The Red Dragon Returns
Part1
It was a hot sticky July morning and by the time I arrived at the state park I had been driving five hours. I pulled into park and excitement ran through me as I climbed out of my old truck. "Four days with nothing to do but enjoy nature!" I thought about my boss telling me to get out of town for a few days and he told me of this place telling my I would love it here. I began to laugh as I hurriedly gathered up my backpack and started down the trail. "Oh hell ya. You don't have to tell me twice!"
I had walked about the six miles into the woods he had told me about and began looking for the spot he had told me look for in the big tree's. I found it and turned off the trail. The trail was hard at times as I headed into the unexplored part of the forest but I loved it as I walked away from any of my worries. "God it is beautiful out her." I said to no one as I took a sip from my canteen and really began to enjoy the birds and wild life as I walked.
I had munched some fruit bars as I walked and had not been paying to much attention to time not really caring one way or another about it when I walked around a large bush and out of the forest and into a small valley that had been made by the creek my boss had told me about. It was running fast up the hill just above me but slowed and widened out to about 10 feet wide where I had came out of the woods to find it. The water looked to be 2 or 3 feet deep before it entered a big Beaver pond that looked to be deep much deeper and cool.
I climbed up and sat on a rock that was right at the waters edge. It was the size of a VW and flat on top and as I sat looking around I looked up at the sky noticing how low the sun was getting. I pulled off my hiking boots. "Dame Man it's going to get dark soon and you haven't even thought about setting up camp." I cursed my self for loosing track of time as I looked around at my surroundings. I liked the spot I had stopped. "Well this will do just fine old boy." I started to laugh as I realized I was talking out loud. I though I could hear other people laughing! I sat up strait and looked around again. Not seeing any one I shrugged my shoulders. "Who cares you fucking nut job? There is plenty of water and no one for miles." I moved over to my backpack. "Just what the doctor ordered." I said to no one. "Yes sir but," I dropped my pack. "A swim might be nice."
I looked around as I began to strip. I didn't know why but I felt some one there with me and even though I knew I was very alone I checked for any one that might be looking. I shook it off as I dropped my under wear knowing that I was just being stupid.
I took off running for the pond; screaming like a little kid as I rushed out into the cold mountain water. I was splashing and thrashing as I ran out into the water until I was in up to my waist, then howling like a Coyote I fell back letting the water cover me. I was
Laughing like a little kid as I floated the cool water.
I drifted around for about ten minutes then turned and swam back to my little camp. I didn't bother with cloths as I sat up my little one-man tent and then built a little fire ring.
I got a small fire started to heat some water for my pouch of dehydrated food and was just pouring in the water when I noticed butterfly's out over the far side of the pond.
I had never seen any thing like them in my life and watched in wonderment as their wings changed color in the setting sunlight. They changed to every color in the rainbow and some colors I was sure no one had ever seen before as they flitted around dipping down to just skim across the water leaving little rippling waves behind them as they went.
It was funny because as I ate I thought I could hear laughter and again looked around, seeing nothing I turned my attention back to the water. I watched the bugs doing a kind of dance over the water until it was finally to dark to see them any more and with a relaxed sigh I crawled into my tent. I fell a sleep quickly and slept that night the sleep of a man that needed badly to get away.
I dreamed I could hear the sound of voices. They were laughing happy sounds and I could here girls whispering to each other then more giggling and laughter as I watched those wonderful butterflies.
The next morning when I woke and was stretching in my sleeping bag when I was suddenly wide awake. The fire was crackling out side! I slipped out of my tent and sat up quickly looking around. "What the fuck?" There were fresh flowers growing all around my tent flap and the fire was burning in my fire pit. "Well Bucho, you really have lost it." I said to no one, as I stood there naked in the morning light looking around. The sun was warm on my back but I saw no one as I looked around. "How the hell did this fire stay up all night? I am sure it was out when I went to sleep." I looked around again and the only thing I saw was a deer up the side of a little hill and just five, no six butterflies floating in the air one the other side of the pond. I looked at the flowers growing around my tent. They were pink and blue Daises and the air was thick with their sweet smell.
I picked up my old coffee pot and watched the butterflies as I walked to the stream to get some water as they drifted around coming closer and then darting back. I smiled at my morning hard bobbing along in front of me as I enjoyed the feeling of the air on my naked body. I got the water and as I put the pot into the fire looked out at the butterflies.
"God you are beautiful!" I said to no one as turned away from the pond.
"Thank you." A voice said back.
I quickly turned back to the pond and suddenly three of the butterfly's stopped their dancing turned and came toward me. I fell back landing on my bare butt in shock as I watched them, stop and turn in the air and then come closer. They grew in size as the came and I suddenly realized that it was three naked women with wings! When they had almost reached the waters edge the center one dropped her toe into the water dragging it along making the calm water ripple and I realized it was what I had seen them doing the night before.
I wasn't afraid but still I didn't know what to do with this crazy hallucination so as they came closer I sat up Indian stile and watched them.
They flew to within ten feet of me and as they landed softly in the grass their wings folded around their waist covering their hairless woman hood little like a sarong would. I was totally mesmerized by them as I looked at their bare breasts. They were perfect and topped with little pink nipples making me smile.
I realized I was still hard as I looked at them and the one in the center spoke. "Do you fear us?" Her hair was a reddish blond and fell over her right breast as she spoke.
"No, how could I fear any thing as beautiful as you. Be sides your not real so why would I fear you?"
A slight smile came to her lips as she spoke. "Why are you here?" She waved her arm around pointing out to the pond. "What has made you stop in this spot?"