At this point in time I knew it was a dream, but it felt real. I was standing in the middle of a crowded foyer with guards standing in front of me. I hear shouts, but don't know the voices. I turn my head slightly and look behind me. Nine pairs of golden eyes stare back at me in shock. I catch sight of a few of my friends as well.
"What did you do?" I hear.
"I did what I had to." I say, no louder than a whisper. At this point in time, I am standing outside of my body and looking at the scene before me.
I look paler than normal. My hair, glossy and perfectly styled. Inhumanly clear hearing and vision. Just what did I do? The scene plays out again until I say those lines again. This time, it continues. I turn around and clearly see myself. I am extremely pale, my hair short and perfectly spiked, wearing dark clothes and a black trench coat. That's when I notice my eyes. They were a bright glowing violet. I have this presence that sets everyone on edge.
"You told us you would never become the thing you feared the most. Why?" I hear one of my friends speak, but can't see who they are.
"I fear what is coming more." I say cryptically. I look pained at this point, as if I betrayed them.
"I had to do this. It was the only way." I say as I start disappearing as black smoke rises from where I stood.
...
I wake with a start. My heart racing, painfully in my chest. That was weird. I swear it was real. I mean it felt real.
"Carter! It's time to wake up, before you're late!" Crap. I have to work today. It might be summer, but I still have to work, otherwise no school.
...
My name is Carter. I know it's mainly a guy's name, but it's my name too. Deal with it. I just graduated from high school. I have a part-time job and am looking forward to college in the fall. My family is normal for the most part. I like to think that anyways. I seem to always have very vivid dreams, sometimes they have things from books I've read or things I've seen on movies and television. Most of the time I don't remember much about them, but lately...
"Carter!" Someone snaps their fingers at me.
"Yes?"
"You have customers! Quit daydreaming and pay attention!" My boss shouts from where she's standing.
I work at a book store. Just a local one for minimum wage and about 30 hours a week. It's nice I get to be with my imagination and books what more could I want. I was ringing up a customer when I saw a really nice car drive by. It looked like one i imagined from a book. It's not a very liked book because of it's movies, but the book was better. Anyways, I finish ringing up the customer when the chime goes off letting me know that someone entered the store. I look and can't believe my eyes. It looks like them. There's four, beautiful people strolling up to the counter. They look like they are from Twilight, but it's impossible because it's just a book. But when I look at them, they look exactly like them. Well, the drawn versions of them. Bella with her long brown hair and normal-ish looking clothes. Edward with his reddish hair and a sweater on. Alice with her spiky hair and pixie like features. Finally, Jasper with his blond slightly wavy hair. Each of them had golden eyes. I just stared as they came up to me.
"Carter Evoy?" The Bella look-alike says. I'm starting to think that this is a joke, so I smile.
"Yes, that's me." I put up my best I'm-totally-not-freaking-out-right-now face. I hear a slight chuckle from the Jasper look-alike. That's weird.
"Can you come with us?" She says sweetly.
"No, I'm working and I have no idea who you guys are, but this is a lame prank. I really like the books and all, but not that much. So please leave before I have to call authorities on you for soliciting." I say just as sweetly.
"Everything has been taken care of. So, if you would please come with us. We aren't going to hurt you, it's just that some people want to talk to you." The Alice look-alike says.
She holds out her hand and I cautiously take it. Still gripping her hand, a chill runs up my spine. In a flash, I'm no longer in the book store. I see her and everyone else at the same place as my dream. I see flashes of other things, but they go by too quickly to make sense of anything. I release her hand and gasp in surprise. They are the real thing. This cannot be happening. They aren't real, they're book characters. Right? I rub my hands over my face and through my hair, a nervous habit. I sigh and look at the four of them.
"Why am I being taken to talk to people by Bella, Edward, Alice and Jasper Cullen? Just minutes ago, I thought you were book characters." I start to ramble off as I pace in a straight line.
"Edward, I think she's going into shock. Her emotions are going all over the place." I hear the real Jasper whisper. Wait a minute. How did I hear that? I'm not dreaming at this point and realize that I can hear the cars passing by the book store twenty to forty feet away. This is when I start to freak out.
"Please calm down. You're going into shock." Edward says.
"I know that! That's why I'm going into shock! I heard you guys talking about it!" I start to raise my voice and it starts to go higher pitched. I look at Jasper pleadingly to knock me out so I don't go into sensory overload. Edward must of heard me because one look at Jasper and then everything starts to go blurry and I'm really relaxed now. I feel myself drift off into bliss.
...
I feel cold hands shaking me. I wake to find Alice in my face.
"We're here!" She says warmly.
"Where's here?" I get the feeling like I already know.
