Sorry for the long wait…I've had too do some MAD studying! Oh, this chapter is exactly 14 pages. See, your complaining on it not being long enough paid off. I got a little contest I'm thinking about:

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Chapter Nine: Nightmares

"Ami?" Callie asked as they walked down a trail that was in a forest of beautiful green trees.

"What?" Ami asked in awe as she looked around.

"I'm guessing you noticed the change in scenery. If this is a nightmare then chain me to that tree that's just beside that lake." The lake Callie was referring to was a beautiful crystal lake off to their right.

"Oh gosh, it's so gorgeous."

"I wonder who could possibly have this quote on quote '-warped' nightmare. Any ideas?"

"Not really. I wonder what's going to appear out of nowhere to save us from this?" Ami thought out loud as she turned towards the lake.

"Pardon?" Callie asked as she slowly followed.

"The 2x4, it appeared out of nowhere right in my hand. I think Orion sent it."

"Who?"

"Orion, the one that called you 'kitten' remember?"

Callie rolled her eyes. "Right, the yummy leather babe boy."

"Well that's a new way of saying he turned you on. Boy? Nawua, more like man!"

"Nawua yourself. Did you see his features, he was so like a teenager."

"So you met him before?"

Callie sighed. "At the airport. He wanted an autograph and we kind of flirted."

"How much of the flirtiness?"

"Well as much as you can do with out being bombarded by info crazed reporters."

Ami turned her head slightly and grinned. "Only you could say something like that and pull it off. Only you."

"I know!" Callie grinned.

The different colors of the forest made it look almost mystical. The greens were such a crisp green that they seemed to glow, the lake looked almost like glass, except for the fact that it was able to move. The brown of the trunks was the color of a nicely polished desk, the grass matched the leaves of the trees and the trail was a straight paved road made out of the dirt that led up to a mountain.

"I'm a guessing we have to head that-a-way!" Ami pointed.

"I'm guessing as much."

"This might be Tawny's nightmare now that I think about it."

"How do you figure?" Callie asked as she started getting leverage with her legs because the hill was sloping higher.

"Because this is an extremely steep climb and she fears anything involving exercise or sweating."

Laughter erupted from Callie's mouth. "Well gee, I live for exercise. Being a movie star sex goddess and all. If I didn't look the way I do now I wouldn't be having that title you know!"

"Confident aren'tcha?"

Callie grinned in response and continued hiking up the hill. Slouched over and digging her heels into the soil for better speed, Callie proceeded to pick up the pace.

"Cals, don't go so fast," Ami complained as she hopped to catch up.

"Sorry," Callie stopped. "You know, the faster you go the faster you get up the hill."

"Yeah, but the faster you go, the more out of breath you are, the sweatier you are, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. You know."

"Ugh, Ams stop with the h-itching. I'd think you would be a work out fanatic."

"Okay pause for a second. H-itching? What the freaken' hell does that mean? Are you kidding me like exercising? Yeah that'll be the day."

"Ah, no," Callie said as the steep hill started evening out.

"Umm, were you listening to me?" Ami questioned.

"Not really."

"Okay, lets start slower. What's h-itching?"

"It's an alternative to bitching. I didn't want to offend you. Thoughtful huh," Callie grinned childishly.

Callie stopped so Ami could catch up.

"Huh. I need a breather," Ami said.

Callie sighed as she watched Ami sit on a rotten log. "Holy cow."

Ami placed a hand on her chest as her breathing labored. "Don't ::puff:: holy cow me!"

Callie headed over towards a tree, turned and leaned against it but instead of feeling the rough bark against Ami's shirt, she felt herself falling to the ground! "AHH!" Callie cried.

Ami lifted her eyes to see Callie flat on her butt with a tree going through her stomach. "Oh my gosh, it's a hologram."

Callie lifted her eyes and glared. "No shit Sherlock!"

"Oh god, don't bite my head off," Ami tried to hold in her laughter.

"Sorry, I just think I broke my butt!" Callie groaned as she slowly lifted herself up and started rubbing her posterior end.

"Right," Ami spoke sarcastically. "Well come on lazy bones, hup to it."

"What? 'Hup to it'? I've been hupping to it."

They hiked for the next ten minutes in silence just gazing at their surroundings. It was almost calming, 'almost' because of the psycho situation they'd gotten themselves into.

"Um, okay it's Will's nightmare," Ami confirmed.

