The Rebirth
Chapter THREE


At first I thought I was imagining things. Since the light was so dim, it was hard to actually see much. I had thought that she was just a woman who was looking for help, but as the moments went by, I realized that this was no imagination and she was actually there. My hands went instinctively to my eyes as my gentlemanly instincts kicked in, but after a few moments, I found it hard to unearth the willpower to look away. She was the source of the hauntingly breathtaking singing that had led me here in the first place. Though I was quite the skeptic about magic and such things, I truly believed that this woman was mythical, magical, or even an alien. The singing went on, but as the seconds ticked by, I suddenly felt its power slip away. I felt myself grow conscious and felt the haziness disappear. I could finally think straight and could make my own decisions. When the singing first started, I could feel my body grow weary and eventually numb. My body suddenly became someone else’s and I could feel myself being dragged by an invisible force so present that it almost felt like hands pushing me. Now it was just like a thought on the back of my mind.

She had a menacing grin on her face and she seemed quite pleased with herself for some reason. Her eyes were now lime colored− almost green and she now wore a smirk on her dazzling visage. She held her hand out to me without a word and when she saw the look on my face, her hand clenched into a fist and her eyes seemed to darken and glow, making it look like red orbs floating. Her face had turned as well; she now looked like a wolf drinking the blood of its prey. I could only imagine what my face looked like at the moment. Probably scared or blank.

“They were telling the truth after all!” She growled through her teeth. Her voice the very essence of silk.
“Huh? Wha...?” Was all I could manage to squeak out.
“Filthy human! You are not what I seek!”
“What?”
“What I seek is no longer here.”
“What…ah w─what do you seek?”
“Have you not a clue…?” She said with a loud sigh as she shook her head. Her features softened now and her eyes turned a piercing bright blue.
“What’s wrong?” I said in a soft voice not able to speak anything out louder.

Her face crumpled in fury and her eyes turned that intense red again. I felt myself cringe at her unexpected expression. She moved half a step towards me then glided to a stop. Even when she moved this way, which would have made anyone look awkward, she still progressed gracefully. She gave out another loud smooth sigh and I thought I heard desperation in it.

“Do you remember me?” She said looking into my eyes for the recognition she wanted.

I wanted, strangely, to please her by saying that I did recognize her, but nothing came to mind. I tried placing clothes over her bare body but still couldn’t place where I’ve ever met her. She was like nothing I’d ever seen before and I was sure if I ever saw her in my life I would have remembered. Corny I know but true. Her face already portrayed the answer she found in my eyes.

“I’m sorry” I said feeling the need to apologize for doing nothing wrong.
“It is…Alright.” She said her eyes turning blue again.
I couldn’t answer her anymore. I felt my body tire.
“Do you remember anything from your….past?” She asked also seething with exhaustion.
“No” I answered her, my voice echoing her fatigue.

I had been temporarily distracted by the conversation, so I didn’t once look at her naked body, but now I was beyond doubt staring and gaping although I had never felt the need to before. I tried to step closer to talk to her again, but she was walking away and I felt the haziness come over me again and all of a sudden I was under the spell of the song. She was singing again and I wondered why I found the need to follow her. She was heading deeper into the forest and I could feel the presence of such intense danger, yet I still kept going. I knew now that the one moving towards her wasn’t me, my body was moving without my consent. I felt panic, but the panic stopped and the adrenalin slowed until it was gone. Unconsciously, I advanced and pursued her. She had moved through a tense gathering of trees and I had to squeeze myself to fit between them. When I emerged from the darkness that the trees had provided, I stepped out into an open clearing. I was at first shocked because I had no idea of such a vast land beyond the forest, and if there were a vast land, my father would have found it and made it into part of the farm. Then I realized that I had lost the woman. I looked around frantically, not knowing why I wanted to see her with such urgency, but I found nothing. Not even a sign that she had passed through. I felt a low tugging near my chest like I had lost something dear to me but couldn’t place what.

I walked out into the open defrayal and found nothing. I felt strangely alone without the wonderful woman in sight. It was like I was connected to her somehow─ like we had spent our whole lives together. It was more than the feeling, it was also the instinct. I felt like she had been watching me my entire life and now that she had stopped, I felt the enormous gap she had left behind. It was weird to feel such strong emotions emanate for a person I had never seen in my life. I thought I heard footsteps behind me, but when I turned around, I saw no one. Just the trees that I had emerged from. When I turned around to face the direction I had been facing, she appeared around the corner, her body slightly covered by a fern. Her eyes were the same indigo color like the ones when I first saw her. Her face was also twisted into the heavy menacing grin she had worn.

“Did you feel that?” She asked a low chuckle forming deep within her throat.
“Feel w─what?” I asked feeling the gap in my chest close and seal.
“That emptiness”
“Emptiness?”
“When we were separated?”

I couldn’t answer her. I didn’t know how she could have distinguished the gap in my chest.
“I knew it. You are not all lost.” She stated a big smirk stretching wide across her pale face.

I couldn’t answer her again. I felt at a loss for words. I didn’t understand what she was talking about. What did she mean, “You are not all lost”? I had no clue. And I was also wondering how she knew I felt such a strong connection to her. Did she feel the same blankness in her chest? When I thought of her chest, I unconsciously blushed. I didn’t know why but I felt awkwardly shy around her. I didn’t understand a lot of things at this point. I didn’t even know who this girl was and why she had appeared where she had and near such a wonderful metal figure that was torn apart all throughout the farm like she was leading me towards her. Maybe that was what she intended. To break apart her spacecraft and lead me to her, but she didn’t come here to look for me, did she?

My head was spinning with questions that I felt too shy to voice out loud. She studied my expression and a grim smile took the place of her ever- present smirk. I didn’t know what my face looked like anymore. My head was full of emotions and I didn’t know which one my face portrayed. I never was any good at hiding my expressions and since I had and abundance of them at the moment, I could only guess that my face looked like and awkward mess of joy, curiosity, confusion, uncertainty, and most of all fear. Her face was suddenly nostalgic like she had been away from home far too long and she wanted to head there as fast as she could.

“We can fix that.” She said looking at my face again.
“Fix what?” I asked still confused and dazed after the haze had worn off.
“Come with me” She said her left arm extending towards me palms up as if she wanted me to take it.
“What? Where?” I asked, my curiosity overcoming my shyness.
“I will explain when we get there”
“But I can’t leave my home”

This made her nostrils flare and her left hand’s fingers clenched into fists and she growled in anger, her eyes turning that brilliant red again. Her hair seemed to get brighter as well. Again I was confused. I thought her eyes were blue, but then now they were red. I was reluctant to follow such a dangerous looking creature. Her eyes became black and her face became stoic. This oddly frightened me the most. I wasn’t scared when she was angry nor when she was smug but I was deathly terrified by this empty look. She walked a few steps towards me, away from the fern that had covered her body, and I moved a few steps away from her. We continued this pattern over and over again until I was up against the trees that I had come from. Her arms stretched away from her body making her look like a human cross. Her hands were limp in their wrists and then with a flick of her fingers, I went down. I was lying on the moist grass with my back to the trees in the fetal position. I stared at her as the immense pain started all over my body. The pain started from my head then trailed to the back of my neck till it reached my toenails. She flicked her fingers again and the pain disappeared and what took its place was even worse. The pain stopped but my whole body stopped as well. It wasn’t numb, it wasn’t frozen but it felt like all my nerves went dead. I couldn’t feel the floor beneath me and I couldn’t even cry in pain. I was more wounded than I had ever been in my life from a woman who was not even touching me. I knew what she was going to do before it actually took place. She flicked her finger a third time and the world went black.