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Chapter 29

Darkness

"Yue Se? Yue Se wake up!" Moon heard a familiar voice calling out to her.

"Yue Se!" Two hands started shaking her and she opened her eyes to see Sarah hovering above her. Moon slowly sat up with a smile.

"What is it?" She asked.

"Come on! I'm going away and you're sleeping?" Sarah complained in a friendly way. Moon looked at her, a mixture of shock, surprise and confusion in her eyes.

"What?" She finally asked in a low and slow voice voice.

"I'm leaving and I came to say goodbye." Sarah clarified with a sigh.

"What do you mean leave? Where would you go? Why?" Moon finally burst out.

"I mean what I said. I don't know where I would go though. I don't know why either. But this guy said that he wants me to come with him and I said, hey! Why not?" Sarah answered with a grin. Moon stared at her horrified. Her eyes grew even wider when she saw a man wearing a black robe from head to toe showing up behind Sarah. He put his hand on the blond girl's shoulder and she looked up at him with a smile then again at Moon. Moon was seconds away from snatching Sarah away from him before he held up his hand, signaling patience.

"I promise you I'll bring her back, but not too soon I'm afraid." His deep but clear voice stated. Moon narrowed her eyes.

"Where are you taking her? And why should I believe you?" She said in a rather harsh, cold voice. Sarah looked at her confused then back at the man. He had an unsatisfied look on his half-hidden face and his eyes showed a bit of sadness.

"I live inside you, not exactly, but I am connected to you. Try to accept me, trust me for once." He said in a sad voice.

"She is going with me, and you won't see us for about a year. You will soon find out why." He explained after a sigh.

"A year? Why?" Moon asked as she got up. A door started to form behind Sarah and the man.

"I told you that you will soon find out. Now excuse us, please." He said as the door behind them opened and he started leading Sarah in.

"Wait no!" Moon screamed. The man stopped and looked back at her.

"Yes?" he said with a lack of interest.

"If you really are part or at least connected to me, then you must surely know that I hate to be alone. Don't take her away, please." She pleaded with eyes twinkling with unshed tears.

"You must forgive me, but I cannot. It is not in my hands to choose, it is in yours." He said as he walked through the door and it automatically closed.

Moon woke up with a gasp, eyes wide and sweating. Adam was just about to leave when she woke up. Both he and Shira ran up to her and Adam started to ask Moon weird questions and so did Shira, but all Moon could concentrate on was her dream.


Sarah woke up, she opened her eyes but there was only darkness. She heard a few movements and some voices around her, the voices were bubbly, as if the people were talking from underwater, but she couldn't even see their outlines, only plain darkness. She tried to get up but then she felt an unbearable pain rush through her head. Suddenly she felt a hand pushing her down, forcefully and in a quick way. Sarah, not knowing who or what was doing that, screamed and backed away from the hands clutching her shoulder. She hit something solid. Then suddenly the sound of the door shooting open resounded in the room and all the noise went down. Sarah was shaking from fear, but when two hands suddenly grabbed her, she was screaming her heart out.

"Sarah it's me!" The person clutching her shoulders shouted. Sarah recognized the voice immediately.

"Daddy?" She whispered after finally stopping her thrashing around.

"Yes, are you alright?" He asked in a hurried and worried voice.

"My head hurts and I can't see a thing. Please open the lights." She answered while moving closer to her father. The room suddenly fell silent and Sarah couldn't hear a sound. She looked up in hope to see her father's face but it was useless. In reality, the room was very well lit and there were three people in it, the headmistress, the nurse and Sarah's father. All the others were waiting outside wondering what will become of the young girl.

"Did you call the hospital?" Jerry asked in a serious tone.

"Yes we have, they're sending an ambulance. It should be here soo..." The nurse was cut off by the door shooting open. Sarah flinched at all the sounds that were around here. Listening without seeing seemed to be a very new thing to her; she was hoping that that phase would end very soon.

"The ambulance is here!" A girl informed the three adults. Soon the men came with nick leading them. They took Sarah and her father with them to the hospital and the rest of the school fell silent. Now what? That was what everyone was asking themselves, except for the three grinning young boys who were standing in the back.


"Moon, Moon, MOON!" Shira finally yelled and that was when Moon realized that the two adults were cornering her.

"Are you okay?" Shira asked for about the thousandth time.

"Yeah." Moon simply replied. Adam was checking her up by then, he was already listening to her rapid breathing with his stethoscope.

"You should stay in bed, you need a lot of rest and…Shira go and make her something warm, she needs to eat. A soup would be best, we can't risk her dehydrating." Adam started giving his orders. Shira nodded and went to the kitchen while Moon simply looked confused at the full speed work the two were doing.

"Sleep for now." He pushed her back into her bed and attempted to cover her before she shot up.

"No!" She said in a loud voice.

"What do you mean no? You need to rest!" Adam said in an equivalent high voice. Looks like doctors tend to act like that, bossy. Moon thought before going back to her point.

"I want to go and see Sarah." She said in a determined voice.

