Author's note. I don't own S-cry-Ed, or basically any good anime, because I suck. As do my idea's. I warn you now, this is a Scherise/Cougar fanfic. Yes, as a couple. I realize this is a bit unusual, but I did my research, and apparently I'm the only one who supports them. I'm a minority. Yay!
This is set after the last episode of the series. Scherise is supposedly dead, but in the rules of fanfic-dom, anything goes. So I ressurected her for my own purposes. Enjoy!
She was floating.
That was the first thing she was aware of. The second thing was that she felt warm. The third was that she felt as if something momentous had just happened, but she didn't know what. She knew she had to be somewhere for someone, but his face was a blur, and his name a blank that had to be filled, she just wasn't sure that she wanted to. With that unnamed, faceless man in her mind, was a whole host of emotions she didn't want to aknowledge.
So she just drifted. Floated. Let the weightlessness take her away as a bright light filled her mind and peace filled her soul. She loved, but she did not know who it was she loved. She just drifted away...
Something hard was against her back. Something prickly, and scratchy and hard. Then something scrambled across her stomach.
Scherise screamed and sat up to shove whatever it was away. Her tactic of "panic" worked as a squirrel ran away from her, chittering angrily. She watched it go, curious as to where she was. The last thing she remembered was...was...wa...
She didn't know. Oh, she knew her name, her age, and what she looked like, but that was it. She couldn't remember anyone she might have known, or where she was from, or anything. It was all a horrendous blank. Desperately she searched her mind for something familiar, something to cling to, but there was nothing. Nothing at all. It was if she had nothing to remember.
A breeze enveloped her, and she shivered, suddenly cold. Reflexively she reached about her shoulders to pull her jacket tighter, but all she felt was skin. She looked down at herself and gasped.
She was naked.
Embarrassed she looked about her to see if anyone had noticed, but there was nothing about except desert, and stray clumps of grass, trees, or bushes. A name filtered through her mind but was gone too quickly for her to grasp. Lost...
Lost what? Lost home, lost land, lost naked naked woman in the middle of an open area...? Lost. Well, she was definitely that.
She stood, hunching over with an arm around her breasts, and another across her upper thighs. Even if she was all alone, she still didn't trust the area around her. There could be somebody hiding behind one of those bushes, spying on her, for all she knew.
She broke into an akward run towards a promising clump of trees and hid behind one. Looking about her, she noticed one with large leaves and walked towards it. Reaching up. she broke a few off, then fashioned herself a makeshift skirt and top. Grimacing she looked at her handywork, then shrugged. It wasn't like Adam or Eve could do better...
She blinked. Who the hell were Adam and Eve?
Well, whoever they were, maybe they knew her, and could help her out of this jam.
She walked out of the small forest and looked up at the sun. Logic told her that she needed to head on the same direction it set, but she wasn't sure how she knew that. Instead she just grabbed another bunch of leaves and fashioned them into a bag, then picked a bunch of berries and set them inside. Then she took a long drink from a small pool inside the mini-forest and set on her way, heading east.
She prayed someone found her before she ran out of berries, or died of dehydration. Or she could find someone. Preferably a whole town or village of them. Then she could get some clothes and some food. And she could find out if she had been reported missing.
Scherise gave a sigh.
Things could be worse, she could be dead.