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#1- The Brightness
The light was so bright, so piercing. It shone into my eyes. I lifted my arm to cover my eyes of the shine but it still shone through with full force. I stepped back slowly as it got brighter and brighter. It seemed to be coming closer. I tried to scream but heard nothing. My voice was gone. Suddenly, I made out a shape from the light. It was a human, no... It wasn't human. I made out the silhouette of huge wings on it's back, spread out like it was about to fly. I couldn't make out the figure they were attached to.
"Ayumi..." It called to me. Its voice didn't sound male or female. It reached out its thin arm to me, shining of pale white light. Its hands opened and reached towards me.
The brightness of its body made me look away. Suddenly a feeling came to me. My arm rose from my side, lifting slowly towards the brightness's hand. I couldn't pull back. It was like a force drawing me near. My hand was so close to its hand. I felt the warmth of its bright aura.
"Hurry... Ayumi... Please hurry," It called out again, louder this time.
I couldn't move my arm anymore. It was frozen motionless in mid-air. The brightness's hand was an inch away. I tried to move it but it was stuck.
"Ayumi... reach... hurry."
I cried out, still unable to hear my own voice. The brightness was suddenly rising slowly up into the air, farther and farther away from my grasp.
"No." I tried to say, looking up at it.
It's shining arm was still reaching for me as it rose higher and higher. I spotted a silver tear roll off the side if it's cheek, sparkling with its own light. I stared up at it, as it was rising into the white sky.
"Goodbye... Ayumi." It whispered.
Suddenly the white ground around me was shaking. It shook so violently I had to fight for balance. I didn't know what was going on.
Suddenly, I heard a loud crack. I turned around to see a large black crack in the ground, growing larger. I couldn't run, I couldn't move. The ground between my two feet suddenly split into two. It got wider and wider till it could not support my weight anymore.
With a loud shattering sound, the ground benieth me caved in. I was suddenly falling. Falling into a pit of darkness, total blackness. While falling, I looked up to the sky where the brightness was still reaching to me in the distanced sky. It was so far, so high up in the sky.
"Ayumi... Ayumi..." I could hear it call, sadly.
I reached my arm out to it, hoping it would grab my hand and save me from this never ending pit of darkness.
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