Bridging the Void
Note: A million apologies for the long wait! This time I promise I'll reveal a little about Steph! I hope this chapter is worth it to you… It does get good! Review, and yell at me for the wait if you must!
Chapter Eight: Dragons and Magicians
"What on earth is going on?" Chris asked, eyes wide at the sight of a life size blue eyes white dragon.
"Good question," Seto said shortly, staring up at his monster.
"It's you, Seto," I said knowingly. "You have powers in this world too. You summoned that dragon."
He looked at me like I was insane, something I was plenty used to.
"Don't believe me? How do you explain that?" I declared, pointing to the armor that had appeared on his body at the same time as the dragon. "Well… don't just stand there… Do something useful!"
"Enough of your chatter!" Chris shouted.
"Are you really that eager to lose?" I smirked as a loud explosion erupted behind me, and I knew that it was Seto's doing. "Unlike you, Chris, my friends and I stick together!"
"Friends?" Seto mocked with a smile from high above, riding the Blue Eyes with a look of joy deep inside his eyes.
"Oh shut up, Seto."
Just then a terrible and excruciating pain raked down my entire body, and I saw that I was engulfed in magical, dark flames. I fought down the urge to scream as they slowly crept up my legs.
"I… have… enough… scars on my legs, thank you very…much…Chris," I said haltingly, feeling faint from the fumes. "What… is… this?"
"No man can rule without a queen!" he said smirking.
"Actually," Seto interjected. "Never mind. You just leave her alone, you freak!"
As my head swam, I saw a shining blue blast heading towards Chris, and somehow I knew that it would not be enough.
"Team… work," I whispered to no one in particular before fainting into the flames. (A/N Brilliant idea, don't u think?)
Seto's POV:
She fell into the dark fire and I wanted to scream and kill Chris right there. She was all that I had… the only thing I had that really mattered. He couldn't hurt her as long as I was around. And she was not going to be his queen unless she wanted to… and I prayed that she never would.
"You're going to pay for what you've done, Chris!"
"You aren't trying to say that you will make me suffer, are you, dragon boy?"
"More than you can imagine."
I tapped the dragon on the head, a signal for attack. "You keep at it," I told it, knowing that it would understand. "I have to help Lily."
Jumping down right as the first blast erupted, I ran to her as fast as I could. She was just lying there as the flames charred her armor and made its way to her hair, her pride and joy… and slowly started to eat it away as I tried to find a safe way through. Oh, screw safety. I jumped in and grabbed her, only to find myself face to face with Chris.
"What makes you think she wanted to be saved? You don't know her the way I do… you could never know her that well."
"What do you mean?"
"When we were younger… I would watch her write… I saw the pain that she tried so hard to hide from us all… And just a few years ago, I read her journal, while she was off in your world frolicking and what not. She did not always want to go on… she was so lonely. I thought she should have been an easy target, and then… you came along. When she got back from your world, she was different… she wasn't so afraid… and she knew what it was like to love. I should have been the one to show her the world… but you took all of it away from me."
"Save your sob story for someone who cares. Answer this; is this what she wants? Is this how you're going to redeem yourself to her?"
"No… I'll make her love me… but if you're still here, you'll be in my way. You're always in my way!"
He punched me but I didn't let myself flinch from the pain. Instead, I took advantage of the lull to see where Kiyoko and Andrea were. They were in the middle of a battle with some soldiers I had never seen before, but they were winning, so I doubted they needed my interference. Too bad that I needed theirs. I wouldn't have admitted it… but how could I take the chance that something bad would happen to Lily? I didn't know what to do.
"Lily, please wake up. I don't know what I'd do without you…"
Lily's POV:
I was choking… suffocating, in the darkness. Drifting in my own mind, where I did not like to be.
Inside of there I saw my pain… I saw my fears, even the ones I tried to hide from myself. I was still afraid to die. I was still afraid of what a relationship might ask of me, and if I could live up to that expectation.
And I saw my love for Seto, and my memories of him. How I'd sit in front of the TV, wanting to kiss it… wanting to somehow cross through the screen to him. My joy when I first realized that I was in love… the sorrow of thinking that my love was hopeless. I'd waited so long to have it ripped from me so soon. And now he was back.
"Lily, please wake up. I don't know what I'd do without you… I can't survive without you… please wake up."
Was that Seto? Of course not… that's silly. He would never say that he couldn't survive without me. I couldn't wake up. I tried, but I couldn't escape the prison, the maze, of my own mind. I knew only one person who even knew the surface of those thoughts… And she wasn't anywhere near me.
"Get Steph," I tired to stress to whoever was near. "She's helped me beat it before. GET STEPH!"
End note: Let me think this over for a little while before going on. Please review!
