Hey everyone! While reading Raccoons fan fiction, I saw that there weren't many BertXLisa stories. Granted there were a few but not enough in my opinion. So, I decided to write my own little story to help balance that. :)

On a side note, while this isn't my first fan fiction story, this is my first Raccoons story. So please no flames.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Raccoons.

Nightmares

A young Lisa Raccoon was walking along in the Evergreen forest, on a beautiful sunny day, picking flowers and listening to the beautiful songs of the wild. She had only been out a short while, when she heard someone behind her, calling her name.

"Hey Lisa!" The voice called.

Lisa turned around and smiled when she saw it was one of her old best friends Vanessa, a purple falcon, waving off in the distance. Lisa quickly hurried her steps over to her and very soon was reunited with her old friend.

"Vanessa!"

"Lisa!"

The two friends smiled and gave each other a quick little hug.

"So, how are you liking the old Evergreen forest?" Vanessa asked.

"Oh, it's so amazing!" Lisa exclaimed. "There are mountains and trees and wildlife everywhere, and its so peaceful and quiet here. It's enough to make me just want to stay here forever!"

Vanessa chuckled a little. "Ya, well, you get used to it pretty fast."

"Say, do you want to see something really amazing?" Vanessa asked.

"Sure" Lisa replied.

"Alright, follow me!" Vanessa commanded, leading Lisa towards the trail.

The two friends walked on the smooth and partially covered leaf trail for a while. Neither of them spoke much on the way. Lisa, however, was getting a strange feeling in her stomach. It was a feeling that was telling her that something wasn't right with this whole thing. Something that was telling her to just run away and never look back. A dreadful kind of feeling. Lisa tried very hard to ignore this weird feeling, for she knew that Vanessa would never do anything to jeopardize her or her family in any way. Still, she felt a little uneasy with the whole situation. To help ease the tension, she tried to strike up a conversation.

"So… where exactly are we going?" Lisa asked with a sense of worry in her voice.

"Oh, where just heading to this little spot a little ways away." Vanessa replied coolly.

Lisa looked on with a sense of confusion. "Which is?"

"Well… um… have you ever heard of Dead man's cliff?" Vanessa asked.

"Dead man's what?!" A bewildered Lisa asked.

"Look, I'll explain more when we get there, ok?" Vanessa asked, sounding a little stressed.

"O-ok then" Lisa replied back.

The two continued to walk along the trail and as before neither of them spoke a word. However, this time, neither of them stroked up another conversation. Before long, the two friends had finally arrived.

"Well, here it is" Vanessa boosted.

Lisa walked a few steps further and saw that they were on a high cliff area of the Evergreen forest. An area surrounded by thick tall trees and beautifully colored flowers.

"So what do you think?" Vanessa asked.

"Well, it certainly is beautiful" Lisa said while taking in her surroundings.

"It gets even better. Come on" Vanessa then leaded Lisa over to the cliff side.

"So this I presume is Dead man's cliff?" Lisa asked.

Vanessa tensed up a little. "Uh… yeah it is."

"Then why do they call it Dead man's cliff?" Lisa asked raising an eyebrow.

"Well…" Vanessa began. "I've heard rumors that a long time ago, bungee jumpers, were jumping off this very cliff. The stories go that one of their jumpers was bungee jumping and suddenly his rope snaps. He plummeted several feet before hitting the ground with a sickening crack. They managed to get him to the hospital but he died in a coma three weeks later. Since then, people have been nicknaming this place Dead man's cliff because after that one guy died three more people were killed in the exact same way."

Vanessa then looked over at Lisa who had a scared look on her face and wide eyes.

Vanessa chuckled a little. "Relax Lisa, those were just rumors I heard. Heck, for all we know, there probably wasn't a single death up here. Besides, I just brought you up here to show you the great view of the whole forest. It's quite spectacular."

"How far from the ground is it?" Lisa asked.

"About 100 feet down" Vanessa replied. "It's quite a huge drop."

Lisa turned towards the edge of the cliff and looked towards the Evergreen forest. She had to admit that despite the name, and the height, it was indeed a spectacular view of the whole forest. She was even forgetting about the whole thing with the bungee jumpers and the deaths that so apparently happened.