Callie, who'd been looking on the left side of the trail, glanced to right to discover Will standing at the edge of a cliff.

He was shaking.

"I don't get it, what's he scared of?" Callie asked.

"He doesn't like heights, but some how I think there's a bit more to it," Ami's voice quivered.

Callie glanced at Ami, who had her eyes on something behind Will. Callie still didn't understand so she began walking towards Will until she finally managed to see just what had given Ami's voice a tremor.

Janine.

"Oh god," Callie whispered.

"HOW COULD YOU?" Janine's ghost screamed at Will's back. "You just let me die! Stared at me like I was a bug in your drink. You were an awful excuse for a boyfriend, why do you think I was cheating on you? You piece of shit!"

Callie gasped.

"Wait a minute Janny told me everything. She loved him; she didn't even glance at another guy, not even to say he was cute."

Callie's eyes watered. "This is what he feared, or fears the most. Janine not loving him."

"And pushing him off a cliff evidently," Ami added as her eyes widened.

"WHAT?" Callie lifted her eyes just in time to see Janine shove Will off the
edge of a cliff, which was right behind him. "No!"

She shifted herself into gear as she was dashing up towards him. Callie ran straight through Janine and then dove to catch Will's hand just in time.

"Argh, ah," Callie grunted and cried out in pain as the rocky ledge dug into her stomach.

"I killed her," Will whispered as he clutched Callie's hands hard enough for another cry to escape her mouth.

He didn't even realize she was the only thing that had stopped him from a rocky, fleshed-splattered death.

"You did not," Callie screamed hoarsely. "Ah, Will you have to help me. You're too heavy."

She was falling with him as she felt the pieces of rock that were cutting holes into Ami's shirt she'd borrowed bruise and cut her as she was nearly taken over the edge. "I knew she didn't love me."

"Ami!" Callie cried.

Two seconds later she felt hands grip her forearms. Callie looked up and smiled at Ami. With both of the girls' strength they managed to pull Will up. As soon as he got to the solid ground he drew his knees up and stared at the ground.

"Will you didn't…" Ami started to say, but was cut off as she saw Will stand up.

It all happened so fast. Will jumping off the cliff, Ami screaming 'no', and Callie jumping after him.

"Ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod," Ami chanted hysterically as she heard Callie screaming get farther and farther away.

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"Callie!" she heard Ami scream.

The ground came into view. Callie had managed to grab Will, holding him to her as tears fell onto his shoulder. At first Will had no reaction, then as he felt the hot tears on his shoulder it seemed like he jerked to reality.

"C-Callie? Why did you…?"

Callie pushed her head into Will's shoulder, cutting him off, as her stomach turned from the fast speed there were going. She was shaking viciously and it felt like everything was going in slow motion. Suddenly she felt her left foot encounter a solid piece of something. Slowly she lifted her head up to see both of them standing safely on the ground.

"What the hell?" Will whispered.

"I guess we really were floating……Okay we need to get back up to Ami," Callie informed Will as they started walking back up a steeper hill.

"Hey! No problem! I couldn't believe you jumped after him Callie," Ami cried running heavily down the hill that Callie had been about to go up.

Callie shrugged and turned towards Will with a deadly glare. She stalked towards him, raised her fist up in the air, and punched him in the face.

"You asshole!" she screamed pushing him down, sitting on his waist, and she started pounding him in his face and chest. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"CALLIE!" Ami screamed scrambling to try and get Callie off of Will.

"What's wrong with you? What is so wrong with you that you can't understand that it wasn't your fault?" Callie screamed even louder.

Will grinded his teeth and grabbed Callie's fist, the side of his head aching all the while, "You have no idea what it's like to lose someone!" he yelled back bucking Callie off him so she fell to the ground and stood over her form. "You've had a perfect life. What the hell do you have to bitch about? What the hell do you know about pain, the pain of losing a person that you loved so much? You know nothing. So shut your mouth about shit you don't know."

Callie's eyes filled with tears and even though she was sitting she never lost her dignity. "You're right, I don't know, but I know enough that it's not worth killing yourself over and for your information, you know nothing of what it's like to be a movie star. You can't have a personal life! Everything you do, wear, the way you act, your dating life, EVERYTHING is known by the public. The fans, the other people, the reporters, they twist it and do what they will with it so they can have some kind of gossip, but because it was so bad they didn't twist one story. The public likes knowing that their idol or the person they despise has an addictive problem, but you would know that wouldn't you. You are the public."

