A/N: And the plot is starting to roll out! Sorry if these are starting slow, I promise more exciting action in the future, but you have to set the scene first, right? Well, enjoy!
For a moment, there was silence. Just Kendra, alone in what seemed to be a never-ending black room. The only sound was her breathing. Hesitant, she took one step forward, and that is when the visions started.
There was a sound of an animal, maybe a bear, roaring, she heard herself crying and begging for something not to happen and then she saw herself in a room, surrounded by fire, not being able to breathe. She saw Seth, standing in the middle of it, with a sinister look on his face. She heard voices but couldn't make them out. And then Kendra saw herself kill Bracken. She reeled back in horror but the visions weren't done yet.
Flashes of people she didn't recognize, a sword that looked like it was crafted out of light blue diamonds, faces distorting into other faces, and then she saw Warren holding a sword with a ruby hilt, and she watched as he took that sword and stabbed someone in the stomach. Kendra looked down at her own stomach and saw a red stain spreading, and then she watched as the darkness cleared around the person Warren stabbed, and it was her.
Kendra screamed and then the visions ended and she fell back into the darkness, hearing one last voice speaking to her as she faded out of consciousness.
"See through the mirrors, stop it all."
"Let's go, kiddo." Warren said, standing and helping Kendra up. The poor kid really didn't look good, he shared a glance with Stan at how pale she had gotten. They had only walked two steps when Kendra stopped.
"Kendra? I know it's hard but you will feel better once you lay down, okay?" He said, placing a hand on her back. And it turned out to be a good thing he did because the next moment Kendra swayed dangerously and fell back into his arms. Warren quickly caught her and eased her down slowly.
"I'm going to get Tanu, get her on the couch." Stan said, racing out of the room as fast as he possibly could. Warren picked Kendra up, and laid her back on the couch, finally getting a good look at her.
Kendra's eyelids were twitching madly, and her breathing seemed to be coming quick and shallow. He shook her a few times and even patted her cheeks, trying to wake her. Dale came over and stood checking her pulse. He had a few experiences with unconscious people, due to the fact Warren was his younger brother.
"Kendra...Kendra can you hear me?" Warren said. He felt her forehead and he wasn't surprised to feel that it was burning. "Come on, wake up, K."
"That probably won't help." Vanessa said from behind him.
"You got a better idea, my dearest?" Warren retorted. At his words, Seth, who had been silently watching the whole ordeal, jumped up.
"No, she doesn't, but I do!" He said. "I can go get the coin Bracken gave me! Who knows maybe this is a freaky fairy thing!" Before Warren could agree, Seth bolted out the room and could be heard pounding up the stairs.
"She hit her head?" Dale asked, speaking for the first time.
"Nah, I caught her." Warren answered as Tanu came into the room.
"She hasn't woken up yet?" He asked, sitting in the chair by the couch.
"No, we've been trying but nothing." Warren stood, folding his arms. "I'm not sure this is just a fainting episode. Look at her eyelids, they're twitching like mad. I think Seth is right, this might have to do with her being fairykind."
"I'm not sure if I can do much." Tanu sighed, as he said this, Seth slid back into the room.
"Yeah, she is still knocked out, why do you-" Seth was saying when Kendra suddenly sat up, breathing heavy.
"She's up! Yes, I know I just said that but she's up now!" Seth exclaimed.
"Kendra, you okay?" Warren went to put a hand on her shoulder but Kendra just flinched away, curling up in a ball and putting her chin on her knees.
"Kens, what happened?" Dale asked, but Kendra only shook her head and stared at the wall.
The others shared a look, wondering what the hell was going on. Tanu left to go get Stan and Vanessa sat in his abandoned chair, thinking hard on anything she has ever heard on being fairykind.
"And Bracken?" Seth said, watching as Warren wrapped Kendra in a blanket. "You might want to get here...like, fast."
Kendra kept replaying the horrible vision in her head. How could she kill Bracken? How could Warren kill her? Why did Seth look so sinister? She knew that this was more than just some bad dreams. They were too vivid, too realistic, and too detailed.
She sat there, letting Warren sit next to her and rub her back, she numbly accepted a mug of hot chocolate from Dale, but made no move to drink it. She heard Vanessa and Seth muttering about something. But all she could think about was the visions.
There came a knock on the door, followed by muffled voices, she saw someone enter the room out of the corner of her eye. Vanessa quickly left the room, tugging a protesting Seth along with her. Dale made his way out quietly, and Warren pressed a kiss to the side of Kendra's head before getting up to exit as well. He stopped and talked to the person quickly before patting their shoulder and walking out.
Kendra stared at the wall, as the person made their way over to her. She didn't want to talk about what she saw just yet, she just wanted to sit here and stare at the wall. The person stood in front of her for a second before kneeling down.
Bracken.
Kendra almost felt her resolve to not speak break at the sight of him but she steadied herself quickly.
"Kendra, do you want to tell me what happened?" Bracken said gently. She shook her head, how could she tell him that she saw herself kill him?
"Can I look for myself, so you don't have to speak?" He asked. Another no. That would be even worse, she decided. Kendra could feel tears threatening to fall, so she just hid her face in her knees.
The next thing she knew she was being picked up, and carried up the stairs. She heard Bracken whisper the word 'Open' in the fairy language, and then she was being placed on a bed.
"Get some rest, I'll be here when you wake up." He said, pulling a blanket over her. Kendra opened her eyes, and watched him sit on the end of her bed.
"Promise?" She said.
"Promise."
Bracken waited until Kendra was fast asleep, before slipping out of the room. He walked downstairs to find the others waiting at the kitchen table. All at once they started asking questions, prompting Bracken to hold up his hands and wait for silence.
"She didn't tell me anything yet, she is sleeping right now and I will ask her again when she wakes up. What I need right now is a more detailed explanation from you all."
Bracken listened as Warren recounted how Kendra had a terrible headache, how she fainted and how her eyelids were twitching. He listened to Seth saying Kendra had seemed sad that morning at breakfast, how Vanessa thought Kendra seemed very angry that day. Bracken listened to them all recount every detail they could remember, and the more he learned the more he was convinced of what happened.
"Alright, so Kendra was down today, she got a bad headache, fainted, eyes were twitching and she was feverish?" Bracken asked, receiving voices of affirmation back. Bracken leaned back in his seat, thinking it through one last time.
"I think I know what this is. It hasn't been heard of again since before even my lifetime but, if I am correct, then this isn't a bad thing. It could be another ability Kendra gained through becoming fairykind."
"Told you it was a fairy thing!" Seth said, Ruth shushed him.
"You were saying, Bracken?" She said, wanting to know what was happening to her granddaughter.
"I believe, and again I could be wrong, but, I believe Kendra might have had a prophecy. Or a vision into the future." Bracken finished.
"Wait, what?" Warren said.
"Fairykind were meant to be the Fairy Queen's last standing warrior. Basically the most dangerous opponent. Many had different abilities to defend the Queen. There was a tale of one that could see into the future, when there would be trouble. It was written that they had the same symptoms you described Kendra having before their visions. Negativity, headaches, even the temperature spike."
"They would get these visions when something bad would happen, that way, they would be ready for disaster before disaster struck. Like I said, in my long lifetime I have not heard of another fairykind with this ability, so if this is what is happening, we better find out what Kendra saw." Bracken said, before excusing himself and going back upstairs, leaving the others to think about what they just heard.
"Why is it so important to know what Kendra saw?" Dale asked.
"Because, disaster is about to strike." Warren answered.
A/N: Dun dun dun? What do you think Kendra's vision means? Maybe it means she is really hungry, who knows! I'll try to update soon xoxo
