Cocoon Dream

Caw! Caw!

"Where am I," a boy with golden hair said opening his eyes to reveal emerald green orbs as he fell through the air.

Despite his situation, he was calm and his face was oddly serene. He was young and couldn't have been any older than 15 but the most noticeable thing about his was his oddly shaped head.

Caw! Caw!

A crow was racing with him in his downward decent. Occasionally the bird would tug on the sleeve of his plaid shirt or jean pants leg. It appears the bird was trying to stop the boy from falling.

The boy reached out and cradled the bird to his chest gently. "It feels like…I'm falling from the sky." The crow looked at the boy with concern in its shiny marble like black eyes. "It's weird. I…should be afraid but… I'm not."

Caw! Caw!

"You worried about me lil'guy?" the boy asked the staring crow. The boy then looked around him. Even thought he was falling the world around him had not changed and all he could see was dark shapeless grey. "Where am I? What is this? Everything here feels so cozy and warm but I feel a little nervous. I'm not scared but my chest feels cold."

The crow flew out of the boys' arms and tried in vain once again to stop his decent. "It's okay. I know you can't but thank you for trying," the boy said kindly as a large gust of wind blew the crow away and the speed of his decent increased.

Suddenly he could see more than just the grey of the sky. He looked below him and saw a small city surrounded by a high wall. The wind whipped around his blonde hair and stung his eyes. The fear that had been absent moments before came and attacked the boys' heart as he realized the dangerous situation he was in.

And so the story begins…

AN: Hello everybody out there in internet land! I've always wanted to do that :3! Anyway for those of you who have read the other fanfiction I'm working on you probably know a little bit more about this fanfiction than those who haven't. This is a Hey Arnold adaptation of the 2002 anime Haibane Renmei. I won't tarnish the marvelous plot line already set up by Yoshitoshi Abe by changing the story except to fit the HA characters personalities. There will be only one OC because I can't think of an HA character that will fit Nemu. Warning THIS IS NOT A ROMANCTIC PAIRING FIC! That being said there will however be chemistry between the characters. I hope you like this little retelling of mine and I'll be updating in two days of so. Now one more order of business: REVIEW! The more reviews I get the more incentive I have to update and the longer the chapter will be! It's up to you people!