(The New) Power of the 8 Elements: Part One

Chapter Thirty Nine: Pain

"Sometimes I wish life was written in pencil so we could go erase it and write it all over again." - Thisuri Wanniarachchi
PRESENT DAY
THRAX

As soon as I hit the ground, I feel something break. Of course I have to land right where the quickly healing bullet wound hurt most. I groan in pain. Every...single...part of me hurts. Especially on my left shoulder. I don't want to stand up. I reach into my pocket with my sore right arm and grab my phone. Its screen cracked really badly. I know it's broken. I sigh, but that hurts, too. I close my eyes and let tears slide down my face.

Once again, I've failed. It's at this moment that I realized that...why would I be a criminal if I couldn't do that? I should probably just quit working with the Evil Angel, but...the money. I need the money to go home. I need the money to get a new phone. I need money to get new clothes, new gauze, and so much more.

I sit up slowly. The back of my arms and my head stung. I dust my coat off and took the slowest steps imaginable, making yet another walk of shame. I gripped my side tightly, hoping that I didn't open the wound again and start bleeding once more. My arm and my side hurt equally. Every now and then the pain, however, would trade between the two causing one to hurt more than the other resulting in a game of tug-of-war between the most painful.

It hurts to cry. It hurts to walk. It hurts to move at all. It hurts to touch any part of myself. It hurts to breathe. It hurts to move my eyes. It hurts to look at the damage I've just caused. My arms are bleeding. The cuts I've made start bleeding again. I reach into my pocket and pull out my pocket mirror. Of course that's broken, too. I look at my reflection in a fountain, and I see that I have cuts all over my face. There is a large bruise on my neck. There's a cut on my cheek that is still bleeding. I inhale, but I feel a sharp pain in my chest, and I bring my hang to my boob fluff, gripping the fur. I feel something metallic, and I pull out that portal opening thing. I finally remember that I still have that.

This time it was glowing with a bright red. A portal opens beneath my feet, and I fall into a woodland setting. I grip my side which still stings and turns into agonizing throbs when I walk too fast. I look around and see that in front of there is a street with a tunnel on one side. A car drives into the tunnel. I see Terry, but no one else which means it's just her and me stuck in this other dimension. I groan. But that's when I see a giant worm-looking monster with huge eyes and even bigger, jagged teeth. I want to walk away, but a part of me feels like I shouldn't just let her die. I mutter to myself angrily before running down the hill as soon as the worm runs after her. As soon as I threw her out of the way, we were both thrown into another dimension.