Okay guys, this story is going to be…confusing. I am making this as detailed as I can, and sort of a 'solve it as you go' type of story. So, bear with me on this interesting intro.
All you remember seeing last time was a flash of light out of the corner of your eye, before it left with the rest of the remaining day light. It was black for awhile. All you can really remember waking up is having a very long dream. The dream seemed so short when you woke, but when you were asleep it seemed like months at a time.
You look around the room to realize you are the only one there. The room is mostly white. The only color in the room was the light blue sky outside your open window. A few puffy white clouds were drifting about, so it seemed like a typical late summer day. Was it summer still? You remember it was winter when you fell asleep.
Where are you anyways? This wasn't your room. At least, you don't think so. You're having trouble recalling what your own room looked like. This room seemed different, though. You look to the sleek white night stand next to you. A silver clipboard with a few notes lay on top of it.
You slowly reach to retrieve it, but your arm refuses to budge without stinging with intense pain. You look at your arm. It's got plenty of white cloths wrapped around it. It's not a cast, but it covers you up enough to hide your entire arm and up your shirt. Both of your arms are like this.
You slowly and cautiously put your arm back beside you in defeat. You must see what's on this clipboard. You slowly scoot yourself to the edge of the bed and stretch your head as far as you can. You get your head to reach the desk and try to use your mouth to grab the clipboard. You bite and snap, but your teeth don't reach the item. You're just inches away when-
The freshly painted white door slams open. You look up from the night stand to see a short black haired, grey skinned, cat like girl with triangle acute horns.
"You're…awake?" The girl squeaked.
You say nothing. There's nothing to be said, after all. You don't remember this adorable small troll. You slowly seat yourself back onto your bed like before. The girl cautiously approaches you with a single red rose held in her claws.
"Are you okay?" The girl asked shyly.
You don't know why she is asking this. You just had a short nap. Wherever you fell asleep, that is. The girl frowned and sighed as she looked down at her flower. She spun it in circles in between her fingers and said nothing more. You better cheer her up, you feel bad for being so silent.
"I…" You manage to croak.
The girl looked up at you hopefully. You sit up a little to try and speak better. For some reason, you just feel slightly unused to speaking. That must've been a long nap for sure.
"I…" You clear your throat. "I'm fi-fine."
Nepeta gives you a little smile in delight. You smile weakly back, unsure why she is so happy. You need to know your new friend's name.
"Wh-what's your name?" You ask.
"You…" The girl's smile faded. "You don't know?"
The cat girl begins to tear up. Oh no, don't cry little alien thing! You nervously bare your teeth and suck in air and look around. Hurry, pacify the girl with something!
Clipboards are not an option right now. You can't even reach it. There is a lovely slim, tall, white cream vase by it that holds some daisies. Despite your useless arm, you slump it over to the vase and take the daisies. You shakily thrust them forward towards the depressed girl.
"H…Here." You manage to say through the pain, hoping the girl will be satisfied.
The girl looked up at you, then the flower. She looked back down at her hands and began to cry again. You panic as the girl begins to cry and try to say some words to comfort her.
"I'm sorry!" You say, panicking.
The girl sniffs and wipes her eyes with her long green jacket sleeve. She looks down at the now partially wet red rose as she tries to calm her shaky breathing down.
"N…Name?" You ask softly.
The girl looks up at you and says the next sentence depressingly. "I'm Nepeta."
You nod and think nicely of the name. It sure is an odd name. Nepeta sat on the bed beside you as you struggle to sit up. She sets your shoulders and back upright and you relax.
"Since we are re-meeting," Nepeta sighed. "What's your name?"
You open your mouth to say so, but you automatically close it. What is your name? You crease your eyebrows together as you think. Why can't you remember? This is so embarrassing, does this happen to anyone else?
"It's okay," Nepeta giggles a little, leaving you confused.
"Where…Where am i?" You ask yet another question.
"You're in the hospital. It's a long story," Nepeta summarizes.
"Oh." Do you like the hospital, is it your home? Just go with it.
"You'll be leaving soon, to go see your furriends again!" Nepeta said happily.
You have friends? That's pretty cool. Purrhaps you can ask those guys more things about this weird place.
Ahem, you mean perhaps.
There was a knock at the open door, as a bushy haired ram horned girl in a tattered skirt waits with a few people behind her. Nepeta jumps off the bed, making it shift and you groan in distress. Your legs wobble on the shaking bed as your arms flail a bit.
