Where is this…
Where am I…?
This darkness, it’s familiar…
But why have I...I’m not dead yet, am I?
So many questions yet I can’t answer any of them.
It’s so dark...there’s no light anywhere.
So cold...it seems fitting for me.
Staying within this dark space, my eyes shut, time felt as if it didn’t exist here. Wherever here is, I’m not sure. I don’t know if I want to know the answer to that. I can’t feel anything. I can’t see anything. I can’t hear anything.
This feeling of isolation is something I was afraid of but something I sought after for so long. Now that I have it...just what was next?
I didn’t think that far ahead it seems. Of course, I wanted this because I was tired of dealing with everything. I just wanted a new fresh slate. A life to live without those same problems. Though little did I know that I was going to be pulled into something much more, whether I was ready for it or not. I knew from this point forward, I wasn’t going to be the same.
Whether if I changed for better or worse would ultimately be decided by those who I would come to know. I had to be honest with myself, just where was I going to end up when I finally opened my eyes?
Wake up…There, it was a voice telling me to open my eyes. Cold but warm at the same time. I don't know this person but I feel like there's a semblance of familiarity. As if I heard this voice before but that couldn't have been knowing throughout my young, long life that I've lived alone out in the far reaches of space. Yet, whoever this voice was sounded like it was right beside me.
I didn't want to but I had no choice but to comply. I was afraid of what I might see because I remembered just what it was I was doing before I blacked out. At least now I did but that was all I can remember.
I opened my eyes, slowly as if I was expecting light to hit my eyes but it never did. It was dark but not dark enough that I couldn't see. From there as I fully opened my eyes, the world around me was not the same as I thought I may had came from except, this place...
Made from pools of darkness, much more thicker than any substance than I had in my mind, blood. And here I was, laying right in it. The sky, if you can even call it that was in a perpetual state of twilight. There was a sun on the other side but it wasn't yellow, it was black and shone with black light somehow lighter than the darkness I was in. It wasn't warm, it was cold, very cold but surprisingly I wasn't chilled at all.
My numb body began to wake itself up allowing me to at least sit up once again. Drips of that dark liquid dropped into my body and into the dark puddle below but it made no splash. In fact, there was no sound at all. Not even when I breathed. Still, my mind was as calm as could be. This wasn't normal if the place I was in was evident of that fact.
However, when I happened to glance around at my surroundings, I could see a few trees. Fully bloomed with dark leaves and black roses twisted all over. The thorns were large, sharp, and most of all just wiggling and moving. Animated as if it was alive. I wanted to say something but I know that my voice would never make any sounds so I opted against it.
From what else I could see what happened to be translucent black mobs of what I assumed to be living darkness moving about. While I could see them, they had no sort of substance. If they did, it wasn't in this dimension. They seemed to be gliding along slowly across the pools of darkness on the ground, seemingly unhindered.
One happened to go right through my form, as if it was unaware that I was there even at all. As it did so, I felt nothing but I wind colder than the puddle that I was currently sitting in. However I wasn't cold but I still shivered anyway, whether it was on instinct or perhaps I wanted to have a normal reaction to something, I wasn't sure.
At this point, I decided to get up. My legs were no longer numb so I stood up but as I did so, I felt like the world itself rushed up to meet me as if I was shifting rapidly through space. When I stopped moving, everything stopped along with it. That's when those blobs stopped to look at me as if I disturbed them somehow.
However, they turned back then looked up at the sky. I was curious so I did so as well. From there I saw what seemed to be another being in the sky. Female. She was huge, bigger than anything I've ever seen before. She was curled up in a ball, her eyes closed, and she was naked. Her hair, raven in color just like the rest of the realm I had been in flowed around her and covered up most of her body.
Thinking to myself she must be the source of the darkness, I needed answers. Anything. As calming as this place was, I needed to get back to normalcy. Soon there was a loud rushing sound as if a lot of water was coming my way, I was on alert now. There I saw it, A huge, towering wave of darkness but it wasn't water but pure shadow coming toward me. I looked around to see if there was anything I could do to save myself.
There wasn't, I was alone now.
So I placed my arms up to protect my head at least and closed my eyes, waiting for the moment it'd crash into me. And I waited...and waited.
However, nothing happened. I opened my eyes once again. I saw that I was no longer standing on a puddle but rather over an ocean of dark water but it was clear like regular water and I was standing on top of it. There I saw the blobs again, moving along as if nothing happened. This was highly strange, the more I spent in this place, the more I was starting to understand it.
I happened to look quick back up to the sky but the female was no where to be seen up there. However behind me was a small island and there she was, laying there in the sand. What looked like sand, the only color different than anything else in the rest of this world or wherever I happened to be.
Cautiously, I looked down at the water then I took one step. The top of the water wasn't allowing me to sink through it as if I wasn't allowed to reach the bottom anymore. That was fine by me, so with that in mind I went ahead and walked toward her. As I did so, I began to hear voices in my head. It was low and unintelligible. Then another voice joined in, and another, until I was sure I heard seven different voices in my head.
Even when I thought I stopped my body to at least try to sort them all out. I discovered, my body was still moving although albeit slowly. My legs never stopped walking to her.
The closer I got to her, the more the voice began to grow louder and the more they began to say things I could actually understand.
"Is it him?"
"It must be you."
"You of the second of the seven."
"Do not be scared, child."
"Have no fear."
"I promise everything will be explained."
"All you have to do..."
"Is just reach out to me..."
The last one must have been her voice, when I came back to myself, I was standing over her. She was no longer big. She was small, like a child. Floating in the air, hovering softly. However, I could hear her soft breathing as she slept. Her hair moving and waving still covering her up. Her skin was a fair complexion unlike the world around us. She had a deep black and purple aura surrounding her body. However, it didn't feel evil in nature, in fact, it felt more divine than anything. Calm, just like the rest of the world.
Was this her home? It felt like it, I can feel her presence all around this place even though she was right in front of me. How far this place stretched on for, I didn't know but it felt as if it could've been infinite. I looked down at my hand, that's when I noticed that my body had this white, transparent, otherworldly glow around it. It was in stark contrast to hers. That was when I could feel it, this surge of power within my soul. It was calling out to her, even when I was standing here, our energies began to bend and twist as they were dancing.
I was so enamored with the spectacle that I didn't notice her beginning to stir from her sleep. My eyes, or rather my attention was too focused on what was above me. Soon I felt arms wrap around my shoulders and neck. That got my attention and I looked in front of me to see that she was gone but now hanging on me loosely. Our auras mixed together fully now, making them disappear as if it was searching something and found it.
She slowly opened her eyes, I took note of her deep amethyst color eyes, with a strange otherworldly glow with them too. Her eyes was still half lidded, however. I wanted to say something but she gave a small smile as if she knew what I was going to say. She raised her hand and pointed in front of me, way in the distance. There was a white building, it was very tall, regal looking and amazingly bright compared to everything else.
A snap of her finger which was audible, there was a low but violent rumble. Something was coming. Then a pathway of stone made from the same stone of the building way in the distance rose up from the water in front of me. Then she gave a directive, she wasn't forcing me but rather asking me.
"There...go there..."
She had softly spoke. I looked at it and I nodded.
"We're in this together, you and me. Let's go."
Without a second to spare, I began to walk on the stone path. The island disappeared when I did so as if it was never there in the first place. Soon as I got far enough, the sight behind me completely disappeared. I wasn't going to lose sleep over it though, wherever we must be going must have the answers I'm looking for. I'm sure she's important somehow too.
I say that but I was just going to know just how important to everything she was...
