As he walked amongst the trees he could hear nothing. Absolute crystal clear silence. It was maddening. He began to try and hum to himself but the sound was eerie. So instead he decided to just look ahead. And then he looked up to see something that made his new formed blood run cold. Hanging from each tree was a person. He only recognized a few. Nira, Emily, Danielle, Timmy, Matt, and Kyle. And sitting on a stump beneath the hanging corpses was what seemed to be Ryan. Her skin was pale and ashen her grey eyes void of emotions. She wore long exsacutioners robe and her hair back in a pony tale. She had a grey book in her hands and then finally lifted her head to look at him.
"Sad isn't it?" She said quietly making no movements.
"Ryan?" He said warily approaching her.
"No Kider." She frowned. A large black crow came and landed on her shoulder. "I am not Ryan."
"Do you know where she is?" He said angrily.
"Isn't it more polite to ask who I am first?" tears trailed down the girls face.
"Your part of her imagination I don't care who you are!" He growled.
"Then I suppose I cant make you care for me... Nobody does..." More tears fell from her eyes.
"Fine who are you." He sighed.
"I cant tel you that..."
"Then why'd you- I don't care just tell me where Ryan is!" He went to grab for her shoulder but she was gone.
"You shouldn't have done that." The voice sobbed. He lifted his head to see the corpses lift their heads. Their eyes the same eerie gray.
"Oh my god." Kider gasped and he began to run away from them. But they were upon him to quickly scratching him with their overly long dead nails. "No!" He had never felt so venerable in his life. And then he fell. The bodies fell with him still trying to get at him one gripped his leg and he kicked it off. Nira shot herself from the red wall hitting him hard in the stomach. The wind was knocked out of him as his body careened down ward.
He finally hit the ground landing on all the dead on moving bodies. He scrambled off of them and he was shaking. And now he was... In her bedroom but it was as he had never seen it. There on the bed was Ryan looking about thirteen or so. Her covers were pulled up to her neck she looked around with crazed yellow eyes. Suddenly the door opened ever so slightly. A man walked in with dark brown hair and darker colored skin and a mustache. He crept closer to Ryan's bed and she held Joey tighter in her small hands. The man came and sat on the side of her bed pulled the covers down. She was wearing boxer shorts and a tank top.
"Hello Ryan." He whispered to her. She swallowed and stared up at him. "Aren't you going to say hello to me?" She shook her head her eyes searching for an escape. "That's kinda rude you know." He placed his hand on her knee. Kider's hands clenched into fists so hard it pursed the skin. "Were going to have some fun okay?"
"N-no." she said quietly.
"What was that Ryan I couldn't hear you." He grinned maliciously.
"I-I said no..." She bit down on her lower lip. He slid his hand up to her thigh caressing the skin. Kider wanted to kill the man. "Please." She whimpered.
"Please what Ryan?" He muttered stroking her hair with his large fingers.
"P-please don't." She begged.
"But Ryan I love you. Don't you love me?" He said leaning in.
"No I love Kider." She whimpered. "KIDER!" She screamed. He jumped back. They heard footsteps and Ryan's Aunt walked through the door in a skeezy bath robe.
"What's going on?" She asked looking from the man to Ryan and back.
"She was having a nightmare so I came in to check on her isn't that right Ryan." When her aunt turned to Ryan he gave a hard threatening glare at the young girl.
"Yeah..." Ryan put her head back down on the pillow.
"Okay come to bed Max." Her aunt smiled taking the mans hand. Ryan then began to cry softly holding Joey to her like a life line the other hand around her necklace. Kider looked at the girl and began to walk toward the door. When it opened he was in what seemed to be dungeon with but on further examination he realized it to be a psychiatrists office with a bunch of medications lining the draws and a couch for patients. Every thing was red or made of steel and the floor had scratch marks all along it. Then he saw chained against the back wall was Ryan. Her hair was the same sunshine honey color and her skin was its normal pale and her lips were full and pink. She wore a straight straight jacket and her face was against the wall as she struggled to get loose.
"Ryan?"
"Kider oh thank god!" She exclaimed.
"Don't worry Ryan I'm getting you out of here!" He exclaimed running forward. Taking the huge key and scissors. He cut the straps quickly and then used the key to unlock her shackles. Once she fell to the ground and the straight jacket fell away she started up at him with a dangerous glint in her eyes. Her blood red rage filled eyes.
