I have returned…

Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 30

She squinted at the ravager for a moment. Renegade, her mind muttered.

The memories came back to her in an instant. With that, came a sharp pain in her shoulder. She growled at the arrow that protruded from her shoulder. One quick movement, and she had ripped the now bloody arrow out of her shoulder. Blood trickled from the wound it had made. She breathed. Humans were so stupid. Believing a mere spiked stick could hurt her.

Renegade continued to bark at her. She resumed paying him no mind. The arrow rested in her hand. She debated what to do with it. A fanged smirk reached her face as she looked down at the arrow, before hurling it straight toward a human. The arrow burned through the human's weak flesh. It fell over, its blood staining the white snow.

Ferra looked around. The fight continued. She stared at the female human with the glasses. The one whose voice she had hard in her head. Said human, was surrounded by others, each carrying a spear that faced outward. She was something to be protected according to these humans.

Renegade yelped, Ferra ran toward Racheal. The humans attempted to stab Ferra with their metal spears. She easily tossed them out of her way. A few other humans began to yell at this. Ferra took no notice of them. Ferra leapt toward Racheal, shifting to her smaller from midair. Racheal turned her head toward Ferra, but did not have enough time to react. She watched, a slight fear in her eyes, as the ferox came toward her.

Ferra grasped for Racheal’s shoulder and scrambled up before she could be thrown off. Without hesitation, Ferra grabbed at the base of Racheal’s neck. Ferra’s claws dug into the delicate human flesh, she ripped out the purple glowing piece of element that had been lodged into Racheal’s neck.

Racheal froze. A gasp caught in her throat. Shock pulsed through her body. Racheal felt reality slip from her grasp as she began to collapse.

Despite the fact that she was falling with the Racheal, Ferra sighed in relief. Everything felt like it was in slow motion. That feeling left her as she felt something hit Racheal, or maybe it she had been hit? She wasn’t sure. The last thing Ferra remembered was the sound of something being ripped- flesh maybe? And the feel of her scruff being grabbed.

Racheal looked around. She didn’t have her glasses on, yet she could see everything clearly, but despite that, she had no idea where she was. Everything seemed to have a bluish hue to it, and she was floating in some kind of void. Pieces of…what looked like metal floated around her. The whole thing kinda reminded her of a computer.

“Hello!” A friendly sounding voice chirped. “Not sure what happened-“ a little robot zoomed into her line of sight. “-Lost track of you for a little bit I suppose. Not quite sure how that happened. No matter! Dying seemed to do the trick! Because look! I found you again!” Although not having a face, or a mouth, and only seeming to have one eye, or something like one in the center of it, the robot looked like it was smiling. “I guess that’s the wonderful thing about the Genesis Simulation. You can die over and over again and always come back!” It explained.

Racheal was confused, and had many questions. “…Simulation?” Racheal ,she managed to choke out. The robot looked…confused? “I thought you knew…?” The robot paused. “The Genesis Simulation is what you’re in right now!” Racheal continued to stare confusedly at it “The Genesis simulation? Why- Why am I in it?” The robot continued to look cheerful, at least up until Racheal asked that question. “I- I don’t know” it replied. That was very reassuring Racheal thought.

“What are you? And- What was that you said about me dying?” Racheal prodded, steering away from the topic of why Racheal was in the simulation. The robot went back to being cheerful “I’m HLN-A, and it is my job to assist you throughout the Genesis Simulation. You are also currently dead” It answered excitedly. Racheal was even more confused now. “Well how do I…come back to life?” The words felt childish in her mouth, but they were the best for describing her situation. “Well that’s the easy part!” HLN-A responded.

Ferra’s eyes blinked open. She quickly noticed that she was in a small nest-like pit in the snow. The snow was thick enough here to do that, wherever here was. She laid there for a moment, before deciding to lift her head up so she could look around. Renegade was sleeping closest to her, also in his own little snow nest. On Ferra’s other side, although further away, was a dark mass, barely visible in the darkness of the night. She assumed it was Rorin. Further in front of her, was what she originally thought was a lump of snow. The gold feathers were the only thing that made her think otherwise.

Till next time!

Meow

-WhiteWinterTiger