Wow has it been so long since I started another chapter!
Honestly I was planning to just drop this story since my computer with ALL my documents broke. :'(
Although I kept getting email alerts of people following this story, and I asked myself "How do they even know if I would ever come back?!"
Yet here I am, and luckily I found my out jolted notes so I might as well continue this twisted obsession.
Lets the story continue! (at least until I run out of ideas.)
Chapter 10:
Patient #305
"AAAAaaaaahhhhh!"
Aqua shrieked shielding one hand against her face from the speeding debris of palm trees and other wild growing vegetation. It was useless since she was transparent to everything that crossed her path yet instincts said otherwise. It felt like she was going as fast as her keyglider in void space, because the environment around was moving so fast it left only green and brown blurs.
Aqua held on tightly onto the silver string tugging her to a small spacious town by the bay. There wasn't much time to scope except one little light brown house. Which wooden door was coming closer and closer. Once more the young keyblade master turned her head waiting for the impact but met the hard ungiving wooden planked floor instead.
"Ugh…" She groaned lifting herself up from her arms, wobbly rising back up to her feet, and began observing the area.
The place smelt like a hybrid mix of fresh laundry soap and disinfectant. There were rectangular florescent lights securely hooked on to the egg white ceiling. On the east end corner were three small empty metal beds, each neatly separated by turquoise curtains. On her left closest to her was a written white board on a wood stand written in vibrant colors of red, and green. On the bottom a childish drawing of a smiling star invited her reading:
Welcome!
Walk-ins are accepted,
Flu shots are available!
:)
A Clinic…Aqua thought sadly.
Hearing the heavy tap against the creaking wooden planks, her eyes followed the sound to the west corner of the clinic as an older middle age man in a matching white lab coat appeared out of the darkness of what seemed to be a hallway.
He had a hard grimace look plastered on his tanned wrinkled face as he shook his head rolling up his sleeves, pulling a curtain from the far south east corner. Closest to the right side of the ghostly girl.
Aqua's sky blue eyes widened holding her breath as she walked to the metal bed frame, gripping the aluminum bars for support. Lying in the little clinic's bed, tattered and torn and wearing a triangle patterned patient's gown was herself. Her head was wrapped around in bandages, her right forearm rested in a cast, and from the waist down was concealed with a purple grape cotton blanket. She could only imagine what other injuries that she endured from the battle with that thing underneath it.
Oh light…
It was strange seeing herself so…broken.
Was this how people used to heal without magic?
Master Eraqus did mentioned it when healing citizens from other worlds that there were many places where healing magic was unheard of and people had to rely on the knowledge of their own heart to survive. Although she never thought it would become known in a situation like this. At least not being so helplessly alone.
The Doctor rubbed his forehead looking at his patient grabbing a rolling stool. He sat next to her button pressing with a beeping machine that accompanied her by the bedside.
He sighed scratching the top of his peppered brown thinning hair. "I just can't understand it."
At that moment bells rang from the entry wooden door as a older petite woman dressed in a plain yellow dress rushed in quickly shutting it behind her. "How she holding up, Doc?"
"Hasn't changed much, Karen." He said glancing at her as she walked to other side of the patient's bed. "She's out of the danger zone. Luckily, the bleeding from the gash on her back has stopped and I can't say the second degree burns will completely disappear but she'll learn to live with that."
"How about the swelling?"
"Hmph." Said the over worked Doctor rising from the stool, hands hidden in his pockets, slowly walking toward the nearest window. He stared past the framed glass sliding the window open. "It's starting to go down, although I can't guarantee she will wake up anytime soon."
Karen put her hands on her hips, "What's that suppose to mean?" She began raising her hands up and down while the doctor pulled out a thin cigarette and lighter out of his white coat, lighting it on his lips. "You just said this girl is out of danger."
"Look." He inhaled and exhaled out the window pointing with his free hand at the resting patient, "I'm not sure what type of fight this young lady went through, but how her body status is currently, she could be stuck in this coma for as long as it takes for her to heal from the inside out."
The woman looked dumb founded. "Oh no…Sheldon, we have to get in contact with her parents. I'm sure they would want to know what has happened."
Sheldon nodded still looking out the glass window, his face still looking emotionless, "I'll call the police to see if they can find anything. In the mean time, see if Sora and Riku know anything."
"Right away doc." Karen rushed pass sleeping and ghost Aqua toward the entry door.
"Yet I still can't understand it." Said Sheldon tipping the ash off his cigarette out the window. Karen paused with her hand on the knob. "How does a 18-19 year old girl end up with such severe burns and injuries nearly as bad as being blast from a bomb?" He took a hit in, then exhaling the smoke quickly. "Hell Karen, the villagers said she was alone. What's even surprising is that she's still alive."
"It's a miracle, Sheldon." Karen smiled as if that answered all the questions.
The doctor turned away looking back at the window dissatisfied. "Bah, it's something that's for sure…I bet those two rascals know."
The older lady shrugged knowing the conversation was at a dead end.
Aqua frowned looking at the rebellious doctor then back at her own body. By then the bells from the door jingled clarifying that Karen was off to hunt off answers. Light only knows if she would get the truth or even believe it.
The young keyblade master knelt down by her body burrowing her head between her arms and bed sheets. "There has to be another way, it can't just stop here." She muttered staring at her right cast arm.
The young blue maiden began touching the plastered white armor to little surprise she was able to touch something physical. Her body's hand twitched and once more Aqua touched her arm. Her fingers began flexing then in one quick motion grabbed onto the transparent girl's wrist.
Aqua tried frantically jerking her hand away yet her physical hand was much denser and ungiving. Then a growing sinister tooth baring grin surface across her sleeping face. Then suddenly a whole black arm came of her body's chest snatching the collar of her blue blouse, pulling the ghost back into her physical self.
"What the hell?" muttered the doctor checking on his silent patient. He leaned over studying such eerie smile couldn't help but feel the back of his hair stand. The expression was so completely out of place, he didn't even notice that his newly lit cigarette was dropped on the floor.
To be Continued…
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