A World Not My Own

Commander's Erwin and Pixis

He slowly came back to conscious, voices all around him. 

“Poor dear, he must have fainted” 

“Bit of a shock for him” 

“You sure its him?” 

“He looks exactly the same! Well half of him isn’t missing any more so…” 

Half of him isn’t missing anymore… 

Marco felt like he was going to be sick. 

And he was… 

Someone shouted “Get him a bucket!” 

But it was to late as he hurled, his eyes opening as he did so, taking in the bed he was on and a number of nurses surrounding him. 

Marco noticed a solder watching him at the back, someone from the Garrison?

He looked oddly familiar. 

He hacked, trying to get the sick feeling to diminish, his throat sore. 

Marco managed to control himself finally, shivering in the bed. 

This was all to much to think or to take in. 

How could he be dead? 

It-it didn’t make sense. 

Just thinking about himself, with only half of his body, rotting away corpse made him want to hurl again. 

Marco clamped his hand over his mouth, his eyes watering as he tried to hold it in. 

“Will he be okay?” The old Garrison solder asked. 

“He should be fine, his just in shock” One of the nurses replied. 

“Good, I really wanted to talk to this remarkable young man” The solder said softly. 

Marco watched him as he approached. 

The Solder leaned in close, inspecting him, Marco shifted uncomfortably under his stare. 

“Incredible, looks exactly like his picture” The old solder murmured, he turned to the head medic and said with a light smile, despite with the crazy situation “I have to say, when I heard what had happened I thought it was some kind of hoax” 

“So did we!” One of the nurses replied who was checking Marco’s temperature. 

“Apart from a bit over emotional, who can blame him? His in fine fitness” Another medic said, pure awe and shock in her voice. 

Marco pleaded, not being able to take it any longer, his voice weak “Please tell whats going on? I can’t really have…died could I? I’m right here! I’m alive. T-that coprse they f-found couldn’t have been me!” 

The nurse who had seen him before said “You look alive, well without half of your face missing” 

Marco went green again. 

“And a fellow trainee who seemed very close to you confirmed it” She added. 

“Fellow trainee?” Marco wondered. 

“Jean something, he was very upset?” She said off handedly. 

Marco paled even more, though also felt a hint of relief, that meant Jean made it right? Though he felt sick with guilt at how upset Jean must have been. 

I didn’t want to course him any pain Marco thought miserably. 

“The boy back from the dead, how intriguing” The Garrison solder murmured.