"h..hello, is anyone there..." stopping myself with an annoyed groan i chastise myself for being foolish, when in a strange place and unsure of if you were in danger or not it was was rarely wise to broadcast where you were.<br/><br/>Closing my eyes and steadying my breathing i wait for the sound to come again as i strain my ears to pick up anything that might be moving nearby, but try as i might, all i can hear is my soft breath and the beating of my heart.<br/><br/>Not wanting to stay in one place for two long to wait for my eyesight to adjust to the darkness i inch my right foot forwards and mentally wincing i pause as it scrapes across the floor.<br/><br/>Gradually i start to make out the barest shape of my own hands as i move them in front of me to feel around as i take a few tentative steps before with a sudden jolt i pull my hands back as my knuckle impact on a solid surface.<br/><br/>Cursing lightly i lift my knuckles to my mouth and suck on them as the sharp coppery taste of blood flows lightly over my pallet.<br/><br/>They seemed to be only lightly grazed but that wasn't what worried me, how could i feel pain, i didn't have a real body and yet the slowly diminishing throbbing from my hands made it clear that i could.<br/><br/>My visions a little improved i lay my hands flat against the cold stone before feeling upwards over its surface, in places the rock of this wall was smooth as if it had been shaped by running water but in others it was rough as if parts had crumbled.<br/><br/>I found a soft curve to the rock wall as i explored upwards with my hands as the stone formed a very low ceiling, barely below the full reach that i could stretch my arms out above me i saw that if connected into a swallow tunnel around me as my eye adjusted  to take in more detail of my surroundings.<br/><br/>When confident that my eyesight was good enough to let me be able to see any depressions or holes in the floor before i tumbled into them i strike out into the tunnel following the gradual upwards incline of the floor.<br/><br/>I plodding on for what i reckoned to be about twenty minutes before i noticed that the tunnel ahead was becoming a little lighter, the tunnel had been getting steeper for the last five minute and i had started to break out into a light sweat before i finally let out a little sigh as the tunnel mouth opened up in front of me.<br/><br/>Expecting to see blue sky i stand transfixed before emerging into a cavern, all around rose thick columns where stalagmites and stalactites had joined together.<br/><br/>The cave looked to be about thirty to forty feet high and roughly oval in shape, little clumps of cave pearls where water had dripped and carried minerals with it glittered wetly as water seemed from little rivulets in the walls to form a  swallow pool at the center of the cave.<br/><br/>The light that had gotten my hopes up came down from an opening in the ceiling, walking beneath it i gaze up to see blue sky visible through a smooth shaft that rose to the surface, the almost strait shape of which caused the light to be centered into the middle of the cave so that the edges were in perpetual darkness, and yet i thought that i could make out the deeper darkness that hinted at other tunnel mouths in the far walls.<br/><br/>I didn't know if this place was real or not but I couldn't help feeling a little in awe that such a place excised.<br/><br/>Shaking my head i pull my shirt up to cover my eyes to keep them form adjusting to the new light so that i can see into the dark at the edges but once again feel my blood turn cold as the sound of metal echoes around me.<br/><br/>I lookign about sharply too hear what direction its coming from i stop as another sound punctuated the darkness, soft rustling and scraping comes from a small alcove off to my left. not twelve feet from where i had entered this cavern, i was sure that i had walked right past whatever had made those sounds when i first came in.<br/><br/>Readying myself to turn tail and run i step purposely towards the dark little alcove all the while straining my eyes to see into the dark.<br/><br/>Clenching my fist i stop as my eyes fall upon the outline of a clawed foot against the wall, shakily i take another step forwards as my eyes follow the foot upwards to the pale material that made up a frayed and dirty pair of jeans that covered strong strong looking but furred legs.<br/><br/>I already knew what this was but it took my mind a moment to process the impossibility of what i was seeing.<br/><br/>Moving closer and crouching down i try to take  glimpse of the face that i had known for years as his chin rested upon his chest.<br/><br/>"t..thats not possible......" i mumble softly "how can you be here"<br/><br/>Reaching forwards to lay my hand against the mattered gray and brown fur of his chest i pull back and stare at his arms in shock as that same clinking metal sound comes from them where thick shackles and chains bind his arms to the wall.<br/><br/>At the soft gasp of shock from me he raises his head to my face and my eyes meet his, what i saw scared me powerfully, i could see no sign of recognition in them no scene of the person i once knew, nothing that showed he even cared about what was happening.<br/><br/>He met my eyes for barely a second before looking back down and a deep growl issued form his mouth, it took a couple moment to realize that he was speaking, his voice was so low and guttural as if it had not been used for a long time that i had trouble understanding but i heard enough.<br/><br/>......."...gone, be gone, just another figment come to torture me" a deep breath  "another memory to remind me what ive lost..what i did to myself"<br/><br/>Plunging forwards i grab his shoulder and shake him before shouting "Vega....Vega...look at me, what goign on here.......Will"<br/><br/>I stop as he speaks again " trying to rekindle some hope in me by using my old name, i thought that i could hide in my dreams but even in here it wont leave me alone"<br/><br/>Placing a hand on his cheek i turn his face back to meet mine "look at me....look,please....im not a dream, im real..im here for you, i don't know how but im here"<br/><br/>Looking deep into his face i see his featured soften and some light come back to his eyes but moments later any sign that he knew me vanished to be replaced by a look of loathing.<br/><br/>"So cruel so very cruel, get away form me, get out of this prison"<br/><br/>"Vega" i yell<br/><br/>"BE GONE!!" he roars as he wraps his clawed paws around my shoulders, a look of rage on his face as he opens his jaws wide and tears his teeth downwards into my neck and shoulder, The world slows as i feel my flesh part before his teeth before he rips upwards in fury.<br/><br/>I scream in terror and agony as the world around me ripples and the cave and Vega's shackled body shatters and falls away to be replaced by a swirling maelstrom, sickening red light crashes around me as i cry out in pain for help while thick streamers of white light not blood flows unchecked from the wound in my shoulder<br/><br/><br/><br/>(there it is my monster post, i hope tis entertaining and the grammar and spelling isnt awful, this was written in passion)