Hey hey hey! This is Rehtse46 with another chapter from Shadows Into Light. I hope you enjoy. :)
Chapter 3: Triggered Vision
Esther opened an eye, looked around, and yawned. Suddenly she saw T.M. Both eyes were wide open as she leapt up, and charged toward T.M.'s surprised face.
"TAME THAT BEAST OF YOURS, MICKEY!" He shouted and backed against a wall.
Mickey caught Esther and held her back.
"NO! Let me, go! Stop! Let me go! Get off! Please!"
Esther shouted with tears in her eyes. She stopped moving and fell to her knees, sobbing.
"Tie her to the chains on the wall! Now! Why do you think I put those there?!" T.M. screamed.
"Stop it! Go away!" Esther sobbed.
Mickey glared at T.M., and made the shooing motion with his hand. T.M. shook his head angrily.
"I am not going to be bossed around by a Dream Eater and a thirteen year old!"
T.M. glared back. Mickey winced when T.M. said the words 'Dream Eater'. Mickey stared at him coldly and said,
"You can leave now."
T.M. stared at him with a blank expression on his face, walked slowly into the purple portal and disappeared. Mickey shivered and had a sudden flashback. Suddenly, he wasn't holding Esther in the Portal Room anymore. He was in a room, looking at himself tied up with chains. He looking at something else like he wanted to slice the neck of whatever he was looking at. Next to him was an angry looking boy struggling to free himself out of his chains. He had flat silver hair and bright blue eyes. He was wearing a silver t-shirt, but it had so many slash marks through it that you could see his bloody abs. He was also wearing already ripped jeans. His face was full of bloody scars and slice marks. Next to him was a boy with spikey brown hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a black shirt with a white X across it. Except, it was not white, it was red from all the blood dripping off of it. And then there was a girl to the left of the brown-haired boy. She had auburn hair and caramel-colored eyes. She was wearing a tan t-shirt and green shorts. She had her head hung and she was crying silently, and her tan shirt ripped so you could see her bloody stomach. A snake's tail was brushing up against her face.
"You thought you could escape me, you wretched Dream Eaters, didn't you? Well, now you're in my clutches!"
The angry looking boy looked at the snake hidden in the shadows.
"You better keep your bloody mouth shut, you here? And get your tail off of her, you beast!"
The girl looked at the angry looking boy with tears in her eyes.
"Stop, Riku, you're just making him angrier." she murmured, her voice barely a whisper.
The snake figure laughed a hissing laugh and emerged from the shadows. It was a snake all right. A big one, with human-like features. It had legs and and arms. It had green scales and glowing, piercing red eyes. When it smiled evilly at the girl it showed it's large, bloody fangs. It had bloody sharp claws. It was walking toward the girl and the girl was trying hard not to look at one bloody claw he lifted up her head and forced her to look at him.
"Luna, You are sadly, wrong. His pitiful taunts are no match for me."
He turned her head so she was facing Riku.
"Look at Riku, Luna, LOOk at him! he won't be able to protect you anymore! He is a bloody mess!"
Luna started to cry again, still silently.
"Stop it." The spiky haired boy said to the snake.
Mickey looked up at him.
"Yeah, pick on somebody your own size, you freak of nature."
Mickey glared at him with a look pure hatred. The spiky haired boy snickered, but quickly covered it up with a fake cough. Luna gave a small smile, and held her head low so the snake couldn't see her. Riku didn't do anything but glare angrily at the snake. The snake glared at the spiky haired boy and then at Mickey. He slithered up the the boy and looked him in the eye.
"So, Sor, you think this is funny, hmmm?" He said.
Sor shrugged. "If that's how you picture it, Bloody Snake, if that's how you picture it." He said calmly.
"You know, Blood," Mickey looked the the snake and smiled. "Can I call you that?"
"No." Bloody Snake growled.
"You know, Blood, you really think these chains can keep Riku from escaping? I mean, really? Its almost like you think that Riku's a wimp or something!" Mickey said rather loudly. Suddenly, Riku shouted,
"ROS!"
And he broke the chains. Before Bloody Snake could do anything, Riku shouted something else.
"The key unlocks the dragons wing so the Dream Eaters can march forth!"
There was a sudden burst of light when everyone's chains were broken. Something flew towards Riku and he caught it. It was a sword in the shape of a dragon's wing. Something flew towards Sor and he caught it. It was a sword in the shape of a key. Something flew towards Mickey and he caught it. It was a sword in the shape of a tiger's head. Three things flew toward Luna but, unfortunately, Bloody Snake grabbed the three items and narrowed his eyes at Luna.
"I'm not letting you have your bow, Luna! Or your messenger bag or your...stuffed bear?"
Bloody Snake looked at the black stuffed bear he was holding in his claws with a confused look on his face. Sor tried hard not to laugh. Mickey grinned. Even the Mickey in the flashback, despite all the horrible memories he just saw, grinned. Even Riku smiled a little. Luna looked at the stuffed bear with relief. Then she looked at Bloody Snake and smiled and said,
"Yes, my stuffed bear. And his name is," Then she shouted out it's name...
"ANUL!"
Suddenly, the cute, little black stuffed bear in Bloody Snake's claws transformed into a ferocious, red-eyed black bear. And did I mention it was huge? Bloody Snake roared and let go of it. Anul charged him and pounced.
"i won't let you get away with this!" shouted Bloody Snake.
He tossed Luna's bow and messenger bag out into the darkness that surrounded them. Luna screamed, "NO!" and dove after them. Seeing his master leave, the bear transformed back into a stuffed one and vanished. By that time Sor was running into the darkness and ready to jump himself when Bloody Snake reached over, screeched,
"you're not going anywhere without getting hurt!"
