Chapter 2: THE FOREST OF Xzoubula

Yes, you guessed it .I have once again awakened in another dimension or universe by simply drifting off to sleep .My hypotheses is even after I have woken up at three I slip into a dreamless sleep of dread and pain on my head. I hate sleeping nowadays. So I tried weird ways to entertain myself like movie marathons, reading, incense or drinking coffee or milk. (I'm British too).But I ended up becoming woozy and more flashes of monsters claw into my brain and get struck with painful night sweats and screaming and sometimes, I swear I heard a voice saying you should play outside or you're sick or play with me or people's voices echoing my head .She might be right, about it .Well, I don't know..

The moon smiled like a Cheshire cat on the black cloudless night that seemed to be shallowed by fog and it was quiet. Too quiet, you can hear a pin drop or cars pass by, for my own good. Creepy exaggerated shadows casted on the walls as it scratched the windowpanes like a claws on a chalkboard, the door creaked as I saw red rubies twinkles as it seemed to move on sync with the windows slapping.

I covered my ears as it seemed to increase before I knew it I saw rainbows combine like a kaliscope as I it engulfed as I slipped away or on a mirror .I felt euphoric and tried then I drifted to sleep and thrash in pain as voices of muffled things swirled like nasty goo from my roof as I soaked in sweat like a tunnel.

I jolted up from the grass prickling my bare back as I stared at the sunset orange sky ,musky air and soft breeze streaked with red strakes painted strokes like an artist and clouds maroon drifting like fluff on a lazy river .I fluttered my eyes open ,blinked, confused and glanced around at the tree towering trees that were tall and thick like an skyscraper towering over and with that I jolted up and stared at the emerald blades and a yellow rainforest toad scurried towards me with ....pink butterfly wings and it flutterd to me on a mossed covered rock which was orange then it croaked like a yellow balloon and blinked its black beady eyes .I fainted from my bolted upright position and rolled over the slope while I breathed wheezily .

I'm high ...

On what? I don't smoke or drink even though I'm legal.

It was sticky and flew twisty on me getting me faint as it twisted around me and I froze.

But this time I didn't even drift all I remember that I saw a sticky, thick goo of rainbow sludge then Bam! Light, tunnel or sludge brought me here .Is this how Alice in Wonderland felt? Damn, I rubbed my eyes and stared at the trees this are definitely not the trees we have on my reality, right?

The trees were obliviously different and very unusual, it loomed over me as it was congested .It's leaves were big and green as bubbles and beach balls. It's flowers were big as watermelons and it bloomed in neon colours of poisonous gases that reached of rotten meat from its colourful pollen as I gagged and itched all over.

As I walked through the emerald blades , tinted glass butterflies that reflected royal blue light that caught things on fire as I trudged through the narrow walkway and as it turned sparsely as I meandered my way through it and saw colourful leaves big like a cloth and bright colours .I stopped and felt a sharp pierce on my edges of my elbows as I shirked my nails faded white and two parallel lines at the sides burn on me .What's going on so from dark violet eyes to patterns on my skin. I trudged through the grainy dark red soil as it felt like pebbles and rocks prickling my sole.

Damn son, I twisted around the weird plants with giant yellow ,pink ,maroon or wine leaves and growling mouths of flowers that showed splitters mossed teeth and ivory-blue vines with dots of cyan blue that clogged with its thorns and ponies ,porcelain with giant butterfly wings and glitter dust for hair and curled like vines ,and beady black pupil less eyes .

I swayed around and waking through a damp crystal blue pound that showed my reflection and I scrambled off the clinging dirt , I was wearing a ruffled linen dress that was short and showed more patterns of glittered silver squares and gold dots adorned on my shoulders. I looked alight? What! How do I wore different outfit how did get here? I strolled passed the knee-length blades from the hills and atoll-

That blew with the harsh wind and my eyes wandered into the ...crystal blue sky and cotton clouds. Like OMG, what's up with this place is so bipolar like can't it just pick one. I breathed looking at the west side only to witness the tree were thin like toothpicks and were arched like a canopy and were shorter than the bubble-like giants that loomed .I was on a hill with a swamp like water that swirled around into the middle of the ice blue swamp that shimmered like crystals in the morning .

The middle was butterflies .Nope, it was royal blue butterflies that twisted around and darted and clanked like colliding pans as I soon as I sat on the slope and formed a giant cyclone as they dangled, shimmered and shook like breaking glass and reflected and refracted a bright light of tinted madness as I smiled at this montersirty with a fan of warmth and cold as a shudder passed through my spine. One of the butterflies were shriveled like prunes ,long as my finger and crystal blue and its partner circled around it with wings of stained royal blue glass and reflected a warm light on me .I grinned as I scrambled off as glass icicles formed like ice on my hem as I trudged on. As I approached meadow that clank like bells, girlish screams, moans and high-pitched voices.

