"I suppose now it doesn't matter which of us holds the mirror pieces," Lara said. "We should split them up, so if one of us is captured, only half the mirror is stolen."
"Makes sense," Sam agreed. He pulled out Lara's necklace and handed it to her. "This is yours."
Not long after Sam had come back to his senses, they found the third mirror piece hidden in one of the piles of rubble. Now there was only one left.
"We have to reach the sky. That's where the last piece is."
"It's in the sky?"
"More like the city in the sky."
They walked up the stairs of the Temple of Time and approached the large door. As the door opened, there was a crash and a sudden burst of light. The doorway became a swirling portal, sucking in the air around it.
"What the heck?!" Lara exclaimed.
Sam could feel the wind around him being dragged into the portal. He soon realized that he and Lara were being sucked in as well.
"Lara, hold on!" Sam exclaimed. He grabbed both of her hands and held them tightly. "Is this part of the game or not?"
"It's not. And I have no idea when or where it might take us."
"What'd you mean?"
"We're in a different time, but with this time portal screwed up it could take us to any time."
"Well snap."
The wind was growing stronger, pushing Sam and Lara towards the portal. They were pulled into the portal. After a few moments of falling through the swirling portal, they both fell onto a hard stone floor.
Sam pushed himself up and looked around. They were in Arbitar's Grounds. Standing in the mirror frame was a glowing mirror. Sam helped Lara to her feet.
"I guess we don't have to go to the sky now," Sam said.
"We don't?" Lara asked. She looked over at the completed mirror. "Dang! I wanted to fight the dragon..."
"There was a dragon in the city in the sky?!"
"Yup."
"I think it's better we don't have to fight it. Anyway, the mirror is complete so we can go into the Twilight Realm now, right?"
"Yup, but be careful. Seth or the Twilight Messengers might try to get us split up."
"Okay—wait what's this?"
Sam pulled a black key out of his bag. It had a green design engraved into it.
"The key to the Twilight Castle's throne room," Lara said. "We can go straight to Zant now!"
"Don't be so sure."
Sam and Lara whirled around to see Seth standing a few feet away from them. His face was still scratched from where Sam had attacked him.
"Get lost Seth," Sam growled. "We don't want you right now."
"Oh, but I want both of you," Seth laughed. "Twilight Messengers, attack!"
Before Sam could do anything, he felt something hit him over the head. He fell to his knees.
"Sam!" Lara exclaimed. She knelt beside him. "Seth you—!"
Sam glanced up to see a Twilight Messenger ram a long black needle into Lara's shoulder. But it wasn't the curse inside the needle, it was a sleeping potion. She fell onto the ground and was out cold in seconds.
Sam felt a stab in his right shoulder. He'd already been weakened from the blow to his head, but now the sleeping potion was getting to him. He fell to the ground from being so weak and suddenly tired.
His vision was blurring and darkening. The night sky above grew darker and darker while the stars faded away.
"Good night," Seth laughed. "When you wake up, you'll wish you'd never been born!"
