Ariel woke in a bed. She tried to move, but she found she was strapped down. She struggled, but to no avail. She felt something missing on her neck, but couldn't move to see if her necklace was gone. She tried to change, but she heard the hypersonic emissions and had to stop. She wanted to cover her ears, but she couldn't move her hands. She looked around, but saw nobody else in the room. She started screaming at the top of lungs, but no answered came. She was all alone. It hit her like a boulder crushing a small rock to sand. She was alone. So alone, that she couldn't hear her own breathing. She couldn't hear her own heartbeat. She felt empty inside and started to cry.
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Danny woke with a feeling of emptiness inside him and he couldn't get Ariel out of his mind. He struggled to get free and find her, but he found he was strapped in. He looked around the room and found it empty. He moved his hand and barely was able to grasp the necklace in his pocket. He pulled it out as it suddenly heated up in his grasp. It made his hand burn, but he placed the scalding hot metal against the strap and it burst into fire within seconds. He reached over to the other side and did the same. Once he was free, he dropped the now bloody necklace on the bed and looked at his hand. The necklace had cut open his hand and it bled freely as Danny bit his lip to keep from screaming. He watched it as the pain faded quicker than it should and the bleeding wound heal perfectly, leaving his hand like it was before, without a scar. Danny looked at the necklace in horror as the blood on it boiled off and red steam emerged from the heart.
Once the blood was gone, Danny risked touching it. It felt cold to his touch and he grasped it in his hand once more as the feeling that Ariel needed his help rose dramatically.
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Ariel thrashed at her straps, cutting open her hand as it made its way, free from the straps. Ariel screamed at the pain, but unlatched her feet and stormed around the room. There was no door to exit out of and Ariel was wiping her blood across the wall. A small line appeared when Ariel went around the second time. She kicked at the line, knocking the door down. She stormed from her locked room, searching for her siblings and dripping a trail of blood as she went. She almost tripped from all the blood loss, but she didn't care. She didn't care about anything other than her brother and sister.
She kicked open one room then the next, looking for her siblings. She screamed at every failed attempt. She kicked open a door and found a room full of hunting trophies and screamed at it.
Danny found her screaming and thrashing at everything. He quickly ran over and hugged her. He couldn't think of anything else to do. He wanted her to stop hurting inside, because it hurt him. He hugged her tightly and she suddenly stopped moving. Danny felt a tear drop from his chin and land in her dark, rich hair. He felt more tears fall down his face as Ariel hugged him tighter and cried into his chest. They held on to each other as if, should they let go, they would be letting go of their hopes, dreams, and lives.
Ariel let the all the tears she had held back flow freely into Danny's shirt. As Danny did the same. Every ounce of sadness fell from them when they held each other in the destroyed room. Everything they had ever once known as hurtful fell onto the other person. They stood there, not letting go, not stopping the tears fall from their moist faces.
"I wish we could stay like this forever," Ariel whispered when she felt the tears slow their pace slightly, giving enough time between the sobs to breathe.
"Me too," Danny made out as the sound of Ariel's sobs started again, but softer this time. He felt his tears drying up as Ariel slowly moved from his warm, moist chest. Ariel looked into Danny's eyes as Danny looked into Ariel's. They kissed each other and held their lips together for as long as they could. They wished it could stay like that until the end of time.