Chapter 2: Dream?
Thunder crackled and the sky was darker then the deepest black. The trees loomed over the ground, making it even darker then the black it was.
Lighting flashed, and a horrible, old graveyard was seen. Tombstones were everywhere. Their horrible, molding grey stones were sticking out of the ground causing a disturbing scene that would make children wake up from their dreams screaming.
A loud boom was heard across the vast dessert of graves, followed by another lighting blot heading down to earth and lighting the sky.
A girl could be seen walking in the grave yard. Her long hair was in an unusual style with the tops of her hair pulled back into two buns and then streaming down her back to her knees. Her hair flashed a bright gold even in the dark night. The girl's face was covered in the shadows and whatever emotion that drove her to walk in the cemetery at the darkest point of the night could not be seen in her hidden eyes. The girl wore nothing special, just a blue skirt that went down slightly past her knees and a pink button- up shirt. She seemed nothing special, yet not someone to be over looked.
The lighting flashed disappeared and the sky became dark again. The girl was hidden from view in the darkness of the cemetery and the loud boom of the thunder rattled the ground.
Lighting flashed again and the girl could be seen standing still in front of one grave. The name on the grave stood out like a burning light.
Usagi.
Usagi.
Usagi.
The tombstone read.
The girl's eyes were finally seen uncovered from the shadows and they contained eyes wide up with confession, shock and fear. Tears filled her eyes and she fell to the ground, crying out tears and sobbing out words.
"I don't understand? I don't understand? What does this mean? Am I dead? Please... someone... why am I here? I don't remember coming to this graveyard... someone...anyone... what does this mean?"
The girl's crackled voice was overcome by her sobs as she stared at the tombstone.
The world then suddenly became bright. The thunderstorms was still there and the lighting still flashed and the thunder still boomed but no longer did the sky hold darkness but rather light. The graveyard suddenly didn't seem as lonesome place, but rather, sadly, a beautiful place. The grass was green, the sky was a bright blue. Everything, everything seemed... happy?
The blonde headed girl jumped up at the sudden change and her eyes opened up even wider then before. She started trembling and pacing back and forth in circles almost but not at the same time.
A voice was whispered from an unknown source and place. "Usagi... Usagi..."
The blonde continued to circle and started trembling more. "Yes, I am Usagi. What... What do you want? Who..."
"Usagi... my dear Usagi... you are dead... you are dead!... don't you remember?..."
Visions flashed into the girls mind and the graveyard landscape was no longer seen anywhere.
Visions of two boys with long hair, one brown and the other black, playing with a girl with long flowing free blonde hair.
Visions of the black hair boy coughing up blood and the brown haired boy and blonde haired girl crying next to him.
Visions of an older blond hair girl now with two buns and streaming hair running away from a food market with an older man chasing her and a boy with braided hair beside her smiling.
Visions of a man in a uniform talking harshly to the same blonde-haired girl and her giving him a daring, none-backing down glare.
Visions of the harsh uniformed man turning around and a younger man in a uniform taking out a gun and shooting the girl.
Visions of the girl slowly falling to the ground and mouthing out a word as a braided haired boy ran to her.
Visions of the braided boy holding the now dead girl in his arms as the uniformed men walked away.
Visions of the braided haired boy's tears as the doctors took her away.
As they buried her.
As he remembered her.
Visions of a playground.
A dark, lonely, forgotten playground.
~*~
A girl with blonde hair that seemed to go on forever woke up from her unmerciful sleep. Her upper body jumped up from the lying position it was in and was now sitting, as the girl's clouded blue eyes shed tears. Her eyes grew puffy from the tears and she wanted to scream, but feared waking up her family and the sleeping black cat at the end of her bed. She forced herself to calm down quickly and snuffled her tears, while whispering "It was only a dream. Only a dream. Only one big nightmare." Her tears slowly stopped coming in waves, her breathing got slower and her desire to scream was pulled to the depth of her heart.
She slowly, making sure she would not wake up the sleeping cat, pulled back her blue bed sheets with moons and stars on them and got out of her bed. She tiptoed to her bedroom door and exited her room. She then walked to the bathroom and entered the small little area. She stared at herself in the mirror and more tears flowed from her eyes and streamed down her face as she remembered the nightmare she just had.
She turned on the water faucet to the shower to extremely hot. She took off her pajamas and pulled up a knob on her faucet that caused the water to shower down from a higher point in the tub before stepping in and setting the water level to one that she liked. Water rushed down her hair and her body as she stared straight ahead, her eyes blank and her brain was in deep thought.
