Chapter 1:

I couldn't see anything for what seemed like an eternity.

There was a sharp ringing in my ears, and pain fluctuated through me like electricity. Every pulse, more agonizing then the last. I wished for it to stop, hoped the pain would end. I wanted someone else to be there with me, someone to tell me I was going to be okay, a friend. I was alone, accompanied only by darkness. I could only hold out and wait for the pain to end. What I could only describe as hours of torture followed before I was allowed to relate from the pain. It began in my toes, and followed up my legs and spine to my head, which had been fluctuating in agony. I let out a sigh of relief. It was over. I could lay in piece. But another thought arose. What was I relieved of? Of course it was pain, but why? Why was I in pain?

What had happened?

I brought myself to open my eyes, finding some happiness to leave the darkness and join in the sunlight I now viewed. I found my footing, and stood up slowly, tensing in expentancy. But my body felt perfectly fine, even after all that pain. Nothing was sore.

"What the heck?" I said in amazement.

I looked around more, only to see trees and grass. Nothing to tell me exactly where I was. But, now that I thought about it, nothing could tell me where I was. Or even who I was. Panic filled me when I could not even remember my own name.

"Think, think," I said, "who are you? Who am I?"

But I answered myself with confusion.

"How could I forget my name? What happened?" I began speaking louder.

I led out to find someone, anyone, when a sudden flash of something came across my sight. It burned into my mind, and startled my movement, causing me to fall. I sat up in confusion.

"Who is Marcus Kyle?" I asked myself in response to the name that had appeared out of nowhere for a mere second.

I looked around again, terrified that I knew nothing of what had happened. Was happening. Would happen.

I was lost. But not just in a forest, in myself. I had no memory of who I was. No memory of what I was. I was lost within my mind.