FINAL NARRATIVE

LILY AND THE DREAMLAND

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Lily. She was a little young stubborn girl. She lived with her parents in a big city. She was spoiled by her parents so that she was rather arrogant. Actually she had lots of friends, but because of her egotism, her friends went away from her. She had no friends in the end, so to cheer her up, her parents sent her to her grandparents’ house in the country.

At the very first time, she refused to be sent to the country because she thought that it would be so boring. Moreover, she had never met her grandparents since she was two years old, but her parents insisted her to move and it could not be helped anymore, so she decided to move in wrench way. She was drived there by her parents.

In the country, Lily’s grandparents were excited that their granddaughter would come. They set everything for their beloved granddaughter’s coming. When Lily arrived at the country, she found that the situation was totally different, green was in surroundings and she began to love this place. After setting her stuff up, she wandered around her grandparents’ house. She met another girls and boys who played together and it caused a bit jealous in her heart, but because of her arrogance, she ignored her feeling of loneliness and continued her wandering untill she was in the face of a forest. She felt a little bit scared and decided to go back to her grandparents’ house.

In the dinner, she asked her grandmom about the forest which she saw in her today wandering. Her grandmom warned her promptly that she was not allowed to go there anymore because the forest was dangerous.

“Lily, you may NOT go there anymore! That forest is dangerous!” warned her grandmom.

“Ok, grandmom.. I will not go there anymore, but I‘m a bit curious what happened behind that forest, because I found that that forest is just like another forest I saw along the road I went here.” said Lily, still in her stubbornness.

“That forest eats whoever who come into it, Lily. Once you come into the forest, you will never go back.” said her grandmom in a scary voice.

“Cool…” Lily murmured.

“That is NOT cool at all, my dear Lily. You have to put it in your mind that that forest is so dangerous! Understand?!” warned her grandmom, again.

Lily nodded as if she understood what her grandmom said, but Lily was still in curious about that forest. Then she went to her bed and before she slept, she made a promise to herself that she would go back to the forest someday. And yes, she would make it!

One day, her grandparents were away for paying a visit of an old friend. She was warned by her grandmom that she was forbidden to go to the forest, she nodded, again.

“It’s the time” she whispered.

She ran into the forest and stopped immediately, she got amazed that this forest was so beautiful.

“Why did grandmom forbid me to go to this forest? It’s so beautiful…” Lily murmured.

She kept walking and walking, she was not aware that she had walked so far, when she knew that she got lost, she began to be panic. She tried to trace her previous path, but she could not make it. Then she began to cry and regreted his fool decision to go to the forest.

“What’s going on dear?” asked a strange voice.

Lily gazed up and was surprised that she saw a honey bear stood in front of her.

“Aaaaaaargh…………” she screamed.

Then she fainted on the ground and heard nothing. When she was conscious, she saw a honey bear, a rabbit, and a squirrel.

“Are you ok?” aksed them.

Lily was afraid of them, she was speechless and did not know what to do.

“Are they talking to me?” thought her.

“Do you feel dizzy or what, honey?” asked a honey bear.

“You..you are an animal, but you can speak. Am I dead? Where am I?” asked Lily, in a confused face.

“Hahaha…you are not in a human world, girl. You are in the Dreamland! Of course we can speak as you can.” told a rabbit.

“What? I’m in what?” asked Lily

“THE DREAMLAND! You’re in the Dreamland, don’t you get it? You come into the forest and tada..you’re here!” said a squirrel.

Lily got up and looked around. She found that she was in a little cottage.

“So…you’re able to speak as me?” asked Lily.

“Is it a question? I’ve told you that, right?” asked a rabbit.

“Pip, don’t be too rough to her.” said a honey bear.

“Okey…”

“Oh..it’s name is Pip..” Lily whispered.

“You’re not afraid of us, are you?” asked a honey bear.

“Well..a bit..I just still don’t believe that you all can speak..and…I wanna go home, to my grandparents, they must be so worry about me.” said Lily.

“Oh.. yes, I understand..my name is Mary, anyway. You?” asked a honey bear.

“Lily..” Lily answered.

“Pip.” said a rabbit. “Jack.” said a squirrel.

“Oh..ha..hai…nice to see you all, it’s always nice to make new friends.” Lily said.

Deep, in the heart of Lily’s, she was so happy because, at least, she had friends. Although her friends were not human beings.

“So, are you going to go back to your grandparents’ house?” asked Jack.

“I wish I could.” answered Lily.

“How if we have a dinner first? I bet you’re hungry, my dear Lily.” said Mary.

“Emm..be honest, yes, I’m a bit hungry.” Lily was ashamed.

