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Chapter 2

Shocking Revelations

Danny's POV

The first thought on my conscious mind was, Who turned on the Sun? Gibberish, really, but I was still half-asleep. I specifically remembered, however, that Dy and I had closed the curtains before passing out, so why was I being awoken by bright light? I couldn't even open my eyes properly, and the growing headache wasn't helping. My back was uncharacteristically killing me, as if I'd slept on rocks the whole night, although it wouldn't have surprised me if I'd rolled off the bed at some point. And if all that wasn't slightly strange then the unmistakable sound of birds chirping happily took the cake. We'd definitely closed the windows previously, so how could I possibly hear birds? None of this made much sense.

Despite all the questions my mind had decided to torture me with first thing in the morning, it took me a lot of energy and self-convincing to finally force my eyes open. That turned out to be a mistake as the aforementioned bright light blinded me instantly. I smacked a hand over my eyes protectively, letting out a groan as my headache flared. Grumbling under my breath, I slowly sat up, wincing at the pain in my back. Dropping my hand from my eyes and snapping them open angrily, I opened my mouth to curse the heavens for putting me through so much pain so early in the morning, but stopped abruptly. All the complaints died on my dry lips as I took in my surroundings.

All grogginess and anger vanished, replaced by shock and disbelief. I could have sworn I was dreaming, if the whole scenery before me wasn't far too vivid to be the product of my wild imagination. I could call myself an artistic soul, but this amount of green was beyond my creative capability. All I could see were trees – big, strong, green-leaved trees. The Sun was high up in the clear blue sky. I glanced down and saw that I was sitting on grass-covered ground, littered with sticks and stones of various sizes.

I blinked, hoping that would dispel whatever hallucination I was having, but it changed nothing. I was still surrounded by trees, sitting on grass and dirt, and listening to birds sing around me. If I were in any other situation, the whole scene would have been rather beautiful and I definitely would have enjoyed it. However, at that particular moment, it took all self-control I had not to freak out.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm my nerves, before looking around me carefully. It didn't take me long to spot my sleeping best friend. She was sprawled out on the ground a few feet to my left, oblivious to the weirdness around her. I smiled slightly at her sleeping position, letting out a breath of relief. At least I'm not alone in this madness.

Hesitantly I stretched my arm out, shaking her shoulder slightly. "Dy?" I whispered, eying the forest around us suspiciously. Who knew what could jump out, even in broad daylight? When she didn't even twitch, I grew annoyed. "Dianna?" Nothing. I sighed, realizing there was no escaping it.

"Can I eat the last cookie?" I said loudly. The reaction was instant.

"NO!" My best friend screamed bloody murder, jolting up into a sitting position, her eyes wide open and her arms outstretched before her. I couldn't contain the laughter even if I'd wanted to. That never got old. It took her a moment to realize what had occurred and just as expected, she turned to glare at me.

"Dude, you should've seen your face!" I exclaimed between giggles, holding my stomach. And that line never got old either.

"I told you never to do that again," she said darkly, clearly displeased with my behavior.

"Sorry, Dy," I said once I'd calmed down, "but that was the easiest way to wake you up, as this is quite an emergency."

"What could possibly be such an emergency that you'd have to wake me u-"

"Exactly." Her eyes widened to the size of saucers as she took in our surroundings slowly, probably still half-asleep. If her expression was anything to go by, she was just as shocked as I was.

"What…in the name of Kami…?" She trailed off, as her eyes continued to shift from one tree to the next, from the grass we were sitting on to the Sun that shined brightly high above our heads.

"Don't freak out," I said slowly, drawing her gaze to me. She stared at me with a completely bewildered expression on her face. "I have no idea what's going on, but we'll figure it out." I pushed myself to my bare feet, cursing as jagged pebbles cut into my skin, before brushing the dirt off my baby blue shorts. "But as long as we're here, wherever here is, we might as well explore and try to figure this whole thing out."

Dy jumped up to her feet quickly, panic filling her sky blue eyes. "But- wait, where are we? How did we get here? Actually, don't answer that, I don't even want to know. What I want to know is how the Hell are we going to get back?!" She stopped abruptly in the middle of her panicked rant to whirl around in place, her eyes flying over all the trees frantically.

"What if we can never get back home?" The desperation in her voice made her sound completely hopeless and it showed me just how scared she actually was. Her eyes were watering slightly and I couldn't stop the reality of the situation from hitting me. My vision started to get blurry as my heart beat frantically in my chest. I blinked off the tears before they could fall. At least one of us had to stay level-headed.

I placed a hand on her shoulder gently. "It'll all be fine, Dy, I promise," I assured her, smiling when I felt her relax slightly.

She frowned suddenly, her gaze far away. "Am-am I dreaming?"

"Nope, you're definitely not dreaming, 'cause I know I'm not a pigment of your imagination, thank you very much." I wasn't entirely sure where I found the humor in this situation, but it was always one of my ways of dealing with problems, or rather, trying to ignore them. Dy smiled slightly at my comment, but her smile disappeared all too quickly. "The thought that this is all a dream crossed my mind as well, but this is just way too vivid not to be real. Plus, my back hurts from sleeping on the ground." I chuckled despite the confusion and unease I was feeling.

"Maybe your back just hurts because you've fallen on the floor some time during the night," Dy argued, refusing to accept the idea of this whole place – this whole situation – being real.

"Oh, and are you a pigment of my imagination, then?" I inquired with a small roll of my eyes.

"No," she replied defiantly.

"Then how would you know if I've rolled off my bed?"

"Well…"

"We're obviously both real, and since no one can share a dream, that only leaves one option," I concluded, putting my hand on her shoulder.

Dy sighed, "You have a point."

"Of course I do! Have you forgotten who you're speaking with? I always have a point!" I exclaimed, a grin forming on my face.

She laughed and shook her head, "Yeah, okay, whatever helps you sleep at night."

Sometime during out pointless arguing, I caught sight of something interesting. "Hey, Dy, look at that," I said, pointing behind her. Through all the tree branches there was a barely visible dirt path. "What do you think, should we follow the trail of breadcrumbs?"

My best friend turned towards me, raising her eyebrow and snorting at my words. "That doesn't even make sense, Dobe."

"Sure it does, Teme" I replied casually, waving off her skeptical look. But I knew she was only deflecting, because she was uncertain. She didn't know what to expect. We knew next to nothing about our situation, yet we couldn't just stand in one spot and hope everything would just go away. I knew she was aware of that as well, she was just hesitating. Unfortunately, we had no other choice.

"Look, I know. You're scared. So am I. But we'll be fine. Everything is going to be fine," I assured her. "The most important thing is that we're together. As long as that's the case, we can beat anything that's thrown at us!" I gave her one of my wide, toothy grins and soon enough she was smiling, too.

"Okay," she said weakly. "You're right."

"Well, now that that's settled, let's get going," I said even as I made my way towards the path, wincing now and again as stray pebbles dug into my bare feet. I heard Dianna sigh, but follow right after me. "And besides, I'm getting kinda hungry and food ain't gonna drop from the sky." I managed to get a small chuckle out of my best friend and smiled at the sound. I hope we'll stumble upon a candy house soon, I'm dying for some chocolate...


A/N2: This is still all just the beginning, but everything gets interesting from the next chapter. Your thoughts? :)