Steps to the Afterlife

[NoireRose]

Here's my Camp NaNo novel in all it's glory! It was originally the winner of the pole I posted earlier! But here it is! Comment and read! Please and Thank you!

A group of dead children are introduced to a new possibility of life after death. Those humans who are introduced to life after death are known as monsters, some well-known, and others not so much. In the beginning they were all failures, but finally scientists, mythologists, cryptologists, and zoologists everywhere in the world believe that they have finally recreated life.


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Part 1-
Epilouge 1-
Chapter 1-

[NoireRose]

Epilogue 1 - My FUNeral

I opened my eyes and watched everything go hay-wire. Everybody was dressed in complete black. My mother was frantically crying. My father stood there next to her and comforted her, while holding back tears himself. Then there was my boyfriend, as of the past 4 years, . He stood so still, I almost thought he would fall down. He also had this pained expression on his face, but did he ever look sexy in that suit. Overall there were some of my friends, family, teachers, and even some kids from school. The only person who surprised me was the girl who hated me most of all, Paige Hilsburn. She out of all of the people there seemed about as emotionless as a robot was inhuman.

The thing that creeped me out the most was all of the emotions. The sadness just seemed so chilling, and nerve wracking. Everything just seemed to stop when there was so many emotions in one room. I couldn't breathe, and I couldn't control my movements either. It felt completely numb, and then I got thinking how I would never be able to see their smiling faces ever again. I wanted to cry too, but the tears never came. It was only a moment or so afterward that my boyfriend broke his facade and began crying. I hated to see him like that, but the only thing I truly wanted to know at that moment was why. Why was I laying in a coffin set out for display? Why did I have to go and die, especially on the Forth of July, and my anniversary?

That was all I wanted to know and how had I never saw so many emotions hidden within my boyfriend. I knew that he felt the same things all human emotions felt, but there were times when everything seemed to radiate off of him. He always seemed to be spreading emotions around to everybody. Every person he hung out with felt the same way, and that's the only reason why I wanted to date him. He made me feel special, and like I actually fit in with everybody else.

A few moments later, I heard a sudden boom. Everybody was quickly snapped out of their saddened state. All except Paige, but in a way she was even startled, simply, because she moved over to my boyfriend. She gently got on her tip toes and whispered something into his ear. If I could move I would've probably punched her in the face by now. Sadly all I could do was sit there and watch. Then the columns began to break and collapse. Quickly, my boyfriend began to tell people to get out of there by using the stairs. Meanwhile Paige began to write something down in the notebook of hers. She shouted something at my boyfriend, and he glanced over at me. His eyes made contact with my own and that's when I saw the quiet panic and sorrow in his eyes.

He navigated through the on going crowd of people to where I was laying in the coffin. He knelled down next to me, and in the most romantic fashion as possible. He kissed me on the lips, but his kiss was filled with regret and sorrow. It tasted nothing like it usually did. He had tears coming from his eyes, but then Paige came over and grasped his forearm; telling him that he could come back for me later or something. She pulled him along, but he never broke contact. Then I heard him! I heard his sweet voice in my head, “ Don't worry we'll be back for you later, my angel.” After saying that he closed the coffin lid and left me in the dark. It wasn't until a moment later that I realized majority of the yells and screams where gone along with my sweet boyfriend.

I was all alone in the dark of a coffin with limited air. This was not a good way to end my life. Especially if I die by suffocation this time.

[NoireRose]

Chapter 1 - Don't Leave Me!

I just had to sleep. I was getting tired of waiting in that coffin, and the cushion that surrounded the coffin was just getting so comfortable. Not long afterwords drifting to sleep, I was I sent to a dreamland that seemed surreal and yet about as realistic as it could get. It involved my boyfriend and Paige; along with other people that I didn't recognize or that I haven't met. Their mouths are moving but no words are coming out, and then I see Paige step closer to me. She leans forward to the point that even in this dream I can smell her orange and cream perfume. I lick my lips and my eyes dart to her neck. I quickly flinch and turn away. It just feels so awkward with my boyfriend there.

