Buried Memories

I felt it reaching my heart. I closed my eyes to endure the pain but it slowly consumed me making me feel miserable.

Nothing but darkness was around me. Even though I felt the presence of people around me I gradually started to lose it too. I couldnt see anything not even myself.

I started to hear voices that went through my mind, there were so many of them that it almost made me go crazy.

Some of my past memories started to appear in my mind.

Some memories from 6 years ago. 15 year old me from a middle school, that people hardly knew.

My friends were there, not just me alone but now I don't even know whether these people even exist.

We used to be so close when we were friends but after that accident that happened to me, I lost track of them and left the middle school I was in.

'That day when I went camping in a deep forest with my friends on a rainy day, was the last day that I got to see them.'

We were all playing with each other for a few days and it was already the time for us to go back to school but while we were playing we found a small cave which seemed super cool and nice, so we four went to play there behind our teachers back.

After playing there for a while we all got curious to explore more of it. Since we had plenty of time till we hit the road. We all went into it. Holding each other's hands because it was dark.

'We tripped and fell on each other but kept going in until we found a pond in the middle of the cave.'

It had a small opening on the top of it which made the sunlight fall into it. The environment was so cool that we decided to take some rest there before going back.

While the others were resting I went around to find something nice to take back as a souvenir.

I found another dark path that leads more into the cave. I entered into it without others knowing because I knew that they were too scared to go into the dark, but little me who loved darkness since small went into it without thinking any further.

I kept walking and walking in until I started to see red glowing light from the end.

While running there excited, I fell on the ground hurting myself but it wasn't able to stop me. I ran as fast as I could to reach.

I didn't even have a track of time, I ended up in a place similar to the place I was before but this place was much different. It had all sorts of red crystals everywhere. Which shined every time I looked at them.

In the middle of the pond, there was a small red crystal lying on the ground. My desires arose making me want to acquire it, putting my life at stake.

The water was dark red.

I jumped into the water because it seemed pretty much shallow, but it wasn't. I drowned in the water. The water wasn't even see-through. It was thick but I managed to swim back onto the surface.

I managed to swim across the pond to reach the place I wanted. After getting out of the water my body was completely red, it was not even worth saying red to it.

It smelled like I had a bath of old blood.

The color was pretty much similar to it the smell would have been disgusting to someone else but it was quite tempting to me.

I tied my hair back because it was bothering me.

I was right in front of it. It was shining right in front of my eyes. I took it out, it was not just a crystal but was a necklace that's had gold designs attached to it which a gold chain.

Without thinking twice I tied it on my neck. It felt like I suddenly got some energy. I sat down a little to rest my legs. They were worn out of running and swimming, but I was ready to run any second.

That when I heard someone calling my name loud enough to make the cave collapse.

"Christina, shut you idiot are you going to take all of us to death." She quietly entered the place I was. She was about to swim to where I was but stopped after looking at the water.

"Look at yourself," she said.

"You look exactly like the contaminated water here. Why did you even swim there? This water here is very dirty. You should have had swum with us at that place."

"Almost forgot to tell you, Christina, the water is very deep. Don't step into it."

"You were not scared of the contaminated water but of whether the water was deep or not. I will come to you so stay there. What are you even thinking about me, I was able to get rid of my trauma. Now I can swim in water no matter how deep it is."

Wait, I will come to you. I knew she was telling the truth but she always easily get scared by anything. She just took a step forward, I never thought she would drown that easily. But she went into the water even before I could jump into the water.

She didn't seem to be coming back on the surface. I was about to jump into the water but something startled me.

Something came out from the water.

My heart skipped a beat from what I saw.

Something similar to an icicle had run through my friend. It was covered in blood and blood was dripping down from it. Risking my life I swam across the water.

But it didn't have any effect on me. I was about to get closer to her when something dragged me out from the water.

"Don't you dare get close to her," a man dressed in black talked to me.

His face was totally covered, that I couldnt even take a glimpse at it.

"That thing is very dangerous. Let's get out from here," he told me talking my hand.

We both ran out to the place where my other friends were but they were nowhere to be seen. It was just me and him there. The only difference there was the crystal clear water had been colored from bloody red.

No one was there to be seen. But there were icicle-like structures similar to before.

" Yuki, whatever you are seeing snap out of it."