Nature's Dreamland

This story is for; :#PremiumMembers: story telling contest. The theme is Nature, but there will be twist. Yes, you must write a story following the theme but near the middle of the tale, we must incorporate at least one of the following emotions into your given story:

Panic    Joy    Lust    Anger

If you wish to know what I used for this story, then please kindly read my story below. I kinda did it in a different way than usual and the story is a little long but I can assure you it'll be a nice read with more than one twist. It's a story that will make you feel like it's a dream.

~~~ Nature's Dreamland ~~~

I once knew a lush forest with some trees that stood strong and high, some are even producing delicious fruits with different colors that pleases my eyes. Looking around some more, I saw various plants of different sizes, there were different also kinds of flowers that has different fragrances and tiny mushrooms were growing near the roots of the tall trees. Then I suddenly look to my side, because I faintly heard water rushing, I curiously went towards the sound and I saw a river that's crystal clear, I bent down and saw fishes swimming about joyfully on the river's calm tide.


Then I stood up and took a deep breath, the fresh air that went through my lungs was indeed refreshing. Then I took another look at the lush forest behind me, Truly, this forest is certainly a sight to see.

Then I took another deep breath to smell the fragrance that soothes me, though it still has the same distinct smell there was something else added, I curiously wondered what could it be. At first the weird fragrance was faint, but as another minute past it was slowly becoming stronger, with another minute passed, I could now distinguish what the smell is.

It smelled like something was being burnt and the smell was strongly coming from the other side of the river where the other side of the forest lies. I looked up and saw smoke rising above the sky. I was curious on what could that be, I then wondered if there were people here, like me. So I crossed the river and went my way towards the source, I used the strong smell of smoke to guide my way, I knew I was getting closer by how strong the smell of smoke was becoming as I walked.

Then as I got to the end of a cliff, I knelt down and hid in the bushes as I took a peek below; I saw some tall scary, even ugly looking men cutting the trees and laughing around as they fall down. They were kidding around saying that, " This trees may look strong since they're wide and tall, but they can easy be cut down and fall. " Another one added, " They even took this long to grow and we just cut it in a few seconds. They act all tough and all but trees are really pathetic. " Then the group of men laugh their hearts out one more time as they went to another tree and began cutting it down.

I clench my fist as I heard them insulting the trees another time, " How could they think trees are just things that we can take advantage of? Aren't they also living things that breath and has feelings just like us? " I thought angrily. I saw the another tree fell down helplessly. One of those loggers even kicks the tree, laughing menacingly as he mock the tree for his uselessness to defend himself. Then he teased that the tree will certainly be used as firewood for their fire so they can cook their meal.

I let out a sigh and looked at them in pity. Then my eyes felt like burning, I could feel my anger rage stronger as I watched them cut down another tree, this time a young and smaller one since they can used it better for their fire. They dragged and teared the tree apart and place it on their fire that was growing even bigger. The smoke was getting thicker and the smell of it was very unpleasant and suffocating I told myself that I should get farther away now before I cough because one I do they'll certainly see who it was and I'll never know what they'll do once they spot me.

But before I could make a move, my eyes caught more men heading towards the rest of the crew. On their hands were some animal that they have hunted down, they're probably going to be the ingredients for their meal. They teased the newcomers saying that, the meat they had was fairly small and it wasn't enough so they have to kill more forest animals for them to have satisfied bellies.

I could only just look at them in disgust, "How could they eat well with all the slaughtering they're going to do? " I thought to myself as I clench my teeth in anger. Suddenly my eyes caught something far at my right, I saw a deer leaping about towards me, then I heard and saw someone load a gun. I looked back at the deer, my eyes saying that you should turn back to the safety of the trees behind you and get away from this empty space.

But the deer continued making his way towards me, as he tried to leaped over the small trench that was separating him from me, a shot was made it hit the deer as some of it's blood spilled to my face since me and the deer were very close to one another, with the bullet just slipping through the side of my face and the only injury I had was that the bullet managed to cut the side of my cheek, it was bleeding slightly but I couldn't feel the pain of it since what was on my mind was the now dead deer that was shot right in front of me.

I looked down and watched as some blood coming from both me and the deer fell to the ground below me, I could hear the men laugh menacingly as I could feel them violently tearing the dear apart to be used for their meal saying yet again that everything that nature has to offer to us human beings are just things that we take advantage of and are useless to defend themselves. I clenched my fists, as I strained the blood stained land on my hands. My eyes let out some tears as I couldn't take it anymore, I was burning with anger and I couldn't just watched and let them do their way. So I stood up and took a deep breath and braced myself. Then in an instant I moved back a little and made a run for it, jumping down the short cliff to the group of men, Facing those disgusting and ugly looking group of men head on.                  

But sadly, rather than facing the men that I want to beat up for their offence against nature... I find myself staring at the ceiling of my room instead. I hurriedly sat up from bed and looked around, doing that I saw my room, the way I remember I left it was too. Then I held my arms and then my face with my hands and felt myself... It was real. " So... I guess it was just a dream. " I thought as I sighed and slumped myself back in bed and thought about the dream I just had... It was very surreal but It kinda taught me some lesson.

Then I sat back up and looked at the window that was on the side of my bed, I saw the usual road that was packed with cars and heavy traffic as usual. But I couldn't help but smile as I saw that the a tall lone tree adorning the middle of the road. I have known that tree as far as I have lived here in all my life, I can't help but be happy and feel relief that the tree is still standing there up till now. As I looked at it, I also saw some people walking their dogs on the side of the streets and they looked happy so that made me smile too.

Nature is surely like some kind of fairy tale too and like fairy tales, no matter how much beauty it may have and it may feel like just a dream, there will always have villains in those story. But of course if there are villains, their will always be heroes right? In this case why don't we be the heroes in this story that we call usually call, everyday life and try to care for nature as much as we can? True we benefit it's resources and we usually get things from them that we can't live without but that doesn't give us an excuse to abuse and harass nature in all it's way, right?

Then I clenched my fist and made a promise to myself and I hope that everyone follows me too here on after. Let's make a promise to not abuse nature and respect to all that nature can give to us. We can only live one life and so does nature so it's best to live life to the fullest and conserve and if possible, reproduce our resources that nature has to offer us so that the future generation of heroes can experience all the wonders of what Nature gave us now~

~~~ Fin ~~~

~ Thank you for reading! Hope you liked my story. It might be long, but I tried keeping it simple and interesting. Well, I hope it is, can you tell what you think of this story of mine?