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I sat there on the dock in front of the lake. I don't know how I got there or what I was doing, it felt like I was reliving a moment. Everything was still, there was no breeze, no hint that what I was experiencing was real, it didn't feel real but it did at the same time. I looked behind me and saw some tents and a building . I must be at camp. I saw some people over there so I got up and started walking towards the camp. I was getting uneasy at the lake anyways.

As I got closer I saw lots of kids but few adults. The camp looked old and cheap but it seemed like no one minded. My thoughts got interrupted by a voice behind me. "So what do you think we should do for the last week of camp?" I turned to see Nasir. "I want to do something dangerous!" Ana said behind him "do you really want to almost die during the last week of camp" I heard myself say, what the fuck just happened , I didn't purposely say that, it felt like someone or something forced me to say that. "C'mon dude! That's the fun of it!" Ana said back. I was about to say something, something I wanted to say myself and not like I was reading from a script when I got interrupted "ok, no I want to do something fun that doesn't have to do with almost dying" Nasir said. I guess this play doesn't like improvising. "I'm pretty sure at least one of us can think of something that everyone likes" the boy said again. I started thinking, at first I thought of music but not everyone likes the same music, I started thinking harder then a word came out of my mouth so smooth it was like soap on a porcelain tile "fireworks" I didn't know if it was in this weird trips script or if I had said it on my own, either way both kids in front of me agreed and we started walking towards the storage closet.

As we were midway the world stared to look like it was made in a scrapbook, the trees turned to foam and construction paper, the cabins and tents into leaves and cotton, the sun turned into a button. I looked around me searching for someone, anyone, but everyone was gone, as if they were erased from this cartoon world. Suddenly from the button sun the sky started leaking engulfing the crystal sky with navy blue, it looked like an old ink holder had knocked over. And the world seemed spin and unravel itself, the ink covered sky, splattered with white dots the earth moving from one point to another, trees died and grew back in a different spot. I felt myself sit and while the world changed. I closed my eyes trying to escape a headache. Just then the breeze that was absent before hit me like a truck, its cold sting hitting my body with such force it almost made me fall back. My eyes forced open. I saw what used to be a button sun was now a glowing moon, the world was back to normal. Wtf is going on. I looked ahead a saw a woman standing there but she was to far to recognize her. I felt a warm body against mine. I looked over and found Nasir laying on my side, suddenly all my confusion and worry left me and I was happy. Someone from behind said "oh look the fireworks are starting!" I looked over at the sky and saw a million explosions, a million different colors, I was in awe. Who knew explosions could be Beautiful. I looked back at where the woman was but she was gone. "Good idea you had, everyone seems to be enjoying themselves" I looked over at the boy and smiled "yea well I'm a people person" he laughed and sat up "I'm gonna miss this place and well obviously you" "yea" "but we'll see each other next summer" he looked at me "right?" I stopped cold, my smile fading that's not right he wasn't supposed to say that. Out of the corner of my eye I see an envelope, i picked it up and read it. From: Marcus' parents To: FallenOak Camp. The letter inside fell out and I picked it up and read it as well. We are sorry to inform you that Marcus will no longer be going to this camp anymore, thank you for taking care of our son for these past summers. We wish you well. That's why what Nas said was wrong. This is a memory. I had figured out I wasn't coming anymore and told him before I even had the firework idea. My headache came back this time stronger. I got up and immediately lost my balance I looked at the people on the grass now going out like static until they were gone. The world started to distort but not the way it had before, now the trees were falling, shriveling up and staying permanently dead, the moon was cracking . The sky turned a ghost white. I was alone with my fear and panic. I saw a hole coming in my direction and before I knew it I was falling through a deep, deep void.

I've been falling for what felt like years. The headache still going at my brain but now there was something new, not necessarily good but new. I felt a seed fall into my chest growing hotter and hotter, spreading all through out my body, it felt like I was being burned alive. What didn't help is not knowing if it would end, this excruciating pain only getting worse and worse, adding to the pain it felt like something was pulling at me like a toddler trying to pull the limbs off a doll. I wanted the pain to end. I wished for it to stop. Begged the world to make it stop. Even if I lost everything, a end to the pain would be much better, even if I was dead. I didn't care I just wanted to be at peace. I heard a whisper, something I couldn't make out I tried to focus on it but my thoughts shifted to a warm liquid running down my face. I didn't know if it was tears or if it was my skin melting, I really didn't know. My mind was fuzzy and muffled. The liquid on my face draped over my body and drowned me in it's boiling heat. Then it cooled instantly. Like a time lapse of boiling water freezing to ice. I couldn't tell If my eyes were open or closed but I didn't really care. My feet touched a surface most likely the bottom of what I thought was an endless void. The pain stopped and I was freed from the grasp of an invisible toddler and I saw a small white point in front of me. I touched it and was blinded by light. As I opened my eyes and saw a woman standing in front of me. She had wavy-ish dark blue almost black hair, her eyes were big and her skin was caramel, her eyes were spring green. She wore a white dress shirt and white pants with white boots. Huh. She looks like- wait who does she look like... What do I look like. I really couldn't remember what I looked like and I realized I couldn't remember a lot of things. "Do you know what death is like" I looked at her and saw she gained dragon horns and wings. "No" I said and as I blinked again she had scales on her and her body seemed not monster like "what a shame... Seems like it's gotten to you too" I was confused, I blinked again and now she was a full on dragon, at least three times the size she was before and she was laying down. "The curse" I had no thoughts, I couldn't think of anyone because everyone has left my memory. I had no recollection of anything, just the dragon Infront of me as that was what was happening in the present. I suddenly heard whispers growing louder and louder to the point I could hear it "wake up" it repeated over and over again. I looked at the beast in front of me "please be the one to break the cycle" she cried, she walked over to me and bowed her head as if she was apologizing. Then a ring appeared around me lighting up with blue flames, the ring started to spin faster and faster and flames getting bigger and they engulfed me.

I woke to the sound of yelling and I opened my eyes to see a crying boy, he was lanky and kinda nerdy looking with his glasses but his glasses were cracked, he had blond hair almost brown with what looked like dark birthmarks on his hair, he had the bluest eyes anyone has every seen I could've kissed him right then and there but I didn't know him so I didn't. He hugged me as soon as he saw I woke up, I pulled away from him. He started asking me questions a mile a minute. All I could muster up was one small sentence, a question.

"Who are you?"

// 1576 words just from that dang, anyways this is my first story so if you have tips I will gladly take them and plus I don't even know if this is good so please let me know what I can do to make it better :)//