A Sight of Light

Chapter 14: The Void Beyond the Light

A/N: Hey Everybody! Happy Holidays! So I know I was suppose to update this sooner but yeah... My life has been very hectic. However, I thought that I could make it up to everyone if I uploaded this chapter for christmas! Well hope you enjoy!

Mark's POV

I felt so hopeless…

Luke was standing right in front of me, ready to blow himself up and everybody else into the next life and there was nothing I could do about it. I had tried to convince him to stop, to make him see reason and to help him to escape the Fellowship; but he just pushed me aside and yelled at me as if I were the bane of his existence. What was truly heartbreaking about this was that Luke and I had interacted many times when I was still captive and working for the fellowship, I had even considered him my friend. He had always kind to me and even though he was misguided I always admired the purity (well as pure as a slightly hormonal male could get) of his spirit; but I knew his obedient nature would be his undoing if the wrong person took exploited it; which was exactly what I was witnessing now. The defeat, fear, and determination that rolled off him were sickening to me and my heart was breaking for him. I couldn't, however, let him do this. I was not letting him kill himself for someone else's hate and cowardice. I wasn't going to witness the people I cared for be destroyed once again while I witnessed it from the sidelines.

Godric's face appeared in my mind, and even though I could easily see him from across the room, he was the only thing I could think about; and the thought of him no longer existing caused everything in me to cringe in pain. In that moment I felt something in me break; as if a secret door had been open somewhere deep inside of me and all of a sudden my light started to burn and shine with immense power. I felt myself slowly lose control of my body and I was only aware of the single thought that seemed to dictate my existence; I had to stop this.

As I stood up and I felt my light manifest itself all around me; wrapping itself to my body like a living armor; acting as a second skin. A surge of power ran through my whole being and a million emotions hit me at once. I felt my body start to heat up and then my mouth open to produce a voice that was not my own.

"I said NO!" The voice that came from my mouth said.

A flash of light passed through my eyes and I felt something foreign rush into me. It felt hot, bright, and fragile. In the same second I felt whatever it was inside of me exploded and the next thing I knew I was falling….

I didn't know where I was, what had happened or how long I have been this way. It felt as if I have been falling forever, with no coherent thought being able to penetrate the fog that was presently clouding my mind. Will it still be considered be falling if one no longer which direction is considered down? Perhaps not…

The world around me seemed to be a bright blur of white, with no concrete or distinct shape to it. It was just a space of bright and empty light seeming to pass by either too fast for me to truly notice or too slow for me to actually care. I tried to remember who I was, or what was going on but nothing came to my mind. Normally I knew that this would drive me mad, but I was surprisingly uncaring about it. I closed my eyes and tried to think of anything that could make sense. But nothing came…

"Come back to me my love…"

My eyes snapped open and the sensation of constantly falling stopped at the sound of that voice. It seemed so familiar and so close by, but as I looked around me I couldn't see anyone at all.

My eyes closed once again and I felt the feeling of recognition and awareness start to fade away and my body slowly start to drift again. I shook my head and tried to hold on to that voice that had woken me up, to try to think once again of who I was, what had happened to me and why that voice sounded so familiar to me. I was failing miserably and I felt tears rising in my eyes and I knew I was about to lose myself again.

"Please… Please… somebody please…" I whispered. "I don't want to drift anymore…"

"Then what will you do about it?" a voice said.

I open my eyes and my surroundings had completely changed. I was now standing in an enormous hallway which seemed to be carved out of radiant white marble. Everything in the hall seemed to be made of the same stone; the chandeliers, the pillars, the tables, the chairs, canvases, and even the vases and the plants. The stone radiated an eerie yet calming light, which pulsed and begged you to simply relax and forget about all your troubles. I almost gave in to the tempting light, setting my eyes in one of the chairs that under my gaze transformed into the most welcoming loveseat, begging me to simply sit and let go of everything. But from the corner of my eyes I saw something that wasn't supposed to be in this place and then all my attention was focused on the presence of another being.

A man, slightly taller than me, with pale skin and brown hair and dressed in white was studying one of the many white and empty canvases as if it contained something of extreme importance. What stood out most about him, however, was the fact that he seemed to be surrounded by an aura like shadow; as if darkness itself was shrouding him and protecting him from something. Sensing my eyes on him he turned to me and gave me a smile. I gasped at the beauty and recognition that coursed through me at the sight of his face; yet I couldn't help but feel that something about him wasn't right.

"What are you willing to do to stop the drifting? What are you willing to do in order to escape from the fortress that has been created for you?" He said in a voice that was similar to the one that woke me up…

"I… I know you…" I said as I studied his appearance.

He simply nodded and the aura around him seemed to grow a little darker as the hallway seemed to glow a little brighter.

I looked at him and studied everything about him…"You're not the one I know… you're not the one I love…" I said raising my right hand and placed it on my chest, over my heart which was now throbbing in disappointment.

