Shatter

As you regain the slightest bit of consciousness, your senses are assailed by a putrid stench in the air. You try to move your body, but your arms and legs are too heavy. A deep biting cold creeps through to your heart and begins to spread quickly, and you become aware that you are in a pool filled with some sort of warm fluid. It rises slowly, but surely, and you realize that within moments, you would be submerged in it if you do not wrest your body out of the pool somehow. Gathering all your will, you try again to lift your cold and heavy body but it refuses. As the cold slowly overpowers you and drives your consciousness back into oblivion, you come to the realization that you are drowning in a pool of your own blood.

Originally titled "Shatter, Sky Princess", this piece was written on the 7th of April, 2007 while I was first year Junior College Student.