Chapter one: Final Smiles
The dark abyss. The feeling of death. These things should have been familiar for me. But then again I don't think any sane human could actually get used to them. These things are odd even to the oddest of people. But then again I deal with it every day so really in reality I should be used to it. Dreams where always a reacquiring thing for me.
This time however seemed to be different. This one I could feel more pain than usual. It felt as though my back had been cut up into a million different pieces. It felt like it was on fire and that I would burn up from the inside out. However the warm liquid that I felt running down from my back and onto my legs told me that in this dream I was not on fire but rather, as it felt, was cut. And by the looks of the blood that was pooling around my feet I was cut to the point where I would no longer have the nice smooth skin there anymore. Or that it wasn't just one cut but more along the lines that my back was shredded.
I wanted to scream. I wanted to shout out to anyone. But my mouth was shut closed. Teeth gritted so tightly that it was like they wanted to shatter under the pressure. I felt the pulse of my heart throbbing in my back and my hands clenched tighter. If that was even possible. Wake up! Why wouldn't I wake up? If I wasn't going to wake up where was gene?
I wondered these things and then my legs gave out on me. But I did not hit the ground right away. I was falling. Into a sea of black. There was nothing to right of me. nor the left. No roof or floor. Just a thick nothingness.
I landed up right and I saw the team but was soon thrown back against a wall with a mirror. The impact was enough to shatter the glass into a thousand sharp edges that landed on the ground before me. I slid down the wall slowly. I could feel the hands that were holding onto my arms grip tighter and then I was not on the wall but all the way to ceiling. So close that I my nose touched the roof. And then I was let go. My white dress that I had decided to wear that day billowing around me as I fell from the ten foot high ceiling.
The impact of the floor knocked the breath out of me but sharp glass from the mirror that the ghost seemed to have made land pointing up, took my breath away even more. I was not able to breathe but once I was, the room was filled my screams of pain. I could feel the bile rising in my throat as my screams lessened. But the pain did not go away. Instead it increased and I was sure I was going to pass out. I could feel the blackness coming to claim me at the edges of my mind. I fought it off as I tried desperately to stay conscious and listen to my friends.
I focused on the their voices as I ground my teeth together in order to keep from screaming again but it was hard as I was sure that I could feel the glass that was now imbedded into my skin scrape at my bones. But maybe that was just my imagination. My vision started to fade to black and I continued to struggle as to keep awake as my body became numb and I could smell something metallic in the air. My head started to spin and the bile rose a little further in my throat until it spilled from lips. But all I could taste was still that metallic taste of blood. The same thing that I was sure was pooling around my body. My vision became black then and that was when I heard my name being screamed from the lips from my friends. And that was it.
I awoke to the soft murmur of voices. Who's I didn't know just yet. I listened. But yet all I could get out of it was a jumble of words. I tried to open my eyes but they would not open for me. my body did not respond to any of the things I tried to get to move. It was like I was a statue. But little by little I was able to awaken different body parts. Such as my toes. Then the tips of my fingers. I didn't dare to move anything more than that in hopes to hear what the voices more quickly. They sounded familiar.
Listening closer I was able to determine that the two were Madoka and lin. And as my hearing got clearer I could tell that they were right next to me. Telling each other that they loved each other. And that everything would be fine. I could hear that Madoka was on the brink of tears and that Lin was trying to calm her down. Telling her to keep her voice down so that he wouldn't wake someone. That someone I could only assume was the other person whose hand was holding mine.
Finally finding that my eyes were now able to move under my eyelids, I opened them. there was bright light in my eyes and the beeping of a heart monitor finally made it to my ears. I moved my head from side to side to try to get out of its range. The beeping got louder and faster, the shouts of lin and Madoka got more frantic. Finally the light was turned off leaving only a dim glow of a lamp that was on the bed side table to light up the room. I looked from side to side to find Naru, to my shock, and the other two on my right. I smiled at them and said thank you. once again I hadn't the slightest clue why. But i went with it. And then I was sucked into a realm of nothingness.
