Inspired by Richard Wagner's Masterpiece that incited me to do my first Fanfic, I bring you:
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
The Dark-Gray skies thundered and never stopped, it rained as if the sky were to be falling. The wind blew the trees, bending them and breaking many logs as they flew away. Running on the unknowns of the wild, ran a blond-haired teen. He wore a blue sweater and a red shirt underneath that looked like a skirt. A pink bow tied to a deadly wound on his left upper arm and his blue jeans were now brown from the mud. Our little brave friend fled with his worried mind tormenting his soul.
'They are all gone! They're gone! How could I have lost you all' He thought 'and Gerald, my best friend! He's gone! Forever! How could I leave you! How could I let you die!' The miserable boy lamented as he ran through the wet wild.
'Now, I have lost the other too, Phoebe, Sheena, Rhonda' Arnold jumped a gap and crawled under a log full of insects. A centipede crawled on his back but the fast pace made it jump off.
Arnold suddenly froze when Helga crossed his mind. 'Helga!' his whole body shivered 'I lost Helga too!' he wept
"Oh Helga…." He cried.
Another side of him tried motivating him 'Come on, we must carry on!...you're right' he said to himself and kept running but all those thoughts and guilt followed him.
The trees were high and a mass of raindrops fell from above. The guilt slowly ate him alive till he couldn't bear any longer.
"What's the point of running away now…" Arnold said and sat on the ground leaning his back on a wet tree.
The image of Gerald throwing himself to the abyss spread all around Arnold's thoughts. Over and over, Gerald fell in the dark hole. That memory tortured our weird-headed friend.
"How could I let you die!" Arnold cried many tears "I should have been there for you, how could I? I'm the worst friend ever… if only I had helped him, if only I was brave enough and leave my fears behind… Oh Gerald, my friend, forgive me!"
The thunder wrecked the skies and lightened the grounds with its white light. He rested his legs and back, and then remembered the last time he saw Helga. How the violent current ripped them apart as her scared eyes cried for help. It was then when horrible thoughts of Helga dying, that Arnold realized the hidden fond he had for her. His subconscious sent him his true feelings in a flash.
"Helga, I'm sorry! Everything went so wrong between us! If only I had reached your hand! If only!" then depression took him away from reality.
"Everything went so wrong… I didn't want anything of these tragic things to happen… My friends are gone… Helga and Gerald are gone… my parents are dead… there is nothing left for me…Maybe I should have died to… maybe I should have let that panther eat me… I should die too…" For the first time in his life, Arnold felt suicidal "I should lose myself somewhere in the wild, maybe I'll be eaten by another animal, or maybe by those fucking cannibals!" Arnold froze again, over-thinking what he said.
He crawled away and onto his feet as he wiped the dirty tears from his eyes and his face turned pale.
"I must carry on and meet the same fate my friends had"
In that moment, his left eye perceived a shadow moving fast. Far away on a hill, a girl walked in a hurried pace. Everything shone when he saw the Girl of the Hair of the Sun a few meters away from him, the wind blew her hair and glistened as the drizzle bath her. His heart had never beaten his chest so hard before, it was like a dream, a dream where you can't move at all. Arnold's gloomy face turned to a never-ending smile.
"Helga!" he yelled running across the fields as fast as he could. Helga turned to see her love running towards her.
"Arnold!" She felt millions of tiny stings on her chest "Arnold!" she yelled again and ran to him.
"Helga!"
"Arnold!"
The teenagers were so delighted to see each other again, Arnold's faith returned and Helga's fear perished. Running across the field of high grass, Arnold and Helga hugged spinning around.
"Helga! You're all right! I thought I lost you!" He said as happy tears mixed with raindrops.
"Oh Arnold! I though t I had lost you too! I have so many things I want to tell…"
"I'm sorry! I'll never lose you again!" Arnold interrupted her as he grabbed Helga's face and finally gave her their first true kiss. Helga's eyes opened wide in surprise, her heart completely melted. Finally, her most sacred dreams had come true. Everything shone all around, lighting roared and the rain bathed the two lovers as they romantically kiss.
"Wow…Arnold…"Helga said speechless.
"There is something I have to tell you…" Arnold said as he blushed "I… well… I don't know…you see… I think I… well it is hard to say…" He couldn't find the words, he was extremely nervous "I…" He took Helga's hands.
"Yes Arnold?" Helga's sublime beauty glistened like never before.
"I… I love you Helga" Arnold finally sighed.
She felt her whole nerve system tingle and her eyes began to moist.
"I'm in love with you" Arnold continued " In fact, I think I have always been… and I don't want to die without you knowing that, I love you, I do!" He shrilled that last phrase.
Helga suddenly began to cry in silence, tears ran down her eyes as she nervously looked at her feet. Arnold was confused by her reaction and feared she'd reject him.
"I'm sorry… I…" he said.
Helga placed her finger on his lips and hugged him tight. She silently wept on Arnold's shoulder for a while. She rubbed her tears away even though the rain wet her face and held Arnold's hands.
"I love you" Helga sighed "I have always loved you… ever since I met you in a rainy day like this" She paused and snorted "but I was too afraid to tell you… and so I hid you in my darkest secrets" She stared away at the gray clouds, her hands shook fast as she said "There were days I felt so confident and I would confess it all to you, but somehow I would always ruin it… I love you, but I hate you" she giggled and then turned serious "I tried several times to forget you, and I did, but I couldn't … there was always something that reminded me of you… that you were the one, the one and only… my muse, my salvation, my moonshine… my love" Helga wrapped her arms around his neck, her eyes shone tenderly "I love you, and I will always do, till eternity" She placed her lips onto his and they kissed once again while the rain and wind made them fly in love, blowing their hair all around.
Little roamers like squirrels, monkeys, birds and insects were witnesses of the love scene. It was a long kiss, finally the time had come for the two souls to unite.
"We have to find a way out of this mess" Arnold gasped, his legs were still shivering "we must survive"
Helga looked at him and said "Nothing can stop us, together we're invincible"
Arnold smiled, her soothing voice calmed him, her words were now reality for him and he felt alive. The two lovers held hands as they stood on a hill in the unknowns of nowhere, thunder clashed where a storm still threatened, staring at the endless jungle.
