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Pov: Natsu
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or the idea of this story. I'm just the writer.
A story for a friend, by a friend
The dark night sky hangs over my head like an enormous comforting blanket. I can see a few stars peek through the thick light pollution that emanates from the city surrounding our house making the sky look as if sunrise were only minutes away. The moon, as big as it's always been, is slightly hidden behind a few stray clouds that lazily drift by causing the moon to cast constant shadows.
A soft breeze twirls around me causing my hair and clothes to flutter lightly in the passing breeze causing me to shiver. The cool weather is a sure sign that fall is soon approaching and I'd probably enjoy that small thought if I wasn't in such a foul mood with so many thoughts racing around in my head. As much as I liked summer, the cool dark colors of fall were one of my favorite sights to see.
Sighing, I close my eyes and expertly ignore the city sounds that make up most of the background noise around me. I let them turn into a soft lullaby allowing the crude rhythms to lull my frenzied mind. It isn't long before I start to think about those peaceful days when Lucy and I were both naïve to this over complicated world, to those days when happiness had been so easy to come by.
Soon enough my thoughts get muddled to the point where I don't know whether I'm still awake or dreaming, and with that I fall into a deep peaceful sleep.
It's warm, I hear a noise emanate from the darkness around me but I don't understand what warm even means, what is this strange feeling? What is a feeling?
I feel something, a movement, coming from where a sort of brightness is coming from. The 'warmth' is also coming from where that dim brightness is at and I feel more movement. Somehow that movement feels as if it's coming from me, but I don't quite understand what is going on. All I really know is that this darkness is unsettling.
Then… in a swift movement I look up to find an astounding brightness. At the same time I take my first breath of fresh cool air, a breath that seems to fill every part of my being.
Blue.
So much blue assaults my sight with an occasional puff of… white, drifting along the blue vastness with a bright sphere of yellow that casts that strange brightness. It hangs among the blue above me showering warmth and light all around me. It is such a strange thing, and yet it is the most amazing thing I could have ever experienced. The immensity of the blue is also so alarming… and yet also so comforting and equally astonishing that I can't help but feel a sense of… safety and comfort, under this wonderful blue… this wonderful sky.
The sky.
Yes, I shall name this blue vastness the sky. It just sounds so right to me to call it the sky, and it is also there that I decide that blue will be my favorite color.
I feel something under me that seems to… tickle… yes, tickle. It moves when I turn my sight to the side to find green, so much green that sways in what I call a cool breeze. It ripples in fascinating waves that entices a strange feeling within me that I cannot describe but understand with no real knowledge.
Within the green there is far more… color that sways along with the rippling stems of green. Not too far off a large moving object, an animal, moves around and I watch it from where I am still attached to the green rippling strangeness. Everything is so… odd, but I can't help the feeling I get of wanting to discover more, to name more things.
There's a new sensation that I can register and something… something heavy that presses down all around me. More movement and a strange weighted sensation has a long bizarre thing lifting up before my sight which slightly covers the brightness from the yellow floating orb. Five long things sway like the green around me, but move with less elegance and have more complex movement that allows them to open and close all together. It isn't long before I realize that I myself control the movement of this weird new thing and it is much longer than I had anticipated it being. There's another one quite like it that stretches to the other side of me and moves as fluently as the first one I discovered.
Something below me that I can't see moves causing my curiosity to grow and suddenly without warning the ticklish green is gone with only the sensation of something cool hitting me from behind. Looking down, I find two long wiggling things that look similar and yet different to the first two long things that I had seen earlier. They're fascinating and move when I urge them to move making them all the more interesting.
All four long things seem to be attached to one thing which I name a body. The two long things closest to my sight I name arms with the wiggling things at the ends called fingers. The two similar long things below me will be called legs with the shorter fingers attached to them will be called toes. Fingers for hands and arms, and toes for feet and legs, and all of it will be known as a body.
I take the time to name some more things from my body that I see with strange names that just suddenly pop into my head. I don't even question the names I discover because they just feel right to me. They feel like they belong.
Not long after experimenting with my movement do I realize that I can stand and move around like the animals around me. Unlike the animals, however, I stand on two legs while they stand on four. It doesn't deter me in the slightest as I am too preoccupied with new movements that permit me to move forward and backwards. My feet and legs do most of the work and even though I don't forcefully make them move they just proceed taking me around in a movement I call walking. Not long I begin to move faster, my feet pounding down on the ticklish green, and the air around me whips past me is thick currents as I continue to… run.
