Title: Slipping
Author: Saiyamar
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I do not own Shaman King or any of its characters.
Summary: Anna is slipping...
A/N: This is my First Shaman King Fanfiction. Please R&R. No flames.
I'm slipping. Hanging on by a thread but still slipping.
My eyelids feel heavy as the thread starts to break.
In the darkness I hear slow and rhythmic bleeping, accompanied by distant voices.
I can't tell what they are saying or to whom they belong as they gradually get fainter and fainter.
Till the darkness closes in and I can no longer hear a sound.
Many people would be scared of this. But not I. I have welcomed it for some time now and to tell the truth, I'm glad to be free. There are very few people who realize how happy an occasion this is for some like myself. They will remember this day as a sad day in their memories, without a thought as to how I feel about the situation.
Nobody knew my past, just like they didn't understand my composure. They couldn't have known about the why or how when it came to my feelings as they couldn't tell how I felt to begin with. Everyone would buy what they can on the surface before they could consider the fact that it was maybe a mask. Everybody except one.
He could see straight through me and understood how I felt. He would put up with my little act whilst around his friends and family and I thanked him for it often. I couldn't keep secrets from him as he could tell when something was troubling me and did all he could to make me feel better.
I trusted him with my life, yet I can't help but wonder how he left me so soon. One day he was there and the next he went out and didn't come back. Then one of his friends came to the door and I heard that he had been found dead. Nobody knew what had happened to him or how he had died. But maybe I will find my answers in very short time.
I'm floating yet still slipping as I fall through the darkness to where no light or sound could possibly reach.
To where a small river is the only sound to be heard and the only sight to be seen, shining silver in the infinite abyss.
I start to follow the direction of the river, in complete awe at its beauty.
It could have been minutes or years before I reached the end. The water vanished through a door of light so I followed it as if by instinct and opened the door. What I saw next was paradise. A huge lake with a waterfall from nowhere falling into it yet the water level did not rise. The water in the lake stayed perfectly flat and undisturbed, almost stubbornly I thought. But this was nothing compared to the rest.
A massive area of wide open space surrounded it and stretched as far as the eye could see. Soft green grass that goes on for miles in all directions. And if you really tried hard you could see people, walking in peace over the fields or lying on the banks staring at the clouds. Just then I felt a hand on my shoulder and I knew who it must be.
A short time later we were lying down on the grassy bank near the lake.
His arm was around my shoulders and I could feel him breathing deep and calm.
I couldn't have been more at peace than I was right then.
And now that I am here at peace, I just thought...
To be honest it isn't all that bad when you're slipping, if you know that someone will be waiting for you on the other side.
A/N: Please R&R. No flames. I hope you liked my first SK Fic! D
Saiyamar