I felt my mind slowly sinking into a calm fluid, on second guess it should be water. Light shone and permeated through me, at that moment, information fled into my mind, and the urge to open my eyes arose. I tried opening them slowly but I couldn't, "what's this," I thought.
'Where am I...' I should be alive at least, the fact that I could still process information and my lingering consciousness suggests this.
I tried feeling my legs and moving but nothing came up, was I amputated or something more complex like my soul escaping out of my body had occurred.
'No No No something like that only happens in the movies and I couldn't have been amputated or at least I don't feel it, what am I even saying now, I can't even feel any part of my body right now'.
My mind felt stressed and I thought of recalling my past events, ''we got a quest.... primitive villagers..... old people, oh that's right! I must have been captured by that strange old sorcerer, what occurred wasn't an illusion, it had to be magic I thought, I hope others managed to defeat him, even Fredrick lost at a swoop''.
I tried recalling past happy memories to ease out the stress that I was feeling currently. I pictured that I smiled as I remembered the time I graduated from college with my friends cheering around and getting drunk, ahh great times indeed.
'When is this going to be over? I was starting to feel impatient, Is the afterlife that faraway?, you might as well create a fast transport system dear God, my mind is dying from boredom arrrrghh'.
As I was whining internally, the light I felt upon me grew brighter and brighter, I felt the warmness on my skin and I reached out my supposedly existing arms towards it when I started to hear voices all around.
'Huh! voices?'.
"Mustapha, Mustapha, Mustapha!"
" Yahhhhhhhh!" I rose panicking and looked around to just meet the faces of my teammates sitting around me like they were spectators, wasn't I suppose to be dead?
'There was no way I managed to escape that old man, don't tell me, this is the afterlife and my teammates are here as well'. Lost in my thoughts, a light tap went to my face, Belle who's the weakest of us all had just sent a light slap to my face and that did it, I snapped back to reality and slowly turned my head around.
What I saw was totally unexpected, a wild and beautiful Flora, birds happily tweeting and flying around, the sound of a flowing river, strange creatures resembling a reindeer, and antelopes except they were larger and had two extra legs between them. Just what is this I thought, Immediately I went to touch my legs and arms as I recalled that I hadn't confirmed their existence, "Whew" good thing none of me is missing.
Germaine stood up from his sitting position and walked forward. He climbed a short tree nearby and looked around when suddenly " Guys, I think some people are watching us, we are surrounded". Hearing this, my nerves steeled up, even in this strange new place, danger and hostility were still a thing. " Let's us all support each other," I said and we all turned our backs over each other and faced different positions, each person looking out for the other, Germaine was still on the tree though.
" VOOOM VOOOM VOOOOM"
Slow flapping sounds resonated towards our direction, we all picked this and paid attention tightening our fists for fisticuffs and bare fights as we had nothing but just our clothes now. Germaine left the tree and came towards us as he noticed this, he was wary as well.
" Well Well Well, if it isn't humans" What approached was totally different from what we expected, we had expected a ferocious beast but what was before us had to be the cutest thing ever.
A small-sized creature with bright transparent huge wings was before us flapping them slowly as visible gusts of wind escaped from them, I couldn't tell if it was a male or female but they had the cutest smile . With their bright green eyes, distinctive green dress, and footwear but most of all that cute smile on the prettiest face.
We were all mesmerized as our eyes fell on the Fairly, the strange reindeers were beautiful but it was nothing compared to the creature before us before we knew it we simply stared with our mouths opened out.
" Hmmn Hmmmm" it had just cleared its voice and brought snapped us back, wait?! voice?! it wasn't moving it's lips but I could still perceive this as the most beautiful voice ever, is this the phenomenon known as telepathy, seems like it, I'll just go with that and listen to whatever they had to say.
"I'm the King's advisor and the second in command in the North Wind Forest, call me Zephyr" they said proudly with their right hand on their chest.