Dragonborn (need a good title)

Chapter 6

so there's a pic of Orion over there. check it out. he's hot. i scoured the interwebz to find it, but i think it fits pretty well.

Death is quiet and peaceful. Easy. I'm glad that my sisters didn't have to suffer. All I wish I could have done was hold them once more. The sorrow on the other hand is all encompassing and horrible. And just so you all know, there is in fact a light that you walk to, or... well, it comes to you. But I didn't want it. I tried to push it back, to go back to my body. I could feel a small connection to it still.

Please, please let me go back! I need to see him one more time…

I realized that i was thinking of Orion in this moment, not my sisters. The guilt swallows me, and I feel my soul scream out at the injustice of this cataclysmic atrocity. I shivered as a touch of heat moved over my shoulder. I felt my body being turned toward the light and I shut my eyes. It was childish, but I was stubborn and couldn't stand the thought of going without a fight.

You are fine, Master. Open your eyes and accept your destiny.

Destiny my ass, I thought bitterly, why would I accept death? I'm 18, there's so much I haven't done! Why did this happen?!

You are not dead, Master. You are simply encased in me. I would never let anything bad happen to you.

I jolted like I was struck by lightning, my eyes popping open. Not dead? I quickly looked around, seeing nothing but a soft light for as far as I could see. Not dead? What do you mean? That meteor hit us. We watched it coming at us. If I'm not dead, then what is this place? And where are my sisters?

That comet was me and the others coming to bestow ourselves upon the new Masters. This place, is inside you. You are very much alive Master.

I noticed that the voice hadn't answered my last question. Where are my sisters? I asked in a harsh tone that could have been a bark. But I didn't care. No one fucks with my siblings and loved ones without repercussions.

The voice hesitated, and then said, They are not here. They were transported to different parts of the Verse. They are probably having the same conversation that we are.

I growled in frustration, then paused. Verse? Like, universe, Verse? You mean they could be anywhere in the UNIVERSE?!

Yes.

NO!

Yes.

WHY?

It must be.

What must be? We have to find them! I don't care what I have to do! I need to find my sisters. I felt a surge of relief from the voice, cooling my nerves, although I wasn't any less angry.

You'd do anything?

Do I have to repeat myself?

I need to hear you say it again.

Yes, damn it! I would do anything, absolutely anything, to find my sisters!

Good. You must brace yourself. This will feel strange. I felt the voice fold in on itself, condensing and becoming much more concentrated. Then when I thought it would dissipate altogether, it imploded, its energy flowing over me, covering me, smothering me. Drowning me. I was going to die under the onslaught of the light that was overcoming me. I tried to push it away so I could think, breathe, something. I kicked and clawed and punched and bit, doing anything to get it away from me, but then I felt a cool rush of calming energy flow through me. Something was trying to make me relax, and as my body stopped thrashing, I realized there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.