I wasn't slipping away into the darkness, I was… Drifting… Yeah, that's what it felt like. Not going anywhere in particular- just… Drifting… As if I were on a boat and just letting the water guide me.
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Wait a second. If I'm drifting, then I have to be someone (or something)…
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Who am I? What's my name?
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It was pretty embarrassing that I didn't even know my name, but it seemed to be getting harder and harder to think. What was my name? Who or what was I?
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Miles! Miles Upshore...? No... Upshur!
Miles Upshur!
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A wave of relief washed over me. How could I forget my own name?
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If I'm a person, then I must have a job… But what? What do I do?
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Images began to flash through my mind. It was almost too quickly to take in...
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A camcorder… A press pass… Alone in a car... Some kind of freaky building... What am I?
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BFPJ ZU
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Trying to find whatever made that sound, I looked all around me. Or at least I wanted to. It was just darkness that surrounded me. Apart from two pinpoints of light in the distance- one as white as white can get, the other blood red. The white one seemed to glow softly. It looked so nice...
Almost like all that mattered was the white... beautiful... light...
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No! I need to focus!
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I somehow managed to tear myself away from the light for long enough to bring the other one to my attention. It was the glaring red light. It almost looked alive. Almost. Writhing and moving slightly, it looked like that giant mutant cell from 'Evolution'. Just as ugly too... Unlike the white light, this one seemed to make me want to turn and forget it even existed...
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Good thing I'm drifting away from whatever that is… But where am I?
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All I had to work with was a bunch of random memories, endless black and two lights. So, not much.
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Is this that 'tunnel of light' people see when they have a near death experience? So… Am I dead? Or am I going to keep going to drift towards that bright… white…light…
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I could feel myself slipping further and further away. It was getting harder and harder to think, see and feel. Not that I could do a great deal of that anyway. You know, while staring at that thing again.
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Why... Why would this happen... to me?
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Then a sudden burst of brilliance came straight towards me. Not that I wanted it though...
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Oh…
I think…
I'm…
Dying…
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But all of a sudden, I felt something tug at me. The jolt this gave me was just enough to shock me back into thinking straight.
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If I'm dying, then… What the hell was that?
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The tugging grew stronger and stronger until I wasn't drifting any more. Just stuck floating in this oblivion. The force drawing me towards the light was growing, but so was whatever was holding me back.
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AEOI YT
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There it was again- that voice! I knew I heard it earlier!
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I tried to call out to whoever had spoken to me, but I soon found out that I couldn't.
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Oh right. No vocal chords when you're dead...
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Well, this afterlife could be improved.
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The tugging grew slowly, so I looked behind me. I wished that I hadn't.
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Well then. That's just great.
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I saw that one of the red light's tendrils had attached itself to my back somehow.
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Oh hell...
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I didn't get to finish my sentence before the tendril phased straight through my back and became entangled within my insides. I could feel it... Moving... Spreading...
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ZDNH XS
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There it was again!
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YCMG WR
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Whatever was trying to communicate with me seemed to be speaking some form of foreign language... Maybe there's a doctor trying to revive me and my dying brain isn't helping? Either that or Christians were right all along. The blood red light is hell and the white is Heaven. Makes sense. I guess. Either that, or they're completely wrong...
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Do I take my chances with the red light or try to free myself? Which one? Which way?
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I never had a choice. The tendril that had merged with my body suddenly shot backwards, taking me with it. The pulling force of the tendril, combined with the suction of the white light, actually made me want to snap in half. Screaming in my mind, I tried to swim through the darkness to escape. It didn't work. Once I touched the red light, it started to encase me. My legs were first. This was when I realized what true pain was; It felt as though my legs had been shattered in too many places to count, with shredded muscles and... something... that was there, moving and shifting the pieces and burning my blood vessels. In a mad panic, I started to wave my arms abut wildly. It obviously didn't help. The pain only grew worse as it started to swallow my torso.
I hadn't realized that I wasn't breathing before, but now all that I could do was cough and choke- something was stopping me from breathing!
My wild thrashing only seemed to speed up the process and as it closed in on my arms, I saw the beautiful white light one last time before that voice shouted at me…
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WAKE UP
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~~ AN ~~
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Hi there! Thank you for taking the time to read this story. As you may be able to tell, this is my first fanfiction. If you can give me any ways in which I can improve, please say in a comment! Constructive criticism is very welcome!
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~~Challenge!~~
For anybody who wants a bit of a challenge, the messages in the chapter above can be decoded! If you find the message/s, tell me in the comments. Whoever gets it right can have virtual brownies! Just say if you want it to be a bit harder to find or decode- it's my first attempt at doing anything like this!
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