Cherish

Chapter 9

I could feel every small prick in my skin. Things were poking me and made something under my skin start to burn and feel weird. I can't explain it. I just know that I can't open my eyes. I can't move my arms or any part of my body for that matter.

Just as I had grown comfortable in the darkness, I began to hear a voice echoing in my head. It sounded like Zeland. But it also sounded like the butler that has been taking care of me all day. I tried my hardest to open my eyes and move anything that I could. It was no use though. I can't move, I'm stuck.

"Cherish, I am so sorry. This is all my fault. You are only in this situation because I can't deal with losing someone important." The voice continued to echo in my head but it slowly started to fade at the end. "I'm sorry" The voice completely vanished and I am all alone again.

The darkness then all of a sudden started to spin. In spun so quick that I thought I was going to be sick. Bright light poured onto my skin and the warmth of the light made me relax and my muscles loosened. I slowly opened my eyes and a familiar feeling rushed into my body. I could feel and see the sun. The crisp wind began to prick my skin and I feel like I am home. Home at last.

I stayed in the grass as long as I could before I saw some familiar faces that I had missed for the whole time I was gone.

"Zeland! Mystic! Cylla!" I ran over to them and gave them all a big hug. They all chuckled a bit while looking at each other. Then their faces slowly fell when they took a better look at me. I looked down at my stomach and noticed the same piece of shrapnel that was stuck in me in the other world.

"Oh my gosh, are you alright?" Mystic stood next to me and held my arm in case I wasn't 'alright'.

"I feel fine, almost like that isn't even there. I can move perfectly fine and nothing hurts," I was staring in disbelief as I couldn't feel the pain like I did in the other world. I looked around and everything felt normal like nothing happened... but it did. I watched it all happen with my own eyes. I was in the vehicle and then all of a sudden I wasn't. And a piece of metal was stuck in my side.

"Cherish, this is serious. We need to get you to a healer right away," Mystic was pulling my arm and leading me on a path to the healer in town.

We made our way slowly to the healer because Zeland believed that if I moved too fast, I would end up feeling the injury. I leaned on Mystic because he was making me, and he was too worried that I would end up falling. After a long time, we made it to the healer's hut. We walked through the hyde cloth hanging in the doorway and made our way over to the woman sitting in a small wooden seat. She seemed as if she were meditating, but as we grew closer to her, she opened her eyes.

"Ah, Cherish, I have been expecting you. You have been experiencing a lot of mishaps lately, haven't you?" Although the healer didn't seem very old, she had a raspy, old sounding voice. I slowly nodded my head to answer her question. I was almost afraid to speak to her as if she would find out more about my life. She nodded back and then stood slowly from her chair. "I want you to sit here for me," She pointed to a small bed in the corner of the room. "And I will take a look at your side for you."

I sat on the edge of the bed and the woman came and pushed my shoulders until I was laying down. She then pushed on the area around the wound, but I felt nothing. She then just pulled the piece of metal out of my side, and then I felt a stinging, burning pain. I yelped and tried to move my arms to hold the wound. The woman held my arms down as if she knew I was about to hold the wound. She grabbed a cloth and layed it down on the wound and then applied pressure. I then realized that the metal must have been keeping the wound from bleeding and I was now currently bleeding quite a bit.

"Just hold still honey, I am almost done and then I will wrap it and we can talk about some of the other things that have been happening with the other worlds." She then took the cloth off of my wound and quickly wrapped it up tightly. She slowly sat me up and gave me some small pills that she said would help with the pain.

"Alright, now you said you knew something about the other worlds?" I questioned after I swallowed the last bit of water that she gave me.

"Yes, I know that you have been jumping from world to world randomly. I also know who has been doing this to you."

"Someone has been doing this to me? How? And who?" I was really confused. She was telling me all this information but it wasn't settling in my brain right. I could feel something happening but something else was blocking it from happening.

"He is trying to pull you from this world right now but I am suppressing it. He has been trying for a long time to kill you. But he hasn't gotten the chance. Because I have been stopping him."