Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ Love is Worth a Gunshot ❯ Being Lost in a Desert Isn’t Easy and neither is Finding Unexpected Surprises ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter Two: Being Lost in a Desert Isn't Easy and neither is Finding Unexpected Surprises

 

Tea was unable to do anything in the dark abyss that seem to hold her against her will and for what was an eternity in this endless existence to figure how much time has passed.

It almost seem like forever and felt like she was falling, down whatever it was pulling her through.

 

Confused and uncertain whether she was alive or not it didn't really matter, what was going on and hopefully wouldn't have to endure any more pain when it was over?

 

She knew it was bound to happen sooner or later and she was only following the course of what would be done. No more tears to shed, no more emptiness, she could at last have it over…

 

Just let it go, let yourself go and let it take you…that what she thought that bright tunnel was doing, calling to her, taking her away from her misery and suffering and letting her be free.

 

Freed. Freed from this world and be with everyone else that she long to see once again.

 

Wherever I wake, I hope it's better than this world I was in. I wish to be in a better place…just take me away…

 

She closed her eyes as she was being pulled in then the darkness came and fell into a peaceful slumber, feeling at ease as she felt her spirit lifted from that world only to find herself that that was the least of her problems as new ones would come when she woke up.

 

 

She lay for what seemed ages on top of a soft grainy surface, underneath the bright light, so bright it seem to scorch her very skin. But not as bright as before when it took her.

 

Strange, was she already dead and in Heaven or was it Limbo, awaiting judgment? Still having the ability to think, she couldn't feel anything at all with the exception of this heat pouring over her.

 

Her body however tired and not capable of moving yet but her eyes were thankfully as they wished to be opened as of now.

 

She groaned as her skin felt like she was on fire, god, she was sweating bullets.

 

Wow is it's so hot here, it's never this hot if I dead and unless I'm in....oh Shit!!!

 

Her eyes open, blinking several times to get sleep out of them and trying not to be blinded when the first thing she saw was the sun or were there two suns above her and closed them again and lifting one hand over them to stare.

 

Damn! That's bright! She turned her head around when she felt that now she could move but not at full strength to be doing anything at the moment beside lie on her back with her face towards the sky.

 

At least I know that I'm not in Hell or dead. She didn't know which she should be most thankful for, not being in Hell or that she was still alive for now?

 

But the heat from the burning sun stopped her from thinking further as she realized that she was out here for who knew how long, being overly cooked and her skin probably red from it.

 

I got to move away, got to find a way from here, before I end up being burnt to a crisp!

 

Tea was going to turn her body over so that she would try and push herself up from the ground with her arms and knees and lift up.

 

Okay here goes, on three, one…two…three!

 

She rolled, her back to the sun and what she had least expect was getting a mouthful of sand when she pressed down on the ground.

 

“Phat!” She yelled, standing up abruptly and spitting the grainy substance that touched her tongue, spatting saliva and sand on the ground and wiping with the back of her hand to rid it.

“Yeck! Sand, of all things to taste it had to be sand, what in Hell's name would—wait a minute?”

 

Sand, why would there be sand…last time I checked there were any beaches near the highway and the beaches are south from where I was going.

 

She turned all around to look behind her and forth and saw an endless valley of sand in all directions, surrounding her all the same and leading to the conclusion she was in a desert.

 

An enormous desert with no how she got here in the first place. What the?! A desert in Domino? No way! This has got to be a dream or I'm going paranoid for no reason other than I'm losing my mind.

 

She stood there unable to do anything, her legs wobbly and her knees giving in and falling back to the ground, unable to stop the spinning sensation she was feeling staring at the endless valley of sand.

She felt nausea and dizzy all as if she had gone on the fastest roller coaster ride, going through many loops and turns and her stomach becoming a pretzel as the whole place started to spin around but stayed the same in her line of vision. Inside she was starting to panic.

 

Oh man, I'm in a desert, a freaking desert for crying out loud! Tea looked to see if there was any signs or direction of which could be pointed out to the nearest town but there was nothing else she saw than what was before her.

 

Nothing but sand and cliffs, an endless vast of desert itself for miles and miles away.

 

Okay…I may not want to say this but I think I'm not in Domino anymore.

