I opened my eyes and saw the night sky above me. I sat up and looked around, to see a bunch of dead tree's, the ground was dry but an odd shade of purple. Fear washed over me, my body began to shake uncontrollably, a million thoughts ran through my mind at hundred miles an hour. Bitter tears began to swell from my eyes. "god, am I dead, is this hell?" I asked my self. Someone put their hand on my shoulder causing me jump, I scrambled to my feet to take a fighting stance. As I did I saw vermillion.
"i hope we aren't it would suck being stuck in this place forever." he said in a calm tone.
I jumped at him and hugged him tightly, joy spread through me. He pat my head and held me tightly. Thank god he's okay, I thought to my self, thank god I'm not alone.
I looked up at his face and saw him in detail I hadn't really looked at any of my new family in detail before but now I couldn't help but to notice. He orange red hair that was cut in a simple way short on the sides a little longer on the top, his beard covered his face, and neck. His body was chiseled, toned and you could see his chest and arm hair sticking out through his white v-neck short sleeved t-shirt. He wore camo cargo shorts revealing his stone hard calve muscles also covered in his orange red hair.
"sorry I didn't mean to jump at you like that." I said shyly
"its cool man don't worry about it, lets walk around get our bearings and find a way home." he said calmly.
We began to walk, in an awkward silence. We saw a lake ahead of us and started walking over to it. I started to think clearly again, then suddenly a thought ran through my mind. "hey vermillion how are you so calm?"
he glanced over at arching one eye brow. "I'm not, I'm terrified, but that doesn't help us so I'm pushing all my thoughts to the back of my mind so I can push forward. I'm the leader and I have to keep all of you guys safe."
suddenly I felt bad, coming to the realization of how much of a burden our leader has taken on him self. As we drew near the lake I saw my parents. Shocked I stopped unable to move. "do you see them?" I asked vermillion
"yeah I do aren't they your parents?"
"yes" I said
"we need to be careful, this could be an illusion we met a guy like us a year ago who could see into our past and create illusions based off what he saw."
"what happened to him?"
"he tried to draw ruby to the enemy so they could kill, I tore his head off his shoulders."
a little startled by the new found information I looked at him, then remembered getting torn to shreds and realized if he hadn't done what he had then none of them would be here today. We walked up to my parents.
"we've been waiting for you guys." my mom said
"we've come to give you two a choice to save your world or move into the afterlife." my dad said " but you don't have much time to choose."
"where are we?" vermillion asked
"we are in the world in between the living and the dead."
vermillion and I looked at each other. I leaned over and whispered to him "what do you think we should do?"
"lets just go with it for now till we learn more." he whispered back, he looked at them and said "if what you say is true how do we get out of here and back to our world... the world of the living I mean?"
my mom pointed at the lake and said "look into the lake to go to the living, go to the door to move on to eternity"
"we must go now our time is up." said my dad
"WAIT! Will I ever get to see you again?"
he looked at me and smiled and with out a word he and my mother faded, then vanished as though they were just an illusion. I looked at vermillion, making eye contact. As though we could read each others minds we walked up to the lake and looked into the water. I saw my reflection and in a flash we were engulfed in a bright light. Suddenly I was being born and living life then dieing again a million times over one moment I was fighting for my honor as a samurai, then I was training to be a knight, fighting Nazi's in Germany, running through plains hunting a lion in Africa. I was reincarnated a million times over, then suddenly I woke up in the field where vermillion and I were torn apart by the master, with everyone around the two of us crying. We both sat up simultaneously, I looked at vermillion.
"did... you?" I said weakly
"yah I saw it too." he said coughing
suddenly my body was filled with energy, a surge of power like non I've never felt before. Vermillion looked at me. "wanna try?"
my lips broke into a smile "lets do it." I said with a rush of childish giddy
we instantly attacked each other. all those previous lives we experienced, was like downloading an upgrade on a computer we had knowledge of over a hundred different fighting skills. As well as our latent powers they were significantly stronger I could pull the moister out of the air form it then freeze it into a weapon of my choice, vermillion made fire so hot it melted the ground at his feet after about 10 minutes of fighting sienna jumped in between us and screamed "ENOUGH!"
vermillion smirked and looked at the rest "well guys I guess we need to have a meeting."