I don’t know how long I was falling for. We had smashed through hundred’s of tree’s on the way down. By now the wolf had long given up trying to kill me and was trying to slow its descent by smashing into as many tree branches as it could, the same as I was doing.I desperately stuck my arms out, hoping to latch onto something. But it was no use, I was falling way too fast to even tell up from down while spinning. I could tell I was slowing down. As we fell farther down, the branches got thicker and thicker until I couldn’t even break them, being smashed and thrown to the side. Finally after what seemed like five minutes of falling I smacked into the ground, feeling bones break in my body. A few seconds later the I heard the wolf smash down about five feet away from me. It must have been pretty bad, as I felt my face get splashed with blood.
It was about 15 minutes before I tried to move. I was trying to determine what was broken. My mother was a doctor for my father’s mercenary group before he broke his ankle and was told he could never fight again. She had been teaching me all there is to know about the human body, though my skill level wasn’t high enough to determine what was broken. I lifted my left arm slowly, trying to see if it was broken. To my surprise it was fine, other than extremely sore. I did the same with my right arm, and it was also fine.
“Huh. What a miracle. I’m perfectly fine” I thought. I tried to stand up and screamed.
“AAAAAAAAH!!!” I screamed. Both my legs were broken. It was pitch black so I couldn’t see anything. I lowered my hand to my right leg, yelling in pain when I pushed on a bone that was sticking out of my leg. I did the same to my left but felt no bone. I yanked off my shirt and tied it around my right leg to stop the bleeding.
I was stuck here at the bottom of the ravine, no way to move, no way to kill myself, no one to talk to and worst of all I was in the darkness. It was pitch black. I put my hand up to my face to see if I could see them. No surprise, I couldn’t. I began to cry. I cried for my mother, I cried for my friends, I even cried for Storm, who I had stupidly left behind because he was sleeping at the time. I passed out from crying too much. Don’t ask me how that works, but It happened.
I don’t know how long it was before I awoke, but I assumed it was a decent amount of time. I knew I needed to get out of here, but I had no way to move. Well, I had one way but could I actually do it? I “Looked” at my hands. I remembered my promise to my mother about things being better from now on.
“Things won’t happen by themselves” I said.
I put one hand in front of the other and began to crawl. Luckily my kneecaps weren’t shattered or this would be impossible. It was extremely taxing, dragging my body by the strength of my hands alone. It was about ten minutes later when my fingernails cracked.
“Shit!!!!” I shouted, grasping my fingers in pain. My legs were also hurting, the bones in them were completely shattered, each pull shifted them and nudged them, sending barely tolerable pain through my body. I cried again. I couldn’t help it.
“WHY IS THIS WORLD SO UNFAIR” I screamed
“I ESCAPED FROM HELL JUST TO BE PUT BACK IN IT. WHY!!!!!!!!”
I screamed my voice raw until I was sure that my throat would split. I began to crawl again, this time faster, thinking the quicker I moved the quicker I would be out of here.
It was about two days later when I heard the voices. At first, they began as mere random thoughts in my head, saying random thoughts irrelevant from my thinking. But then they began to grow louder, until full blown conversations were happening.
“Hey that Taylor chick is pretty hot huh?”
“No! I’m going for that sexy guy george!!”
“Hell naw bruh! I’m going for that bird. Beastiality is best”
“The hell’d you say about my mother?”
“Your moms a bird?”
“No but she cawed like a crow when I was fuckin her”
“That’s incest!”
“Didn’t stop Franklin and Eleanor”
“Who the hell are they?”
“Your mom and dad :O”
“SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE FUCK UP!” I screamed inside my head
“No” They responded
“GAAAAH” I shouted, no longer caring
“Damn whats up his ass?”
“My dick!”
“He must be going Insane”
After the voices came the visions. I would be crawling and crawling then I would see my mother appear in front of me. I reached up for her hand, crying as I was happy she finally found me only to fall to the ground screaming as my bone was pushed farther out my leg.
I have been down here for at least six days now. I have been forced to drink my own piss once. It was extremely hard and disgusting to do, since It was nearly impossible for me to turn around.
It was about a day and a half later (Just going on my internal clock. For all I know it could have been five or ten days) before I saw the light. It was subtle at first, but as I grew-
“Hey you see that light?”
