Wake Up

Ban opened his eyes slowly, he found that he was in a space where darkness stretched on infinitely. Oddly enough he found that he was being pushed back by wind, as if he was on top of a speeding car. He tried to stand up and move, but a voice interrupted him, "I wouldn't do that if I were you" the voice laughed.

Ban hearing this jumped, he didn't see anyone so he was surprised by this sudden voice. Before he could ask anything, he felt as if he had fallen off the speeding thing that he was on and the wind pushed him back. Before he could be pushed back far, an invisible hand caught and held onto his hand firmly and placed him back where he had originally been.

"Sorry, didn't mean to frighten you" laughed the same voice.

Ban looked around confused, after a moment he asked the voice, "Sir, am I dead?"

"Call me Ba... yes call me Ban, and I am over here" the voice said, as he turned the confused Ban's head towards a direction.

"How could I forget hah, your eyes can't perceive what's going on, let me fix that"

As soon as he had finished his sentence, the originally infinitely dark world, filled with bright colors brimming with life. Seeing this the originally confused Ban was once again surprised, but didn't dare to even jump a little bit. In front of him, Ban saw the back of the man that had the same name as him.

Ban once again asked, "Mister Ban, am I dead?"

"No, I'm taking you to a place to give you something." Said the man, in a joyful demeanor.

Hearing this Ban was relieved, he didn't want to leave his poor mother behind and let her mourn for her dead son.

"We're going to that place, I will get you a fruit for you to eat." The man said as he pointed.

Hearing this, Ban came out of his state of being relieved, and found that he was sitting on a dragon flying at an incredible speed towards where the man was pointing. They were speedily arriving at a giant tree that had fruits and vegetables growing from it, along many other things that didn't come from Earth.

Once they arrived at the tree, the man jumped off the dragon and walked on air towards a peach that was hanging from the tree. He turned back and walked towards Ban.

Seeing the man walk on air, and casually grabbing a peach from the tree Ban was once again in a state of awe. This state of awe was interrupted by the man's face, although the man did not look ugly -the opposite really- the man was bleeding from his eyes that were closed.

"What happened to your eyes, did I accidentally poke your eyes when I jumped?" Asked Ban worriedly.

"Of course not, I gave you my eyes so that you could see. Don't worry I won't take them back, I can regrow my eyes anyway. But here take this peach and eat it." The man said as he handed the peach to Ban.

Ban didn't question anything that much anymore, this was due to the dragon he was riding on and the fact that the man with his name could fly.

Ban received the peach and ate it as the man instructed without question, because coincidentally enough peaches were his favorite. Once Ban had taken a bite, the entire world and its colors were absorbed by Ban, and his right palm formed a green flower tattoo on it.

Seeing this Ban started panicking, and was worried if he had done something wrong. Seeing that Ban started to panick, the man reassured Ban that nothing was wrong and that everything was happening as it was meant to be.

"I know you have many questions, and thank you for not asking them, because I wouldn't know how to answer them all" said the man as he laughed

"But I do want to tell you that I have taken away someone from your life and your memory of them as well. Don't worry though, she's someone that would've caused many problems on your journey"

Ban didn't know how to respond to all of these strange events, ever since he had opened his eyes only 2 minutes had passed. Ban wanted ask the man something but before he could speak he opened his eyes again and found that he was on a completely new world.

His surroundings filled with a beautiful landscape. Then one by one his friends and townspeople that he was accustomed with appeared. Ban quickly scanned through the familiar faces and saw his mom. Seeing his mom, Ban was relieved but thought that he was dumb internally, since the man had said that he had taken the memories of the person as well indicating that he would not have even remembered his mother if she was the one taken.