The Golden Drop

There is complete darkness, not a ray of light is present, not a soul is around. A golden water drop shines as it falls into what looks like to be a puddle, the ripples move in such a majestic fashion, my heart begins to cry, I can feel the pain oozing from my soul, but then everything starts too fade away, I can't see the golden drop anymore, I'm back into complete darkness...

I open my eyes and quickly realize that everything was just a dream. I remember I'm on a train on a trip to Mt. Fuji, I can see my reflection through the widow. It is a cold summer's day, the wind is blowing and the leafs are falling one by one. "Can I offer you anything Miss?" says a young man, I turn to him and politely decline. The weird thing about this trip is that I can't remember why I'm going or where I left from, I can only remember that the destination is Mt. Fuji. I suddenly feel a cold teardrop rushing down my cheeks, Why am I crying? I ask myself. "Clean your self up young Miss" a sweet old lady says to me, "use this" she tells me as she hands me a handkerchief, "May I ask for your name?" "I-I-I I can't remember... " I tell her. She had a surprised look on her face, and then she smiled and said "it'll come back when your ready", "What do you mea-?" suddenly the train crashes, everything I see becomes slow motion, I can see the crystals from the windows shatter and shoot like a thousand bullets. Next thing I know the old lady was impaled by the crystals, and quickly dies. I can't remember much afterwards, it's all a blur...

I wake up in the middle of a field, there is no one around, just me and the destroyed train. I don't have any recollection on how I ended up lying in this field. I try shouting for help, but it seems as if I can't hear my voice, have I gone deaf? It can't be that because I can hear the howling wind and the dancing trees. Have I lost so much contact with myself that I can't hear my voice anymore? I decide that I should just start walking, I'll probably find something along the way. I follow the train tracks, until they just disappear from my vision... I'm perplexed, I can't quite grasp the feeling of desperation that I felt at that moment.

"Just keep walking" I tell myself, and so I did. I walked and walked and walked, but there was nobody in sight, the only thing I can see are trees, lots and lots of trees. It seems as if every second I keep walking more trees appear. I keep walking deeper and deeper into the woods, everything looks dead, all the trees are withering, the grass is brown, there are no animals in sight, it's as if life itself was eradicated and the only thing left alive is myself. The day starts to grow into night, and darkness is taking over the blue planet once again. A few minutes later, there is no light that shines, and no colors to be seen...

I decide that the safest thing to do is to lay down and wonder into my thoughts. The night as dark as ever felt as if it would never end, hours and hours passed on, still no light to be seen. I start to find myself wondering off into a deep rest, I can sense my vision getting blurry. I'm almost asleep until I feel that I'm being watched, I turn around and nothing is there, I turn back around and suddenly a shining light is coming towards me, I feel it telling me to follow it, so I stand up and start walking in it's direction, from a closer angle I can the that Indeed the light I've been following is a glowing deer, It looks like it's made out of light, I wonder if I can touch it? I kept following it into the complete darkness. The deer suddenly stopped, I began to run towards it, like if my hunter's instinct kicked in, just about as I was going to touch it, I went through it, and I felt as if I fell of a cliff, I kept falling and falling.

In the distance i saw faint blue lights all going in the same direction, as if they were souls in a river, I look at my body and see it shining with a faint blue, could it be that I'm a spirit myself? Suddenly I dive into a pool of shining water, but instead of going back up I kept going down, I was already in water, so why couldn't I go up, Just then I managed to get out the water but by going down. I climbed out of the water onto, something that felt like a rock. I felt so stressed out. "Why hasn't the sun risen?" I kept asking myself, I stood up and started walking again, I looked up and saw the trail of blue spirits dancing and swaying, It indeed looked like a floating river, before i knew it I began following the beautiful dots. Then a blue flame appeared in front of me, it kept screeching and asking in pain "why didn't you believe in yourself? why were you so selfish?" I started running, with tears falling from face. I remember it's energy feeling like mine. Was it me?

I saw a tear drop fall onto the ground, It felt like something I had seen before... A golden drop falling into a puddle and ripple everything in it's sight. Thats right, i saw this in a dream before, but I can't recall what happened next... Another golden teardrop fell, the shining ripple kept flowing. I followed it with my glance, it suddenly hit something that seemed to look like a small tree. I walked a bit further to see what it was. Suddenly a bright green light silhouetted what seemed like a gigantic tree, a branch started to come down, as if the tree could move it itself. The branch then touched my heart and I felt it say "You have a special light young miss. It's time you ignite your light and move on".

In an instant a spiral of colors and light started to flow inside my heart. I felt a warm golden teardrop run across my face. I close my eyes, and take the moment in, when I open my eyes, I saw a huge beautiful cherry blossom tree dancing with the wind, petals of pink were falling everywhere, a warm breeze swayed my hair back and forth, then it was when I realized my name was Sakura, I was killed in a disastrous train wreck, and I lost my light many years before the incident. I couldn't move on without my light, but now that I've got it again its finally time to move on... I smile one last time before disappearing.           The sun has finally risen....

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