Why am I starting a new story when I just started a new one a few hours ago? I'm not sure. I've been working on this for like a year now, and I kept forgetting about it. So only four chapters are finished, but I really like the idea.
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They had disappeared. Eddie, Joy, Jerome, Nina, Alfie and Patricia—none of them could be found. They hadn't been kidnapped. They hadn't been murdered. No one knew what happened. They had been walking around school as normal as usual, and then the next day, they were gone. They dropped off the face of the earth. They were gone. They weren't dead and they weren't missing. They just didn't exist.
Only four people knew what the truth was. Fabian, Mara, Amber and Mick, they knew what had happened.
"Keep up, guys." Jerome ground out, trekking after Nina.
They were trudging through the woods, no real destination in mind, they were just looking. Looking for something they'd read about. The mystery, the fifth mystery Sibuna had been a part of, had taken a turn. At one point, all of the secrets had been on campus, now they discovered that one of the biggest secrets Frobisher ever had was hidden deep within the woods behind campus. The woods that no one dared to explore. They weren't school property; the forest didn't belong to anyone. But the real reason that no one ever entered the thick trees that so dense you couldn't see more the a few feet in front of you—it was all darkness, even in broad daylight—was because people had disappeared amongst those trees. No one knew how they vanished, but everyone knew that the woods were off limits. But Sibuna never stopped investigating when something was off limits.
Behind Jerome and Nina, Eddie, Patricia, Joy and Alfie followed close behind. The others were back at the house, researching, while they were searching, looking everywhere as they pushed deeper and deeper into the darkness. They were looking for The Veil.
The Veil was believed to be a gloriously bright wall, painted like the rainbow, reaching all the way to the heavens, so the only way past it, was through it. It sounded beautiful. But what those six teens were headed for, they didn't know much about it. Fabian, Mara, Amber and Mick had discovered what they were near. Back at the house the four of them were left to investigate, and they now know why people disappeared in those woods.
The Veil, the Land of Nightmares, World of Misery, Hell—those were the names of the place they were risking their lives for. They didn't know why, they felt drawn to the misery and hate that awaited them. They didn't know it was there, but they did know that they wanted to be near it. The Veil must have had some kind of force that pulled you to it.
And then, Nina saw it. She shielded her green eyes with her hand as they adjusted to the new light. It was bright, beautiful, and perfect. The wall shimmered, all the colors of the rainbow floating across it. You could see through it; valleys and sunshine and happiness was behind that wall. The others appeared behind her, and without another thought, they stepped through it.
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"Do we still exist? I can't see my face. Or are we just not here? I can't see my face. Wake up, wake up! This is no hallucination; this is what we have become. This is now what dreams are made of."
-Rachel
