Thank you to readers once more and especially to ThinMintE06 this time! I'm glad to see that all of your dedication has risen this time and kept me going. Thank you for your patience; I haven't been slacking off, but made over five revisions in order to try to make this not confusing and as exciting and intriguing as possible. Warm regards to all of you and enjoy what I have for you this time!
The guy in the maniac mask was downright creepy. As Melody sputtered on the desk and was regaining consciousness, the creep raised an eyebrow beneath his terrifying mask in disbelief. In a muffled tone, he criticized Raine "You take down a giant, poisonous spider and then you scream at a mask?" Then, he turned to Devin in his beastly form, who had scowled at that and laughed, "What? You upset because you can't see the future without your glasses anymore? Can't see my fighting moves that I will throw at you, eh? Actually, you probably can't even see that far into the future because you're so blind!"
Devin frowned as his voice quaked with suppressed anger, "Well first off, she saw the spider coming, but not you. Besides, no one usually goes around wearing that creepy thing of yours."
"Listen," hissed the fiend, "She walked right up to me first and I'd be calling you scary, you, childish beast. You should be in bed now."
"And you should be in college!" Devin retorted to the older teen, his rage bursting for a second. Devin caught himself, realizing what his stupid, witted mouth had just said while a ton of others roared in laughter. He was sure that this creep's expression was priceless behind that mask. Devin bit his tongue reminded himself not to become too feisty, or he could get into grave trouble. He shuddered and shook his head at a deadly memory of what his "smart-mouth" gotten himself into. He covered his eyes in contempt with his hand, which was now a paw after his transformation when he saw that his fangs that represented violence.
Talia waved the two's sinister dispute away as she was still crouched up in a corner. She told them, "Cut it out, okay? We're not here to fight. We should all be home and back on Earth right now. Sigh, we do have more important things to do, don't we, 'Nightmare'?"
As the class was reminded of their sorrow about losing their homes, Candi asked, "Wait, cough, cough, you know this guy, Warrior? The one who has not shed red ribbons?" Her Riddlish was apparently wearing off as only half of what she was saying was not in riddles.
"Red ribbons?" questioned 'Nightmare,' the guy in the frightening mask.
Tai cleared it up, "She means blood by that."
Everyone then stared at Talia gravely. She would dare to know such a spooky recluse?
The guy in the mask, called 'Nightmare,' cleared his throat in an attempt to redirect them away from Talia, and decided to turn their negative attention towards him. He bellowed, "Alright, this isn't the point, but now, I'd like you all to meet someone." he gestured with a wave of his arm towards the doorway and a woman walked into view.
Raine was relieved to see that it wasn't someone who seemed malicious, but she did have a rather chilling aura. When she opened her eyes, her blue eyes were so piercing that it seemed to read all of them like a book. The woman, completely dressed in blue, was at least in her 30's. Her crystal-blue hair sparkled with gems as her gown consisted of three layers of white ruffles, covered with a silk cloth that was swept aside to reveal some of the ruffles on the dress. Raine eyed the dangling gems on this woman's dress. The jewels were shaped like teardrops, or raindrops as they dangled from her dress.
"This..." 'Nightmare' introduced to all those unfamiliar to her, "...is Sierra.
Sierra stared at them her blue eyes emitting a piercing emotion like icicles and the winter's chill. Everyone's stares did not faze Sierra who held herself in a regal position. Then, some pairs of eyes shifted to an unfamiliar girl who wandered through the halls behind Sierra. Sierra did not need to look behind her to know who exactly who it was. She jerked a thumb behind and stated, "That's Sunset. She's excused from most classes due to severe, health issues."
Sunset, the new girl, had watermelon-pink hair with a yellow streak that ran through the left side of it. She had let go of her hold on the railing of the staircase before heading towards a locker and pressing against its lock with her eyes shut. She had on a white blouse with a pastel orangish-pink jumpskirt. She mumbled inaudible words as she did so, before waving at Sierra and unlocking the locker with her eyes still shut.
Candi suddenly shouted, "Fun!" This made Tai smile as he kicked the what was once a gigantic spider, but was now a teensy-little spider, into a jar and capped it. This made Talia shudder in the corner as the spider skittered weakly at the bottom of the jar.
