As much as I didn't want to go back to sleep, I was unconscious before I even reached the bed

As much as I didn't want to go back to sleep, I was unconscious before I even reached the bed. I heard Kartik's blurred laugh. I knew I was slipping into sleep, slowly.

That's exactly when a nightmare hit me. I was completely paralyzed in the real world. But inside of me I was screaming. Pippa was coming, she remembered me! But she didn't remember all the good times we had together, she remembered the bad. Like how I couldn't help her cross over, or how I was hesitant to give her the temple magic. She didn't remember how I helped her get out of the murky lake, or how we used to play childish games at Spence. She didn't remember how much I'd cried over her, or how sad I felt when she turned on us all.

"You deserve to die!" Pippa's voice thundered in my head over and over. Each time it grew louder. Like a roaring waterfall that runs for eternity.

"Leave me alone!" I cried. I was suddenly in a boat. No, it was the Gorgan! She was protecting me from the water nymphs!

"Stay away from them! No Gemma! You must not give in to them! Come back!" The Gorgan yelled at me through her rough rasp of a voice.

"Gorgon, what's happening?" I screamed as I unwillingly slid into the warm water with the nymphs. Nearby I saw Anne floating in the water. I swam to her. Her skin had been ripped off. And I realized that her eyes were the milky white of the Winterlands.

"Gemma! Don't leave me here to die! Save me! Don't let Song die! I don't want to die, Gemma! Help me!" Anne screamed at me. Though we were drowning in water, her voice was crystal clear, and that bothered me. I tried to swim away, but I couldn't! The surface kept moving away from me! I really was sinking. The water was filled with the water nymphs. One looked like Felicity.

"My affections are not normal, Gemma. I hear there are many more like me in Paris…" She said. The words she said were actual things she had said to me at Spence. The Felicity Nymph circled around me, not helping me escape, but only watching me drown.

"Felicity! Come here! Look, I am Queen of the realms! Eat the berries, Fee!" Pippa skipped across the surface, her feet did not break the surface tension, they stayed afloat. Pippa was gorgeous again, she wore the cape Felicity had given her so long ago.

"Pippa!" I cried in horror as she turned into a large monster. But the monster was beautiful. It had Pippa's curly hair and fair skin. It's teeth were gothic and jagged but still pretty in a scary way.

"Gemma!"

"Gemma!"

"Gemma!"

"Over here, Gemma!"

"Look at me!"

"I hear screams!" I saw the factory girls spinning under the water. Then the magic creatures of the realms appeared.

"Kill her." A beautiful purple centaur ordered. I was in the forest now. My hands and feet were bound behind me. Someone cracked a whip at me.

"No! Please, stop!" I cried as my own blood filled my vision. All I could see was red! Red everywhere. I shook my head trying to take away the blood. It worked, but then I regretted it. I saw the Winterland Army of the Dead. I saw the Poppy Warriors. They laughed when they saw me tied up and bleeding. My eyes wandered to Kartik's older brother. I gasped. He was the one laughing the most. I heard the loudest and most wicked laugh come from behind me. I craned my neck to see who it was that enjoyed my misery.

"You deserve this, Gemma. You coward." Pippa laughed. Her ghost glided over to me. Then she entered me! Her spirit was inside of me!

"No! Pippa, Please! Get out!" I writhed. But it only made me bleed more. I could feel Pippa's head in mine, her arms taking control of mine. I was pushed aside in the back of my own mind.

"Let me go now. She's all mine." Pippa ordered. The Poppy Warriors bowed and cut me, or Pippa now, loose.

"Bow down to your knew ruler! Queen Pippa! I rule the realms! I rule the Winterlands! I hold the power!" Pippa screeched, or rather, her voice came out of my mouth and I screeched.