He simply tilted his head to the side and smiled at me with approval lighting up his eyes.

"How so?" he asked and that voice that I knew wasn't quite right.

I stopped and looked at him and a memory I didn't know I had surfaced in my mind. "You're eyes aren't green… your hair is not the right shade of brown… and your voice is too deep to be his…" I said.

"You sure it has nothing to do with the darkness that surrounds me?" He said with a coy smile.

The hallway seemed to pulse brighter and I saw him slightly wince as the aura around him seemed to get closer to his body.

I shook my head at his question. "My life has always been surrounded by darkness… it's where my light shined best so I've learned to never be afraid of it…" I said.

He smiled at me and my heart nearly melted at the sight of it. It was the smile that I knew the real him would have given me. I notice his that his hair changed color to the right shade of brown and his eyes turn into his real emerald green color. He extended his hand in front of him and put his palm up, inviting me to take it.

"Then remember who I am, remember that you have anchored yourself to me as much as I have anchored myself to you. Come back to me, my love." He said with His voice.

I walked up to him and hesitantly raised my hand to take his. I looked up at him, at the strange dark aura that surrounded him, at the markings I was able to see in his skin, at the paleness and beauty of his skin, and at the warmth in his green eyes.

"Godric…" I said as my heart felt like it was being tugged at the mention of the name. I knew that the being in front of me was not really my Godric but I somehow knew that he would not harm me. I grabbed his hand and he smiled.

"You are stronger than I thought" He said in a voice I didn't recognize.

I didn't have time to wonder about the sudden change in voice because now are clasped hands were shining with incredible light. I saw the aura that surrounded him start to fade away as he himself started to emanate light. I saw and felt the world around me change, melting away as the light seemed only to grow brighter and brighter. I looked at Godric once more and I noticed that his face was changing, slowly morphing and fading away. The light, however, became too bright and I had to close my eyes to block it out. And as I did all I could see was Godric's smiling face from behind my closed eyelids.

When I opened my eyes again I noticed that I was somehow floating over a pond, which contained a waterfall that poured into it at one of the edges. I looked around at my surroundings and took in the serenity of the field that seemed to surround the pond. There were flowers, trees and bushes in a variety of colors and giving off sweet and serene light. The light that they radiated was nothing like the light from the hallway. The hallway had seemed to give off a light that was sterile and hypnotizing. The light from this field, however, was alive and serene.

I closed my eyes once again and thought about his face. It came easily, and with it came what looked like small snippets of what I could only guess were memories that I couldn't quite make sense of. I noticed that I could no longer remember his name and even though I felt as if I should be panicking, I simply felt calm and at peace with it. Then my mind started to produce faces of other people that I easily recognized. I still couldn't place a name to the faces, but there were many emotions attached to each one. A woman with blonde hair and a kind smile was the first new face that I saw in my mind and I knew that she was somehow important to me. The next face that came to my mind was a tall blonde male with pale skin. For some reason I felt as if I had to laugh at him or tease him in some way. The same routine happened with a number of faces, each and every one producing some sort of thought or emotion in me and I knew that they had all affected my life in some way.

I then opened my eyes again and looked at the pond below me. I stared into to crystal clear liquid that didn't reflect my body with a sense of awe. For a moment I believed that the water was actually frozen over until I noticed the small and slow movements that it produced. My curiosity was spiked at this and I willed myself to move closer to the supposed waterfall. When I was close enough to waterfall I noticed that it did not foam nor sprayed at the bottom like a normal waterfall, it simply dropped in smoothly, as it were the smoothest of honey being poured into a container. I stared in fascination at this waterfall, and as I did so a million images started to flow into my head. I couldn't make sense of the images, yet I couldn't make myself look away or try to clear them from my head. I was simply so fascinated but all that was happening that I didn't notice that I was being observed by two new comers.

"Who are you and what are you doing here!?" A man shouted at me.

I looked away from the water and looked at the two beings that were at the edge of the pond. Their image seemed to shimmer and changed at a fluid pace, manifesting themselves as multiple different beings, and I tilted my head in confusion and curiosity as they seemed to settle into human shapes. A very beautiful man and woman stood at the ponds edge both looking at me with extreme caution and hostility. I couldn't help but notice a worry glanced they had shared with each other before their image had settled. And something inside me was telling me that I should be worried about them yet I didn't seem to care at the moment.

"I asked you a question! Who are you and what have you done with the river?" The man shouted again.

I tilted my head in confusion. "This used to be a river?" I asked looking down at the pond, only to notice that it had actually grown in size.

The man glared at me in disbelief while the woman looked at me with guarded awe.

"This is the river of time… It is our most guarded landmark in our society and if you do not return it to the way it used to be we will be forced to take action against you." The woman said.

