"The last thing I remember…What was it? I can't quite recall…its so dark-

Your door is about to open

"Huh? Who's there? Who said that?"

You can't hesitate. You have a role to play

"I don't understand. What role? Why am I here?"

The voice began to fade away before it came back again.

You have every right to be afraid. Many before you have felt overwhelmed by over daunting tasks and so will many after you. You are here for a reason…

The voice began to evolve to a murmuring fuzzy sound. It was like trying to hear when you have an ear infection. The voice continued to speak even though the words couldn't be heard quite right.

"No, I don't understand! What are you trying to say? Who are you?!"

There was another longer silence, during which another voice could be heard. It was still masked by the distance and lack of understanding, but there was a distinct difference. It was lighter, a woman perhaps? No, no not quite a woman, maybe a younger woman. A girl. Female. The voice was female. What was happening?

There will be pain and suffering

The voice finally came back within hearing, the original one.

Make no mistake of that. This is for the good of everyone. No matter what they may speak in the future, this is the right decision. It has to be. This choice will at least keep others safe for a little while longer

"For the love of humanity, please tell me what's going on?" The speaker's voice sounded on the verge of tears. "What's going on? What's going on…" the speaker continued to say this repeatedly as the feeling of long gripping appendages wrapped onto to the speaker's unseen arms.

The female voice was heard again, but once more, it was fuzzy. The voice escalated, as if leading into a burning argument.

It doesn't matter!

The voice was deep. It was most certainly a man's voice.

The time has come. You must begin and…complete.

Now it was the man's voice that trembled.

Correct what I could not.

And just what is that?

It was then the speaker took note of the voices again. That last remark was made by the female voice! It was barely audible, but understandable! Meanwhile, the dark unseen appendages began to drag again, but the speaker's legs seemed to be glued to the ground. What was going on?

…

The pause dragged on, just as the sickly sliming appendages wrapped tighter and tighter. Would he speak? The reason to believe that that answer would somehow resolve the situation of these tightening tendrils was too much.

…

The speaker's body began to stretch as the tendrils once tugging notions turned into yanking and jerking. Pain ripped into the sinews of the speaker's shoulder. The burning was rooting it deeper and the pain gnawed and tore through the muscle as it sank through to the bone.

"No more, please, no more!" The speaker shouted with sorrow twisting the words with agony. "Let me go!" The screams began to pierce the otherwise dead silence.

…

"Just answer!" The speaker's tears rippled down and tumbled before falling to the black abyss below before spasms from crying jolted the body. "Please."

My heart's folly

An almost unbearably bright light spread within seconds. The speaker could hear screams behind her and pulled her hands, which had now been released by the creature, to her eyes. A blast of a warm fresh air came roaring up from the ground and tossing her once elegant brown hair upwards. She opened her eyes, startled by this stark change in mood before looking down.

There bright shaded facets of glass beneath her tennis shoes and they multiplied as the color, and the light it was coming from, shot out like a sonic wave. It was then that the most startling event yet occurred. Doves. These dark shards that were being chased away by the light turned into snow-white doves. Only their delicate wings slicing the air could be heard as she watched them soar out into the darkness, leaving her to stand on a circular stained glass floor.

She studied the glass and could see a young woman, perhaps someone in their mid to late teens? The stained glass produced a picture of this teen. The eyes were closed so she couldn't see the color, but the clothes were something different. A plain black T-shirt could be seen along with a grayish vest that cut off after the shoulders. A single chained necklace was visible against the black shirt. The chain was holding a flattened heart that reflected the light but also had a dark swirl in the same reflection. There wasn't much more to say, other than the pants were a jean blue, but appeared to be a more comfortable material. They looked as if they were easier to move in, as if they were a bit looser around the pant legs. The last detail she noticed were the sky blue ribbons wrapped around the girl's arms in a diamond weave fashion before the leftover pieces hung by her hands.

She spoke before catching herself. "Who are you?" Her voice was groggy, like a teen waking early to go to school.

It begins

The voice was female again, the same from before. It was still unrecognizable in origin, but she understood it for face value.

"What?" before any conversation was engaged, another bright light emerged from below her, but this time it didn't blind her. It backlit the stained glass picture, giving it an otherworldly glow as light shards phased through the glass. The light continued in its brightness and only increased from there until the girl began to smile in the tingling warm glow. The feeling was strange in the way that she could only describe it as someone you trust, or even a loved one, it was like a warm hug. She would probably never want to admit to that as it sounded so weird, but that's what it felt like- a reassuring hug from a loved one.

This warm embraced wrapped around her much easier and kinder than the dark tentacles that had yanked and tried to contort her body. Instead these light tendrils seemed to dance across her skin and clean it of any abnormalities. It was like a lathering soap and it continued to 'hug' her in its grasp.

Just as the girl began to forget her previous anxiety, her feet lifted off the ground. She levitated for a brief second before everything was engulfed in white, then black again. Blackness. Not like the previous darkness, but it still covered her again. It didn't last for very long, however. The dark veil lifted up like a curtain and light enveloped her again, except for this time, she seemed to be in a hallway. Where was she now?

This is what I have so far. Feedback or constructive criticism would be much appreciated. So yeah, it's good to be back, I hope you guys enjoyed and be sure to tell me what you think! I hope to go through with this series as something that I can do to entertain others. It's rated PG for now, but there may be a possibility that it may go to T, but for now, its PG. Again, this is the prologue, but I still hoped you enjoyed it : )