
JOURNEY TO THE MIDWEST: First Chapter (Part 1)Chapter One: The Peach and the DemonJOURNEY TO THE MIDWEST: First Chapter (Part 1) by *Gnashy
The young girl's silver brocaded slippers touched down on the waiting cloud, followed by a slender wooden staff. For a moment, it looked as if the girl was steering the cloud with the staff, but the illusion was broken by an explosion of motion. Slippers turned into a blur as the girl darted forward, jumped into the air, her long golden hair streaming behind her as she rolled into a somersault, the staff tucked under her arm. The girl sailed up and over the edge of the cloud and landed on another cloud a short distance away. Three more somersaults from cloud to cloud and then a final jump took the girl pl