Even though I knew that I was being threatened, probably against my life, I felt as calm as ever; almost as if they hadn't said anything at all. Instead the image of the man with green eyes came into my head and I turned to the waterfall to stare at it while I kept the image alive in my mind. All of a sudden images centered on him were introduced to my mind and I frowned as I saw blonde woman with three guards sneering at the man in my mind. I grew angry as I saw her disrespect the man loved and how he simply sat there with his shoulders slumped.

With my hand raised I extended it over the water fall, noticing for the first time that my whole being seemed to be made out of light, and simply let it hover over the slowly falling water.

"Fight back…" I whispered and I felt something in me flow out and into the water.

Something hit my side then and I looked over to the pair near the ponds edge and noticed that their hands were glowing and they threw balls of light at me.

"What did you do!?" the male one asked and I felt their attacks make contact with my body yet I didn't feel any pain.

"Are you warriors?" I asked ignoring their anger and focusing on the attacks that they had thrown at me.

They both looked shock as by the use of the terminology. "What did you call us?" the female asked.

I simply shrugged and decided to observe my body, noticing, once again, that it seemed to be completely made out of light. I raised my hands and stared at the length of my light infused arm with great concentration and curiosity completely forgetting that the presence of the two at the edge, of what was now a lake.

"Answer us dammit!" The male sneered gathering a very bright ball of light in both of his hands.

I felt angry for the first time since I entered this realm and I glared at the man, actually feeling threat settling in my conscious. I felt myself start to glow and radiate power as I stared the man down.

"Enough!" a voiced boomed through the field.

I felt myself calm down and noticed two figures shimmering into existence near the hostile man and woman. One of them was an older looking man who was wearing an elegant white robe, while the other younger looking man was dressed in a simple t-shirt and jeans. The robbed one looked up to me with a fond smile, which I returned unable to shake the feeling that I somehow knew this person. The other one gave me a raise eyebrow and a cocky smirk.

"Who the hell are you two!?" The hostile male asked in anger.

The younger one of the newcomers simply glared at him with murderous intent and the hostile male shut up. The older man simply ignored their exchange and raised his hands in my direction. All of a sudden a shimmering gate was formed beside me.

"It is time for you to go back child." The robed man said with a smile.

Excitement started to build up inside of me and I nodded my head looking at the gate and floating closer to it until I was inside of it. I looked back and saw the four figures at the shore of the lake start to fade away and the next thing I knew I was surrounded by darkness and had the sense of falling once again.

The world around me started to come back to my conscious slowly. The first thing that I noticed was the presence emotional signatures of two people I did not recognize. I used my abilities to try to determine if there whether not I should be prepared for a fight. The emotions I felt weren't hostile and I relaxed a little at that discovery. In what felt like a very long process I started to notice physical aspects of my surroundings; like the fact that I was lying in a very soft bed, that there was a very annoying beeping sound somewhere near me and that there seemed to be something cold pressed up to my chest and that it was moving around on my chest.

I opened my eyes and sat up immediately quickly grabbing whatever it was that was in front of me. I then noticed that I had grabbed somebody's arm. Following the length of the arm with my eyes, I looked upon the face of a man wearing a lab coat and with cinnamon colored skin with a short mess of black hair on his head, with dark brown eyes and a friendly smile leaning over me.

"Well that didn't take long" He said warmly. Noticing that I was still clutching his arm I let him go and mumbled a barely audible apology. He simply smiled and took off the stethoscope from his ears and my chest and draped it over his neck. Before he could say anything the door flew open and in the doorway stood a man carrying a blonde woman.

He placed the girl on the ground and stared into my eyes. I felt his emotions, relief, joy, happiness and traces of worry, but above all I felt the love he was directing towards me.

"Godric…" I said in a small voice, which seemed to be the best thing I could produce at the moment, and simply looked into his emerald eyes simply drowning in the beauty of them.

In a blink of an eye he was pressing his cool lips against mine. He kissed me with unbelievable yet gentle passion, letting me know how much he had missed me and how afraid he was for me without using any words at all. His tongue propped my lips open and entered my mouth running over every crevice of my mouth. I moaned at the feeling and taste of him and brought up my hand to the back of his head and gripped his short hair and pressed him closer to me and rubbing his tongue with my own, which earned me a moan from him, and the sound of it sent a jolt of electricity through my body.

Almost too soon he detached himself from my lips, pressing our foreheads together as we both panted heavily trying to recover our breaths.

"You came back…" He said with looking into my eyes with pure joy.

I closed my eyes and sighed; content to simply have him so close to me.

"I'll always come back to you…" I whispered putting my arms around his cool body and hugging him close to me. He sighed happily and brought his arms around me and pressing me closer to him and I simply sat there basking in all of his emotions and just enjoying the moment.

A/N: Hehe... There it is! hope you all like it!

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