"Nepeta, be careful." A strong looking sweaty troll warns.
Nepeta gasps and looks back at you. "I'm sorry!"
You nod in understanding, despite your arms burning with pain. The strong troll hugged Nepeta towards his chest as if to protect her from you. Why would that man distrust you? You don't even remember him.
"Is he stable enough to leave?" The strong troll asks.
"That reminds me, Equius. He seems purrfect!" Nepeta assures. "I spent a whole five minutes with him,"
"Are we able to leave with our friend?" The ram horned girl asks hollowly.
"Check the clipboard, Aradia." Equius insists.
Aradia, it was. That's a pretty name, you guess. Aradia makes her way to the nightstand beside you, and takes the silver clipboard. She scans the writing and looks back at the group.
"It says we are all free to take him home." Aradia smiled at you warmly.
"Where?" You had to ask.
"You are going back home. Don't you remember?" Aradia reminds.
You don't respond. There are just too many questions reeling through your half witted mind. Aradia begins to look concerned. She turns towards Nepeta.
"Is he alright?" Aradia asks curiously.
Nepeta was rubbing against Equius' chest and purring and looked up at Aradia before stopping.
"He…can't remember anything." Nepeta explains. "He's got amnesia,"
"Oh, that isn't a positive thing." Aradia frowns.
Wait, you lost your memory? That makes no sense! You are in denial. You remember everything perfectly fine. You remember who you are! Wait…no you don't. Okay, that stuff happens. You certainly remember who all these people are! Well, not exactly. You don't recognize anybody including that clownish looking troll and a duo horned looking guy in the back but…maybe you never met them before. Alright, screw it. You did lose your memory.
"If…I may interrupt," You begin, choosing your words carefully. "I do think I am in need of an explanation?"
Aradia looks back at you the same time everyone else does. Maybe the subject is too sensitive to poke at this moment.
"It's my fault," The duo horned troll says bitterly.
"No, it's not, Sollux. I promise, you had nothing to do with this." Aradia reassures.
"Can I please get an explanation?" You repeat patiently.
Silence once again fills the room. How come whenever you speak, everybody goes quiet? You're not that awkward, are you?
"I'm really going to have to get used to this," The clownish troll chuckles.
"Gamzee, shut up and let's just get him out of here." A Scorpio snaps.
Gamzee ignores the insult from the spider girl and walks casually over to you. He pushes Aradia out of the way and picks you up baby style. Aradia shakes her head.
"Gamzee, let your friend walk." Aradia sighs tiredly.
"Alright, bro, your wish is my command, I guess." Gamzee carelessly slumps you out of his arms.
Your feet touch the floor and bend under the new pressure. You gasp and barely catch yourself by slinging your arms over the bed post and hoisting yourself up. Your legs wobble a little. Man, these things feel weird. Your legs are slightly numb and feel like twigs in grey skinny jeans.
Gamzee chuckles and watches you. You shoot him an annoyed glare in detest. You rise and finally support yourself with a sturdy stance and wait for anybody to say something. It's still quiet.
"Shall we…" You think of a few words for a few moments. "Leave soon?"
"Course we can." Aradia smiles mildly.
You shakily make your way towards the door as everyone begins to move away from you and leave. What's up with them? Didn't Nepeta say they were your furriends?
Ahem. You mean friends.
All five of you make it to the elevator in a few minutes. Gamzee told you all about elevators on the way down the halls. He sure has a positive outlook on everything.
As you stand in the corner of the elevator you glare at all the buttons. The button labeled 'LOBBY' was glowing once Nepeta pressed it. This intrigues you. Do they all glow like this?
You press a button out of curiosity. Nobody reacts badly to it; they don't even notice your button pushing. The button you pressed glows brightly now. The light was just so pretty…
You press another. You smile at the light. It reminds you of a few memories you manage to scrape together.
You recall a late pitch black night on a field; not even the moon made the sky all that brighter. You were with a girl. You paid no mind to the girl, feeling sadistic towards her at the moment. You complained about the night being boring as ever, about no stars are present. As you gaze at the blank sky, lights appear.
You distinctly remember that they were not stars; the town was too smoggy for stars. But you looked back at the girl whom you don't remember anymore, and she grinned wildly held an open jar. She had released fireflies. Fireflies were acting as stars for the night. You don't know why, but you remember a warm feeling of comfort. Happiness even came to mind. For the first time in months, you smiled.
