The land is barren, the grass is turning yellow shriveling within in the proximity, everything is basked in the glow of red glow once again surrounded by the closeness of the brilliance of the white void. Like watching an eye opening to the world from above.
This time there was no Alice, no group of people telling me where I belong, but a winged maid. Her robes flowed against the breeze. Her face is down, red marks are gleaming on her face; I could see her body trembling.
Her fingers shook, looking up at me stumbling toward me. I was confused if she was hurt or something was happening to her?
"Chara! It's me!" I shout.
She doesn't answer me, walking to her I try to grab her hand. She retracts, not even giving me a passing glance. She ignores me racing past me to Alex.
"If you tell me what is going on I can help you!" I yell.
Chara was speaking some unknown language I never heard before in my life to the angel holding an unconscious Alex in her arms.
"Why am I here?" I ask.
Speechless I am still not getting answers, the one who had Alex in her possession strolls over placing her hand on my face. I could feel it burning. I woke up breathing deeply in and out staring at the walls.
My mark was glimmering, peering over at Chara was covered in symbols. Her body was covered in sweat. I had a bottle of water by the bed and a handkerchief dabbing the water in the cloth on her forehead. She begins to get up.
"Christian…" She said weakly.
"Chara!" I begin to cry.
"Why are you crying?" Chara asks.
Laying my head in her lap, I couldn't stop sobbing. Stroking my hair she lies her head down on mine softly.
"I kept seeing you in my dreams…" She says.
"Don't leave me again please!" I begged her.
"What happened?" She said, confused.
"After Christmas, you fell into a coma…Saniya is dead and we now have a master…" I explained to her.
"Where are we now?" Chara ponders.
"I don't know… ghost hands brought me here. Master Alex and Alice are here too…" I answer.
"Who was Saniya's Master?"
"Someone named Shimon…I think he was the one who brought Alex into this world." I say.
"Oh right, Everett did a kindness for that man and this is how he is repaid!" Chara argues.
Chara tries to get up, nearly collapsing, I catch her making her lay back down on the bed.
"I will get the doctor Chara, I was told to get Shimon when you wake…" I hesitated to say.
"I don't want to meet him Christian!"
"I don't want anything else to happen to you Chara…please…"
Saying nothing more I leave transversing the corridors clumsily to the nurse's office, I notice Reid had vacated finally. I knock on the desk looking for the female doctor.
She looks back at me from another curtain, she pulls it back. I wince scared to see who it may be or if it's an injury. It's a boy…a boy I swear I saw before.
"Hello, Chara is awake. I need you to come to look at her." I comment.
"They brought her in only days ago right?" She asks.
"I guess so…who is that?" I inquire.
This blue haired boy was sleeping peacefully on the steel gurney, I noticed a jug of water and a small cup placed beside him. A small vial filled with some odd liquid was in it.
"His name is Mars apparently, he is coming off a heavy drug which is why the lights are low. Shimon found him." She explains.
"Why is he on this drug in the first place?"
"I don't know Igor…we found the chemical makeup. He might need help living for a little bit before we learn how to help him." She answers.
"That's horrible, do you need help?"
"He is being transferred to a private room soon, he just came in."
"I see…I hope he is better soon." I replied.
"Once he is awake you might be the biggest help for him, I will drop off a duplicate key so you can visit him once he is settled."
"I will do my best! I am going back to Chara now."
Visions of the beautiful man in a hanfu suddenly popped into the back of my mind, but this kid is much younger than that man…could that drug be why he became like that?
Or are they different people? Everything is slowly coming together for me, fated depictions unreeling mentally., but there is so much I am confused about still…Alex's being here woke her up I am sure of it…my palm aches.
Making it back to my room I see that Chara has gone back to sleep, she was hugging my pillow meant for my sleeping bag. Instead of pulling it away from her, I decided to let her rest more as soon I am not sure what Shimon will have her do.
"Christian…" She mumbles
"Are you doing okay?" I ask.
"I am, I am just really tired right now."
"The doctor is treating someone, just take it easy for now okay Chara?"
Going back to sleep I get up for her to tug my arm, sitting back down I nuzzle my face against hers gently. There is a knock on the door that startles us both.
I open it quickly to find the doctor at the door smiling, she hands me a pair of keys in which I pocket quickly.
"Are you feeling okay Chara?" She asks.
"I am just mainly tired…" She said trailing off.
Taking out her large duffle bag she tosses it to the ground, we both look at her. She takes items out one at a time including capped needles, strange tools I have never seen before rolled out on a white clean towel.
"What exactly are you going to do?" I comment nervously.
"I want to test her…"