Chapter 3: you only get one life unless you take it back
time: none really, but it is Friday / 8-29-82
Age:15

I opened my eyes to find myself floating in a sea of stars. There's nothing around me, it's almost as if I’m in outer space. "Ok so what exactly happened?...ok I was at the bar...then there was the crazy girl...and after that she.....I don’t know what she did and yet here i am!!". I began floating on my back just thinking about nothing really. If i could at least specify where i was it might not be so difficult to know how to get back. As the hours go by i find myself almost falling asleep, that is until an oddly familiar voice popped into my head. "Oh caita, you look tired lemme wake you up!!". All the stars in the area began slowly expanding until i was unable to see anything through the brightness. I squinted my eyes in an attempt to dull the light, but it seems like the light is going through my eyelids. "Ah screw this! I cant take it anymore!". I opened the palms of my hands and created a huge orb of darkness around my body. At last the light was out of my eyes I almost thought those stars were gonna explode or something.

It wasn’t long before i could feel her talking in my head again. "Well caita now do you think I don’t know any good magic?". I cannot believe she's still going out of her mind over that one little statement!. "Excuse me kieta, but do you know you're a crazy psychotic girl!!". Her voice made a groaning sound. "Well excuse me caita, but I’m not a little girl I’m 315 years old, which makes me a woman even if I look 14!". I smirked and laid down on the floor of my orb. "Well I guess that makes you an old hag!". I didn’t hear her reply in any way which I was kind hoping she would just for laughs. I heard a crackling sound coming from the left side of the orb and turned my attention to it. "Oh is that you kieta? I guess that last comment made you pretty mad huh?". Piece after piece of my solidified orb crackled as a long slender arm smashed through it. Before long the entire figure was in view. It was a woman, but not kieta. She looked to be in her twenties or so and was really pretty. Her skin was a fair color, and her face was covered by her crimson red hair that was so long it reached the floor and kept going. She was wearing a long light blue kimono that was ragged with tears and rips. "You're....not kieta are you?". She brushed her hair out of her face revealing her ruby colored eyes. "No but I am rather pissed at her for sealing me in here for all these years!". Her eyes wandered across the walls of the sphere of darkness I created as the hole she broke in it disappeared. "So sir who are you and how did you make this? I’m quite skilled at the mystic arts myself and for some reason in this dimension I cant hold a barrier for longer than eight seconds". My legs began to feel stiff so I got up and stretched them. "The name is caita zatomi and I wasn’t aware that we were in another dimension, but my magic hasn’t been affected. So enough about me what's your name and how long have you been here?". There was a pause and she still didn’t speak. I looked at the strange empty emotion on her face and knew I shouldn’t have asked that question. "....I...I’m not really sure anymore....about my name...but I’ve been here over 250 years. I guess now it wont be that bad that I have someone else to talk to". A thought came to mind and i smiled. "....No...were gonna leave and you'll have lots of people to talk to...". I snapped my fingers and the air before me shattered like glass. "Now that I know we're in another dimension, I at least know that I’m on some version of earth which means a time space shift is in order". she griped my hand and i jumped through the break in space I created.

