Krysta spirit of fortune ch 10

Quick authors note, I meant to put 276 years ago in the last chapter when Krysta was confronting the bakhtak. It would be about a year before Krysta met Jack.
WARNING: dark and death ahead.
Sorry it's taken me so long to update. I've been busy with finals. :P

Chapter 10: regrets in the dark

I was running through the dark, voices echoing around me.
"Alone."
"Invisible."
"Hated."
"Bad luck."
"Alone."
"Pointless."
"Worthless."
"Evil."
"Give up."
"Alone."
They filled my ears, bouncing around in my head. I closed my eyes to the dark but that only caused me to trip. I curled up into a ball, my hands over my ears, willing the voices to stop.
"Krysta?" A different voice echoed.
"Jack?" I asked, I opened my eyes, looking for my friend, nothing but dark.
"Krysta, why didn't you tell me?" Jack's voice echoed around the dark.
"I was going too, but I never got the chance.…" I tried but Jack interrupted.
"Don't give me that. You could have told me when we first met. There's no way I can be friends with someone who hides such a dark secret. Goodbye forever, Krysta." He spat at me, then everything was silent.
"Jack? Wait, come back! Jack! Please, don't leave me here in the dark. Jack, please I can't breathe."

I couldn't breathe, that's the first thing I noticed as I came too. A great heavy wait was on my chest, causing me to only breathe in short gasping breaths. I opened my eyes to see the hideous face of the bakhtak staring down at me. It's face looked even worse from lighting of a candle.
"Did you have a pleasant nap?" It gloated.
"Get off me, you…" I said trying to sit up only to realize both my hands and feet were tied, "where am I? Untie me right now or I swear I'll…"
"What fun would that be? And if you must know, we're underground." The bakhtak said, it's rancid breath causing me to tear up.
"What's the matter? Don't like being in small dark spaces?" It teased.
"No, your breath is so bad, it's making me want to vomit." I said, jerking my torso to dislodge the creature. It didn't budge.
"Why am I down here? What do you want?" I hissed at it.
"That's easy, you're here because I brought you here, I want you to know what it's like to be alone in the dark for nearly 200 years." It hissed in my ear. It laughed at me as I tried to break my bonds.
"No good, it's made of nightmares. No possible way to break it." It laughed.
"Why take revenge on me? It was the Man in the Moon who sealed you away." I demanded, fighting the rising panic of being in such a small place.
"Because you helped him!" The bakhtak said, becoming furious, "after just one death you got scared and decided to get rid of me!"
"It wasn't right what I was helping you to do, MiM said I wasn't meant to cause this sadness in people. He told me I was meant to bring good fortune not mischief and misery. And what you were doing was evil, I couldn't go through with it anymore." I said, watching the bakhtak as it got off me.
"I see traitor, you were just looking for a better opportunity. And when MiM came along and filled your head with light you all but forgot me." The creature said, it's eyes cold. It changed right then, growing taller, it's green skin replaced by pink, it's back grew straight, and it grew hair on it's head. The only thing that remained unchanged was its black eyes.
"Remember when I looked like this?" It asked, sweeping a hand through its now blond hair, "it was for you, ya know. I wasted so much power on making myself look like this so you wouldn't leave. But you did, and for what? You're still as alone and unseen as ever." It returned back to its goblin like shape.
"You may have looked nice, but I could see your black heart through your eyes." I said.
"That doesn't matter now..." It snapped, then saddened," we made such a good team." It lamented. I glared at it in the dim candle light.
"What would you think of teaming up again? It would be just like old times." It said, looking away from me briefly as something clicked down one of the tunnels.
"I'd rather die than help you again." I hissed.
"Have it your way. I'll see if you change your mind after the first decade or so." It said and left, blowing out the only candle in the room.
Instantly I was surrounded by the dark. It was suffocatingly dark and I could swear I felt the walls beginning to close in around me. I curled up on myself, trying to make the space seem bigger. I closed my eyes and pictured a large place, filled with light, endless flowers and trees before my eyes, and nothing but the night sky above, the moon peering down on all of it. This helped me relax a little, but the rocks digging into my side wasn't helping me escape reality. I pulled on one of them but found it was paved into the ground.
"So," I thought to myself, "I'm back to being surrounded in stone." This time there was no moonlight, no sparkling dreamsand to help me escape the darkness. I desperately wished I was back at the tooth palace, with Jack and Sandy and the other Guardians. I smiled as a memory of Jack and I pulling a prank of Bunny came to mind. I closed my eyes and let the memory come.
We had been replacing Bunny's egg bombs with real eggs when Bunny had hopped into the warren.
"Oi! Snowflake! What do ya think your doin'!" The rabbit shouted. I had transformed into a cat and jumped into Jack's hoodie, and Jack just took off flying.
"Get back here ya ruddy show pony!" Bunny shouted and threw an egg at Jack. Jack managed to catch the egg and throw it back at Bunny. It hit him on the head, the yellow goop sliding down his face.
"Wait till I tell North about this one! You'll be grounded for eternity!"
The memory ended and I was once again in the dark.

