//------------------------------// // Prologue - Rebirth // Story: Lost Dreamer // by Arceaion //------------------------------// "Well I can officially say this is my worst day ever." I said as I gasped for breath. "Just hang in there sir, please my sister's called for an ambulance." A girl cried. I chuckled as I turned to the sobbing child. "It's fine kiddo, I'm just glad I could help." I said with a smile. As I lay there I began to feel cold and then I saw my life. You know how they say that when you die your life flashes before your eyes? Well they're not to far off the mark. I watched my life as if it were a movie, it went by surprisingly fast till I reached the events that lead to me getting in this... predicament. Flashback I yawned as I walked down the street to my job, it had been a long shitty day all I wanted was for it to be over. But I still had work to do and no mater how much I wanted to go home and sleep I still had to make enough to money to put food in my stomach. I sighed as I zipped my hoodie up more and pulled the hood up as the gray clouds rumbled. "Should of brought an umbrella." I muttered before a scream broke the silence and causing me to freeze and looked around. "Please stop!" A voice screamed from the alley ahead. Quickly I ran to the entrance of the alley and peaked around the corner. A man stood over two children that couldn't have been older than 12, one of them was curled in a ball crying as the other stood protectively over them. For a moment I watched as the man simply laughed and pull out a gun and aim it at the children. That was when I did the second dumbest thing in my life. I charged into the alley and body slammed the man as hard as I could knocking him away from the children. Quickly I pulled out my phone and threw it to the kids. "Call the cops and run, don't look back." I said as I watched the man rise. "Oh look, a hero." The man said as he smiled and raised the gun. "My favorite!" He laughed and fired the gun. As he shot I charged him, I don't know if the bullet hit me or not but I had to stop him, so I did the dumbest thing ever in my life. I ran at him and kicked him in the crotch. The man screamed in pain and shot the gun again this time it hit, I know because it hit me square in the chest but as the man fell down the gun slipped from his hand. The man dove for the gun but I was already falling and managed to grab the gun and with the last of my strength aim it at the bastards head. The man froze his eyes widening in realization of what was about to happen. "Get dunked on." I said as I pulled the trigger and killed him. As the man fell back I smiled as the gun slipped from my hands and I fell onto my back. One of the girls ran to me crying. "Heh, always wanted to say that." As I returned to the present I saw the girl crying, slowly I raised my hand to her face. "Hey, can you do me a favor?" I asked her. The girl looked at me and nodded. "Y-ye-sss." She said crying. "It's not your fault for this so I want you to smile, I'm glad I was able to help you." "If there is anything we can do then we will sir." The other girl said as she knelt next to the other. "Never blame yourselves for this, that's all I ask. No matter what people say it's not your fault so never blame yourselves." I said as I coughed. A siren was heard as but it was to late, I wasn't cold any more. I smiled as I closed my eyes and Darkness consumed me. 'Well this is it.' I though as I opened my eyes and looked around. A black void of nothing was what greeted me. "Well this sucks, I honestly expected more." I said with a sigh. "At least I died doing something worth sacrificing my life for." "Really, what were you expecting?" A voice asked me. I shrugged. "I don't know really, maybe a cave filled with lava and brimstone for hell or those golden gated of heaven or even a room but a void? Eh, makes sense I guess." I said. "Your taking death well." The voice said as a white figure with no features approached. "What am I suppose to do? Beg for life or try to make a bargain for a second chance?" I asked. "Honestly I'm satisfied with my life. I died saving two kids, now they can live their life if I have to die so they can live then so be it." "Well I guess congratulations are in order as you get a try again." The figure said with a smile. "Ok, that's creepy how you have a white smile on a white and featureless face. But before I accept or celebrate I want to know why." I said as my eyes narrowed. "No reason really, I'm just bored." The figure said. "Who are you?" I asked. "And, seeing as I'm satisfied with being dead, what's in it for me?" "Who I am doesn't matter. As for what you gain, well you will be given a new life in a new world." "Nope, no deal." I said as I backed away calmly. "Might of taken the deal if you said who you were but now I'll have to say no." The figure chuckled as the smile grew. "Funny, unfortunately your not the one in control." The figure said as it approached me and hundreds of strings shot out from the darkness and wrapped around my arms and legs. "Let's have some fun." The figure said as a hole opened up and sucked me in. As I fell I felt as if I was being ripped apart and I screamed in pain as memories flooded my mind, memories that weren't mine. Memories of a child who was beaten and tortured, Who was called a Demon and who was saved by Monsters. I had the memories of Chara Dreemurr. "NO, please stop!" I cried in pain. "You are my Puppet, my toy you will watch as I destroy this world and make you a true demon Chara." His voice laughed. "But I'm not Chara, my name is ❄✌✴🔼!" I cried before freezing. "❄✌✴🔼, what's happening!" "Memories drift in and out of your mind and all you know is what I want." He said. "I am not a Puppet!" I screamed as I felt something in my hand and I looked down to see a knife with a red handle and glowing white blade in my hand. I grit my teeth and grip the blade swinging it and cutting the strings on my arms and legs. "NO!" He cried in panic as I fell through another hole and landed in a bed of yellow flowers. I lay there for what felt like hours as I tried to remember who I was but I couldn't the memories had faded, all I could remember was that I was once someone else. Slowly I looked down and saw I was wearing a green sweater with a yellow stripe across and brown pants. On my feet were a set of sturdy brown boots and around my neck was the golden heart locket that my bro-Asriel had given me. I tried to get up but my body wouldn't respond. Princess Celestia sighed contentedly as she walked through the royal gardens as she admired a small bush of roses a hole in the sky opened and something fell from it and crashed. Celestia didn't hesitate and quickly ran to where they would have landed whoever that was could be hurt as she reached the place where they had landed she saw a child no older than seven. "What are you doing here?" She asked as she slowly approached them. The child slowly looking up at her tears running down their face as they reached out with a hand before passing out. Celestias eyes widened as she ran over to then and felt for a pulse. When she finally found it she sighed in relief. They were alive but barely, their breathing was shallow and uneven and there pulse was extremely faint. Celestia quickly picked the child up and spread her wings flying as fast as she could to the castle. As she reached the doors she grabbed the nearest guard. "Find my sister and inform her I need her at the medical ward." She said as she ran down the hall. The guard saluted and broke off running to the lunar wing of the palace to get Princess Luna while Celestia continued on.