Paige obviously can tell that so she backs away and my boyfriend steps up to the plate. I try and hold myself back, but his gray eyes drag me right back in. We make eye contact and it feels like it's just him and me. I want to melt right there, but the thing that sets me off is that through the whole time I smell blood. It's a faint smell and nothing too serious but it sets me off focus.

I gently push my boyfriend away and walk up to the man that has been directing them. He obviously makes no notion to get close to me. I lift his arm up, and for a moment he hesitantly looks at me like I'm going to hurt him. He glances between me and his arm. For a moment the smell of blood over takes my sense of smell. I gently move my hand up his arm, tapping and poking at him like there is some magical way to set him to ease him and lower his guard. I then come up to the area on his arm where he has a tiger tattooed on his arm.

I smile and squeeze right at the spot where I could smell the blood coming off of. He flinches in pain and I roll up his shirt sleeve the rest of the way. Gently I remove the gauze, and I move my mouth closer to the wound. For a moment I hesitate over the wound and then I blow cold air on it. Blood slowly pours out and I close my mouth over the wound. I suck the blood away. For the finishing touch I lick it shut, and move away. To my surprise and to everybody else's the wound is instantly healed. I simply smirk and nod my head as if I knew that I could do that all along. When in reality I knew I didn't know I could do that at all.

Then everything began to get blurry, and I fell on the ground. I closed my eyes for a moment and when I opened them the man I healed is barking commands at random people. Meanwhile my boyfriend is hovering over my body. His eyes show me what happened just a moment ago. I apparently fell after I healed the man and the wound the guy had appeared on my own arm. Then I see the same man that I healed walking over to my boyfriend and him placing his hand on my boyfriend shoulder. Then to my surprise I hear a few words, and I mumble my boyfriends name.

A few seconds later I double up and begin feeling a horrible pain on my chest. The pain so intense that the tears stream from my eyes. The man picks up my doubled up form and my boyfriend begins to protest and yell at the man. All of a sudden everything seems to go hay wire. I see water, fire, air, earth, electricity in slow motion, and I hear a high pitched tone. The feeling of anger and pain seems to be increased by ten fold. That's only when I feel an intense pain right next to my heart. I begin screaming. I yell out my boyfriends name and everything seems to pause. The tears stream down my face. I glance over at my boyfriend and see that there are a bunch of people surrounding him. I fight to get out of the man's arms, but the man's grip is too strong. That's when he injects something into my arm and everything fades to black.

I suddenly wake up in a pool of sweat, tears, and blood gasping for air. Still stuck in the coffin. I begin banging on the coffin lid, hoping that I can possibly open it from the inside. After some time later I give up, and just decide to wait for somebody to get me out. Luckily I don't have to wait that long, but when the coffin lid opens up it's not who I expect to see. It's some lizard like creature.

“Hey boss! We got a live Medic over here! And it looks like she's just newly reborn too! She's still in paralysis!”

The creature stared at me, and then it's tongue came out and I realized it was a forked tongue. I closed my eyes and attempted to contact my boyfriend. However the line was broken between us; I was all alone with these creeps.

“Leave her alone and let me take care of her! Collect any dead bodies you find considering our current circumstances!”

The creature looked at me and all I could do was finch while he almost touched me with his scaly hand. Then a rock came flying at the creature, and hit him in the face. I heard the creature making noises; which I assumed meant he was having problems with getting the rock off of his body. All the while I heard a handful of other people begin laughing at the creature. About a minute later everybody went back to work, and began collecting dead bodies. Eventually a small pile of about five dead people were formed. Each person looking about as empty as another. It simply sent shivers down my spine, and made me feel sick to my stomach.

But then the leader came into view. He had brown hair and he was wearing dirtied up clothing. When he turned to look at me I could almost swear that he was going to protect me rather then hurt me. He looked like a complete mess but it suited him. Being all covered in dirt like he was, and then he moved closer to me. He knelled down next to me and his face got so close to my face that I could've sworn that he was going to kiss me. My eyes were moving all over his face, from his lips to his nose and finally to his eyes. They were a deep chocolate brown that seemed to consume me.