Will looked down in shame. He knew what she was talking about and he couldn't believe what she was saying.

"You put me so high up on that pedestal of yours that it I know for a fact it would never have even entered you mind that I could be capable of doing something like that. Do you remember when that two-page article first came out? The first thing I did was call you. You know what the first thing you said was? 'It's just the juice the reporters need to spice up an article,'" tears were streaming down Callie's face as she rambled on. "I wanted so bad to tell you it was the truth, but I didn't because I know how you see me."

Tears filled Will's eyes as he looked at Callie. He bit his teeth together and his nostrils flared.

"You-you-you put me so high on that pedestal that not even the perfect man, woman, god even a dog could reach me and I liked it like that! It made me feel…special. That was the last time I called you," Callie sucked in a quavering breath.

"I know!" Will half yelled, and then added, "No way you could have done that!"

"The truth has dawned and that stool is finally falling. You ever wonder why I didn't call you, or anyone else after that? Because I knew the truth and I knew if I had to keep talking to you guys I would have eaten a hole to the pit of my stomach. So cut you all off," Callie stood up, took a deep breath and turned back towards them. "I had my parents come visit me and every time they asked if I wanted you guys to come," her voice cracked, "and every time I thought about it and said no. I regret it. I really do. You can't change the past though."

"Then why'd you come now?" Ami asked finally saying something.

"Because I decided to stop running from my best friends and I missed you so much."

Callie brought her hand to her mouth; gentle sobs racked her body.

"Wow, it took you three years to figure out you missed us?" a gentle voice said from behind Callie.

Everyone turned to see Kirsten; her smile gentle, teasing, and sad. 

Callie mustered up a fake laugh, "Hey it's my job to be the happiness of the group!"

Kirsten walked towards Callie, smiled gently, caressing her face and said, "No one gave you that job."

Callie smiled her eyes filled with tears and gratitude; she bent her head down in to Kirsten's shoulder and welcomed the warmth.

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"Well, another nightmare defeated. I'm guessing Kirsten, you're next!"

Kirsten squinted her eyes at Callie. "Huh?"

"We are champion nightmare defeaters!" Ami put in grinning from ear to ear.

Kirsten's mouth dropped and puzzlement spread across her face. "Huh?" she repeated.

"This place is like a virtual reality room where we have to overcome out nightmares. I had to go through Ami and Will so far. So it's either you or me and since I didn't draw anything on mine I'm guessing it's you," Callie explained.

"Ah!"

Callie eased into her next question. "So, what's your worst nightmare?"

Kirsten glanced up meeting Callie's eyes. "Are you saying we have to go through it?"

Callie shook her head.

"Damn! Well, it kind of involves certain devices!"

"Devices?" Will asked. "Like…?"

"Like 'The Rack', 'The Pear', 'The Strappado', that kind of stuff."

"What's that?" Ami asked.

"Medieval torture devices. 'The Rack' is a table, usually has spiked rollers for the victim to lie on the person would be tied to the rack and stretched for days at a time. I read that one victim was stretched twelve inches. While this was going on other types of torture would be inflicted. The pear, shaped like a pear, would be inserted into anal, vaginal, or oral orphuses, and then opened to inflict even more pain. The Spikes at the end of the object were used to tear the area to shreds and the Strappado was the process of tying the prisoner's arms behind their back and hanging them from a high point. The victim was then dropped several feet and stopped before reaching the ground. It dislocated their shoulders and sometimes they'd put waits on the ankles so they'd feel more pain," Callie's voice shook as she explained it.

Kirsten looked at Callie in shock. "How do you know?"

Callie snorted uneasily. "My next movie is about it."

"Well Calster any ideas how we get out of this?" Will asked looking peeved.

"In the movie I die, they don't win over it. Modern day girl travels back in time and she doesn't make it."

Kirsten groaned. "Oh great! Say good-bye to me!"

"Okay, don't panic…"Ami said trying to calm things down.

Callie's eyes widened. "Don't panic? Ams I mean this in the utmost respect…are you insane? Start panicking. I mean I don't know about you, but me, not so good with the pain factor."

"Wow! Look, the atmosphere's changing. It's like the suns setting the way it's changing. I might even go as far as saying it was beautiful if it wasn't for that damn smell," Will said holding his nose.

"Ugh, what is that?" Ami gagged.

"It's turning into a dungeon. Well, at least they didn't pick the white tower," Callie's voice shook.

