Hi guys!!! Guess what? Here's a Turkey Day surprise!! I have finished chapter 1 of Winter Snow for you
all just for Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoy it!!

I have so many people to thank!! Hopefully this won't take all night! ^^;;;

Well, I have to thank my two main buds, Kuris-chan and Fly. Without them pestering me, none of you
probably would have gotten this chapter until after Christmas so thank them for that.

I would also like to thank Ai for helping with some of my brain farts and Michi for some of the plant names
that come up in here.

And lastly, I would like to thank all of the readers. I never could have continued without your support and
dedication at writing reviews! Keep them coming!!


Also, the NC-17 version won't be coming out until there actually is NC-17 stuff to censor...
I'm trying to write as fast as I can!

Note: This is the revised version. There is a scene that was never included in the 1st submitting.

I would like to thank MarshAngel for giving me some genuine critism!! Thanks so much! Those kind of reviews are what i love the most (even if they are kind of on the depressing side ^^;;) so thanks so much!

Not a lot has changed... just a few things.



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Title: Winter Snow
Rated: R - NC-17
Chapter 1
Disclaimer: Since I have no more
creativity left i'll let you come up
with your own witty disclaimer.
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Surrounded by thirty-seven men, Serenity Aneres cringed and fell into her
tormented mind.

The destruction of the world had finally occurred. The people of the 21st century were
convinced that the world would end someday. Serenity had to hold her laughter in.

Brought up by an egotistical bastard of a father who couldn't concern himself over
the death of his wife, it was little surprise that she suffered from lingering bitterness.

"I say we just go to the satellite and wait for the next shuttle craft to Teriah," One man
yelled stubbornly to the table of people.

"But the next shuttle won't go to the satellite until November!" another male protested
to the table of frustrated humans.

Serenity could feel a migraine forming in the back of her skull as the arguments progressed.


Why was she even listening? She could feel another bout of laughter trying to take over.


How could this have possibly have happened? She couldn't even begin to think of how the
human population did this to themselves.


"Why don't we stay here until the next shuttle comes? I'm sure fifty people could last five months
on the resources that are left...," commented an older woman in her fifties.


"But that's it Diane, there are no resources left. If someone was hurt or needed certain drugs
we wouldn't be able to provide them. It's the Middle Ages all over again," an older man, probably her
husband, told her as gently as he could.


Serenity knew that they were in big trouble. Big trouble indeed.


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In a tent down the packed road, three people were having a meeting of their own.


"Do you think there are some resources left?" asked a young man with golden brown hair.

An older man, who looked to be in his sixties, rubbed the bridge on his nose
and sighed deeply. Behind him, in a corner, sat another
man whose features were hid from the rest of the world. The shadows gave him an almost surreal
look to him.

"Jamie, I'd like to introduce you to Endymion Urama, Japan's wealthiest business tycoon," The older man
introduced, ignoring Jamie's question about the resources.


Jamie's eyes widened. "You mean, THE Endymion Urama?! I thought he died when all those
buildings collapsed a few months ago."

Endymion closed his eyes, a small smirk on his face. Just thinking about the earthquake a few months ago
made him laugh. It wasn't that he was cynical. He just couldn't believe that he had escaped
death not once, but three times. He had escaped death's grip when he was a young child of five, a few months
ago in the earthquake and last month during the devastation. Lord knew that he didn't deserve to be
among the living by the way he acted toward some people but he knew his purpose would soon be known.
He just couldn't hold it in any longer. This whole situation was ludicrous!

A chuckle was heard and Jamie's head swooped towards the laughter.

"I am very much alive, but I'm touched you were concerned about me." Endymion retorted,
the sarcasm obvious.

"Now, now. We aren't savages. Let's proceed like gentlemen," The older man said glaring towards
the darkness.


"Do you have the total count of woman, children and men?" Jamie asked the older man, ignoring
Endymion.

"Just let me get my figures," the man said to himself as he got up off the chair and started to search
his bag.

"Thirty-four men, thirteen women and two children," Endymion said quietly calming down slightly.


The old man turned to look at Endymion and started to chuckle, "Man, Endymion. How did you remember that? I've known you since you were a little tike and I know you're smart but wow. That's impressive.
And I told you those figures four days ago!"