He backed away and smiled. Oh, he seemed just so handsome, almost as if he seemed to be created just for the sole purpose to tease me. Then he held out his hand which was covered by a fingerless glove, and a bandage. Almost as if without my command my hand moved out to grasp his hand. In a single swift motion he pulled me up out of the coffin, and into his arms. I would've sworn that he did that to make me blush. Only until I heard a female sneer that I realized we weren't alone.

“Go on ahead of us. We'll follow soon after. I make sure nothing happened to her that could have hurt her.” His voice was that kind of intoxicating roughness that only a handful of men obtained. It wasn't even a second before the girl rebuted.

“OH! So that little skank gets your special attention and I don't! After all she is just a fucking Medic! All she does is sit around and act ditzy! You're a bitch, Terrance!!!” I could tell that she disliked me by the way her words seemed to be filled with electricity. Eventually a red lightning bolt struck a broken pillar in the ruins of the funeral parlor, and set the ruins of the funeral parlor on fire. Terrance, who I assume is the man holding me in his arms, simply sighs.

“It wasn't my fault! You were the one who made me angry!” The girl is pointing at Terrance, and he simply lowers his head. All of a sudden the ground begins to rumble, and the others begin backing away from Terrance and me.

“Just shut up and keep on walking. Now we have to train in the lair, because you just had to lose your temper.” I can tell that Terrance isn't so thrilled about it. Luckily the other 3 people turn around and keep on walking with dead bodies on their backs. Secretly though I can't help but feel guilty, because I got the other girl so flustered about Terrance. He looks back at me and notices that I'm looking down at the ground. He gently puts his rough hand underneath my chin and lifts it up to look at him.

“Don't look so down. That's just the way Magenta works. She'll be over it by the time we get back, I promise. Besides she'll probably be too flustered at Dick to even notice you and me.” He smiles at me, and I can't help but let a smirk escape onto my face. Even though I don't feel the same as I do around my boyfriend; Terrance still seems to ease me and make me feel comfortable. He loosens his grip around my waist, and lets my feet touch the ground. When they make contact to the ground I feel an instant shock almost.

“Now, are you ready to go? Can you even walk?” I glance to my feet and then I glance back at his face and I realize that he has freckles and dimples, both. I look down at my feet and give a slight nod to Terrance to notify him that he can let go. Once he lets go, I realize that gravity has came back into play and my body feels heavier then before. I attempt to move my feet in a walking sort of manor, but instead I just stumble all over myself. Again, I find myself in Terrance's arms, and blushing. Secretly I sort of enjoy it, but I feel guilty for being with Terrance instead of my boyfriend.

It's only then that I realize what I'm wearing. I'm wearing a white dress with frills sewn into the dress, and my hair is neatly put into a fancy style of buns. Overall it's a fairly simply look that compliments my body and personality very well. That is until I look up at Terrance and spot him looking at me lovingly. It isn't until I realize that we are on a piece of Earth moving slowly. For a moment I begin to panic, but Terrance puts one of his fingers over my lips. Oddly enough my lips kiss it before my mind has a chance to react. Terrance smirks and the rock begins moving a little faster.

“Just don't panic and make me lose my concentration, princess. Then we would both would be in trouble.” I had to giggle at that even though it wasn't even a laughing matter. However a little further ahead, a lightning bolt struck the ground. Quietly Terrance gasped and then began cussing.

“Hold on tight to me,because this may get a little rough.” Following his instructions I grasped onto him tighter and he shivered slightly before sending the rock faster and faster. He glanced at me for a moment and then focused on what was ahead of him. He was actually leaning forward, and tilting one way or another depending on which way he wanted to go. All I did way hold on and hope that I wouldn't fall off considering Terrance didn't cover my feet in rock like he did with his.

“Do you trust me?”, he said this without even glancing back at me. I quietly nodded before I looked forward and saw the line of rocks in the way. I simply grabbed on tighter, and closed my eyes as tight as I could before we hit the rocks. I could almost feel the energy draining out of Terrance as I assumed that he was shifting the position of the rocks. Then we hit it, and I opened my eyes for a brief moment. The piece of rock we were on was smaller, and we were airborne. When I looked back at the line I noticed that he had shifted the rocks to form a small ramp. Quickly my eyes darted up to Terrance and I realized that he had his eyes closed, and his arms were out. Either he was enjoying the air in his hair or he had just past out.

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