Chapter 2: Confusion
„Baby? Dear, wake up", Serah heard a familiar voice- first it sounded distant, but as she slowly blinked the slumber away, she knew it was just beside her- HE was just beside her.
Snow's big hand was resting on her soft cheek. Now she fully opened her eyes and looked at the man she loved: „Where… what?" Serah yawned and slowly sat up- she was on the floor. Snow grinned: „The bed would be more comfortable. Don't you think so?"
Serah gave him a slight nod and took his outstretched hand to get up. She was feeling way better this morning, but still tired. Together with her husband she went to the kitchen and started preparing breakfast, like every morning.
When they finally sat by the table Serah decided on bringing the mirror-thing up again. Hesitantly she started to speak: „Snow…" The blonde man put his newspaper down and looked at his girl: „Yes?"
„Do you remember the day I told you about the mirror? It's…"
Snow interrupted instantly: „Oh Serah, I told you it's okay! Remember? We even went there together and discovered, there was nothing special about it."
„I know… but I'm still so scared of it."
„Listen… I want you to be happy. So tell me what to do to see you smile again"
He was always so caring and responsible. He had never been this way. He always had been wild and unconrollable, but somehow she had loved that about him.
„Can you take it from the wall for me?" Maybe she would stop worrying, when it was gone, maybe she could be happy then.
„Of course! I will do it right after breakfast"
Snow leaned over to kiss Serah gently. She leaned into the kiss and smiled at him: „Thank you. I will help"
After breakfast Snow and Serah went back to their room, armed with a screwdriver. Snow started to unscrew the top of the mirror, but before he could completely unfix it, he felt something like a surge coursing through his body. He let go of the mirror immediately and staggered backwards a few steps.
Serah ran to his side and propped him up: „Snow? You alright?" Her voice was full of concern.
The tall man nodded: „Don't worry… must have contacted with an electric cable…"
Snow headed to the mirror again and put the tip of the screwdriver on a screw on the left side of the mirror. That screw didn't move an inch, no matter how hard he tried. Annoyed he sighed: „Honey? Can you hold the speculum? Maybe it will work then."
Serah hesitated, but went to the mirror as he told her and placed her hand on the right side of it. Right away she felt coldness creep into her veins. Nervously her eyes darted around. When they met her reflection in the looking glass, she saw just darkness.
When she woke up a moment later, she wasn't in the NORA-house anymore. She stood in the middle of a forest. The trees were of all heights and easy to climb on. Wherever she looked was green and strange plants were growing. Several waterfalls seemed to fall from the treetops to nothingness. Carefully Serah glanced down a cliff.
A few flans circeled at a deeper level of the forest. –This must be Sunleth-Waterscape– Serah thought. She had read about this place before, but had never seen it with her own eyes yet. How did she get here? And where was Snow?
First of all she had to find other people, maybe they could explain what had happened. The rose-blonde girl started walking away from the cliff, deeper into the forest.
Another group of tiny flans crossed her way, but they didn't seem to remark her. They continued their trip in the direction she came from. Strange… she was just a few feet apart from them and they didn't even look at her. She didn't think, they got a glance at human beings everyday.
Serah stopped to follow them with her eyes, but no reaction. Bewildered she continued her way until two silhouettes appeared on the horizon. These were no monsters… they actually looked human.
Serah started running toward them, with every step they looked more human to her. She got closer, but when she saw their faces, she stopped abruptly. Her skin went pale: That can't be! The girl looked exactly like her, she even wore a dress similar to hers.
Serah stared at the two people, one of them was a girl, exactly as tall as her with the exact same haircolour and hairstyle. She had the same voice as her.
The other was a man, a little taller than her. His brown hair was messy. His clothes were blue and didn't look like something anyone at her hometown would wear.
With the two humans was a flying, cute, little… something. It looked like a moogle, these creatures, that appeared in children's bedtimestories. These creatures were just part of a fairytale, but right there in front of her seemed to be one.
„…there must be a way to stop them", the young man said. In that moment the girl covered her face with her hands and collapsed to her knees. Instantly the man turned his attention to her: „What is it? What's wrong?" He looked worried.
The moogle was in rage too, it floated in circles over their heads and started to say ‚kupo' all over again.
As the girl collapsed, the man caught her and held her
in his arms carefully. The girl started to murmur something about the fall of Cocoon. Her voice was silent, so Serah couldn't understand all of it.
The man whispered something to himself and then gently shook her: „Serah? Serah!"
Serah froze. Did he just say her name? What was going on here? She went closer to the people: „Who are you? What does all of this mean?"
But none of them looked at her, none gave her an answer.
There was a light in the girl's eyes and she jumped to her feet: „No!" She started running away. The man stood there, confused: „Wait! Serah? What's wrong? …. What did she see?" The man now started to run after her.
Serah started to move again too: „Wait! Don't just run away!" She tried to grab the man's hand, but her hand just went through his. She stared down at the hands and continued running afterwards. She tried to touch the man again, but she couldn't, it never worked.
Exhausted from trying Serah stopped and her vision went black again…
Author's Note: Finally I forced myself to go on and update this one! I'm such a sluggard :D
I don't own this, it still belongs to Square Enix (unfortunately xD)
I'm sorry for the mistakes in this and the elementary English, I hope it's nevertheless okay writing!
I would love all kind of review, even if you wanna criticize the whole thing! Thank's for giving it a try ;) I hope I will update soon!