Everything is such a thrill and I can't stop taking in the new sights and sounds that surround me filling my curiosity constantly. Cool air fills my chest and it enters and leaves me in great gushes. I run around the area where I stood up from continuing to pound down onto what I now call grass. Soon enough the bright green disappears as I step on something… cold and… wet.
When I look down there's a strange blue, almost like the sky, beneath my feet. It ripples differently than the green grass and no matter how much I step on it, it continues to keep its shape unlike the grass. It also splashes when I step on it hard causing me to jump and fall on my behind making the wet hit me all over.
Water, my mind says when I stand up watching the water drip off of my fingers and landing back to where it came from. Below me, once the water stops rippling, is a strange image that looks back at me. I stretch my arm forward and graze my fingers towards the weird object only for it to blur over as the water once again ripples to my touch. The water settles and I assess the strange image noticing that some of it looks just like my body.
Over my body is a round thing that has wild pink fuzz on top and two white circles that hold black within it. I call the white circles eyes and after poking them I notice that they are where my sight comes from. Excited with this new discovery I name a few more things like a nose, a mouth, two ears, and hair which is what the pink thing on top of my 'head' is now called.
My curious mind leaps with joy at the prospect of naming and discovering new things. There were so many new things to discover along with so many things to name, enjoy, and explore. So much to…
A noise behind me has me whirling around so fast that I almost fall back in to the water. I search the high green grass for a new thing to name when slowly shoots up from the grass and wiggles around for a bit. A hand somewhat similar to mine reaches towards the sky as I slowly and carefully make my way towards it. Suddenly, a body shoots up and a head looks around just like I had when I had first… awoken. Yes, awoken.
I quickly rush over to my new discovery with newfound interest and reach the strange creature to find eyes like mine staring back at me with a curious wonder. They are both brown, a prettier color than the mud by the water, and are so large that I can't seem to look away from them. I'm stuck where I'm standing as I take in the image of this new being that looks like me, but oh so different at the same time.
Warmth, unlike the one I felt before, pools across my face and a strange pounding hits against my chest repeatedly as I continue to look at the creature… at her because it sounds right to call her a her and to call me a he. Male and female because just like with everything else it sounds right and just seems to make sense. Mostly because even though we are the same we are still different in a way that I don't fully understand.
It's gotten a bit hard to breathe as I open my mouth to allow air to flow in, but it just doesn't want to, "L-L-L," I continue to try to push out the air that seems to be stuck while she continues to stare at me, "L-L-LU," I clench my hands tightly as I feel my whole body shake as I continue to try wondering where that strange noise was coming from, "L-Lu-Lu-cy," I finally force out surprising myself and her, but what that noise was doesn't sound right, no not right at all, "L-Lu-cy, L-Lucy, Lucy!" Yes! That sounds far better. It suites her because of how bright she shines like the light pouring down on us. Lucy for light.
She blinks a few times causing the warmth from my cheeks to worsen along with a tight heavy sensation in my chest making it once again hard to breathe. Not too long after her mouth curves causing her face to brighten far more than it had already been. She closes her eyes as a strange noise leaves what I call a laugh that rings in the air in such a soothing manner. The noise is so sweet that it has something within my body stuttering with the tightness getting tighter but at the same time more loose.
At that moment as I watch her smile and laugh I re-decide something I had thought of when I first woke up. Blue would no longer be my favorite color. No, yellow would now and forever be my favorite color in this entire vastness that is our world, because yellow was the color of her long flowing hair, and nothing seemed to be more beautiful.
Not even the vast blue sky I had first woken up to.
{I know that something good is waiting just around the corner/ There's a new day dawning, there's a new life for us/ Got to keep on holding on for just a little longer I know/ There it's going to be blue skies for you and I/ We'll step out of the shadows and walk into the light.}
- Blue Skies - Lanka
So I tried my best to make this chapter as much of a 'first experience' as I could. I tried to keep the modern language to a minimum since, you know, back then these words didn't really exist but I'm not all too sure how I did with that. What do you guys think? Did I do good with this chapter or do I need a little more work on it? Review your thoughts for me.
On an unrelated note, have any of you seen the movie No escape? I watched it on Saturday and I absolutely loved it. It was way better than I thought it was going to be and the intensity of it had me at the edge of my seat. I recommend you watch it... just saying.
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