There was no answer. The old man shook his head, got up and went back to his chair. Jamie
and Endymion both noticed the limp the man carried. While he was slowly trudging to his seat,
one of his shoelaces came undone. It passed his notice, so he didn't stoop down to redo it.

"So, tell me your plan for the future of the world," Jamie bit out sarcastically.

Knowing that Jamie was trying to rile him up, Endymion kept his cool. Being a business man for eight years, he knew the ropes and how people tricked you into messes you didn't want to have to pick up
afterwards.


"I'll gladly tell you," Endymion said, showing his perfectly white teeth.



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Serenity sat back on her pallet inside her small tent. A small bag full of clothing and toiletries was in the corner.


Nothing else was present.

She just had to get out of that room. Everyone arguing was giving her a headache. She just couldn't
stand it anymore.


Suddenly the flap to her tent flew open as another blonde woman rushed inside.


Serenity looked at the girl and thought she was looking at her reflection.

Blonde hair and baby blue eyes stared her right in the face. She seemed to be wearing a conservative
blue jumper with a long sleeved yellow shirt under it.
Her shoes were ripped and falling apart and one of the buttons on her jumper was missing.
She had leaves in her hair and it looked like she had been running from the pits of hell.


"Who are you?" Serenity asked tentatively backing away from the girl in case she was insane.

The blue eyes continued to stare back at her and finally giant tears formed in the girl's eyes.


"I don't want to be some man's slave," She whispered frightened. Great gasping sobs shook the
girl's form until her eyes rolled into her head and she fell to the ground in a dead faint.


Serenity's eyes were round and frightened. Obviously, someone had spooked the girl. So much
that she had fainted. Her eyes searched her tent for anything to help the girl, but realized that
all she had were some linens and a change of clean clothes.


"Well, I guess I should find some help," Serenity muttered to herself as she covered the girl with a blanket and put the lamp down to low.


She put on a small cloak made of her new linens and walked outside.


The makeshift road that had been made was deserted. Tents lined the street but no one was out.


She couldn't just walk into someone's tent. I mean what if they were "busy"?

Serenity blushed and walked onwards.

'What sort of things would a man a woman do together alone?' she thought.

Even though Serenity had a real opinion on the world, she knew she was an innocent in the eyes of a
gentleman.
Her father, the bastard that he was, never explained what went on between a man and a young woman.

Serenity sighed as she remembered the day her mother had died. Her mother was in acoma and her lungs had failed.
She was on a Body Assistor which was temporarily keeping her organs going and keeping her alive. To make a long story short, her father told the hospital administration that it had been long enough and
ordered them to shut off the Body Assistor.
Her mother died in less than a half an hour afterwards.
A lone tear rolled down Serenity's cheek. She was only five at the time. A time where a child's mother is critical to a child's happiness. A time where all children
remember every detail. And she couldn't forget that one. Never in a million years.

Boyfriends were a no-no in her house and any boy seen in a twenty five feet radius of the house was a
cause for punishment. She would be locked in her room for a week and she'd get her three main meals and that was it.

Serenity had never gone to a public school. She had been home taught until she was thirteen and then she
had been shipped off to Miss Susan's Academy For Young Woman.
The school that her father had chosen wasn't as bad as Serenity thought it would be.
The girls were nice and the school was isolated from, well, everyone and everything.
Every Sunday, nuns would come and tell the gospel from that week. Then they would donate goods
and food to the school.
It was at the beginning of the devastation that Serenity heard about the death of her father.
Serenity never went to the funeral and never really cared that he was gone. She knew that it was
wrong to think like that but she just couldn't help it. Nevertheless she couldn't help being jealous of the other
girls at the academy whose father's came to pick them up for the Christmas holiday or sent birthday
cards and Valentine's day cards.

Serenity stopped walking and looked up. She had no clue where she was and it was so dark outside.

She could make out the lining of the trunk of the tree and it's lush leaves. She looked back and saw a small light that told where all the tents were. Turning back towards the tree she could see the wind
moving the tree's leaves with a gentle sway. It gave her the impression of a mother rocking her baby.
She closed her eyes, but all that did was bring back the horrible memories. She flinched and almost
broke down right there.

Serenity cried, "It's just not fair!"


"What's not fair?" Came a voice from the shadows.


Startled, Serenity spun around to face the voice. "Who's there?"


