A/N I Don't own anything
"Talking"
'Thinking'
English
Chapter 1
There was nothing...
Nothing going on forever... and ever... and-
all of a sudden I was aware of the darkness surrounding me. 'What? Where the heck am I? Excuse me, did someone kidnap me? If so you have a very weird method.' I yell out.
'Well... I wasn't expecting a response but that's still a little mean. I'm gonna try and find an exit now.' I start to move around.
trying to find the edge of whatever room I'm in, but I can't find it. I'm walking forever, and at a certain point, I decide that it's fruitless.
I'm not gonna get to the edge of whatever place I'm in. 'Ok, so either I'm dumb or this place doesn't have walls. Let's go with dumb for now, 'cause no walls has some funky connotations that I don't want to consider right now.' I think as I sit down on the floor. And I finally inspect myself to figure out what state I'm in when I realize it's not dark in here. I can see myself fine. 'Aaand I don't have any clothes on great! Not like I can do anything about it though... wait a second.' I say, looking down.
'I don't have boobs? last time I checked, I had boobs. come to think of it I don't have that freckle between my two knuckles, I've always had that! there are no moles on my arms anymore, and I'm... paler (?) than I was, which is saying something 'cause I'm pretty darn pale. wait did somebody surgically remove my breasts and dunk me in white paint?! What kind of asshole kidnapper would do that!? Is this some kind of cult shit!? I need to get this crap off.' I say and start scratching at my arm. 'Excuse me, what? why can't I feel it? I mean I kind of can but, paint should crack, it isn't, it's behaving like skin. What kind of freaking witchcraft is this? ...Well if I was dumped in paint then my hair would be white too, right?' I say, as I grab a lock and pulled it into my face.
'Black? Why would my hair be black? It makes no sense, if I was dunked in paint then my hair should be white, but if I wasn't dunked in paint then my hair should be red! Not black!' I sit for a few moments in my frustration. 'UUG! I wish I had a mirror so that I could look at myself! that might be able to help me figure out this freaking puzzle.' I say as I slap my hands over my eyes in annoyance, as I pull them down though that's when things start to get strange. 'A mirror?' I whip my head around to try and find whoever put the mirror there but no one was around.
I turn my head back to the mirror, it was a simple standing mirror, ordinary in every sense of the word. but what caught my eye was the person standing within it. it was someone I had never seen before but it didn't even take a second for me to realize that that was me. (I mean I'm looking into a mirror after all.) Black hair, black eyes, pale ghost-like skin, and soft Asian features stare back at me. I look nothing like I did before, and I look like a kid!
I step forward, 'What happened! Why do I look like I'm a three-year-old! The Hell? I look like a literal infant! And I was starting to be happy with how I looked! Come on universe! WTH!' I was fuming.
'OK!' I think slapping my hands on my face. 'let's not focus on that right now. I still need to figure out where the hell I am, in this place with no walls and maybe even no ceiling, just a floor. where in the world could I be?! Am I in limbo? No that doesn't sound right. I mean. me not being able to feel anything but the slightest hint of sensation has to mean something. And not to mention not looking like myself makes no sense for limbo. And I'm kinda... comfortable in here come to think about it.' I sit in contemplation for a few minutes.
'hmmmmmmmm?' I wondered
'Holy shit am I in my mind. Is this my Mind-scape, is this what a Mind-scape looks Like? Shouldn't there be something else, something more? Or am I that boring?' I ask the void, it -being a void- doesn't respond.
'Couldn't you be a little more interesting? I don't know, take something from the labyrinth, like that weird room of stairs.' I say, thinking of said room. and crazy enough, stairs appeared on the now existing ceiling. I say now existing because the stairs and the ceiling are all white. 'Well... that proves the Mindscape theory. But what do I know about mind-scapes?! Not a lot... but there's still something. I know that most of the time, in most fiction to enter your mind-scape you have to meditate. so to get out I should meditate? Eh, it's worth a shot.' I think as I put myself in a crisscross position. 'wait how do you meditate again?' I ask reaching back in my memory. 'You zone out everything except one sense, like sound or smell or touch, right? But there's nothing to focus on.' I think feeling a bit annoyed. 'welp, bullshitting is my forte so here goes nothing.' and I start focusing on my body, trying to feel something aside from the numbness of being in my "mind".
