Diandra awoke, she didn't open her eyes because she was fretful of what she would see. Diandra finally found the spirit to open her eyes. What she saw wasn't scary, but instead peaceful. She was in a meadow. To be specific a meadow full of wheat. The breeze tickled her skin. Diandra stood and began to ponder about where she was. She knew she had passed on. She soon came onto the conclusion that she was in heaven.
"Hello?" She called out.
"Ah another visitor." She heard someone close by.
"Who is there? And am I in heaven?" Diandra looked around for the voice. Her eyes caught a tail wagging in the wheat. She started to walk towards it.
"Stop." The dog sat up.
"Wait, you can speak." Diandra was taken aback.
"Indeed." The dog sounded content with himself.
"How!" she pryed.
The dog shifted into a bear. "Why ask me that? I do as I please. Even if they don't make sense to most."
"So where exactly am I?" Diandra was even more befuddled
"Not heaven, but also not in hell. Your in the middle." the bear's eyes twinkle with amusement
"So I'm in nothingless?" Diandra sits down.
"No. You are in something. What I like to call it is the dream world, place of nightmares. But its common name is Limbo. The place of where I decide where you go." He explains.
"And how will you decide?"
"Simple." The bear answers, "To see if you make it."
"Make it to where!" Diandra was getting irked.
"The end of my little adventure, for the dead." The bear chuckles. "Now best be going, before time runs out."
"But how much time do I have left!" Diandra yells. But the bear has already disappeared.
She gets up and looks around. Her ear's pick up the gurgling of a river. Diandra sets off to the river, and in just a few minutes she is standing in front of it. It looks quite pure. She dips her hands in, and it burns. Diandra screeches and pulls back her hand.
"Things are not as they seem in this world." she hears a small feminine voice.
"Who's there!" Diandra snapped at the voice, half afraid that this... thing would be like the first.
"Aidylin." The voice answers, and a little girl jumps down from the tree across the river.
"A little girl...?" she was slightly bewildered at the sight of the small girl. "Are you like the first thing here?"
Aidylin giggles, "No. Of course not. And if your wondering what the 'thing' is, he is one of the spirits here."
"Then who are you?" Diandra crossed her arms.
"I am just a wanderer." The little girl is eager to answer Diandra's questions.
"What do you mean by wanderer exactly?" She fires another question at Aidylin.
"I am stuck here. Because I didn't make it to the end." Aidylin started to tear up. "I lost because of this tree! And the worst part, I can still feel the pain of death."
Diandra wished she could go over there and comfort the girl, but she couldn't. The one thing stopping her was the stream. It burned so much when the water made contact with her skin. Then an idea came to her. She put her foot in the water. Diandra clenched her hands into balls, dealing with the pain. The water only went up to her thighs. She ran though the water, it seemed forever until she got to the opposite side. When she got to the edge, Diandra found that she wasn't able to get up. There was nothing to grip onto except for the damp, smooth rock. She looked over to Aidylin. The pain getting more intense as she stood there.
"Aidylin!" Diandra yelped.
Aidylin looked over at the woman, and rushed over. Her eyes still puffy from the tears. The girl grabbed Diandra's wrists and pulled. Diandra put her feet on the rock wall under the water and tried pushing herself up that way. Seconds later she was on the rocks, out of the water. The pain, now only a memory. Diandra began to laugh.
"Whats so funny?" Aidylin looked at the twenty three year old strangely
"I really don't know!" Diandra stopped her tittering.
"You are very reckless. There was a bridge over there." The girl points down the river.
"You were crying. I wanted to comfort you." She justified her reasoning for crossing the river the way she did.
"Well, okay." Aidylin shrugged.
"I have another idea." Diandra announced.
"Is it as reckless as the last?" She looked at the woman, worried.
"No. Lets push over that tree." She pointed at the tree where Aidylin lost the 'game.'
"Huh, are you sure?" The little girl started to play with her fingers, getting even more nervous.
Diandra nodded, and walked over to the tree. She begun to push over the tree. Its roots were not strong, because Diandra easily pushed it into the water. When the tree splashed into the water, it turned to dust.
"What the..." The brown haired woman's eyes were wide.
"So you want to disturb my game objects." A deep voice rumbled behind the two girls.
"Yeah, I do." Diandra candaced around and put her hands on her hips. Facing her was a lion.
"Your desisions are foolish." The lion growled.
"I want to make a deal with you, spirit." She trumpeted.
"And what is this deal." The lion's deep voice started to sound amused.
"Every spirit I meet, as well as get rid of the obstacle that stopped them get to heaven." The woman grinned.
"Alright." The lions began to laugh, "but."
"But what?" Diandra's eyes narrowed at his condition.
"You must get to the end in time." The lion stated his condition.
"And if I don't?" She raised one eye brow.
"You'll go to the underworld." He showed his teeth, smiling. "And all the spirits will stay here."
"I accept." Diandra nods.
The lion turned around and walked off.
"You just probably made on of the most stupid deal ever." Aidylin shaked her head at Diandra.
"Yes, I know. But it gives me something more to work for." She shrugs.
"Well, I wish you good luck then. And I hope to see you again. Actually I probably will see you again." Aidylin walked the direction the lion went.
"Your leaving me!?" Diandra frowned.
The little girl nodded. "Just to help you in any way possible." Then she disappeared.
