Chapter 252 - An Awakening with Roses

Name:Mana: Before The Rise Author:Asalin
It was hard to breath, A girl shifts, her body felt stiff and uncomfortable. She was awaking up, the moment she opened her eyes, it was dark. She couldn't see any light at all making her scared, she panicked as her hands hit a hard surface above her.

Suddenly a soft warm hand from behind gave her a gentle push.

Bang!

A woman with dirty blonde hair and button brown eyes, was shown with the light of dawn softly glistening on her face. She was pale at first, but her face traveled to below her. She understood she was in a coffin as if she was dead, but what was it she felt just a moment before.

She didn't know.

She stepped out of the Coffin decorated by Rose engravings, she looked around at what looks to be an old building that also contained Rose engravings. The way they where formed up made it seem like the represented some type of emblem.

There was painted windows but all where broken so the image that used to be painted their can't be pieced together. The place wasn't full concrete, and it was partial grass. The only damage to the building seemed to have been just the painted windows.

The girl, or women looked down at her feet, she wasn't wearing shoes and she had a strange anklet she couldn't take off. She frowned but thought nothing of it until she steps onto the grass. She paused as the grass suddenly grew red Flowers, they looked like Roses but had a strangely different air to them. She felt dizzy and realized she couldn't really remember anything, flashes and images went by but she couldn't grasp them.

She staggered slightly while ignoring the flowers that kept growing where she stepped. She walked out of what looks like the back entrance of the building she froze at the large black whole of where land should be. She wanted to stop herself from falling but she was to late. She closed her eyes instinctive before falling on what felt like hard sand.

She looked up in shock, the large hole was gone and sand covered the place for miles. She seemed to be in the middle of a desert. Curiosity and confusion, she was in a coffin, that was in a church, that is also in the middle of a desert.

She looked down again and saw grass grew from below her, and the red flowers popping out again. She isn't sure what to make of it. Standing up she walked forward, and looked down. She was just now noticing what she was wearing.

A white dress, fitted with gold lining, It was extremely soft. But, looked elegant and even fit for a Queen. It never got in her way but it was extremely long.

'To long' She thought simply, only to pause in shock once more when she saw the white dress shorten and seemingly change. It was shorter and the dress looked more conservative now. It had a open V-neck but now its closed and looks like a seemingly long dress just a little below her knee. It also had short sleeves.

She kept her hands close together, when she saw a spark from out from them.

'This is normal, right' she thought nervously over and over again as she walked forward. Only to have grass and flowers spring out wherever she stepped. She tried to play it off as 'its's not weird. No, it's not weird at all'

Finally she stopped walking she was only about a few feet away. She realized she has no idea, who she is?, where she is?, and what's going on?. She sighed she wanted to sit down. Just as she was about to move she bumped into stone bench.

She looked at it in shock and then saw some strange words on it. Written in a language she didn't know, but the closer she looked the more she realized she could read what was written.

"Bring Back what once was mine, that was stolen from the hands of Time" she whispered. And the something happened, grass started to grow, it was like, the architecture was returning or something. Because as stone path grew out of nowhere and lead straight back to the church. 'Okay…" The girl sat down on the bench. She sat they're for awhile her eyes on the sky and the sun that is going down.

Still far off into the distance was endless desert. Despite her being surround by grass and red flowers. She thinks she heard something in the distance, but it wasn't clear enough and besides she was already entrance by the sun for some reason. She closed her eyes and tired to some up something, tried to remember something.

And nothing, just as she was about to give up.

"Gaze" She heard a ghostly whisper said making her turn around abruptly. She saw a young girl who looked around 12 years old. The girl's face was pale and laced with shock.

"You….." The girl struggled and had tears in her eyes. "Who are you?!" she yelled at her.

"I don't know, Sorry, I woke up in the Coffin over inside. I don't know much else." She struggled to say and wasn't sure either. She tried to be calm toward the little girl who was clearly shaken about something. Of what she didn't maybe she was this girl's relative or something. That is when she froze, she just told the little girl that she didn't remember anything.

"You woke up in the Coffin?" The little girl rushed over her steps containing furry. "You don't remember anything. Bulllshit!"

The blonde-haired women locked up to the furry induced little girl.

"I….I.."

"Don't Li-" The little girl touched her arms and fell on her knees, face was pale and sweet poured. The women was so shocked at the girl's sudden change that she wanted to cry, her tears glistened. "You really, are the legendary Red Queen. The one from the stories." The little girl started to cry.