Chapter 2: New Surroundings

Chelise wakes up and opens her eyes to find that she's in some sort of bed in a room where everything carries a perfect white which makes it seem too clean to be natural. It consists of some unknown light sources, a round table, two chairs, a drawer and a black thin rectangle on the wall in front of her.

She can hear voices outside but it's spoken in the language she doesn't understand.

A few seconds later someone knocks on the only door in the room. It opens slowly and a woman enters the room. She's wearing a tight black skirt, white shirt and some shoes with weird high heels. She's got long black hair, glasses and carries a notebook with her.

"Good morning Chelise, I'm Takomoto Haruhi. You can call me Haru if you'd like."

Chelise doesn't say anything while the woman walks in and sits down at the table and puts her notebook down, facing her with a smile on her lips.

"Did you sleep well Chel?"

Did I fall asleep? Wait.. Chel?... Is that supposed to be some sort of nickname? Who is this woman? Chelise nods, yawns and stretches her arms up in the sky.

"I'm from the Keepers. We're a large group with worldwide contacts and this is our main facility. We found out that they were transferring you to a base in China. So we took our chance and freed you. Do you remember why you were there?"

The keepers again... What's China?

"I know my name is Chelise G. Winters. That's all."

"I see. There ought to be some problems since you've been in a state of coma for about fourhundred years."

"Fourhundred years... How is that even possible? I should be dead if that's true." Chelise is shocked, surely they're joking?

"Hmm... With your memory gone we need to go through a few things. It's true that you've been in a coma for fourhundred years but you're fine since you're an Ancient."

"An Ancient?"

"Yes, a human who's gained partial immortality."

Chelise can't believe what she's hearing. Ancient? Partial immortality?

"Is this a bad joke?" she asks seriously.

"It's not a joke. We've gone through alot to free you from the Guardians."

If this is not a joke... I've been away for fourhundred years? For real? The Guardians kept me in a coma?

"The Guardians?"

"Yes, they are a worldwide organization of magicians. Since they started their operations a few hundred years ago they have risen up to the position of guiding and protecting the world."

"Wait... Magicians?"

"Yes, you're a magician too Chel."

"I am?"

"Yes, but you've become an Ancient. At least that's what we call it."

"What exactly is an Ancient?"

"You're the only one we know of that's become an Ancient. I don't know how the name came to be and no one knows how you did it. We don't know alot about being an Ancient, we only know what's been said and written down in old notes. An Ancient doesn't seem to age, while no one knows if you can be killed by physical means. That's probably why they kept you in a coma, to find out more about how you became one and what an Ancient is. It must be alot for you to take in. Are you hungry?"

The Keepers... The Guardians... Ancient... Magicians... How can I believe those things?

"I'm sure you'll feel better after breakfast. After that we'll answer all your questions."

Her stomach does feel empty. Her throat dry. If they wanted to harm me they would have done it already wouldn't they?

"Breakfast is served in the dining hall. I'll show you the way."

Haru picks up her notebook once again and looks at Chelise.

"I'll give you a minute to get dressed. Clothes are in the drawer over there. I'll wait outside." she points at it and then exits the room, closing the door behind her.

The heavyness in her body is still there, but she feels better overall.

While sliding her feet along the bed down to the floor she sits up. What if my legs are as weak as before? She puts some weight on her legs slowly, they don't seem to give away so she stands up while holding on to the bed for safety.

She can stand at least, but she feels unsteady.

Loosening the grip on the bed while trying to find the right balance she takes a few slow steps towards the drawer. This is hard.

The way to the drawer is a challenge, grabbing hold of whatever is on the way she eventually reaches the drawer.

There are handles for five different drawer boxes. Opening the one at the top reveals what looks like underwear. What fabric is this? She takes out a few of them and have a closer look. They are pretty.

She looks at her legs and then at the underwear, letting out a sigh. I need a chair.

She puts the underwear back in the drawer box again and walks towards the closest chair by the table, grabbing hold of it and drags it along with her on the way back to the drawer. There we go. Choosing a piece of underwear from the drawer takes a little while since there's so many. These will do I, they look comfortable. She sits down and puts them on, having a hard time lifting her legs up while doing so.

Let's check the next one. She opens the second box, there's footwear in there. Same procedure is done with them, slowly but surely she picks a comfortable pair and puts them on.

Opening the third one reveals all kinds of upper wear in all kinds of colours. There are even pictures on them. Wow. She looks through them and ends up picking a long sleeved shirt striped horizontally with black and white. It's a bit big but the material feels light and comfortable.

The next one contains bottom wear in all shapes, pants, shorts and skirts. I'd rather wear a skirt than pants. She thinks to herself as she picks out a white skirt that reaches just above her knees.

The last box contains another set of upper wear though these look thicker and warmer. She does feel a little bit cold so she decides to go with a thicker version of what she's already wearing, it also has a hood. That'll do I guess.

Fully dressed she walks towards the door slowly. The doorknob doesn't look like anything she's used before, a big waterdrop that defies gravity . It looks like you can rotate it.

Turning it opens the door and leads her out into a corridor that reaches as long as she can see on both sides. The walls are perfectly white here too, while the floor looks like it's made of stone fitted together amazingly accurate.

Haru is leaning against the wall a few feet to the right with a smile on her face as Chelise walks out.

Author's Note

I'm sure there are grammar problems and different words I could use. If you find something like that please point it out :)

Reviews

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"Hmm... With your memory gone we need to go through a few things. It's true you've been in a coma for fourhundred years but you're an Ancient." = Is the but there really necessary because there are no signs that a but is needed in that part. I don't if this is better but in my opinion, this makes sense:

"It's true that you've been in a coma for Four Hundred years but you're fine since you are (or you're* your choice) an Ancient."

She's wearing a black skirt, white shirt and some shoes with weird high heels. She's got long black hair, glasses and carries a notebook with her. = There is nothing wrong with this but if Haru is an Office Type of a lady, it would be better to give her a [black tight skirt] since that [Black Skirt] gives me a schoolgirl feeling Haru.

This keeps bothering me since I love clean stuff, I am sensing some battle stuff in this novel so wouldn't giving Chel a white skirt would get it dirty but hey I am just a reader writing mean stuff to authors, you don't to worry about it. They probably have an advance laundry machine in the future.

Every time I give a review, I get mistaken as a mean person but since you said in the author's comment to point out things I found....I might not be able to hold back sometimes.....uh..yeah! *Brofist!*

[Arotica]

You're not mean at all! These are all good corrections and I'll edit the parts you mentioned. I love it when people point out my mistakes since I don't see them myself.
*Brofist!* :)

[Kaitlyn C.]

So good! I like the descriptions! :) And I like how you portrayed Haru, I feel like I should trust her but there's part of me that's holding back to wait and see...

[Arotica]

Thank you! :). I tried to add as much description as I could, it sure adds to the length of the story.
The next chapter should be done by tomorrow :).