The darkness swallowed her whole.
But...
Not long after that.
"Uwagh!!!"
A creature screamed on top of its lungs. The pain… The images of that dreadful scene kept revolving around her. It was nothing less than a nightmare.
She felt like her head would explode at any near moment, with the level of pain she was going through. And her tightly shut eyes flew wide open.
Light! There was light. After what seems like an eternity of darkness , she finally found the source of light.
And she forgot, her pain, that nightmare, everything. As she was welcoming the light back into her life.
"Ah!!! 5701 is awake… 2347 take a look, hurry up." And Aelin heard a beautiful, clear voice just like a water breeze.
After hearing a voice, Aelin relaxed immediately. So, it was just a nightmare. Hah!!!! It had scared the living lights out of her.
Then she turned her head slowly, towards the source of voice.
"Uwagh!!!"
As soon as she found the source of voice, Aelin ended up screaming on top of her lungs.
'W- What's that!!!! Definitely not a human.' Her brain screamed at her.
And there was a green creature standing next to the space, which was similar to the bed , in short next to Aelin.
DAMN IT!!!!
'Just what on the earth is that?'
The creature was similar to Groot from the ' Guardians of Galaxy' the only difference was that ; Groot was a tree, while the creature standing next to her, is…. is …. more or less like a … shrub.
Yes. A. Shrub.
The green shrub, with a face like humans, forehead, dark green brows, light green eyes, pointed nose, another shade of greeny thin lips, pair of ears…
What's more is the fact that this shrub not only carried greenery, but also tonnes of flowers, thorns, leaves and many more in it. At least in its outer appearance.
Like the flowery part creates long hairs, the thorns cover the abdominal area, while leaves cover the arms, legs , hands and feet.
Damn, Aelin was so shook by the appearance of the creature, that before she could utter a word of either question or anything. She fainted away.
~~
The creature named 2347 came, it saw a creature lying unconscious on the floating cloud. Yes it wasn't a bed, but a cloud as soft and smooth as cotton and silk.
What's more there was no ground to walk upon, only an endless light blue coloured sky.
Mortals like humans called this place... A paradise.
But the fact is that, for the creatures, the residents of this place, it wasn't. It was just a place for them to live. For Immortals like them, there is no such thing as Paradise.
For them, it's their home, just like the soil, the ground is for humans.
2347 stared at the unconscious figure, then at a green shrub and her angelic, gentle voice resounded in the place, where there were no roofs, no pillars, no floors, nothing, except for the floating cloud, and the creature lying in it.
"Nat!!!" The very same voice, which could bring people on their knees, just with one word. The creature's voice, precisely 2347's, might sound as gentle as the spring, but… it carried an unwavering dominance, utmost a form of authority in it.
And the green shrub, which goes by the name, Nature, fell into its knees, and reported. "It fainted again, my lady."
2347 stared at the creature then at Nature and added; " Take proper care of it. Before, ' The Great Dietiness' finds out about it."
2347 was about to leave but then, Nat added, "My Lady, is it even possible that 'The Great Dietiness' hadn't found out about it? We are bound to be doomed, either sooner or la-"
2347's sharp glance, shut Nat's voice down. And then without responding, started leaving. When 2347 reached a certain place, a golden light shone brightly, and the transparent walls, lined with golden light appeared, formed a beautiful golden door.
2347 just waited a little, then the golden door opened and the creature 2347 left the place. Or to be precise, the golden door shut tightly again, then the same process occurred, but in the opposite manner.
The golden doors, then turned into golden lights and then disappeared fully, leaving only an empty sky, both below and above. Even through side by side.
Just what exactly was this?! Well, this was not the human's home or human's world. This was an Immortal's home and Immortal's world.
The same immortals, to whom the earthlings worship as Gods and Goddesses.
Well, the room consists of transparent walls, which allow the person inside to get the beautiful view of this endless sky. While at the same time, creating the opaqueness, the barrier from outside, giving full privacy, sense of security to the individual.
The Golden doors are the entry and exit point of those barriers, and only those inside the barriers can breach the privacy of the owner of this little room.
The moment the creature named 2347 left the place, it spread its white angelic wings high and flew directly to a certain place.
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2347 reached the so-called ' certain place' then fell to its knees and reported, "Celeana greets The Great Dietiness. Aelin just regained her consciousness after the incident. But after a few moments, she fainted again."
The place wasn't anywhere like the sky, well the floor was light blue, which meant it wasn't completely sky less.
But the rest of the place was covered with bright light, filled with a sheer form of whiteness, the type of light, which earthlings couldn't tolerate, be it with their eyes open or shut.
There were 25 - 30 creatures standing with their head held high and spine as straight as rod, on both left and right side.
Two of which were standing just a few inches away from 2347 or Celeana, just in case.
After all, no one… literally no one.. was allowed to move forward. These guards were standing as the reminder.
Well, practically speaking then these creatures were no less than humans, just that these guards were so damn handsome, so damn pure, so damn cute, so damn handsome… that it was impossible to even blink in their presence.
Then came their highly muscular, highly refined well built body, which was covered, or should say, hidden fully within the layers of white piece of cloth.[ Just like ancient chinese, korean, Indian or Pakistani drama]
In short, except for their handsome, ethereal faces, their rainbow coloured hairs, everything was covered from neck to toe, with that white piece of cloth.
Not even a little bit of exposure could be seen, as if they were some mummy's tight covering from neck to toe in that white piece of clothes.
[Edited chapter
Credit goes to : Author Evil_Dragon ]