Sorry again for taking so long *Cough Recently deleted comment here Cough*

Please enjoy I own nothing but my character and somewhat the storyline.

It had only been a few days since the strange nightmare incident and already Sandy had noticed change in Clover. She didn't seem as happy as before to go off anywhere on her own, she barley even left his side when they went on Dream runs. Of course for the first two days that this happened Sandy just put it down to the fact that she probably missed Jack Frost. But this was later proven wrong on the third day as Jack actually came to visit, and nothing changed.

Jack left allot earlier than the dream giver had expected, and was even more surprised to see that Clover wasn't with him. When he asked after it, she merely said that she was just tired, which Sandy could of course understand, as during these days, she barley slept at all. Clover probably thought that Sandy wouldn't notice but the guardian always knew when someone, especially one of his friends was having a hard time sleeping.

But really it was nothing too strange so Sandy could see past it.

Until recently.

I sat up on a dream cloud Sandy had made for me, waiting patiently for him to finish his job. I looked curiously down at the village below; we had never been to this town before. Sandy said it was because it was a new colony and that they were just starting to bring their children in with them now that the crops were growing. I watched the lights from the hut's oil lamps grow dimmer and dimmer with each passing moment, the lamps almost exactly representing my reluctance to go exploring.

Nothing's going to happen, you haven't heard from the voice in days, it's probably left now thinking that you told Sandy all about it, it's not likely to return again so why not have some fun? Besides, you still have to find a place for Jack. I reasoned with myself, trying to calm my anxieties of being on my own.

Eventually though my reasoning and curiosity won out and I told Sandy I would be back. I didn't miss the sudden relieved expression he was wearing when I walked away, something I would have to ask him after at the end of our job run.

My rainbow path lead me gently and swiftly to the town below, my fun loving nature not giving up the opportunity to add in a few jumps and flips of the path every so often. Over the years I had gained a reasonable amount of expert control over my rainbow path and was now experimenting with just simply gliding across it instead of having to run. It was very simple really; I would just add more of a downward slope to the path than usual. So far my attempts had been a little slow but otherwise showing good results.

Anyway, I eventually landed on the solid ground below and wandered about for a bit, taken in by the people's strange huts and customs. I noted briefly that these strange huts seemed radically different from the large houses I had seen on other sides of the world, giving the indication that these people were not as committed to one place as others. While I walked along I placed one or more coins in front of each house, admiring the strange huts that the people had built before continuing on my way.

Finally I had finished giving the coins out, by earlier anxious attitude completely gone, I got ready to head out when I saw something in the corner of my eye, something far off in the darkness of the forest not far away from the edge of the small colony. I turned and looked again, but saw nothing. I was about to turn away and continue to leave when I saw the flash of light again.

"I'm not going after it, I'm going back to Sandy and we're going home." I muttered firmly, trying to convince myself that it was exactly what I was going to do before sighing and walking into the obviously suspicious forest.

"I'm like a Lemming, honestly." I muttered again, trying to give myself something to listen to while I walked through the darkness, making sure I treaded as carefully as I could, not wanting the creature or person that was making the light to know that I was closing in on them. After a while and a ton of misdirection, The light grew closer through the thick bushes and trees, rays of the white light would splinter through the spaces in-between the bushes and trees. The closer I got the more, bright the light would become. Even when I wasn't even a few feet close to it the light would shine at my closed eyelids, making me only hasten my approach as I wanted to see what it was and leave as soon as I could.

Unfortunately my haste caused my downfall, literally. I was walking faster towards the light when an upturned root caused me to fall over, the sound of me hitting the ground echoing through the silent as death forest, I laid there on the ground for a few minutes, my heart beating wildly in my chest as I rethought the suggestion to just get up now and leave as quickly as possible.

Oh but don't you want to see it? After all I made it for you.

I froze, my heart rate only increasing as I had forgotten for the briefest moment, how to breathe.

Awww you really did miss me, but I think we've spent quite enough time on the ground as it is.

Get Up.

Suddenly I was on my feet, my pot hanging limply in my hand. It took a few seconds before I recognized that I couldn't move. Instantly I freaked out, but sadly no one heard my screams as it seemed that I couldn't move my mouth or speak, so I was left to scream bloody murder in my brain.

Quiet.

A low hollow whistling vibrated through my head and suddenly I couldn't think, any coherent thought that tried to talk over the noise was drowned out, leaving me with nothing.

It seemed as the only thing I could do was hear his words and feel.

And I was afraid.

The voice seemed to like this.

That's better, now we can talk reasonably. Any questions?

I felt myself able to think again, real coherent thoughts breaking through the noise and to the surface. At that moment thousands upon thousands of coherent questions rose up out of the black, my head nearly exploding at the expediency of which they came and went. Most of them, well actually a good chunk of them probably did have not the best of manners included, but then again they all felt exceptionally appropriate to this situation. Finally I just settled on the main one that seemed to be brought up the most.

How?

Well really you could just say it was a stroke of luck.

Anger, good, I can still feel that then.

Bastard. Swearing had never been a thing I was accustomed to do, but then again I wasn't accustomed to...whatever this hell was. The voice just laughed again before cruelly silencing off my thoughts so he could be heard, thankfully not taking the anger with them.

Careful now, you don't want to be saying nasty words like those, especially with the surprise I cooked up for you.

Speaking of which, it's ready now.

Move forward.

Immediately I attempted to regain control of my limbs, but no matter how hard I tried, no matter how much I put into it, I moved forward all the same, my brain exhausted from my attempt.

Well see, you knew that wasn't going to work so why did you try?

Apparently he wasn't expecting an answer as my thoughts were still being cut off. Luckily my eyes weren't closed when the voice took control so I was able to see where the hell I was going, but that was about it as I could do nothing to stop it.

The trees and bushes eventually gave way to the light, the brightness of it burning my eyes before it suddenly dimmed; I was apparently able to feel confusion as the voice spoke up.

Oh the light was just to draw you in, like flies to a trap. And you are one dunce fly in my opinion.

But anyway we're getting off track.

Look.

My eyes pierced through the green bushes to see...

Hmm...Think I'll just stop it right there. Sorry it's really short this time around but I felt like throwing in a cliff-hanger. Why? Because I'm just annoying like that.

What is it that Clover sees? What will happen next? Who the hell is that annoying voice anyway?

Review and tell me what you think the answers are, I'm curious.