Part V- A new found hope

Couple of hours later

Cammi lay in his bed, he had been carried back since he collapsed just outside the restricted section of the library as he tossed and turned in his sleep. To Cammi he was living in a nightmare with the creature from the book. It came and kept whispering in a deathly, cold, evil voice that made him shudder, scream and want to wake up to see it was only a nightmare. Sweat beaded on his brows, his eyebrows knitted together, his face held a mask of concentration and fear, his small hands began to curl into small fists ready to lash out, his small form began to shake violently, his head occasionally turning sideways.

Cammi stayed in that position for quite sometime then his heart began thumping in his chest when suddenly the creature appeared right infront of him he thrashed around trying to get away, but to no avail.

The creature descended upon him and stuck one single claw through his chest aiming for his heart, but Cammi moved slightly so it missed. Then a bright light appeared and the creature vanished and all he could she then was a female Gummi with golden fur and hair wearing a white dress was cradling him and whispering "Be strong baby, mommy's here"

Sir Plucki and his two closest friends Sir Blastus and Sir Gumlittle had been by Cammi's bedside since he had collapsed.

They occasionally had to restrain him incase he hurt himself as he tossed around and threw punches into the empty air.

Cammi muttered things from time to time, but all they could ever make out was "Who are you" or "What do you want" and "I'm scared"

His father went into a state of panic momentarily when Cammi had been thrashing around then fallen limp in his arms with barely a pulse and since then he'd been still ever since.

An hour later

Cammi was thrashing about again, his sheets were damp with sweat, his brow was blazing hot and tears streamed down his face, every now and then a wail would escape his lips and fresh tears would spill down his face. He could feel his nightmare slipping away along with the images of his mother from his mind and could feel someone restraining him for what reason he did not know when the creature suddenly came back into his mind, he bolted up right in bed screaming as his eyes flew open. His sight was very blurry due to his crying but he could hear his father voice near him. He turned round looking for his father with teary eyes, when he found him he flung himself into his arms and cried like a baby.

Sir Plucki didn't know how to react at first Cammi had thrown himself at him and wrapped his arms around him and refused to let go and continued to cry hard. Slowly he responded and wrapped his arms around the obviously scared cub, whatever Cammi had seen or read was it really this bad. He'd never seen Cammi so upset or scared in all his life so whatever had happened must have been terrible to make him this scared. He was still cradling Cammi who was in a state of shock and fear when the two Councillors walked in and asked what he'd seen.

Cammi stayed silent for a few more moment before he gradually drew back from Sir Plucki and proceeded to tell them what he'd seen. He described the landscape being cold, black, ruined and cracked in several places, the ground separated in two and the air being foul. He continued his description of the grounds separating seeing himself on one side and then this strange creature he'd seen in the book on the other.

Skulls and bones lay around his feet and everywhere, blood staining the black, coaled hard ground, the creature, dark and evil words, laughter and howls never ceasing. Fire rose between the gap separating the two when he described seeing the creature launching through it and attacking him and trying to stick it's long, filthy, black claws into his chest and pull out his heart and how it involuntary missed.

Cammi stopped taking in a few more breaths and watched their eye's on him in shock, waiting for him to continue he proceeded again this time telling them he saw a light, then revealing a female gummi in a crystal white dress, gold fur and hair and was cradling someone in a cream blanket, and was whispering loving and caring words to him. Then suddenly without warning his dream had shifted back to the creature, his mother was lying dead nearby, her stomach cut open, her eye's were empty and emotionless while he was having the life choked out of him feeling the creature strong, bony, wrinkly, slimy, death-freezing, black skin hands against his neck.

The creature's eyes were blood red, showing no emotion, merciless, pitiless and a cold- hearted blooded ruthless killer, it's lips curled into a evil like smile, baring it yellow mixed with blood stained teeth as it did so with smoke was fuming out of it's nostril's then described that he then woke up after that incident.

A moment silent was heard in the room and Cammi then looked up from were his eye's had casted on the floor and saw the shocked and speechless faces of the knights and the Councillor's.

"I saw my mother" said Cammi with a smile.

"Your..Your mother" said Sir Plucki surprised to which Cammi nodded happily.

"That dream you saw, it might be some sort of vision?" said Wooddale to which Cammi shrugged.

//Information on Tarquans we've been looking for years and he finds it within ten minutes// thought Councillor Wooddale as she looked at Cammi.

A few more hours later (evening)

Cammi was now up, dressed and walking about Gummadoon, but indoors since it was still raining. He looked at the sky and began to wonder whether it would ever stop raining seeing the grey, pink mixed with brown clouds, which kept showering down with rain and hail, occasionally hearing the odd thunder clap.

Since Cammi's little incident in the library and with his nightmare, Cammi had to make sure he was in sight at least one of the adults which he didn't like as he liked to cause mischief around the castle. He began wondering around the corridors till he reached a certain room where he knew a few adults would be the libraries.

Although he had read nearly every book in the area he was allowed to go, he decided that it would be best to read and hopefully time would pass and that it would stop raining. He entered the library and saw that there were a few adults around, some of the tables which were piled high with books as he began to make his way over to one of the bookcases when he tripped over the rug in the library making him stumble forward and collide into one of the table's nearby piled high with books.

As soon as he made impact with the table the books which were neatly stacked began to wobble ever so slightly before falling on top of Cammi and going all over the floor along with the table which made a terrible bang disturbing the silence in the library.

"Cammi" he heard someone say.

Cammi felt his heart freeze before he quickly stood up and looked at one of the Councillor's.