As that memory fades, you continue to stare at the elevator buttons. Their glow was a beautiful reminder of your old forgotten friend. Then, the elevator came to a stop and the lights' luminous appeal burnt out.
It's too bad those lights went away. But everyone is leaving now, you should follow them. After all, they are your guide. The unfamiliar Virgo talked with a lady at the front desk, and signed you out.
You didn't remember seeing this pretty troll with the unanimous group. She had a red skirt, black short sleeve with a longer shirt underneath, and jade lipstick. You don't remember her at all.
The group of strangers takes you outside into the late summer afternoon's rays. You look up at the sun curiously before the Virgo shields your eyes and pulls you along.
"Do not gaze at the sun," The girl says calmly. "Your eyes will burn out,"
"How comforting of you to say," The Scorpio came up again.
"Vriska, I respect you, but please let me be." The Virgo says patiently. "I must re-teach our comrade here."
"Fine, I'll leave you two alone. But Kanaya, I swear if you do anything red or flushy for him, I'll smack you." Vriska warns.
"Understood, but I must remind you that I have no red feelings for him," Kanaya reassures.
Vriska huffed in amusement and disbelief and strode ahead as you continue to ask yourself various questions. Why is the sun so bad to look at? Who are those girls, anyways? What's flushed or red feelings mean?
The group tugs you onto what they called 'a city bus'. It sure was weird, seeing even more strangers. You sat on the city bus seat beside Nepeta. You met her first since your awakening, so you trust her the most.
"So, you're going back to your furriend's house!" Nepeta says with a purr before looking at you. "How do you feel?"
You look down at your lap as you focus. Feelings…what are you feeling? Uh…what's the word?
"C…Confused?" You manage to say.
"Oh, right." Nepeta said sadly. "You don't remember."
"Can i…" You try to find an accurate word. "Have a refresh option on what happened?"
Nepeta shrugged for an okay. "I don't want to give up too much. The doctors told me before I saw you to not tell you a lot. They want you to learn on your own so you will advance instead of be filled with useless information. But I can tell you a few things,"
"Oh," You say, trying to understand that whole sentence. "Okay, go ahead."
"You see," Nepeta began. "You were out on the lawn in your friend's front yard. It was a bit snowy stormy out, and there was lightning. The lightning didn't hit you, but it hit a large tree you were sitting under. The tree began to collapse, so you covered your head with your arms. The tree hit your arms so bad they broke, and the force was still strong enough to put you into unconsciousness."
Wow. You must've gotten slammed into amnesia. Literally, too, you guess.
"Your old pal Terezi came out, feeling bad for you for other reasons. She wanted to check up on you. But she found you face first into the snow. She told us and we immediately took action. And after you got checked into a hospital, you woke up for a short time and talked with us. Then the next time you fell asleep, you never woke up again. You got into a coma. Fur months, I mean. You finally woke up today, when I was coming to drop of some flowers." Nepeta adds.
"And now, what's going on now?" You ask.
"Now…you've developed amnesia and it seems you can't remember a thing. We're taking you back to John's house for a celebration, actually. Since you're awake, and all we ought to party our tails off." Nepeta giggles.
"That sounds…" Crap. What's a celebration?! "Pleasant?"
Nepeta smiles softly and looks out the window. You look too, curious to what you're passing. Several white homes passed by until you stopped at a corner by a huge crater where a factory used to be.
All your familiar guides got up. Nepeta stood up and signaled for you to go. You stood up and stumbled off the bus with everyone else. The bus pulls away as you take a look around.
"This isn't a house… is it?" You ask.
"No, this isn't a house, silly!" Nepeta mews. "The house is around the corner!"
You sigh with relief, glad you are not sleeping a huge crater for the night. The other trolls begin to walk away from you. You run up to them and catch up with the Virgo from before as Nepeta joined Equius.
"So…do I know this person we are celebrating with?" You ask unsurely.
Kanaya looks at you sympathetically and nods. "Yes, you do."
"Did I know him just in the past, or do I still know him?" You rephrase.
"You used to know him," Kanaya corrects.
All of you walk up to a house, where a huge old tree with a tire swing has been snapped and knocked over. All of you walk to the front porch, as Kanaya rings the doorbell.
"Coming, wait up!" A young boy calls from inside.
The door swings open, and you come face to face with a buck toothed boy nerd.
"Hey!" The boy smiles happily. "Come on in, everybody's waiting!
So how is it? It's kind of confusing right now, but it's going to clear up. ^. ^ Review on your honest thoughts!