The magic in us: The Cross Of Two Souls

33: What If I Don't Go Back?

After resting for a while I open my eyes to still see the dark abyss around me.

Is this the obscurity realm? No, It can't be, I can still see my hands so it isn't that dark to be the realm.

I'm just floating around with no presence of time.

Why did I have to sacrifice myself? I know I said I like the silence and the fact that I can rest but this is a little too much.

I'm trapped with my thoughts and no one wants to be stuck with my thoughts, not even myself.

Adjusting myself I look around for basically anything that could help me, either it tells me where I am or how to get out.

I start doing swimming movements to move around in this anti-gravity space. As if I know where I'm going.

Hopelessly floating I start feeling my feet get wet.

Soon I get submerged in water and I can no longer breathe.

Struggling to conserve my oxygen I start swimming up in hopes that there's a surface.

No matter how hard I try it feels like I'm not getting anywhere and soon I run out of oxygen, opening my mouth and drowning in the water.

With the last air bubbles leaving my mouth and nose I close my eyes and sink further down to god knows where.

Feeling someone tug on my arm, my entire body gets pulled up and I hit the hard ground.

I immediately sit up and cough up all the water.

I'm outside? There was a surface? Where the hell am I!?

Looking around to see who pulled me out, I see a cloaked person turn the corner down the street.

"Hey wait" I yell and run after them.

Chasing after them they get faster and further away.

I hold my hand out to use ice magic to stop them but nothing happens. Does magic not work here?

Turning the corner they went to, they're stopped at a dead end.

"Look I only wanted to thank you for saving me, I wasn't going to hurt you," I say catching my breath.

"Well I wasn't going to let you drown and I can't be too careful," they say and drop their hood.

Standing up tall, I'm at a loss for words. How is this possible?

"D-dad?" I say tearing up and he smiles.

"Hello Jordan, come here," he says opening his arms and I run up and hug him.

Hugging him tightly and sobbing I say, "I'm so glad it's you"

Pulling away to look at me he says, "oh you've grown so much, I'm glad you're taking a stand for yourself"

Wiping away my tears he leads me out of the dead end and we walk around.

"You're awfully quiet, what's on your mind?" He asks and I look around some more.

"I just- I'm I dead? I mean if you're here then I have to be right?" I say confused and we find a bench to sit at.

"Yes and no, your physical body still remains somewhere on earth but your soul was separated with the collision," he says and I look at him even more confused.

"You lost me, collision?" I say and he nods.

"When you closed the realm portal you used its own energy on itself, the explosion sent a wave of distortion between time and space, only you were caught in the middle of it" he explains and leans back.