//------------------------------// // [6] Definitely NOT Saving my Girlfriend // Story: My Anthroponic Reincarnation Story [On Pause except for Summer] // by TheOneAndOnlyRhyanSparks //------------------------------// Turning the corner from the top of the stairs, I was able to see that the commotion had been focused on Rue’s room. I saw a bunch of nurses and doctors edging out of the room, as if struggling with some overwhelming force. If doctors were doing that, then I thought I should probably be afraid.  I could feel mild panic swarming around in my head, but I wanted to see Rue. An unfamiliar wave of this weird pressure started radiating from beyond the door as I started to approach it, passing the others who were slowly backing away in the process.  I could hear voices behind me calling out not to enter, something about an “intense thaumic pressure” that was emanating from the room. It felt like some kind of mild pressure, something I couldn’t put a description or familiarisation to, but my heart overrode the want to step away from the pressure and step into the doorway. That’s when I felt like I’d walked into an invisible wind.  Instinctively, I bring my arms up to protect my head, at the insane, almost exponentially increased pressure as I started to creep into the room. It was like my body was being radiated with some unknown force, making me begin to feel warm and cold, sweaty and coldly shaking at the same time. And yet, I didn’t feel it, it was weird. Like almost unlimited potential, but I could start to feel my mind taking on a heavy weight and my ears began being overloaded with static-like white noise, but on a level that I don’t think I could describe normally.  Opening my eyes, the pressure waves kept pulsing, almost like a heartbeat, but it was as if nothing in the room was moving, until my eyes landed on her. I saw Rue floating, literally, floating. Her eyes were a cascade of white and the colours of a rainbow as the lights we’d seen earlier from under the sheets and her clothes had been in the process of unfurling from her body.  “RUE! CALM DOWN!” I called out, over the absurdly strong pressure and the deafening noise I was hearing, with a glimmer of hope that she would hear me. “RUE PLEASE, CALM DOWN! I’M SO GLAD YOU’RE OKAY! PLEASE, TRY AND RELAX! I KNOW YOU’RE STILL IN THERE!” As if it was rehearsed, her head slowly turned to me, before I heard her call out to me, her voice like a knife through butter as it cut through the noise that had begun to become unbearable as she whispered my name. “Cal… Please… Help… Me…” Came her whispered plea, as I began to wrack my mind around what I was experiencing.  I was in shock but while I was slowly edging my way towards her, I got this weird tugging in my mind that wanted me to follow it. For a few moments, I struggled between wanting to stay aware of Rue’s presence yet I also wanted to escape this pressure that I couldn't explain. I was contemplating this frantically, when all of a sudden I felt I was forcefully shifted into the black void I believe I had always been shifting to under high anxiety.  The world around me was lost to this vast void, when suddenly a glimpse of numerous colours slowly began drifting around me. They were flowing, warping, shifting, but staying outside of my black bubble. I guess I’m calling this my Void Realm. I don’t know if it was happening to me outside, but as I reached out, as if to approach the edge of the mass of what I could only describe as unearthly energy, I felt myself float towards the edge of the void that I didn't know was there. I reached out for a random strand, when I felt a tug coming from behind stopping me in the process. A large, purple ball appeared behind me, before forming into one of those TImberwolves, but it looked a lot more like a creature than it’s previous wood-bundled generation I'd seen back in the forest. She looked familiar, then I realised she might have evolved from her wooden state since I'd last seen, or felt her. ‘Stay calm, human.’ A voice spoke, snapping my attention back from the gorgeous beast before me. ‘I am here to help assist you, but I do not know what it is you will ask of me.’ It sounded like a soft toned, elderly woman with decades of experience, and yet, it had a sincerity to it that displayed not only vast knowledge, but a loyalty towards me. ‘Who is that?!’ I yelled out into the void, only to be met with the face of the beast like it had stepped closer. ‘Gah! Please don’t scare me like that!’ ‘I am sorry, hmm,’ It tilted it’s head to the side, as if thinking. That was when I realised it was the source of the everpresent voice. ‘Hoo-man Calvin.’  ‘Uh, I think it’s pronounced, "human".’ I replied sheepishly, taken aback. 'And I don't think we ever use the word as a title or in our names. It's either Calvin or Cal to my friends.' I added defensively. ‘Duly noted.’ It replied warmly, then placed a soft, wooly paw on my shoulder. ‘Now let's help this girlfriend of yours.’ It took me a few seconds, or what felt like seconds, to realise she might be able to read my thoughts, or if her power was stronger than I thought, she could probably access some, if not most of my memories.  ‘Grab the red strand of power first.’ She stated, standing firm by my side. ‘Grab it gently, and slowly pull it from the ball of light it surrounds.’ I didn’t want to touch the thing I was seeing, but instead I found that I had acknowledged her request and slowly began pulling a large red strand from the mass of colours. I watched it drift away hazardously into the void, but without getting a chance to watch it, I was tasked with removing one after another.  As I was on the fifth colour, after orange, yellow and green, I began to notice the orb inside wasn’t an orb, but what I could only sense as Rue’s soul. It was two overlapping poses of her curled up like an unborn baby, yet she was crying and fully grown with her eyes filled with a piercing white light. I then noticed a pair of delicate, broken-glass-looking wings protruding from somewhere on her back.  I looked away out of modesty towards her appearance, but I continued to pull at the remaining three strands. Within seconds, she began vanishing from the Void Realm after I caught a sleepy smile crawl across her watery face. ‘Thank you.’ I barely heard, just before she vanished entirely. ‘The pact has been completed and the girl has survived the overload. I am forever at your service, Young Master.’ Spoke the magnificent beast before me. ‘Who are you?’ I asked incredulously, fascination adorned upon my face. ‘And why did you call me “Young Master” just now?’ ‘I do not have a name, nor am I a Timberwolf anymore.’ She spoke gently, as I felt a tug from my right. ‘I enjoy the respect I feel from your curiosity, but I cannot stay here for long. She needs you, as does my child. You are, by magic contract, my master and I shall follow one’s good deeds for as long as I live, or until the contract owner removes the pact.’ Most of these words were lost on me, but I understood that, in terms of the old RPG games I played, she was a creature used by summoners. ‘Wait, does that mean I can summon her?’ I thought, as I felt myself slip out of the void and into a room as I began moving again. The room no longer had the pressure that I previously felt, but I definitely became more aware of the eyes staring at me. I don’t know how long I’d been out, but it felt like I’d been in my mind for ages, while doing something that felt nothing like helping my girlfriend out.  I was unaware of this unknown weight on my body, when I found myself standing there, with Rue hugging me tightly. I felt two damp stains on my right shoulder, then some down my face as I started to return the hug. I felt a mildly glaring pair of eyes from behind me, presumably from Twilight, but as I turned around it was a woman about a head taller than Twilight herself.  ‘I see the issue has been resolved.’ She spoke, her eyes reverting from her curious glare into a soft, almost loving gaze as Rue and I continued hugging as we slumped to the floor. ‘My faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, had informed me of your … situation, so I came as soon as I had the time.’ At this comment I could see Twilight’s erubescent cheeks glow through her fur.  ‘Sorry, but I thought it was best for my teacher to know what you were going through.’ Twilight replied, embarrassed at the praise she was being given by her tutor. ‘But I guess I was worrying over nothing! Haha!’ She added nervously.  Before I could get a response out, my girlfriend in my arms shot upright as if she just registered something that I wasn’t aware of. She was mumbling loudly as her eyes looked as wide as they could go, her mouth agape at something. When she turned to me, all she muttered before fainting and falling unconscious against me, was almost two entire sentences: ‘Why on Earth are we in Equestria in front of Princess Celestia?! I think i'm going to fain...’