Under the Cherry Blossom

It was a land of fire.

Sound of crackling flame and falling rubble can be seen everywhere.

You can also hear the cries of pain, cries of agony, cries of despair, cries of fear.

Where ever I look, I see destruction. So it's one of those dreams again. I can see see burning bodies of men, woman, elderly and young. I can see people being smashed under the rubble. I can see a child crying, asking it's mother of milk. I can see a mother holding her newborn in her arm and gentility stroking the baby to sleep. Well, I guess that baby might never weak up seeing it only has its upper boby left. But it's mother is not crying, afraid that the sound might weak up her child. I can only see endless love in her eyes as she's looking at her baby who's peacefully sleeping. There is an young boy hugging an young girls while their body is being pierced through by a broken rubble. Are they lovers or siblings? Nobody knows as their story ends here.

I guess it's a good thing they could stay together.

Some aren't that lucky. I see a middle-aged man frantically going through tye broken remains of a house. It's not that heard to guess what's he's looking for. I know this is a dream but why am I feeling that much pain from all this carnage. I feel like I Know these people. I grew up with the. I laughed, I cried with them.

Suddenly I heard a mighty roar that can shake the heavens. Then I saw it. The cause of all things. Calling it a giant would be disrespectful. It was truly humongous. Skin as scarlet as blood, has a luster of steel that has been refined by a thousand times, wings that covers the night sky, claws sharper than the sharpest blade, tail as long as a basilisk, it's mouth is filled with teeth as big as an adult human, two horns protruding through it's skull, and finally it's eyes. It's looking at the carnage as if it has nothing to do with it. Not even glancing at the fallen as if it's beneath it. Yes it's a Dragon. The most mightiest creature of mother nature. The strongest existence there is.

Then it finally looked at me. I felt fear. A fear that can give you countless nightmares. It's looking at me as if it can see through my dream and gazing at the real me. I can't breathe. I can't move. This fear is consuming me.

Then suddenly I felt a touch. When I looked at the person I found out that it was a girl. But I can't clearly make out her face. But what I can see that she is sad. She is truly sad. Looking at her I felt like she was the most important person in my like. Seeing her shedding tears, made me feel like a giant Bolder is crushing my chest. Then she spoke,

"This is not the end. I refuse to let it end right here. I won't let you our story end here. No matter where you end up, I will find you. I will give you the love and care that you deserve. Remember this always, even if it's life of dead, my love for you shall never weaver."

"Roooooooaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!! "

When I looked up, there i saw !!

A large amount of fire is gathering inside the massive maw of the dragon !! The temperature of the soundings have gone up by a few degrees. Even though it should be a dream somehow i feel my skin prickling because of the heat. When I looked at the soundings, the people have no emotion in their eyes. Not fear, not anger and neither despair. It's as if they've accepted their fate. Then she hugged me tight. I can feel her warmth. I can feel her fear, not if death but separation. I can feel her sadness.

Then with another roar the dragon released it's flame. And before everything turned into darkness, I heard her say,

" Though the mind might forget, The heart shall remember ''

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Excuse me !! If you sleep now, you might miss the entrance ceremony.

That voice woke me up.. so it was another dream.

-Excuse me !! I don't mean to pry, but were you crying ? Did you .. .. .. have a bad dream ?

-Oh.. sorry. Didn't mean to keep you waiting. Ah.. ahhh. Mmmm. By the way I wasn't crying or anything. It's because of sleeping.

-Oh ok. I understand. Here.. take my handkerchief... You don't wanna attend the entrance ceremony with that kind of face.

-Thank you . I'm Tomoya Chiyo by the way.

- I'm Suzuki Chihiro, you have a cute name. It kinda matches with mine. I think we're gonna be good friends. Hope we end up in the same class.

- I hope that too

- ok , see you then.. imma go ahead

- Bye

Damm that girl was so cheerful and friendly. And she was so damm cute too. This handkerchief, it smells so nice ...

Aaahhh crap !!! I'm gonna miss the entrance ceremony

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