Level of Madness

Chapter 10 : Separation

(Internal point of view, Rochelle)

I have the impression that time does not pass, but slowly the pain goes on my back, so I can finally get up and walk a little, I still have a little sore ribs but I get to to walk despite a heavy burn in my left ankle. The sun is very heavy and on the horizon there are only ruins buried in the sand, the place is so empty provoking in my heart ... An immense solitude, but as all fell in these black holes, maybe they are here too? Just this thought gives me a little hope and forces me to move forward in this empty desert, yet it's strange I feel like a presence here, as if someone were watching me. I look at the ruins around me and then I begin to hear lovely little sounds come from beneath the rocks, I crouch underneath and then see as a brown stripe with his skin covered with shiny signs on his body, they are almost similar to those of Alizé, but they breathe purity.

- The poor thing, she is locked in this cage! I murmured sadly and trying to pull the bars out, but when I approach my hand she comes to me like little kisses on the top of my hand and leaving me little hints of hickeys that do not very wrong.

- Let's calm you, little ray! I just want to get out of there. I tell her to reassure her and coming to caress her skin dry and soft, I take one of my daggers then with I slice the bars, the line is free again, it flies, flying around me while squealing then she seems to want to guide me through the desert, she starts to go through the desert

- Hey wait for me! I called him running through the desert, we go through a sandy slope where I slide on it, but there is something wrong, it is much too quiet and I feel like I feel something crawling under the sand, suddenly the ground begins to shake precisely under my feet, a large sand hole is formed, immediately I jump and I was right to jump now.

A huge royal cobra comes out of the sand, the fangs ready to bite me.

Immediately, I jump on the side and managed to dodge just the fangs of the giant snake, but also, the ruins that helped me to get out of it, are rotten under the poison of the snake, I hurry to get up then to flee, I feel that the snake pursues me then I continue to run until the small ray returns to me to show me access under a big ruin buried in the sand. I do not think and run to the small ray but all of a sudden, the snake appears in front of me and is about to attack me by waving his viscous body, it blocks me the road so I do not have the choice, I have to get rid of it if I want to pass, suddenly it rushes on me, all I lock his fangs with his daggers and even managed to cut them, but his mouth collapses on me and he almost swallow me with that I do not tear it from the inside. The giant snake dies and explodes thus increasing my stats, I see my level climb: 1200/3000 level!

Now, I find the ray that leads me into the small slot under the ruins, now I am plunged into the dark with some rays of sun crossing the stone floor above me, and at the bottom, I see small golden lights shine in the bottom of a cave facing me.

The ray calls me to it.

(Internal point of view: Jack)

My head seems so heavy and I have a strange desire to vomit. When I open my eyes a thick mist surrounds me, full of little lights surround me and there are also many flowers. With pain I stand up, my back cracks but I realize that I lost no life, I was lucky, the fall was so intense ... This big black hole sucking me in inside, with this all-black guy with orange hair who smiled at me before I disappeared first, I even thought I heard my friends call me when I fell into the dark and now ... Here I am right here. In the depths of this misty forest where I hear the birds singing in the trees, wary I go in this place in search of my friends, if I land here, maybe they too, they do not may not be so far from me as I think.

But this forest is really beautiful.

But there is like ... A strange smell here. As a smell of rot a few steps from me, I look around because if it is a decaying animal somewhere but I find no dead bodies anywhere. Oh just thinking about it I have chills everywhere and I feel like throwing up. Suddenly walking a little further into the forest, the smell is closer than before and then facing me in the mist, I see a part of the forest completely dead. Above my statistics are the name of this place: The corrupt forest! This place gives me chills, a real horror film set too when I take a few steps forward, I turned around and then I saw full of small animals of the forest to be faced with the corrupt without will of me follow, they all watch me go to this place, even the birds do not dare to take flight. There is a bear rising up and looking at me strangely, like rabbits, deer, squirrels and little foxes. Is he waiting for something from me?

