Chapter 3
Slipping Through.
"So basically what you telling me is that we can use this device to…" the royal guard took a step back from King Jess and looked down at the floor and sighed. "I'm sorry my king but this device will not work anymore."
Jess took a deep breath and retreated a bit into the thrown room. The world around him started to dematerialize, "DAMMIT!" the young man was overcome with a sorrow and hatred that knew no bounds. Jess walked over to his little sister, the tears in her eyes were only slight. Jess kneeled down on one knee and looked at her straight in the eyes.
"May Belle.. I really know that you're doing this to help me but…" the emotion was too much for the boy to handle. "I can't play pretend anymore with you. I just can't play a fantasy game where I can "resurrect" my friend," Jess started to stammer when the next sentence came flowing from his mouth.
"I have to accept that she is gone…and so do you." SMACK! Jess lay on the cold hard earth looking up at his little sister. "What did you do that for?!" May Belle took a Deep breath. "I just need you to trust me on this Jess, things are not as they seem. You and Leslie didn't just create a game out here…" she looked around the woods as if waiting for something to appear and swallow here whole. "You tapped into a different world."
Jess stood up and rubbed his sore cheek." What do you mean? "another world." May Belle took a few paces away from her brother and turned to face him.
"Jess…just shut up and pay attention." Jess cocked his head slightly to the left and just stared at his sibling. "what are you going to.." he was abruptly silenced by a ethereal sound that reverberated off the trees and earth. And with a slight blue haze May Belle faded into nothing. For what seemed like an eternity Jess stood stock still, rooted to the forest floor in a kind of amazement and fright not befitting him. Then the reality of the matter hit him like a gale wind.
"MAY BELLE!!!!!!" He was screaming at the top of his lungs and frantically pacing and clawing at cold earth and tree bark as if looking for a trap door in which his sister was able to pull of this kind of illusion. And then the blue haze and ethereal noise started to swell again. Jess whipped around to see May Belle fading back into the spot she had just faded from. Jess's nerves, mind and body could no longer handle what the day had brought him. He fell to his knees. And as the haze and noise faded, May Belle stood towering in front of her broken brother.
Jess gazed up at his sister in disbelief, what kind of force had May Belle broken into, what kind of magic had empowered his "little" sister. Jess slowly rose to his feet and grabbed his sister by the shoulders and asked "How is this possible? How did you do that?" May Belle flashed her brother a very motherly look and quietly said. "You helped forge this world, now just use it's power to help…her."
