Heart of Reality
Life is strange.
This is something I've come to firmly believe.
In life there are many wondrous sights and events. A sunset, a city skyline at night, the rolling green hills of Ireland, the blue seas of the Bahamas, and the list goes on. A person can go from poor to rich overnight, experience a new culture, fall in love, or the simplest but most wonderful event of a person's life, holding their newborn child.
However, in life there are also horrible, terrifying things. War, diseases that kill by the thousands, watching parents bury their children, people living in terror of being the next victim of a bombing…..and being in such a horrid, lonely place that the only way out is suicide.
It's this last thing that brings us to me and my belief in life's strangeness. At the point of committing the action, you want nothing more than the pain to stop, seeing nothing in your future but more pain. No one wants me, I'll never find love, no one will even miss me, and so on. So you take the plunge, which in my case was quite literal.
Standing upon the top of a skyscraper, wind buffeting me as I stood by the edge, I glanced out at the setting sun as I enjoyed what would be the last rays of sunlight shining on my skin. I closed my eyes and felt the wind blow through my hair, and take deep breaths of the air that would soon no longer be needed. As the darkness overtook me I took my final steps and went over the edge.
This is where the strangeness kicks in.
At first the fall was calming and comforting. After all, soon all the pain would be gone. Then I began to think of the pain my family would be in, my mother especially. Then I thought of my friends and how devastated they would be now that I was so suddenly gone. All of a sudden I my life played out before, and I realized all I did wrong and how I could turn things around. In that moment I suddenly regretted the decision to end my life. Now the fall was terrifying and happening too fast, the wind whipping the tears from my face as they fell. Then, with a croaked apology, I hit the pavement.
And broke through.
Suddenly I was falling through the sky again feeling different than before. In confusion, I checked my body as I fell and realized I was a kid again, no more than twelve years old. Years before my life took a turn for the worse. Was this heaven? I wasn't sure, but somehow I didn't think so. Looking below again, I saw a vast, beautiful blue-green ocean and I noticed that, despite the rushing wind, the temperature was tropical feeling. As I fell a small island came into view, and as I came closer to the water and I could pick out details, it began to look familiar. I realized where I was just before impact, and my mind couldn't grasp it.
Until I woke up.
The next thing I knew was extreme pain. I could tell I had broken bones and internal bleeding that was bad. My hearing kicked in next, picking up voices near me.
"-get your mom! She'll know what to do!" exclaimed the voice of an extremely worried young kid, followed by the sound of someone running off. "He's waking up. Kai get him some drinking water!"
My eyes flickered open, taking in and incredibly blue sky, void of any clouds. I could feel wet sand beneath me and waves licking gently at my feet. Suddenly a figure blocks out the sunlight. The first thing I notice is an abundance of silver hair, followed by the sight of two aquamarine eyes. The young boy looked horrified but determined to help me.
I tried to ask who he was and where we were, even though I had a strong feeling I knew, but all that came out was, "Who? W-where?"
Evidently he understood, because he actually answered me.
"My name is Riku Asato, and you're on a small island just outside of a larger collection of ones called Destiny Islands."
My last thought before blacking out again was this.
Fuck.
Welcome readers! This is the prologue to my new story, Heart of Reality! Stick with the 'reality' theme, this will be a self-insert fic. My focus will be first and foremost on my other story, Mass Reality, but I will not ignore this one by any means. So read, review, don't hit water at close to terminal velocity, and have a great day!