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// Death Is Just the Beginning 
// Story: Anim's Adventures in Equestria 
// by Animatorsnake 
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	… … … Where… where am I? I remember… falling asleep, when I passed through the portal with Mina. It was if a powerful force caused me to fall asleep… and then I woke up once more. I know I have no body, but it felt like I woke from the coldness of a stone floor. I open my eyes, yet I have none, and when I look around I see a foggy glass case on me. I notice two figures in a massive hall, with other objects that are also in glass cases. I couldn’t hear the two figures voices, but I recognized one of them… I think it was Mina? She was talking… no, encountering someone, this other figure wore a deep dark red cloak of some sort… but his hair… was familiar… where have I seen that hair style before? Suddenly I heard glass breaking… it was the glass cover that was on me, and then I heard the voices, but they were distorted… my hearing must be coming back to me.

“Let go… Why are you here… Whatever it is you have planned, I’ll stop you… Don’t you dare speak of him like you knew him… Come back here…” said Mina, her voice distorted.

The other figure who spoke not much, had a distinct familiar voice… where have I heard that voice before? Nevertheless, the other figure spoke back to Mina. “Hah hah hah, you think you can stop me… And where is your precious… Come and get me, if you can…” said the other figure.

I remember being carried through more hallways… then through some stairs… and then entering through a cylinder room. The room had devices and machines cluttered everywhere… was I in a laboratory? I remember, nearing a balcony… then, I was held in mid-air… below me was sharp rocks, and vicious waves from the sea that was below. I heard Mina gasp, and looked toward her and her supposed assailant. My hearing became clear, enough for me to hear full sentences. “Don’t… please anything than that… it’s the only thing that has any memory of… him,” said Mina.

I wasn’t sure what Mina was referring to… I felt a strange tingling around me. I took a clear look around my surroundings and realized where I was… I was in the laboratory where the accident that happened many months ago… but… why can I remember that? If I remember correctly, I should have turned to an average normal book once I came back to our world… unless… my powers are returning. I heard the other figure shout something out, back toward Mina… about someone dear close to me… but… who was this person that was important to me?

“That bastard died… not in some other realm… not in some furious battle… not in some damn fire… but he died risking his life for that damn girl…” said the other figure. “If this is what remains of his memory… then it should burn, like the rest of his remains.”

I heard a scream… and I noticed something… I was falling. Falling toward what was below me… what was to be my end… and then, I felt a strong pang across my body, and then… I was flying. I flew up back to the balcony, both Mina and the other figure were shocked and confused what was happening… and I spoke. “Don’t I have a say in this too?” said The Book.

I then felt a strong pull… it was the same feeling I felt when that portal pulled me and… someone else through it. Except the pull came from within me… then suddenly a portal appeared… except, I was the portal. I was unable to control the portal, to close or stop it… but it sucked in Mina and the other person with a strong grip… with me being taken through too.

I wasn’t sure what had happened but… I think it may have to do with me gaining my powers back. Supposedly since I haven’t used my powers for a while, I may had a little sudden burst of energy which caused me to create a sudden portal… where? …I don’t know.

Opening my eyes once more, I realized I was falling again, except around me were four colored comets… one was purple, the other was a darkish red… one was black… which was the one I was in… but the fourth, was a bluish color… four? I remember only three people being sucked through the portal… was someone else also in the room. I noticed below a large expansive land… for some reason it looked familiar. Suddenly I crashed a good distance from the blue comet, but the other two went to separate directions. I wasn’t sure where I was but I heard a voice… it wasn’t near but… I heard in my mind… telepathy? Must be one of my powers I suppose.

The voice I heard… was a voice that was somewhat familiar… but what the voice said… reminded me of someone I forgotten for a long… long… time ago.

“…Is that really you? I thought… I thought you… but it is isn’t it. You’re really back, Anim.”