SWITCH OF SOULS

PROLOGUE

SHE COULD see nothing, except the white fog wrapping around the place.

She was not sure where to go. She just kept walking, and walking, and walking, on that endless road, without destination, and didn't seem to get tired for some reason.

She looked back and planned to go in the opposite direction, and to her surprise, a pitch darkness welcomed her. She screamed loudly, her voice echoed the place as she ran as fast as she could. She felt flabbergasted and frightened at the same time.

Her speed slowed down when she realized that the white fog was thinning around. She looked left and right searching for something.

"Oh! You're a bit late."

She was surprised when someone suddenly spoke somewhere else. The voice sounds calming like a sea breeze, yet cold like an iceberg.

She looked around and searched where the voice came from, and found it when she looked up at an enormous tree in front of her.

It's a woman lying slightly on the three branches of an Olive tree, looking down at her with a bored look on her face. Her innocent angelic small face didn't match her emotionless expression. Her pale confection seems glowing in the humid place.

The woman was wearing a long sparkling white gown that lit the foggy place. Her dress had an embroidered dragon using gold thread.

If she's not mistaken, it's a Chinese traditional dress called hanfu.

"Who are you?" she asked the woman.

"There's no need for an introduction," she replied.

The woman answered her with a soothing cold voice, and to her surprise, the woman jumped down on the tree and landed safely on the ground. She did it effortlessly, as if she jumped from a tree that wasn't high.

The woman looked at her carefully from head to toe as if she was confirming something, then nodded gently afterward.

"Let's go."

The woman said and turned her back at her and started to walk away.

"Go, where?" She was hesitant at first to follow her but did it anyway.

The Mysterious remain silent, so she asked once again.

"Where are we going?" she asked, matching the walking pace of the woman. The woman stayed silent and kept ignoring her question, and kept on walking.

She frowned in frustration and decided to stop to follow her.

"Hey! I'm asking you, where are we going?!" she sighed in frustration. "If you keep on ignoring me, I'm not be going to come with you. Who knows what danger awaits for me."

The woman finally turned around and looked at her without a trace of emotion on her face.

"You're quite annoying," the woman said. " To what I remember, you are not like this.""

"What do you mean?" She asked confusingly. "Do you know me?"

''''Of course, yes — I know all the souls my sibling created. How about you? Do you know who you are?"” the woman asked as if she'd challenged her.

"What kind of question is that?" She asked irritably to the mysterious woman. "" Of course, I know myself, I'm —" she paused.

'Wait, hold on, who am I? What am I again?" She asked herself," s**t! I don't even remember my own name?! Who am I? I need to remember! I need to remember my name, I need to know why I'm in this place. " She forced herself to remember but something seems blocking her memory ' Who the f*ck am I?" She's stressing herself to remember herself, she's walking back and forth on where she's standing while mumbling the word 'who am I?'

The woman sighed and pointed her finger at her and, out of nowhere, a strong wind made her come back to her senses.

"whoah! That was close. You've nearly turned into wandering souls, it would be a lot of work if you lost once again," the woman said in relief.

"Again? What do you mean by that? And why can't I remember who I am? Why can't I remember my name? I dont even know why i'm in this strange place. There must be something wrong with me?!"

"Calm yourself, Mahlyeegan," The woman said to her.

"Mahlyeegan? Is that my name? How do you know about my name? That I can't even remember."

"Like what I said, I know every soul that my brother created."

"S-soul?" She asked with a frown in her face. "What do you mean by that?" She's confuse.

The woman looked at her with a slightly annoyed face visible in her face.

"You're starting to annoy me."

"So do I! I've been clueless all this time," she said frustratedly.

The woman rolled her eyes, then sighed afterwards.

"Do you remember what happened to you a while ago?"

"A while ago?" She shook her head. "No! I don't remember!"

The mysterious woman rolled her eyes and pointed her finger at her. She closed her eyes when a blinding light came out from the cloudy sky.

"Whoah! What with that blinding light?." She asked, but the woman didn't bother to answer.

The woman looked up while raising both hands. She closed her eyes, which caused the round light to gradually rise. It grew bigger and bigger as it went up and up.

"Mahlyeegan Ferrer, 25 years of age. Body number 1318925557114, Parallel Universe number 5118208, Also known as Earth. With the guidance of my honorable name, KALI I give you my blessings to recover your memory, NOW!

And I scream in pain, when a flood of memories come to my mind.