Suddenly, something darted around crazily as it narrowed it eyes all black and shimmered silver .Again, I least I saw about six that I caught giant butterfly wings like a cape or a paragliders. I quickly hid between two canopies and climbed over the canopy only to be stare with two black holes for eyes .I screamed some creature dispersed and birdlike cyclones and vanished .She staggered ,or it or they ....I. Don't .know ?

Their leather skin shriveled into the husk showing the skull and red ruby eyes like bug and wind sung against their bones and bumps on their spine and leafy hands with suction cups and its pointed skin. I looked down and looked at the feminine body that was dangerously skinny I could see their leathery skin .literally made out of it, leather and clawed feet and butterfly wings draped like a cape that was violet, that's tattered and whole that stuck like meat and spilt milk. She was naked, butt naked with sagging boobs like a deflated balloon and sounded like crunchy leaves.

I shuddered and involuntary moved back .She frowned and waved but her voice sounded hoarse and dry like sandpaper.

"Hi "she muttered.

"Um, hi what are you?" I blurted loudly, then clamed my mouth then apologized .She waved dismissively and smiled and managed to smile and show her black hole of eyes and mouths. She rubbed her spiked skull like a dinosaur and dried tongue and laughed like crashing waves.

"Hallo, mortal .I'm a fae or a fairy if you must." she smiled showing her yellowed teeth. She whimpered, sniffed and looked at the grass then me with grief, without thinking I stalked forward and tapped her shoulder her wings flutterd then she beamed.

"Thank you, kind mortal but I was now I'm cursed for being curious about your kin.d "I staggered then I nodded.

"Oh! Why I ask?"

"Well, you mortals can lie and not be mishouveous but not us .I was tempted to talk to a male and like him but they killed him and cursed Me." she covered her face or husked skull "They banned me from the hive and I can't fly longer and I'm hunted .I'm no more beautiful .I'm a disgrace for a a hundred years going."

I had no words and tried to sympathizes but I couldn't .I'm guilty for being scared of her .I grabbed the tall and skinny woman as she grinned .She was about 7ft tall. "Where do you live, I might be able to help." I added, echoing back. "Really, but you must do be careful .We faes have amazing ways to curse your kind even if we're beautiful." I nodded as we walked through hills that looked swirled with shades of green and felt like silk flowers glowed on it the canopy's seemed to morph taller and the leaves bigger like spheres that can inhabit them .

I walked briskly and stared at the highway of creatures of this land .I saw fare, elves, nymphs and fawns and maybe, just maybe some mermaids hiding in the lake. Some angry faes of the sky darted to us .They were tall and slender and had fair to brown skin .Pointed eyes fading from whole black eyes to illuminating glowing eyes that reflected their wings or .....Other words I don't but I'm just human .know.

They stared at as while burning holes as they towered me with their chipped and odd size as I felt small like a ball as I walked as the blades towered .A giant butterfly wing flapped like tornado and dragged me off my feet and I stood in a ring of angry looking faes as they whispered in a language I can't translated and crossed their thin ,long legs and flawless .All thy wore was a flimsy ,thin material to cover their parts .I gulped and stared at them as I froze and she cowered .One was milk white ,flawless and flashed her violet eyes at me .She was tall and slender and bald that matched her skin her eyes were the same as her butterfly wings and were full no white or pupil and were chilling but inviting .

"What are you, another curious mortal. "She sneered laughing showing her fangs but spoke with obvious distaste and like a snake, "umm, not really." I sighed and raised her buckled legs that snapped as they giggled .I cringed and winced. She pouted her mouth as another creature forcefully dragged me with their scaled hands which I spotted their silted red eyes and bright bodies with swaying spiked tails. What the hell is up with this place? I cried silently as they plopped me in a meadow, an empty but beautiful meadow .Alone .Why? I'm I being tested, again.

I smelt the clean, purified air mixed with sweet-smelling plants and putrid perfumed ones with insects buzzing and the eerie quietness and the swirling clouds and blue sky .The emerald leaves swaying and the creatures lurking as I peered through I saw odd plants like balls made of crystal and rotated like earth and coughed up a glittery azure dust with glittered gold pulse like a heart ad it shrunk from an apple-sized to a pea and giant dragon flies darted through and stared at me with their translucent ,bubbly eyes like disco balls .

I'm totally high.

Well, not today Satan.

