Where Are You?

Would you reset your entire life it meant you'd never see me again? If it meant that so many drops didn't fall from your held high head?

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I awoke to the sound a birds chirping outside the window. There was a stinging pain in my head, yet somehow I felt light, happy. I felt like I was missing something, and that something made me feel lighter. I sat up, lighting putting my hand against my pounding head. I swung my feet from under the blanket at they were swinging off from the bed now. A piece of paper standing up on the desk beside me was what caught my attention. I took the paper and started reading over what it said. It was instructions on how this universe works. Before I was done reading I heard an electric sound, looking up I was met face to face with a woman who was dressed in a white robe, her brown hair done up in two ponytails resting against her chest, she wore a light smile. "Eden Ironclad, correct?" she asked, her smile never leaving her features. I nodded slowly, confused.

"Who are you?" I asked, my voice coming out raspy.

"I'm the Professor Daemon's assistant, I'm here to find out what you have decided you would like to be," she answered cheerfully.

"A musician," I answered without thinking, wincing in pain and grabbed my head again.

"Oh! You're still in pain?" she looked sincerely worried. Her footsteps echoed through the room, making me realize the floor wasn't carpet but hard floor. Her steps echoed closer as I lifted my head she was holding a cup of water and a fancy looking pill. I stared at the pill, not realizing how rude it was. I blinked, and my cheeks heated up for a moment as I took the cup and the pill. "It's medication for those who suffer from headaches when first waking up," she explained, in response I nodded and popped the pill in my mouth, chugging down the water. "You must've had a hard life for you to still be suffering," she was frowning. She raised her hand and pat my head, on reflex I didn't know I had I slapped her arm away, feeling fear and sudden discomfort. She instantly stood up and bowed, not raising up. "I'm sorry! I stepped over my boundaries!" she apologized quickly.

"Oh..no.. it's okay.." I mumbled more to myself then rather to her. She slowly stood up straight once again, still concern in her eyes.

"Oh yes, I was suppose to tell you, the only rule for you here is that you cannot ever lie, you get 3 chances, every single time you break the promise you made before you awoke here then you shall get fragments from your memory back, and as it doesn't happen often I cannot say rather its pleasant ones or unpleasant ones," she explained, she sounded robotic. "Actually it's ironic, all the newbies here today are also starting as musicians, I'm sure you'll get along!" she exclaimed excitingly.

"Ah..yes.. Thank you," I smiled at her forcefully, due to the still existing pain in my head it was hard to be extremely positive. I found her staring at me when I glanced up from the cup of water. I gave her a curious look, but she simply stayed quiet, anxiety stirred in my gut. Suddenly as if she was being controlled her smile came back.

"Ah.. It's also ironic.. how one of the newbies other then you woke up with a pounding headache as well, I wonder what you both poor souls went through...poor you.. but now you're here! In a world of perfection and happiness!!" she threw her hands up in the air, yelling in excitement. I felt intense discomfort, it all felt wrong, fake.. "Also, you probably forgot, but your eyes change color according to your mood, we tried to find in our program what each color corresponds but there was too many different ones.. so we couldn't figure out which one was for you," she explained sympathetically.

"I'm sure I'll figure it out, thank you," I reassured her. She smiled again, obviously feeling better instantly about her flaw.

"Would you like to get going? Your headache will soothe soon! Just you need to get your mind off things and be happy, it'll work trust me!" she was shaking from excitement, I nodded with a gentle smile. She took my hand, I briefly set the cup back on the table before I was dragged away by the overly overjoyed assistant who was helping me. As we left the pale white room I was in we were greeted with a greenery scenery, overflowing green trees, plentiful flower fields, birds happily chirping sweet sing songs. My mouth fell open from surprise upon how beautiful everything was.

Soon we came to a stop, the assistant had been panting softly, she glanced back at me and smiled widely. "Here we are!" she pointed towards the building labeled "music".

"Thank you," I nodded my head at her as well in gratefulness. She then waved and bounced off, flying off in to many different shards of glass. I shook my head and exhaled a long breath before starting towards the main door. I opened the door and my eyes widened upon how enormous the building was on the inside. I started walking, barely lifting my feet off the ground, gazing up and around glancing at all the people who were walking around, the place was metallic color,it had many different musical diagrams of musical instruments, record players, headphones.. It was probably over 5 floors and it got higher the more I focused on how big it was. I was brought back to my senses when I suddenly ran in to something. I blinked and rubbed my head before glancing up just a bit only to meet with a pair of green eyes that stared in to mine. They must've changed color because his face brightened.

