Chapter 1 Metempsychosis "transmigration of the soul"
A blurry but strong light keeps the eyes half-close. Amy just "awakes" in a midle of sort of Stonehenge site, on top of a cerimonial stone covered with flowers and hand made of wood gifts. When she rises, Amy noticed that her body is only covered with a pure linen robe and her arms and legs exposed, were soft and hairless as female human arms are. However she was not alone. A strange group of people were surrounding her.
She couldn't see their faces, because of the large white hoods that cast a shadow on their frowns. Amy somehow felt she was in great danger. As she started to look around for a escape, they start to step by step, to close distance, before they draw their daggers under the robes.
The silence was overwhelming, but furious gallops started to grow louder and louder in the silence and suddently, a young male war cry draws the attention of the silent but hostile group.
But before they could do something, the young male, ridding a black stallion runs over some of
them. Amy looked up as she instinctively grabs his reaching hand and is carried away by her human savior.
While he was focused to take her away from them, she was staring at his handsome but suffered facial expressions. The female felt confidence in him, it was like she knew him a lot of time before. He wrapped her in his arms coated with dark leather and whispers something in a somesort of ancient language, but somehow makes her feel safe and even loved.
However, the strange group, who would murder her if the vigorous ride didin't apear to the rescue, didin't give up. They where summoning warriors made of stone and grass, with hard but flattened roots as spears.
The young male looked briefly over his shoulder, only to see a some sort of organic spear thrust though his faithfull stallion. They fell with the ribs on the sward. Amy gave a small scream but she was abble to get up easly. However, her savior, had one leg under the heavy dead stallion. Once her white pure linen robe was now a bloody mess with dirt. She looked and tried to help the young male kneeling beside him and trying to pulling him out, but he pushed her away, screaming some ancient language she didin't recognised.
The stone cold warriors, where aproaching as she rises with one stone on her hand. Amy could have many flaws, but she wasn't a coward. She trows one stone and manages to hit right in the head of one of the stone warriors, making his head tilt back. The young male was growling and yelled at her, almost saying for her to run away.
Yet, there were more like five to hit, and before Amy could duck to grab another stone, she felt a piercing pain through the abdomen. A organic, made of roots, hardened spear, was piercing her belly. She felt the blood running out like a flow of warm escaping of her body, paralising like venon. The young male screamed his lungs out with tears bursting wildly as he sees her falling in the ground impaled by a root.
Amy was breathing heavily, feeling herself falling asleep with a numbing pain.
As she falls asleep, wakes up in a room with panoramic view over planet earth. She recognizes the place as Space Colony ARK. She felt confused, as she just woke up from a bad dream and now she were at ARK. Suddently, Shadow with an worried expression enters the room and grabs her arm. Once again she noticed that her arms were human and a strange feeling was oppressing her mind. Amy felt like a spectatress, like she was watching a movie she already saw...
Again she was running, now away from heavy armed men in a colony floating in the space, with Shadow as her savior. She was struggling inside, she wanted to awake so bad. It was like she was in a dream inside another dream. Amy felt one shot passing dangerously close to her face, feeling the cut of the air in the cheek. Shadow growls in frustration and worry as he sees her face bleeding. But he knew they couldn't stop running until they reached the scape pods. As they reach the pods, their other exits were cut of by the soldiers.
Shadow was shocked, only one scape pod was left, but before he could place her in the remaining one, the ebony hedgehog was surrounded by a thick cylindrical glass. His shouts were muffled as he saw blood splatters the glass in one second and in the other the darkness of space.
Amy again feels pain in the abdomen and feels drowning in her own blood as she slide slowly though the control panel. And again she falls asleep.
Then, she wakes up in a cozy bed sweaty and gasping for air, feeling desoriented and numb, as she touches her face and belly looking for the absent bleeding. Then, looks to her own arms, finally relieved to see her furry peach like skin and slender legs.