He slammed his head against the ground of darkness. Sor blacked out and fell head first into darkness. Riku ran after him but wasn't careful enough. Bloody Snake grabbed his head and whispered in his ear,
"There's no escape. I put a curse on you and Sor. The curse of UkiR."
Bloody Snake threw Riku of the edge and he fell head first into darkness. Mickey was running into the darkness when Bloody Snake lunged at him, but Mickey was too quick. He dodged Bloody Snake and jumped into darkness. The Mickey in the flashback felt like he was falling into darkness, just falling.
Suddenly, Mickey snapped out of it and was back in the portal room with Esther. She was still crying, as if Mickey never left. Mickey realized the flashback had drained all of his energy, and now he was extremely tired. So he curled up next to Esther and fell asleep, still feeling like he was falling, falling into darkness.
Esther yawned and woke up. Mickey was still sleeping, so she got up and looked around. She walked up to the black portal and was about to step in when she heard a voice say,
"Don't step in there."
She turned around and looked at the man who was looking at her.
"Are you... Mickey?" Esther asked him.
"Yep. That's me." Mickey yawned and stood up.
He pointed to the purple portal.
"This is where you should go." Mickey said.
She hesitated, then walked into the portal. She felt like she was stepping through Jell-o. There were goldfish swimming around her, but she just followed Mickey, who was right in front of her. Soon she was in a blank white room with nothing in it but a training dummy. Except, the training dummy looked like a demented snake. Esther looked at it and cringed.
"What kind of training dummy is THAT?" She asked Mickey.
"You're training dummy." Mickey answered. "Wait here." He walked to the far right wall and rapped his knuckles on it. Rap Rap Rap Rap Rap, Rap Rap Rap Rap Rap Rap, Rap, Rap, Rap, Rap, Rap. Then with a flash of light a golden door with golden light streamed out of it when Mickey opened it. Esther squinted and looked through the door, but she couldn't see anything with all the bright light. Mickey went in and closed the door. A few minutes later he came out with a golden sword. He closed the door and it disappeared. He handed the sword to Esther and told her this.
"Now we shall start your training."
Esther looked at him with a look of confusion.
"Um, training?"
Mickey sighed.
"Yes, training. I know, I know... You're probably going to ask why you would be training to fight anything." Esther nodded. Mickey continued.
"Well, Esther, you probably know by now that you're... How shall I put it... Not normal?" Mickey looked at her.
Esther raised her eyebrows.
"It depends what you mean by not normal."
Mickey didn't answer. Esther looked up at him to find he was staring at her sword. She looked at the flat, shiny blade of her sword and saw herself floating in air, but then being swallowed into darkness. Esther blacked out.
Mickey shook Esther awake.
"Wake up. Wake up. WAKE UP!" Mickey shouted.
Esther bolted upright and punched Mickey in the face. Mickey stumbled and fell back. Esther stared at him then rushed up to him.
"Oh man! Are you okay? I'm sorry! I was half asleep! Sorry! Oh wow!" She said.
Mickey sat up. She saw a few drops of blood around his nose.
"I'm okay..." Mickey said.
She shivered. Mickey noticed. He looked at Esther with a concerned face.
"Hey... Are you okay?"
Esther shook her head.
"It's... It's... The sword..."
Mickey looked at the sword, then at Esther.
"What... What did you see?" Esther took a shaky breath. "I... I was falling and... Then... Darkness... Darkness, it swallowed me..." Esther said with her voice breaking.
Mickey said nothing, then got up.
"Get up." He ordered Esther.
Yet his eyes and his voice were kind. Esther got up. He looked straight into her eyes and said
"That's enough training for today."Esther stared at him.
"Um, I didn't do anything though." Mickey sighed and looked at the sword.
"Never look at the sword's blade." Then he said, "Follow me. I shall show you where you are to sleep."
"Why does everybody say, 'shall', around here?" Esther muttered.
He walked through the black portal that suddenly appeared and motioned Esther to follow him. Of course, she hesitated again, then walked into the portal. Immediately she felt sick and dizzy. She couldn't breath and her vision was hazy. Yet she still stumbled on, for a voice in her head whispered,
"You shall feel far worse pains beside this, my Esther..."
Esther kept walking forward.
"Mother?" She thought hazily. "Mother." She decided.
Soon she was in a room as big as Times Square. There was a gigantic cliff that only went up, no slant, and almost touched the ceiling. In that little gaping space between the tower and the ceiling, was a rusty old bell. Around the tower's bottom there was a moat dug out. Though except water that was supposed to be in it, there was lava. Then, Esther saw the weirdest thing that she ever saw. All around the walls, were doors. Small doors, big doors, tall doors, short doors, thin doors, and wide doors. The lowest door, a medium-sized door, an old wooden, plain door, had a plaque above it. Carved into the plaque was the word, Esther. Esther scowled at it and looked at the floor in embarrassment. It was WAY too girly, the way the letters curved and twisted, making it look like butterflies.
Then she noticed a dagger right by her feet. She shot a look out of the corner of her eye at Mickey he was looking at the ceiling, and he seemed to be...scolding it. She shook her head and thought, Man he is weird! She picked up the dagger and started to carve the letters off, occasionally shooting a glance at Mickey. Still scolding. When she was finished, she carved in new letters that said, Esther! :).
She grinned and placed the dagger on the floor. She looked at the spot where Mickey was and gasped. He was gone! Where is he? Panic set in. When suddenly, she heard a voice, sly and grim. "So... This is the mighty Esther. Shall we give you a girl scout badge for whittling?" Slowly, Esther turned around. The monster.
Well well well! That was an interesting chapter. Remember, QAAWC! Questions And Answers With Characters! I'll see you soon with another chapter!
