Chapter 13

Leah was dreaming. How did she know? Well, for one, she was flying. Leah soared above the clouds. The bright blue sky surrounded her as she flew. There was only one problem, she was flying too high. She was too close to the sun. She was so high, she could have been one of the stars herself. The light from the sun rays burned her skin. Weirdly, the heat seemed to come from a place directly next to her heart. A place that should have been protected by her shirt. The fire in her chest burned hotter, it was as if there was a tiny blazing coal, compacted and stuck inside of her. The wind that flew by her body was of no use to help cool the rapidly rising inferno in her chest. The heat spread outward from that single point. Like a virus it weakened her muscles, relaxing them, coaxing them to slow down. Leah found herself unable to stop her body from easing. Her flight slowed.

Slowed.

Almost completely stopped now.

She was sweating like crazy, her shirt stuck to her chest like glue. The sweat seemed to be stickier than normal, and the more she sweat, the weaker she felt. Leah looked down at her chest, it wasn't sweat that was coming out of her body, it was blood. Warm hot blood poured out from a burning hole in her upper body. A hole burning deep in herself, hotter than the sun. The agony was too much. She tried to scream in pain but no sound would come out. Leah felt herself start to fall.

Falling.

Falling.

Falling.

A massive plummet to the ground, gravity once again taking control over her body. Weirdly, the clouds became brighter, like the heavens. They parted to reveal the most beautiful thing Leah had ever seen. Leah fell towards the light. It grew brighter with every second. It almost didn't seem like she was falling down anymore, it felt like she was flying upwards, all sense of her direction gone. A beautiful melody played from the clouds, it called to her, it longed for her.

Leah had to make it to the light, she reached for it, she was so close.

"I love you."

Leah gasped. She knew that voice, it was Percy. What had he said? L-love? Images of their time spent together flew through her mind, reminding her of her will to live. Her need to survive. The light could wait, it would still be there in the future. She had something to live for, someone who needed her. The wind whistled by her ears as she fell to the light, but something had changed, the clouds no longer seemed so bright. They grew darker, rapidly changing into a massive storm. The mighty black and grey storm clouds began thundering below her. Leah was quickly closing the distance between her and the hurricane below.

She plunged into the darkness. Her body became colder with the surrounding winds, her hands clammy and frozen. Leah looked back at the light behind her, a trail of her own blood leading to the last of the blue sky. The heavens disappeared, leaving her surrounded in darkness. Lightning flashed around her as she fell, cracking through the dull mist. An exceptionally large thunder bolt split through the blackness in front to her. It lit the entire hurricane, turning everything a bleach white, only for a moment. Only one thing stayed dark durning that lightning strike. And it scared Leah.

The shadowy silhouette of a man had never brightened, the ghostly form seemingly made from shadows. More lightning flashed, illuminating the man again. He seemed to be holding something, pointing it directly at Leah's head. The clouds darkened, lightning stopped for a moment, the man disappeared into the shadows except for two glowing eyes that pulsed through the inky black gloom.

A click echoed throughout the hurricane, somehow louder than the lightning, louder than the rain, louder than the wind that whipped past Leah's body.

A single droplet of water fell on the tip of Leah's hand, weirdly it was the only drop she had felt the entire time she had fallen through the rainstorm. Leah's stomach dropped as she fell out past the darkness of the clouds. Into the area below.

BANG!

The shot of a gun cracked like a bomb, coming from the storm above. She looked away from the clouds to see a sea green ocean below. Leah fell into the water with a massive splash, the ocean seeming to slow her fall as it surrounded her body. The sea relaxed her, reducing the pain in her chest, lessening the agony that ached over her physique.

She watched, mystified, as the water began healing her. It's cooling touch seeping it's way to all of her cuts and bruises. Leah sunk, deeper into the depth of the ocean, rays of light shining down through the water, illuminating the ocean floor. She began to feel better, stronger, her stone cold body began to warm again. Her heart beat went back to its regular pace, a bullet floated next to her, coated in blood. Leah's own, she realized. That was the bullet that had pierced her skin. She looked down at her wound, it was closing quickly. The soothing water was mending her broken body. Soon her wounds would be nothing more than a bad scar. A remembrance of a bad time in the past.

Leah closed her eyes and let the healing take its course.

So... not dead. Thats good.

This is the shortest chapter of the entire story but also my personal favorite.

You guys are sort of catching up to what I've written so far. What can I say, I'm a busy guy. I'm only six chapters ahead now.

My Birthday was yesterday. 16 now. :)

If you look at this chapter and the last one side by side you'll see a lot of similarities between dream and reality.

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"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." — Matthew 11:28.