EXPERIMENT 101

Chapter 17: Dream

Asharika walks like a dead, toward her bed, laughing as the tears race on her cheeks. She looks at the blurry image in front of her as she lay her back on the bed.

"Ha ha ha ha... Asharika... you really are a big fool." She then reached out her hand, grabbing something she knows that is plain foolishness. 

She's fighting alone. 

She knows, but it is still painful. Her heartfelt like being squeezed tightly, her body felt numb. 

She is in that situation when she had fallen asleep.

.

In her dreams...

Asharika felt her hands moving, as her finger dances on the white and black keys, on the grand piano.

It was a beautiful sound of 'Fur Elise'. 

Then her finger press the last key, then the sound of the clapping is heard. She looks at the man and smirk.

"That is amazing." the man says then he walks near her, and by her side, a warm body is felt. 

The man then made her face the window, showing the beauty of the beach, and the beauty of the sunset.

A warm arm hugs her waist, as she felt the minty smell of the man behind her, then felt a chin on her shoulder. as the air tickles her ear.

The man inhales, it was as if he is taking in the smell of hers, then sigh. "I will miss you."

She rolls her eyes. "It was just a simple mission."

"How do you know?"

"We will just need to find out what happens to those children."

"I know, but I still will miss you."

She can't but smile. "I will get a vacation leave after this. then we can fix the wedding when that day comes."

He exhales. "What am I supposed to do to you commander."

She chuckles. "Well you have no choice but to deal with it, You love this commander after all."

The man then chortles. "I love you."

"I love you too."

.

The image changes with a group of men in soldier uniform in front of hers.

"We are here because of the mission given to us. It can be a dangerous one, and can cost us our life." she then chuckles, as if she was saying something foolish."Anyway, we had 2 missions."

The soldier peers at her puzzled.

She can't help but the corner of her lips arc up. "One is to save the children, the second is" she beams "...keep yourselves alive."

The soldiers' grin. "Yes Sir!"

"Oh please, I am a woman."

They all laugh.

.

The scene changes once more. 

This time, they were inside the four-wheel vehicle, which was not supposed to be used by the soldiers, in her time. The soldiers were singing as they laugh. 

"We are the soldiers

We fighting for our Nation.

Protecting the people

And the country..." They all sang in unison.

The car enters the greenery forest and stops in one of the secluded places after that they had hidden it on one of the bushes and trees, covering it with a lot of leaves.

She then made her soldiers move forward and divided them all by two. Scanning the whole place.

The round objects on her ears, which are made of both metal and rubber, suddenly speak. "Commander! we found something!"

She then walks toward the person who had called them. 

They were surrounding a small cave-like that been covered by leaves. 

She then made them used their gun to check what is inside, raising their vigilance, as they getting ready to shoot anything that might come out from it.

They were surprised at what they saw, giving her a cold heart. It is a little kid that was covered with dirt and some blood. She can't help but clenches her fist. Then she takes off her jacket covering the small shivering child. Then gave it to one of her men.

Her brow meets, "Looks like this is not an ordinary mission." she then tried to contacts the head, but no one answers it. her heart gone icy, as she stands up. "Men raised your vigilance,"

They look at each other than lift their gun, Ready to shoot at any given moment.

*BOOM*

A sudden attack of light goes in their direction, making them lose balance, as some of the unlucky people burned. Then another one. 

"SCATTER!" She orders as she runs in the opposite direction, she saw that the light was a thunder-bolt.

She looks above, but the sky is clear, She clenches her teeth, and a feeling of confusion spurt in her heart. "This..."

She once again tries to send SOS. "ANSWER US! SOS! I REPEAT SOS!" but no one answers.

They were abandoned by the country they were protecting.

Her eyes starting to warm up, as she looks behind the tree. Lightning, fire, and Nails, burned and pierce the body of her people. Seeing them almost dead. Her mouth clatters and then shout with all her voice.

"MEN! RETREAT! RETREAT!" but it is too late, many already died in their group. The liquid in her eyes, kisses her cheeks, as they race. "RETREAT!! RETREAT!!"

She says as she was also about to leave her hiding place, but stops by a rough texture encircling her wrist. She looks at her wrist and saw a wrinkled black branch tried to hug her wrist. Then it enters forcefully inside her skin, as the earth shearing pain and burning sensation flow from it. 

"AAAHHH!!" she tries to remove it, but it is for naught, having no choice but to immediately cutting her whole left arm. 

She used a special kind of swiss knife to make a clean clear cut, as the blood then spurt. With a gritted teeth, she covers it as she tried to leave the tree that was just attacking her just now. 

When she was about to leave, a rotten smell permeated her nose making her look at who was it. It was a person with disfigure face, looking at her, making her slip,

The branches grab her once more. As the feeling of helplessness starting to fall in her heart. This was supposed to be a normal mission, but she is cutting the branches that are currently trying to grab her with the blade she is holding, but they keep on regenerating. Then from below, the roots suddenly grabbed her body, lifting her up on the ground. Her feet were apart, and her right hand is in the air.

She can't help but feel her breathe raggedly, as it started to feel her body weakens. she views the branches who were like an excited-beast, wanting to eat her as soon as possible.

Is this the end?

She closes her eyes, waiting for it to pierce her body once more.

"STOP!"

The voice... It sounds familiar. 

She opens her eyes and saw the branch stops in front of her, then lay low and faces the man, and bow.

When she looks up, she saw a man a blurry image of a man, wearing a white coat.

Her heartfelt it stops as she looks at him in disbelief. "No way... You are---"

Asharika wakes up with her body full of sweat, and then she holds her left arm that was supposed to be cut off, but it is still there. She sighs in relief, “It is still on. But… what with that dream?” The feeling of her arm being cut off is surreal, that made her think it is her who experience such.

Her brows furrow and feel irritated, because of the feeling of her body. “Arg. My body feels so sticky” Asharika says pouting, rubbing her body but only to feel annoyed. So she stands up and goes toward the bathroom to take a shower.

The cold water caresses her skin, giving shivers.  She glares toward the shower head like it is an enemy. “Why are you so cold?” then she smacks it only to feel the pain in her palm. “You are so bad. Bad.” She accused. She changes the temperature to hot and warm water, and then it quenching the coldness.

Her head raises up, allowing the water to kiss her face along with tears in her eyes, she still remembers what happened yesterday. She still can’t accept it. “Why?” She asks, but who will answer her question. Her thought suddenly stops when the light gone, making the place dark. Then the water also stops.

Her heart beats fast, as the light was on again, then the cold air flow around her, making her shiver. The pin lights also keep on flickering and then in front of her a white face woman, without eyes pops out, showing jig jag teeth, and some saliva flowing.