The Journey Begins

The Dream

I felt a throbbing pain grip my head as I came to. Slowly my surroundings came into focus and I saw that I was in the wreckage of a plane. I couldn't remember why I was there or where I was going. I felt the pressure of my fastened seat belt on my abdomen as I tried to get up. So I closed my eyes and laid back. Presently I felt a pair of hands unfastening it.

"Hey! Found another one!" It was a woman's voice. I opened my eyes and saw a brown haired woman, probably in her late twenties, struggling with my belt buckle which was probably stuck due to the crash. She had a shallow cut on her left cheek which was still red but had stopped bleeding and was dressed in a brown, buttoned jacket and a grey scarf. Her eyes were a deeper shade of brown than her hair.

"You'll be alright, just stay awake." She said to me. We both turned our heads at the sound of crunching leaves.

She spoke to the two men who had come running, "He hasn't spoken anything but he doesn't appear to be injured."

One of them was about the same age as her with black hair wearing a black hooded jacket and blue jeans. His eyes were blue and he had a clean shaven face. The other one was a bit older and was wearing a pilot's uniform, also had black hair.

She suddenly straightened her back and said, "Damn it! This thing won't come loose. You guys deal with this." She got up and took a few steps back to allow the younger man to take her place.

He did not bother with the buckle and instead took out a knife from his jeans' pocket and cut the belt.

"There we go. Are you hurt?" He asked me as he helped me up.

"Um...... uh.... no... no I'm not hurt and... thanks for rescuing me." I answered.

"Don't mention it." he said. Then turning to the other two he said, "Now, I don't think there's anybody else left. But just---"

"Excuse me but I don't remember what happened and how we ended up here." I said interrupting him.

"We were in a plane crash. What else do you think happened?" the woman said. "As to where we are; as you can see we're in a jungle."

I looked around and right enough there was, in fact, a rain forest. It seemed as though our plane had crash landed in a clearing. The wings were nowhere to be seen and the fuselage was split in half. Although the air was hot and humid, I couldn't shake the cold feeling that something was wrong. However I couldn't point out what it exactly was. But I knew that at the moment survival was the main priority.

"How many survived?" I asked my fellow survivors.

"Five more and that's it." The uniformed man spoke for the first time.

"Have you found shelter yet?" I asked him. He shook his head in reply.

"How long till sundown?"

The young man turned towards the sun and pointed his wrist watch at it. I couldn't see what he was doing but then he turned towards me and said, "About 3 hours."

"Let's gather the survivors and start building one. With eight of us we can probably finish it before night fall." I said.

So all of us started gathering wood and leaves and in about an hour we made a pretty solid shelter spacious enough for all the survivors.

"Let's get some sleep and tomorrow we look for food and salvage some navigation equipment from the wreckage. Sounds good?" I said to the group. Everyone nodded their assent.

The next morning we all went in groups of two to search for food in different directions. I was with the uniformed man and we went in the direction of sunrise. We had walked some distance and had picked up the possible trail of a rabbit. We were following it in hopes of finding a rabbit hole. Suddenly we heard a growl from the bushes to our right. We stopped mid step and as soon as we turned a lion sprang towards us from behind them and tackled me. I closed my eyes shut as I felt its breath and tongue on my face and in that moment I knew that it was the end.....

Of my dream. I woke with a start to find that my Pikachu was licking my face and it was the one that woke me.