Tohru came to groggily in the middle of the night drenched in sweat. At some point she had kicked her blankets off, along with her pillow, but it had done nothing to remedy the heat. She could scarcely imagine what the temperature in her room must be. It felt like it was 120 degrees, but she knew that couldn't be right. Her semi conscious brain managed to come up with, 'the air conditioner must have broke.'
She groaned and lifted her head to look at the clock, with any luck it would be early morning and she wouldn't have to struggle for sleep. Tohru was never good at that, waking up and falling back under just didn't work with her. The glowing red numbers on her digital alarm clock told her it was 3:47 am, way too early to be awake.
There was a scurrying from beneath her bed and a dark shadow dashed from one end of the room to another, but she was too tired to care about mischievous mice at the moment. Something hissed and Tohru's brain kicked into high gear, mice didn't hiss. In fact her house didn't even have mice. She could hear muffled voices from outside her door, strange throaty noises that she could not make sense of.
Her voice, still hoarse from sleep, sounded out uncertainly. "He-Hello?"
The sounds ceased and the room seemed to lower in temperature. Tohru decided to see what was going on and she slowly began to raise from her bed. As soon as her body began to raise from it's position she was immediately thrown back onto her bed. There was an immense pressure above her, crushing her into the mattress. Tohru tried to fight back, but her arms and legs were pinned to the bed, she tried to scream but found nothing would come out. She couldn't breath her lunges were being crushed along with the rest of her.
Time slowed and her eyes flicked back and forth, the blood pounded into her ears like anvils. There was nothing that crossed her mind as her heart began to slow. Whispers invaded her head and screamed at her in alien tongues, all she could focus on was the crushing pressure above her.
"god.." She managed to breathe out, and then it was gone.
Tohru rose screaming from her bed.
There is a time when we are all children that we spend practicing screaming to see who is it the loudest. During these practices we find that very loud noises tend to pop ear drums, and get us into much trouble. Then there is also a time when we learn what absolute fear is, and how it feels to have our tongues swelled thickly in our mouths. We learn how it feels to have our stomachs drop to our ankles, and how it feels to want to run and hide.
A/n I'm going to jump around through this story from the present to the past, and I'll be using several different POV's-
But I'll say who's and when before the chaps- So no worries!