Time seemed to have paused all around me, so I took the only escape from the dark as I could. I let my mind drift through my memories. Most were happy, but others were dark, cold and lonely. My mind settled on one particular memory from about 276 years ago. It was the night before I would betray the bakhtak. I had met the bakhtak a few years ago, as I was trying to find a place in the world.
"Come on, Krysta. After years of ignoring us, they deserve a few nightmares." It said, looking like a normal human.
"If your sure about this one Bak." I said, using my newly perfected power of luck to cause a toy to fall and bump the latch of a window. The window swung open and Bak wiggled his way inside. I quickly came in behind him and closed the window. Bak was already at work sitting on the chest of a little boy. I watched in disgusted fascination as the child was slowly taken into a nightmare, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. I noticed this one was quite sickly looking. I had helped Bak give other children and even adults nightmares but none had been so weak looking. I had been having weird dreams lately and most involved a child looking at me with cold dead eyes.
I was pulled from my wondering by the massive coughing fit the little boy was having.
"That's enough, Bak." I said, pulling at Bak's arm.
"No, not until the nightmare is complete." He hissed, pushing me away.
"You're hurting him, nightmares are one thing. This is something else." I said trying to figure out a way to get Bak off the child, who's breathing was becoming more irregular by the minute. I tried pulling Bak but he only shoved me away. I finally tackled Bak and pulled him off the child. Rising to my feet I looked at the child, his eyes were open but staring blankly at me. I touched his chest but I could feel no heart beat, no rise and fall of breath, nothing but cold.
"No!" I said, staring at the child. I pressed my hand against his chest, trying to get him to breathe. I pushed again and again but still nothing. Using every ounce of luck I had I willed the child to breathe!
Nothing.
"This is your fault!" I whirled on Bak, tears of anger blurring my vision.
"Our fault, you mean." Bak said, standing up, "you're the one who opened the window. You're the one who wanted revenge. This is what we do, we punish those who refuse to see us." The moon broke through the clouds, suddenly casting a moonbeam on Bak, showing me, for the first time, what he truly was. I ran then. Out the window and across the roads until I reached a graveyard. I found a willow tree and buried my face against its roots. I cried through the night and into the next day.
"Bak was right," I thought to myself, I had wanted revenge for being ignored and passed through. I thought about that sort of thing until the sun had set and the moon had risen.
"Krysta," a familiar voice said, "what is your path?"
"I don't know, I thought it was helping Bak, but now… I just don't know." I said to the voice. A memory came to mind, it was of Ezmera saying goodnight to me.
"Goodnight my luck charm." That's what she had always said, luck charm.
"I'm a luck charm, not a bringer of death and misery." I said, I pushed out through the willow branches and looked to the moon. It shined down on me and I could feel myself being filled with light and hope. I decided I would never again help Bak. I would be a bringer of luck to those who deserved it , and misfortune to those who sought to do wrong. And the first one I was going to bring bad luck to was Bak. I found him looking for me outside the graveyard.
"Krysta, there you are. Come on I found our next target." He went to grab my arm but I pulled it out of his reach. He studied my face.
"You're still mad about last night, I warned you that it was part of the job." He said.
"No you didn't." I said, glaring at him.
"It was one kid, just one insignificant child." He said.
"No, and take off that disguise. I already know what you really look like." I growled. For a moment he looked at me as though I had lost my mind then he was the creature I had seen last night. I had a thought then, and as though I was in a dream I grabbed Bak and pushed him into the graveyard.
"No!" He screamed as a sudden tremor caused the earth beneath him to open and swallow him. After that I had stowed away on a boat and traveled to America and met Jack.

