Title: Shattered Reality –Imbalance of the elements--
Chapter 2: The gift
Written by: ChaosMagicianGirl
Disclaimer:glomps at Kazuki Takashi: Could you please give Yu-Gi-Oh to me: Hopeful face:
A/N:
Here's the second chappie! Sorry that I posted it so late. But my computer was acting freaky and wouldn't let me get on the internet. Really weird...But anywayz...
!Thankies reviewers!
LisaTheHedgehog
Wow, thanks! And yes, I got some of my ideas from the movie Fern Gully and the game Link. But my story is not based on both of them. It only contains a few elements of both of them.
LazerWulf:
Complex? Well, maybe you're right. It will be interesting to see how this will come together. I've figured out an end to the story by now. But what happens in between? No clue...yet:D
She was running
And running……
Adrenaline pumping through her veins
Her breathing irregular
Fatigue was catching up with her
She had been running for what seemed like ages
But running from what?
What was she running from?
She didn't know
She only knew that she had to run
From whatever is was she was fleeing from
A sudden voice behind her chilled her to the core
At first it was far away…….
Then it came closer and closer….
And no matter how desperately she tried to get away, the voice caught up with her at last
Suddenly the path before her was blocked by a raging wall of fire that appeared out of nowhere…..
Startled, she tried to stop
But her speed was too high…
Her reaction time to slow
And so she came in direct contact with the fire
She waited….
And waited…
The seconds ticking away...
Until she would feel the pain of the flames
Licking at her skin
Burning her
Engulfing her
Destroying her fragile flesh….
She would not die…
She would be tortured by the fire...
She would be marked…
She would carry the scars of the fire on her always
But what she expected to happen did not….
Cracking open an eye
She saw she was caught in the fire
Letting out a surprised squeak
Because she didn't feel the pain of the flames
Even though she should…
What is happening?
She tried to get away
But the fire followed her everywhere….
There was no exit
No way to escape…
Sitting in the middle of the fire circle….
The flames dancing around her
But not coming any closer….
She did not understand
How could she touch fire?
Without it doing any harm
Suddenly she felt a presence behind her
Turning around with fear in her eyes
She examined the source of the voice that had been haunting her….
Her voice in a mere whisper called out to her…..
"Fern…………Fern………"
That person knew her name
But how?
She was frozen on her spot
She had no where left to run
She could only listen.
"Do not be afraid of it, Fern." the voice spoke up again, getting clearer
It was the voice of a woman.
"Afraid of what?" Fern asked the stranger, confused and scared. "Of you?"
The voice laughed at this.
"No, my child………." She replied "Do not be afraid of the gift that surrounds you."
"Gift?" Fern said, now even more confused at the stranger's weird answer to her question with another riddle like statement, she didn't understand.
"Yes, my gift to you, Fern…." said the voice, volume wavering
The voice of the stranger got weaker by the second as the figure of the person moved further away, blurring and disappearing.
Fern called after her, told her to stay…..
But she was soon gone…
Right after this a loud voice suddenly pierced through the tense air
"Fern! Fern! FERN!"
Fern's eyes opened, only to see her friend frantically shaking her, trying to get her to awaken for the last few minutes.
When the girl noticed that she had opened her eyes, she stopped with what she was doing.
"Finally!" she called out. "You're awake! Me and Kira have been trying to wake you up since we noticed you sitting on this branch here!"
"Darla?" Fern replied confused, still not really awake.
Darla noticed that Fern was still out of it.
"Wow, you're acting totally out of character, girl. "Was Darla's response, in a friendly tone.
"That nightmare must have really left you shaken, more so then I thought."
"Yes, I must agree with Darla on the matter." Came the voice of another girl Fern's age, standing a good distance away, arms crossed over her chest, thoughtful expression on her face, regarding the both of them.
"Nightmare?" Fern jumped up from her sitting position, only to knock Darla standing next to her of-balance, causing her to fall of the three branch.
Luckily her wings broke her fall. Or else she would have been as flat as the leaf of a three.
"Hey!" yelled Darla at Fern. "What were you trying to do, kill me?"
Fern, who was by now awake and aware of what she had done, put both hands in front of her mouth, saying "Woops! I'm really sorry, Darla." She apologised. "I didn't mean to…."
"Whatever!" said Darla, waving it of with her hand. "It was just a reflex of yours. Aftershock of your dream, I think." She stated, cracking a smile at her.
Kira, who had witnessed the "incident", put her hand in front of her mouth to hide a secret smile.
"I'm so clumsy……" Fern chastised herself.
Darla only laughed at this.
"It's in your nature, Fern. Get real and deal." was Darla's amused reply.
