A Swag's Secret

☯1. ❅Life or Death?❅

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"Jennie...."

The voices rang in my head. I extended my hand which looked blur. My long hair flowed up in front of my eyes. There was this sharp, piercing pain which I felt in my teeth. The darkness surrounded around me as I kept falling down. Endlessly falling down. Down into the mortal realm.

The voice was still ringing in my head. My eyes were tired. I was left with no strength. It felt like I would fall down and wake up again as if it all had been a nightmare. But I was wrong. A tear drop fell from my eye and fell down on my hand and I came onto my senses. I realized I was standing in the middle of nowhere.

A strong gush of wind suddenly blew which chilled me to the spine. I was standing in my tattered clothes with huge blood stains on them which gave me a feeling of being triumphant as well as losing a war. All around me were empty streets with bright street lights that painted the roads orange. I bit my lip.

Where was I?...

Standing frozen, I walked a few steps and noticed something strange. My shivering continued and I could hear my teeth clattering. Miscarried, I still noticed a girl was being taken away by an unknown person, no less than 14, and she was in the same condition as mine. The man was probably about in his forty's. I saw him take his maroon-colored car and put the unconscious girl in the backseat. The headlight shone brightly ahead and seemed to make a path for me in the endless streets.

Follow him

Should I? I asked my brain. I followed him closely. My powers worked indifferently and I was able to walk with the speed of the car and was trying hard not to get noticed by the man.

Was he kidnapping her?

I followed closely and saw the girl unconscious inside the car. Her long,brown hair only showed colorless effect, same as her face was. She looked pale and I wasn't able to see her face properly.

"I am a few miles away from the Jerky Woods. I have seen it and I am driving the girl home. Send a few people to work on the site. There seems to be some unnatural activity going there. Don't leave a single spot!"

The man seemed to be quite nervous about something. Every now and then he kept striking his hair hard and would get sweaty even though the air conditioner inside the car was at it's maximum that I could hear the voice while running outside as I tried catching up with the car. I looked to the right. Too many residents. Then looking to the left, I spotted the deep and endless woods, wonder if anyone went there.

The man went on talking on his phone in his nervous voice until the brakes forced the car to stop.

I was standing in front of this huge mansion with the finest details a person could dream of. I have never seen such an exquisitely designed mansion ever in my life of 1400 years. All I lived was like a commoner.

Nope. He isn't a kidnapper. Not at all...

How could a person owning a mansion be a kidnapper? He is not in a need of money....

This strange vibes kept coming to me from the girl in which the man took inside his mansion. I tried peeking in through the window but it didn't help. The blinds were down.

So, I walked away, ignoring the strange feeling.

*****
I was still walking on the streets in those tattered clothes and few people threw me coins thinking that I was a begger. I just left them on the streets. There was a cold breeze blowing on the highway on which I was standing now was a lively street with lots of merry people around. A few kids played around and I couldn't help smiling. At that moment I wished I was a mortal with no extraordinary power. You wouldn't have to worry about someone trying to ruin you because you were special.

The cold breeze still blew, standing the hair on my neck. In this cold breeze, I smelled something different. I searched for what it was. A lady on the stall was selling some cupcakes with strawberries on them. Suddenly, my stomach started growling. I was hungry, damn hungry!

I stood watching the lady make other delicacies. One of them which caught my eye was in the corner which seemed like a huge chocolate bar, Oh how I loved chocolates!
"You want something?", The lady on the stall asked.

Nothing came out of me as I tried to speak. I kept staring at at the huge 'chocolate bar' thing.

The lady noticed where I was gazing and asked, "you want this?"
I nodded in affirmative, though I didn't wanted to.

"Okay, that will be ten bucks"

The lady handed me the dessert and extended her hand for the money but I was too hungry to notice and started walking away with the snack in my hand. The lady caught me and asked for money again. But I gave a tug which almost made the lady fall. I started running away.
I could hear the lady shouting, "Pay first, Come back!"
Many people on the road started looking at the lady and wondering what was all the commotion about.

A few people ran behind me thinking I was robbing the lady. But I was too fast for them. I ran and jumped through the walls and hid behind the backside of a resident. I was so hungry that I gobbled the thing up in just one go!

I now started to feel thirsty. I noticed a stream below the bridge and drank some water from it. I looked around and saw the same mansion again. I realized I had come back to the place I started from. It was obvious, fate wanted me to know something I was worthy of.

I was peeking through the window and this time the blinds were up and I could see everything that happened. A small girl, a women, and the man happened to try to wake the girl up.
I looked in around the hall and noticed a television which was playing the news broadcast.

A screen popped up showing the picture of....the pink garden!
The place where we fell into the mortal realm.

The pink garden was the scene being shown like it was a recording from a camera. Sure enough, a few minutes later I spotted a bright light that flashed and someone was fallen unconscious. I narrowed my eyes. It was me!
Then a few seconds later another bright light flashed revealing another being fallen into the same condition. The girl! We had fallen on the same spot in mortal realm!

Melody?...