"We tend to call it headquarters, but its a safe house for every fictional character you've seen or read about." She says as if it's no big deal.
"Where do you think humans got the ideas for these stories? We're real and just so you know, you are apart of our world too."
"Alice! Don't say anything more, otherwise she might freak out again. Plus we'll let them explain, anyways." Edward says as he elbows Alice.
Without any further explanations, I am lead to a giant door. I feel a sense of deja vu as we stroll though the doors that are opened by people in armor who are holding spears. I realize that it's the foyer from my dream. I gasp and see the corner I came out of and see the image of myself from by dream pass by me. I suddenly am transported into the scene again as I see a very human me go towards a door in the hall way. I know what's behind that door, but I run into someone and it wakes me from my trance.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to run..." I trail off as soon as I see the person's face. It was the guy from a previous dream. Sebastian.
"It's alright. I believe your party is worried about you." He says pointing the the four Cullens who are headed my way. These dreams are definitely not dreams.
He walks away as the Cullens catch up.
"I'm surprised that he even said anything to you, let alone was nice to you." Jasper says with a smirk on his face. Edward gives him a look and Bella gently grabs my arm leading me away from the dark hall way that lead to the door.
...
We reach a small office door that's secluded in the western part of the building. Bella knocks and then opens the door. We walk inside and I see my family and my only friends sitting on a very big couch. They all notice me in an instant and come up to me and give me hugs. It's then I notice that they aren't wearing their normal clothes and look different. I'm an only child, so the people in the room are both sets of my grandparents, my parents, and my three friends. Every single person of my family has the color black on and and a grunge look to them. My friends look different from each other. My friend Rafe is wearing a get up resembling a Jedi. Ren is wearing something that Alice would pick out and looks paler, but otherwise the same. Lastly, my friend Ann is wearing am outfit that looks like Gambit's, but has a white streak in her hair. Her eyes are just like Gambit's as well. I stare at each of them.
"Honey, why don't you sit down and let us explain." My mother motions me to sit on the couch next to her.
"Your father and I have something to tell you and I want you to not ask any questions until the end. Alright?" She looks at me and immediately see that when she was younger she could look like how I've always pictured Tris from Divergent. I look at my dad and I see Four. My eye widen at the thought, but motion them to start talking. I feel like I'm going to hyperventilate before they even start talking. My mom sighs and starts.
"Carter, we come from a world that you believed to be fiction. I think you know who we are. The thing about fiction is they don't always get it right." She smiles at me and takes dad's hand.
"Carter, I am Tobias, also known as Four. Your mother is Beatrice, also known as Tris. I know that this is a lot to take in, but listen okay? Your mother and I wanted a normal life, so we got permission and left this place. We changed our names and started over. When we had you, it was the happiest days of our lives. As you grew up, we thought that you were normal and we wouldn't have to deal with returning to this place. But fate decided otherwise. You started having those dreams and we knew immediately that we couldn't keep you from here. You would end up here eventually. Carter, you are a seer. You are the only one and you have a important role in the society here. You keep us from danger. We all thought that the seer wasn't coming back and we would have to deal, but we were wrong." He smiles proudly at me and notices that I'm not really getting what he's saying.
"Those really vivid dreams that we have you write about in your journal? Well, those are visions of the future. So far they've been about you because some force wanted to draw you back here..." My dad's voice disappears and before me I see a battlefield. All sorts of different types of creatures battling shadow creatures. The shadow creatures are winning I see my friends fighting as well. I see a giant shadow creature come up behind the trio and take them down. I scream, but no sound comes from my mouth. I look at my hand and notice them bleeding and tied together. I see my family and Sebastian fighting beside each other. Every single one of them is taken down by a shadow creature, but Sebastian. He fights with darkness as well, but is losing as the creatures gain up on him. He falls. Tears stream down my face as I see every single person who lived in the headquarters dead across the battlefield. A figure pulls me up to my feet. I couldn't do anything. This war was my fault. I shouldn't end this way. The man standing in front of me doesn't look familiar. He hold a giant sword and stabs me in the heart. His laugh echos in my ears as I return to reality. I'm being shaken.
"Carter...Carter...Carter!" My hearing returns and I see my dad's concerned face as he shakes me.
"Can you please stop shaking me." I croak out.
"I'm sorry, but you started streaming and crying. We didn't know what to do." My mom says as anxiety seeps into her voice.
"It's okay." I'm struggling to find words to say as the tears keep coming. This is a vision. So, if I stay human... The dream I had today. I didn't write it down, but it's stuck in my head on repeat now.
"Honey, are you okay?" Dad asks.
"No. I'm not." I sniffle as he asks what I saw. I can tell that they know I saw something.
"You all died. Every single person in this building died."