I slowly regain consciousness and hear voices. "I'm starting to regret this," one said. It sounded familiar but my hearing was still full of ringing. "Oh, I think she's waking up," another said. "I don't think I'm ready," one said. "I could hit her and knock her out again," another spoke up. "No! Absolutely not," a new voice said. "Don't you think she's been through enough pain?" the third voice asked.
I open my eyes but I have to squint because there was a light staring into my eyes. "Mom?" I say "Yes, sweetie?" The first voice says to me. I almost jump that my mother was here but I continued as I sat up. "I had...*yawn*...the most craziest dream," I say as I stretched. "Uh-hu..." Her voice sounds worried but I can barely notice it. "Yeah, I was in the forest, my necklace glowed, and I think I shrank."
I look around to find myself not in my room, but in a big one made of rocks, and the bed and pillow I was on was made of a sack of cotton made of leaves while the blanket was made from sewn together leaves. I find my mom sitting on a stool next to the bed. Near the wall were a few people and... a giant snail and slug?! A scream escapes my mouth as I point at them and nearly went unconscious again.
I pull the blanket over me again, as if it'll protect me. This is just a dream, this is just a dream. You'll wake up any moment now and you'll find yourself in your room. I repeat this several times before I took a deep breath and sat up, the blanket falling off my head. I find myself face to face with the giant snail. "Hello," it says. A short shriek escapes my lips as I back up to the wall.
The wall wasn't far so now I feel trapped. "I'm Grub," the snail says as he holds out what I think is a hand. "Ummm...Lotus Flower," I say, hesitantly taking it. "Pleasure to make your aquatints, Lotus," he said as he shook my hand furiously, leaving a buch of slime on my hand. "Ew," I whisper to myself as I grimaced and wiped my hand on the blanket.
I get off the bed and hide behind my mother. "Don't be scared," she said to me. I walked from behind her, keeping a distance from the snail named Grub, never turning away from him. My back hits someone and when I whirl around, a man was behind me. He had shaggy, dirty brown hair and wore a type of grey shirt with brown pants and brown boots covered by some green armor.
I avoided his face by looking at my shoes. "Don't worry about Grub," he tells me, and I recognize him as the third voice. "He can't do any harm even if he tried." "I'm right here you know." I laugh a little bit then finally looked at his face. He was slightly tanned and fairly freckled. But what caught my attention was his eyes. They were dark brown and so familiar. "Who are you?" I ask him.
For a split second, he looks like he doesn't know what to say. "Name's Nod," he said, holding out his hand. I shake it and feel calluses on his fingertips, because they were the only things that weren't covered. I looked past him to a man with white hair and in armor. "That's Ronin," I hear my mom say. The man looks serious but for some reason I felt like he was actually kind.
The fat slug shoved Nod aside and smiled. "'Sup?" I just stare at him as Nod tried to shove him out of the way. "This is Mub," he said, fighting with the creature. Then I looked at the last three people in the room. There was a girl about my age wearing a dress made of rose petals and had hazel eyes with pale skin, and black boots. She reminded me of Pam. She even wore her hazel hair like her.
Next to her was a naïve looking boy that wore a long sleeved blue shirt with green pants that I already knew was made of leafs. I think he's wearing sandals, and his hair was blonde and combed back while his eyes were light green. Next to him was a boy in a short sleeved dark green shirt with white shorts and brown boots. He had jade green eye and curly brown hair almost touching his shoulders.
I walked to them, feeling very, very confused and uncomfortable. "Hi," I said, feeling slightly award. "Like you heard I'm, um, Lotus Flower. But you can call me Lotus or L.F." The girl smiles and starts speaking. "Hi! I'm Flores! The boy in blue is Nabil, and Mr. Frowny over there is Davul. We're happy to meet you, Flower," she said. I frowned when she used the 'Flower' part of the name.
"A little note about me, the last person that called me that got hit in the stomach," I tell this girl named Flores. She quickly apologizes as the boy called Nabil walks up to me. "Hey, so, do you like archery?" he ask. Is he hitting on me? I wonder as he winks at me. "Wouldn't know," I reply, going around him, "never tried." Lie. I did try archery once. But I didn't know if I liked it or hated it. So it kinda isn't.
I stand in front of Davul and he just looks me up and down. "Hi," I say, "again." "Hey," he says, leaning onto the wall, noticing his voice as the one that wanted to hit me. Before I can say anything else I start feeling dizzy. "I don't feel so good," I say, clutching my forehead. "Here I'll help you outside," I hear Davul say. I look up to see he's reaching for me but I hold up a hand. "I don't know you, so don't touch me," I say. "Plus, you wanted to hit me." Before he could say anything I snap at him. "Just lead me."
I see him nod and I follow him out. I hear the others footsteps but don't slow down. But when I exit the building, my jaw drops. Giant flowers, trees, and lily pads surround me, along with a giant mass of water surrounding what I'm standing on. When I turn around I see that I'm standing on a giant version of the rock I had drawn. "Okay, I think I'm ready for an explanation," I say, turning to my mother.
She's standing next to Ronin, Nod, Mub, and Grub. "You know where you are. Remember the stories," is all she says. I replay all the stories I've known and come to an impossible conclusion. "Oh, no," I say, refusing to believe. "Yup, and we need to go," Nod said, leading us to giant hummingbirds lined up and ready to fly. As we mounted, I knew I looked like I was in a daze.
Somehow, this felt familiar. Like I've done this before. "Don't worry," Davul says as he lands his bird next to mine. "It takes a while to learn how to ride these." I rolled my eyes as I watched Nod start to fly away. I flicked the reins and my bird took off. My entire body jerked as I went into the air. I quickly regained balance as I steered my bird around a tree.
"How are you so good at this?" I turn my head to find Flores flying next to me. "I don't know," I say as I kept my eyes looking straight forward. I don't now how but, this feels right. Like this suites me. But that's impossible. My mother... My mother! I look towards her and she looks like she's been doing this for years! Right now I see a completely different side of her other than smart, mature, and sophisticated. Adventures, fun loving, and free spirited.
I see Nod flying next to her and I read how he is. He seems reckless, a slacker, a wild spirit, and a rebel. I note that Nod and my mother look like they've known each other for years. But...does that mean that she's been like this before? Before I could even debate on it I wonder how I'm good at flying a hummingbird. My mother, according to my grandpa, wasn't born like this.
So that meant that I'm somehow related to the Leafmen. But how can that be? I'd have to ask mom later because we landed on another part of the rock in front of a giant gap in it. I dismounted and followed everyone into the rock. We walked till we entered a throne room and standing in front of the throne was a woman with a flower on her head instead of hair.
"Hello, Lotus Flower," she said. I was too stunned to speak as she continued. "Welcome to Moonhaven."
Hey everyone!
Sorry that this hasn't been posted sooner.
And I know that I haven't been updating all my other incomplete stories in a while.
It's just been busy for me in the past few weeks.
But I can tell you that I'm working on them right now so watch out for them.
Peace!
