All she could feel was pain as she thought of the last moments of her life. The last thing Aloradyth remembered was Isaac holding a gun as he pulled the trigger. Her heart nearly stopped as She realized she had fallen of the cliff after the bullet had torn through her left shoulder. She trembled as she tried to lift her hand to feel her stomach and see if her unborn child was ok, only to realize she couldn't move. Aloradyth tried to open her eyes only to find she was in to much pain. she felt her consciousness beginning to slip. 'No!' she screamed silently as she struggled trying anything she could think of to stay awake.
Soon she could not hold on any longer and she fell into what looked like a pool of color, colorful scenes flashed through her mind bringing unexplained emotions with them, they looked like memories of a young girl about the age of 14 or 15 years old. In every scene she was being bullied or betrayed. In one she was being held down by two of her cousins as a third pressed a red hot iron rod against her exposed back over and over again, before throwing her into a fast flowing river right on the edge of a water fall that fell over 50 feet down to a pool of water that had large rocks on the bottom. She had broken both legs and became crippled at the age of 10.
When her Father found out she could no longer be of any use to him, he had both her and her mother thrown out of the house and left for dead in a small village in the maintains. On her 13th birthday her younger sister Su Dongmei showed up with a carriage and six guards and two maids. She (Su Dongmei) told her that her Father had sent her to pick her up because she was to be married to the Sixth Prince Ming Zhi Yue. She refused to go with her younger sister so her sister had the guards tie her mother up the stab her mother and when the girl tried to stop them she was knocked out.
She spent a year being imprisoned in her Fathers home before she was forced into the palace to live until her marriage. Three weeks after she was sent to the palace her sister had someone nearly r*pe her, and then accused her of sleeping with other men. The prince was so angry he had her kicked out after nearly being beaten to death. Her Father heard from Su Dongmei about what happened and had her beaten again. When she had lost consciousness her Father had people drag her to the woods and thrown there to die.
Tears for the girl ran from the corners of her eyes and down her face as she finally felt herself being to wake up again, this time she could hear what sounded like sobbing coming from not far away. Her eyes fluttered and slowly began to open. The first thing she saw a heavy forest canopy and it made her heart nearly stop...
Tall trees stood all around filled with fall colors. The ground was soft and grassy and birds sang songs in the thick canopy as a soft breeze blew, rustling the leaves and cousing them to fall, the heavy smell of wet dirt and fresh air almost stung her lungs as she took shallow breaths do to the pain...
She was laying in the same place were the girl in her dream had been abandoned... 'No!' Her mind screamed for the second time. 'Its impossible!' She thought, her head reeling. 'This type of thing only happens in books!'
She continued to hear sobbing and finally got enough strength to turn her head to see who was crying. She looked to her left and saw that she was lying right next to a large tree nearly as wide at the bace as she was tall. Then she looked to the right and saw a woman in her late twenties kneeling beside her dressed in what looked like a mix between a Kimono and a traditional Chinese dress. She had her head in both her hands as she sobbed uncontrollably.
Her small shoulders shaking as she sobbed.
"My baby!" She cried as she rubbed at the tears with her long sleeves. "Why my baby!?"
Aloradyths heart flipped as she struggled to lift her hand to feel her stomach.... Flat.... Panic set in as she realized if she had really traveled through time and space into another body... What had happened to HER BABY?!? Aloradyth was 8 months pregnant when Isaac had killed her... A sob escaped her mouth as she realized her baby was dead and she was still alive...
The woman heard her sob and looked up with a startled expression, tears still running from her sky blue eyes. Her eyes went wide as she cried "Aloradyth!" (Ah-lore-u-dath) Aloradyth was her name in her other wold, only the last name was different. She shook her head assuming that was why she was here. The woman rubbed her eyes as she looked then looked and looked and looked for a third time still not believing her eyes. "You're alive?" She whispered as she scooted closer and reached out a hand to take Aloradyths wrist. Her hand closed around her wrist as the woman felt her pulse.
When she made skin contact, memories more in depth than before ran through Aloradyths head, images flashed in front of her eyes as she saw the girls entire life play out like some kind of tragedy drama. She felt the girls emotion as she was betrayed over and over again. Her pain became Aloradyths pain and she began to want vengeance just as much as the girl did when she had been thrown out here to die. The helplessness that had enveloped her made Aloradyth want to choke as more tear threatened to fall. She had not deserved to be treated the way she was, not with her Mother being a Princess. "Your pulse is stable." The womans name was Young Mia Mia and she was this body's Mother.
Aloradyth didn't have a Mother in her other life and the new memories were so fresh in her mind and she couldn't help but cry out as she called for the woman next to her. "Mother!" Hearing her soft pain filled cry Mia Mia gently lifted her into a sitting position before she rapped her in a warm hug full of love. 'Why did I not know how warm it felt to be loved like this?' She thought as she did her best to return the hug, but her body just didn't want to work. Feeling this Mia Mia pulled away and gently laid her back down.