"Woah! Your eyes change color, that's so cool!! It's so pretty," he complimented, his green eyes sparkling. I was taken aback by the sudden attack of compliments and fell speechless. He smirked, devilishly. "My name is Kai Wardon, I'm a newbie, are you as well?" he asked cheerfully. He looked familiar. He gave me a questioning and I came to that I hadn't uttered a single word, I felt my cheeks heat up and I averted my eyes away.

"O-oh.. My names Eden Ironclad," I smiled nervously. "It's nice to meet you," I added, meeting his eyes now.

"Your eyes are sure changing a bunch of different colors, I wonder what they mean," he giggled, and he reached and pat my head. We both froze, he blinked at me and his smile dropped for a moment. He removed his hand and we both glanced away. Who was he? I stepped away, as I realized how close we were, since I ran in to him. We both then were distracted by another boy wandering around aimlessly, gazing around just how I did and he came towards our direction. I put my hands out before me before he had run in to me and he jolted away in surprise.

"Huh?" he asked rudely. I furrowed my eyebrows.

"Excuse me?" I asked, was this instead of an apology. He rolled his eyes and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Sorry," he apologized insincerely. I lifted my hand to attack him and he grabbed it, as if he expected the impact. He furrowed his eyebrows and stared at me, he leaned closer and I moved my face away.

"Hey--"

"Who are you?" he asked, still shoving his face in to my personal space. I clicked my tongue and rolled my eyes and pushed him off as if I've done it before.

"Eden Ironclad, and who might you be?" I asked him, in a sassy manner. My eyes sending him a somewhat glare.

"Nixon Ronin, and don't give me that sass you--" he started.

"Hey now, quit fighting.. it's hella weird since you just met," Kai's voice perked up, distracting the two of us. Nixon's face softened and he grabbed on to his head. Kai's mouth opened slightly. "Have.. I met you before..?" Kai's voice came out suddenly. Nixon's eyes wavered, as if he was trying to remember something. Nixon broke away their tense eye contact, and coughed. "Oh. I'm Kai Wardon," he cleared his throat and spoke. Nixon nodded his head, going silent. Once again we were distracted by a blonde girl stumbling in to the building, with wide eyes. Before she could even glance around she locked eyes with me. Intense pain inflicted in my head again, and I felt my breathing become heavy as she looked genuinely shocked. She started towards me and grabbed my shoulder, I blinked multiple times at her.

"Eden! Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?" she stammered worriedly. I shoved her off and stepped away. She stared at me perplexed, then noticed the other two boys stares.

"You two... Kai? Why are you --" she started before she was cut off.

"Who are you?" I asked her, staring at her frightened. She let out an exasperated sigh, rolling her eyes.

"It's me, Ember," she answered, worry in her eyes. "Don't you remember me?" she glanced over between Nixon and Kai, in which both shook their head. She heaved out a defeated sigh. "Why do I remember, but you don't? What happened?" she asked, trying to come near me again.

"Don't touch me," I scowled out, I felt my heart racing, I wasn't sure why it was. I was anxious, I was scared, something I didn't feel for a long time...long time? We heard footsteps and we all turned towards the sound. It was a women with a music note dress, it was black with yellow music rhythms.

"Ah, it seems we had a little bug, I must call out master to let him know," she smiled sweetly. I averted my gaze away from her, and glanced down, then towards Ember. "I'm sorry we failed to--" she started and then paused, glancing between the three of us. Her smile dropped for a second, and then returned again. "Get her," she ordered, as soon as she did, two holes formed in the ground beside Ember and two seemingly guards came out, wearing a blue uniform. They grabbed her and disappeared in moments. We all turned towards the women before us and she waved her hand before us.

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"Let me start again, my name is Musica, yes it is Spanish, I'm the main here, I'll be helping you get started in your comfort zones, and again you can be whatever you wish, alright?" she explained with a robotic like smile. We nodded in response.

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Ember was brought back to Professor Daemon's room, except this time the room was crystal clear, that had a view of beautiful scenery. It was filled with different weapons that hung on the walls, the room was colored in black, the floor was hard with red spots everywhere, except it didn't look like paint... The two guards were gone as fast as they appeared. Ember glanced around, pulling her hands up to her arms. She hugged herself and shivered. It smelled of blood, sweat and the air was intense and hard. The air was dreaded as if.. the world held another secret part to it.

"Hello Ember, it was delivered to me that you seemed to be caught up in a bug that happened during the discarding of your memories," a chair that was a few feet away from her spun around to reveal the same old man from before. He was dressed in the same white robe along with the same smile. He got up and walked over to her, tilting her chin up towards him. "You poor child," he whispered. His voice sent shivers down her spine.

What was this place really?