I was falling, never hitting the ground. There was darkness all around. Where was I? Was it hell? Heaven? Or was it something else entirely?
The further I fell, the more I was sure it was a bottomless hole. The hairs on my body stuck up straight and goosebumps were all over me. The more I wondered where I was, the more I could hear whispers. It was all gibberish and I couldn't make out what anything was saying. Before I knew it, I was standing in an unfamiliar place. It was a city in ruins. Building was destroyed and it was raining heavily. I could see it, the corpses of countless people. A puddle of water showed my reflection as I looked into it. What...was I? My face was pale and the witness of my eyes weren't whit at all, instead, they were bloodshot red, and my pupils were glowing. I stared in surprise at my hands as they were as they looked sof but felt harder than rock. I could feel a pressuring pain on my back, as if I was carrying something. I feel my knees as all the joints in my body were aching like hell. I could feel hate, rage, it was all madness. In the distance, I could see a battle taking place, shaking the wind. There flashes of light as a result of them using their skills. I was walking to them but, my movements felt sluggish, it felt like it would be a year before I reached the battle.
Thought of the question jumped all around in my thoughts.
"Where am I? Why am I where? What's going on? Am I still myself? ...Who am I?"
I was getting closer, close enough to see what's really happening. The people fighting were human but, at the same time they weren't. It was like they were monsters. Every movement stopped, no rain was falling, no wind was blowing, it was as if time had frozen. This entire reality shattered right before my eyes.
Once again, I was falling, falling, falling, falling and falling. I was back at the bottomless hole. No sign of light was anywhere and I could hear the whispers again. A voice spoke in my ear, striking the depths of my soul.
"You...want to know what you are? You want to know who you are? You are just like us. We do not have a limit. You are a rare breed. Just a question, will you set the word on fire? Or will you be the one to stop the fire? Or perhaps, you'll do both.
I didn't understand anything.
The whispers were all gone and for some reason I could feel sadness, I didn't know why. There was nothing to be sad about. Tears fell from my face and I could feel an overwhelming force inside of me, dying to escape. What did I want? I needed something to help me. What did I need? The whispers all around disappeared and the falling was calming.
I closed my eyes and….opened them back up.
I could feel a pillow behind my head and there was a window to my side, letting in the sun's light. I sat up and held my head as I felt a pounding headache. I looked all around, I was in a hospital room. I came to a concussion, everything that had just happened was all a bad dream. A doctor wearing a white lab coat came in, holding papers.
He looked at me and spoke.
"Oh, you're finally up."