Trance Gemini
"Guys, is anyone there?" Trance started to worry, where was everybody, and why was it so dark?
"Andromeda, could you turn on the lights? Andromeda? Anybody listening?"
"Afraid of the dark, little old girl?"
The voice that broke the silence felt like it was coming right from well, let's just say hell for good measure.
"I am not afraid of anything!" Trance replyed trying to convince herself more than the surprising voice. "Surprising, that was it, not scary, not strange but...surprising" she tought to herself, "surprising, yet so familiar like I have heard it before...but where, or when"
"That is of so little importance, I actually expected more from you, but then again you are weak, so weak I am surprised you are still alive"
"I don't die so easily" Trance answered with a knowing smile, but it was short lived as the dark that surrounded her felt to close in on her.
"You were saying little girl?"
She could see nothing but she could sense a grin on The Voices face, if he had one.
"What is this, some sort of a sick joke? I can feel you here in the dark, but yet you seem so far away..."
"This is not darkness little girl.."He was stopped by a frustrated shout:
"Stop calling me that! I am not a little girl"
"Are you sure", this time the voice stopped before saying little girl,"if you are so old why are you shivering? If you are not afraid than why do you fear me? You see I can see what the others can't, I can see how you play with them like they are your little pawns on the giant chess board of the Universe...You are a puppeter afraid of seeing the strings cut out from her. That is who you are, little girl" This time the "title" was almost spat out in contempt.
"No, I...I am not a..."
"Let's not play games, I know what you are, little sun avatar, old yet young, wise yet ignorant. You forgot your mission, you forgot what you had to do, but the worst of it all is that you forgot to be loyal to those you promised to protect..."
"No my loyalty lies with my friends, and your little games won't work with me, I know who send you, the Nebulla, she wants me back, well she won't get me...NEVER!"
"The Neb..." A laughter that made Trances hair rise on the back of her neck was heard throughout the darkness.
"Well this a bit of a spin, at least you haven't told me in a contemptous voice that the Abbys sent me. You really need to learn that there are other forces in the Universe that you may not be aware, but that doesn't make them..us..less real. To hard for you little girl?"
This time the voice was out right mocking her. Trance felt the world was spining and her powers were useless, she knew that better than cursing the darkness is to light a candle, but she couldn't it was like she was...normal.
She sensed her Sun drifting away from her and she kept hearing voices, the voices of her friends.
"Help me! Harper, Dylan!Beka! I'm here, I'm trapped, I can't...Why won't you guys look at me?" Trance's eyes started burning. "I have my light back!"
"Actually you have tears in you eyes, but let's not dwell on details!" And again the voice laughed.
"What do you want?"
"To punish you!" The sentence fell like a tone of bricks, in the darkness it kept ringing over and over again.
"What for? What have I done to you?"
"You played with the lifes of others! You chose one friend over another, you decided who is more worthy of you r Universe, of your perfect future, YOU PLAYED GOD! It is time you receive your punishment"
"But all I did was to help Dylan, to stop the Abbys, the magogs, the evil of the Universe...I did it so that..."
"So that you could sleep better at night! Ha! Listen to yourself: I did it to help Dylan, to stop the Abbys, who are you to do all that? You did it so that you would feel good about yourself, so you could say I DID IT! Face it, you have no friends, you have puppets!"
"NO!" Trance scream pierced the dark but the voice just decided to continue.
"Ah, really, you have friends? Then how come they don't know what you can do ? How come you don't tell them what you are, where you come from? Your life with them is nothing but a big lie, a lie that they begin to see and feel. That is what you fear isn't it?"
Trance started to think, "this is not time to be scared, I don't know who this is but I am strong, I lived through so much already, this won't defeat me"
"You know you may wanna stop advertising your toughts out loud, oh yes did I fail to mention I can hear your every pathetic little tought? By the way I don't like being called a spineless dark hiding awfull creature, it lacks the poetry you like to serve your "friends" whenever you decide to play God yet again. Must say I'm disappointed of you."
"What are you?"
"Then again the better question would be what aren't I ? Maybe that would get you an answer sooner."
"Stop with the games. Are you the death?" Trance was getting tired and intrigued, she hoped the unknown wouldn't pick up on her emotions...but who knew?
"The death? Hmm, in a matter of speaking, yes and no!"
"Yes or no, stop with the riddles!"
