Sacred Flower
By Winter Child
Disclaimer: I don't own it in reality…however I have dreamt about it on several occasions…
I really don't know… is it to depressing? Please lend me you're thoughts.
My thanks goes out to WezL, Crow Skywalker, rosedreamer101, amethyst fire phoenix, and ebear215.
I thank you all SOOOOOOO much for reviewing and I'll try my best to write to the best of my abilities.
Chapter 1:
"Mommy, Mommy! I'm scared; please don't let the bad men get me." Cried a wailing 3 year Sakura.
"Don't worry darling, Mommy's here to protect you, she won't let anything bad happen to you because she loves you okay. Mommy loves you."
Mommy loves you.
Mommy loves you.
Every night, the same dream.
And every night…
That woman's face, her voice, it just gets fainter and fainter as my memory starts to haze…
Slip away…
I sometimes wonder, was it really a memory?
Or was it just something I created from my own insanity, out of loneliness and desperation.
And even if it was real…
Why did she lie?
She told me that everything would be alright, that I would be safe and protected…
She told me that she loved me...
So where is she now? Where is she now that I'm stuck in this hellhole, being tested by scientist time and again? They say it's for the greater good, that it will help humanity and help them reach things that they could not possibly understand without my supposed help. But they don't know what it feels like to be stuck here feeling what I'm feeling.
Sometimes I wonder if I should just commit suicide.
It would be easier than living, just dying…
You wouldn't feel anything like loneliness, or sadness…
The feeling of being abandoned.
But that would be cowardly. And that doesn't settle well with me…
Maybe I'll run away, runaway to someplace far away where I'll be accepted and loved, and where I can bury my memories deep inside me, where I'll never find them again.
And that's why I question my sanity.
It was said that there once were trees.
Beautiful and majestic, that there once were many of them, from things such as strong sturdy oaks to the gentle, haunting weeping willows that used to line the footpaths of many streets.
But the most blessed ones were said to be the cherry trees…
The Sakura…
But now that was all gone.
The thick smog that clogged the air from over pollution and a soaring 11 billion population had contributed so much towards global warming, green house gasses and carbon emissions that the remaining trees just could not adapt to such alarming conditions…
So they died along with all the animals that the trees had provided for. And with them, so did the food chain…
The oxygen was synthetically produced using purifiers in the contaminated air to change carbon into oxygen. 90 of the population lived in high rise buildings; the rest lived out on the streets. Only very few wealthy, influential people would live in mansions, they were the lucky ones.
This was the era that Syoaran Li was born into, his world.
And he hated it…
The teenager sighed and looked out of his window. Looking at the crystal clear glass giving him the most obvious view to the world outside his room, he did not see perfect, synthetic grass and trees and birds; instead, he saw his reflection. Chestnut brown hair, deep amber eyes, a chiseled figure that most girls would faint at and wealth beyond imagination, all the aspects a normal 16 year old teenage boy would want…
And yet…
There had to be something more out there for him, something more exciting, more stimulating…
Something beyond his reach, something that he could never find, something so elusive, that every time he tried to reach for it, it would disappear, escape his grasp…
He just wanted something more out there.
The moon was high in the sky when she escaped.
Total desperation besieged her to do it. She just couldn't keep on living in that hellhole; she couldn't stand the fact that she was being tested like an animal, being locked up from the rest of the world. They had even gone to the extent to tell her that her parents hated her for who she was and had abandoned her…
But she didn't believe it, it was total crap, no mother would abandon her child, it was just completely immoral; she would find out the truth. She would find her parents no matter what and then she would bring down the corporation that locked her away from everything.
Lost so deeply in her thoughts, she didn't realize that she had run into a forest filled with thorns and brambles. Stumbling blindly through the darkness she tripped unknowingly off a small precipice. Suddenly everything went black and she was alone…
again.
When he was three his father died.
His mother raised him up along with his 4 elder sisters as best as she could, trying to protect him from the burden that he would have put on him, to be made leader of the Li Clan.
A long time ago he would have thought it to be a great honor. But he wasn't the delusional little ten year old child anymore. He was sixteen, old enough to understand that life isn't a fairytale.
Not even close.
Warily, he opened up to the concealed compartment in his wall and got out a necklace of some sort. The necklace was made out of some type precious metal that looked as if it was tinged with black, an amulet hung from the centre, with emeralds embedded in it. The necklace was his fathers; it would transport him from any time to a different era. However it was only to be used twice in one lifetime, one to get there and one to get back and he had no choice at what era he got sent into. If his mother was here she would call him a fool, but he was just so aggravated at the world he was living in, it would do him good. Sometimes destiny just needed a helping hand.
Chanting the words that would bring him to another world he saw a huge flash of light…
Breathing in the cool sweet air, he never imagined the previous world to be like this. He was in a thick forest filled with trees and wildlife beyond his imagination. The shades of color were vivid, vast. The scenery, incredible.
Thinking back to his world, he muttered aloud, "How did we destroy and corrupt the earth so badly that it can't even produce its own oxygen anymore."
He laughed bitterly at the world he used to live in as he kicked a couple of rocks. Suddenly he stopped, looking over to where a stone landed he saw a small figure. First thinking it was a dying animal of some sort he walked towards it, hoping to give it some kind of burial; but walking closer, he could see that it wasn't a dead animal…
It was a girl.
I'm sorry this chappie was so short, it's just that I find it SOOOOO hard to write a long chapter.
Is it too angsty? I wrote this at 11:00 at night after watching hide and seek, and listening to linkin park…
Anyways, review!