Soul Cavity

"Where... am I..?" Mizuki woke up to a blank canvas, a world, a realm with no hint of shape or dimension. She looked around to see nothing but white. Filling the space in between her and the horizon, if any, are unicolored spores of different intensity and opacity. They float, almost suspended midair, very subtly moving in the vacuum of white. A scenery of suspended snowfall in every color but white scattered about in the vast emptiness.

"Welcome, to the Soul Cavity or as people like to call it 'inside the heart', or as you Joushion would call it, Rei Kan." The boy greets her. "I'm..." a brief pause in his introduction, hesitant almost " ..Daisuke. Kishimoto Daisuke" a smile surfaces as he finished introducing himself. He seems like he was waiting for some reaction looking her way. She could not come up with a proper response. The situation was too bizzare, she has questions, too many to even know where to start. Hesitantly "Umm, yes.. I am-" she almost followed his pace but then cut herself "NO! who the hell introduces themselves like that?! put on some clothes first!" The first question among many that managed to surface from her jumbled and confused mind. Among all the crazy thing that is going on right now, this seems to be her priority. But of course she could not talk to him seriously if she keeps getting distracted by his exposed appearance. "What do you mean?" he grins "If we're talking about clothing..." he points towards her "shouldn't you be more concerned about yourself?" he bounces the question back to her "even calling you naked would be an understatement right now" directing her attention towards her current state. Mizuki gasped, she looked around herself. Where her arms was once were, the position of her legs, her torso, her whole body. It is still blurry in her mind but now that she's actually paying attention to them, her own illusion shatters. There were no body. What was once a maiden's tiny hand now replaced with a mass of arbitrarily coloured mists and smokes. They are shaped almost like her former limb but it would be farfetched to even see them as one. So is the case with the rest of her body. Her lower torso, her hips, her neck, her feet. They are gone. The absence of it all almost throw her into a vertigo as she lose all kinaesthetic senses. She desperately pulled them closer to her face, but it only makes the obvious all the more painful. "THEY'RE GONE!!!" she finally acknowledged them, though maybe forced to by her senses. "HOW??" her brains chaotically tries to make sense of what is happening "How can this be-?! the last thing I remember, is...I-" she scrambled for prior information for how it turned out this way "I.. got.. stabbed.." that traumatic memories finally registers back in her mind "does... if so then.. am I.." as the chains of information lined up, she can reach a conclusion, but accepting that conclusion is a lot heavier than simply and reaching it. She is now a talking humanoid shaped blobs of energy. "is this what..?" her non existing eyes teared up "..death is.." she started to cry "but that's just.." her reality starts to hit her "there's still... much more I.. have yet to-" she can't even finish her sentence "much more...I-" "*sigh* there's no stopping her now. Well I'll give her some time" Daisuke muttered as Mizuki cried her heart out. After she have wailed and cried her heart out for about an hour thinking she was dead he approached her to explain "you're not dead. But you will be if you don't control your SP now" Mizuki in her tears "SP?" reasonably puzzled. Daisuke explains "Spiritual Properties, basically your soul or life energy for a lack of better words. I'm not gonna go through this too deep for now, we'll just have you maintain your own spiritual gate since this is your first time manifesting into an SP form, which is yesterday" Mizuki remembers "Yesterday? ..You?! you're the boy who stabbed me!" unable to retort to that he tried to distract her "like I said, I'm here to help you control your SP. And your body's fine!" Mizuki suspects "why should I trust you?! trusting you is how I got attacked yesterday.. by you!!" He responded "But if you think about it, because I'm the one who brought you here, I should know a way out too, right?" She's confused "that doesn't make you any less suspicious, in fact just the opposite!!" he sighed "well I would explain everything but you don't have much time, for now I'll just briefly-" but she protested "No I'm listening. explain everything" to which he just pointed behind her. Mizuki turns and sees her lower torso falling behind her, unable to keep up, neither with her nor its own form, she's breaking apart by the second. Mizuki panicked seeing she is now just half of what she was earlier and at the off chance that he might be telling the truth about her condition. Furthermore, since they two are the only, 'thing', in this space, she does not has that much option anyway "o-okay okay! Let's say I believe you. What do I do???" Daisuke grins, like he'd been waiting for her to say that "The first rule of SP: SP never forgets." He starts explaining "Thats the main principle keeping you together right now. SP or as you Joushions would call it Reichitsu, are what makes up your soul and they're able to hold memories. You can imagine them as the DNA of your soul. In your normal human form, these are your nervous system connected to your brain. That's why you still remember the events of yesterday, and yourself." Almost in disbelief, Mizuki mutters "my brain..?" D responded "that's right, your brain still works in this state, and it still hold the command too over the SP, whether in your conscious state or subconscious state". Mizuki is just silently nodding and trying to process what she had just learnt from him, then for a moment have a blank look on her face. Though thats what it would look like if she actually has a form. From Daisuke's point of view, she is just cluster of floating multicolored fog silently listening without much reaction, a long hmm and now she says "Okay I got it!" Daisuke unconvinced "N-no I don't think you do, but let's just proceed anyway..."