The girl thought about her nightmare. She soon started trembling as the memories of the dream floated through her mind. She forced the dream to leave her mind, by grabbing the shampoo and lathering it into her hair and rinsing it out. She next grabbed the conditioner, rubbed it her hair and washed it out. Then she grabbed the soap and cleansed her body. She turned of the water and stepped out of the tub and grabbed a towel, rapping it around her body and feeling refreshed and new; ready to start her day.
She turned to the mirror, grabbed a hair drier and dried off her hair. She then placed her blonde hair into an unusual style that she was extremely use to. The hair was pulled back into two different buns and then streamed down her back like two pigtails. The girl then placed on some neutral light brown eye shadow and put on some light pink lipstick on her lips.
She smiled at herself in the mirror before stepping out of the bathroom and holding the towel even closer to her as she walked back to her room. The black cat was still sleeping on her bed as she grabbed her uniform blue skirt and a white long sleeved shirt with a blue collar and red bow from her chair and put it on. She then once again exited the room and walked downstairs.
She entered the kitchen to see her mother making two lunches and seeing her father slowly drinking some coffee. Her mother turned to her and smiled brightly. "It is good to finally see you up early Usagi. Your favorite cereal is in the cupboard." The girl's father looked up from behind his newspaper and smiled at Usagi as she grabbed a bowl and found the cereal. She poured some of the cereal into the bowl before sitting down and starting to eat it with her hands.
Her father looked up at her again and whispered across the table to her, "I see you still like your cereal plain."
Usagi smiled brightly. "Yep. I could never get use to milk."
"Well could you at least use a spoon while you eat it?"
Usagi shock her head no before she continued to eat the cereal.
She finished just before a younger boy with light brown hair entered the kitchen and stopped right in his tracks. "How? How? Can you be up so early Usa? It's impossible for you to wake up early."
"Shut up spore." Usagi said as she stood up, walked to the kitchen entrance and ruffled the boys hair before exiting the room.
She walked back up the stairway to her room, and started packing up her homework and books into her pink backpack. The cat suddenly stretched out on the girl's bed and then looked up from her sleeping position. The cat's black eyes stared at her before finally opening her mouth and speaking. "You're up early Usagi."
Usagi stood up and placed her backpack on her. She walked over to the cat and sat next to her on the bed. She smiled brightly at the cat while her eyes tried not to show the fright and confusion that her dream gave her. "Yeah, I guess I am just getting less lazy."
The cat seemed to smile at her before jumping out of the bed and running towards the window. "I need to go now Usa. I will see you after school, at the shrine." Usagi nodded her head at the cat, but the cat never saw it because she had already exited the open window and jumped from the second story to the ground.
"I guess cat really do always land on their feet." Usagi whispered to herself and graced her face with a sad smile. Tears formed at her eyes, wanting to fall, as the nightmare along with the last three years graced her brain with sadness and fear.
A voice belonging to her mother was suddenly heard from downstairs. "If you don't hurry up Usagi, you will be late."
Usagi suddenly ended her thoughts, raced to her door, opened it and practically jumped down the stairs, rushed into the kitchen and grabbed her lunch and ran like the wind out of the front door.
She never heard the young boy from the table casually mention to her father and mother, "Even when she wakes up early, she is late for school." Her parents shook their heads with wonderment at their daughter.
Usagi raced down the streets. "I will not be late. I will not be late. I will not be late," She chanted to herself as she ran. She neared the school when the first bell ran. "Shit," Usagi speed up her already lightning fast pace. She ran up the stairs and towards her homeroom door. She stopped for one second, catching her lost breathe and straightening herself up before entering the room.
"You're late Tsukino Usagi." Her teacher spoke out harshly, while some of the students tried to hold in their laughter, as others just shook their heads, bored of seeing the same thing almost everyday.
Usagi gave the teacher a blank, confused stare. "but... But..."
"But nothing. Detention after school."
Usagi just nodded her head as she sluggishly walked to her desk and sat down. A pale- blonde haired girl with hair reaching down to the end of her back turned to her and smiled. "Over sleep again Usa-chan?"
Usagi shook her head. "No Minako. Much much more then just over sleeping happened Mina-chan" Minako just gave the sleepy blonde haired girl a look of confusion before looking back towards the front of the class and listening to the teacher. "Tell me later Usa-chan, at the shrine. Promise?"
Usagi just continued to stare at the front of the classroom. Her eyes fought not to close and her body fought to not go to sleep. Usagi was deathly afraid of having another nightmare. But lack of sleep and boredom took over and soon Usagi was slightly snoring in the classroom, as the teacher continued to talk and the students continued to write notes about the lesson and to each other. No one noticed the sleeping girl, who started slightly whimpering and trembling as another, yet less frightening dream, graced her sleep.