In order to respond to their looks, I make a sign with my arm before leaving them, they do not produce any sounds and little by little I disappear in this greedy and icy white haze covering the dead forest. Everything is so similar that I manage to lose myself and obviously no traces of my friends in this place, my soul does not show me any signs of life here, I am all alone. Not a single living being in this cursed place, by dint of walking slowly I am exhausted and decides to sit against a dead tree, it crackles slightly under my weight, I put my face in my knees and stay without doing anything, my soul throws distress messages without calls from the beatings of my own heart, hoping to get an answer, but here ...

I'm all alone.

Suddenly ... My soul begins to beat and flash, signaling an unknown and slightly soft presence, I get up immediately and my soul releases a slightly green ray through the mist, but at the same time I hear noises not too far, heavy footsteps, a dripping liquid and a frightful smell of rot and turning my gaze, I see as a dripping black mass walking through the dead wood and at the same time I saw a tree that was still in life dying, the leaves decompose, the wood of the tree dies and cracks and finally ... There remains only a tree naked and dead.

(Internal point of view: Emily)

After several hours, we finally escaped the land of twilight thanks to Helen and Spandel, but having no knowledge of the path we took, we are now in a place all black and obliged to light with torches to find our way is the total silence between us, Spandel remains close to Helen who ignores me totally, his behavior towards me is terribly annoying, I did not do anything wrong, I'm just in love with Kirron who hated Pandore and Helen, too, but me ... I liked her a lot Pandore, she was even a precious friend for me, so why does she blame me so much?

- Do you think we'll soon arrive at a destination? Spandel asks curiously and with the senses disturbed by the darkness of this place, Helen looks around and then makes appear a butterfly she sends in the dark.

- Normally we should arrive in a place in a very short time! Because we have just seen several ruins around us, we are not far from a place! Helen answers, showing us the ruins of a railroad mounted.

Strange this way ... it looks like it leads to a great descent!

- Hey wait ... We should not stop here? Their advice I suggest, everyone turns to me, Spandel with a surprised look and Helen ... with an annoyed look.

- Why do you want to stop? Asked Spandel worried and then he asks me if I'm hurt or that I feel unwell

- No it's just that ... This path looks dangerous, I think we're headed for a vertiginous descent, so I thought maybe we could ... change course? I suggested, Helen looks at me with a bad eye and then answer me

- Why Emily ...? Would you be afraid of what is waiting for us? I do not have time to lose, so if you want to stay here, you can, I do not stop you! Here, this time I can not, her contempt for me is unbearable and even if it is scary, I'm tired, this time I would not let myself do it

- Will you scorn me for a long time like that Helen? What's wrong with you? Why are you so bad with me? All because I'm with Kirron and I did not defend Pandore. But she did not die because of Kirron, she died for another reason. So stop this annoying crisis!

There, a terrible shiver runs through my back when I see her throw her purple eyes on mine and she approaches, and I know that if I slap her, she will not hesitate to kill me but I remain stoic by hiding my fear in her presence, it is then that she catches me by my top, pulls me towards her while telling me

"Poor idiot !" then she throws me on his side that gives on a fall, I cry out of fear for fear of dying then I feel falling into something hard but not very high, in reality it was only a very small descent and I landed in a small wheelhouse on the railways, the big down is a few centimeters. I have the air jerk after such a fright

- But you're crazy! I shouted at her, she sneers at me and then goes down to join me in the cabin with Spandel, the cabin suddenly activates and then we descend into the vertiginous descent, I cling to the cabin firmly.

It's worse than on the train.

Suddenly, the dark clouds around us dissipates and lets us glimpse, a real dump as a factory. Since when have there been dumps of agglomerations in a fantastic place? But what is certain is that this place seems cursed so the atmosphere is bad, plus there is a small village below, but it is in very bad condition. When suddenly, looking at Helen ... I find her strange, she has the gaze and deep on this place, as if she knew him, she breathes very hard then she makes her nails grind on the iron. She seems stressed and terribly pensive.

