North. East. West. South.
South. West. East. North.
East. North. South. West.
West. South. North. Est.
This is a world without directions.
Plic. Plic. Plic.
The sound of the drops crashing.
Shhh ... .Shhh ...
The sound of muffled whispers.
This is a world without sound.
Heaven and earth are one, look below and you will see your reflection.
Look up and you will see yourself.
Above and below? What are they? What is the meaning?
This is a world turned upside down.
One, two, three, four ...
Ten, nine, eight, seven ...
The time does not flow, the clock is stopped.
This is a timeless world.
Walking. Walking. Walking.
In any direction she went, she always came back in the same place.
Zero.
Infinity.
Limitless.
When was the last time you eat?
When was the last time you slept?
When was the last time you spoke?
Remember, remember, remember.
What do you remember?
"I remember the battle ... a light ... the feeling of being wrapped ... something."
What do you remember after that?
"The screams of my friends. Their faces, worried. "
How long are you here?
"I do not know."
She was standing there, somewhere, without awareness. Eyes closed, without rest.
Where are you going?
"I think I have forgotten it."
Ahhhh ... I see ... then maybe it's time to wake up.
She opened her eyes.
In front of her a surreal landscape. A dense fog purple hovered around her, like mist.
Even with the fog the sky above her head was perfectly clear, but it was not a sky, was a reflection, the violet eyes of the sorceress is reflected in their own, like a spell, a hypnosis. She could not help but stare at herself.
The legs of the young witch tremble for a moment, long enough to make her fall. On the back.
"O-oh !?"
Splash!
Water?
The feel of the back wet, and wet hair was unmistakable. With a little effort, she sat up. The hands touched the wet surface, it is just water.
What was she doing in the water?
Her eyes looking at the floor, she sees herself.
Purple hair, eyes the same color, a pretty dress, a body still immature.
This is the reflection she see.
This is her.
This is Aisha.
The sorceress contemplates her reflection in the water, as if looking for an answer.
Why she is?
The hand is extended, so does her double behind the veil of water. Puts her hand gently on the surface, it's cold.
A curious look.
Could go underwater?
Pushes her hand against the surface, more, still, the hand sinks into something, something other than water, touches something. Her own hand.
Aisha is scared, how is it possible?
The reflection from the other side is what scared too. Stretches out fingers, holding her own hand between the fingers, is warm.
What does this mean?
"What does this mean?"
Where are you now?
"Where am I now?"
Where were you before?
"I was in ... I was inside ... I was ...?"
The reflection of the sorceress appeared uncertain, the look of the first insecure. The fingers tightened more firmly.
The eyes of the second closing. The first is a bystander.
Lowers her head, tired. For a moment was quiet. Then a grin.
Aisha's hand begins to hurt.
As if there were thorns in her hand. Opens her eyes in alarm, her reflection grinning. Pulled, stronger, louder and louder, with enough force to pull it down.
The arm of the sorceress sank into the water, the hand of the second pulled harder and harder, still laughing.
Aisha's cheek hit the surface, struggling to pull off the arm.
"Let me go! Let me go! "
The reflection becomes dark, surrounded by an aura black and purple, dark, always darker, the body of the second is tinged with black. Her mouth is the only thing that stands out.
A Shadow Body.
Aisha continued to struggle to pull her away from there. No matter how strong she try, the shadow was stronger than she.
What should she do?
"Let me go, immediately!"
Is there something you've forgotten?
"What ?!"
You do not know how to defend yourself?
"Don't tease me!"
She had forgotten? What? What? What?
"If you won't let me go I ... I ..."
I will burn you!
Red flames burned in the hand of Aisha, one, two, three balls of fire, burned the palm of her double. The reflection cried, screamed empty. The hand of the sorceress was free, quickly lifted and began to run away.
Run away, run away, but where are you running?
Where Is That? Where running?
The place was all the same, a persistent fog, a cloudless sky, the water beneath her. Where was running away?
"Where can I go ?!"
Aisha prayed earnestly, hoping to find a safe place to take refuge. Runs, runs and runs. Finally the landscape begins to change.
In front of her a lump of earth, a flowery meadow of many colors, tall trees, lush bushes. That was the salvation!
Aisha looked back, there was no one ventured a look under her feet, her reflection was still there, chased her, a grin over her mouth, no eyes, it expression. Shivers!
Aisha leaped, now on the ground.
Save.
"I'm safe."
She put a hand on her chest, breathing heavily. The race was tired.
She looked under her, her reflection was gone. Only grass. Quieted.
It was not too easy?
"You may know how I got here?"