"Thank you Kider." She growled. Then she launched herself. She began beating on him jamming punching him in the face probably breaking his jaw. Then she lifted up his head before slamming it back down on the wood. His head reverberated with a sickening crash. He groaned but suddenly the weight was lifted off of him again. Three doctors held her against the wall and began to strap her back into the straight jacket. They chained her hands back up the wall and one doctor brought a syringe.
"NO! No!" She began struggling more. "Please don't! Please don't it hurts! PLEASE!" And with that last cry he saw the exit and ran for it as fast as he could holding his jaw. He wrenched the door open.
He sprinted quickly pictures of Ryan flashed before his eyes. Her graduating middle school. Her getting her first puppy. Her at her mother funeral. All of them going past him at a dizzying speed. A long jagged narrow staircase was before him. On each stair was a word.
Happiness
Depression
Fear
Rage
Bravery
Kindness
Guilt
Common Sense
They were reappeared over and over again the pace getting faster and faster as he climbed he looked down and on all the walls surrounding the stairs with poems and lyrics written on them in cracks in various places falling down toward the ground. He finally reached the top and wrenched open the blue door. In the room the gentle music of the beatles filled his ears. The room was made up of beautiful drawing but they were all alive. The pained faun jumped gracefully over a hedge and a small golden retriever even twitched in its sleep. And sitting there in a throne of royal blue velvet was a sobbing little girl with messy sunshine girl clothes and a purple dress with an indigo belt tied around the waist. She had her face and her knees and her body shook with each tiny sound \that escaped her perfect pink lips. Kider walked forward slowly and kneeled before her.
"Ryan?" He whispered. She lifted her tear stained face her tired blue eyes stared at him.
"I miss my mommy." She whimpered. "I want my daddy back. I want to stop feeling so sad all the time. I want to be a able to sleep at night. I hate trying so hard to just get through a day. I just want to be happy. Is that so much to ask?." She sobbed. "I don't want to wake up. Because when I dream. Your with me and you love me. So are my mommy and daddy. I don't have to pretend to fit in... Please don't make me go back." She wrapped her little arms around his neck.
"Ryan I'm here and I do love you. I love you so much." He held her close.
"Please Kider." She cried. "Just let me die."
"No Ryan there are other options." Kider said forcefully.
"Like what?" She asked falling back into the seat.
"Silly little girl, we can go some where else. We can be together just you and me but please don't give up Ryan." He sobbed holding her face in his hands.
"My silly angry angel." She pressed her face into his chest. "I'll be happy... If I'm with you... But we gots to go's now." She said jumping off her thrown. She ran on her tiny legs back down the stairs. Kider was hot on her trail. Ryan flung open the door to the dungeon. Red Eye Ryan looked over her shoulder at little Ryan. And her eyes became soft and se shrank down smaller and small until she was the real Ryan's size.
She came foward to her they touched hands and Red eyed Ryan was gone in a red flash. Ryan's eyes flashed red before cooling and turning blue. She ran out the back door through to her bed room. She touched yellow eyed Ryan's shoulder until she two was gone inside Ryan. The room turned to the room Kider had found her in tiny dwarf table included. She sprinted out that door and waiting for her their was Grey eyed Ryan and Pink Eyed Ryan they both touched her shoulder and disappeared.
"Ready Kider?" She asked her eyes glinting with childish amusement.
"For?" He asked.
"This." She grinned flicking her finger at the opening. It opened wide and there at the top was the bright light. "Take my hand." She smiled. Kider placed his hand in her tiny grasp. Wings sprouted from both their backs and they began to lift from the round toward the glowing light. Ryan gave Kider one more blinding smile. "See you on the other side." The light flashed around them and they were gone.
Ryan jolted from sleep. She looked around her room. Her heart was thrumming loudly in her chest. She clutched Joey close to her. She surveyed her room everything seemed to be in order. Big pink shag rug. Tiny dwarf table, Rocking horse, collection of Disney Tapes, Her lavender dress handing on the door nob. She ran a hand through her hair.
What a strange dream...She thought to herself. She laid her head back down on her pillow and snuggled back down into her pillow. Timmy and her were going to be watching Dracula tomorrow and she needed to be well rested at best. She could not get over how real that dream felt... Kider, Seth, Edward, Nira, Emily, Danni... They all seemed real to. And she couldnt get over how pretty she looked in her dream she almost giggled at the thought. And as she closed her eyes she slid into her normal sleeping position.
One hand around Joey and the other up clutching her make shift Rudy Ring necklace...
THE END
AN/ Well that's it people... Tell me what you think... And tell me if their should be a sequel... Im so sure though... BUT REVIEW