After what could've been anywhere from two seconds to two months, I start to feel something. something warm near my stomach, I start to focus on it. any feeling or sensation helping tremendously. after a bit I start to feel it in every part of me not just my stomach. spiraling through me going through my veins like some sort of hot energy drink? I know it sounds disgusting but there's no other way to describe it, warm, energizing, but at the same time somehow cool and refreshing, It's something I've never felt before and it makes me feel... Safe and, stronger? 'just what is this?' I think, breaking my concentration.
'Shit and I was making headway too! Well, I could tell I was getting close, so might as well take a little break, I could've been doing that for a month for all I know.' I say as I lay down. 'maybe I should spruce this place up a little, I think a-uh a forest would be nice, I could live in a treehouse! Ok, first I got to make the sky.' I think as I set myself to making it, the first thing that appears is a flat blue almost dome shape above me. I wipe that away immediately and begin to carefully craft it in my mind. I want it to be visually interesting after all, almost like a watercolor painting. I place a marker of sorts, of some mountains in the distance but not too far. The detailed sky and mountains start to be jarring against the pitch-black floor. and I slowly start making grass towards me. at a certain point, I giggled to myself thinking of phandalin, (1) but continued nonetheless. finally finished on the grass, I sit down and start to meditate again. this time I won't lose focus, I find the energy quick and dive headfirst into it. using it I'm finally able to grab onto something physical other than it, and at that, my eyes shoot open.
This was a bad choice on my part as my eyes really started to sting! And I close my eyes as fast as I could. 'Ok, so I am in some sort of vat of liquid I'm not sure if it's water or goop.' I wiggle my fingers a little bit. 'it's thin enough to be water but then again you never know.' I ponder and set about adjusting my eyes to it. opening them ever so slightly, this time stinging a little less. and I keep them open until I can no longer feel any stinging. 'I'm surprised that didn't take that long.'
As I'm able to open my eyes now that's exactly what I do. The room around me is rather dark. but I see several tables with various scientific instruments on them. I see two doors one in the middle of a wall and one Tucked away in the corner. but most of all, the thing that stands out are the three "pods" is the best way to describe them. right in front of me containing Children, presumably, there are two beside me as well. 'What the fuck.' I was starting to feel sick. 'are these kids being experimented on? what kind of sick people would do that?! Wait... am I being experimented on.' Donning horror blossoms across my features. 'Shit I need to get out of here a soon as possible, but how though?! think brain think! How the hell can I get out of this? what about that weird energy stuff that let me get out of my mind? it made me feel stronger, after all. it could be a bit more literal than I thought? Oh, who are you kidding it's never gonna work. well, don't knock it till you try it! Who knows this could some weird magic bullshit world! I don't know since REBIRTH is a thing.' my thoughts were getting more frantic by the second.
'Ok, I need to calm down and focus.' A stern aura settled around me as I close my eyes. 'Breathe. Okay now, feel around for that energy it ought to be around here somewhere... THERE!' I immediately grasp at the energy. it's difficult to keep my hold on it this time around, it might be the fact that I'm actually in my body. but I hold it and start to circulate it through my system, testing what it does. And the strengthening effect wasn't just in my head, it's pretty much impossible to describe, but I could feel my muscles being reinforced and they were... sturdier than before. But that's not the only thing I figured out it did. I channeled it into my ears, (a bit too much at first, and everything sounded Base Boosted. but then I figured out the right amount.) and I could hear some people breathing outside the door. 'Guards? definitely. why? I have no idea, but they are there nonetheless.' And then the final thing I could think of, eyes. Learning from my ear mistake, I didn't channel a lot but Dang did my vision get crisp. and the bubbles in my tank were all slow motion. 'well that's gonna be hella' useful.' I cut the flow off and started to think.
'K how am I going to do this? I could break out of the pod. but one of them will definitely come in here if not both, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't take them at the same time. I could try to get them in here and try to trick them into letting me go, but I'm not charismatic enough for that. and there's no way I can break out of here while being quiet, hmm.' I sit and think for a moment. 'Well, brute force it is! worst-case scenario I die, at least I hope that's the worst-case.' Are my final thoughts before I charge my muscles with the energy and force my way out.