Thunder crackled and the sky was darker then the deepest black. The trees loomed over the ground, making it even darker then the black it was.
Lighting flashed, and a horrible, old graveyard was seen. Tombstones were everywhere. Their horrible, molding grey stones were sticking out of the ground causing a disturbing scene that would make children wake up from their dreams screaming.
A loud boom was heard across the vast dessert of graves, followed by another lighting blot heading down to earth and lighting the sky.
A girl could be seen walking in the grave yard. Her long hair was in an unusual style with the tops of her hair pulled back into two buns and then streaming down her back to her knees. Her hair flashed a bright gold even in the dark night. The girl's face was covered in the shadows and whatever emotion that drove her to walk in the cemetery at the darkest point of the night could not be seen in her hidden eyes. The girl wore nothing special, just a blue skirt that went down slightly past her knees and a pink button- up shirt. She seemed nothing special, yet not someone to be over looked.
The lighting flashed disappeared and the sky became dark again. The girl was hidden from view in the darkness of the cemetery and the loud boom of the thunder rattled the ground.
Lighting flashed again and the girl could be seen standing still in front of one grave. The name on the grave stood out like a burning light.
Usagi.
Usagi.
Usagi.
The tombstone read.
The girl's eyes were finally seen uncovered from the shadows and they contained eyes wide up with confession, shock and fear. Tears filled her eyes and she fell to the ground, crying out tears and sobbing out words.
"I don't understand? I don't understand? What does this mean? Am I dead? Please... someone... why am I here? I don't remember coming to this graveyard... someone...anyone... what does this mean?"
The girl's crackled voice was overcome by her sobs as she stared at the tombstone.
The world then suddenly became bright. The thunderstorms was still there and the lighting still flashed and the thunder still boomed but no longer did the sky hold darkness but rather light. The graveyard suddenly didn't seem as lonesome place, but rather, sadly, a beautiful place. The grass was green, the sky was a bright blue. Everything, everything seemed... happy?
The blonde headed girl jumped up at the sudden change and her eyes opened up even wider then before. She started trembling and pacing back and forth in circles almost but not at the same time.
A voice was whispered from an unknown source and place. "Usagi... Usagi..."
The blonde continued to circle and started trembling more. "Yes, I am Usagi. What... What do you want? Who..."
"Usagi... my dear Usagi... you are dead... you are dead!... don't you remember?..."
Visions flashed into the girls mind and the graveyard landscape was no longer seen anywhere.
Visions of two boys with long hair, one brown and the other black, playing with a girl with long flowing free blonde hair.
Visions of the black hair boy coughing up blood and the brown haired boy and blonde haired girl crying next to him.
Visions of an older blond hair girl now with two buns and streaming hair running away from a food market with an older man chasing her and a boy with braided hair beside her smiling.
Visions of a man in a uniform talking harshly to the same blonde-haired girl and her giving him a daring, none-backing down glare.
Visions of the harsh uniformed man turning around and a younger man in a uniform taking out a gun and shooting the girl.
Visions of the girl slowly falling to the ground and mouthing out a word as a braided haired boy ran to her.
Visions of the braided boy holding the now dead girl in his arms as the uniformed men walked away.
Visions of the braided haired boy's tears as the doctors took her away.
As they buried her.
As he remembered her.
Visions of a playground.
A dark, lonely, forgotten playground.
~*~
A girl with blonde hair that seemed to go on forever woke up from her unmerciful sleep. Her upper body jumped up from the lying position it was in and was now sitting, as the girl's clouded blue eyes shed tears. Her eyes grew puffy from the tears and she wanted to scream, but feared waking up her family and the sleeping black cat at the end of her bed. She forced herself to calm down quickly and snuffled her tears, while whispering "It was only a dream. Only a dream. Only one big nightmare." Her tears slowly stopped coming in waves, her breathing got slower and her desire to scream was pulled to the depth of her heart.
She slowly, making sure she would not wake up the sleeping cat, pulled back her blue bed sheets with moons and stars on them and got out of her bed. She tiptoed to her bedroom door and exited her room. She then walked to the bathroom and entered the small little area. She stared at herself in the mirror and more tears flowed from her eyes and streamed down her face as she remembered the nightmare she just had.
She turned on the water faucet to the shower to extremely hot. She took off her pajamas and pulled up a knob on her faucet that caused the water to shower down from a higher point in the tub before stepping in and setting the water level to one that she liked. Water rushed down her hair and her body as she stared straight ahead, her eyes blank and her brain was in deep thought.