The person behind the mask of darkness chuckled;
she could hear footsteps coming towards her, "Who do you want me to be?"

Serenity blanched. She didn't really know how to answer that. So she said the first thing that came out
of her mouth.

"You're a man!!" The footsteps of the man stopped and she knew he was staring in her general direction.

A soft wind started to build lifting Serenity's hair and carrying thin wisps over her shoulder and across her face. She turned back to face the tree and look at the sky through the leaves. Some stars were visible, but
many weren't out just yet.

"Yes, I am a man," he started, "And I presume you are a woman; one of the few that are still living. Tell me, are you
an old woman with a really high voice or are you actually the eighteen year old that I believe
you are?"

Serenity gasped at the reply, but didn't turn back to face him. This conversation seemed to be going down a road that she didn't want to touch upon.

"I'm not eighteen. But I must be going. I need to help my friend."

'Well, at least it wasn't a complete falsehood,' Serenity thought to herself.


In the distance, howls of the wolves started and the wind picked up again causing the tree's leaves to
sway again.
Serenity started to feel a shiver down her spine and the wind picked up pase. She looked up to the sky and saw the overwhelming number of stars coming into the sky. They had appeared so fast that she didn't
know where they had come from.

Suddenly, two hands came down on the tree trunk trapping her in the circle of his arms and against the
tree.

She could feel his breath on her ear just lightly.

'Oh no,' Serenity thought as his arms touched her shoulders and turned her to face him.

She didn't want to admit it, but somewhere deep inside her heart, she knew that this was
where she belonged. Not sitting by herself, not obeying her father's strict code of rules. Just
standing in the middle of no where in the arms of this man...

"Unhand me you pig!" Serenity shouted after she regained her thoughts.

'What was I thinking?!' She said trying to push him away.

'I have morals!! I can't just fall into his lap!' She blushed as her thoughts roamed more and more.

Her hand was about to leave his chest when a firm hand gripped her wrist and propelled her towards his chest again.

It was as if he knew how tall she was because he bent his head and firmly placed an earth-shattering kiss
on her trembling lips. The hand holding her wrist let go and framed her cheek while, his other hand
came slowly around the small span of her waist.


Her fist started to pound on his chest to get him off of her but it didn't hinder his kissing her at all. He pushed on her lips with his mouth and Serenity gasped, loosing air. He took the opening of her
mouth as an invitation and slipped his tongue inside.

Serenity's eyes were bulging out of her sockets. Is THIS what a man and a woman did when they were alone?! Her fist was raised partly in the air and soon it fell down to hang limply against her side.


Suddenly he let go of her cheek and let go of her waist. Her mouth fell from his and touched his nose to hers.

She could see the blue flint in his eyes and knew that he could see the small spec of sky blue in her eyes.

He took her arms and brought them above and over his head. He connected her hands until they were
clenching each other.

Then he stood to his full height and Serenity felt the sensation of floating. Her feet were no longer touching
the rough ground. He leaned her onto the trunk of the tree and held her up by her waist.

His mouth came back to frame hers and Serenity didn't care that she didn't know this stranger.
She didn't care that she was breaking every single rule she had decided to follow strictly after
her father died.

She just didn't care.



And it felt good.



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A raw feeling started to come over her back and that is what caused Serenity to come back to earth. Her eyes
were wide and frightened.

This stranger was still kissing her and she needed to get him off somehow. Her arms were still around his
neck and she knew that she'd have to stop this before it went any further.

She suddenly pulled away her face from his and gave a nice swift kick. She was aiming for his shin but
she ended up in contact with something else entirely. The man's eyes went wide and she heard a groin
come from his mouth.

He let go of her and silently fell to the floor. Serenity fell down the tree and cried out from bark cutting her skin.

Without waiting to see if he was ok, Serenity picked herself up and ran towards the light of the tents.



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End of Chapter 1


I can't tell you when Chapter 2 will come out because Christmas is the worst time for me to write ANYTHING.

So I don't really know if I'll get inspired enough to write (that's what those reviews are for!! ^^;;)

Oh yea, If anyone is wondering about Fearing Minds (my other fic) it is temporarily on hold while I get some more
inspiration together. Don't worry. I'll have chapter 5 of that out for Christmas. I'll get it out if it kills me!!

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