A/N: I'm back! Sorry for the long wait! This chapter switches POV's a lot so pay attention to the line breaks!
Seth looked at the two Tanus, who both equally looked confused.
"Well, this can't be good." The Tanu on the right said.
"Nope, certainly not." Tanu left said.
"Oh great, I can barely put up with one of you, now there's two?" Vanessa sighed. Bracken furrowed his eyebrows.
"What do you mean?" He asked, spinning around, he didn't see anything quite out of...oh. Crap.
"Okay, so now you need to kill the fake me so we can move on? But you don't know which one is the fake me? This is impossible! It's like that short horror story where you hear your mom call your name downstairs, but when you go to see her, your mom pulls you aside and says 'Don't go, I hear it too'!" The Luca to Elin's left cried.
"...Yeah, I think I know which is which now." And with that Elin attacked the Luca to her right.
"Oh, common! Say something Tanu wouldn't say then!" Seth complained.
"Potions are useless." Tanu left said.
"Potions are useless." Tanu right said at the same time.
"Yeah no, that didn't help at all."
"Vanessa, you have to know it is actually me. You would be a terrible blix if you couldn't tell the difference." One Bracken said. She turned towards the other Bracken.
"Okay, Vanessa I know you don't like me but now is not the time to pull rash decisions." That Bracken held his hands up to the advancing blix, suddenly the mirrors behind them started crashing down, causing Vanessa to look behind her. Bracken drew his sword. Whipping back around to face the two unicorns, Vanessa snarled.
"Seems like I don't have a choice." Vanessa's eyes flickered between the two unicorns before making her choice. She prayed she was right.
"Warren…" Kendra started.
"Okay, no." Warren said, drawing his sword. "Both of you don't move."
Kendra held still as Warren studied them both, trying to find a flaw in a copy, something to tell them apart.
"Warren. I don't think we have time for this." The fake Kendra said.
"You would know, you're the fake." Kendra hissed.
"Stop it. Right now, it seems like we have all the time in the world! Why wouldn't we have time?" Warren said. Right after he spoke, mirrors started crashing down from every angle behind them, rapidly coming towards where they were standing.
Seth frantically considered the two potion masters before him, as mirrors crashed around. Both the same height, both had the same clothes. Right Tanu held his sword in his left hand, but left Tanu held it in his right...
"HA! That's it! Tanu is left handed!" Seth cried and pounced on the left Tanu, finishing him quickly with his sword. Surpisngly the clone did nothing to stop Seth as he killed it and as the fake Tanu died, the crashing mirrors ceased and the real Tanu grinned.
"Watching you kill me was the weirdest yet proudest moment for me today." He laughed. A passageway opened up in front of them then, so they gathered their things and headed out of the mirror room.
"Warren! Hurry!" The fake Kendra screamed as mirrors crashed down around them.
"No, Warren! It's me! Please, I'm the real Kendra!" Kendra screamed. Warren looked from back and forth between Kendra and the mirror version of herself, Kendra could tell he was getting frantic.
"Warren, you don't want to hurt me. I'm your cousin." The fake Kendra said. "Please just kill that imposter so we can make it to the others!"
Warren was running out of time, the mirrors would crush them soon if he didn't choose.
"Warren, please!" The fake Kendra cried. Kendra wanted to speak, defend herself, do something to prove that she was the real Kendra, but she found herself unable to even think. She knew what was about to happen. She had seen it before. Kendra watched soundlessly as Warren made his choice and turned to her.
She didn't have time to close her eyes before the sword sliced through her stomach, causing her to gasp in pain and in shock. Her eyes widened, staring into Warren's as her cousin slowly realized that she was the real Kendra. He had stabbed the real Kendra.
Behind him the mirrored Kendra faded into nothingness and shards of glass froze midair as the mirrors stopped falling.
"Kendra, oh my god." Warren breathed, quickly pulling the sword out of her, and pressing his hands to the wound, trying to stop the bleeding. "I'm so sorry."
Kendra stared at him for a moment, before collapsing forward into his arms.
"Kendra!"
Warren couldn't believe he had done this, how had he not known the difference in his cousin and an imposter? After lowering Kendra to the ground, he assessed the wound, trying to stop the bleeding with his shaking hands.
"You really did it this time, Burgess." Kendra's clone said, Warren hadn't heard her voice sound that cold since the stingbulb incident. "Your little cousin is going to die because you failed to recognize her."
Warren sprung up in a rage and punched the clone in the face, he drew his dagger and in one quick motion he slit the clones throat. Warren couldn't watch as the fake Kendra died, instead he hurried over to the real Kendra, kneeling by her side.
"Warren, it hurts." Kendra cried, coughing up blood.
"Hang in there Kens, we're gonna find Bracken and he's going to heal you and everything will be okay. Everything is going to be okay." He said, gathering Kendra up in his arms and rushing to the new opening in the room, praying the others were near by.
"Nice job, Vanessa. I thought for sure you were going to kill me." Bracken said, looking at the image of himself dying. He found it to be more than just a tad bit creepy.
"Give me some credit, unicorn. I am a blix." Vanessa smirked.
"I know, that's why I thought you were going to kill me." Bracken joked, as they headed down the new passageway that opened up. "I wonder how the others did."
