chapter four: The Realm of Dreams.
The silhouette grabbed her hand and helped her up, her head ached, she felt a spasm of pain in her right arm, she had a large cut down her forearm.
"come, you're wounded..."
Kagome looked around, shocked.
"but, the- where is the- what the what-"
"please, calm down, you were wounded during the battle, you may have a concussion, we must see the doctor"
She saw the silhouette's face for the first time, he was an albino androgyne, his hair was completely white.
"where- where am I?"
"you're on a battlefield, I fought next to you, remember?"
She shook her head, he looked dissapointed.
"well, I guess this is a clean slate, then"
He shook her hand.
"oh, sorry about your arm, anyway, hello, my name is Ziggy Stardust, we were bunkmates in the fifteenth armed biological squadron, we fought for the realm of dreams against the realm of nightmares, as you can see, from my standing here, we won the battle, during the fight, one of the cybernetics suicide-bombed our posistion, Jonathan Lenin threw his body onto the robot, therefore absorbing all of the shrapnel and giving his life so the rest of the squadron could survive, you were flung away from the blast and you hit your head on a rock, and got knocked out"
"he gave his life for us..."
"I understand this may be a huge shock for you..."
"no... no... after what I've been through, I've become numb."
Ziggy coughed.
"well then, please, follow me."
She stood up, grabbing her arm in an effort to stop the pain, she noticed she was wearing an official-looking uniform, her armband was emblazoned with a cresent moon throwing moonbeams in all directions, she stumbled after him, in the distance was a tent, marked with a red 'x', they walked together to it, Kagome half-tripped on a rock, a woman, a nurse, walked out of the tent to greet them.
"oh, hello, Ziggy, hello, Kagome, do you require medical attention?"
"well, only Kagome, she seems to have quite a little cut in her arm."
She smiled.
"ah, of course, I'll get the tea."
She dissapeared into the medical tent and emerged with a cup, she handed it to Kagome.
"well, drink up."
Kagome drank and felt an odd tingling sensation in her arm, she finished her cup and felt no more pain, her wound had completely bound itself, no scar.
"thank you, very much."
"oh, no problem."
She took the cup from Kagome and returned to the tent.
"so, Ziggy, you were saying, what is the ream of dreams?"
"it's what were fighting for Kagome! you're standing on the realm of dreams, girl, it's a country, were currently at war with the realm of nightmares."
"what did they do, Ziggy?"
"you must understand, we were once a a single realm, the realm of sleep, but a rift formed between the cybernetics and the biological, the cybernetics thought that it would be completely fine to torture and kill biologicals for the good of the realm, the biologicals disagreed"
"torture and kill our own people for the good of the realm, how?"
"they would do horrible experiments to humans, in one they would strap a man to a rack, then they would inject him with a pain-increasing serum, they would gradually put more and more weight on his body, tuning out the screaming, until he went insane, they were attempting to create a immunization for insanity, project HOPE, none know how many lost thier lives to that corrupted program, and those they tortured, didn't know they were going to die, they thought they were testing placebos"
"those-"
"horrible people, that's why we fight, Kagome, we are willing to die to have revenge for those hundreds that died in thier sadistic torture chambers, but now let us sleep, it is late in the realm of dreams, your bunk is above mine"
Kagome followed him to the sleeping tent, she climed up the ladder to her bunk and closed her eyes, she could feel the pillow beneath her head, a cold, steel hand at her throat, and the barrel of a gun on the side of her head, the cybernetics had ambushed the sleeping camp, a metallic voice rung in her ears.
"it is foolish to resist, surrender now."
to be continued...
The silhouette grabbed her hand and helped her up, her head ached, she felt a spasm of pain in her right arm, she had a large cut down her forearm.
"come, you're wounded..."
Kagome looked around, shocked.
"but, the- where is the- what the what-"
"please, calm down, you were wounded during the battle, you may have a concussion, we must see the doctor"
She saw the silhouette's face for the first time, he was an albino androgyne, his hair was completely white.
"where- where am I?"
"you're on a battlefield, I fought next to you, remember?"
She shook her head, he looked dissapointed.
"well, I guess this is a clean slate, then"
He shook her hand.
"oh, sorry about your arm, anyway, hello, my name is Ziggy Stardust, we were bunkmates in the fifteenth armed biological squadron, we fought for the realm of dreams against the realm of nightmares, as you can see, from my standing here, we won the battle, during the fight, one of the cybernetics suicide-bombed our posistion, Jonathan Lenin threw his body onto the robot, therefore absorbing all of the shrapnel and giving his life so the rest of the squadron could survive, you were flung away from the blast and you hit your head on a rock, and got knocked out"
"he gave his life for us..."
"I understand this may be a huge shock for you..."
"no... no... after what I've been through, I've become numb."
Ziggy coughed.
"well then, please, follow me."
She stood up, grabbing her arm in an effort to stop the pain, she noticed she was wearing an official-looking uniform, her armband was emblazoned with a cresent moon throwing moonbeams in all directions, she stumbled after him, in the distance was a tent, marked with a red 'x', they walked together to it, Kagome half-tripped on a rock, a woman, a nurse, walked out of the tent to greet them.
"oh, hello, Ziggy, hello, Kagome, do you require medical attention?"
"well, only Kagome, she seems to have quite a little cut in her arm."
She smiled.
"ah, of course, I'll get the tea."
She dissapeared into the medical tent and emerged with a cup, she handed it to Kagome.
"well, drink up."
Kagome drank and felt an odd tingling sensation in her arm, she finished her cup and felt no more pain, her wound had completely bound itself, no scar.
"thank you, very much."
"oh, no problem."
She took the cup from Kagome and returned to the tent.
"so, Ziggy, you were saying, what is the ream of dreams?"
"it's what were fighting for Kagome! you're standing on the realm of dreams, girl, it's a country, were currently at war with the realm of nightmares."
"what did they do, Ziggy?"
"you must understand, we were once a a single realm, the realm of sleep, but a rift formed between the cybernetics and the biological, the cybernetics thought that it would be completely fine to torture and kill biologicals for the good of the realm, the biologicals disagreed"
"torture and kill our own people for the good of the realm, how?"
"they would do horrible experiments to humans, in one they would strap a man to a rack, then they would inject him with a pain-increasing serum, they would gradually put more and more weight on his body, tuning out the screaming, until he went insane, they were attempting to create a immunization for insanity, project HOPE, none know how many lost thier lives to that corrupted program, and those they tortured, didn't know they were going to die, they thought they were testing placebos"
"those-"
"horrible people, that's why we fight, Kagome, we are willing to die to have revenge for those hundreds that died in thier sadistic torture chambers, but now let us sleep, it is late in the realm of dreams, your bunk is above mine"
Kagome followed him to the sleeping tent, she climed up the ladder to her bunk and closed her eyes, she could feel the pillow beneath her head, a cold, steel hand at her throat, and the barrel of a gun on the side of her head, the cybernetics had ambushed the sleeping camp, a metallic voice rung in her ears.
"it is foolish to resist, surrender now."
to be continued...