//------------------------------// // Three // Story: Edge of Impossibility // by Muei-Tou //------------------------------// Where I’m I? I’m I dead? I can’t recall what happened after those two pegacorns fired off that beam. Nor the voice that promised me survival, but surely this isn’t the end. It couldn’t be...I survived my burial of being buried alive. I clawed my way to the surface even if the pain was unbearable. I survived against all odds. In the end I still met the same fate as I would have suffered within the ground. If only my injuries weren't holding me back I would have at least survived long enough to escape. Picking myself off the nonexistent plane I was graced with ere white noise along with loneliness. My mind was struggling to hold itself together from this prison. I never handled myself well when I was alone because the voices that made themselves present. I cowered curled up on the ground trying to block out the horrible voices. I wanted this suffering to end, I wanted another to make it go away, I wanted death. What felt like forever the voices started to dull to whispers fading into the background and when I opened my eyes I came to gaze upon a figure standing a foot away from my face. Soon afterward this figure placed its hand out speaking foreign words that went over my head, but I caught the gist off what the figure was speaking. Reaching my hand out to grab hold, I was met with coldness. The figures hand was freezing and suddenly I was brought to my feet standing face to face with this unknown person. When I was finally able to focus the first thing that caught my eye was the person's left eye being a small crimson dot with a red vein consuming the left side of their neck meeting up to their eye. I was curious about this until a bright light pierced the darkness. When my eyes were finally able to adjust to the light I was again met with another figure which looked feminine. I was about to question the figure before it made a swift motion faster than my eyes could see, grabbed my hand, and brought me next to her side. I was confused about the whole situation until the feminine figure pointed its finger toward the figure that helped me up and what I saw was not within reasons natural. The figure sported ash colored skin, piercing crimson vein crawling up its neck towards its left eye while leaving a red dot consumed with darkness where the eye should be, and what was unsettling was the invisible aura of corruption. Shocked at the creature before me was rather unnerving to say the least and yet I had this invisible draw toward its presence yearning for me, making me want to be cradled within its hold promising me safety. I felt a warmness upon my shoulder making me glance at who placed there hand on me and what I saw was the girl shaking her head seeming to relay to me not to go onward. Looking at her puzzled about the message she relayed I looked down to see that without me even noticing, I was heading toward the creature. I stepped back to my original position beside her. When I did everything sprawled out of control with the creature seeming to faze out of existence to then suddenly reappear right in front of me. It reached its hand out toward me barely grazing my clothes before the feminine figure kicked the creature in the distance then quickly pointed behind me. Looking backwards I saw a door within the distance making me figure that the girl wanted me to escape. I spin my head around quickly giving a quick nod before running toward the door while hearing the two engaging each other behind me. Once at the door I did a quick glance behind me and saw the creatures foot pinning the girls head then what came next was it crashing her head to mush. It then looked up at me. Not wanting to stick around to see what it would do to me I quickly swung the door open before the creature could grab hold of me. When I went through the door I was suddenly met with a feeling of weightlessness then I looked under me to see their was no more ground underneath my feet, but instead air. I went into a free fall soon after seeming to fall for what felt like eternity before I was greeted with darkness once more. When I was about to question if I was back where I started I was greeted with a beeping noise beside me and when I took in some air I smelt antiseptic along with rubbing alcohol. I connected the dots together to come down to being in a hospital. After figuring out I was no longer in the nightmare, I felt my left side of my leg to be rather warm then the rest of my body. I decided to investigate why that was to be met with the blue unicorn/Pegasus resting her head upon my leg seeming to use it like a pillow. I simply shrugged at the display, but decide to leave it since she was not causing me problems and it was rather a adorable display that I would be disappointed at myself if I were to disrupt her sleep. So instead I decided to check over my body to see the damage I suffered to see that most if not all were at this point pretty much healed. I hummed with approval before looking around the room I was occupying to see that the ins and outs were covered with this rather strange golden hue gold and a humming noise slightly coming from it. When I was about to draw conclusions on what that could be I began to hear whimpering noises coming from the blue unicorn/Pegasus pony. I seen her face morphed with sacredness and misery. It was something I was all too familiar since it was something I’ve had to deal with on a daily basis, so with what little I could do I placed my hand on her mane and started to pet her while whispering heartfelt words to help sooth her pain. I soon seen her calming back down. After she was calm I continued to pet her head while humming melodies since I was to afraid to face the nightmare once again. I decided to lie there just staring off into the distance while petting her.