At first, the Darkness was the only thing that held me down. Containing me in an eternal blackness. The echoes of silence were the only sound I ever Darkness covered my view to the point where I could not even see my own self. I could only feel the cold air that this place held. This is what I would later figure out to be known as Death.
My breath ceased to exist and my heart disappeared from my chest, taking my emotions with it. My hunger evaporated along with the fluids that lived within the confines of my stomach.
I was not able to move. My limbs felt nonexistent. My body, nothing but a figment of my imagination and my head no longer there. I was nothing but a soul held by the constraints of this otherworldly dimension. A soul trapped and consume with no recollection of what had come before and what would come after. I resided in this eternal hell that had no knowing of what time even was. This, however, all eventually changed.
A white light shined. Tiny, it was, yet it became something bigger. It expanded, consuming all of the Darkness. The Darkness tried to fight this small bright foe but eventually lost to it. Where the Darkness once consumed me and held me down, the Light lifted me and freed me. I began to feel all my senses come back to me. I felt air enter and exit my lungs. My heart pump blood in and out with a rhythmic tone. I could feel my limbs and the blood that flowed through them, allowing me to control them at a whim. My organs entered their rightful areas of refuge within my body. My muscles latched to my bones as my skin latched to my muscles. My head and body became one. I was alive.
And from that moment I heard a voice. A hopeful yet nervous voice that had the sounds of gears shifting which followed every sentence it finished. I had no clue what it was yet my body felt some sort of comfort within that voice.
"Hopefully this is it," it spoke. I felt the light consume me. All my body was filled with an essence that I had never felt before. It flowed through all my veins, entering my heart where a small flame had been created and housed from the outside Light."Wake up, Guardian." As the voice said this I felt the flame consume all of my body yet it wasn't hot. No. It was warm and controlled. It was safe.
My eyes stuttered open and eventually revealed a beauty I had no recollection of before my birth into this dark world. It was known as rain.