The caged butterfly ch. 11
by
Mastermindhunter
"Lucy." I heard a voice whisper slowly. It wasn't something I was used to. Why was there a whispering voice in my room? I noticed it to be Doc's voice. I could tell that I had overslept, since I felt so well rested. "Lucy. We have arrived." Where had we arrived? Were we going somewhere? "We've made it home" He looked at me smiling a warm smile. He patted my shoulder. That's when I realized that it was Doc's. I had suddenly remembered everything that had happened earlier this morning. I was woken up real early, and was told that I was headed home. I could hardly stand it. I had darted up, and noticed I was well rested. My back had felt so much better than it had in a long time. I looked out the window seeing the home I knew so well. It was truely magnifiscent seeing it once again. Was this a clever dream my mind had thought up once again? I prayed that it wasn't. Monger walked over and ran towards me. The large back hatch opened up, so a few men could jump out, with parachutes. It made the volume out the jet extremely loud. I held on to the side of the jet, so I wouldn't be sucked out.
"Do you know of any places we can land, without pulling too much ettention to ourselves?" He hollared over the roar of the jet.
I hollared back. "Yeah my brother grows wheat on the lower west side of the house on my land! I'm sure he won't mind!" I hollared.
He turned towards the men left in the jet that had been told to jump out. "You heard her, boys. Get a group out there pronto!" They saluted Monger, and jumped out without a second glance. The hatch closed allowing silence to refill the room once more. I looked out the window. Waiting to pass over the cities of Kerry and Cork, so I could see home. That's when I saw it the green vale. It's wonderful feilds, and luscious forests that all belonged to me. I put my hand up to the window knowing that in just a few moments I would be out there feeling the grass, and smelling the mountain air. I wish I could hold that moment forever, and keep it in my pocket till the end of time. It was the best feeling I had ever felt in my entire life. In the distance, slowly growing in size, I saw my humble little cabin home. I could feel my wings trembling with jittery anticipation.
The boys ran up to the window, looking out at the country as they had seen it for the very first time. Doc's eyes got wide, and he stared at it with astonishment. Link's mouth dropped, and he sat there bewildered. B.O.B. smiled at it admiring the beauty of my homeland. Susan simply had her breath taken away. I smiled with a swollen heart at my home that I had missed so much. "It's simply beautiful, and everything I made it out to be, isn't it?" I smiled laying a hand on Doc's shoulder. He turned towards me, and smiled.
Link had taken a deep breath, and let it out. "Yeah" He sighed. I saw insecto land in front of us, waiting for the jet to land. I had noticed I was still in my night gown. How embarrasing!
I looked up at Susan, and asked if she could lay down, so I could change behind her. She agreed to lay down, and I jumped over her to get dressed with my clothes. She was tall enough to cover me up to my shoulders. Well nothing lower than that could be seen, so what the heck.
Doc's point of view
While I was watching her undress herself from her shoulders up, the boys were staring in the other direction. Link looked at me out of the corner of his eye, and nudged his head in Lucy's direction. I knew he wanted me to talk to her, because if anytime I would get to spend some time with her, I might as well start now, while she was still a single girl. I took a deep breath, and made my way over to Susan. She was looking at me, wondering why I had made my way over. "I'm just going to talk to her. Nothing else." I whispered. She had taken everything off, which made staying focused really difficult. I shook my head, and walked up to her. "Umm Lucy?"
She twirled around holding the old shirt over her chest, as if I could see anything. She blushed darkly, and walked over. "What do you want?" She said with a whisper. I breathed deeply, and started.
"You know . . . since you have wings now, I wanted to let you know. Leon might change his mind. What if he doesn't love you anymore?" She looked down, and walked up to where she was leaning against Susan's leg.
"Well, Doc . . . If he doesn't love me, then I suppose that Leon has lied to me my whole life, then."
I flinched at her stubborn fath in Leon. "Well I just don't want to see you hurt." I choked out.
She looked down, and turned her head to the side, trying to find a way to argue with me. She knew that I was very smart, and she was ready to challenge my brilliance. "Why . . . are you so bent on trying to pull me and Leon away? Is there something wrong with the way my traditions are kept to you?" She looked at me, with an angry look. I could tell I was getting on her nerves.
I leaned closer to her, but fought keeping my eyes up. "You know, I doubt that this is really what you want. I think you believe this is what you want, because your family taught you that this is what you want. Don't you want to just postpone it. You don't have to rush, Lucy." I whispered.
She smiled to me, and laid a hand on my cheek. I hoped that she didn't feel the warmth of my blush. I had never been touched by a woman who was "in the buff" before. "You know, as frowned upon as it is, nobody ever speaks up against arranged marriages like you do, Doc."