Lisa turned back towards Vanessa and smiled. "Your right Vanessa. Those are just stories that people made up just to draw people over here. We're in no danger, I mean were just here to do some sightseeing, right?"

"Exactly, just simple, relaxing sightseeing. Now what do you say we have ourselves a little race. First person to race over to that bush and back gets first picks at your dad's sunshine muffins." Vanessa said grinning.

"Alright your on!" Lisa replied grinning as well.

The two took racing stances and then were off in a cloud of dust. Vanessa had the lead at first but then Lisa gained ahead and touched the bush first. She began to run back as fast as she could with Vanessa close behind. The two were having so much fun, that they had completely forgotten about all the danger of being on the cliff, or, by how close they were getting to the edge.

Lisa, however, didn't care about these little factors. She simply just wanted to beat her purple falcon friend at her own game. It was when she was only inches away from where they had started that something went terribly wrong. When she was only a few inches away from the finish, Lisa's feet tripped over a hidden branch and sent Lisa tumbling. She had been running so fast that when she tumbled, she tumbled all the way over to the edge of the cliff. Lisa just barely saw the edge of the cliff coming and screamed out for anyone to save her from the perils below. Just before Lisa felt completely weightless, she felt two hands grab her arms. Lisa looked up to see Vanessa holding onto Lisa's arms with all her might.

"VANESSA HELP!" Lisa screamed while looking down at the ground below.

"Don't worry, I'll pull you back up!" Vanessa shouted back.

"Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Please don't let me fall!" Lisa cried with hot tears becoming visible on her face. Her whole body shaking all over.

"Don't worry, I got you!" Vanessa remarked.

"But… then again…" Vanessa began to chuckle evilly. "Maybe I don't."

Lisa looked up and became white with fear. She saw Vanessa's eyes beginning to glow blood red and her face becoming more demonic and wild. Her teeth also became sharper like a wolf's teeth. She also noticed that the sky suddenly became darker and there was suddenly thunder and lighting all around them.

"Well" Vanessa said in a demonic tone. "I do hope you enjoy the view, because it's the last one you're ever going to see. Forever."

As soon as the words left her mouth, the demonic Vanessa dropped Lisa towards the trees below. Lisa screamed at the top of her lungs while her demonic friend was laughing wildly from above. As the ground became closer and closer, and the world became darker and darker, Lisa silently prayed to be spared from death, to have just one more chance at her life. Chances to spend more time with her parents or to just have more fun in life. However, at the rate that she was falling, those prayers silently fell through. Lisa was now only about 10 feet from the ground and coming fast. She let out one more terrified scream and then suddenly…

"AHH!" Lisa awoke from her dream with a shriek. She looked around and was relieved to see that she was in her bedroom once again. Lisa wiped the sweat off her face and laid back down again with her body shaking. She then heard a knock at her door to which she jolted back up.

"Lisa, is everything all right?" The voice on the other side asked.

Lisa instantly recognized the voice to that of her father, George Raccoon.

Lisa quietly sighed. "Ya, dad everything's fine. I just had a bad dream that's all."

"Alright, but you know if something's bothering you…" George began to say but was suddenly cut off by Lisa.

"Yes I know I can talk to you. I understand dad but I just want some time to myself. Ok?"

"Oh, well, alright if you insist. Goodnight Lisa." George said and then left.

"Goodnight dad" Lisa replied back as she fell back on her bed again.

Lisa stared up at the ceiling and thought deeply. She hadn't had that cliff dream for years now and now it was back again. Lisa couldn't understand why the dream was back or why it was back now. She hadn't been in any life and death dilemmas recently and she was far from thinking of the incident from her past.

Lisa eventually gave up trying to answer these questions and reached under her bed to pull out her Bert Raccoon stuffy she made with the help of Aunt Gertie. She held the stuffy close to her and sighed.

"Oh, Bert" Lisa began to say stroking the stuffy's fur. "I really wish you were here. You always seem to understand how I'm feeling and how to make me feel better. Your like the sunshine in my heart."

Lisa then lightly kissed the stuffy on nose and rolled onto her side trying to get back to sleep. Little did she know that her wish would be coming true in a most unexpected way.

Finally finished! I hope you all enjoyed my first chapter and I will try hard to update soon.

Also, if any of you are confused with the events that transpired in this chapter or the behaviors of the characters, all will be explained next chapter.

Until then: Peace!