Your Turn 1

Author Note: Hey! This chapter has a link to An Unexpected Arrival, but they defeated it in my mind. No Antonio. Just my Wesley!

Jayden's scream woke Emily up.

She rushed into his and Wesley's room, PJ's still on and hair a mess.

"Jayden, are you okay?" she asked, stopping at his bed.

"Huh? Oh, yeah," Jayden breathed, "I'm fine. It was...a bad dream."

"What about?" Wesley asked.

"The sealing power," Jayden replied, "I dreamed it didn't work and we all...yeah."

"It was only a dream, though," Emily said, "and I'm glad it was."

As they ate breakfast, a Nilock was watching them. More specifically, Emily. He'd been doing that for about a week with his magical seeing eye. He'd found the remains of one of the other monsters and repaired it. Now he chuckled as he watched the happy go lucky samurai.

"Ah, child," he said, "if only you could stay this happy."

He faded the seeing eye and went back to his plan. Meanwhile, he decided to have some fun, just as the last owner of the mirror. He sent a aura of Nilock scent out onto Jayden.

Once he felt it, he stopped eating and sat up in alarm.

"I sense a Nilock," he said, "he's somewhere near."

"Not again," Mia moaned.

"Well, it can't be the last guy," Kevin pointed out, "he's destroyed."

"Do you think he has the mirror?" Emily asked.

"Impossible. I broke it," Jayden shook his head.

As they finished eating, they pondered over that. But they soon had to turn they focus to training. Emily suddenly felt a cold chill around her as she and Jayden trained. Jayden must have felt it, too, because they both lowered their guard.

"What?" Jayden asked Emily.

"I felt it too," she said, her eyes wide.

"Whoever that creep is," Jayden snarled, "he certainly likes to mess with our heads."

That evening, Emily and Jayden felt the cold chill again. But something was different with Jayden's chill. He had an image of Emily laying lifelessly on the ground, a horrible Niglok towering over her in laughter. And he thought he saw the beast coming over her now.

He knew it was fake to scare, but whatever monster it was, it wanted Emily.

And he was going to protect her.