Inferno

Chapter 15

My eyes shot open and I gripped the side of the bed I was laying on, everything was white, the sheets, the walls, the ceiling, even the lights were a painful fluorescent. I could feel my lungs start to constrict as I attempted to take in too many breaths at one time, I started coughing and finally I basically threw up, but what came up wasn't the usual type of throw up, it was that icy liquid that had been infecting me, I looked down at my arms and my chest and was able to breathe a sigh of relief, it's gone! Oh my god it's finally gone! I feel real again, like I'm actually alive, the warmth returned to my body and I closed my eyes in bliss. Then I heard the machine, I guess it picked up my heart rate quickening because a moment later Dan sprinted into the room followed by a worried Jax, the two exchanged glances before bombarding me with questions, it was too much, my ears started ringing and my vision started to go white, i clutched my head in my hands and held back tears, they both backed off. Finally Jax spoke up, "Ashe.. What happened?" I told him the whole story and heard him murmur something about tests.
"Jax? What was that about tests?"
"The blue liquid in you, it induced a coma like state while it was creating scenarios in your mind to test your strength. I see that you passed so I'm proud of you for that, but now we have to stabilize you before you can train again" I looked down saddened, I wanted to train, I needed to fight! Just then Jax got a call and had to sprint out of the room. I looked at Dan, "Jax is a general in the war that's going on, I also know that you are but you've been out"
"Oh that's awesome!"
"There's only one problem, see the war is taking place in another Uhm I guess you could call it dimension and it's somewhere where in your state you are unable to go, see you are a creature of the underworld and this region cannot be traveled to by your kind, I'm sorry"
"Oh.. So basically I can do nothing?"
"I mean you can kind of help, sort of, you provide Jax with the support he needs to lead an entire army, that's pretty important isn't it?" He smiled at me and I smiled back, weakly
"So I'm a general that can basically only provide moral support..."
I dropped my head and left the room, knowing that I had no importance to this war, until I heard him call out "you are an important factor in the final battle! Remember that!" I smiled a little and then realized that until then, I was useless. I left and walked into my room grabbing Fang, my signature knife and started training with it, I got into this zone and when I finally snapped out of it I found that my room was completely torn to shreds "shit" I laid down on my basically destroyed bed and started to drift off to sleep, until I heard it, the scratching on my walls.