The gateway back to sinrea looks so....colorful, some of these colors I’ve never even seen before. As we dropped from the gateway i noticed that I’m not in front of the bar, yet it looks familiar. I’m in a room with many stuffed animals, large and small, the walls are colored light blue, there is a large screen TV in the corner of the room, a king sized bed against the wall with light blue sheets, near it was another slightly smaller queen sized bed with purple sheets and a laptop on it. "Yep....this is my sisters room...I wonder how shuka and ayame are anyway? seems like months since they left town to visit America...And if they don’t hurry back soon the gate's gonna close on them". I looked over at the girl who was now looking dumb-foundedly across the room, which is to be expected seeing as she hasn’t been in a real world since....almost forever basically. She was staring at the laptop with the intensity of a small child looking at a really tough math problem. "Caita...what’s this magic device? it has such a pretty name 'Yai' . Do you think this could be my name?". I peered over her shoulder and indeed the laptop did have a factory name on it spelled 'Yai-3-4-5'. "I...have no clue, but if that’s what you want me to call you, its better than nothing". She looked relieved with joy to at least have a name now. "Great! i want to help you with something now so lets start by finding kieta!". I’m quite amazed that even though yai has been imprisoned for so many years, she still has this will to fight. "Ok leave it to me, I’m a pro at finding people...". I raised my right arm and tried to create a portal back to the bar, but no darkness would appear. "Wha?...where’s my portal?". I flexed my fingers open and closed and noticed I could see through them. I fell back in surprise and fell on the floor, my left hand going through shuka's purple bed. "What the hell is this!". Yai didn’t seem to be having quite as many issues with what was going on. "It's the basic principal that states that any soul that has left the body while the body was still intact may roam the realms free of limitation, but on this plane of reality, magic is an impossibility because we don’t have any life force to command the magic to come from". I don’t really understand crap about what she said but hey, I’m guessing that means that any healing, or elemental magic is out of the question, which kinda sucks cause that’s all I know! "Ok no biggy, the bar's not that far away, and unless karma is really screwing my ass my body should be there....". I grabbed yai's hand and dashed through the wall, pulling her with me. Even though this body I use may not be my real one, I can still feel the warm breeze of the night air against my ethereal skin. "So what are all these flashing lights and beasts of steel?" yai asked me, looking dazzled at all the street lights and cars. "well those large moving metal things are called cars. they get you from place to place quickly and in most cases safely. Those lights you see are street lights, which in away are to help you in case you cant see". A look of amazement spread over yai's face as she continued to stare around. "Really? do you think I’ll ever be able to tame one and ride it?" I’m assuming she's speaking of the cars. I passed her a quick smile as she spoke. "Of course you will, I’ll be right there helping you, ya know, when I turn sixteen of course cause this city does have some rules....and I hate them all...".

As we approached the bar, luckily, my body was still there and in one piece. "Oh thank god! I thought she might of stabbed it or something!”. And as luck would have it, kieta was nowhere in sight. I wasted no time and dove back into my body, head-first.

I feel myself breathing so I guess that‘s good enough for now, but now I don’t have a clue where I am. Where ever I am…its kinda nice here. It looks like a meadow, there are lots of trees around, and the sky is actually blue…Id only heard of blue skies in legends of earth. I was only there for a little bit five years ago, and it was apparently night time so there was no real change from sinrea. I think I can live without the additional open spaces around here though.
(So…you’re the next one to enter looking for the power correct?).
 A voice like an angelic being was speaking into my head. “Who the hell are you? And why should I care?”.
(Quite a rude one aren’t we? Well many seek this place in search of power, a power like no other that cannot be challenged. It calls for no spiritual power, or life force).
I quickly began scanning the area for anything that looked to have any magical properties.
“ok so where is it? What is it?”.
(In due time…but first what brings you to my sanctuary?).
“well If you must know, a girl killed me….kinda….its complicated…”.
(And I suppose it was a strange fox with a crystal of some sort?).
“Oh so you know of her?…or has this happened before?”.
(Yes and its always the same crap! It’s always ‘she tore my soul out’ or ‘I didn’t see it coming’ no one ever just says she beat them!).
“well I cant really help it…she’s rather easily pissed…”.
(yes indeed she is, but onto more important matters. This power I have for you is not to be taken lightly and you are not to tell anyone where you got it, understood?).
I thought about this for a few minutes and carefully considered what he said.
“eh well…bragging is half the fun though…”.
(well I guess you don’t want limitless power!).
“why the hell am I arguing with a spirit?! Get lost!”.
(you’re in my domain! you get out!). He did have a distinct point to what he was saying.
“fine where do I go?!”.
(…..well its not like I should know…).
“You live here!”.
(whatever I’m going away now, you bore me…).
 I raised my fist angrily shouting at the voice. “you loser! Get back here!”. but nothing spoke. “fine…ok so I just leave…”. I can hear a voice far off in the distance, but I know it sounds familiar some how….“Wake up…wake Up….WAKE UP!”.

I sprang up, startled in shock. “who’s there?! “. I heard yai’s voice speaking into my ear. “good, your awake….you passed out a good 20 minutes ago and I’ve been screaming my spirit out trying to wake you up!”. I turned around but no body was there. “um where are you?”. I heard her lips smacking. “geez what are they teaching you in school? Spirits cant be seen by mortals!”. I really don’t know where she went to school but I wish I went there…”right…I knew that…so you need to find a new body right? Yours cant be in any good condition if your….imprisonment is as long as you say. So I got an idea, what if I could get you a body?”. she gasped excitedly. “you can really do that?!”. I rose to my feet and dusted myself off. “No way, not in a million years, but my best friend can do it. However its not an easy process so you’ll have to stay at least near my house until we set it up. Follow me, the house is only like a block away”. We began walking home. I know she’s there, right behind me, I can feel her presence.