The girl thought about her nightmare. She soon started trembling as the memories of the dream floated through her mind. She forced the dream to leave her mind, by grabbing the shampoo and lathering it into her hair and rinsing it out. She next grabbed the conditioner, rubbed it her hair and washed it out. Then she grabbed the soap and cleansed her body. She turned of the water and stepped out of the tub and grabbed a towel, rapping it around her body and feeling refreshed and new; ready to start her day.
She turned to the mirror, grabbed a hair drier and dried off her hair. She then placed her blonde hair into an unusual style that she was extremely use to. The hair was pulled back into two different buns and then streamed down her back like two pigtails. The girl then placed on some neutral light brown eye shadow and put on some light pink lipstick on her lips.
She smiled at herself in the mirror before stepping out of the bathroom and holding the towel even closer to her as she walked back to her room. The black cat was still sleeping on her bed as she grabbed her uniform blue skirt and a white long sleeved shirt with a blue collar and red bow from her chair and put it on. She then once again exited the room and walked downstairs.
She entered the kitchen to see her mother making two lunches and seeing her father slowly drinking some coffee. Her mother turned to her and smiled brightly. "It is good to finally see you up early Usagi. Your favorite cereal is in the cupboard." The girl's father looked up from behind his newspaper and smiled at Usagi as she grabbed a bowl and found the cereal. She poured some of the cereal into the bowl before sitting down and starting to eat it with her hands.
Her father looked up at her again and whispered across the table to her, "I see you still like your cereal plain."
Usagi smiled brightly. "Yep. I could never get use to milk."
"Well could you at least use a spoon while you eat it?"
Usagi shock her head no before she continued to eat the cereal.
She finished just before a younger boy with light brown hair entered the kitchen and stopped right in his tracks. "How? How? Can you be up so early Usa? It's impossible for you to wake up early."
"Shut up spore." Usagi said as she stood up, walked to the kitchen entrance and ruffled the boys hair before exiting the room.
She walked back up the stairway to her room, and started packing up her homework and books into her pink backpack. The cat suddenly stretched out on the girl's bed and then looked up from her sleeping position. The cat's black eyes stared at her before finally opening her mouth and speaking. "You're up early Usagi."
Usagi stood up and placed her backpack on her. She walked over to the cat and sat next to her on the bed. She smiled brightly at the cat while her eyes tried not to show the fright and confusion that her dream gave her. "Yeah, I guess I am just getting less lazy."
The cat seemed to smile at her before jumping out of the bed and running towards the window. "I need to go now Usa. I will see you after school, at the shrine." Usagi nodded her head at the cat, but the cat never saw it because she had already exited the open window and jumped from the second story to the ground.
"I guess cat really do always land on their feet." Usagi whispered to herself and graced her face with a sad smile. Tears formed at her eyes, wanting to fall, as the nightmare along with the last three years graced her brain with sadness and fear.
A voice belonging to her mother was suddenly heard from downstairs. "If you don't hurry up Usagi, you will be late."
Usagi suddenly ended her thoughts, raced to her door, opened it and practically jumped down the stairs, rushed into the kitchen and grabbed her lunch and ran like the wind out of the front door.
She never heard the young boy from the table casually mention to her father and mother, "Even when she wakes up early, she is late for school." Her parents shook their heads with wonderment at their daughter.
Usagi raced down the streets. "I will not be late. I will not be late. I will not be late," She chanted to herself as she ran. She neared the school when the first bell ran. "Shit," Usagi speed up her already lightning fast pace. She ran up the stairs and towards her homeroom door. She stopped for one second, catching her lost breathe and straightening herself up before entering the room.
"You're late Tsukino Usagi." Her teacher spoke out harshly, while some of the students tried to hold in their laughter, as others just shook their heads, bored of seeing the same thing almost everyday.
Usagi gave the teacher a blank, confused stare. "but... But..."
"But nothing. Detention after school."
Usagi just nodded her head as she sluggishly walked to her desk and sat down. A pale- blonde haired girl with hair reaching down to the end of her back turned to her and smiled. "Over sleep again Usa-chan?"
Usagi shook her head. "No Minako. Much much more then just over sleeping happened Mina-chan" Minako just gave the sleepy blonde haired girl a look of confusion before looking back towards the front of the class and listening to the teacher. "Tell me later Usa-chan, at the shrine. Promise?"
Usagi just continued to stare at the front of the classroom. Her eyes fought not to close and her body fought to not go to sleep. Usagi was deathly afraid of having another nightmare. But lack of sleep and boredom took over and soon Usagi was slightly snoring in the classroom, as the teacher continued to talk and the students continued to write notes about the lesson and to each other. No one noticed the sleeping girl, who started slightly whimpering and trembling as another, yet less frightening dream, graced her sleep.