Thread: Let Me Reap Your Soul (Survivor00 and Autumn)

Daniel??s flooded lungs flared with white-hot agony that burned hotter than the sun as he sucked in even more water, but he had no strength to control it. His body had suddenly gone completely flaccid, unable to even move his arms, and he slowly started to sink deeper into the blackness below. He felt heavy?tired? His head pounded sharply, his eardrums straining under the pressure of the water against them. It felt like a thousand knives were stabbing him in his stomach. His body??s functions were steadily shutting down, his heart slowing, his twitching growing more and more feeble. His eyes slowly opened for what he knew would be the final time, when he saw her? Her visage seemed to shock a few more seconds of life into Daniel??s dying body. For an instant, his senses were clearer than they had ever been before. She emerged like a ghost from the water before him, an ethereal, beautiful figure. The ebon robes she wore were unaffected by the flow of the water, nor did her raven-feather wings as she spread them wide, a veil of pure blackness that felt as if it were smothering him. Only her face stood out against the blackness, ghostly white, with faint, blonde hair. Her grey eyes seemed to see through him, as if she were judging him for the passage he was to undertake. Somewhere in his oxygen starved mind, he knew what she was, what she represented, but he could not look away from her. She was beautiful? Even as he began to cross that threshold, he could see the struggle in her eyes, but could not fathom it. The water around him suddenly felt numbingly cold, as if she were drawing in all heat. He, too, felt as if he were being drawn towards her, even as all feeling began to leave his body. But he knew it was alright, she was beckoning him, taking him away. Even as he closed his eyes for the last time, her image seemed engraved in his mind. Darkness swallowed his vision, and all was silent? ? Light. Light?and pain. Daniel??s mind was torn back violently from the void with an explosion of agonizing pain in his chest. He could feel air being pushed into his already full lungs, as well as sharp bursts of pressure against his chest. He finally heaved, retching the water from his lungs with a burst of foam and spray. He was rolled on his side, where he continued to expel the water from his lungs and stomach onto the sand. He choked and coughed, sucking in great lungfuls of fresh air, trying desperately to get the oxygen back into his starved lungs. The violent actions instantly set his head throbbing with renewed agony, and his chest ached like he had been hit with a sledgehammer. ??He??s coming around!? The voice echoed too loudly in his ears. He cracked his eyes open weakly, seeing the lakeside beach and the crowds of college students that had gathered around him. An SUV with flashing lights sat upon the beach, Daniel wincing every time a beam of colored light seared across his eyes. ??Don??t worry, son. We??ve got you. You??re going to be alright.? The EMT spoke to him, sitting up to help load him onto a stretcher. Coarse gauze was wrapped around his head, and the bleeding had stopped for now, but he still groaned pitifully. He was still horribly disoriented from both the fall and his sudden resurrection from the dead, but he could not mistake the feeling of those eyes on him once again. He turned his head, his eyes wide as they fell upon her again, the Angel of Death that had come to claim him. She seemed?somber, her wings pulled tightly around her body as she leaned on her scythe, watching him. Nobody in the crowd seemed to notice her, even as she stood amongst them. His throat suddenly felt as dry as sandpaper, his tongue felt swollen in his mouth. He tried to lift his arm to point they had to see her, right? But he was too weak to even lift his arm a few inches off the stretcher. The paramedics carefully held him still and placed his head in a neck brace, pulling his eyes off of her. Lifting him into the ambulance, they closed the door behind him and started the engine, driving off towards the hospital.