-1Chapter One- Awakening
Pain! Nails scraping across a new chalkboard! That was my first sign. It started at the back of my throat, causing that racking coughs to return. It felt like someone was pushing all the air out of my body while clawing the back of my throat. All I could hope was that it'd be quick and over with. Maybe Death wouldn't be so bad; I'd see Nyx, right? I could thank her forgiving my the chance to meet people like me before I died.
Thank you! … Total darkness. A black so define there is no beginning… or end. A void in time. The dark abyss of nothing. Of course I'm contradicting myself; it's something I do best because it it's nothing how can it be dark? If it was an abyss that would mean you could find it. You can't find me now. I'm lost forever; I'm in Nyx's hands now.
"Elizabeth, you can wake up now." That voice! It sounded bad, yet familiar? It doesn't belong here, yet there it was, floating if alive, taunting me, beckoning me t follow.
"Elizabeth. Come here." Neferet! The name shoots though me like electricity, searing my brain with remembrance. It pulls me with a strange power; I try to cling t darkness, refusing to follow.
"Come here!" The force overcomes me.
"Drink." I obey. The taste soured in my mouth- blood. Her blood. I pushed her arm away, but she pushed me back, holding me there. I knew that if I ever want to move again I had to drink.
"You will be taken to you new home soon. Drink up. You'll need your strength before you go down." she smoothed my hair, and I relaxed. Down? I was confused. What am I? I glanced around my new home- an old abandoned warehouse. In the room was a single table with three chairs around it. Neferet sat in a fourth chair by a door that looks like it'd better fit in a medieval castle. The rest of the room was filled with trash. I noticed a hole in the corner, but as far as I could tell it was the only other way out.
"What am I? I thought I died," I ask her. She simply smiles and says,
"All in good time."
The pain returned between my eyes. It was small, but quickly spread to my ears and head. I was tortured by the ringing and fire on my head, and I fell to the ground in a rocking ball of tears and whimpering. My eyes rolled to the back of my head, and Neferet stands there, watching, laughing at the sight.
"The change is almost complete. Soon, you will be more powerful than you could have ever imagined. Sleep well, Elizabeth for this is the last time you'll ever be yourself. Tomorrow, you will be so much more."
I fell into the darkness again while she stands over me, continuing to laugh. My last thoughts as the kind, sweet, innocent Elizabeth No Last Name were of Neferet. Will the goddess of Night Nyx forgive her for what she did, or will she be damned for all eternity? I slept that night hoping to never open my eyes again.