At the outskirt of the meadow was a dark, looming woods were the green leaves were deeper and bigger and covered in thorns. With muddy, quicksand and screams and howls and growled but beyond is beauty it was enclosed by rolling grey mountains with snow-capped and hills that jagged and had deep convice and bumpy hills with bubbly creatures .Poppy flowers ,lilies ,sunflowers and moon flowers swayed at the long ,lime green and yellow green thin like straws that seemed to drown me in is beauty .A giant breeze exposed something hide it .It was bell-shaped ,royal blue flower with a vine stem , a giant arm-length leave. I picked it as it felt glittery and smeared my hand. And I bit it, it was golden, beige and specked with hot pink but it tasted odd like bubblegum and pine tree and tangy but melted like fizz.

I burped bubbles and twitched .And it melted into glowing green sludge and laughed bubbles from my ears and pink eyes flashed as I rolled face down .My eyes glowed violet and something popped and sizzled .For a split second, I sprouted white feathered

Wings that glowed warm pink, yellow and bronze that was long and arched like my feet long. Unconsciously, flapped it as I levitated and bounced and spun like a ballerina then I collapsed and my wings shriveled wings like dead, autumn leaves and I barfed. A twig snapped and I snapped my head and stared at a looming figure .I felt a presence and stiffened, I looked upwards and gasped.

A tall, slender face stared at me with a brown face and red, glowing silted eyes burned on mine but with angry. "Mortal! What have you done "She yelled shaking her head." Um, I ate one. "I muttered softly as I crouched down. "You ate a fruit." she whispered then repeated angrily. She face palmed and shook her luscious curly brown hair that covered her chest. "Why mortal? Why must curiosity drive you into your doom?" She yelled again .She trailed blinking .Her violet wings draped behind her like wedding trail. "Well, what do you mean? "She growled as her pinched small face. "Well, that explains why I'm beautiful again!" Is this how Adam and Eve felt?

She retorted .And then she picked me up like I weigh nothing with a long brown hands. "Foolish me. "She whispered to herself as she shook her head. "I should have warned you about not eating or drinking fae food .Now you might go crazy, hungry or ...No, no no .."She screamed as her words slipped more intense and her eyes wide-eyed and flutterd her wings as we hovered for a while then plopped down as I slipped over and might have cracked a rib and my lip ."Or or "she trailed off biting her lip as she quivered. "What?" I screamed.

"Stuck here for eternity as punishment. "She yelled. And then I dropped the fruit and it smiled. Yes it smiled. It flashed its shark teeth's and giggled then poofed into green mist .I screamed and staggered .She nodded grimly .I looked at her eyes. "Yes! "Out of blue, she grabbed my shoulder and hunched and flapped her wings outstretched like a paraglider. I grabbed her hands as we propelled faster and higher until we were almost to the tips of the trees .the red sky at one part and the other crystal blue sky .I sighed and choked at how high we are.

We arrived at the court which was in a giant twelve stories three with actually emerald leaves as tall as cars and tiny round windows scattered around and below was an arch hallway and inside was vines and ferns plastered around decorated like a court .A fae that looked surprisely human stared wide-eyed at me .He had long blondish white hair like a mane, fair skinned, small round glasses and grey eyes that blinked as he fumbled with his wine robe. "Did you eat the fruit?" he asked frowning as he crossed his hands. "Yes," I muttered and nodded grimly as the sun scorched me. "Why?!" he scowled and shook his head as his waves danced like tentacles. "I don't know .It looked appetizing "I muttered frowning and imitated his movement .He frowned and stared at me."I'm sorry, mortal you are stuck here, any mortal or creature that does a crime is stuck here or dies here is stuck." Then he pounded then hammer as the lights as dimmed .I blinked and whimpered oddly as the female fae tried to console me.

Seyoean walked briskly as, breathing and fumbled with her fingers nervously .The air was scrubbed of death, sickness painted white, tiles and walls and.' The hospital 'she thought then shuddered and quickly made her hair into a ponytail .She peeked through the wide window as she looked through and side. 'She should tell her. No she's straight .But is not the time, she's on the bed and eyes closed and drifted onto a coma.

It was 5:30am when her and her parents were called to the hospital by Celestia's parents screaming and crying. She didn't wake up how many times they woke her violently, pushing her and rolling her .But no avail .Sprawled lifeless and covered in sweat and in a fever .They called the ambulance as they cowered in sadness.

Now at the hospital, she was in a coma, not died or alive .Can't they tell her, she's not alright but no her parents refused to say. 'It can be day's weeks, months or even years. She thought as she tried not to cry but she did .Celistia was sprawled on the bed and not breathing and filled with wires as the machines beeped and keeping her alive will be expensive .Seyeon couldn't tell her it was her that she loved her much more than a friend would but it might be a crush. She wanted to blame her religion and her parents and hers for Celistia on to .After coming out as Bisexual and transgender to her and her family it was easy.

She always knew what is up with her.

She's has and its only getting worse as she gets older.

(This story was based on mental illness, And Alice on wonderland and just me daydreaming about my twisted fantasies. And happy Pride month.)