Chapter Eleven

Zane yawned as he tried falling asleep in the backseat of Heather's car only to epically fail since all he could think about was Aster. Sighing in defeat he glanced over at Heather who was driving now clearly they had stopped while he was trying to sleep in order to switch off, since earlier it was Kaleb that had been driving.

"You can let me drive." Zane said yawning.

"Not a chance, you haven't slept once since we left," She said, "You do realize you'll have to actually be awake when you fight Blade right?"

Zane smiled, "I thought it would be a good idea to just sleep on the floor in the crystal palace while you save Aster for me. Of course I'll take the credit but that's expected, is it not?"

"I see I'm not the only one being sarcastic and joking around."

"Yeah, no way in hell are you going to pass me up."

"You sound so confident and yet you couldn't stop him from taking Aster."

Zane fell silent and took up looking out one of the windows at the passing scenery that seemed to look all the same to him.

"Sorry I went too far with that one," Heather said looking in the mirror to see Zane in the backseat, "If the situation wasn't so dire I would stop to allow all of us to sleep but unfortunately that's nothing more than a luxury right now."

"I know there's no need to apologize," Zane sighed, "I'm serious about you stopping to get some sleep, I'll even wake one of the others if I have too since you clearly don't want me driving."

He could see the weak smile on her face, "As nice as that sounds I'm afraid I'll have to pass it up, we can't afford to lose any more time."

"Understandable but I think we have enough time to stop for a few seconds to switch off on whose driving. After all it will be even worse to get in an accident should you fall asleep at the wheel." Zane pressed on.

"I suppose you're right but if I pull over and switch off with someone you have to swear you'll find a way to fall asleep yourself." She said yawning.

Zane looked into the mirror to make eye contact with her and wasn't surprised that he could see dark circles forming under her eyes from the lack of sleep. He was thinking about what she said and was thinking that she was right about him getting sleep too.

He sighed, "I will try but I'm not making any promises, after all I'm worried about Aster more than myself right now."

"I have sleeping pills that you can take," She offered, "By the time we get there you'll be awake again so no worries in that area, if you want to take them of course."

He thought for a long while again, "Very well if you switch with someone else in this car I'll be more than happy to take the sleeping pills and fall asleep myself."

He noticed the tired nod she gave him as she stopped taking care not to just slam on the brakes and wake the whole car up. She reached over and shook Catherine awake telling her to switch off with her so she could sleep. Catherine being the sweet little thing that she was gladly obliged.

"Here," Heather said handing him the bottle of sleeping pills, "Take only two, they're really strong since I have troubles sleeping at night as it is."

Zane nodded and took two of the pills swallowing them, "Have any water?"

Heather opened the glove compartment and pulled out a bottle of water, "Don't chug it you'll have to save some water since I don't have that much in this car."

"Fair enough."

Soon he was out like a light.

-xXx-

Aster paced around the small windowless room he had woken up in only moments ago more than just a little pissed off.

"Since when am I the damsel in distress?" He hissed to himself.

He was more than a little pissed off by the fact that he had been the one that was kidnapped and not one of the others. As bad as it sounded he rather of switched places with Zane that he could be the one who controlled his fate, but NO, HE had to be the one to get kidnapped placing him in one situation that he never ever wanted to be in. After this he was going to stay as far away from D.A.I for a long while as well as deny that this had ever happened.

"DAMN EVERYTHING!" He yelled kicking the wall hissing in pain as he realized the wall seemed to be as hard as a diamond. "FUCK MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!"

He heard the door to the room open and close quickly making a note that there was another presence in the room with him.

"Who's there?" He asked.

"Come now Aster," A familiar voice said, "How can you forget who I am? I'm Cain."

Aster mentally flinched trying hard to control his rage, "Sorry doesn't ring the bell, I do recall being kidnapped by a jealous asshole though maybe you know him."

Instantly Aster regretted what he had said as he felt Cain spin him around so he was looking into his eyes. The anger and hatred he saw in Cain's eyes paralyzed him, never before had he ever seen so much pent up hatred and anger in one person that he feared for his own life.

"Pissing me off isn't a smart idea Aster darling," He said, "Tsk. You're afraid of me now, good! You will do what I tell you or I will kill you, understood?"

Aster didn't know what to fear more, the anger in his eyes or the fact he sounded more than happy to kill someone, he knew that if he was going to live to see another day he was going to have to follow every order and command like a dog. The thought was sickening but so was the fact he was stuck between a psycho path and a hard place.

