Wow! Thank you all my lovely reviewers! THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER UNLESS I GET AN INSPIRATION FOR THE AFTERMATH! Just to make what happened in the last chapter clear, here is a recap:
There were two sheets of music hidden in the piano. One had Nina's handwriting on it which gave her a message to run before it was too late. Senkhara controlled Nina in her sleep to give her this message. The other one Nina played and... well, see what happened in this chapter. What still remains unknown is who was alone in the tunnels in Chapter 3, Burning Flames. We are also unsure of what will happen to Nina after she plays the Song of Time and 'becomes her worst nightmare' currently. Well, I know exactly what happened but mwahahahah - you don't yet!
Dead Songs
Chapter Ten, The Song of Time
No point of view
Nina stood enthralled, looking at the world from Senkhara's point of view. Everything moved strangely; blurry, yet more distinct than the rest. Color seemed unimportant. She had one objective, and one objective only; remove the hostages. Instead of thinking of them as her friends, she thought of them as simply what she had to remove from Rufus Zeno's hands. Then he could be dealt with.
She had not finished playing the song on the sheet music. She let it drift out of her hand. Before it touched the floor, she was gone.
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Fabian
I looked in fear at Nina's face. What was she doing? Her hair had turned black, like Senkhara's. She was floating around six inches off the ground and her clothes had changed.
Instead of her usual jeans and top, she was wearing something which looked like only Patricia in her wildest dreams would wear. The black folds of the cloth flowed everywhere as she slowly moved forward.
The only thing which seemed like it was Nina any more were her blue eyes. They had stayed, but they were cruel and calculating. I swallowed. It was still Nina. It was still the girl I knew, so it would be alright, wouldn't it? She'd come back, wouldn't she.
"Rufus," she hissed.
Rufus' eyes widened in terror. "Chosen one!" he pleaded. "Stop!"
Nina drifted to a halt. "Release them." she coldly demanded.
I couldn't tear my gaze away from her face. What had she done? What was happening? As I looked at her, the only thing I could think was a name, and it didn't make any sense. Senkhara. She reminded me of Senkhara. Surely, that was the only explanation? It wasn't much of an explanation even if it was true.
Rufus nodded slowly, but after he turned towards us he pulled out a gun. A couple of thugs that had come into the warehouse with him ran in front of him.
Nina growled; an unearthly noise. "What is the meaning of this?" she asked.
Nine gunshots rang out. Victor. Jerome. Mara. Alfie. Amber. Patricia. Joy.
Everything went black. Nina couldn't get to me. I would never see her again.
Never again.
*.*
I screamed and suddenly Senkhara left me. She cast her hand out and the five men crumpled to the ground. Rufus was gone.
My face twisted in pain. Fabian. Amber. Mara. Jerome. Alfie. Joy, Patricia, Eddie. Victor. They were all gone.
I started to run. The wind felt like nothing against my flushed cheeks and my burning tears. There were only a few people left on the deserted streets and they stopped to look at me. I didn't care. My legs moved against the air and it felt like I wasn't moving at all. My eyes seemed disconected from my mind and what was around me didn't make sense. One time I ran right in front of the car and scraped my knee against the curb. I just kept running until I saw the big ivy covered house.
I ran inside and slammed the door. I bent to the piano. In the corner of my mind, I realized that my clothes were back to normal and my long brown hair was in my face. I was somewhat releived to have my blue striped shirt back instead of the flowing black dress that I... or was it Senkhara? had had on previously.
I started to play the piece titled Song of Time.
I didn't realize it sounded beautiful. I didn't realize slowly a blue mist was curling out of the keyboard. I didn't look where my fingers were going. All I could see were the little black dots on the lines of paper.
"Chosen One," a voice whispered.
I spun around, but the piano continued to play. My hands had left the keyboard, but the song continued to play over and over again. "Whose there?" I asked.
"You have invoked the Song of Time," the voice whispered again.
I knew that voice. "Senkhara?" I asked timidly.
"Only in your dreams shall you remember what was..." she trailed off. There was a flash of black, and then I opened my eyes.
*.*
The clock read 3:02 pm. Amber walked out from behind me, and I was surprised to see I was on the balcony. "So Nina, can I ask you a personal question?" she asked while staring at the screen of her phone.
"Um, yeah." I said.
"So, if there was no mystery would you be after Fabian as much as Joy is?" she looked into my eyes.
I had a brief flash of understanding, and I grinned.
"What?" Amber asked slowly.
"Deja vu." I said.
"Whatever." Amber said, and just walked away.
Vera bustled out of the kitchen. "Jerome, get over here!" she called.
Victor emerged from out of the kitchen. He had some soot on his jacked and for a brief moment I wondered if he had been down in the basement. I thought for a minute. He couldn't have been because he didn't know how that entrance worked. And he didn't have an amulet. Well, mysteries are mysteries.
I grinned. Life was back to normal.
Why would it be any different? I frowned. That was odd.
Did you like it? Also, Victor was the one that was down in the basement. Mwhahaha, they still don't know he has an amulet! Well at least they didn't in House of Doublecross/House of Wires, which is when this is set.
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