My Escape (Magi Fanfiction)

Chapter thirty one- Reality

Chapter thirty one- Reality

 Hakuryuu... Ashlyn was still crying. The scene around her changed, the white room surrounding her once again. She didn't care. "Send me back." She was sitting on the ground on her legs, her face covered by her hands, muffling her voice.

"What was that, dear?" The unnamed man asked quietly. Even he seemed to be upset at the scene that had just played out.

"Please..." Ashlyn looked up at him from where she sat on the floor, "You must be some kind of god or something...I can't just...Please send me back. I can't just leave like that."

"I can't. I'm not a god."

"Then what the hell are you?!" Ashlyn snapped. "You can do something, can't you?! You have a lot of explaining to do!"

"I know, I know." The man smiled sadly. "I cannot help you. I'm merely a being created from your thoughts."

"My thoughts...?"

"Yes."

"Then...you're not real?" Ashlyn wiped her face. "But I'm dead, right?"

"Well..." The man sighed. "It's a bit more complicated than that."

"What do you mean?"

"I've got one last thing to show you," The man offered her a hand. Ashlyn gingerly accepted it and stood.

The room changed again. A steady beeping rang in Ashlyn's ears. She looked around to find they were in a white room, with glass windows on one side. "Is this...a hospital?"

"Mhm."

There was lots of equipment everywhere, several of the machines were attached to a girl lying in the hospital bed. She had overgrown brown hair and pale white skin. The heartbeat monitor beside the bed beeped steadily. Ashlyn frowned, the girl looked extremely familiar. She walked over to the end of the bed and grabbed the clipboard. She scanned over the text, Admission date: March 20th, 2015. Patient admitted on drug overdose. Declared brain dead.

Ashlyn's breathing sped up. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest. March 20th? Drug overdose...? She gasped and dropped the clipboard as a sharp pain radiated from her head to her toes. Ashlyn felt herself getting lightheaded. She could feel someone catch her as she fell.

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Ashlyn was walking home from the local library. She'd just checked out the most recent volumes of her favorite manga, 'Magi'. She was very excited to have a few hours before her mom came home from work to reread them. "I'm home~!" She sang to herself.

"Ashlyn. Why are you home from school so late?" Ashlyn froze. Her mother was home early. Fired for drinking on the job. She blamed Ashlyn for her own mistake, rewarding the teen with a slap. Accused her of wasting her life 'worthless' life on books. Told the teen she won't be getting dinner that night.