"Well this may already be too much, for now as long as you can recreate the experience of creating your own body, you should be able to command your SP to regroup" casually he explains. And without much consideration for what that entails, Mizuki agrees "O-ouh.. all I have to do is recreate them right? Recreate.. sounds easy enough" Daisuke made it sound simple enough that even she think it's simple enough. "Yes, just remember those experience. Now, set, GO!!" Caught up in that pace, she follows with a loud call "GOOOO!!!" Daisuke echoes her call too "GOOOOOO!!!" she maintains "OOOOOOOOO" all the while trying to remember what she's supposed to be doing in the first place. Though now that she's actually thinking about it "Oooo... Wait.. Creating my own body... I never had any experience like that before! What does that even mean anyway?!!" He commented on her remarks "that's a good question!" Mizuki retorted back, annoyed "That's not the point here! Help me out here!"

"Well, unfortunately you have to figure that out yourself" Daisuke answers but Mizuki is not satisfied "What's that? I thought you're supposed to help me here?!" He explains "Well well, it's not that straightforward. Every person's perception are unique to themselves. I can tell you my imagery of that process but it won't necessarily reflect your thought process" Exasperated "then, this is all-" she demand a concrete answer from him, but he cut her off to finish his sentence "BUT, I can give you a hint. It's my own idea of it and might not necessarily reflect how your answer turn out to be, but it's a good starting point" to which Mizuki calmed down a bit "say that first then... Geez.."

He chuckles seeing her impatient, and proceeds "a memory from your life, that you feel very much secure of. A moment where you feel the most at ease, most protected, most covered. What you think is what your SP becomes, if you can recreate such experience then it might trigger some similar experience and prompt your scattered SP to gather in one place" she focuses strongly, reaching every corners of her long term memory to find something akin to what he described 'feeling.. of security..' she focuses hard on the concept 'great comfort..' upon trying to think of something comforting, she subconsciously thought up the opposite of it as a reference point. A tremor erupts in that Soul Cavity, a sky quake of some sort. Daisuke turns a bit anxious "be careful where you're looking, you don't want to recreate any unpleasant experience in this space" he warns her. The harder she thinks, the more alien the concept becomes, like chasing the similar pole of a magnet. All the while her Soul Cavity is breaking apart even more.

'This presence.. it's getting stronger and stronger' Daisuke senses something looming in the distance of that inner dimension, almost corresponding to the destruction of Mizuki's Soul Cavity 'at this rate, she's going to kill us both. I need to reverse her thought process.. but how?' he thought. He can already see from the outside, Mizuki is now only a fourth of her form compared to earlier. 'I'll take the shot then' with both of them at risk, Daisuke made one last attempt to reshape her thought process "it's okay Mizuki chan, everything will be alright" he whispered near her, in a calmer tone than any of the time he'd been talking to her till now. Too calm, almost motherly, almost feminine, he changed his voice.

Mizuki's form expression shifted drastically. That line triggered some part of her memory that she'd forgotten. Her form that was on the brink of dissipating now halted in motion, then moved again slowly, 'this voice... where have I..' suddenly a different imagery bolted into her train of thoughts, that of a soothing experience, a sensation, of being hugged. A familiar smell, a familiar voice, a familiar touch. Like a mother's embrace. 'this feeling.. did I ever had this memory... When...?' an experience so familiar to her but yet, somehow alien to her brain. 'i can't recall but.. it feels comforting...'

Her SP floating about in the Soul Cavity now begins to swirl back to her in all direction. Answering her call. The host. Almost like time took a step back, every pieces of her shattered Soul Cavity returns to their rightful position. Returning home. Watching all this happens, Daisuke finally got more lax and fall to his bum on the metaphorical ground "what a relief..."

Mizuki slowly opens her eyes, like she'd just woken up from a good night's sleep 'did I... do it...?' she inspects her surrounding, still the same old whiteness. Nothing changed. Well almost nothing. "The colorful snows... they're gone..." He pats her head "welcome back" Daisuke greets her return "you did great" she doesn't completely understand what he meant, but it somehow put her at ease. Involuntarily she had a smile on her newfound form. "I can take it from here, congratulations on acquiring your first SP form." He puts his hand on her forehead "and good luck" yet another of his comment that she couldn't understand. But before she could process it, her current consciousness fades instantly.

Now he's alone in Mizuki's Soul Cavity, surprisingly still existing without Mizuki being in it. "I got it, I got it, I'll leave immediately. Sheesh" he utters. As if telling it to someone.. or something. Further in the horizon of that vacuum, a figure dissipates into thin air.

She woke up in the Physical Realm, in her room. Except, her eyes were no longer as it were before, her worlds are now suddenly more bountiful than her normal daily life, she started seeing lives everywhere even on things she had never even imagined before. She even sees the essence of life in every passing human, in every house. Alongside them are flying, crawling, slithering, hopping and floating passing ghosts all in different sizes, shapes and manners. This is when she realizes, her world has just changed, for better or worse.