Should Have Let Me Die

I woke up again and felt much worse than before. Whatever medicine Haruna had given me for the pain was long gone, but I could feel the Gates and the dragon, but I wasn't sure if four Gates would be enough to fix the damage. The Gate was a last-ditch effort to reheal the body as a reward for pushing past my limit with no fear, but it only worked if I was beaten down to that point.

What happened to me would have literally turned anyone but me into a blood mist. Only the four Gates coming open saved my life, anything less and I surely would have died. Whatever that was...the pain of the force that hit me was like nothing I had ever felt before. Each one had been like a full-body air punch.

"Fck err, dem siddy dirl!" 

I had tried to say, damn silly girl, but I sounded like the little shit now. I almost wanted to laugh, but I know that was a bad idea. I could already feel the splints holding me still all over my body, and I hurt in all the spots. 

"How are you feeling Hyde? You have to be in a lot of pain, you should be dead, even for you this is bad. I know you were panicking yesterday, but you are healing and you will walk again, so don't get excited like that. I only have this weak plant magic that only grows these big leaves, but it is useful."

I could hear her voice coming from my right and she was close, Haruna, always determined, kindhearted, and willing to go the extra mile when no one else would. Good, I would walk, that eased my soul, but maybe her magic was better than she thought. Growth magic has a shared affinity with life magic, so maybe…

"H are una, tac my reet han, peash," I asked from my swollen and wrapped face.

Even if I could open my eyes, which I couldn't, there was a leaf wrap around my eyes with something gooey between it and my eyes. 

"Your hand is wrapped, but I can gently rest my hand against it, if you want?" Haruna asked in a sweet voice.

"Na, tot my kin, on han, my ma ic elp oo."

I was starting to get tired again and it was hard to keep my eyes open when they were forced closed with a night eye cover.

"Your magic? Are you sure? Even taking a finger out will be immensely painful."

"I on't air, erth it, I an ache it."

"If you are sure, but I warned you. I will have to lift your hand up, to get the leaf off, prepare yourself."

My pain was at the nine point four out of ten range before this, and now I was pushing sixteen. The pain was unbelievable, gut-wrenching fire radiated up my arm and then across the rest of my body, each pain triggered more nerves to tight, making more pain. I couldn't see how far she was from being done, but I was having trouble holding on to consciousness.

Finally, I felt skin, and released my magic, and blacked out instantly, not even seeing a blink of a flash. 

When I came to next, I was feeling dramatically better, but I still felt like I had been run over. The bandages that were covering me were gone, but there was something weird on my skin. 

I slowly opened my eyes, and I could see I was in a leaf hut with a table and chair that had been woven with strips of leaves. I could still smell the salt of the ocean, and hear waves rolling in and breaking on the shore. We must be close to the beach, but where the hell was here? 

Haruna wasn't in the hut, so I slowly tried to sit up, but after ten painful centimeters, I dropped back down, sending more shockwaves of pain through my body. Wow, this really sucked, but whatever was on my skin, like green goop, was making me feel better. I was about to close my eyes to rest again, but that was when Haruna came in.

Tall, long legs, ample chest, and an hourglass body, that was toned and in great shape. Then I got to her face, and she still had that sweet girlish smile, but she was getting red in the cheeks. I guess it had been a long time since I gave her a good look up and down, but I looked like a cucumber, so she shouldn't be that embarrassed.

"So, your awake and the first thing you do is give me a good eye-fucking? I really shouldn't be surprised, but I am glad to see that you are awake, and looking a good bit better than you did two days ago," Haruna said, bringing her woven grass chair over to sit closer to me.

She had very long blonde hair and green eyes with a small twinkle in the back of them like all the girls and myself. That was our spark, our very being that let us travel in the game worlds. What a beautiful amazon I had found.

"Will you marry me? Again? Hehe," I asked as half a joke, but I was one-hundred percent serious, I loved this woman like the rest, and well shit, not much else to do. 

"Wow, you don't mess around, dear. Well, since the pickings are slim on a deserted island, I guess you will have to do, hehe," Haruna said, leaning down to kiss me.

"How long have I been here? It's been what, one, and the two so maybe, what? Four days?" I asked after Haruna pulled back from a gentle kiss.

"Four? No, I found you fourteen days ago. You were in and out of a fever for ten days.

"Fourteen days? You have got to be fucking kidding me! We have to go!"

"Go? You can't even walk? And we are on a deserted island in the middle of an ocean?!"

"If there is anything you value in here take it out, now! We need to go! The rest of our family is traveling towards a place called the Monster Islands and it was only supposed to take three to four days! That means if they kept going, they would have been there for ten days already!"