Are not you forgetting something?
"My ... my wand ?! Where is ?! "
Does it seem too obvious?
"What the hell is this place !?"
Watch.
She had to remain calm.
Remember, Aisha, remember!
Where you lost your wand?
The girl began to walk, the grass was green and leafy, beautiful flowers, she need a few minutes to realize that even the sky was changed. It was no longer a reflection of a world of darkness, but now it had become blue, like a spring morning.
Soon the girl realized to be a lot more tired than she thought, he lay down, pulling a big sigh, it was as if she had walked for hours.
Why was so tired?
The clouds were dancing in the sky, it was all so calm and peaceful as not to seem real.
Yet she did not know how she got them.
Maybe that was just a dream, maybe it was even Ruben. Perhaps it would come Elsword to pull out of bed sooner or later.
Remember, Aisha, remember!
"Remember?"
What was supposed to remember?
She sat up, yawning, a nap the indeed needed. She had to find a more comfortable place.
Aisha started walking, after a while she saw a tree. High, so luxuriant, the leaves sheltered from the sun. Such a wonderful place.
She sat under the tree. Ah! What a beautiful coolness. Rena would like a place like that for sure.
"Rena?"
Rena ... Rena ... Rena ...
Rena was ...
Rena ... was ...
The face of desperate companion. That's she remembered, shouting something. She said something. Who was speaking?
"She spoke with me ...?"
She spoke with you.
"What did she say?"
This you have to know you.
"And who else was there?"
I do not know.
"There was ... there was ..."
...
There was another person ... .Another ... another ... who?
It was a male?
It was a female?
There Was ...
No.
Neither.
Was a Nasod.
"Eve!"
Oh, her name is Eve?
"Where are they now?"
They left all alone.
"They left me alone?"
Do not worry.
"No, there was ..."
There Was?
"... Something."
A gust of wind ruffles the hair of Aisha, she closed her eyes to protect them. Once the wind had subsided, she opened them. She was surprised to discover that at her feet now there was a hole!
"Where does it come?"
The sorceress stepped back, was certain that until a few moments before in front of her there was no hole!
She was curious, though. Timidly overlooking inside the hole, seemed to be very deep, dark.
She can't see the bottom!
"Better not to end up in it."
This was the conclusion of Aisha. Of course she didn't want to break all her bones jumping blindly into an hole appeared from nowhere! She was not Elsword!
She turned around, walking away.
At least she try to. When she tried to move her right leg something stopped. It was like being got stuck.
Yanked hard, but did not move, her gaze went to the ground. With horror she discovered what was holding her leg.
A black hand, which emerged from the hole, the girl turned her head to see what it was, what she saw was her reflection, once again.
Her reflection had tried to drag her down into the water and now had followed her into the earth. The mouth of her double widened into a grin, pulling harder.
"Let'S Play."
The shadow dragged her by the leg, causing her to fall to the ground, was strong, damn loud, Aisha grabbed the blades of grass, sank her nails into the earth, but nothing could stop her.
"LET ME GO!"
"Let'S Play! Let'S Play! "
Nothing to do. The shadow dragged her down.
The shadow dragged down Aisha, had the clinging against, preventing her from moving. Aisha looked up, hoping for help, could only see the sky become farther and farther, getting smaller and smaller until it disappears altogether.
Now there was only darkness.
"No, I can't let you drag me down! I'll die! "
Aisha accumulated the magic power within herself, she had to stop, now!
She would use her Binding Circle! Would stop the shadow in the fall, then she would try to teleport as high as possible, taking advantage of the land in this ...
Wait!
There was no stone! No earth! No clod! Where there was nothing to cling!
Where was the ground ?!
When did that hole had become so large ?!
She felt her body become heavier, as if she were falling much more quickly.
The shadow moved, her cold hands went up to her body, her long fingers tightened to go back to the throat of Aisha. Her eyes widened in terror, felt the breath missing.
Was suffocating.
Aisha's hands grabbed the wrists of her shadow mate, was to remain lucid, she had to do something, only a few seconds before fading away.
"Let me ..."
The hands of the witch became incandescent, a violent fire wrapped around her body, creating a tornado of fire that struck the shadow.
But the shadow did not let go, even more squeezed her neck. Laughing sadistic.
"Hahaha! Yup! Let'S Play! "
The hands of the body of shadow became even colder than before, icy!
The fire continued to burn around Aisha, despite what her body grew cold, felt cold, getting colder. Ice!
An ice tornado contrasted the flames of the sorceress. The fingers of the shadow huddled increasingly, more and more ...
