Billy the Bumblebee?

A beautiful new world...

Billy came buzzing out of the forest with a huge smile on his face. He was ecstatic. Finally! He was leaving that ghastly forest, the only world had ever known. His whole life, he was imprisoned in that treacherous forest. He watched so many of his friends and family members incarcerated in those evil spiderwebs. If you were one of the unlucky ones that got caught, they began frantically, twisting and turning, only wrapping themselves tighter and tighter. Gradually those movements began to slow down, slower and slower until they were no more. Unless he wanted to join them and commit ceremonious suicide, he could only watch as the spiders inched closer and closer until they jammed their fangs into the bodies of his family and friends injecting their bound bodies with paralyzing venom. Now frozen for good, the spiders assiduously began packaging them up into their white coffins never to be seen or heard from again. Having only one last purpose on Earth, satisfying the hunger of its capture slowly metamorphosing into a liquid feast.

As horrible a death as that seemed spiders were not their biggest threat in the forest. Their deadliest enemies were those wicked wasps and horrifying hornets. If you were unlucky enough to cross airways with these enemy rivals, you were chased and hunted unceasingly until your death or to your hive, where your unknowing and helpless family members were resting. And even more tragic and prominent prize, the Queen Mother.

After flying around for a little while his stomach started to growl, oh yeah he said to himself, it was time for dinner. He just knew there would be some magnificently colored, exotic, and delicious flowers vastly different from the same-ole same-ole he was used to in the deadly forest. He began to focus more intently looking for those flowers. But when he got up close, the colors of the flowers seemed faint and sickly. The closer he got, his nose and face while simultaneously scrunching up, told him that their smell was even more appalling than their appearance. He couldn’t believe a flower could emit a stench that atrocious. He wasn’t sure he would be able to endure the taste. But he was starving, he left the forest hours ago, not thinking the Earth was this rotten outside the forest to where he couldn’t keep his food down. He should have eaten before he ventured outside the only world he had ever known. So he opened his mouth as little as he could and took the smallest bite possible. Not a split second later he barfed it up, it tasted even more repulsive than it smelled.

Rushing to get back into the forest and away from the toxic stench he made a great deal more noise than he had in the past, almost as if this was his first flight ever. This was a huge mistake, his evil enemies the wicked wasps and hateful hornets could smell the real-world stench that was dripping from the beginning of his stinger to the ends of his wings to the tip of his nose. Looking back trying to get away. BAM!!! He turns back around and realizes he ran smack into the sinister spider’s web. But, he knew he could get out. With all his might he twisted and turned, flapped and flapped with his powerful wings the web began to stretch and started to break….he was halfway out…OUCH! It felt as if two scorching hot needles were stuck into his body. He turned around to look and the spider had jammed his fangs into his lower back. Slowly his body began to freeze first around the area of the bite, then inching closer and closer the sharp pain began to travel up his back until he could no longer move. He could only watch, as his vanquisher began wrapping him from his feet up to his knees further up his legs bringing them closer until it felt as if they were stuck together. The spider began to move further and further up wrapping his web around his back and belly slowly squeezing, tighter and tighter by the second.

BAM! He snapped up. He shook his head opened his eyes and looked around he was in a bed and realized he wasn’t a bee after all. And for that matter, he wasn’t a he but a she. Bethany had been sleeping this whole time. As terrified as she was from her dream, she was extremely grateful to realize she was just wrapped and tangled up in her sheets and not a helpless bee stuck in a spider’s web.