~Elements of the Mind~
5
"Welcome to the Mirror of your mind"
Blinding white caused Hitomi to shield her eyes from the hideous glare. "Where am I?" Nothing but air surrounded her. Even in the splendor of her surrounding Hitomi still harbored a foreboding feeling of doom.
"Welcome Hitomi."
The white light was suddenly sucked into darkness. She screamed.
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"What's happening to her? Why did she scream" Van demanded frantically. "I don't understand she was fine a moment ago."
Shakaku and Taishin could only stare at Hitomi's convulsing body, unsure what to do. "Someone has mind." Shakaku declared, "Someone is trying to attack her mind!"
"What!" Van cried, "Is there anything we can do for her?" As his words were spoken Hitomi opened her mouth let out a scream of pure terror. Van began to shake her shoulders frantically, " Wake up Hitomi, come on, you're stronger than this. Wake up!"
"Shahkaku, can you help? Visit her dream, find who torments her."
Shakaku raised Hitomi's wrist slowly, "There is nothing I can do you see because Hitomi isn't sleeping she is under death."
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The darkness closed in on her, pushed her, suffocated her in it's inky cloak. Hitomi could feel something soft touch her shoulder, she immediately grabbed at the exposed skin. But what her hand closed around wasn't anything alarming it was a feather. "They're falling from the sky" She decided as one landed gracefully on head. As she continued to walk through the feathers, she noticed a small silver light up ahead of her.
The light was coming from a small room. Hitomi pushed the door open and poked her head into the room. Four large mirrors made up the walls of the small space. She pushed the door open wider and stepped inside the peculiar room letting the door slam behind her. Her reflection stared back at her and mimicked ever move she made.
Although the room couldn't lie, Hitomi knew someone else was in here with here. Her senses crawled and the hairs on the back of her neck rose. Her reflection smiled and turned around. Hitomi reeled back, "What's going on?" The woman who now faced her had long black hair and sparkling red eyes.
"Welcome to the world you have created." The woman said as she stepped out of the mirror. "It's beautiful isn't?"
Hitomi continued to stare at the dark lady.
"Don't look at me with such hatred, you created this place."
"It's you. You're the evil Shakaku spoke of and you're the person that burned Fenalia." Hitomi spat.
The woman laughed, "Now lets not jump to conclusions. Why would I burn such a pathetic country? You shouldn't give me credit for something I didn't do."
"Then what do you want."
"My dear Hitomi, isn't it obvious what I want?"
Hitomi glared at the lady.
"You."
"What?"
"Yes, that's right you have something that I want Hitomi and you are going to give it me. Maybe not right away but you will surrender, because this room represents your mind and look." The dark woman paused to point to a long crack in one of the mirrors, " Your mind is very unstable, this instability is causing you to break down, once that happens you'll be mine for the taking."
"What do you mean?"
"Right now your friends believe that you might be dead, but you are much to strong to die because your mind will not allow you to surrender, but once this crack grows you will no longer be able to resist me and your mind will be mine."
"Why do you want me?"
The woman began to laugh hysterically, "You really don't have a clue do you? How pathetic, one of the saviors of this planet doesn't even know her own destiny, why don't you just quit now it'll make everything so much simpler."
"Stop it."
"Why? Am I scarring you? Poor thing, well you should have told me so earlier and I would have left you alone." She started laughing again.
"Stop!" Hitomi screamed and grabbed her head, shaking it violently. A large "creaking" noise was heard, as the crack in the glass became longer.
"You're driving yourself insane, how wonderful, now I don't have to do it for you."
Hitomi slowly pulled herself to her feet, "Stop it now."
The woman was about to reply when she noticed a strange white aura appear around Hitomi. "What's gong on?" she demanded.
"I've asked you three times to stop and yet you continued. I hate to fight but you have left me no choice." Wind started to swirl around her, whipping the dark woman's hair and clothes, while Hitomi's didn't move.
"What is this?"
"This is my power, tsubasa." She replied. Wings appeared on the dark woman's back and began to slowly lift her off the ground, "Now get out of my mind."
"I'll be back Hitomi, don't worry." She whispered and disappeared in a swirl of smoke. The darkness was then sucked into light.
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Van watched as pain washed over Hitomi's face, he watched as she screamed and rolled into the fetal position. "If she's dead, how can she move?"
"She's not technically dead" Taishin corrected, "Death is spell, therefore if someone cast death on Hitomi it would put her into a never ending dreamless state."
"Nothing can help her then?"
"If she fights it then she'll return but if she surrenders..."
Van looked down at a "sleeping" Hitomi, her face had taken on a serene expression. "She's not in any pain is she?"
"I don't know Van, there really isn't any way to tell."
"I know she'll make it back, she's the strongest person I know, I have faith that she'll return. She has to."
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