"You need to rest. Mother will be right back I'm going to get some water from the stream that's just through those trees." She said wiping her eyes on her sleeves as she stood. Aloradyth watched her ground length black hair, that was tied in a ponytail at her waist, sway in the wind as she walked away. As soon as she saw her disappear into the trees she tried to pushed herself up only to learn that this body was in a lot worse shape then she first thought. So she lay there and thought through the new memories that she had just received so she could understand this new world and how it worked
This wold was the type were you had to be strong to survived the weak were considered trash and often killed off. Cultivation was the key to success. The ranking went like this.
Mortal, Levels 1-5.
Mortal Warrior, Levels 1-10.
Mortal General, Levels 1-10.
Warrior, Levels 1-5.
General Levels 1-10.
Immortal Levels 1-5.
The previous owner of this body had been a genius ranked Mortal General Level 2 before she had even reached the age of 5. But at the age of 8 something happened and she fell ill. When she got better she no longer had any cultivation not even a drop of spirit energy left.
"You're able to sit up now?" Young Mia Mia said as she appeared beside Aloradyth with a cut bamboo cup in her hand. Aloradyth looked up and smiled then nodded her head. "Here." Mia Mia said as she knelt down beside her cup in hand. "Drink slowly." Was all Mia Mia told her as she lifted the cup to her lips and helped her sip the water. After she sipped the water Mia Mia set the cup aside and lovingly brush Aloradyths blood coated hair back from her face. "I need to tell you something Aloradyth." She said dropping her hands to her lap and looking down.
Aloradyth raised her eyebrow as best she could in question as she looked at her. She sigh. "I got word from your Grandfather a little after you had been taken. We are going to need to go back to Cave valley Village and stay there. Your Grandfather is sending your uncles and some soldiers to set up an army camp in the village. They are also going to send for Man Lie Shu the second best doctor in the Ten Kingdoms. He agreed to come help us cure your legs. There is hope." She smiled brightly at Aloradyth as she go to her feet. "Come we have a long journey ahead of us. We need to get moving."
She squatted down in front of her and told her to give her, her arms. As she did Mia Mia slowly started to rock forward as she pulled her up onto her back and stood. Aloradyth held onto her shoulders as best she could as Mia Mia reached around and grabbed one of her legs. She felt both of them slipping and opened her mouth to warn her new Mother but it was to late. Mia Mia lost her footing and fell backwards landing right on top of Aloradyth her elbow landing on her already cracked ribs.
Her Scream got lodged in her throat as her vision went white from the pain, nausea flared as she struggled to stay conciousness. Mia Mia got off immediately but the damage was done Aloradyth could feel one of the broken ribs moving as Mia Mia tried to see what damage she had done. Both her arms rapped around her thin body as she tried not to curled around the pain.Tears were streaming down her face as she tried desperately to breathe through the pain that was getting harder and harder with Mia Mia trying to see what had happened. Finally she was able to gasp out. "Stop!" Mia Mia froze in shock as she dropped her hands and sat back on her heels.
It took about five minutes before Aloradyth could get her breath back enough to start to unrap her arm enough to let Mia Mia open her dress so she could see the full extent of the damage done to Aloradyths body from both beatings and the fall. When she saw her body she let out a string of curses so foul even Aloradyth, as a 21st century girl blushed, and wanted to hide in shame. This delicate and graceful woman before her turned and started down the small forest path mumbling about how she was going to kill the people responsible for hurting Aloradyth.
She laughed silently before calling after her as best she could as she closed her dress. "Mother! Dont leave me here!" Mia Mia froze for the second time since she had met her as she acted as if it had dawned on her how she had just acted. Mia Mia turned as red as a tomato as she stiffly turned back to look at Aloradyth. She then rushed back to her side head lowered in embarrassment she then whispered almost to softly for her to hear. "Please don't tell anyone how I just acted." This time she couldn't help but laugh out loud. Then cringed and cried out softly from pain.
Mia Mia grabbed the bottom of her dress and began tearing off strips, she then tor off strips from the bottom of Aloradyths dress. Mia Mia stripped the top of Aloradyths dress off so she could rap her ribs to keep them from moving. She sat her up and helped her lean her back against the large tree.Then she tied all the rest of the strips together and tucked it under Aloradyths legs right below her bottom. She sat on the ground between her legs Mia Mia's back facing her. She quickly tied the strips around them both and stood up notting the cloth together. Nodding she set out going in the opposite direction she had earlier. "It will take us about three days to reach the nearest city. There we will get a carriage to take us the rest of the way. In total it should take a week to get to Cave Valley Village." Mia Mia told her, her foot steps light even with her heavy burden.