She glanced over at Kirsten. The girl had turned pasty pale, drops of sweat spilled down the side of her face and gathering on the curve of her upper lip.

Crawling.

Something was crawling on her foot. Glancing down Callie saw a small hand-sized animal with red glowing eyes. Suddenly stage lights blinked on giving Callie the chance to see what was on her foot.

She screamed. "Ewe, ewe, ewe, get it off, get it off, get it off," she hip-hopped around furiously kicking her sneaker shoe up in the air and balancing on her left foot.

Will shook his head and smiled. "It's just a mouse Cal."

"Ewe, totally disgusting! It's a dirty vermin infested beast!"

Callie did a body shiver jumping up in the air. The rat flung off of Callie's shoe and bashed into the wall. "Oh sorry little guy."

The rat jumped up, shook his head frantically, and scurried off.

"You were 'eweing' a little bit ago," Ami pointed out.

"Maybe that's what you're scared of," Will suggested.

Callie shook her head and placed the tip of her index finger into her mouth. "They're definitely not my worst nightmare. I'd most likely stomp on the little fuckers if my life were in danger."

"Why didn't you stomp on that one?" Kirsten asked.

"I didn't want to hurt him. He most likely was just resting on my foot. Took me a bit by surprise."

Will snorted, Ami just shook her head, and Kirsten rolled her eyes. Callie gave them a shrug for a response.

"God Callie," Ami grinned at her best friend.

Callie looked up at her. "What?"

"Strange you are," Kirsten smiled.

Kirsten shook a stray piece of her blonde hair out of her face, her blue eyes looking at Callie with admiration and disbelief.

"Um, Kirst, baby not to interrupt your lesbian admiration moment of Callie, but there is a huge……"

"You know you asshole that is extremely rude!" Kirsten glared.

"If you'll let me finish……there is a metal beddish type thing lifting straight up behind you."

Kirsten's eyes widened. "Really? Because you too!"

"What?" Will had time to say before long red straps whipped out and yanked him against the silver metal bed.

Then it happened to Kirsten and Ami. Callie only knew that she'd be next. The hard slap of cold metal on Callie's back stung so bad her eyes teared up and the straps that had spit out yanking her body onto the metal bed were so tight she knew they'd cut off her circulation if she was to be under them long. Ami's shirt that she had taken after the wolf attack had been pulled up by the tightness of the straps exposing her stomach.

"Oh my God," Kirsten cried. "What are they?"

Callie looked up from her concentrated project of trying to push her shirt down and squinted her eyes at the dark elf looking creature coming towards her with a silver glistening object. The things eyes were electric blue, the one heading towards Kirsten had eyes the color of a green forest leaf, the ones heading towards Ami and Will had black penetrating eyes that sent chills down her spine.

The slashes on her chest, in which she'd gotten from the wolf, were showing. The roughness of the straps jerking her back had torn open the healing marks and blood was trickling down Callie's stomach.

"Callie how in the hell are we going to get out of this one?" Ami's voice trembled.

"I-I……"Callie stuttered.

She was cut off by a scream. Turning her head she saw the green-eyed demon ripping Kirsten's' shirt off.

"What in the hell is he doing?" Ami screamed. "Stop it!"

Callie's eyes widened. "I guess they aren't only going to do physical torture," she whispered.

"No get away from me!" Kirsten cried a waterfall of tears fell from her baby blue eyes.

Callie turned her eyes to the blue-eyed monster that had started caressing her stomach. He looked into her eyes as he slowly lifted his head down and licked up the blood that had pooled at her bellybutton.

Jerking in shock and disgust Callie hollered, her voice cracking. "Oh that is not normal."

"Torturing without a cause. In the movies the Inquisitor has a plan of a torturing method. Basically they interrogate the victim to confess to some sort of crime, if they refuse they start. I don't think these guys intend to interrogate."

"So all we have to do is confess to something?" Ami asked hysterically.

"What the hell do we confess too?" Will asked as he glared at the one holding a knife to his leg.

"There is nothing to confess to. There's no interrogation. Since they're doing it to be doing it……I don't know what to do."

The one standing over Callie had only moved to lick the blood, but when he reached for the silver object and went to bring it too the top of her shirt. Only when he got there he paused at the piece of lump underneath her shirt. He outlined it with his finger, his eyes looking quizzical. He took the object and cut the shirt half way down exposing her collarbone and the golden chain that held her mothers ring. He lifted the chain and glared as he saw the ring. He yanked it off her neck.

