• The land has been dry for years. No food could grow in this famished place. Many left for hopes of food, while others stayed, believing when the rain finally makes the land fertile again, it will be more beautiful that before. Soon, all that stayed died of hunger.
    After the land was reduced to a ghost place, some traveling scientists discovered it once again and spent years wondering why the life-giving water no longer flowed in the dry riverbed or fell from the sky, for they could tell that it used to be a thriving land. The land became famous and known as The Land That Once Was because it once was a land of fertility and life. They soon found journals of the ones that stayed that recorded the unusual drought that ended up lasting even up to this day. It took a year for some to realize things weren’t getting better and decided to leave, taking most of the children with them. They were never heard of again. One journal spoke only of how stupid they were to take the land for granted; thinking they deserved the food the land provided and not help grow it in return. The sky thought the humans didn’t deserve the beauty of the land and so the sun took it away. The land begged for water and the sky promised the land would get water after the humans learned their lesson. One special journal told of the prophesy of a lost angel from the dying land would come and revive the land so that the people can live in its beauty once more, and be grateful to the land for all it provided and never take it for granted again.
    The scientists believed the people of The Land That Once Was made up the prophecy to have hope while they sat there and starved to death. They died with a hungry body, but a full soul. The scientists then decided to turn it into a historical site and dedicated their knowledge and vase resources to finding the cause of this mysterious phenomenon and when they find the answer they would dedicated it to the people of The Land That Once Was. Because of it’s heartbreaking story, almost everyone in the whole country knew of The Land That Once Was and its people who believed it would get better, but it never did.
    Many from all over the world came to the headquarters of the scientists, telling them they were that lost angel and would make it rain again, but all proved to be fakes. One year past and just like The Land That Once Was, the world’s hopes of rain in the land began to slowly die. The scientists started packing up their tents and supplies and loading it all into large trucks. One scientist decided to take one last look at The Land That Once Was before leaving it behind.
    Others saw only devastation; this young scientist saw how it used to look. A fresh water river flowed through the center of a little town surrounded by fresh vegetation and fruitful trees that supplied the town with all the food they could every wish for. The scientist didn’t realize how long he had been their staring at the dried up land until his fellow co-workers hollered that it was time to go. With a sigh, the young scientist started back to the trucks that would forever take him away from this mysterious place.
    “This place had a name you know,” said a feminine voice from behind the scientist.
    The startled scientist quickly turned around and asked, “What?”
    A girl stepped out from behind a lifeless tree.
    “This place had a name before you scientist called it another.” She replied.
    The scientist snorted, “Like you would know it. Who are you and why are you here? This section of the land is restricted to scientist.”
    “Last time I checked, this land belonged to the ones that were lost in time.” She snapped and then took a deep breath before speaking again in a calmer voice. “And of course I know it name. It has been past down my bloodline, waiting for the one that would give this land back its life. My people are waiting in the trees for you to leave so that we can have our land back”
    “And I suppose you are that said person? Give me a break!” The scientist turned his head and called behind him. “Guards! We have another one of those crackpots claiming to be “The One” and be careful, she says there are others with her!”
    The guards, as well as the other scientists, walk over to where the girl and the young scientist stood. As the guards walked over to seize the girl, she started to sing. The guards stopped dead in their tracks for they had never heard a voice quite like it before.

    The land that once was fertile
    And beaming with so much life
    Has now become a wasteland
    Without water but with strife

    It calls out to its people
    Crying out for their return
    For the land needs its people
    Like it needs to heal its burns


    Her voice emits all the sorrow and hunger of the land. Tears flow from her beautiful, bright blue eyes as her short blonde hair whips around her like a halo. She was a lost angel without wings. Tears fell from the eyes of all that listened, even the sky cried. Rain pours onto the dying land, drenching it with its life-giving water and still she sings, for the land was more than pain and suffering.

    The land will begin anew
    Filled with those that love it so
    Its name has been hidden well
    And its time for all to know

    The Land That Once Was not
    Its name is that of the spent
    Like its colorful farmland
    It was named Iridescent

    After she finished her song and no one spoke; they just packed up and left the land in the hands of its lost people. Iridescent soon grew fertile again and produced its food again once more, but this time the people thanked the land and sky for providing the food and helped it along by giving the land the nutrients it needs to grow big and strong for the years to come. The story spread far and wide and flocked to the land, but the scientists made sure enforce that it was private property and that all that trespassed without permission from the land’s owners will be arrested. Many complained that they just wanted to see the lost angel, but they didn’t understand. They just went with the crowd.
    No one but those that had been there when it happened can honestly say that they understand the miracle that was shown on that day. The young scientist thought, they would never understand the sadness felt from the girl with the halo hair. They didn’t see the tears of heartache and of joy from the lost angel that revived her dying land with her voice.