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~The Elemental
Walk Through the Fire
Chapter Four:
Hell in a Handbasket: Orian
Duo was floating.
What…?
Colors he didn't know existed swirled around him. Images bombarded his mind until he thought he would scream.
I'm dead…
He had seen the explosion as it started, then there was a flash of the most intense pain…and blackness.
Everything I'd expected from death. The pain…The darkness…Everything… Except this…Is this hell? Where am I?
He spun in the nightmare of colour that somehow made him think of a Dali painting…Until after what seemed to be an eternity he fell. Fast.
There was a sickening thump as a lone figure fell out of the sky, the branches of a tree breaking his fall and hiding his resting place.
Of course the figure knew nothing of this. He'd been claimed by the black of his sub-conscious long before.
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The blackness that was Vjara had begun to swallow Saturn whole. She knew it was only a matter of time before it enveloped her completely. The portal had closed. The princess was safe. It didn't matter what happened to her now.
Her scenery shifted, changed. She was still floating…But the void has changed. Now it seemed to assault her mind with colors she'd only seen before in dreams, tearing at he mind in a thousand places. The creature around her shrieked in pain. It's still alive? Saturn flinched as its screams reached an octave higher. Not for long…
It began to dissolve, dissipate into the hellish mass of floating colours, soon leaving Saturn alone with her injuries.
Where am I? She winced and shut her eyes at the shifting colours surrounding her. Not that it helped. Is this Hell? She could feel something pull at her, almost as though the space had decided she wasn't worth it's time. Strange thought about this place Saturn, as though it's alive. Though it wouldn't surprise me one bit. Whatever it was, it continued to pull, gradually increasing its pressure until Saturn thought she could bear no more, her broken ribs screaming in pain.
Finally her battered body gave up and she fell into the forgiving realm of her sub-conscious.
If anyone had been watching the skies in Orian, they would have seen a portal re-open for a second time, dropping a small figure onto and through a tree who's low branches hid where she fell.
Considering that this was Orian though....It was very fortunate for the figure indeed....
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I'm sorry this is so short, I'm writing as fast as I can. It's a teaser, I know......
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I am the Breeze of Wisdom and the Wind of Insanity
~The Elemental.