Hollow & Currents

I'm surrounded by darkness and, an emptiness that calls to my soul. I don't know how long or far I walk as there is nothing to mark a path but at least there aren't things trying to kill me. My head stopped throbbing but my shoulder still oozes blood every time I move it just so my ribs are no better, I don't even know how I'm still standing.

Perhaps I should sleep just for a little while. My wounds haven't healed, and each step is excruciatingly painful. I trip over my own feet falling face-first into the cold darkness it calls to me, telling me to give in, to let the hollowness within claim me.

As I close my eyes a pair of violet eyes surface just for the briefest second pulling me from the abyss. The moment I stand I start to fall, I no longer feel hollow, no I just feel pain as lightning strikes me.

When I open my eyes, I find I'm suspended in midair, chains wrapped around my hands and feet. There is no ground just a vast sky with chained, figure after chained figure. Screams merge with the sound of rumbling thunder. I'm struck by lightning over, and over, again until blood starts to come out of my mouth and nose.

One of the figures faces me, his hair is the color of moss his skin scaly like that of a snake yellow and orange where it isn't char. When he looks up serpent eyes look through me void of all life and yet as lightning strikes him, he screams and hisses twisting in every direction.

I catch the glimpse of a female whose chains pierce through her wings she doesn't scream as the lightning strikes her nor does she lookup. The only indication that she's alive is the curling and uncurling of her talons. Lightning strikes searing away the remainder of her clothes exposing angry red gashes lining the female's legs, and back.

"It seems Hollow didn't want you in his realm," a voice like thunder says just as I'm struck, with another bolt of lightning.

I try to speak but only blood comes out, what is this madness. Where am I?

"Well aren't you going to break free?" that voice asks thunder rumbling all around us. Who is speaking?

Wind starts to howl currents blowing in every direction suffocating me cutting me like a thousand tiny daggers. The currents intensify I feel like I'll combust with the combined pressure of the currents and the ruthless lightning thunder booms causing my ears to ring I can feel blood dripping from them.

"Only you can get yourself out," that voice says as the chains become electrified. My shoulder burns right where Tiger bit me and my ribs are no better.

I try to speak or even scream, but nothing comes out, breathing is difficult when each gulp of air taste metallic. Perhaps giving in is best, just let this place destroy me. After all, what am I even fighting for?

Those violet eyes appear once more in my mind's eye, calling me towards them. I look up towards the sky and let out a howl then a roar snapping the chains that bind me. Lightning strikes sending me hurtling through the air. I'm plunged into a watery abyss.