"Stop with the riddles Trance, tell me the truth am I gonna die?" Harper's pleading voice could be heard and a cryptic response from Trance came as a reply: "We all die, but the future is not set in stone!"
"What does that mean! Trance! Trance!" Harper called as she left med deck.
"And here I tought you were a big fan of riddles, you throw them around like nothing! How does it feel to be on the reciving end for once? Does it hurt?"
"Please just tell me my crime!"This time it was Trance that was pleading.
"Already told you that, I hate repeating myself, gives me this nasty feeling nobody listens. But since your wish was my command, I will obey again. You wished you were never born, or well created, and I came to grant your wish."
"You were never born/created, you are now a piece of nothing, as my dear master said even nothing is something, you aren't inexistent, yet you don't exist, you are without being."
This time the silence that set in the dark felt like a plague, felt like pain and sorrow, felt like...felt like nothing...
"No, I never wished for that!"
"Let's not play this game! The voice seemed angry. You wanted to be unborn when you had to give up on one of your friends, Harper, you wanted to be unborn when you had to chose between leaving your sun and helping your "friends", you wanted it so many times I lost track."
"But why now?"
"This is getting harder, I tought you were suppose to be smarter, I guess it's only harder! All wishes are granted, all of them , by me or my accolites, nothing is ever lost, not even the wish of a small boy who wanted a bicycle for christmas, milleniums may go by but the wish is still there and it will be granted. I granted your wish, your wish was my command, but before you jump up wishing something else, something absurd like, let's say living again...his voice trailed off...let me just tell you I have no desire to grant you that specific wish."
For what felt like hours silence set between them.
"Why?"
"Why?" The voice seemed surprised, tough Trance knew the voice knew full well what she meant.
"Why won't you grant me that wish?"
"Do you know how many people live in this Universe? And in the Universe beyond that? And in all the time ranges? starting with the moment that led to the creation of the Universe? No! Not even a slight idea? Well I do, and I know all their wishes to, their desires. Most of them wish they were never born, they think their life is futile, that they exist merely for the others to bully them, to kill them, to drain their power and their life. "
"They are wrong." The voice followed after a moment of silence. "All life has a meaning, just sometimes it can be a little hard to see, maybe beacause...life is hard.However, whenever they get their wish, and they stop living they suddently understand that life is worth living even when it gets hard, even when you have to make decissions you hate. That is why I won't grant you your wish. I am cashing in one of my wishes, you don't get your wish anymore. You dissapear, not even forgotten because, well you were never even known!" The voice began laughing again, cold and dry like suddently all nothingness had come to life.
"You did this before? You did this to Dylan, you helped Rev!" Some hope rose in Trances heart, maybe all was not lost.
"Yes I did this to Dylan, but Rev, well let's say I don't work alone. However, don't get your hopes up. You remembered them , but they won't remember you, maybe because deep down they never knew you. See Trance, tough your name will soon be erase too, when I said they never knew you I meant more that what I said then. They never liked you since your change, they fear you, they will never look beyond that, now that you are gone for good."
"But they need me!" Trance kept sobbing,
"YOU JUST WON'T UNDERSTAND! I sure overestimated you!"
"They need me! I ...this is it...this is it... I NEED THEM!"
A sigh was heard...
"Took you a while, but yes this is the rigth answer!" This time the voice was soft and not surprising anymore.
"You never asked a question!" Trance was still a little angry, yet she now felt safe as light began to appear around her.
"You get the best answers for questions never asked. Be carefull what you wish for...next time I might not be so nice!"
"You call this nice? Would hate to see you angry!"
"Yes you would!"
"Would I remember this?"
"No, sorry! But you will remember the pain and the joy, you can't have one without the other"
"Are you smiling?"
A small cough was heard "Good bye!"
"Wait, what is your name?"
"Misha!"
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"Another one all fixed and preped for the battle to come, who takes the next one! Cause this one wore me off, I tought she would understand faster. Boy I am tired. By the way guys thanks for offering to help with Rev Bem, since you were so nice I decided to give you my next charge, let's make a flip, you got Tyr right? Well why don't you do Beka?
"What?" Elo and Lys said in the same time, "she's a tough case...you have more experience...you know..."
"Yes, yes, so I heard when you fooled me into taking Trance...you take Beka!"
And with a shove he pushed his friends through the portal, a small smile on his face.