When I opened my eyes, I saw ash and snow falling down from the sky, I felt a freeze seeping into my skin. I tried to wipe it away but I could not move my body, I felt like I was trapped between two rocks.
"What the f**k?" I told myself.
"The only thing I could move were my lips. Yes my fu***ng lips. 'No,' I muttered, the thought creeping in what if I was paralyzed."
I tried harder but it was useless. The more I tried, the more helpless I felt, then I remembered sleeping in a warm blanket on my soft bed. Just last night!
"How the hell did I end up here?" I just have to wake up from this dream I muttered.
"This has to be a dream."
I closed my eyes once more, shook my head and I smiled, to wake up from this dream, then I opened them again, still here…
From nowhere,
"Shush…"
"Shush…"
"What was that?" I rolled my eyes up, side then down, over and over again, until one arrow fall so close I heard the sound
"Shak…"
As it cut the air near me.
"Hey!"
"I'm here, don't shoot." I shouted but no response, just the sound of more arrows flying from the sky.
I always pictured myself dying in a warm bed, holding up next to someone special. But nope here I am, freezing my ass off, can't even move, surrounded by arrows. Is this really how I go out? Not with a kiss, but with a arrows?
I'm 17 years old, my parents named me after the born they saw my hair red, it looks like "flames" so they named me Yan. I'm 6 feet tall with a youthful face that always caught attention girls admired me at first glance. It was all about the charm. Believe it or not, my looks alone opened doors for me, I got into many things just because of my face.I was born in a small town called Lijiang.
I'm a student of Beijing no 4 high school, but now… I don't even know where I am, yesterday I was in the dorm, next thing I know, I'm here, " wherever here is"
I don't know how I got here, but that's not the right question, the real question is:
"How?"
"Why?"
(I'm dying in this unknow place) I thought.
My breath is becoming heavier and every inhale hurts, my eyes don't have the strength to stay open, feeling the pain as the snow seeps in to my body like needles.
( I can't think, I can't remember now, it's like my memories are slipping away.)
I could not see anything, maybe the snow had covered my face or maybe I had gone blind, but I could hear the sound of my own breath.
"Hor…"
"Hor…"
I was giving up, I didn't have any more strength left, maybe dying here will wake me up in reality.
"What is that." I whispered
I saw a bright golden light.
"Am I moving toward heaven." I muttered it to myself.
At first it was just Golden light, shapeless. Slowly, it began to take form, turning into a glowing circle, it came closer and closer… it seeped into me and disappeared.
"Ugh-!" I screamed
In an instant my throat went dry, I couldn't feel the air, it was moving inside me through every vein in my body.
Crack…
Crack!
I can feel my bones cracking. Everything went just black.
I can hear the sound of wind flowing through my face, I slowly open my eyes, and suddenly I can see the sky, clear clouds. I could feel the warmth on my skin and then I smell something rotten, and it made me gag.
" I covered my nose with my hand."
" Wait… what?"
"I can move…" laugh uncontrollably in disbelief
"I can actually move now." tear welled up in my eyes, excitedly.
I can see the blood on my hand.
( Whose blood is this!)
I turned my head, corpses everywhere!
Some without eyes
Some without arms and legs
Some… without heads.
"AHHHHHH" I screamed
In a second I was on the ground, standing.
(What the hell is going on, where am I and who are all these people?) I thought to myself.
Looking at their clothes, they weren't from my earth, it looks like something out of the history books.
Ancient armor, old fabrics and strange weapons
"Shit… did I go back in time."
"How can this be real? Even the world's greatest geniuses haven't discovered how to travel back in time."
(I must be dreaming) I pinch myself.
I feel the pain.
This isn't a dream! It's real…
Seeing bodies piled across the ground made me dizzy. I figured there must have been a battle here, so I'd better move on.
Whether it's real or not, I have to get out of here, I can't stand here and this smell.
(What if someone comes back, sees me as a threat, and kills me right here on the spot?)
I slowly moved my feet one step at a time, trying to avoid stepping on the corpse's but the ground was covered with bodies, no clean space to walk out.
I looked up at the sky and whispered,
" Forgive me… you know I don't want to do this but the situation… it is what it is."
My eyes were at the peak, I didn't look down and run, as I was running, I felt my feet sinking into lifeless bodies.
" Chab… Chab"
The sound made my stomach turn, I finally reached a clean ground , I put my knees to the ground with a deep sigh.
"Finally…" I breath.
My face was covered in sweat, as I reached up to wipe from my forehead.
"Hair…"
"Long…hair"
I touched it again and again in disbelief.
That's when I really noticed the clothes I was wearing… they weren't from my world, even my height I felt taller.
All of this didn't make sense. My head was spinning with too many thoughts at once…
" What happened to me?"
" Where am I?"
" Whose body is this?"
I shouted to myself, "stop! Just… stop!"
I took a deep breath. If I keep thinking and act like this, I'll surely lose my mind.
" I'll take it step by step" I said quietly, trying get myself steady
" Let's just… see what's really happening to me."