EPILOGUE: DIED OR DENGUE, REBORN AS A MOSQUITO?
"Hold on Marin! Where close to the clinic!" My clothes are all wet and so is the blanket i wrapped to Marin to warm her up. My feet just keep tirelessly running amidst the cold rainy and windy night.
Our town is so poor that we don't have the luxury of having a street lights, but even so, the faint light from a distant building was enough for me to trace down the path towards our town's small clinic.
I finally arrived at the clinic, my clothes are all torned because of the branches and twigs i passed by while i was blindly running. Even my feet hurts as i was running in barefoot, i think i also have lot of bruises and scratch down there but what is important is i already arrived.
I knocked and shouted loudly at the door while hugging my little sister close to my chest to hopefully warm him up even though tye blanket covering her is drenched. Finally i heard a hurried footstep from the inside and a middle aged lady with concerned and shocked face opened the door for us with a lamp on her hand.
"Please save my sister! She has dengue and have a very high fever! Please I'm begging you miss!" I bowed my head and knelt while still holding my sister. The lady hurried me to get her inside and on a wooden bed. I removed the drenched blanket and gently laid my sister in the bed.
The middle-aged lady quickly started checking up her wrist first while i was clenching my fist. Tears already burst out of my eyes while i was biting my lips. My heart was pounding and the wall of strength i have built completely broke down as the middle-aged lady tried checking up my sister's other vital points. From her neck, her chest and even trying to see if there air movements from her diaphragm.
Before even rushing towards here, i already knew. It's just that i can't accept the truth. I fell in my knees as the lady stood up and stopped checking my sister. I burst out crying on the floor, the tears in my eyes keeps flowing and my chest is in so much pain.
"I'm sorry. You're sister was already long gone."
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I'm a larva!
What is happening? I suddenly found myself in the water. I did all i can to grab on anything i could reach because i don't know how to swim. But weirdly, i feel like most of my body was attached on this pole i just happened to latch myself into.
I quickly realize that i have no arm! Or rather, i have so many of this non-human arms! I want to puke but at the same time it feels i can't possibly do it. I saw few big larva-like creatures on the same pole or whatever this is that I'm hugging into. That's when the creeping truth hit my mind. I'm one of them!
I started to move upward this pole and the truth became more eminent and undeniable. I just crawled up this pole with my many legs or arms and it is as if i don't have any trouble finding out how to use them!
This is not good! Am i still asleep? Am i having one of those fever dream? But no, the feeling is surreal! Where is Miko? I remembered he went out to ask the people in town for some medicine for me. Did our house got swept by flood? But that doesn't explain why I'm a bug!
Also as i can see, the water looks weird! I'm close to the land and i can also see that this pole is some kind of giant plant beside the river bed if this is even what you can call a river. Why is the water looks weird! It's like it's not moving like should be, it looks like a smooth translucent hill moving up and down.
Also, the ambience looks weird! The hue of the surrounding looks like the sun is high but it looks foggy to me.
"Clear Sight was added to the soul"
What! Who is that! Where are you!! I raised my fist or rather my fists in preparation of combat but it just looks like the front part of my body just raised upward as if reaching for something.
"Extreme flexibility and Extreme balance was added to the soul"
There is it again! Where is this voice coming from! I can't discern in what direction does it came from! It feels like it's in my head! I don't feel safe now! I hurriedly scuttled towards the land where the base of this big plant is coming from. On my way there i saw weird green creatures also scuttling around the body of the plants. What kind of insects are they?
"Extreme speed was added to the soul"
There it is again! Could it be that it actually is in my head? What is this!? I have no idea what's happening! I stayed put and scurry myself in the gap between the main plant and the branch i came from. All of the other larva are on the land too. They are scuttling around and i saw some eating the green small things i saw earlier.
I do feel hungry now that i thought about it. But what exactly are those and what exactly am i! Anyways, i have the feel the i need to eat right now. I look around the plant i was in and i did saw some of those green little creatures. I feel so grossed out about it but i think it's the only source of food available for us right now.
Come on Marin! Miko always says don't be picky! Although if he's here i think he too would hesitate eating a bug like creature. And if he was in my condition too he would clearly hesitate because I'm probably also a bug! And this could be called cannibalism! Anyways, it's now or never!
As i started circling around the plant and swallowing the small green creatures just the same size of this body's mouth, my hunger was slowly diminished but i can't seem to stop. No way, this green stuff is actually good! Taste liked steamed green beans!
"Big appetite was added to the soul"
What? Is this weird voice trying to mock me? You can't blame me! I haven't eaten food that actually taste good for who knows how long! Even though it's gross because they are still alive, i don't even have a choice!
If all of this is real then I'm definitely not human anymore. Just what had happened? I did remember being badly sick with dengue. And the last thing i remembered was my brother going out to find medicine for me. Did i die back then? Then why am i still alive and in a different body? And where exactly am i?
Suddenly i felt something in the air that made my hair stood up if i did have some. It feels like the air was vibrating!
It was the biggest creature i have ever seen in my entire existence. It's wings bigger than its body, two antenna same length as the long and shiny thing protruding from where the mouth should have been located. It's two pair or big eyes containing many hexagonal lenses. It landed with It's long and shiny insect legs. I have never seen one up close back then but i am pretty sure.
That's a one big monstrous mosquito, and I'm probably dead!