The consciousness of Aisha fading away.
Tears filled her eyes
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The shadow laughed, laughed and laughed ...
...
Wake Up!
Aisha opened her eyes. She jumped up, put her hands to her throat.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
Coughs, she still felt suffocated. She had been strangled, she remembered, still felt the icy fingers around her neck.
She was back to square one. In the middle of the water.
That was close, huh?
She rose brusquely, looking under her. She was looking at her reflection on the surface. But this time there was nothing.
"I'm not safe here. I have to ... I have to get out! "
Come Out? Sure! But how will you do that?
Already. How was she going to get out of there?
"There must be a way out somewhere!"
Oh, stop it! You do not know how you came!
"I can't remember! How did I get here !? "
You're in a bad shape, dolly.
"How ... how ... HOW ?!"
Aisha put her hands to the head, eyes shut, kneeling on the surface. How was it got there? How could she get out of there?
"Remember, Aisha, Remember!"
What happened exactly?
Calm. Breathe, breathe ...
What do you remember?
"I was at Ruben, had defeated the King Nasod."
After?
"We where back for a while. There was ... Elsword and Raven! And Eve! Rena had returned by the elves! "
What happened after?
"Lowe is back. We went to ... Bethma. There was that guy with the glasses. "
After?
"We went to Feita them was that knight, Lento. We had to help him ... the demons in the altar. "
Aisha stopped talking. Sound of footsteps. Persistent, advancing.
Tap, tap, tap.
Close. She could hear them, the sound grew louder. The heart of the witch began to beat faster, felt like she was in danger, who was it?
Her reflection?
Was approaching, approaching!
Her heart was pounding so hard now that she could hear their beats.
Her eyes widened.
There was nobody.
The sound had stopped.
She looked down at her, there is nothing. Not even at her reflection. She did not feel calm, a sense of danger persistent.
The suspicion.
As if someone had called her, she lifted her head. It was then that she saw her.
Above her at her reflection, on the same surface of water where she was kneeling. The reflection looked so cold. Detached.
Aisha flinched, had the fear that grabbed again, that suffocated.
The reflection watched for a few moments, but passed by, walking away, as if she didn't seen her.
Aisha was lifted for a moment. Then he realized something.
Below her there was no reflection, on top of her, her dual was walking away.
There was something wrong.
She touched the surface of water beneath her. But it was like touching the void.
Understood it only later. The world was upside down. He was on the wrong side!
She was the reflection!
Ahaha! You've become a shadow!
"I'm not a shadow!"
Yes you are, you become a shadow!
"Why I'm reversed !?"
The memory of her that was overwhelmed by her shadow was built over at her words.
"It must have happened earlier ..."
Her shadow ... her double ... she was the one! She put her there!
"You! Damn! I'm the real one! Take me back! "
Are you sure to be the real one?
"Yes, I am!"
Haha! But if you even remember how you got here!
"Damn!"
Aisha races, going back to her reflection moving away more and more.
The sorceress amassed her magical energy, imposed two fingers in front of herself, releasing her most powerful magic against the water surface.
"Plasma Cutter!"
The laser energy magic against crashed into the water, splashing from all sides as the light went crazy.
Nothing changed, the surface remained unchanged and the shadow kept walking as if nothing had happened.
Aisha gasped for a few moments, she had used all that energy and had not achieved anything.
That was his most powerful spell, if that could not scratch the surface of what we would be able ?!
You're in trouble, you're in trouble!
"That was my strongest spell."
Aisha tried again, recalls the flow of magical energy, a returning of flames rise up.
"Gust Storm!"
The fire strikes against the wall aquatic, with impetuous force, the fires hit, burned, eager to devour everything you parasse their front.
Unfortunately that wall was not eaten.
You are not strong enough!
"Impossible!"
You're not, you're not!
"Nh!"
Aisha laid her hands in front of her, shooting angrily three fireballs in quick succession against the wall, against her reflection.
Nothing.
Her double not even turned to look, it was as if the deemed insignificant.
Aisha felt forces fail her, ever.
What would happen to there? She had not really thought about it until that moment.
She would die of hunger? There was no food in there. Her energies would drained until she would not be nothing left but a skeleton without life.
It would be the huddled, waiting for the end, more and more tired, without the comfort of her friends, with no one to watch over her.
This was her fate? End up like that?
You are not strong enough! You're not!
"If I still had all my powers ... that would not have happened!"
Her powers. Its ancient powers, those who had lost by putting the finger that stupid ring. It was the fault of that ring if she had become what it was today, if she had lost all her strength, if she could not get out of that situation.
