All around me was black I felt like I was floating, but was exhausted, turning in circles I find... nothing.
All around is empty, suddenly I feel less tired and start seeing a light. Reaching for it I suddenly find myself next to a baby, and standing over it are a man and woman.. "mom..? Dad..?" I wisper but they don't react, instead someone next to me answers "yep, that's them." I turn, startled, "you are?"
The feminine figure smiles "you named me Sarah."
"So your my second soul?"
"That's how you would describe me."
"Alright, what's going on?"
As I ask that, the memory changes, someone with canine ears barges into the room.
"That is your family, mother, father and uncle."
The three start talking but i can't hear it, noticing my slightly odd expression, Sarah explains, "you were a baby back then and had yet to understand anything, of course you don't understand what's being said"
I nod and just watch as my father punches his brother and yells at him with tears in his eyes, while my mother simply picks up baby me and holds me to her chest.
"What is on your mind?" Sarah asks as I stare at my father and uncle.
I point to my dad "that's the face of someone who's trust was betrayed, if I were to guess, my father trusted my uncle to keep his relationship with my mother secret, but my uncle slipped up and came to warn them to try to make up for it, but my father is too hurt and needs to vent, which is why my uncle doesn't retaliate despite the anger and guilt from being yelled at" I explain my understanding of the situation and get a surprised look from Sarah.
But the situation changes as my uncle finally speaks back and my mother gets a worried look after he does, she looks at baby me and kisses his forehead before she looks at my father and says something.
When she stops talking both my dad and uncle nod, my uncle runs out of the room and my dad takes her into a princess carry as he starts to shift into a warewolf, she starts to cry and hold baby me tighter.
Then my father jumps out of the second story window and hits the ground running, shouts chase them as my father runs through what seems to be the estate of a mansion, people start to attack my father and I shout and try to protect him, but everything phases through me and Sarah speaks "it's a memory, you can't change it."
I stop trying and watch my dad as more and more people throw spears and shoot arrows into him, him even taking hits ment for my mother and baby me, every hit making him wince and slow, but suddenly his strength and speed explode as he rushed to escape, I look over at Sarah and as if understanding my look, she says, "he's burning his life for power, in this state his ageing is speed in proportionally to the strength gain."
I grit my teeth and clench my fists as I continue to watch, when they reach the gate my father stops in his tracks and exits the explosive state as he stares at a man with canine ears over the exit, he looks similar to my dad, but in the man's hand is my uncle's unconscious body and he looks like he's barely alive.
My father sets my mom down and keeps an eye on the man holding my uncle as they start to talk, eventually though, my father reactivates his explosive state and charges the other man, entering a brawl as the other man shifts to a warewolf form too, while my mother grows wings, but they are quickly ripped until they're in no shape to fly with as another person shows up, reloading a crossbow, the man then takes aim at my dad but my mom takes the hit and coughs blood as her eyes go wide and turn deep red, almost black, looking at Sarah again she speaks up, "that's your mother's explosive state, she uses the stored blood in her system to strengthen herself, but if she is in the state too long it's her own life she uses by making her bone marrow produce less blood, and when it can't make anymore she will weaken so much that direct moonlight will kill her instead of strengthen."
I return my focus on the fight to see, in my father's fight more people have joined to stop him from helping my mother and he soon stops holding out hope of getting out of this as he ages at a rate more than visible to the eye, in my mother's fight, she is being held back because of needing to protect baby me, her wounds adding up as her opponents increase faster than she can kill them by sucking their blood, and she has less time to suck blood due to the increase in numbers and on my father's side, he's rapidly ageing to buy time, unable to beat his opponents as they continue to multiply due to him being unwilling to kill.
With tears, my mother flees but only makes it so far while facing the pursuit of the warewolves, when she reaches a town, she talks to and leaves baby me with a young couple that seem to run a few shops, before returning to fleeing.
The warewolves speed into town and the couple hide me in a place with a smell so strong even baby me can't stand it and the couple, for my survival muffle my crying with a pile of dirty blankets, when the shouts of people fade, the couple, although bloody, return me and start to clean and care for me, but the memory soon fades and I'm back in the black space, but not alone this time.
"will you be with me when I wake up?"
With a smile, Sarah answers "no, I still need to recover, I'm surprised I could stay conscious long enough to watch your memory with you, but don't worry, soon I will be able to talk to you again like normal."
Her body starts to go translucent as she speaks and when she stops she starts to fade.
I reach out and pull her into a hug before she can disappear, when I see her confused look I say, "I was told you were all I had for a long time, and when I saw you fading I felt like I wanted to send you off with a hug, so I did." I smile at her and she disappears with the start of a smile