Chapter 17
Hey! I finally updated! WOHOO! Anyway, this is a prequel to the upcoming "Nightmare sequence", which will start in the next chapter. I would like to thank everyone who has provided encouragement and praise for this fic, especially Yume-Chan, with out your constant Emails of encouragement and reviews of praise, I would not have been able to get this far. Arigato, Mina-san.
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Darkness enwrapped the new comers, the only light coming from the small bubble that encircled them. It was eternal, with no savior from the darkness.
"Are you sure this is it?" Lina asked, looking towards Xellos for answers. "You're positive?"
"Yes, this is right, this how it always was." Xellos said, Lina noted the small look of pain in his eyes as he said this.
"Mama," The soft voice came out in a small whisper from her right. Lina looked over into the large, happy, sapphire eyes. "This darkness goes on forever, I'm scared,"
Lina gave the small hand that was placed in her own a light squeeze. "There is nothing to be afraid of," She reassured.
"Really? But, there's no light,"
"That's not true," Amelia said, looking across at the small girl.
"Amelia is right, you always have a light with you," Lina continued.
"But," Jasmine said, still not quite understanding. "Where?"
"Right in your heart," Lina said, smiling at her future daughter. "Just remember, no matter what happens, you will always have that light,"
Jasmine smiled back at her. "You're right," She said. "My mother told me once, "Even if all your friends and family have died, no matter what, you cannot give up hope. They're not gone. It is possible that when you give up hope, that they are gone, that is why you must never give up." I'm going to follow that from now on, I'll never give up, never,"
"Wise words," Lina said, as she looked forward to where they were headed. She gasped when she saw a huge mirror appear, right in their path. "Everyone! Brace for impact! What ever you do, don't let go!"
The group crashed straight into the giant mirror. They screamed as glass shards flew and cut at their skin. Lina held tightly onto Jasmine, trying to keep her hold. There was some great force pulling at them.
She felt her hold slip, and tried to keep hold, but it was too late. The group was pulled apart and thrown in different direction. The last thing Lina remembered before the darkness submerged her was seeing all her friends disappear before her eyes.