CRASH
Broken glass cut deep into my arms as I rammed against the pod. I felt my body fall and the glass cut into my legs and across my face as I collapsed to the floor.
I hear the guards through the door but I couldn't understand them. "A crash?" I heard a masculine voice say. "Well, go check it out, it's probably another kamikaze clone." A more feminine one said. "Oh yeah Just a kamikaze clone." the male voice spoke again followed by the sound of footsteps closing in
'Better hide' I managed to hide under a nearby table in time. at the sight of someone entering the room, I made my body as small as possible. a pair of sandaled feet walked past my hiding spot, stopping at the glass. "There is a broken pod and some bloody glass but I don't see the subject anywhere." They called out. "you stay there and keep searching I'm gonna get some backup!" the female one said, followed by distant running. The man had started looking under tables, and I saw this as an opportunity to strike. I scanned the room trying to find an object to weaponize when I spotted a metal tray a table over. I crawled to the table and grabbed it.
Right as he looked under the next table, I lunged at him. smashing the tray over his head as hard as I could. which was pretty dang hard because he got knocked out immediately.
He fell over limp. I heard a clattering sound and saw that something metallic fell out of a pouch strapped to his leg. I took a proper look at it and saw that it was what looked to be a kunai. I picked it up, looked a bit closer and a grin spread across my face.
The sound of shoes tapping on the floor snapped me out of my thoughts, they sounded like they were coming closer. 'Crud, sounds like a group is coming.' I looked for a better hiding spot when I spotted the door in the corner of the room. I darted for the corner and barely got in, in time.
as my eyes finally adjusted to the dark I saw that I was in a storage closet for lab coats. I looked at my body, I was naked.
I put on a lab coat, it's loose but it gets the job done.
I heard people talking but I couldn't make out the words (probably because it was another language.) "hey! Kakaro! Wake up! Dang it, he's out cold." "where is the subject?" "We would've seen them if they came out so they must still be in here."
after 30 seconds of waiting someone opened the door
"ah-ha! I gotcha now!" The man exclaimed trying to grab at me. I threw a box at him, ducked under his grasp, and slid under his legs while slashing at his ankle. 'The less mobility the better.' And the man cries out from the sudden pain.
I immediately send some more energy into my eyes and evaluate the room.
Aside from the man I slashed, and the one I knocked out, there are three people in the room. and speaking of the man I slashed, I can see him pivoting on his unharmed foot and his posture is raring to grab me again.
I react to this as fast as I can even if I seem slow with this affecting my eyes. 'Wait I can just activate it whenever I need it and deactivate it when I don't! I feel like an idiot.' I pull the energy from my eyes, push it into my legs, jump over his lunge, and slash at his eyes. 'Oh god, that's a lot of blood.' using the man's head as a springboard. I launch at the nearest person to stab at her neck. shock, fear, regret, and grief blossom on her features and then Anger. 'Oh, she's pissed.' I redirect myself by not stabbing her and using my free hand on her head to propel myself towards the door. I hit the ground running pumping the energy into my legs to get away as fast as possible, I don't dare look back.
The hallways are winding and confusing and I'm having to fight off quite a few assailants. I had collected a few more kunai and weirdly enough a couple of shuriken. My intuition didn't lead me astray, as I turned a corner I saw it, stairs and natural light! I booked it, I run up the stairs as fast as I could.
I finally emerged. I was in a forest but I couldn't stop to admire the beauty I had to keep running.
And so I ran, and ran, and ran, I had run so long I couldn't feel my legs, and the sun had set. I was no longer running, but I still put one foot in front of the other "I need... to get... farther." I was too tired to think straight, and I was starting to blackout. (It's amazing I hadn't blacked out sooner with all my wounds.) But I heard someone behind me, I whipped around and pushed the energy into my eyes.
This proved to be the last straw, short brown hair and a strange white mask were the last things I saw before I was gone.
Kaka, (according to google translate) is a word for weak or dim, I figure that he is not very strong considering he got knocked out by a four-year-old
(1) Phandalin is a town in DnD, but more specifically this is a reference to The Adventure Zone.
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