Gravity

Gravity

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: This story is purely fiction, not real. These characters are MINE, as is the world they live in. If they resemble anyone you know or can think of, alive or dead, fictional or not, it is coincidental. As they belong to me, ASK me if you want to use them.

I don’t how I came to this place or why I still stay here. What I do know is that I fell from the sky, hitting the ground so hard that everything went white from pain. I tried to walk steadily, but it was too hard when the landscape looked like one big blur. When my head finally began to clear I found my self stumbling through a heavily wooded area. It seemed like only hours had passed since my arrival, but it could have been days. I could barely tell what time of day it was. Everything was spinning. I shakily made my way through unfamiliar terrain until I couldn’t walk anymore and succumbed to the darkness that had been creeping upon me.
I heard a woman voice, “Do you think she will wake tonight?”
Then a man said, “She should have woken up by now.”
The woman questioned, “Do you think she going to die?”
Someone, who must have been a doctor, perhaps even the same man from before muttered, “She seems fine except from the bruising. I can tell you much else at this point. From the looks of it, she took quite a fall.”
“She’s been asleep for days,” the woman continued, acting as though she’d barely heard the man.
He tried to calm her, “I believe there is nothing to worry about. Her vitals are strong. Everything else seems good…we just have to wait to see if she’ll wake up.”
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They both continued to wait for the strange girl to come to her senses. She didn’t move an inch. It was almost eerie how still she was, like a corpse. Three days passed. Nothing. On the sixth day the girl had yet to stir. The middle age woman who had cared for her like a mother might in the past week was growing increasingly worried. What if the girl never woke up?
Then, late that night, the woman was jolted from sleep by the young woman’s abrupt screams of agony.
“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!”
The sound echoed out of the small bedroom the girl had been sleeping in. The woman ran as fast as possible though the hallway to get to her room, the screams chilling her to the bone. She tried futilely to wake the young beauty that lay before her eyes. No flicker of life was apparent behind those long lashed eyelids, yet the girl fought the women with her frail, weak arms. Her body thrashed without any conscious will. Still, the woman continued to try and wake her. Nothing worked. She tried comfortingly calling the young girl by her newly given name. There were only helpless, agonizing screams in reply. Her pained voice filled the once quiet room.
“Please, please, Miyu! Wake form the horror of your sleep,” the woman pleaded to no avail.
The girl dubbed Miyu’s screaming went on, endless in the night. The women had no choice but to call the doctor back to her home, “I need your help. She has been screaming for an hour straight!”
Her voice betrayed her desperation.
“I’ll be there soon. I just have to get my bag ready,” his soothing voice helped to put her a bit at ease. Knowing that he would be there soon provided some comfort against the girl’s wretched cries, “And Miss Sasa, leave her be until I get there, okay?”
She smiled weakly into the receiver, “Yes.”
The woman hung up the phone and proceeded to walk down the short hallway, back to where Miyu was still screaming. She closed the door, muffling the sound, and headed to the living room. Her home was small but roomy enough, and as comfortable as her surroundings allowed. The middle of a forest wasn’t the most practical of locations.
A cup of coffee balanced in her hand when the doorbell rang. The dark haired doctor entered and made a beeline for the back room and the pitiful screams. Miyu’s voice had become hoarse from the constant shrieks.
Seeing that he really couldn’t do anything else for the sleeping beauty, the doctor prepared a sedative to quiet her. Perhaps soon he can figure out what is wrong.

Why is nobody helping? Why?
The only thing she could see was cold darkness. She continued to walk, never going anywhere. It beat standing around staring at nothing.
“Hello? HELLO? Can someone hear me? Please answer me if you’re there!”
Her voice disappeared into the pitch blackness of the place. She felt something like a bite on her right arm. Then all the cold and darkness around her gathered into something. It created a being that was at first nothing more than an unrecognizable shape. The cold was hitting her faster and harder, numbing her limbs with each passing second.
“Who are you?”
The thing was still taking shape. It’s abyssal mouth gaped, and a sound emanated through the dark, “I am you.”
With that, Miyu passed out, letting her mind and body flow into the being.


When you wake I will have answers you seek.

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The next day passed by without any word from Miyu. The young doctor focused all his attention on her, but his results were lacking.
It was a shock when, after four more days with no progress, she woke from alone sleep.
Miyu was greeted by the dark brown, almond shaped eyes of the doctor, “Well I’m glad to see you finally awake Sleeping Beauty.”
His smile was radiant, but she could barely take it in. She continued to stare at him until she could no longer stand it, rolling her head over to the other side and trying to figure out where she was. She tried to make a sound, but her throat was dry. The young doctor decided it would be best to fetch the patient some water. As he left she tried again to make a sound but her voice failed her. She came to the sudden realization that she had no memories before this moment, except for one; the memory of that dark looming figure promising answers not yet delivered. She desperately tried to remember something, anything about who she was and how she came to this room. When no answers arrived, she started to cry.
Even though her memories had deserted her, she knew that she had no home, no place in this world. She’d lost who she was. The young woman sank into depression just as doctor had just returned from his too-long trip for water.
“I brought some water to help your voice,” he tells her kindly.
She continues to ignore him, lost in her own thoughts of nothingness.
He implores, “Please drink something.”
With no reply forthcoming, the young doctor just sets the glass down on a small glass nightstand near her bed. She continued to ignore him. Then she felt his weight on the bed beside her.
“When I was younger my parents- well, my natural parents were killed by a warrior form a nearby town. My two younger sisters and I witnessed the brutal act. We ran as far into the forest as we could. We didn’t care that it was snowing and that the temperature was dropping. We just ran. Fear gave us the will, but nature was against us. My younger sister fell first. My older sister quickly followed. I couldn’t leave them, so I stayed by their side trying to keep warm. I don’t know when I fell asleep, but our adoptive parents found us. They took me and my siblings into their den. I barely remember telling them our names.”
He paused in remembrance, “When they named us Latif, Hana, and Laney, I was shocked that they knew our names. I kind of remember telling them, but it was vague, like a dream. My adoptive mother and father became our parents because they could not have any children of their own. Even though we lost everything, we had the knowledge that both our real parents and our new family loved us dearly. It made things easier…”
Brushing some hair from her face, he continued, “I do understand what it feels like…being alone. It’s easier to cope when other people help.”
She looked back at him and managed to finally croak out, “Miss Sasa calls me Miyu, I think.”
With a pleased smile the doctor replied, “Pleased to meet you. My name’s Latif.”