and notice that their leaves are all green. Then something else catches my attention, something on my back. I drop the leaves and grab the object, as I get a good hold of it; I pull until it come off. It's an arrow, a wooden arrow carved by hand with beautiful red, yellow and orange leaves on the end.
"Did you do this?" I ask looking up at the moon, but he doesn't answer. Instead he shines a beam of light onto a piece of wood laying on the grass in the distance. I start to approach it cautiously to find that it's a bow. To test my skills, I pick up the bow, pull back the string, focus on a tree about 10ft away as my target, and release. I hit my target dead-on. Stunned I approach the arrow, grab it in the middle and pull as hard as I can.
The second the arrow's out of the wood, a red light spirals up the trunk and turns the green leaves red. I stand there both shocked and amazed. I reach out curiously to the tree beside me and touch it. Again, a blinding light shoots up the bark and turns all the leaves a maroon colour. Amazed I start to laugh, using my new-found power to turn all of the tree's leaves dark red without even touching them.
After all the leaves are red I notice smoke above the trees. I start to run, worried that someone may be hurt. I run through bushes and jump over logs until I finally reach the source of the smoke. A bonfire was in the middle of a small village filled with people. I stand there mesmerized by the crackling fire until something happened.
Pain, cold pain surges through my body. Then it happens again, and again, and again. I walk up to a woman sitting on a bench and ask.
"Excuse me but what's going on?" she never replies. Now I'm getting frustrated "ma'am," but she still doesn't respond. Just before I'm about to walk away she stands up and walks right through me. There's that pain again, people are walking through me as if I'm a ghost. Confused I walk away, never noticing that someone is watching the entire thing.