by Gee-chan » Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:09 pm
Dull pain
That was the main thing Tom felt as awareness was slowly returned to him. Were he in a lucid enough state to realise it, he would have considered it a mercy that he passed out when he did, seeing as much more of that cacophony would have quite possibly begun to wear away at his sanity in some way.
It was after deceitfully few eternal moments that his other senses realised he was awake and reluctantly followed suit.
A dark green hue drifted its way into his eyes, not bright, but still enough for his sight to protest at the sudden change. There was also the distinct smell of wildlife; that unmistakable clean air that lingers in the natural woods alone. Then were the sounds; the rustle of leaves in the wind, the low whistle of a light breeze and the chattering cries of forest pokemon.
The only thing that was different to this was how he felt. The pain was still there, but now it mixed with other things. His clothes were damp, that much he could tell, and the wind blew cold on his wet skin. He was also lying down on something other than a table; something soft and cool, grass and fallen leaves he eventually decided. What was less pleasant however was the nagging sickening feeling coming from his stomach.
He could tell part of it was hunger but there was something else, something he did not recognise enough even to identify what it was.....
He slowly and painfully stood up, looking around to try to get his bearings.
This was no somewhere he knew. Even though he had spent a lot of his time in the woods there was not the strange instinctual recognition that come from having been somewhere before. Also judging from the light, it was either early or getting late, his basic instinct telling him the latter. Another thing which bothered him were the clouds; thick, dark and holding the threat of a deluge at a moments notice.
It was then that something caught his attention; several things actually, all lying around him in a rather haphazard manner. Looking around him he saw pieces of debris; wood, concrete and glass, barely identifiable as having been part of something save for things like the neck of a test tube, or the handle of a door. It was no stretch of the imagination to rationalise that these were pieces of the room that had been brought along with him (he couldn't help but try to think what that lab now looked like, what with half of it being missing and all).
What really surprised him though was what was lying among the scattered scraps of wreckage; two large things in the size and shape as people......wait a second...those are people!
Suddenly reality came crashing through the fog, throwing Tom out of his comfortably dazed state. There were other people here! Were they humans? Or more hybrids? More importantly, where they about to attack him?
As he carefully made his way towards the two shapes, some of those questions were answered for him. These were hybrids, but seeing as they made no effort of any kind to move, it seemed he was safe from being attacked, for now. At this point, another question began to form itself in his head; where they alright?
Unable to resist the nagging urge to at least check if the two were alive, he rolled over the one nearest, who was laying on their front.
Looking at his face, Tom was had a disturbing feeling he could recognise the man he was looking down on. In Tom's defence, it was not an easy situation, the man's face had changed dramatically, being now an unnatural shade of indigo with two crimson marks, one on each cheek. It was then that the strange feeling of enlightenment came over him; it was the panicky man from the cage.
It took no stretch of the imagination to realise that this bizarre mutation was what the hybrids had been planning to do to him. Now everything made sense; where the hybrids came from, why they took people, why the never came back. Everything now fitted into place, yet with it came the sickening realisation of what had become of all those he had known who had vanished....of what had become of his little sister....
His heart stinging with re-opened wounds, he grimly turned away from the man and went over the the other person.
He did not recognise this one. Whoever this girl was, he was sure he hadn't seen her before....so why did he feel that same pang of recognition? It was only after the girl made a slight movement that Tom realised who she was. As soon as she moved he panicked slightly and quickly got up again, knocking her over onto her front in the process. Then it struck him; he had seen that hair before, sprawled over the ground just like it was now. It was the other person from the cages, the one who never woke up. Due to his position Tom had never seen the other person up close before so had never been able to cast any of their details to proper memory, but this was what his subconscious was telling him.
Quickly getting over his panic, he tried to awaken the stirring girl. If he was lucky then she would turn out not be hostile at the very least. Besides, it was not as though he really had much choice; it was either this or get caught somewhere unfamiliar in an impending storm.
It took some time to get the girl awake. Having made a check on the hybrid man after the first attempts to wake the girl failed, he soon found out that there was something wrong with his leg. Tom was no doctor, but even he could tell that a third bend in a leg was not how it should be. Making the quick assumption that it was broken, he decided it would be best to get the theoretically more helpful one up first. That being said though, he didn't know if she was injured in some way as well so he was careful not to shake her too hard.
Eventually, she opened her eyes; dark brown and deep as the depths of the ocean. Looking into those beautiful eyes Tom could not help but blush a little before getting himself back to what he was doing.
“Are you awake?” he asked softly, patiently awaiting her reply.
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