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"Hello?" She yelled for the fifth time.
Emerald found herself in a dark room with no light. She couldn't tell where the portal had taken her to.
A bright light shone behind her and she turns to stare at it. She moves closer and shield her eyes for proper view but it was still blank.
The light was tiny but it shone brightly.
"Maybe that's my way out… or in?" She muttered to herself.
She takes hastily steps and rushed towards the light. The more she kept running towards it the more she felt the light move farther away. She quickens her step and ran with all her might but it still went farther away.
Emerald pause to catch her breath.
After multiple session of Inhaling and exhaling, she lungs at it again. But her effort was rendered useless yet again.
"Ah!" She groans it frustration.
She squats on the floor and pants.
"I'm not going to chase you!" she screeched "I'm a princess and a keeper of the TERRA GEM. I order you to come to me!" she cried out.
Silence followed... As she grunts in frustration. She turns and started walking to the opposite direction.
She takes five steps forward and she felt the light following her. She takes another five steps and it followed her yet again.
She starts running and it followed her like a shadow. The light starts to get closer- and closer. Emerald's eyes glints in pleasure.
"That's right! Who is chasing who now?" she whispers inaudibly.
She quickened her place and when she felt it has gotten close enough- she turn and made to jump right through it, but her face met the floor.
"Ouch!" she groaned before sitting up. She massaged her nose gently. She suddenly jumps up and stares down at the light.
"I did not want to do this, but you leave me with no choice!"
Emerald raises her thumbs and snaps at the light with her index finger.
But nothing happened. She does it repeatedly but nothing came about.
Emerald slumps on the floor and cries. Her magic didn't work for it.
Surely, this was not how she hope to find herself.
'Is she in Heaven?' she wonders. 'Or somewhere people go when they do bad things?'
She had no answer to the question, so she continued to weep.
"If this is my punishment for what I have done, then I accept. I'm sorry mother! I'm so sorry I disappointed you! I'm sorry too Marian! I'm sorry everyone" she wailed repeatedly.
A loud wailing that surpassed her voice made Emerald raise her head from her knees.
"Emerald please come back to me!" The Feminine voice cried and Emerald had to sit up for she was confused.
'Who was that woman and why Is she crying for her to come back?' she wondered.
Multiple people were crying but those were the only meaningful words she was able to pick out.
"Don't take her away from me! No... Leave her alone she is still alive! My daughter can't be dead!" The lady wailed.
Emerald stands on her feet and looks around. And her gaze landed on the light. The light was showing pictures- a woman's face. Tears fall from her cheeks and saliva from her mouth as she wailed.
"Humans" Emerald scolds. "Surely they can't be this pathetic!" she says as if she wasn't crying a moment ago.
Emerald thinks back and wonders if this was how she looks like anytime she shed tears... The thought alone made her cringe.
She settled down as she watched on - like it was a movie.
"Emerald" The woman wailed yet again.
"Why does she keeps calling my name?" Emerald questioned baffled.
She watched on as a few people tried to drag the woman away but she stayed strong and decisive.
"Oh, mom!"
Emerald squirts her eyes through the light to see the person calling her mom.
"I'm so sorry!" it says again.
In a way, it sounded so much like her.
like she had said it. But emerald knew she hadn't uttered anything.
This time around, emerald was sure the sound did not come from the light.
It was from her behind!
She turns swiftly at whoever had said that and her gaze lands on a girl.
'Huh?'
Emerald stands up and comes to stand next to her. She hadn't seem to notciced emerald's presence. She just kept staring forward with tears on her eyes.
Emerald turn her gaze to where she was looking at, and her gaze fell on the light.
"Ahh! If you're trying to get through it, don't bother I've tried severally." Emerald say to her.
The girl said nothing and just kept looking at the light as she sobs quietly.
Emerald takes her time to check her out.
She was wearing a hoodie that covered her hair and her eyes, leaving her nose and lips exposed. And shorts to match with, and she (emerald) was precisely the same height as her.
Emerald stared in wonder as she wonders what kind of desings these are, that the lass was wearing.It was stylish and beautiful.
"Where are you from?" Emerald questioned.
The girl tilts her head over to Emerald.
Emerald waited for her to say something but she just cried the more. Emerald watch as she cries till she said something between sobs.
"Angel... Please watch over my little sister Mia." she sobbed. "And my mom too." she sobbed again.
A bright light shone behind the girl and her cries only get louder.
She pulls down her hoody and looks at emerald in her eyes.
"You look a lot like me you know," she says and emerald just stares at her.
'That's not true' Emerald thinks to herself.
The girl has short hair while that of emerald reached her bunda.
'Maybe it's the eyes.' emeralds thinks to herself. For her eyes shone green- just bright green eyes.
Well, how was emerald to know when she hasn't seen her reflection.
"I am Emerald." They said almost at once.
The both stared at each other in shock. Before the girl looks down on her feet.
Emerald wonders why she thinks she's an angel.
Emerald looks towards the light that had come so close to her as if; asking her in.
Emerald moves towards the light- she moves her hand inside the light and made to touch the weeping woman's face.
But she jolted backward.
"Doctor! Doctor!" the woman called.
The girl that had bend her head rushed towards emeralds.
"What did you do?"
"I want to wipe her tears away." Emerald simply said.
"I meant to my body. It's waking up."
She answered.
Emerald looked at her weirdly before removing her hands from the light.
A man on white clothes from the light, rushed in to inspect the body.
He turns over to the weeping woman.
"I have important stuff to do. If you'll excuse me..." he says angrily as he make his way out.
"I swear I saw the monitor blinked... I'm not lying." she cries after him and held his garment.
Pathetic! Emerald thought.
The girl jolts forward, to put her hand inside the light but she immediately takes it away. Like she had been electricuted.
"Please you need to do that again before the doctor leaves."
She cried.
"What's a doctor?" Emerald inquired
"Please just do it before he leaves the room-" Before she could finish, a light surfaced behind her and she slowly and steadily walked backwards into the light.
"No!" emerald simply states and made to turn away.
"Wait! At least do something for me before I find rest."
"What's that?" She mumbles grudgingly.
"Touch her face for me."
Emerald sighs before turning to the light.
She walks hastily to the light and stretched her hand in…
"Doctor! Doctor look! It happened again!"
The doctor looks over to the monitor before he jolts up ready in action.
He brings out a defibrillator and rubs it together.
"There I've touched her face-"
"I- 2- 3…." The doctor calls and he place it on her chest.
"Ahhhhhh!" emerald screamed in pain and she tries to remove herself from in between but she was pulled in instead.
"I'm sorry. Please take care of my mother and sister- and yes one thing you should know cause it's going to cha-"
She didn't finish before the doctor counts again and place it on her chest. Emerald felt something draws her in completely not hearing the last thing she said before the light, from behind the strange girl, consumed her too.