 

“No freaking Duh!!!!!!!!!!” She yelled while wanting to scream her head off and tear her hair out to relent her frustrate over what she was thinking and trying to piece together the missing bits that had her end up here leading to this place.

 

She groaned, putting her fists to her face and looking through the cracks between her fingers, wishing to see like some sign saying how far the next town or whatever in this world had that would be most helpful.

 

The simplest thing she could do was start walking and find some town or whatever out here for help or clues to where she was, get some answers and maybe a way home.

 

But there still lied one question. Which direction to take, the one on her left or on her right?

 

Well if I head either way, I could possible find a town with information to where I am or end up as vulture food. She didn't like the latter and knew a similar to a story she once read in her literature class. The lady or the tiger, one would lead to salvation, the other certain death, oh the choices to choose from. What had she got to lose?

 

Better get going, she thought and as she was heading into the way she picked would seem most optional to go straight and noticed lying beside her feet, her former bags and backpack missing and in their place a tan deerskin knapsack and sack.

 

Huh? She picked them up and looked inside and founded that all her clothes were in it along with her other things.

 

Ok I don't know which is even more stranger, me ending up in a weird desert or my stuff pack inside these sacks. What's next?

 

She sighed as she picked up both, tossing the knapsack over one shoulder and carrying the other in her hand and began her long stride, knowing not where she was going but hopefully finding a place to be.

 

Anywhere is fine as long as I get some answers…maybe.

 

 

Stupid desert, stupid godforsaken wasteland! This was all she could think about as she had walked for many hours, feeling the hot sand under her feet, her body sweating under the terrible heat and feeling her face redden and hoping not to get heatstroke soon and keel over here and wait for the buzzers to pick at her bones.

 

God it's so hot out and windy, she thought as the wind pick up and blew another mount of sand in her face and play with strands of her hair, pulling it back behind her ear to keep from getting in her way.

 

Lucky for her, she decided to don on one of the old scarves that she had and her sunglasses and used them to shield her mouth and eyes from being blind and inhaling sand.

 

Last thing I need is another taste of that again. Belch! Her mouth now felt like it was the desert itself.

 

God I could really go for some water right now! A nice icy cold beverage with lots and lots of ice… She mutter a string of curses for not having any with her and hoping that if she did reach a town, she go to the nearest bar and order the largest, coldest, water on the rocks. Hell, she'd probably drink from a trough if she wanted to for all she cared.

 

“Whatever just don't think about it, you gotta keep walking. You'll eventually cause yourself to go to even more thirsty and start hallucinating if you're not careful.” She said to herself, trying to keep the thought at bay when the least she need was to be imagining and do crazy thing like those people that see a mirage they think is real but is nothing but an illusion.

 

Like seeing things that aren't there, like an oasis with the gang sitting there like at the beach or seeing ice glaciers instead of cliffs, or that town right there I'm about to pass is just a town and—

 

She stopped when the last part registered inside her head, she stood and turned to look to what she was seeing but couldn't believe, even while pinching her sunburned arm to make sure she wasn't dreaming and rubbing her eye furiously if there had been sand caught behind her glasses.

 

There just a couple paces from where she was standing was a town. A town.

 

A town! She smiled widely for the first time then jumped in the air with her backpack clinging to her and shouted for joy for finally finding salvation at last.

 

“Yatta!!! A town, yes a town! A town with people.”

 

A town with Water!!!! All right finally, I thought I never find one out here!

 

With renew energy surging through her body, Tea ran as fast as her legs could, her heart racing with inspired speed determine to make it to the town before she gave in.

 

She could see the coming closer and closer into her view as she ran the last few towards it.

 

I'm going to make it! I'm going to make it. She felt like she was running in a marathon as she headed through and slowing to a jog as she reached the center, she saw a fountain, a fountain filled with water.

 

Dropping her things to the ground she headed towards the fountain.

 

Tea walked over towards it and dropping to her knees, she bend over and dipped her hands into the water, cupping the cool liquid and taking long sips, savoring it as it went down her throat.

 

Delicious…she thought and then dipped her hands in and splashing in her face, feeling the coolness drench her pore and leaving her refresh and vigor.

 

Well now that I had that fill, I might as well dive in! Taking off her shoes and jumping in, she enjoyed feeling the cool water that soaked her entire body, her clothes, her sore feet, lying in it, leaving herself soaked to the bone.