I had thought that I wound never see Bak again. I was wrong and now I was the one stuck underground.
"How long had it been?" I wondered, "a day? Maybe two." It could have been a whole month later for all I knew.
"This is how it ends?" I asked the dark, "alone in the dark, surrounded by silence and regrets."
"If you had one regret you could change what would it be?" A voice said. I though it was in my head.
"That I told Jack the truth. Or that I had never met that bakhtak." I answered.
"The truth about what?" The voice asked.
"That I was part of a child's murder. I regret that above all else. I think about it everyday and pray the child would forgive me." I whispered.
"What if the child hadn't died? What if you actually saved it?" The voice asked. I didn't answer, I was to deep in thought.
"Krysta, I lived. I was the child you saved that night. I lived on to become a doctor and helped many people." The owner of the voice said, a ghost appeared, it was of a tall young man. He had on the clothes of a doctor from that time.
"And you are forgiven." The ghost said. I smiled then, and tears of gratitude fell down my face.
"Thank you." I said and the ghost returned my smile before fading away.
"That was weird." A familiar voice said, and then there was light, very briefly but still light.
"Jack?" I asked, sitting up the best I could, considering my arm was asleep from laying on it for so long and my arms were still tied.
"Yep, hold still." He said, using a flash of frost to help him see. He carefully picked me up and put me over his shoulder.
"You know, I'd usually be mad at you for this but right now I'm just glad to see you." I said as we plodded down the tunnels.
"Like wise." Jack said. He carried me out into moonlight and I sighed with relief. The other Guardians were there, each of them would have been at a disadvantage underground, except Bunny who wasn't there.
"Are you alright?" Asked North.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I said as Jack set me down on the ground. He tried to undo my bindings but the nightmare substance wouldn't yield. Sandy came and touched it gently. The black turning to gold under his fingers. I massaged my wrists as soon as I was free.
"Where's the bakhtak?" I asked immediately.
"Tooth gave it such a beating, then North sealed it into this." Jack said, holding up a wooden box as big as a marble.
"Manny's idea, should be safe at the pole." North said. I nodded in agreement.
"Oh, there you are." Bunny said hopping over to join the group. He handed me my dagger and I quickly slid it back in its sheath in my boot.
"So…" I said, no knowing what else to say.
"What did that beasty want with ya?" Bunny asked. I was not prepared to tell them, Jack knew the story now, but the Guardians might just lock me up before I could get the whole story out. As though North sensed my hesitation, he came up and patted my shoulder.
"Is ok, you can tell us." He encouraged. As close as he was I slipped my hand into his coat pocket and stole another snow globe. I was definitely going to be on the naughty list for centuries after this.
"Old friend turned enemy. Got to go." I said, once more evading the Guardians and pulling out the globe.
"Crikey, not again!" Bunny said, trying to grab the sphere from me. I dodged him, barely going cat so I'd have the advantage.
"Krysta." Jack called.
"Sorry Frosty, I've got luck to spread." I winked at him and whispered my destination to the globe. And before they could stop me, I was through the portal and back to being in my favorite tree by the pond. I settled down in the crook, pulled out my emergency bag of chips from it's hiding place, and contentedly watched the wind play with the surface of the pond. Feeling better than I had in years.

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