"Sorry" he said and began stacking up the book again receiving a few looks from the other gummi's.

He finished stacking them putting the last book on top before grabbing the book he wanted off the bookcase and tearing out the room. He reached outside the library and began running down the corridor to his room where he could read in peace without causing more trouble than necessary.

Next Morning

Cammi had been woken early by his dad that morning to help patrol the forest since it had stopped raining and he immediately got up and got dressed and followed after his dad to the stable's. After saddling his unicorn and mounting it he and the knights rode off.

Cammi was thankful that the rain had mostly stopped the sun was now out and the rain only came every now and then and even then it only drizzled

The group rode on into the forest but had noticed something quite remarkable the forest was dry and looked like it hadn't seen rain for months. Dead leaves littered the ground and crunched under the unicorn's hooves. The forest was quite there was no sound at all no animals scurrying along no wind blowing through the trees nothing.

The ride out was uneventful and nothing was lurking around in the forest so the group headed back. They headed into a clearing in the forest not to far from Gummadoon it was covered in sunlight and was the only place in the forest that looked like it had seen any rain recently. When Cammi's unicorn reared up and chucked him off, which sent Cammi flying into the bushes at the other end of the clearing. Cammi stood up and brushed the leaves and twigs off him then shielded his eyes from the sunlight. The clearing had gone very dark and the only light in the clearing was focused on Cammi. He placed his hand on the bush to help him climb out then instantly pulled it away when the bush caught fire. Cammi just stood there bewildered for a moment then jumped out of the bush and ran to his unicorn. The fire followed him and the knights all the way out of the forest, but then could seemingly go no further and the rest of the fire spread and the whole forest edge caught fire.

"What caused that?"

Cammi just continued to stare at the burning forest then at his hands. That bush had caught fire when he touched it but why what did he do.

The knights were all staring at him he knew that he could feel their eyes on him so he turned his unicorn around and started off for Gummadoon. Upon reaching the gates he looked back to see the knights riding towards him then looked at the forest. His mouth dropped open and his eyes went wide the forest was no longer burning in fact it looked like it had never been touched.

"What's wrong, Cammi" said as he and the other knights approached him.

Cammi just pointed to the forest speechless he couldn't say anything.

The knights also looked back at the forest and looked surprised they had seen the forest catch fire and now it appeared fine.

They looked back at Cammi who looked absolutely terrified and guessed why, then they looked at some of the residents who were peering out shocked and surprised so evidently they had seen the forest to.

Cammi rode into Gummadoon quickly and put his unicorn back into the stables then ran into the castle. The last thing he wanted to do right now was to talk to his father and the other knights and most of all the Councillor's. He sprinted up a flight of stairs an ran past his room but didn't go in because he knew that would be the first place his father would look for him and right now he wanted to be alone. He ran up into an old tower, he didn't know what it was used for just that no one ever came here as far as he was aware.

Hours crept by and Cammi just crouched on the cold stone floor hugging his knees close to him playing over in his mind what had happened. Looking at of the window through teary eyes Cammi saw it must be about lunchtime so shakily he got to his feet and left the tower. He walked slowly down the corridor then out into the training grounds he walked across then past a troth where two unicorn's were, but as he pasted one nudged him and whinnied. He looked down at the floor and saw some feed in it so he picked it up and fed them, but just as he put the bag down the unicorn moved shoving him backwards. Cammi fell backwards and was unable to regain his balance and went crashing into several weapons stalls.

They went crashing over and the sudden sounds sent the unicorns wild and they began to run round the ground.

Cammi stood there not knowing really what to do when he saw the knights coming towards the grounds he began to panic. He looked at the stalls lying on the ground with the weapons sprawled out over the floor. Not really knowing whether he was strong enough but thought it worth an attempt he slid his fingers under the stall and lifted.

Surprisingly enough it wasn't as heavy as he thought it would be so he quickly pulled it up and then grabbed the next one as the knights walked in.

Sir Plucki stopped the knights talking as they walked into the training grounds and looked to where he was staring the three were shocked Cammi was lifting one of the weapons stands up all by himself apparently with relative ease and still had some of the weapons in.

They walked towards him as he grabbed the final stall of the floor and lifted it up.

"Cammi"

Cammi had just placed the final stall back when he heard that and he turned to look at his father coming towards him. He picked up the remaining few weapons and placed them in the stall as his father reached him.

"Cammi, what's wrong?"

Cammi started shaking he expected to get into trouble for this and all the strange events which he naturally blamed on himself made him get scared the only thing he could say was "I'm sorry"

"Cammi?" his father said reaching out to him.

Cammi jumped back from him and looked at each of them in turn then took off out of the training grounds.

"CAMMI" he heard his father shout, but it wasn't angry like he expected just worried.

Cammi kept on running through the castle then when he reached the castle entrance he froze and seemed to shake more than he already was but not with fear but excitement and happiness.

The three knights nearly ran into the cub when he made such an abrupt stop then noticed he was shaking.

"Cammi, what is the matter?" said Sir Plucki placing his hand on the cub's shoulder.

Cammi didn't hear him he was to busy staring at the female gummi stood by the castle's entrance who was staring back at him. She smiled at him and he smiled back and whispered "mother"

She nodded back and he ran again but straight into her arms. Cammi reached her and jumped into her arms wrapping his arms around her neck and his legs around her torso.

"Mommy" Cammi said then began crying.

The three knights just stared at the scene in total shock.

TBC…

Please note: This is my last update for now, for I am going on holiday for 2 weeks, so it will be awhile before I update again.

End of Part V

Part VI coming soon!