Chapter 7 - Awakening
*Wailing Horn Of Distress*
Everything was in destruction, flames, collapse buildings, rumbles and smokes everywhere, the roller coaster ride that once rolled with exciting colors was now on fire in the rumbles, the skies black, embodied with black smokes from the explosion, the ground, made of ash and sand, the air gave out black dot dew like something polluted the area, as the wind blew it was chilly and dry.
Haruto gasps for breath coughing, his eyes took some time to adjust before opening them, his vision cleared and then he met with a horrifying sight.
Unable to process the environment more, his body shook an intense pain, he felt like his bones were breaking and deforming.
"Hiro, Aiko-chan," he said in pain, he tries to move but he couldn't feel his lower body, he turned and gasps in horror, his lower body was buried in the rumbles, crushed as blood gush out.
He coughs painfully as blood gushes out from his lips, he knew the rest of his body was gone but that wasn't his concern. His eyes scanned the area, they widen seeing the bodies everywhere like it was a graveyard, then he saw Hiro on the ground stiff, his body was almost lifeless, his eyes, nose, and ears bleeding. Black veins creeping all over his body, Aiko's body was a distance away from his, blood flowing from her head her body slowly deforming into something he couldn't make of.
"HIRO! AIKO-CHAN!" Haruto shouted in horror, he tried to move but he felt his spinal cord snapping from his aggressive movement, the huge rumbles around him moving, Haruto feared for the worse. 'How could something like this happen, how could a Chemical Plant that has stood for several generations explode?'
"Is this the end?" he said with shaky eyes, he never got the chance to make up for all the lost time, he would never get the chance to and now he would never see his wife and son again.
Something like a cocoon formed around Hiro's body building up around him like a shell, it was red with blue veins around it.
"Live," Haruto said with tears in his eyes, stretching out his hands as the tears whelmed up dripping like water, that was his only wish.
"Hiro".
the boulders breaks above him
He said something but it was inaudible, the
tears streaming down his cheeks as a faint weak smile formed against his lips.
The rumbles collapse crushing Haruto.
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Solemn Silence
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Heart Beats Slowly
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Beeping Monitor Machine
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"Is he dead or alive?!"
"The monitor says he's alive".
"Looks like he's in a coma too".
"His heart rate is above 50bpm due to his breath intake, and he's sweating profusely".
"Hmm... I wonder, he's in a coma he shouldn't be sweating this much, or is he... "
Hiro gasps out loudly like he was drowning and finally got out, his gasps for air were sharp and hard.
"Take it easy, easy there" the unknown voice calmed him down.
"Wh... Wh... Why... ".
"Say the words slowly, control your breath," the voice said gently.
"Seriously did you have a nightmare or something?!"
Hiro's harsh sharp breaths calm down.
"Wh... Wh... Why can't I see anything?" Hiro said in a panic.
"Well... "the voice sounded like having a thought.
"Who are you?! What are you?!" Hiro blurted frighten.
"Hmm... Well I'm human and a boy" the voice answers.
"The name's Saito Ten".
"And you look oddly familiar".
"Why can't I see you" Hiro panicked once more of not being able to see anything.
"Well, because your eyes are covered with bandages, and that only means two things. Either you're blind or you are about to be" Ten said.
"WHAT?!" Hiro shouts startled as he tries to move but he fell out of the bed and landed on the floor, he felt something like a drip connecting to his wrist, shaking. His body shook in pain as he groaned.
"And he fell," Ten said sighing.
"I... I... I can't see" Hiro said trembling as he felt the bandages around his eyes, wrapped around.
"This can't be happening... No this can't be, it must be the bandage getting in the way" Hiro said ripping the bandages off aggressively.
Ten waited in anticipation too to know if he was blind or not.
Hiro slowly opened his now dull chocolate brown eyes, it was faded a bit with no life in them.
"Well you're blind," Ten said.
"No!" Hiro still couldn't see anything despite the bandages being off.
"No! This can't be happening", he shakes his head negatively. 'This must be some kind of dream'. He thought. He raised his head.
"My mom and dad! I need to see my mom and dad" Hiro said in haste.
"That will certainly be impossible based on your current state and our current situation" Ten noted.
"We are kind of confined in a white room, strange right? Like we are being quarantined or something".
Hiro stiffens at his words. They were in a medium-size room, the ceiling and everything all white, the room was shaped like a box, two beds present, his and Ten's.
Ten, his dark hair messy fitting his looks, his eyes deep green full of life, wearing a medicated glasses. He was dressed in a short-sleeve white shirt, white pants, and shoes same as Hiro. A drip connecting to their wrists, instead of white fluid, gave out blue fluid through the tiny pipe.
"Trust me, our current situation is unknown," Ten said sternly, adjusting his glasses.