Disclaimer: I do not own Gakuen Alice.
Fallen From Oblivion
by Ridley Silverlake
"All your memories of the Academy will be erased…"
The insufferable words played in Mikan's head over and over, giving her no chance to recover from the painfully unceasing stream of emotions.
The truth, Mikan was told, is often cruel. She'd never believed it though, at least not until today. Today, reality had become a spitting image of agony and silence.
"All your memories of the Academy will be erased…"
Her memories, her friends, her happiness... everything she loved was about to be taken from her. She was left defenseless; left with no other possibilities and no way to make a choice for herself.
No matter how much the Academy offered their unbearably cheap attempts of sugarcoating their words, "protection" and "precaution", to Mikan, still meant taking away two years worth of incredible, irreplaceable memories.
"All your memories of the Academy will be erased…"
When the most dismal of the miserable takes over, nothing, not even cheap attempts of laughter, could take it away. Even the precious memories she knew she was about to lose made things worse. Nothing, if not a life supply of Howalons and another decade at the Academy, could make anything better now.
"All your memories of the Academy will be erased…"
One last look at the yellow-orange walls and its bigger-than-normal windows from which the old brown drapes hung, which she'd seen in that very same room the moment she first stepped into it two years ago. Beyond the shut window, she could see the woods; the woods she'd regretfully stepped into in her first week at the Academy, where she was attacked by a stuffed bear and the same place she met a thousand-pound chick. That chick happened to be friends with a boy named Ruka, who was the third person she met next to a pheromone-driven Narumi and an aggressive Natsume, both of whom greeted her outside the walls of Alice Academy, a school she'd heard of months ago and decided to visit in order to calm her feelings of having missed her best friend, Hotaru, whose hair looked like it would never grow to below her shoulders.
"All your memories of the Academy will be erased…"
All these memories that flooded her thoughts… instead of calming her down, they made things worse. Instead of giving her reassuring feelings of having spent two years of her life with the most amazing people, they served as another painful reminder that no matter how beautiful the memories, she would soon forget those two years and all those amazing people.
Two years, a hundred people, and a thousand memories.
"All your memories of the Academy will be erased…"
The last thing she heard was her own crying; her screams pierced through her ears and her warm tears fell as she mentally begged it all to have been a terrible nightmare.
The nightmare, however, was that it wasn't.
To be continued…
Author's Notes: So… this'll be a two-shot. (If that's even a legit term. Idk) I've been writing this for about a week or so, and I wanted it to be a oneshot and have it published before the next chapter of the manga comes out.
Well… I didn't manage. OTL So instead, I'm putting up what I've finished so far, just so I can claim that I've had this idea before the chapter after the "your memories will be erased" chapter is released. Haha!
I'll finish this as soon as I can, so just wait up for a bit. :D In the meantime, review? :3
PS: This is not beta-ed, btw, and not proofread. OTL Sorry. I'll fix whatever needs fixing soon.