If only there were a way to regain her powers at the time, without having to be there waiting for the end.
A source of power, any. But around her there was nothing.
Power, was what she wanted to be when she began that journey, regain her powers back, become stronger than before.
What did you do?
Ah ... if only she could assimilate that demon to her, before he ...
No ... It was not like that ... it was not that she had gone.
Really how it went?
Remember, Aisha, Remember.
They had arrived in the strange room, the chapel, there was that demon ... glowed a sinister light, a light attractive.
She had struggled with him, along with Rena and Eve, after which ... it ... after which he had defeated her Plasma Cutter had been able to kill him.
Then she had won.
Why was she there?
What did you do next?
That light, that power ... it was a waste to leave there.
"We Should destroy it."
Rena said.
"I agree."
But she had an idea. A better idea.
She had heard that energy pulsing in her hand, was strong, powerful, a true delicacy. Now it was her.
She took the or. But where was the orb now?
No longer felt strong, failed to assimilate it?
No. If she did now would not have there.
Where was he? Where was his wand?
She had tried to get in tune with the dark orb, but the orb had rejected, then forced her to accept it.
It was then that the dark welcomed her.
Aisha shuddered. She had remembered.
That sphere that he had taken, was there. It was still inside her.
Aisha put a hand on his chest. Over her heart. Listening to the her heartbeat.
"That's where you were."
She closed her eyes, and sync with the beats of heartbeat, she felt an unknown energy, under skin, inside her.
Aisha's hand began to glow, a light purple, shiny. The felt. Warned that unbridled force, was inside her, but it was still her.
She grimaced, pushing her hand against her chest, as if trying to get under your skin. Her hand felt something, pulled.
She had to pull off the orb, had to see it.
It took all his concentration to be able to remove the ball from his body.
Impose more strength, pulling, until he came out.
"There you are."
Aisha was out of breath, she was tired from the effort.
The color was purple, dark, as she remembered, the light was synchronized to the heartbeat of Aisha, stronger, weaker.
Aisha smiled, there is a way to get out.
It was time. You took time to remember.
"Eh?"
Aisha had heard something, approached on her ear to the sphere, slowly, slowly.
"What do you do?"
"What?"
A voice, the voice that until now believed to be only inside her head, it was real?
Aisha looked better the ball more accurately. It was not a sphere, or rather inside was not.
She saw a sort of small bat, all curled on itself, sometimes even cute.
"What are you?"
The bat had two yellow eyes, bright, now staring at her.
"It was you who told me about?"
The bat Aisha knew very well what he was saying.
"It was me. My name is Angkor. "
"Angkor."
This name somehow was familiar.
"You better watch your back."
"Eh?"
Behind her, at her reflection had passed the barrier of the surface, diving into the water barrier, coming quickly behind Aisha, before the magician could do something the shadow was on her, locking it.
The orb fell from her hand to Aisha, finishing a few yards further on.
The shadow put back on earth the girl, who fought valiantly to defend themselves.
"What do you want now ?! Let me go! "
"She wants to kill you not?"
"What do you know ?!"
"Um ... let's say that this world is a bit 'as my home."
"Make it stop then!"
Shadow put her hands back in the throat of Aisha, she wanted strangle her again!
"You're not the real one. I am now!"
The Shadows said with a mad voice.
"It is not that I have so much desire ..."
"Make it stop!"
The bat chuckled. While the shadow tighter and tighter grip against the body of Aisha, unlike before, the sorceress was unable to use her magic, it was as if her energies were sucked into those icy hands.
"You're not strong enough. I am now!"
The Shadow said again, laughing.
Aisha try to fight back, she try to kick the Shadow back, struggle, but she can't move as she want.
"What ... what do I do ?!"
"A very simple thing ..."
Angkor was talking. Aisha tried to look at the sphere that contained Angkor.
"Help me!"
Angkor laughed, his yellow eyes gleamed, fixed on the body of Aisha who reached out desperately trying to reach the orb.
"Is the power you want. I know it. Is that what you want. "
"YES! YES IT IS! I want the power! I want to become stronger! I want exactly that! "
Aisha cried out in despair. She was willing to do anything to get power. The power to get out of there, to kill the damn shadow, she would do anything to have the strength.
Also tighten to terms with a demon.
"I was not wrong ... dolly."
Aisha felt her consciousness fade, faster and faster. Not much time left ...
Her vision blurred, she had no more strength in the arms, she was ... disappearing.
"So ..."
"Ask me ..."
The voice of the Angkor echoed into the head, like a sweet poison.
"Shall we make a contract?"