Futatsu no Sekai (Two Worlds)

Chapter 5: Just the Two of Us

One last exhale underwater, and I faded from consciousness. 

Was that it?

Is it finally over?

My surroundings grew darker, numbing, and empty. The cold, suffocating ocean surrounded my body, dropping me lower and lower to it's bottom. I sank for what felt like forever. But I could no longer feel the pain seeping from my body. My eyes slowly and irrefutably shut themselves, stinging from the saltwater. 

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I opened my eyes only to see a shadow approach me. I couldn't move, I couldn't speak. My eyes drifted from the floor to the shadow. It kept growing closer and closer. Suddenly, I heard whispering coming from the figure. I didn't remember anything from before. 

"Your..."

It stepped closer.

"Don't go..."

With all my might, I tried to move my body, starting from my fingers. It was excruciatingly painful, twisting apart all of my digits and snapping them together. Like a toddler trying to fix a broken toy by crushing its shards together. The pain continued and warped up to my arms. My elbows felt like they were being wrangled into balloon animals. I opened my jaw, my teeth grinding against each other. I let out a shrill cry and continued to scream as I moved. The shadow looked at me and laughed. It seemed to enjoy my pain. Sounded like someone familiar but I couldn't put my finger on who. It let me force myself out of this frozen position. 

It finally came face to face with me. The curves of its face felt so familiar but I couldn't recognize it. My breathing was sporadic and heavy the longer it stood in front of me. The joints in my foot curled inwards and twisted out to free themselves. I clenched my fists enough to stab my palms with my nails and I cried out. It stood there laughing at me so deviously.

"You're so afraid of pain, but you're not at all afraid to die. We're going to have to fix that," it said. 

It snapped its fingers and a light shined above us. The shadows lying on her eyelids only made her more intimidating. It was Rem. She looked at me with lustful eyes, just like before. The moment I felt her hands brush my neck, I began to give up. I couldn't break free, like before. I only delayed the inevitable. Her hands caressed mine, traced up to my ear, and swept the hair away from my ear and she whispered.

"I've been waiting a long time for this. I'm going to have to wait a bit longer for next time, though."

She threw me to the floor, knocking every sense of movement out of my body. Before I could even think about moving, she pounced on top of me and sat on my stomach. Her weight crushed me, and I could barely breathe. My breathing grew unstable and sporadic. My eyes forcefully shut and when I opened them, everything was spinning.  My body felt like static. A television screen with the wrong signal. She hadn't even done anything to me yet. All she had done was slide her hands onto my decolletage. 

I looked up at her, sweating bullets. She looked down upon me like I was some child and she smiled at me. She took two fingers and pulled away her cheek to reveal her teeth. Her teeth were sharp and organized, it looked like they could rip me apart in one bite. Her mouth watered immensely and her eyes widened at the sight of me. I'd never seen eyes and lips so hungry. But, the only thing that could solve her hunger was the glowing sphere in my chest.  

She took those two fingers, nails and all, and scratched the side of my neck. She grasped my jaw, turned my head forcefully, and watched my neck leak with fresh blood. I could feel every drop seeping from my neck as I clenched my jaw in pain. She leaned forward and licked it as it flowed. I didn't know how to feel. I felt disgusting, in utter pain, and I was extremely confused. How the hell did my life come to this?