Hello everyone! This is my first fanfiction, and I hope it's not too horrible! XD

Disclaimer: I do not own Harvest Moon.

I pulled a couple bushels of hay out of the dispenser and walked around the barn, spreading them out into the troughs. I smiled and patted my cow, Nellie, on the back softly. She mooed happily. My new lamb, Nicole, bleated as she walked towards me, eager for affection. Laughing, I stroked her head a couple times and walked out of the barn.

I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Jill Roarke, and I am the proud owner of Blue Moon Farm. I came here just a short year ago, when my father passed away and willed his farm to me. His close friend Takakura has been a great help in starting up the run-down farm, and now it's working it's way back up to it's former glory.

As I made my way out of the barn, I lifted my face to the warm spring sun, grateful for it after the long winter season. Yesterday I had planted lots of turnips, potatoes and strawberries. I had just barely gotten by this past season by shipping animal products and gems from the mines, so this year I wanted to save up some cash.

Although, I had taken a liking to the mines, so I was headed there again today. I had opened up a third mine for Carter, and there were some pretty nice gems in there.

I walked out the entrance of my farm, waving a greeting to Lumina. Over the bridge, past Vesta's farmland, up the path to the excavation site. It was all so familiar, but the setting was such a contrast from when everything was blanketed in a sparkling coat of white. Now it was bursting with the new life of spring, the air pleasantly warm.

Flora smiled at me as I walked into the excavation site, and I happily returned the gesture.

"Back again today, I see." She said with a laugh.

"Yep, these mines sure have grown on me!" I giggled back, pulling out my hammer and passing through the stone arch of the third mine.

I smashed away for most of the day, glancing at my watch every now and then to make sure I didn't stay too late. After a while, when I was in the really low levels of the mine - or so I assumed, anyway - I had nearly broken all the rocks on the floor, and I was determined to get all of them. I noticed one in the far corner and ran to it, lifting my hammer as I got ready to split the rock in two. Just as I was nearing the rock, my foot went farther into the ground than it should have, and I suddenly remembered the holes that were sometimes in the ground.

My goofy grin turned turned into a look of sheer horror, and I plummeted down into the darkness.

I know that was really short, but hopefully the chapters will get longer as the story progresses. I think of this as kind of a prologue anyway.

I'm thinking I'll update this every Saturday, but I can't say for sure, what with school and everything.

Thanks for reading! :D