 

Oh thank you lord, I'm save, I'm in a town. I'm—

 

Something wasn't right. She senses that moment when she was in the fountain. Everything seem to have been fine when she got here yet something seems way off but what? Then it hit her hard as realization sunk in.

 

People, there weren't any people around…

 

Wait a minute, where are they?! People are suppose to be in towns like this, where are they?

 

She thought how strange it was that there had been no one out, no one heading to their jobs or walking around. No one in this place, almost as if it had been abandoned…. deserted.

 

Tea stood up, her ankles set in the water, soaking wet and cooled down. She grabbed her shoes, left her bags on a bench and went to look around, seeing to find some clue on the whereabouts or what happened to everybody.

 

She searched the entire area, checking in all the stores, the houses, the town square and every place that she could see from hereon end and found no sign of anyone.

 

Yep just as I suspect, there's nobody here. Like the whole place just got left behind or the people plainly disappeared.

 

Maybe a ghost town like the ones in the western regions that struck gold then left when the gold was all dried up and left for another? But something didn't add up, she was sure some pieces were missing but had no idea what the final clue could be.

This place was giving off a bad vibe she didn't find good and left her more chilled than anything else did in her entire life. Walking in the deserted town was enough to give Tea the hint to get the Hell out.

 

Okay…I think I better get going then.

 

Unfortunately she just got her and she was feeling a bit hungry. Her stomach growled and she grabbed it to quiet the sudden rumbling it made.

 

When was the last time she ate? She barely recall as she forget sometimes and didn't want to go out there starving. She'll just grab some food, AND water, some supplies because she don't know how far is it to the next town or what not and see if there was anything to need beside what she have is not actually survival kit for when in a desert.

 

Tea pushed her wet hair out of her face, and carrying both bags with her, she made her way to one of the bars and finding whatever food she could scrap up and changed. She hoped she would have better luck in the next town then here.

 

 

When Tea finish eating and changed into some dry and more comfortable clothing and packed all the essentials she needed for her journey was now rearing to go.

 

Wearing a pair of khaki shorts with a light blue sleeveless shirt with a small undershirt cut above her ribcage and navy trench coat that reach to her knees for the accommodation to keep the heat from getting to her and carrying enough canteens to probably last until the another town with a third bag holding food and supplies for the way, packing at least for a few days depending on her proportions.

 

Luckily her coat had a hood to keep her shaded from the sun as she made her way out of the `ghost town' and into the desert again.

 

This place seems endless that's for sure. Walking down ahead and it seem to be never stopping only to what I'll find next.

 

She wondered if this new world she was in was an entire desert. If that was the case, then she was going to seriously have to learn and adjust to the way of crossing a desert and how to survive while she was here.

 

Well I can't waste my time thinking? I gotta keep moving, can't stop here and question with this. Have to see where I am and when I reach the next town, I'm getting some answers, that for sure.

 

She kept walking in the direction the compass she found in one of the general stores that she `borrowed' pointed out, North being her best objective to head for, not stopping unless to rest under a pillar with a shadow and stay cool, sipping some water before getting up and going on. Soon the wind started to pick up and she could barely see anything with the exception of grains of sand hitting her eyes through the sunglasses.

 

“Shit!” She said as she tried to shield her face with both arms and see through small slits but no prevail, soon she was walking through a Hellstorm and leading her elsewhere than what she had been going, the compass becoming useless as she was leading blind in this terrible situation.

 

Double shit! She was unable to see the small dune that she had been walking on and falling clumsily down it, rolling with all her things to follow scatter around when she reach the bottom.

 

Ow, oh ohmp! She land hard on something and laid still until it was over as soon as the storm died down and was able to turn around over before something sharp poked her as she reached out to sit up.

 

“Oww! That smarts!” She cried pulling back her hand and saw where it had been pricked, blood seeping out slowly from the inside of her palm and dripping to the ground. Tea looked to one side and saw what she had landed on.

She was on top of something all right, something that seem to be rock hard and solid as in a fabric feel with the feeling of it being flesh and blood.

 

What that was after she came face to face with a skull on the side, a skull attached to an arm to a dead body. Tea stared for a minute before doing the one thing she could think of.

 

She screamed.

 

“Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”