Land of Fantasy [story]

They say that you believe in fairy tales such as dragons and mermaids, fairies and giants, you would be considered a daydreamer-a person not in the reality world. Well this story that I'm about to tell you, is to prove those people-WRONG. Yes, there is such thing as a fantasy world with talking gnomes and mother goose's . A world that I simply like to call it, The Land of Fantasy. Yes the name says it all, so this story is about me, Alison. It all started one day when I was fighting with my younger sister, Nicole who is eight and annoying like a fire siren that never ends. So it all started when she was whining and trying to make me play with her and that’s when I lost it.

“Please, please, pleaseeee play with me! I want you to play fairy with me!” “Ugh, no Nicole I don’t want to play with you, now please go away.” “But I want you to play with me!” My sister said trying to cry in order for me to play with her.

“LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY!” I yelled loudly, “fairies don’t exist anyways, now go away and play something else.”

“Then you can be the dragon and I can be the princess!” Nicole said brightly while I just rolled my eyes, “no Nicole dragons don’t exist either. Every single thing that you’ve heard of-witches, dragons, mermaids all that stuff. It. Does. Not. Exist. It never had and it never will, ok?”

Then I looked over at my sister and I saw her breaking down in tears, I stared at her for a while thinking of what I just said.

“Oh…” I said quietly as Nicole ran out of room and into hers while slamming it shut. What a great sister I must be I said in my mind as I continued to read the book that I was reading. The rest of the day was very silent, no one talked at dinner, there was no noise of anything whatsoever. At night I went to bed and that’s when my fantastically fantasy journey began.

Lights out, pitch black darkness like a black cat roaming in the dark blackish bluish night. I close my eyes and begin to dream a dream. At first I began to run around my backyard, then I saw something strange that was in our woods. I looked left and right to see if anyone was watching, but no one was so I ran over to the red-brown 6 foot brick wall and hopped over it. I kept running and running now beginning to hear childish laughter coming closer and closer then suddenly quiet. No sound, you could hear a pin drop from the sea of silence. Then suddenly I hear a familiar voice drifted in the distant, it was singing a song that I never heard of. I turned around to notice my own little sister skipping a sweet little skip in the forest singing. I followed her until she stopped at a big giant oak tree which seemed to be about a hundred years old, even older. I slowly walked up to her, becoming quiet as a mouse until I stepped on a twig that made a huge scratchy crack sound. A big portal opened in the center of the oak tree.

Just as Nicole disappeared I quickly ran in front of it wondering where does it go. And somehow my question as been answered behind me stood Nicole and pushed me inside the portal as it closed behind me. I screamed and screamed until my own lungs ached with pain, I closed my eyes and tried to wake up but it was no use I still stayed in the dream. I kept falling and falling down the portal until I landed with a big thud on the ground. I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was blue sky, it was even bluer than our own sky. I slowly got up feeling all the aches and pains as if everything was real. I looked around and saw nothing but cool green grassy plains as far as the eye can see along with a few trees here and there.

"Where the heck am I?" I asked to myself, right as a gnome can out of one tree and started to run down the grassy plains. At first I thought I was imagining I rubbed my eyes as hard as I could, but it was no use. It was all real, there was a gnome running down the plains. I sighed and began chasing after it, calling after it until it finally stopped and turned around. Once I caught up to it I looked down and noticed that it was only two feet tall. It looked at me with terror and confusion.

"Sorry, but can you-" "Ahh!!!!" Said the gnome cutting me off as it scurried away as if it had seen terrifying. Just then I heard flaps, big heavy wind flaps. I slowly turned around having fear as I saw a dragon land in front of me staring at me with its big yellow eyes of terror. I stood there, frozen with fear like a stature as the dragon just glared at me angrily. It opened its mouth spilling all of the awful nasty smelling dragon breathe making me uncomfortable and unable to breathe well. My eyes opened wide as I noticed fire was going to come out of the mouth, but I couldn’t move, somehow I was stuck. Just as the green dragon blew its fiery breathe I was yanked aside by someone or something.

“What’s wrong with you?” Said a voice that I wasn’t too familiar with. I looked up and saw a boy staring at me. “You could have been killed, you must be crazy to stand in front of a dragon like that.”

“I’m…just not from here. And I thank you for saving my life” I said when I noticed something was wrong with the boy, he had pointy ears-which meant he was a elf. More craziness to the dream is what I thought once I saw those pointy ears of his.

“Do me a favor and wake up…..wake up!!” And that’s when I opened my eyes back into reality by my sister barely able to see by the bright sunlight that was being shone through from the cracks of the curtains.