CHAPTER 5 New World Part 1

Araia's POV

"Excuse me miss?"

I can hear someone speaking…

"Miss?"

There it is again…

I tried to open my eyes but my vision was blurry…

"She's awake!" Everything became louder…

What's happening?

Few seconds later, my vision became clear.

I saw a girl looking at me, on her left was an old man with a long white beard.

"She's finally awake!" The girl shouted.

"Let me help you." The old man said as he helped me to sit.

The old man helps me slowly, I can feel my whole body aching.

"Ouch…" My left hand feels like burning.

"Careful." The girl said.

When I was finally sitted, I looked around me. Last time I remembered, I fell from Angel and accidentally fell off a cliff.

Are they the ones who saved me? But where am I?

"Who are you?" I asked them.

I looked at the old man, he had white hair and a long white beard, he looked like he's in eighties. While the girl looks young, she looks a year younger than me. She has a cute ponytail and her hair has a pink highlight.

They're wearing something on their head like a head accessory. I can't figure out if it's a turban or what, it looks like what the people are using in old movies.

They looked confused all of a sudden. What's wrong?

The girl looked at me, she looked like someone who doesn't get anything.

"No miss, who are you?" She asks.

"Me? I'm Araia. How about you?" I casually asked her. Is she the one who saved me?

"Well, I'm Freya…"

"Oh, thank you for saving me Freya."

She opened her mouth.

"Save?"

I looked at her.

"Yes? You saved me from the cliff right?" I stated.

She looked at the old man beside her.

"You should get up first."

The old man and Freya helped me to get up and told me that I can go to their house so that we can talk much clearer. I accepted their offer because I feel like my body still needs to rest.

While we're walking, I noticed some things that I've never seen before.

The houses here are concrete and bungalow type, there are plants everywhere and each house has a fence that has a sharp branch of tree that can surely pierce a whole into your body when you accidentally fell on it.

That's kind of creepy… Is what I thought.

A few steps and we finally get to their house. As expected, it's a bungalow type of house. Its color is brown but what's different is it has a cute decoration outside. I bet it's made by Freya.

We were welcomed by their family, there I met Shoyo, father of Freya, Mui, her mother and her two younger siblings named Vin and Xin. They're twins.

They ushered me into their small receiving area and served me an orange juice.

"So, miss Araia. May we know what you mean by we ‘saved' you?" The old man asked.

"Uhm… I just want to thank you for saving me from the cliff…" I was getting nervous, why are they asking me that?

"But Miss Araiai, we didn't know where this cliff you're talking about." Freya said.

W-What…

Does that mean… They're not the one who saved me?

"We just saw you there near the well lying and unconscious." She continued.

"But I fell from a cliff!" I exclaimed.

What is happening?

The two looked at each other.

"Miss, there's no cliff around this place."

I was dumbfounded.

How come there's no cliff around where they saw me? I'm not dreaming, I'm sure I fell off a cliff!

"I'm not lying… I'm sure I fell and-" I suddenly remembered the bruise I got when I fell.

"Here! Look! These are my bruises from-" I showed them my arm but to my shock, there's no wound in it.

"-when I fell…"

Where are they!?

"I can't see any bruises in you, miss Araia." The old man said.

"I-I…" fear consumed me.

Am I dreaming?

Where are the bruises that I got? Is there any chance that they healed while I'm still unconscious?

Maybe there's someone who healed me, but why did Freya and an old man find me lying on the ground if someone helped me heal my bruises?

I don't get it!

I looked all over my body that my eyes could reach. There's no signs that I got bruises!

"Where did they go?!" I panicked.

I even looked at my feet, there's nothing there!

My hands are now okay but I'm sure I used it to avoid falling from Angel!

Oh wait. Come to think of it, maybe they know Sky?

"Old man, may I ask you, do you know Sky Fuentabello?"

The old man shook his head.

"I don't know that name, young lady."

Maybe I need to describe him!

"He looks handsome, old man. His family is the owner of the Hacienda Fuentabello near the city here in your province!"

The old man seemed to be thinking.