My Ray of Hope

Pandora?

   The only thing I could remember was falling to the ground, but someone or something caught me before I hit it.

   When my eyes opened, I found myself lying in a dimly light space. There were no walls, only a checkered floor was what I could make out, everything else was covered by a black shadow.

   In the shadows I could hear faint, soft laughter that sounded familiar to me. As I got up off the floor, I made my way to the noise, wondering what it was and why it seems familiar. The closer I got, the louder it became and the reason that the laughter seemed nostalgic became more clear. Out of nowhere, a light shined over a little girl in a white winter dress with long black hair. Her back was facing me, but I know who it was.

   "I'm glad you could make it," there was a slight pause in her words, "Mia," she said happily as she turned to face me, reviling her mismatched eyes.

   "No! It can't be! You can't be!" I yelled at her in disbelief of what I am seeing. The girl that was standing in front of me was me when I was eleven.

   "Now Mia, is that how you always talk to yourself?" she laughed as she started to walk toward me, "Of all people you should know that you can't run from your past," she continued talking as she came closer.

   "W-where am I and why are you here?" I stuttered as fear overcame me.

Her smile twisted into something that wasn't human and her shadow started to swallow her, "You don't need to know where you are now, because I came to bring you back to where you belong," she answered as she started to turn into black chains.

   The chains shot towards me at amazing speed, but I was somehow able to dodge them. As I staggered to my feet the chains surrounded my leaving no room for me to run.

   "Do you really think that I'm going to let you get away so easily?" a voice resonated from the chains that wasn't the same as the girl from before, but instead a mans voice.

   Being unable to run the black chains shot at me once again, wrapping around my arms and legs. As the chains tightened it felt like my very life was leaving my body, "What are you doing to me?" I asked.

   "I already told you, I'm bringing you back to where you belong," The voice answered as the floor under me started to vanish and replaced with a dark swirling void, a path. As the path grow the chains started to pull me into it.

   "No! I don't want to go back! Please don't send me back!" I pleaded to the voice, but got no response.

   I slowly started to be consumed by the void and unable to free myself from the chains, I closed my eyes and waited to be devoured by the path and be returned to the Abyss once more.

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   "No!" I yelled, jolting up with my hand out, covered in cold sweat and my heart racing.

   It took me a few moments to realize that it was all just a terrible nightmare. I took a deep breath and calmed myself down, eventually, making my heart slow.

    I looked down at my hands and realized that they were wrapped in bandages and my blue dress was replaced with a pink nightgown.

  Looking around the room I was in, I noticed that I was in a bedroom and not the room everyone was in before I lost consciousness. The room was big and spacious with white walls. On the far side of the room was the bed that I was siting in, on the left wall was a large dresser most likely holding clothes while on the right side wall a desk with paper, ink and pens, in the middle was a table and some chairs.