Strangely, this made Sierra produce a cold smile. Suddenly, her eyes flashed as her blue irises turned mostly light blue, before returning back to its original state of blue mixes. She felt her soul whisk away from her own body head towards a girl with lemonade-pink hair and the black-haired boy next to her. This vivid girl had her pink hair tied into two, short pigtails on top of her head by elastics with candy-like ornaments as she swayed in a huge gown. The guy next to her had pure black hair and was smiling at her joyful face. Sorry to end their blossoming happiness there, Sierra used her soul, invisible to them, and touched the two's foreheads. Their giggles instantly stopped as they were going to be forced to share memories.
Sierra dived into their minds and saw screens of Candi and Tai's memories rush past as their bodies were left motionless. They were not welcome to join what Sierra would be seeing, but they would have a sense in what she had chosen to watch. Sierra let out a rare giggle as she did what was best for them, while having a little fun of her own. She wasn't doing this out of an evilly intended purpose. She actually held a mystifying power within her, which she used used to help others find what they were made for, whether they were willing to take it or not. Sierra knew that every time her soul left her own body to intrude people's minds, her own body would collapse suddenly as her eyes would flash like a camera, but she was fine with that. 'Nightmare' would catch her body from severe harm. Her spirit hovered and drifted as she finally found an important memory and could be critical to her mission, and she tapped it. The dark room with the scenes that had sped by, instantly began twisting and transformed into the scene where the memory had taken place. She learned the names of the people, who's minds she was intruding into; this boy's name was Tai, as the girl's name was Candi.
The scene took place at a an amusement park. The place didn't hold the sensation of excitement though. Instead, the place rumbled with chaos as people rushed to the exits. Clearly, an evacuation was happening. The only people who weren't dashing to the exits were Tai and his brother, Devin, as they pointed up at a damaged roller coaster. A section of it had crumbled off as flames danced on where the wreckage had landed on. Fire trucks blared as the lights from police cars spun about. Employees were escorting people out of the park as family members frantically carried their children out of the gates. Up at the deck of the roller coaster, an employee ushered the line out. Swiftly, the line began to disperse, but suddenly, someone busted through the crowd and swiftly jumped into the roller coaster's cart and took off at full speed when her foot hit the lever. Sierra gaped impressively as it was Candi!
The employee cried, "NO!" as Candi sped off alone in the coaster, screaming— not with fear, but with joy! Sierra kept her emotionless expression as she watched the crisis occur. She wondered though, "If this had happened, then how did this girl survive today without a scratch upon her precious face?" That was when the answer to her question had begun.
Far below, Tai was pointing, panic-stricken, as he broke away from Devin's tug and began scrambling up the wooden frame of the roller coaster! Tai definitely wasn't going to let this girl go like that. Apparently, he had bumped into Candi before as he recklessly charged to attempt to save her. But was it reckless? Even though firemen were rushing to get him down as an ambulance broke through the gates and screeched into a stop, Sierra read Tai's mind as he wasn't going into this without a plan. As he climbed, he calculated about how much time he had to save Candi before the cart would tumble to its end. He pulled himself up and onto the rails before dashing on top of the remaining parts of railway and jumping into the cart where the cute girl was squealing with joy.
Tai shouted at the top of his lungs with terror, "Candi, we need to get off of here!"
She stopped throwing her arms out of the cart in excitement and turned around with an intrepid smile and asked, "Why?"
Tai gasped, "Look, if we don't get off of this thing, we're- we're going to… never have fun again." He couldn't break the complete, horrifying truth to her; the entire thing would pain them both too much to keep their minds focused.
Candi gasped grievously, "What?"
Tai looked in front of him as the coaster rushed closer and closer to the gap. The firemen were using their trucks' ladders, but they wouldn't rise in time to get them.
He looked at the girl's tragic, sparkling eyes and put on his bravest smile. He took a deep breath as he attempted to calm his livid heartbeat down and told Candi, " Listen, I've got a plan though, okay? In exactly twenty-five seconds, we're going to jump off this thing, okay?" He patted the rickety cart as his eyes swung about his surroundings, double-checking his calculations. They were going to jump off of this thing, and with enough wind, they would land on top of a booth that had a cloth stretched over it, creating a rectangular tent. He took another deep breath and clasped Candi's hands in his, shook them confidently, and said, "Are you ready?"
Candi nodded, her face paling slightly, and Tai began counting down, "In three… Two… One...now!" They leapt as far as they could as the roller coaster smashed into smithereens below them. The rescuers shrieked below, as they were practically leaping to their deaths. That's when Tai gasped and thought, "Oh no! We are leaping to our deaths! I forgot to calculate how gravity would affect us if we're this high in the air! I really, really hate to admit this, but we're going to miss our stop!"