Once at the entrance of this "dump", we hear a noise coming from the sky, then we see as a reddish teleportation gate, golden rails unfurl in the sky and then a big black train spewing out of the sky. Red smoke rolls over our heads at high speed and almost suffocates us with its smoke, but when you think about it it's the smoke that causes that darkness here.

- Stop this train! Said Helen suddenly with eyes blushing, then we see her 90% loft up to 92% just by looking at the train, she has a smile on her face and unbuttoning her cloak and hanging on one of her shoulders, unveiling so the black slit she has between her two breasts. It is true that Pandore had the same but this injury has always given me cold in the back.

This injury is so ... shocking.

(No point of view)

In an environment of ice and intense cold. Little Lucy wakes up in a big pile of snow, she shakes with cold, shakes her head to remove the snow in her black hair and then rubs her little arms with her little hands. Lucy looks all around her, snow everywhere, white and mountains and even if the snowflakes are very beautiful, Lucy starts to get very scared, she gets up almost frozen and screams

- Daddy ! Angel ... ! Maria ! Everyone, where are you? She calls desperately, she receives no answers, she calls again and again, still without answers. Poor little Lucy starts crying, because every time Lucy gets lost, she starts crying so loudly that her parents can recognize her voice from afar and pick her up, but this time nobody comes.

Several minutes elapse without Lucy ceasing to cry without realizing that in reality she was not alone in this snowy place because between the mountains, a threatening shadow moves in the shape of albino lion with Ice pick on the back and a mane made of sharp ice and blue eyes, looking for food to hear the desperate tears of Lucy who does not even notice the presence of the animal advancing towards her and revealing her big fangs white: The Snow Lion, level 70, ranked in Difficul Boss! But what he did not know was that there was not only her, there is also another presence but she is much more powerful. Small steps are formed in the hard snow and approaches Lucy who is still crying, the snow lion finally roars frighteningly Lucy who recovers at once and begins to shriek in terror trying to s' flee despite the snow and cold that blocks her movements, and before the lion can attack, Lucy began to scream louder then suddenly, amethysts matched with ice icy out of the ground and assaults the lion back quickly so not to be pierced, an icy wind blows on little Lucy who sees a shadow forming behind her.

Curious and intimidated, she turns towards the shadow and sees then, a little girl of her age with a very long gray hair falling down to her calf with big blue eyes only dressed in a gray dress, barefoot in the snow and an amethyst pin decorating her long hair. But this girl has a shy look as the lion finally walks away into the mountains.

Only the amethysts disappear, leaving only the icy peaks strangely but eventually disappearing after a while, the little girl in front of Lucy is surprised and a little intimidated. She does not say a word, stammers and makes strange gestures, Lucy does not understand and continues to sob, so the little girl panics and then rubs Lucy's eyes while pressing her cheeks to try to make her smile . Lucy does not sob any more and remains amazed at such behavior.

- Who are you... ? Lucy inquires curiously, the girl does not seem to understand and tries to speak

- Who ... Who ... are you? She repeated, Lucy is surprised, this is the first time she meets a child like this, so she tries otherwise

- My name is ... Lucy ... what about you? What's your name ? Does not she ask otherwise, the girl's eyes widen, Lucy does not know what to do, this girl does not understand her, but at least she thinks she's not alone, then the girl manages to say something .

- You ... Lucy! "Lucy nods" Me ... Shiro ...

- I ... I ... my name is ... Shiro!

