Me: Ok so here is the next chapter. Sorry it took me so long, I had to retype it cause I lost my flash drive thingy that had the almost finished product on it so I had to restart it. Plus band camp has started so I've been busy and school is going to start after this week on the 23rd and I've been looking at colleges and stuff so I've been so busy.
Marie: It's not the only thing she lost. And no I'm not talking about her sanity. You can't lose something you never had.
Me: Shut up and don't remind me. I'm still all depressed about that. I literally want to cry but I'm still looking for it.
Marie: Shut up band will get your mind off of it.
Me: No it won't, can we just get on with the story please.
Marie: Whatever.
Flashback:
"Night." I said lying down next Tadase. Ikuto layed down on the other side.
"Hey Nagi." Tadase whispered as Kukai turned the lights off since he was the closest. "Wake me up if you have that dream ok. Before you forget."
"I'm fine Tadase. Really." I whispered back. "Don't worry about me."
"You can't sleep anymore Nagi." he said to me turning on his side to face me.
"Alright if I have it again I'll wake you up." I said yawning. "Night."
"Night Nagi." Tadase said giving a quiet laugh.
I smiled and pulled the blankets over me. Maybe having so many people in here with me would keep the dreams away. Then again this was probably just going to be another long night.
End of Flashback:
A distant sound of water dropping could be heard echoing throughout my head. I groaned, opening my eyes to a blurry darkness. Slowly everything came into focus. This was just like my first dream. But then again it wasn't. It felt the same. It felt empty, lonely, like it was all forgotten. Not that there was anything here to be forgotten. Nothing, except for me.
I was surrounded by a blackness. Just like always I was alone. I sighed and began walking. It really did feel different a lot more different. Like it was going to be worse than befire. I shook my head. This was a dream. Dreams don't mean anything. I stopped walking and bowed my head.
"Still I would like to know why I keep having this same dream over and over again." I said out loud. "If it doesn't mean anything then why?"
I continued walking, the sound of dripping water getting louder with each echoing step. I looked up to see a white marble fountain in the distance. My heart beat skipped a beat before hammering quickly my breath coming out in gasps and my lungs felt like they were about to burst. I feel to my knees and clutched my chest. Something wet soaked through the knees of my jeans.
My eyes widened as blood began to flow around me. I looked up to see the marble fountain go completely red as blood poured over the edges splashing on the floor. A chiming sound from behind me caused me to turn and see a giant grandfather clock. The clock had chains going all around it except for the face leaving the hands free to move. It was ten minutes to midnight. I stood up and started running away from the clock.
I forced my heart and lungs to go into overtime. I took in more air than what I normally did and forced my legs to run faster. The blood was up to my knees by now making it more difficult for me to run. The clock didn't seem to get any farther away every time I looked behind me it was always right there. It was if no matter how fast or much I ran I couldn't put a distance between it and me.
"Run Nagihiko you have to keep running." a female voice whispered throughout the empty space. "You can't stop you have to wake up. You have to wake up before the clock strikes midnights." It was the same voice from my last dream. Why did I have to wake up before midnight? What would happen if I didn't?
"Run Nagihiko run!" she yelled.
The clock behind me showed that I only had four minuets till midnight. I pushed me legs making the go faster but it was getting harder to do so. I wasn't getting enough oxygen. I was could barely breath anymore. I needed to stop. I had too.
"No if you do you'll never wake up. You'll be stuck here." she cried. "Please keep running. Please. Plea-..." a chiming sound cut her off. The clock had finally reached midnight. Everything seemed to go silent and freeze. My breath came out in one last gasp before I fell backward into the now ocean of blood. Falling unconscious to the pressing darkness.
I felt like I was floating in air. I felt so light, weightless. I didn't feel like I was suffocating anymore. I could feel my hair floating around me as it brushed against my neck in cheeks. I was warm, and my lungs didn't hurt anymore. I opened my eyes, I was surrounded by water. I looked around, I was completely alone. Wherever I was now. There wasn't any fish or anything, just an endless stretch of water. I looked up to see how close the surface was. There wasn't any light to indicate where the surface was.
"Where am I now?" I asked out loud my voice echoing in the emptiness.
"Where do you want to be?" a voice rang out. It wasn't the same one as before. This one didn't seem male or female but a variety of voices all at once.
"What do you mean where do I want to be?" I asked looking around for the voice. Geez my dreams are getting weirder and weirder every time.
"Where do you want to be?" it asked again. "Here or there?"
"There?" I said slowely. "Where is there and where is here?"
"So many questions." The voice sighed. "There answer to them should be obvious. Now where do you want to be? Here or there?"
Obvious? If it was obvious I wouldn't have asked. I know here means where I am now but I don't know where that is. There, is that in the place with the clock and fountain. Clock? Wait, the clock it struck midnight. That other voice said that if I didn't wake up before midnight I wouldn't ever wake up.
"Catching on aren't you?" the voice replied. "Does it matter where here is? Does it matter where there is? Just choose."
"I have to choose." I said not asking. "You tell me to choose here or there when I don't even know where here or there is."
"Alright I'll give you a hint." It replied laughing. "This is The Void."
"The Void?" I repeated. "But I thought the void was to show you what was inside you, like love or hatred. It's where spirits go before passing on. I'm not dead."
"You aren't?" the voice replied laughing again. "You didn't wake up before the clock struck midnight."
"But how?" I said refusing to believe it. This is a dream this is a dream. It has to be a dream.
"Your bad lung collapsed which caused your good lung to over work to get you enough air." It replied echoing throughout the void. "However it became unstable because of it and collapsed as well causing you suffocate because you couldn't get any air."
"No, I'm not dead." I said. "This is to weird, I'm not dead."
"Where do you want to be?" the voice said. "Here or there?"
I bowed my head. I didn't want to be here anymore. Not here. I shook my head feeling a tear slide down my face.
"There." I said softly. "I want to be there."
Me: And that is that for this chapter. Sorry it took so long. I hope it was well worth the wait.