"You can't go anywhere in your condition."

"But I feel fine!"

"No, we're not risking it. You're sick so you stay in bed."

"Then you go and see her for me?" She asked in a pleading voice. Adam was surprised by the sudden change.

"Why?"

"Something's happened to her, I'm sure of that." She answered him with desperation in her dark black eyes.

"You've dreamt something?" Shira asked when she popped her head from the side of the room's door. Moon nodded her head.

"Adam you go to the school and see what's going on; I have everything under control here." Shira said after thinking for a while. Moon instantly smiled happily.

"Can you tell me what's going on?" Adam was confused.

"Moon has a very strong aura around her when she wakes up from certain dreams, didn't you notice anything now?" She asked.

"Well yeah but…I just thought…" He trailed off.

"Well, normally those dreams never turn out to be real but if it's not about her…it could have some sort of…effect."

"What?" Adam was now more confused than ever.

"Just go okay? You're not gonna lose anything if you do." Shira said with a sigh.

"F-fine." He hesitated and soon left.

"Now you should finally do what the doctor says, right?" Shira said as she turned to Moon. Moon didn't argue about that and did as she was told before.

"What do you mean with if it's not about me then it could have an effect?" Moon asked.

"I'm not so sure myself Moon. However, that aura around you is very strong, that's for sure. And what I've learned about strong auras is that they have an effect on something. It might be a minor thing, but sometimes it might even cause death…" Shira said looking down, remembering exactly how her own mother died. She looked up to see the shock and worry on Moon's face and instantly smiled.

"Don't worry. I'm sure it's nothing of the sort." She tried to sound cheerful, it worked somehow.

"She can't die…because he said she would return after a year…" Moon mused to herself. Shira looked at her confused.

"Moon, get some rest. Everything will be alright." Moon nodded and tried to go back to sleep.


"So how is she doctor?" Jerry asked after his daughter was finally treated and put to sleep.

"She has lost her eye sight, that's for sure. Other than that, you should be happy because, it's a miracle that there are no broken bones…none of the kind that would cause a defect at least." The doctor explained. Jerry simply nodded; he was thankful, but still sad. He looked at his daughter sleeping in the hospital bed.

"She will get better, she will have problems adapting to the fact that she can't see but that won't be a big problem you'll see." The doctor said to try and cheer up the father then left after Jerry nodded at him with a thankful smile. Jerry took Sarah's hand and prayed that she would soon wake up feeling better, he never wanted to see her so bloody and terrified ever again.


"Dad? Where are you running off to like that?" Yura spotted his father in the middle of the forest; he has just gotten back from his school.

"Isn't it a bit early for you to be out of school?" Adam asked crossing his arms.

"They let us out early. In fact, all the schools let all the kids loose just a few minutes ago."

"What? Why?"

"They told us that an accident happened in one of the schools. I don't know what that has to do with our school but hey! I'm not complaining'" Yura said in a lid back style as he shrugged. He was wearing his bag in a weird way, the one move that really annoyed his father and Yura knew that. After seeing the look on his face, Yura wisely wore it properly.

"Um, anyway. I was on my way back but no one was in the house, so I knew you were in aunt Shira's house so I was going there and then I met you." Yura said after clearing his throat.

"Do you know what that accident was about?"

"Oh yeah I forgot! I actually took the time to check it out. It was in Moon's school, they said a girl fell down from a high place and they called for an ambulance. The whole school was like a wild pack of animals, everyone running around either screaming or going to do something or gathering their stuff and making a run for it. But I seriously have no idea what they're so terrified of. Anyway, all the parents were gathered there scolding the headmistress, it was really fun to watch." Yura explained. Adam's face grew grim.

"Dad? Is something wrong? Did I say something?"

"It's Sarah…" Adam muttered to himself.

"Huh?"

"You go to Shira's house and help her. Moon is sleeping so don't make too much noise." Adam ordered and continued walking in a fast pace. Yura looked at his father's retreating back, wondering what was going on. Then he simply shrugged it off and walked down his own way.

"Hey, Yura wait!" Yura stopped at his father's sudden call and turned around.

"Yeah?" He called after seeing his father standing a far away.

"Do you know what hospital they took the girl to?"

"Aaaah, I think it was the one you said you used to work at."

"Alright, thanks." Adam finally said and turned around and walked away. I wonder what's going on…Oh well… Yura shrug his shoulders, took out an apple from his bag and ate it on his way.


"Hey aunt Shira, it's me!" Yura said quietly as he pushed the already open door.

"Oh, Yura! What's brought you here?" Shira asked surprised.

"School ended early today." He said as he put down his bag on the floor.

"Oh. Then come and help me with this."

"Sure. How's Moon by the way?" He asked.

"Oh she's fine, she's getting better." She answered.

"Okay, that's good. So what are we making?" Yura asked as he put on an apron.

"Soup."

"Alright, I think I'm good at this!"

"Haha, I hope so because I'm not so good at this at all." Shira laughed and they both started working.


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