Bounty Hunter's Trials

Swamp Water

"Awaken. Awaken."

These haunting words filled the head of the once dead Hecate Vega. 

"Awaken! Awaken!"

The words soon crescendo into shouts, trying to help her mind restart.

"AWAKEN!"

The final shout screamed in her head as she jolted awake. She lived once again. 

    Hecate Vega looked her body up and down, feeling around to try and find the many wounds she had suffered before dying. Nothing, everything healed. This had to be impossible. She was dead and now she's perfectly fine? This didn't make any sense to her, yet she knew she had to figure out what was going on. She blinked a couple times before rubbing her eyes. Her eyes weren't normal. She couldn't see like others could. Her eyes looked like voids, and with them she could see aura. She may not get everything, but she can check her surroundings. Trees, water, small reeds, algae... no sentient life for as far as she could see. She wasn't alone, for there were fish and frogs and other small animals all around, yet there wasn't a thing she could possibly talk to in order to figure out where she was. She took a second while sitting in the cold murky water before she had a realization. She wasn't in the compound. She was free. She fell back and let her long smooth hair into the water while laughing. She may have been alone, but she was far from that stupid lab. 

    Slowly she climbed to her feet. Her entire body felt sore, yet it was working. This was a relief. She didn't want to worry about fixing her body if it had broken between her time of dying and coming back. Her magic. Did her supernatural powers survive with her? She didn't have many, but she had to check. Step by step she started running through the swamp, purposely running into sharp branches before stopping in a clearing. She was all messed up, so it was time for the first test. She held her hands into the air before closing her eyes and focusing. A glow appeared in both hands before traveling around her entire body in a spiral, healing all the damage she just acquired. That's the only thing she had to worry about for now. 

    Now then, what would she do? Hecate thought long on that question. She could easily set up a place for herself to live, yet that was at the back of her mind. She could train a bit to get back into shape, yet what would she be training for? She could try to find her siblings, yet she didn't know if they were even alive anymore. There was only one thing in her mind that she could do. She had to find other people. She'd go crazy if she were stuck in this marsh all alone, so she started running. The landscape was all alien. Nothing around her was familiar from experience or from what she knew. That didn't matter. She continued in one direction. The water was murky, yet her mind was clear. Eventually she'd find something if she continued looking in one direction. The trees blocked the sun on that day, and in that cool morning air, Hecate was back.