After being swallowed by the water, I started to hallucinate. My eyes weakly opened as a figure stood before me. Blurry, I couldn't see the face of the person but I could tell it's a man. His broad shoulders, gloves, and suit was all I could see. I could tell that the man's skin was pale. That man extends his fingers as he reached out to me.
My eyes snapped open as I cough violently. Waters flows out of my guts as it reached to my throat. Soon, I coughed out water. My whole body was drenched and soaked in a disheveled way. The shirt I was wearing was up to my stomach, revealing my waist.
After I calm down, I look around to see that I was near a river. It was beautiful. The water flows down to the rocks as it cleans everything around the way, including the soil. Surrounding the lake was a green forest. The trees stood tall as if it was about to reach the clouds. I was a tall guy myself but it is laughable to say that beside a tree.
Perhaps, I've lost my mind. I just died and made it to heaven? No way. Heaven was supposed to be peaceful place with no suffering. Yet, I've just spotted out water painfully up to my throat.
I slowly gets up from my sitting position to look around. But I suddenly felt a sharp pain around my left ankle. When I look at it, it looked like I was stabbed by some sharp objects. Not only that but my chest and right arm had scars that were still bleeding. Soon, the pain followed. I am not someone who could handle pain well. I press the wound on my stomach.
But to my suprise, gloves were on my hands. It didn't look like ordinary gloves. Not thinking much about it, I decided to get up. My body trembles from the pain as I painfully relies on my legs. Luck was just not with me. Not even after taking one step, I tripped a rock and fell down. I fell all four and bruised my knees with the rocks beneath me.
"Hngh..."
I painfully let out a sound. But before I could react, the reflection from the water I saw shook me. It was my face but not my face. The left of my eye was...blind? My right eye has a soft blue eyes. This wasn't my eyes! I was both green eyes before! And to begin with, my hair wasn't even....this...this orange!! I had black hair! My hair has been short in my whole life but the reflection before me had a strange hair.
The hair was medium length for a guy but the left side of my hair was longer than my right. It was carefully braided down to my chest by a black ribbon. I touch the long hair and realised that the long hair was only on the front, not the entire back. My appearance looks more graceful and handsome than my past life.
My skin was surprisingly snow white and with the bruisings on my face, it turned pinkish. What am I? A woman? My face went pale. I quickly look down and sigh in relief. Thank god, I am a man!
I washed my face with the water from the river and looked around. Since 'my body' was injured, I walked around like a brainless zombie walking around with a broken leg. Though my leg wasn't broken!
After many twists and turns, I reached at a cliff. Relief washed over me as I approach the edge of the cliff. To my suprise, the view I see wasn't mountains and trees but a city. It was at the sunset so the lights were all on.
Perfect! I mumbles underneath my breath. As I take a step forward, my injured leg was stabb by a sharp stone as I trip. I painfully let out a groan but my eyes widen. I was at the edge of a cliff! There won't be land if I fell.
Can't I be more luckier? My body fell like a feather fell from its body. The cliff was a mountain and I won't be surviving this fall. My lips unconsciously turned into a smile as I fell. I inhale a deep breath of fresh air as I embrace the fate that is given to me. While falling down, my mind flashed a butterfly that was flying near the river when I was deceived to cross.
The butterfly was white and transparent. Its wings were somehow stained with blood and was sharp as a knife. It flew deep into the darkness as it chopped down some small incests flying near it with its wings.
I closed my eyes. Even in my last moment, the faces of my parents and me smiling didn't appeared as I wish. It was just a goddamn butterfly. I thought before death, we played 7 minutes of our lives. At least. I'm dead once again.
Thud.