It was dark. That was the first thing Keylee thought.
Perhaps I should open my eyes? It was the second thing she thought. So she did. She opened her eyes. Still, she didn't see anything. Why was everything black? Was this what it was like to be dead? If that was the case, death was boring.
Keylee stood up and tried to feel anything but the slightly wet and sticky floor, nothing. She carefully took little steps forward. I don't know if you have ever woke up in a dark space after you got killed but if you did, you know how scary it can be. Imagine you wake up in complete darkness while you're not even supposed to wake up. If you know what's in the darkness, it can be okay. But if you have no idea where you are, what the time is, if you don't even know if you're dead or alive.... It can drive you insane, it would drive me insane.
'Hello?'
Her voice echoed till far, far away in the distance. No one answered. Not another sound was heard except for her footsteps.
Keylee looked around, hoping to find any source of light somehow. She tried to investigate what was inside her jacket's pockets but didn't find anything.
She tried her pants, hoping to find her phone, but then she realized Void took that from her before she died. A sickening feeling spread through her stomach. Someone tried to kill her, someone did kill her.
Her breath hitched in her throat, someone killed her.
Like only now she realized it she placed a hand over her hart. The normally steady beating was nowhere to be found. Was she.... dead?
Keylee sunk down to her knees. No, no, no, no, no. She couldn't be dead! She couldn't be dead, she wouldn't be here if she was dead.... Right?
She moved her hand through her hair and eventually gripped her head in both her hands in a failing gesture to keep calm. What was this? Was this some sort of... afterlife? Was that a thing?
She tried to breathe calmly until she realized something else, why was she breathing if her hart didn't beat?
Keylee stood up again and started to walk. 'If I might walk into something it will at least be something.'
She hadn't time so say anything else as she bumped into something. She touched it carefully. It felt solid, a bit rough. It didn't feel warm but not freezing as well, it was high, that was for sure.
Keylee lied her hand on the thing and started to walk to see what shape it had. Turned out it was some sort of cylinder but very big.
She moved her hand down to the floor and quickly rejected it when the floor felt wet again. What was on it? It felt like a thick sticky liquid. Keylee refused to think about it in fear of what it could be. Instead the moved her hand up on the cylinder thing in hopes of feeling something different. She eventually did at shoulder height.
It felt like a rope was wrapped around the cylinder thing. Keylee traced it until she felt a small flat object. Felt like her phone.
She quickly tried to get it but couldn't see how it was pinned between the rope and cylinder. Besides that, she could only hope it was her phone. She traced the sides of her probably-phone until she found the on-off button. She pressed it, nothing happened.
She held her thumb against the button for about 15 seconds before the screen finally lit on. Keylee sighted in relieve, now she could see something.
She had finally enough light to untangle her phone from the ropes and once she held in in her hand she clicked the flashlight.
'Time to find out where I am.'
The light was far to bright for someone who had just spent god knows how much time in the dark. when her eyes were used to the flashlight she could see the cylinder was a tree. A big tree. It was as big as the Nemeton but fully grown and not just a trunk.
Keylee then looked down and almost screamed in horror if it wasn't for the fact that she suddenly couldn't make a sound anymore. The entire floor was drenched in blood. Her clothes were drenched in blood too.
WHAT THE F*CK WAS THIS FOR PLACE!?
She took a step back, which obviously didn't do much difference, before she started to run. She didn't know where she was going, she was just hoping to find at least some place where the entire floor didn't exist out of blood.
At least she could see something now thanks to her phone. She spun around from time to time to see if there was anything except for an endless darkness. Every time she just ended up back at the Nemeton.
This wasn't normal, whatever it was, it wasn't good. Keylee felt sick, like she could vomit. She had spent too much time in the darkness and on blood.
On blood. Why did she stand on it? Why wasn't it like water?
She took a deep breath and bowed forward to touch the blood ground. She didn't want to, but right now she was ready to try everything just to get out of this place.
As soon as her fingers touched the blood a hand grabbed her arm trough it. Keylee screamed. She fell backwards on her butt and started to crawl away when the hand took her ankle. She screamed again and tried to kick it with her other foot but it didn't let go.
The hand followed by and arm and slowly a creature pulled itself out of the blood. Keylee looked up at it with big eyes when it towered above her. It was shrouded in a dark mantle. A dim light spread itself around everything, like the place lit up but still stayed black. It didn't make sense.
The creature removed the large hood and time seemed to freeze. Keylee stared at herself in shock. Her other self looked down at her and smiled in a sinister way.
'Well, aren't you getting up?'
'W-who are y-you?'
'Isn't that obvious.' She knelt down. 'I'm you.'
Keylee frantically shook her head. 'NO. No you're not! I-I'm me already.'
'So? Can't there be two of us?'
'NO!'
'Alright, alright. Then I'm afraid one of us has to go don't you think? And I know I'm not planning on leaving.'
Keylee froze at the cold tone in her... clone-thing's voice. Would she really get killed? Again?
She didn't wish to find out and jumped up. Ready to run. But it was too late as the felt a sharp pain in her side. She looked down and saw her other self had stabbed a shining silver knife in her side. As soon as the silver came in contact with her skin a flash if imagines flew through her head.
Keylee stared down at the object in her side in horror as tears streamed down her face. She tasted the metallic taste of blood in her mouth.
'Ohhhw, I'm sorry sweetie, did that surprise you?'
Keylee wrapped her fingers around the knife and pulled it out. It only caused the blood to pour out of the wound on a quicker speed than before.
'Actually... It didn't.'
With that she threw the knife back. Her other self stared at the silver in her chest in shock before she just faded in black dust. Keylee clutched her side and picked up the knife. She studied it with the light of her phone. She didn't care her hands were covered with blood that now sicked to her phone.
The knife had a nice shine. Keylee closed her eyes. Imagining it green. She imagined the darkness a bright green color. She didn't know if it would work but every imagine that flashed through her head at the moment she was stabbed was green. It had to mean something right?
when she opened her eyes again the blood was gone. The knife was gone too. She was in some sort of lab but a very dirty one. When she looked behind her she could see four men in weird suits. They had masks and long clothes. They were pretty scary.
They were all bowed above something, or rather, someone. They were bowed over a young man. Keylee couldn't see his face but whatever was going on, it didn't look good.
Suddenly he jolted up. The four men stepped away but the young man was still in a shadow so Keylee still couldn't see his face.
When she stepped closer she noticed something at her left, it looked like a cell. She forgot about the young man for a second and peeked inside.
'What the...'
She was lying on the floor, pale. Her eyes were closed. Keylee stared at herself for a while before she heard someone coming closer. She quickly looked for a place to hide but didn't find anything. Right then someone walked around the corner.
Yet he walked straight past her and to the Keylee lying on the ground. It was the same young man from before. He knelt down and placed two fingers against her throat.
'Keylee, can you hear me?'
Wait, he knew her name? Who was this guy?
Keylee didn't understand a thing of it all. She was in a unknown place with crazy men and someone calling her name? Oh, not to forget the dark room and herself killing her.
It was all too much.
'Don't worry Keylee. I'm gonna bring you back, we're close, I know it.'
Bring her back? What did he mean? Keylee was sure he could only see the lying version of her and she slowly stepped closer to take a better look at the man. Right then, one of the masked men stepped in and injected her lying self with a silver liquid.
Keylee felt like she was pulled towards multiple places at the same time and wondered if this would be how it felt to apparate if she was in a Harry Potter book.
She didn't get much time to think cause soon everything went black and numb once again.