Disclaimer: This is a Fanfiction Tomb Raider story. I do not own the characters originally from Tomb Raider, they belong to their respectable owners. This is just for entertainment reading.

- Phoenix Rising From The Ashes

"Move out of the way! This is an emergency! We must get her to Intensive Care Immediately!"

The four doctors rushed along the many corridors of the building, clenching ever so tightly onto the patient trolley bars side by side. As people moved to make way for the oncoming trolley, they wondered who it was that needed urgent medical treatment in the facility. It was obvious though that the person in question had significance importance about them…Maybe they held valuable information that needed to be heard, and will do anything to revive her even if she was on brink of death.

Reaching the unit in one big huff, the doctors began their work to treat the awfully wounded body they had just recovered from the mountains of the Himalayas. Working extensively, the minutes ticked away until the dreaded sound from the heart monitor gave a continuous beep…

"No! We're losing her!"

"Quick grab the deliberator, we have to restart her heart!"

"Charging! Clear!"

…

No response…

"Again!"

"Charging! Clear!"

…

No response…

"Again! We cannot lose that knowledge!"

"Charging! Clear!"

…

A few tense moments the patient started to respond to the doctors' delight, however…

"No…She's in a coma…"

"Can't we do anything!?"

"Unfortunately we have pushed her to the limit, anymore and we put this operation in jeopardy by killing her…no we will have to be patient…take her away for now."

Months Later...

"You killed him! He would be still alive if it weren't for you! You had driven your friend to madness! No one should care for you! There is no place for you! You will never escape! Everything is your fault! You should be dead!" Those horrific words resonated and repeated over and over again in Lara's comatose mind. She couldn't snap out of it and was trapped in her eternal sleep.

"Her vitals are stable, but who knows how long it will be till she wakes up." A mysterious female voice spoke, Lara was not alone.

"Hmmmm, when she does wake up it will be interesting to see if she has lost her memory or would be capable of answering our questions, hopefully the latter otherwise this would become a painfully long session." Another voice spoke, this time a male one.

"Well she did have multiple serious injuries when we picked her up…in fact it's nothing short of a miracle that she survived."

"Indeed, its one big coincidence that we were searching for paranormal activity that was heavily picked up around that area…Her and the remains of what seem to be a legendary dragon according to our analysis team!"

"Oh my goodness that's excellent news, so was there anything else peculiar we found out there?"

"Not yet, we have sent our experimental Project V Unit to sweep and uncover any mysteries surrounding that area."

"Okay, so until we hear something from them we wait until the woman responds to our treatment."

"Correct."

"So we know who she is yet?"

"All in good time, we have taken a sample of her DNA to analyse and identify who she is from our databases…So far no results and unfortunately as you can see her face is still too battered and bruised to do facial recognition."

The same demonic words repetitively carried on in Lara's mind, close to the brink of driving her insane and breaking her soul…"You are hated, no one likes you, there is no point of waking up, you are all alone in this world, SORROW WILL DROWN YOU!" Imprisoned, cursed and with no hope of escape Lara couldn't do anything...

Until through sheer will and determination to free herself from her mental prison, slowly but surely Lara began move her eyelids. Blurred vision was all she could see as each distinctive object in the room was morphed into each other. Not only was that but there a terrible ringing in her ears... Knowing it would take a while for her eyes to start focusing properly, she next tried moving any of her muscles. Focusing with what might she had left, she tensed and tried to move her arm…but was rewarded with nothing but the feeling of numbness and pain. All efforts of movement were interrupted though as the other two people had now noticed what Lara was trying to do.

"Look…Her eyes!" The female gasped, as the male came over and shone a blinding light into Lara's hazel eyes.

"Ah excellent news indeed. Welcome back to the world, Jane Doe."