"Speak." Cain hissed.

"Understood." Aster said through clenched teeth.

"Understood what?"

Aster looked confused as to what more he wanted him to say other than the fact he understood.

"Let me explain clearly since you look lost," Cain answered after a while, "You will address me as master until I say otherwise. Is that clear?"

"Crystal clear." Aster replied refusing to give into the demand.

Cain smiled and pushed him back into the wall making Aster yelp in pain as he hit the hard surface.

"I didn't hear what you said pet." Cain hissed.

Aster was glaring up at Cain, "I said, crystal clear… Master."

"Very good, you learn quickly," He began, "Though I like your rebellious spirit I will break you in and you will be mine whether you like it or not."

Cain began walking to the door as Aster stood up still glaring at him, "Zane will come and he will save me! You don't stand a chance, master."

Cain glared at Aster as he walked back over to the silver haired boy and back handed him so hard that aster stumbled to catch his balance.

"Get used to never seeing him again," He said, "Zane will die by the time he gets here so get used to being stuck here like everyone else."

"I don't believe you."

"Let me explain it this way then, this world is a labyrinth within itself. The fact that he has no idea where he's going is a fatal mistake as the two of you learned when you ended up in the water with those monstrous sharks." He explained.

"How do you know that our friends aren't helping him?" Aster asked.

"It matters not as to who helps who! Don't you see Aster I control everything in this realm including yours and your beloved boyfriends fate. In a way I play the role of fate and destiny here so Zane doesn't stand a chance here with your friends. How they found a way into my realm is beyond me but I assure you all of them will die." He smirked.

"Who said anything about Jaden and them helping Zane?" Aster replied, "I'm talking about Heather, Kaleb and the rest of the girls."

Cain laughed, "They're all dead silly boy! They have been forever now, they no longer exist."

"What are you talking about? They saved our lives."

"Read my lips it's impossible!" He yelled, "They either died back then or escaped into your world and died."

"Then who were the girls that saved us?"

"If you're so confident describe to your master as to what the one named Heather looks like."

"She has shoulder length red hair and gray eyes."

Cain seemed to be staring at him in shock, "That's impossible! When I trapped the girls here there was a fire and all of them got trapped in it, she died in the flames and I gave up on life knowing that I would spend all eternity here, alone, in my crystal palace."

"What?"

"I disappeared for a while and when I returned I suppose I wasn't the same as I used to be and because she liked Kaleb more than me I trapped them here telling them I kidnapped Blade. In the argument she bumped into something in the church you were in, that's why there are walls of darker looking stone. I managed to get out by the girls were trapped inside by collapse of part of the ceiling, when the fire died out many people gathered around and dragged their lifeless bodies from the one place unfazed by the fire, however because of the smoke they suffocated." He explained.

Aster was in shock, if the girls were dead than whom did they meet?

-xXx-

"We're here!" Zane hear Catherine yell.

He awoke to see the girls standing outside the palace just looking at it in awe.

"Finally damn." He said stretching as he got out of the car.

He got out of the car and went into shock, the palace was huge and he now had no clue how they were going to find Aster. The others started a head but Heather remained behind as if plagued by something , Zane was curious.

"What's wrong Heather?"

"I have my doubts about escaping this world."

"I told you, me and Aster will bring all you guys back with us."

"A second chance at life…" Her voice seemed to trail off as if she hadn't heard him.

"Heather?"

"Perhaps I should explain everything to you and when this is all over perhaps all of us that are truly trapped here will be given a second chance."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"Zane, Me and the other girls aren't truly alive."

"If I was trapped here I would be board off my ass too."

She shook her head. "No Zane I mean we're dead."

Never Expected the little twist that they were really dead huh? XD sorry I was watching ghost shows on biography channel, a perfect example that TV gives me some weird ass ideas! Anyway I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and sorry it took forever to get up, I apologize for that but I've been busy with getting crap ready, I start college soon DX, plus my computer has been in the shop for a week now and I just recently got it back only to realize that the problem isn't fixed so I have to take it back in and using the downstairs computer to write my stories is a no go since it takes like three years to write one sentence cuz its all sorts of jacked up .. I promise that I'll try to get Chapter 12 up soon but I'm not making any promises because of everything going down lately D: but I will try for all of you T^T.