(Internal point of view: Damian)

It took me a long time to regain my senses, I'm still in the land of Twilight, still alone, and my friends who were teleported elsewhere, I could not do anything, but the worst is that my precious children have disappeared too. That's when I look at my sword and then see an orange diamond adorned with the hole I had in my sword, filled with Twilight that warms my heart, yet I do not waste time to start their search, my soul makes me feel that two of my friends are not far from the lands of Twilight, they are the souls of my little Maria and Kirron, but for now they seem to be still stuck in the portal that had create Eliot and thanks to the powers of the Twilight residing in me, I know where they are going to land ... In the volcano far away in the mountains after the lands of Twilight.

I have to go quickly before it's too late!

(Internal point of view: Alizé)

I feel the wind blowing on my face, I yawned with tired and can not even remember what happened to us. That's when I look around me and then I realize that we are in a place that I know very well, moreover I feel that I found all my powers and all my violence ... It is perfect ! I will finally be able to fight with all my strength without being handicapped by my calm, around us, big iron towers and in the distance several small floating islands, that's what I said to myself, I'm in the lands of heaven, I imagine then that "our" meeting will be inevitable. Suddenly, I hear yawns in my back, I turn and then sees the little Angel who still moves in his sleep, I sigh strongly and approaches me, he is curled up in a ball, trembling with cold and sobbing, I sigh again and then snapping fingers, I bring up a blanket and then wind the little Angel in and then take him in my arms.

Oh damn what do I do?

I approach the edge of the floating island where we are to see the clouds below me, but here there is an unpleasant presence that gives me chills and that I should not dwell too much on this islet So I see the ruins of the city from the sky far away, it's better that I go there with little Angel, even having regained all my powers, I will have to hold myself in the presence of this child, what is frustrating? Why is it falling on me?

I jump from the island and then manage to reach the ruins of the sky, the little Angel is still asleep, but in his sleep, I hear he calls someone and he keeps shaking and he sweats a lot and his little heart beats fast enough, so I touch his forehead then notice that he has a little fever

- Damn, plus you get sick! You arrange my situation well, well ... I guess it's normal since you're a little fragile! I said, keeping my hand on his forehead, I decided to go into one of the least damaged ruins and here thanks to my energy, I warmed up a bit and at the same time I dig into my inventory for trying to find a healing potion, and while I do that, I feel Angel snuggling his head against my chest and I hear him say ...

- Mommy...

I blush embarrassed …

(Internal point of view: Kirron)

The black portal ends up opening below a huge volcano, immediately the heat hits my skin but I firmly keep Maria against me so that it does not fall into the crater of the volcano, but because of the heat, she starts crying while we are falling. And before we fall I take my spear all black and the plant in the rock of the volcano over the lava and with I go up quickly and out of the crater, I hurry to move away by sliding on the rock and then when I get away from the volcano, the heat is so heavy that I lose my balance, I sweat a lot and finally fall on my knees on the dusty ground, but at the same time I look at Maria, luckily she has nothing, no wounds, no burns. That reassures me so I caress her blue hair and covers her to protect her from dust.

It was then that a powerful roar shook the earth and the sky rang, I then look up at the sky and then through the thick mist to the sky, a gigantic figure of red bloody blood color with huge fangs and bulging eyes Very threatening yellow: It's a huge dragon! This one heading towards the volcano, but by a violent blow of wings, I am propelled with violence against the ground to the point that Maria falls to me of the arms, it falls a little further, and I am still sounded but despite everything I fight to get up and face this animal mythology that seems to have completely ignored me and went to settle inside the volcano, but what I did not notice is that behind me, a terrifying monster like a giant fox with several tails is facing Maria who frightened, hides her face with her red fox mask.

- Maria ! Shouted the voice of Damian who came running towards us and we who had wanted to save Maria ... The beast catches her by her little dress then fled with her.

So leaving us both in an infamous terror!

That's all for this fantastic chapter that is rather short I know but I guarantee that the next chapter will be a little longer. So what will happen? Do you think Maria and Angel will survive? What will happen to our friends? Will they meet? You will see in the next chapter. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, if it is the case leave a comment, it will make me happy, I make you big kisses and tell you very quickly for a next chapter! Kisses