Vanessa continued to brag on her instincts, ignoring what he said, Bracken smirked at the irony.
Trask was confused, he had expected to wake in a room full of danger but instead, he was in a quiet passage way.
"This can't be right." He muttered. Picking himself up, he started his way through the passage, hoping to find the others.
"Kendra stay with me, do not fall asleep, you hear me?" Warren said. Not caring how reckless he was charging through the never ending hall. "Answer me Kendra!"
Glancing down to the wounded girl in his arms he was relieved to find her eyes open and blinking up at him. He didn't like how pale she was looking, or how her breathing was shallow or the fact that he stabbed his cousin. Warren ran faster.
"Tanu? Seth? Is that you?" Vanessa called. The two figures turned around and sure enough it was them. Vanessa and Bracken jogged up to meet them.
"Thank god! I'm glad to see we aren't the only ones who made it through that room." Seth said. "Where do you think the rest of the group is?"
"Not sure, but I bet they will meet up with us sooner or later." Vanessa answered. "Come on, let's keep going."
"Come on, they have to be here somewhere." Warren muttered, ignoring how his shirt was getting increasingly wet with Kendra's blood.
"Warren…help." Kendra breathed.
"Everything is going to be okay." Warren didn't know if he was talking to Kendra or himself.
"Hey! Hey! Guys!" Luca cried, running up to the group of four. "Glad to see you made it out! That room was something wasn't it, I mean to see a copy of yourself getting killed?"
"My god, shut up Luca." Elin muttered. Luca's smile faltered a little, Tanu patted him on the back.
"Tell me about it, watching myself get killed by Seth Sorenson was not something I ever thought I'd do."
The group walked along, finding a confused Trask, who reported to know nothing on the mirror room. Tanu guessed it was because there was an odd number of them, and Track was the lucky odd man out.
"Great! Now we just have to find Warren and Kendra and we-"
"Everything will be okay." A voice was heard, frantic and almost out of breath right before Warren ran into view, emerging from a side passage. Seth could see that he was carrying something, but Tanu stepped into view before he could see.
"Trask! Please tell me you have Bracken, my god, please tell me you have him with you." Warren gasped.
"I am right here. What's happened?" Bracken said, making his way over to him. Seth heard Bracken gasp, and that was all he needed to shove his way around Tanu to see-
Kendra.
"I messed up, god, I messed up so bad. There were mirrors crashing and I just thought...please, heal her." Warren said, Kendra felt herself being lowered and gently placed on the ground.
"I can't." Bracken said. "If I do...I might not have enough energy to continue, our best bet is to leave her here and continue on the mission. Once we complete it, we can run back here and I will gladly heal her then, for now just have her rest."
Kendra heard a moment of silence before Warren exploded.
"What are you talking about? Heal her!" Warren shouted at Bracken.
"We don't have the time and I can't waste my energy! Just leave her here, if she is still alive when I come back I'll heal her then!" Bracken yelled back, turning on his heel and beginning to walk away.
Kendra didn't understand, Bracken would never act this way. She sat there listening to the fight in utter confusion and hurt until it dawned on her, washing her body in cold as if her blood was replaced by ice water.
"Bracken." Warren said, a dangerous tone entering his voice. "If you don't get your sorry ass over here right now, and heal my little cousin, I will personally hand your ass over to the demons of Zzyzx."
"I'd like to see you try." Bracken said, turning back around. Warren jumped forward, fist flying up and punching Bracken square in the jaw.
"Stop!" Kendra cried, as Trask grabbed Warren and dragged him away from Bracken. "Just, come here Bracken. Please." Bracken glared a moment longer at Warren before kneeling down next to her. Kendra smiled at him, running a hand through his hair.
"You're gonna let me die without ever kissing me?" She asked.
"I will heal you after we get the artifact, you won't die. But, if you insist." Bracken leaned in closer, quick as a mouse trap Kendra slammed one of her throwing knives into Brackens neck. A movement she was familiar with because the image of her doing just that had haunted her thoughts since the day she had her vision.
"Too bad the real Bracken, would never leave anyone, let alone me, behind." She whispered.
'Bracken' stared at her, dark blood, not silver, pouring from the wound. Kendra stared back, tears falling down her face as she watched him bleed out and die in front of her. Finally he fell to the ground, unmoving.
"Kendra." Seth breathed. "What did you just do?"
"You killed Bracken. Oh my god, Kendra, you killed Bracken." Warren gaped.
"No." Kendra sobbed. "That wasn't Bracken. That was his mirror."
"I killed his mirror Kendra." Vanessa said.
"No, you killed the real Bracken." Kendra said. "You killed the real Bracken." And as she said this, 'Bracken's' body faded, confirming her words. A heavy silence reigned as they all took this in.
Kendra could feel her strength fading, and her vision started to blacken. Her head pounded and her body felt tired. She could hear the other's voices, she felt their hands as they tried their best to fix up the wound and stop the bleeding, but her eyes failed to see anything.
Then she was falling, darkness reigned and if Kendra was completely honest with herself, for the first time, she wanted to stay in the dark.
A/N: dun dun dun? I know I'm a horrible person. You have my condolences. See you next week and we can see who I kill off next (I'm kidding maybe)