Chapter 1 - The One Who Awaits

I'm floating, I think? It is warm, no, it's not warm. Neither cold. Where am I? Who am I? No, what am I? A human?

It's strange, I have never felt anything like this before, I could not panic, nor feel the calmness I had oh-so ever wanted to feel. I was just floating there, emotionless in a seemingly endless dark abyss, awaiting someone, something to help pull me out of this trance.

'Why am I here?' I think, recalling my latest memory, a painful one at that. I could do nothing, feel nothing nor could I see nothing. I just wanted out, to become myself again. to feel the embrace of my mother and father, see the face of my little brother.

That's all I ever wanted, yet I float here, straying from the light and into the darkness, recalling painful and calming memories.

I notice a light flow into the endless dark abyss, lighting up the abyss and calming me.

I could feel it again! I felt the cold ground beneath my feet, yet there was no ground.

A dark door opens, a man walks in and asks in my mind, his voice echoing through my empty mind, {Oh soul that has strayed from its path, why doth you feel such despair? Hath you strayed from the path to your god, or perhaps have you been rejected by thou god?}.

As he asks that, I finally notice how I feel, and fall to the ground, tears streaming down my face like a waterfall.

{Now, now. Little one, no need to feel such pain. Shall I send you back to your path, or do you perhaps want another chance, start anew in an unfamiliar world? I await your answer, little one.}

I look back up to the figure and feel a light of hope flow into my dark heart, full of despair, hatred, and loneliness.

'Please, give me another chance.' I think, not thinking much of it. Yet I would come to hate myself for my choice later.

{Very well, little one. No matter what happens, no matter what despair, grief, or hatred you feel, no matter how lonely you feel, I hope you may hold on to your sanity.

I apologize, I had not yet prepared a body for you. I will place you in a body in which one soul is close to leaving, and may your spirit follow with you.}

'What do you mean?' I ask, receiving no response, as my conscience fades as a sharp pain resonates in my head, someones- No, somethings hatred, grief, despair, and loneliness flow into my body, and somethings memory's flow into my brain, almost seems as if my life is flashing before my eyes.