A/N: this is practically an empty void to me. I got the first chapter's inspiration, wrote it in twenty minutes and then hit a brick wall. I need help with this one… Again, Rex's POV

Disclaimer: I own no part of this.

The sky had opened up around me, bright and blue and welcoming. I kept flying higher and higher until I couldn't get any higher without my chest collapsing for the lack of air. Then I dived from the highest point, dropping into a canyon below, the wind embracing me like a lost friend.

A breath caught in my throat as I felt something jolt inside of me. I was pulled to the ground with an iron fist gravity as my copter-like propellers vanished into thin air, back into my body.

Free falling, that was me. I was diving through the air like an expert when on the inside I was screaming to fly again, to soar to keep from falling into the empty abyss below. I begged for a scrap of wind to catch me and blow me onto a softer landing.

Gravity and force were taking effect as I felt the crashing waves of fear rolling over me like a small tugboat in the wide ocean.

I blinked my eyes open just in time to see the ground nearing. Or me nearing the ground. Either way, I was about to fall to my death.

For a second, I contemplated whether the prison would've been better than this open air and freedom that was going to get me killed.

Prison. Dull last few moments as I rotted away and lived for nothing and possessed no life outside of the iron bars of a cage.

Freedom: the golden glory of a flying eagle, soaring over desert dust with warm wind streaking my hair and my shirt flapping against my chest and the adrenaline flooding my veins.

Freedom. It was a choice I'd make any day.

Then a rosy scarlet portal opened ahead of me in the direct path of my free-fall. Wisps of obsidian black were whirled into the pattern as I fell into it with a sickening feeling of death hanging over me as if I were under a guillotine.

I crashed immediately onto a soft mattress that enveloped around me with surprising warmth. I coughed for a few minutes and let the fear flush from my system as I blinked open my eyes and pulled the goggles from my face, clearing my vision.

Two eager faces watched me along with a solemn one that used her massive hands to close the reddened portal behind me.

The eager girl immediately had her arms around my neck and her red-streaked dark hair fell into my face. She was holding me tightly, seeming to care for my well-being and safety. Words were coming from her mouth and none of it computed with me. I just blinked repeatedly and wondered who she was.

"Rex," she whispered in my ear, clutching me like a long-forgotten Teddy bear. "I'm so glad you're safe." She leaned away from me for a second and brushed a few strands of her dark hair away from her gorgeous eyes. Then the girl leaned in and her lips touched to mine.

Sparks flew for a long moment and I found my arms curling around her waist as if all this were totally natural to me, like this was the real life I had left behind when I went blank. We kissed for almost two minutes straight before she finally pulled away, smiling at me irresistibly.

I knew I wanted another kiss like that. She was magic, a drug to me, keeping me wanting more every second.

But who was she?

A/N: hopefully, you know who is who without me giving names. Review! Thanks for reading!

~Sky