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Kailie was awakened by footsteps.
Thump.
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"Mummy... Daddy..." she sat up and tried to shake awake her parents, who were sleeping by her side.
"What is it, Kailie?" her mother, Caitlin, answers sleepily. But suddenly tensed up when she heard the footsteps.
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Thump...
Kailie heard the stairs creak along with the foot steps.
"Alec! Alec, wake up!" Caitlin mother shakes Kailie's father." Wake up, Alec!"
"Hmm..? What is it, honey...?" He slowly puts his glasses on.
"Listen!" Caitlin whispers loudly.
Kailie's father tensed up. He reached for a stick that she has never seen him have it before.
"Mummy..." Kailie snuggled into her mother's arms.
"It's ok, Kailie, don't be scared. No matter what happens, no matter where you are, we're with you. Keep fighting, Kailie, don't be scared." she wrap one of her arms around her daughter protectively.
Some sort of light shot out from Alec's stick, and the walls suddenly became see through.
But it was too late--three dark figures with tall, pointy hats barged into their bedroom.
Kailie gasped and gripped onto her mother.
"Alec..." Caitlin spoke.
"I know..." Alec replied, and both parents were out of the bed, leaving Kailie with nothing to hold on to. She looked from her father to her mother, confused and scared.
"Kailie, hide!" her father demanded, eyes glued to the figures.
"Kailie, we love you! Forever and always... and we'll always be with you!" her mother added.
Suddenly, one of the figures with the pointed hats raised their stick similar to her father's, and pointed directly at Kailie's heart.
The person chanted something, and a beam of green light shot out. Caitlin turned to look at her daughter with horror, and jumped in before the light hit Kailie.
She took the hit that was meant for Kailie.
"MOMMY!" she cried and shouted.
Caitlin smiled weakly and vanished into thin air.
"CONGELO!!" Alec yell, and a glowing blue bubble come flying out of his wooden stick, enclosing on the dark figures, who stopped dead on their tracks.
While the figures froze, Alec pointed his stick at Kailie.
"Take care of yourself, Kailie, but remember that we'll always be with you... Evolo Subterfugio!" an orange bubble came out this time, surrounding Kailie.
She began to float in mid air, and out the window.
Her father waved at her sadly. "The bubble will bring you back when everything is safe again, Kailie... but for now, you must go away."
"DADDY! NO!!!" the daughter cried, banging against the walls of the bubble.
Alec turned away.
The same green light that shot her mother attacked her father.
Alec crumbled to the ground, grabbed his wooden stick, and shot the green light back at them, and he burned away in green fire...
Kailie gasped and sat up, panting. She covered her mouth with her hand, and tears streamed down her cheeks.
It's that dream again...
It's been ten years, and she still has that dream. She hugged her pillow and looked at the sky from the large windows in the shape of a Gothic arch.
She was in the exact same house, same room and same bed from ten years ago, when she lost her parents.
Kailie looked at her parents' picture on the night stand.
We were so happy until those strange men ruined it...
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Kailie quickly turned her attention towards the bedroom door, where the hateful people came in and ruined everything ten years ago.
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Oh no! It's happening again! Please tell me this is just another stupid dream!
Kailie quickly opened a drawer of her night stand, and flipped through the things in search of a weapon. She paused when her hand touched a bronze dagger. The handle was of complicated twines of metal, and there where many small gemstones engraved on the part where it connects to the blade. A large oval ruby sat in the middle of the handle. The case of the dagger was also bronze, with many detailed incised pictures and words. Kailie quickly jumped to her feet as she realized that the footsteps where getting closer. She pulled the case off, revealing a silver blade, and held it in front of her at chest level.
What ever that was going to happen next, she was ready for it.