"Haha! Real funny!" retorted Fern in her usual sarcastic way.
Kira decided to speak up again, curious about Fern's dream.
"Chitchat aside. What exactly did you dream?" Kira questioned Fern" I mean, it got you really riled up. You're not a person to usually loose your composure like that."
"Wow, you really want to get to the point right away, don't you?" (Darla)
"Yeah, isn't that my department?" smirked Fern.
Kira blushed a bit at their remarks.
"Yeah, well, I just……." She tried to answer, but her shyness had taken over.
"You were just nosy, go ahead and say it Fern!"
Fern felt somewhat bad they were teasing Kira this way.
But, well, she was such an easy victim…..
She was too shy to fight back, when Darla started teasing her.
Well, not everybody could be as spontaneous as Darla was.
She always had a remark about everything ready, and she didn't hesitate to speak her mind.
It could be rather refreshing, that she was so delightfully honest, but it sometimes could also be annoying.
She acted before thinking.
And sometimes she would blurt out comments that could hurt a person's feelings.
She never meant to do that.
It was just well, her.
It was who she was.
And that was something Fern and Kira had to accept.
Darla always apologised after she did something like that.
But sometimes she did not, because she didn't believe she was in the wrong.
Darla could be ignorant of another person's feelings.
Kira was extremely introverted.
She wasn't a person that spoke openly of her feelings.
She kept the hurt in, so Darla didn't notice her comments did hurt, since Kira acted as if they didn't faze her.
But Fern knew they did.
She didn't really understand why Kira kept it all in.
She guessed it was just part of who she was, and took it like that.
She was the opposite of Kira. She couldn't keep her emotions bottled up inside or she would go insane and snap.
That is why as she was upset, she would either cry, or use her magick in anger to let things grow, and sometimes she would let it slip out of control.
She still remembered the incident where she almost delivered one of her friends to death.
She was so angry, that she had just snapped.
Directing her anger towards her friends without it being her intention She had let a plant grow, a flycatcher to an enormous size……
And since it was so huge, they were nothing more then little pests then, which had been nothing but a nuisance.
Normally, a fly catcher would just catch flies. And since Fern and her friends were normally bigger then the average fly...
They had the size of about a squirrel. But since the plant had grown, now they had been reduced to the size of a fly.
The, uhm, flycatcher had almost eaten her friends as a desert……
To make a long story short.
She had been so embarrassed then, and she vowed to never let herself slip out of control like that again.
But that vow was a most difficult one to upkeep. Since she was to anger very quickly, it was extremely difficult for her.
Especially if Grenadine pushed her buttons a few times a week.
She envied Kira for her calm and serene nature. She was always calm, no matter the situation. She always kept her composure. Nothing could faze her. She had patience that rivalled that of an angel. Angelic patience it was called by Fern. If only she possessed that talent of hers, then Grenadine wouldn't be able to tick her of so much.
Alas, that was not the case.
Focussing on the present again, she came out of her train of thoughts.
"Come on Darla; let Kira of the hook already!"
"Aw…….it was just coming to the good part!" (Darla)
"Darla….." Fern warned her in her famous threatening tone
"Fine! Be that way, you party pooper…" she relented, pouting.
Kira, who had said nothing until now, was relieved at what Fern said.
She knew how uncomfortable and awkward, Darla's teasing made her.
Fern, as if sensing her train of thoughts, looked in her direction, winking at her once.
Secretly, so that Darla didn't notice.
Kira smiled back at her.
Uncrossing her arms, she walked over to the spot Fern was standing at on the branch.
"Thanks…" she whispered in Fern's ear.
"What are friends for?" Fern whispered back.
Exchanging another smile, they snuck a glance at Darla, who was looking at them, confused about their behaviour.
"What are you two whispering about?" she demanded to know.
She didn't like what they were doing.
After hearing that, they burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing about?" She yelled at them, getting aggravated.
That only caused them to laugh even harder.
"Are you laughing about me?" she tried. "Well, tell me!"
She got no response other then hiccups of laughter of both the girls.
"Grrr! Just forget it!" said Darla, giving up on trying to find out what they were laughing about, but that didn't make her any less annoyed.
"Just tell me what you dreamed about, Fern." She said, trying to change the subject. "From the way you were trashing around in your sleep, I could tell it was some pretty heavy stuff you were dreaming about."
Fern calmed down some, and Kira had immediately stopped laughing, once that sentence had left Darla's mouth.
"Yes, perhaps you should tell us about your dream." Kira said, serious again.
"I guess you girls are right…." Fern admitted, but still not liking the prospect of talking about it.
"Sit back, and relax……." She said, heaving a huge sigh. "It's going to take some time, I'm afraid.
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