.One.Special.Day. wrote:Vine and Berry stood, side by side, ibefore of the vast, dark forest.
“This’ll be just between the two of us, our secret. Swear?” Berry whispered to Vine.
Vine reluctantly agreed.
“Are you sure this is a good idea?” He asked nervously.
Berry nodded enthusiastically. “Of course! Now, come on. Just follow me and you’ll befine,” she replied. “Let’s go!”
Vine took one last look at the looming forest. "Berry," he asked, biting his lip. "May I ask where-" But she'd already gone. Vine didn't want to be left behind, so he took a deep breath, and plunged into the depths of the forest. He ran as fast as his legs could carry him, which was tough; for at the time, he was still growing and about the size of a Jack Russell Terrier, and still had very small legs.
His speed created a wind around him, a wind that tangled his fur and almost lifted him off his paws off the ground. This is amazing, he thought to himself. It's like I'm flying.
Berry was not far ahead of him. He ran faster, trying to keep up.
"Come on!" she called to him.
Vine ran faster; the wind surrounding him was almost blowing him off his feet.
"Come on, or you'll be left behind!" she called again, her voice farther than before, and her shape the same.
"Hurry up!" Her voice was distant, almost unheard. Then her blue tail-tip disappeared behind a bush, and she was gone.
Vine stopped in his tracks, and strained his ears to hear her call, but could hear nothing.
He looked around desperately to find her. He caught a glimpse of something purple in the distance; he ran towards it, a bit slower now; he didn't want to waste his energy.
As he neared what he had thought was Berry, he skidded to a stop. It hadn't been Berry he had seen, but a patch of pretty Purple, Pink, and Blue flowers- the same colors as Berry had.
Vine looked around. He was in a sunny clearing, with tall grass. Bees buzzed and birds sang; butterflies fluttered around him.
But Vine ignored all of the beauty of the clearing. He lay down on the grass, tears welling in his eyes. I'm never coming out of here, he thought. Everyone's going to be sad when I don't come back, and it'll be all my fault, because I'm not fast enough to follow Berry.
He looked around him. Although earlier he had failed to see the beauty of the clearing, he did now, and it made him feel better.
“At least I’ll die in a nice place,” he said to himself, cosing his eyes to darkness.
Almost right away he was awoken by the painful prod of a paw in his side.
“Ow!!” he cried. He looked up to see a purple dragon staring at him.
He jumped up. “Berry!”
“You thought you would die here?” Berry laughed. “You’re so stupid! You know I’d never let anything happen to you.”
Vine’s face turned a bright red hue, embarrassed. He swallowed.
She turned to the forest wall, the opposite direction of which he had come from, and started walking. “Well?” she called, looking back at him. “You coming? Or would you rather be left behind?”
Knowing he had no choice, Vine followed Berry out of the clearing, taking a last glance at the soft, lush grass where he had lay, which was matted now, into his shape.
As they got deeper into the forest, Berry picked up speed, jogging now, so that Vine wouldn’t be left behind. Vine easily kept up.
The forest here was a bit different; the trees were taller, greener. They had a friendlier look to them.
Eventually they slowed to a stop.
Berry just grinned at him. “Look up,” was all she said.
Gazing upwards, Vine gaped. The treetops had an endless amount of vines hanging from them, all of different sizes and lengths, stretching as far as he could see. He looked back at Berry.
She just grinned, and hooked her claws onto a vine just above her head. She wrapped her paws around it and hoisted herself onto it.
“Come on,” Berry said, motioning with her tail to a vine hanging next to him.
Vine’s eyes widened. He shook his head vigorously. “No way am I getting up there! Do you know how dangerous that could be?” as if to make his point clear, he sat down and planted himself to the ground.
Berry smirked. “Danger shmanger! Stay here alone if you want. I’m the only one who knows how to get out of here,” she told him, climbing higher and higher up the vine, until she could reach the next one.
Vine gulped, knowing he would regret what he was about to do. Imitating Berry, he pulled himself up to the top of the Vine, clinging to it for his life.
Berry grinned. She had achieved what she had meant to do. She sifted her weight from side to side, making the vine swing back and forth. As soon as it got close to the next one, she let go of the first, hooking her claws onto it. She got further and further. She was almost out of sight when Vine realized he was being left behind.
Trying not to think about what he was doing, he swung the vine from side as Berry had done. Then he let go.
He went flying. He hooked his claws onto the next, almost missing and plunging to the ground. He forced himself to let go once again, to fly onto the next.
As he swung from vine to vine, he found it becoming easier and easier to hook onto the next vine. The powerful wind ruffled his fur, and helped keep him steady.
“I’m flying! he exclaimed aloud.
He soon caught up to Berry, and quickly passed her; Vine laughed at her shocked expression as he flew by her.
In the air, he felt joy like he had never felt before; like he could do anything, be anything. It was like he had wings that could carry him anywhere, away from there, away from himself. As if he could fly as high as possible; he felt like he could take to the skies like a bird, race the wind and win, chase his dreams farther than he could see and catch them.
Eventually the vines thinned; before he realized it, there were no vines left to hook onto, and he plummeted to into a enormous pile of leaves. Soon Berry landed next to him; they just stayed there and laughed, staring through a clearing in the treetops at the stars which had begun to emerge.
Although he wanted to stay in the leaf pile with his sister forever, eventually they had to leave. They got up and walked to the edge of the forest. Pushing through the wall of bracken and bushes that made a wall at the exit, he emerged to find himself in his backyard. He dashed to the porch where Kat was waiting for them, and they went into the house.
“What did you two do today?” Kat asked them.
Berry and Vine exchanged glances, smiling.
“Oh, nothing much.”
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