Along the dinner, Lily was told by her new friends that she could be there because she had passed the portal which connected with the human world. Then Mary told her that there were some other people who came into the forest too, but they could not be out from it because they did not want to follow their advice to jump down the Blackwell. In short, people who were from a human world had to jump down to the Blackwell which was placed in the middle of the forest if they wanted to go back to the human world, and it was the only way.

“But they got anger and ran away from us instead. They didn’t believe us.” said Mary.

“The last news which I heard that they were killed by Leo.” said Pip.

“Leo? Who is he?” asked Lily.

“Leo is a lion who always kills people who come from the human world.” answered Pip.

“Hah? Why? That means that I’ll be killed by him, too? Oh..no..I’ve to go out from this forest as soon as possible!” Lily panicked.

“Calm down honey..you’ll be ok. We’ll help you to go to the Blackwell.” Mary was cooling her down.

“But, How Mary? I’ve heard from my friends that Leo keeps an eye on the Blackwell! We cannot go there easily!” said Jack.

“But we have to bring her to the Blackwell as well, so that she can go home.” said Mary.

“Oh..God.. Do we have to face Leo? Ugh..I won’t, you’re pleased to do that then Mary. She came here by herself, so she goes back by herself, too!” said Jack.

“C’mon Jack…don’t be that coward!” Pip snapped.

“Coward? You said that I’m coward?! Ok then, you yourself help her!” Jack left the cottage.

Silent. Mary decided to help Lily, and so did Pip. They made a plan for escaping her.

In the following day, Lily, Mary, and Pip went into the middle forest for seeking the Blackwell. Actually, the one who knew the way to the Blackwell was Jack, but he was not in team so they had to manage their way by theirselves. However, Jack came up all of sudden.

“Well..I decided to help her, am I expected to be here?” asked Jack coyly.

“Whoa….Jack, of course! You’re in team now!” answered Pip and then hugged him tight.

Then, they continued their journey finding the Blackwell. When they arrived at the Blackwell, Leo blocked their way. He did not want if Lily jumped down to the well, of course! The one reason why Leo always killed people was not he wanted to eat them, but he avenged to all people because his family were killed by a human many years ago.

“Fight me then, if you can defeat me, she may get into the well.” Leo challenged.

“But it’s impossible! Leo must be so strong! No way! I won’t let you all fight him! I’d rather stay in this forest and die than let you all die for me!” Lily messed around.

“My dear Lily, you have to go out from this forest otherwise Leo will kill you, it’s better for us to die than you. You have to go back to your family.” said Mary, as usual, cooling her down.

“OK! Get set, ready, FIGHT!!!” Pip was impassioned.

When Pip and Mary were fighting Leo, Jack helped Lily to look for a chance whenever they could get into the well. And the chance was coming, Leo got weaker and weaker because he was hurt by Mary on the throat. Jack led Lily to the well, when they got the mouth-well, suddenly Leo fell down upon them. Lily and Jack fell into the Blackwell, together.

Silent. Nothing could be heard. Lily thought that she was died. But suddenly her cheek was hurt. She was conscious and saw Jack beside her.

“Hei Jack, thank’s for waking me up. Where are we now?” asked Lily.

However, Jack said something, but Lily could not understand what Jack said. And she found that they were in the face of forest.

“Jack, I dunno what you’re talking about. I don’t understand.” Lily said.

“Lily…Lily….where are you?” a voice called her.

Lily was aware about two things, first that Jack could speak just in the Dreamland, if he couldn’t speak, it means that they were in the human world! The second is that she knew that that voice was her grandpa’s, it means that she was in the human world!

“Jack, we’re home! We’re in my world! Yippiii…. Oh, thank’s Jack. You save my life! Mary and Pip too!” she was in a gaiety, but she suddenly felt sad.

“How about Mary and Pip? Jack, we have to go back!” said Lily.

But Jack held her finger, he shook his head.

“Yes, you’re right Jack, they sacrificed themselves to save me. So, what are we going to do Jack?” asked Lily. “We have to help them.” said Lily.

“Lily!!!” shouted her grandpa. “Grandpa!” Lily cheered

They hugged each other, Lily’s grandpa was not alone, he was with the other villagers who were looking for Lily. And Lily was found, they came back to the village. However, before she went home, she saw Jack got into the forest, when he looked back to Lily, she said thank you and smiled at him. He nodded and lost in the forest. Lily would never forgot her kind animal friends, because of them she could get out from the forest and be in her family again.

From this experience, she learned that friendship is important and she gonna make and keep it. She also promised to herself that she would obey her parents and grandparents.

SRI SUSWANTI

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GENRE BASED WRITING R-03