I returned the touch, by laying my hand on her cheek in return. "Well they should." I whispered. She got dressed, and in no time, we landed the jet
Lucy's point of view
I felt the floor of the jet drop, and the back opened out, so we could get out. "Well here goes nothing." I laughed, and breathed to the guys. The world I had grown up in was about to be before my eyes. Sunshine flooded the jet. We held our hands out infront of our faces. It was hard to see outside, but our eyes quickly adjusted. We all got out. In no time the jet glided away. What I saw made me shocked with joy. The wheat was surrounding me. I looked around, and could hardly believe it. Shane's wheat feilds were like heaven. I walked slowly out to the field, as everybody strolled out. My breath hitched as I stared at everything. I don't really remember what the others were doing, but every detail was amazing to me. I looked down at the wheat. Each strand brushing up against me, as if hugging me in welcome. I stared up at the sky as a flock of Storm Petrels glided overhead. They flew off into the sun. I closed my eyes, smelling the great wonderful air. I held my fingers out. They brushed on the tips of my fingers. It tickeled slightly. I slowly walked, and started crying. I stared at the Galtee mountains on the horizon. They were misted, and beautiful, just as I remembered them. There was no way to tell where the sky ended, and the mountain started. I looked at the wheat on the ground, and got to my knees. I plucked a stalk from the soil. My hand was shaking as I held it up to my nose to inhale it's scent. When I got back up, I looked at what I prayed for every night. There sitting up on the a hill was the house I had lived in my whole life. My tears had streamed down my face. I turned to the others. They stared at me smiling, knowing how hapy I was. "I'm home." I smiled through tears. I turned back towards the fields. I blinked and that's when more tears glided down my face. "Thank you, God. Thank you so much." I weeped. That's when I shouted at the top of my lungs "I'M HOME IRELAND I"M HOOOOOOOOOME!" I screamed happily. I laughed as I ran through the feilds. I was never so relieved to be home in my entire life. I layed down in the feild, and rolled around, smelling the wheat at my grasps.
I looked up, and Doc stared down at me smiling as if he thought I was the funniest person he had ever seen. I laughed at him and I said the sweet words once more. "I can't believe that I can actually say that I'm home." I laughed. He smiled, and helped me up.
"I know how happy you are, but we must focus on what we came here to do, alright?"
I felt like eternity since I had been home, but I understood. After all I was home already. I supposed the house could wait. After all they would need tiime. Monger had walked over to us, and gave us orders. Alright. Lucy I expect you to be knowledgable about these woods. After all we were the ones who chased you through them, and you seemed to know where you were going." It was true. I knew alot about the forest, but I had only been through so much of it. Lord knew what awaited in the deeper areas of it. I had only been through the area I knew well.
I took a deep breath. "Alright. I say we split up. Doc." His entennea stood straight up listening. "You and Link take the western area, and I'll take the center. B.O.B. You take the eastern area. Susan you take the edges in case they make it out alive. Insectosaurous take an airial view, if the trees don't get in the way. Everybody got the plan?" They all nodded. "Good now let's move, and if you get any sight of a lost farmer, call my name immediatley" I said.
Link clapped his hands, and darted towards the trees. He grabbed Doc's hand, and drug him through the forest. "Come on Doc. Let's find some workers."
Doc was nervous of going in. "I don't know if I can do this. What if there's wolves in there?"
"Don't worry Doc." Link smiled. "I'll watch out for you."
I smiled, and watch them run in. B.O.B. slimed in his direction, and took off in my assigned area. I told them to take the edges, beacause if the farmers were anywhere, the edge sounded the most likely. The center seemed a bit dangerous, but since I had been in the forest countless times, I figured if anything found me, I would be able to escape, knowing my way out. Insectosaurous massively flew overhead. I decided to run towards the center.
I was pretty fast, and knew that of all the boys, I was the fastest. I felt the branches snag my wings every so often. It was alot better than when the army chased me. I slowed doown feeling a bit worn out. I was surprised at how nig the forest had been. It was much bigger than it looked, and it looked pretty big to start with. I walked the rest of the way. The forest was tough terrain. The hills were murder, and was very tough to manuever. I stopped at a spot where I figured would be the deepest area of the woods. I laid my hand on a tree trunk, and looked around. Nothing seemed familiar. I was in the heart of the woods, and would have probably not known my way back out.
I was at a deep dip in the forest. I looked around for any trace of a person. A broken branch, a faint footprint. There was nothing. I hoped that the boys had found at least one person. I looked around the tree, and stared out at the wooded palace. The sunlight rays came through only a few spots, making it look like heaven. It was not necessarily dark, but just well gaurded by the burning sun. The floor was blanketed with different colors of wildflowers. That's when I felt wind zoom past me. I looked at what was before me in horror. A mere inch from my face, in the trunk of the tree was a slender slim arrow. My terrified gaze shot toward the area where it came from.
There standing atop a hill, illuminated by the sun, stood the weirdest thing I had ever seen. It was a boy about my age. He had green emerald eyes that were the same color as mine. His red hair was messy, and not well kept. His pants were leather, and he wore boots of the same material. He looked like something out of a fairytale book. In his hands he held a large bow, with a quiver on his back holding the arrows. He held an arrow in his right hand, as it was laid against the wood of the bow. I had fallen to my knees, in fright. His eyes had narrowed angrily. What had stood out most was his long damselfly like wings. It was unbelievable. He looked just like me.