Act 9

Rebirth

A long memory of a touch... A kiss?

A flash of crimson...

My vision snapped open violently, bright golden sunlight flooded and blinded my vision. I blinked away the spots that has clustered on my retina.

What was this? where am i?

Warmth. The feel of... is that grass? something so scathingly unfamilliar and forgotten to me.

Yes that is grass, and dirt and air and sun and birds chirping in the distance. The smell of a water near by. A sense of great relief started to swell inside of me, i suddenly felt moisture dripping from my eyes. But why is that?

I tried to move but my limbs failed me. Every fiber of my being was hurting and stinging as if everything has been torn out and clumsily pt back in.

My fingesr curled around the green blades of grass, i noticed that my hands were covered and caked in fresh and dried blood. I stretched out my fingers to better look at it. What... happened?

Oh lords, what happened. I tried to recall what had happened, to no avail, my mind drew a silent, almost blissful blank.

The feeling that something was terribly wrong hung over my aching body like a silent exclamation mark. Focus, damnnit! i closed my eyes relucntantly against this warm golden beam from the heavens. Fragmented images and disembodied voices floated through my hazy brain.

Screams... and... fire and a flash of silver! (eyes?) in the dark, then wet hot sticky..what is that? is that blood? ...on clawed hands... (wait? clawed hands?)

A pang of immense pain zinged through my entire body, the shock and blow of the sudden pain made me buck and double up clutching at my body. I was trembling violently. Shaky breaths and painful hisses escaped through gritted teeth. My eyes rolled back into my skull... oh god, the pain! its too much. My vision started to bleed black at the edges like a paper that was caught on fire and her mind was exploding in blooms of red and yellow, all i could think of now was that if this seizure went on she might swallow her tongue.

Please let this end... maybe you deserve this... floated a eerie voice in the back of my mind.

Deserve this? Yet somehow, i felt as if these words were true, i mused as my feeble bloodstained hands gripped pathetically at my jerking, trembling body. I had no more strength to fight this. Was there even a reason now? It wold have been so easy to to surrender to the brimming darkness. Maybe i should..?

Suddenly something blocked out that wonderful golden bean that i have craved for, for so long. Move it, damn you, i thght. Let me die in peace, i yelled internally since i barely had the energy to breathe. I could taste copper and bile in my mouth.

Blurry shapes dotted in and out hrriedly. Voices ringing , it sounded as if i was submerged underwater. Disfigured, undistinguishable voices floated arond me. i was being handled, something was shoved in my mouth, it was dry and hard yet earthy... i was jst relieved that it wasnt the horrid unforgettable taste of coppery blood that seemed to drown my senses. I felt like i was drowning in blood. Suddenly...!

That crimson!

My one eye that has up picked this color, as if it was the only color that existed within this blackening darkness, widened in shock horror. I wanted to reach out to it. Before i cld contemplate this, green light flooded my mind. It felt cool and warm at the same time. It was nice. I liked this sensation a lot. So blurry now...

I felt hands on me. I chuckled at the sensation, there were always hands on me, pulling, dragging, yanking... just faceless bodiless hands from the dark trying to tear me limb from limb. Despite it all, i heard myself gurgle out a maniacal laughter. One that i'm not familiar with. Is that even my voice..? It was terrifyingly alien to my own ears, it sounded... malicious and diabolically and fervently stark raving mad. It wld have sent chills to any soul that heard it. An even more sickening feeling is that i fear that this wasn't the first time that laughter has been sung, like a war cry in a mass field of bloodied severed bodies, fire raging amongst the blood shed.

Then, a sense of rshing relief. Like a tidal waved that has crashed into the rocks only to be plled back into a calm gentle flow.

An image ratcheted into the watery darkness of my mind. Oh lords, who is that? What is this?! i panicked and tried to mentally shut out that image but that laughter was still ringing like the tolling of bells straight out of hell.

a man?... no... it was a woman.

A slender figure, Long billowing black hair like a cape fluttered in a frenzy in the orange and black flickering fiery scene, hands dripping blood and ribbons of flesh from long sharp nails. The head lifted slowly, blazing hungry eyes were seen, one eye is the color of melted gold. and the other blazing silver. Bloodlust evident in both, not a slight shadow of mercy to be found in either. A wicked grin flashed and that laughter... oh god that dreadful laghter...

That image in my mind, sent me reeling into the nothingness, there was no floors or ceiling . Only the sensation of falling.. falling fast into a static white... then nothing