Beyond the Valley

Part 1: The arrival

Chapter 1

Could you imagine entering an eternal dream? Where every seems so real and yet it's fake. You can hear it, see it and feel it, but it's not really there. Well, imagine yourself in this: you are facing your nightmares to be able get back home, and asking this question every day: 'Is this real or a dream?'

You know the usual dream almost everyone has the one where you fall and then you wake up with a scare, because your brain cannot process death. It does not know what is after death. This girl couldn't fully wake up from this so called 'dream'. She fluttered her eyelids open, adjusting the weird lighting, seeing the sky with the color blue-green splashing against with yellow-green. She went through a big grey cloud until she finally was awake. She looked behind her seeing the ground getting closer and closer by the minute. Her pupils narrowed by the horror she could face. She'd either end up in Heaven or Hell, or even none if she could survive the fall which was impossible. Once her body made a harsh contact to the ground, she let out a scream of agony. Her left arm, her good arm, a bone seemed to be sticking out of her arm.

She winched and looked around for aid, but the place she landed, a meadow, seemed deserted, no one was around just her. "Where in the world am I?" she scowled at the sight of colored rose grass, darker rose trees and their light pink petals as well. She continues to walk ahead, completely forgetting the immense blood on her arm, until she stood on the top of the hill, facing north and seeing a giant elk with a long neck like a giraffe creature. It's long silky rose fur glimmer against the yellow sun and birds came and go, perching on its ancient antlers that look like trees with rosy leaves. Heck, everything was pink.

She stared at it with such awe. A sharp, explosive bark had made the girl turn around seeing a large elk with dark chocolate fur fading into a light cream at its underbelly and with cream spots at its back. Its antlers weren't fully grown, but you can see they were quite big. It stood on its hind hooves as it aggressively tried to stomp the girl with its front hooves. "Hey! Easy, easy-" she was trying to ease the long-furred elk before it could calm itself down, revealing on its back a boy near her age. A shirtless, ripped boy with forest-green eyes, long ponytail with the color of dark brown, a little darker than his elk, and a small scar across his right eyebrow. He was showing off his well-built bow and arrow that almost stabbed in her throat. He wore pale cream cargo pants, sandals, a blue sash around his waist like a belt and his arrow carrier on his back.

He'd look deeply into her eyes as his serious expression changed to a mouth-wide, surprise look. He placed his bow and arrows on the elk's back, while the elk ate the rosy grass, he'd drop to a crouch and walked around her seeing her every feature, from her amazing hazel eyes and light brown hair to her shoeless feet. "C-could you help me?" she asked, stammering her words since he would look into her eyes, closely. "Your... real" he whispered. "I-I am?" she spoke confused. He poked her injured arm, but she didn't back away or winced by the pain, in fact she felt nothing. He smiled brightly as he jumped and hooted around, clearly showing off such joy. "Your real! Your actually real!" he shouted as he danced with his elk. "I wouldn't I be?" she walked closer, holding her left arm. "It's been 7 years already and you're the only girl I see here". Well, that isn't bad. Was it? He had other male friends, right? Maybe he was being hormonal or something. "What do you mean?" she couldn't help but ask. "Because, for 7 years, 7 years to be in fact. I'm the only human being in this world."

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Wow. 7 years... What could it be like, having to one to talk to? Like being stuck on an island and for you to not lose insanity you talk to any animal friend or to an object.

"7 years? All alone?" she tsked with sympathy, feeling bad for the boy who had no one, but himself and his elk. "This does seem joyful, but could you help-" she looked at her left arm with wide eyes. The bone poking out of her arm and the blood. Gone, vanished, not one trace of blood. How could it be healed to fast without proper treatment? Without her noticing.  Her head filled with questions, only the trance to be broken by the boy himself. "What's your name?" he sat on a boulder so eagerly as I ignored my healed arm and sat on the ground. "I'm Bethany, Bethany Reyes." she said politely. "I'm Greggory Evans. But since I just met you, you can call me Greg!" he chirped while his elk grunted to his owner's direction. "Oh, and that's Alki. He always like to be in the center of attention." he snickered while Alki grunted, keeping a normal elk face and continue to eat the grass. "If you don't mind me asking, Greg. Where to be in fact am I?" Bethany glanced around, only for the great creature to be still in sight. "You're in Rose Peach meadow." Greg chuckled with a goofy grin. 'Great, color pink and peach, my surely non-hating color.' Beathany thought as she rolled her eyes to her left.

Alki made and alarmed bark as he ran towards his owner. Greg stared at the distant sun while his eyes grew in horror when the moon appeared, shadowing the meadow so quickly, making everything pink or rose turn to lilac. "I recommend you come with us, it's not safe when the Dreamseekers come out." he jumped on Alki and extended his broad arm towards as the sounds of cackle, howls and yelps echoed through the vast meadow. "I know we just met but you have trust me. You're not going to survive alone in one night without me." he looked at Bethany in a pleading way and with a sheepish small smile, making sure his 'new friend' was safe. Bethany heard chirps, cackles and menacing howls from afar as well. She didn't think twice, but to take his hand. Greg helped Bethany climb on to Alki as he clicked his tongue, a command for Alki to move, and Alki trotted quite fast. Whatever Dreamseekers were, Bethany sure did not want to find out.

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Hello! I have finally, finally! Finished Chapter one in Beyond the Valley! I surely hope y'all will like this book as myself would. I will do it differently (if I know how...) than the ones in my fanfictions! Sorry it isn't long though... Oh, friends of mine are editing the book, since their description are better than my cheapy, beginning writing more interesting than mine. So, give the amazing credit to her XP

For those who want to know more about dreamseekers... wait for the other chapter XP

swe3tfl0wer here it is!!!!

Sayonara and arigato for reading!