Awakening, part 1



The first thing i notice when i open my eyes was the night sky, I could see the stars shimmer, as if attempting to resist the overpowering shine of the city lights. A shooting star passed by in a vertical line, as if running from the lights unknown source. Time seemed to pass as the stars moved quicker than expected, as if in a straight line actually… now that i think about it, the ground seems to be moving, or rather, i’m being pulled by something.



When i look up i’m being dragged by a girl. As my eyes adjust i could catch a glimpse of her facial features, purple eyes, adorable face, mauve hair… an angel among men if i dare say. As i focus more and more i can see her tattered rags of what used to be clothes, scratches and bruises across her face, and i believe i smell a bit of metal, meaning she’s bleeding. I try to speak, but it’s as if the words just refuse to leave my throat, and a sharp pain shoots through my head. As an impulse, i brought both of my hands to my head and started pulling my hair.



In doing so, she lost her grip and let go of me, i feel the thud of my body falling to the ground, pebbles and rocks feel as though they are trying to stab their way into me. I look up to the girl and i see her lips moving, but all i hear is ringing, and my vision is getting blurry again. She brings me to my feet and tries to hurry me along a narrow path. I wasn’t certain why she was doing this, or why she’s bringing me along with her since i’m nothing more than deadweight at this point.



I turn around to see if anything is following us. It doesn’t seem like anything is behind us, but my vision could barely see 10 feet in any direction without things losing any focus after that point. We take a sharp turn into a hole in the wall. Wait, a hole in the wall? The more i look around the more i realize it, we aren’t out in the open, we’re in a cave system. Now the smell of metal makes sense, but it seemed to maintain its stench even as we were running. As this is happening i believe i’m regaining consciousness, but at a slow rate.



The ground started to slightly rumble. But as more time passed the ground progressively shook more and more, then the walls began to rumble violently, as if an unholy creature was making its way through the gates of hell, this area being one of them. But as most things do, the rumbling began to subside, starting with the walls and slowly calming down the ground.



The girl seemed to let out a sigh, i presume out of relief. She tears a bit of her jacket and places it against my head. I had no reason why she was doing that, so i put my hand to my frontal lobe, and to my surprise it felt moist. As i bring my hand back down so i can see i find the source of the stench of metal. Whether it was me going too fast for my broken body (or at least i thought it was), or because the amount of blood i lost, the area began turning black and cold. And i swear, no matter where i looked there was a light that was alway dead center in my vision. And with that, i fell asleep.