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“Yea it looks orange”
“No shit sherlock”
“Who’s sherlock?”
“DON’T INTERRUPT!” I shouted. Damn, I really was going insane.
-closer it began to grow brighter and I was positive I wasn’t imagining it. I began to crawl faster, hoping it was the light of freedom.
“Haha, Imma laugh my ass of when it isn’t!”
“But you realize… if it isn’t you will be dead right?”
“I have no soul! I am… IMMORTAL!”
“Would you please keep it down I am trying to tell a god damn story!”
The entrance was extremely small and I was forced to rotate my body sideways, laughing in pain and my legs were forced together. I placed my hand down and gave one laugh push through the gap. Finally I pushed through, but to my horrible luck there was a crater beneath me. When I pushed through my body went tumbling down the crater. I rolled and rolled until my head smacked against the other side, dizzying me.I tried to raise my left arm but to my utter horror I couldn’t move it without screaming in pain. I was glad I could at least move my right hand. I looked up, laughed as I realized sunlight was streaming from the stop of the ceiling.
To my surprise when I moved my right hand I felt cold… something under it. It didn’t feel like steel, it felt like.. I don’t know to be honest. I clasped it with my hand and brought it up to the light. I was shocked at how my hand looked. It was torn with blisters formed over it, nails black as the night and filled with dirt and other grime that was in here. More than once I pushed my hand into a dead corpse, not knowing it was down. Most likely murdered and thrown down here to cover up the evidence.
I looked at the ring, staring at it as I felt… mesmerized.
“So this is where I’m going to die” I thought. “Might as well look stylish”
“I dunno, that ring doesn’t look stylish”
“Yeah those weird runes on it though.. ugh”
“I think they’re cute!”
“Would you guys shut up for the last hours of my life!?” I thought
“I suppose”
“Well if you really wanna die”
“Mommy Im hungry!”
“Bitch feed yourself!”
“I think Taylor’s pretty hot”
“No I’m telling you mothers are the best”
The voices then got into an argument about what type of woman was the hottest, much to my annoyance. I pushed the ring onto my finger, watching it slide onto my bloody hand. Less than half a second later I felt the true meaning of pain.
This was horrible. I felt my body get invaded by something… not human. I couldn’t even keep my thoughts straight as I screamed in reckless abandon. I blacked out multiple times. Each time the pain increased, until my body finally got the bright Idea just to stay blacked out.
I awoke to the sun shining on my face.
“So I’m not dead huh?”
“Nope you're totally fucked!”
“Yea, look at you now!”
“You're a fuckin monster!”
I didn’t understand what they were saying. I noticed that the pain was gone, even the pain I felt in my legs. I looked down in horror to see a body that didn’t belong to a human.
First off, my nails had become claws. Same color, just much much sharper and more defined. My muscles had also become much more defined. Between my legs was something that definitely wasn’t that long be.. oh wait thats a tail. It was long black and...oooh that sounds kinky. Long black and scaly with a pointed end, almost like a dragon tail.
I stood up and stretched only to see three. Three eyes were on my forehead. How could I see this? There was a small puddle of water in front of me. My third eye was pitch black and kind of large, though not really. Also, my eyes, which were originally blue had now turned a dark orange. My hair had also turned orange, a color I had never seen before. I stretched again, feeling the my tight muscles my body had somehow regained. Could it be...
“Yep Its that”
“You don’t even know what he’s thinking”
“Whellll its kinda obvious”
“That’s true” I thought. I looked down at my middle finger to see as expected, the ring. However it was literally engraved into my flesh, the cool material of it making my hand a little cold. I pushed my arms back behind me, cracking my back. When I did so, I felt something leathery on my back. Turning around, I was surprised to see I had six wings on my back, three on each side.
It took me about two hours before I could properly control my wings. I was excited. I was going to leave-
“Fuck yes we are leaving!”
“About god damn time”
“I’m happy for you Segen!”
“These shits” I thought. I wondered how I was going to explain this to my mother.
“Ah well. Think of it when it comes”
https%3a%2f%2flookincool.files.wordpress.com%2f2...3604f2.jpg [https://lookincool.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/f_bc093604f2.jpg] The right side of her wing is Sagens, though smaller