"O-owe."

The elf took two steps back and examined the small ring. Callie's eyes teared up as she glared at him. In the corner of her eyes she saw the green-eyed elf cutting through Kirsten's skin.

"I WILL get that back!" her voice cracked.

Suddenly the whimpers and the screams stopped. The elves turned and looked towards Callie. The blue-eyed elf lifted his eyes slowly and he motioned for them to gather around Callie.

"I will get that back," Callie repeated her voice shaking, but at the same time filled with venom.

They just stared at her not moving, barely breathing. A movement coming from Kirsten distracted Callie who was trying not to break eye contact with the leader, it may have been slow, but it was there. Kirsten had a knife and was cutting the ropes. The straps were cut as if they were butter. The elves with the black eyes decided to return to Ami and Will. The elf that started on Ami had taken her thumbs and put them in a Thumb Screw, which was two pieces of wood with screws in it that were used to crush the thumbs. Ami gave off a high-pitched scream as the pieces of wood started crushing her them. The elf then took the device and snapped it down breaking both of Ami's thumbs. The screams Ami let out were piercing, but Callie will never forget the sound of her thumbs snapping, the grinding of the bones then that click of them breaking.

The elf that was near Will was at his feet smashing his toes with a hammer. Will was screaming at the top of his lungs, tears running down his face. The elf then snapped Will's ankle breaking it.

Kirsten however was slicing through her straps. She was successful and slowly getting up she went towards the elf that was torturing Ami lifted up the saw that had been placed against the wall, lifted it up and brought it down on his head. The elf jerked forward then turned around and growled. He wrapped his hands around her neck and slammed her up against the wall. He grabbed her knife and stuck it in her side. Blood ran down her side, she cried out and slashed her nails in his face.

"That was Kirsten!" screamed a voice.

Banging on the door echoed in the room, making Callie jump. The door busted open and Callie saw her mother and her father running in. The elves simply sighed and disappeared.

"Momma!" Callie cried. "Get them out! They didn't do anything to me. Oh gods, that bastard stabbed Kirsten in the side. Tell me she's okay!"

Tom ran over to go check on her. "Her breathing's shallow. She needs a doctor fast."

"How the hell……" Callie's words chocked off as she started crying hard.

"Julian!" Jenny screamed. "We need to get her out of here. You gave me a chance in the last game give me one in this game!"

Tom ran over releasing Ami and Will. "Ami's thumbs are broken and Wills toes are smashed, his right ankle is broken."

Julian appeared. His lean leather clad body leaned against the dingy wall of the Chamber. His grin spread across his abnormally beautiful face.

"Asking for a favor Jen?" his exotic voice lingered in the air.

Tom ran over to Callie and sliced the straps. Callie got up and stormed to the guy leaning on the wall.

"You tell your d-damned elves I want my necklace back!" she screamed. "And as for you I want Ami, Will, and Kirsten out of here! I want all of us out of here. Do you realize how immature this is?"

Julian gave Callie a penetrating stare. "You're ordering me?"

"Yes I am! What is wrong with you? Don't you have a heart?"

That seemed to piss him off. "Oh, I have heart. I gave it too you're mother, who threw my love back in my face and killed me."

"Y-you're……" Callie started to say then shook her head. "What you did wasn't love! You can't possess someone. A human being isn't some kind of property. You can't make someone love you. God not even Cupid could make a human love someone. It was an illusion."

Callie's ripped shirt showed the slices on her chest and she heard her mother gasp.

"Oh Callie," Jenny cried.

Callie seemed to misunderstand her mothers' cry and bowed her head. "I'm sorry I lost the ring. HIS minions stole it. I know it meant a lot to you."

Jenny glared daggers at Julian. "It doesn't anymore. It meant something because Julian died being noble, but he back even more of a monster than before. Your chest Callie, oh baby, what happened?"

"Mom, we don't have time we need to get them out! What do we have to do?" Callie asked.

Julian grinned evilly. "Not we honey, but you!"

It looked to Callie like pay back really was a bitch.

To Be Continued……

Comments appreciated. I had planned on making this a bit gorier, but I got tired and didn't feel like added as much detail as I had planned. I'm still waiting for this last bit to be beta-read, but I figured you guys have been waiting so long that I'd correct everything once my reader had it done, and in the mean time the fans can all still read it and if you want to read the corrected part it will replace this one when it's done. Thanks. I hope you liked it. Aya