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Ceestar: Oh yeah! Now we are getting to the action! Climax climax climax! Yay!
NOTE: Language will be slightly stronger in this chapter. There won't be any strong swearing, but there will a cursing, and a bit of cursing. No F's.
The swirls, they were pulling me in. I know Jet noticed because I faintly heard him call out to be and rush down. The last thing I heard was Albert's voice before for the third time, being engulfed in darkness.
"Jade!"
Chapter 10: The Dark Side of Things
: MY POV : -
My eyes were closed and I was lying down. In a way. I was more floating, as if all gravity had been completely turned off. There was one thing I knew for sure…
Darkness
Again
That's all that surrounded me lately, pure darkness. It wasn't that bad, I liked the darkness..
But why me? Why did I have to go through all this? All the other girls my age had to worry about was their loves lives, and some their studies. But no, I had to worry about the fate of the universe or something. It's not fair. It's not fair!
Nothing was ever meant to be fair
I didn't open my eyes, because I knew that even with opening them, all I would see is darkness, so I was better off leaving them closed. I had no idea who's voice this was, but I didn't feel like attacking, I didn't feel like doing anything. Just float in the darkness.
The world just needs to be balanced
The voice was dull and deep, but I continued to ignore it.
There are two main worlds. The one you call the real world, and the worlds which are mere cartoons in yours
Still I ignored it. I had no intention of listening to anyone right now.
The worlds need to be balanced. The fictional world (let's call it) is in the form of entertainment in your world, so technically it is in both worlds. This threw the worlds off balance
What in the hell was this guy talking about? What balance? Just thinking about it made my head hurt. But I needed to ignore him; he was probably trying to play with my mind.
You were needed to go into the fictional world, to balance things out again.
I couldn't ignore it any longer and yelled out, "But why me!"
Just unlucky
I groaned, I knew this guy couldn't give me any answers.
I know it hurts. It seemed fun and first, and you felt like it was a dream come true, being able to meet all those characters that you loved so much. But then you realised what a burden it really was. Now there is even more trouble, and you don't know whether you'll get you or your friends out of it alive.
My friends? They got themselves into this, I warned them.
I know it hurts.
I was silent.
……
But I can make it better for you, if you want
This caught my interest and I snapped my eyes open. I seemed to be floating in endless space. I could even see the stars. There isn't oxygen in space, so I don't know how I was breathing. It could've been an illusion.
I can make to pain go away forever
I got up into an upright position, but I was still floating.
Do you know why there have been tears in the streams lately?
"Because of my travelling, it's damaged the streams." I said bluntly.
No, that's not it at all
"What!"
It is not you at all. It was not your fault, but the fault of another
"What are you saying?"
That friend of yours, the other one that can travel between the worlds
Yuki…
She had one day accidentally stumbled into a broken portal, causing her to land in the Final Fantasy world. She was warned she didn't belong, and that she must leave immediately before throwing all balance off track. But she didn't
……
She did a lot of travelling between the Final Fantasy world and the real world. She even tried to bring one of them into your world. The Final Fantasy world was being pulled closer and closer to the real world. As it was being pulled, so was every other world, and what happens when you stretch a piece of material too far?
"It begins to tear…"
Exactly
"But…Yuki wouldn't have done it all on purpose. There must be a way to fix it-"
No. She knew exactly what she was doing. She knew you could do the same, and she was jealous because you were the one chosen for the part, so she decided to cause trouble for you
"You're lying…"
Why did she react so harshly when you found out she could travel too? She knew that you were supposed to be the only one, aside from your brother. Why would she try to hide the fact that she could travel?
I couldn't answer this. But Yuki did seem angry when I first found out….
: FLASHBACK : -
"What is this?" I spat.
"What's what?" She said.
"Tidus! He just called you Yuki!"
"So?"
"What do you mean so! Why don't you look like the others! Fiona, have you been here before?"
"What! No way!"
Tidus walked over to us. "So! Who are all these lovely ladies you girls brought here?"
"Tidus, how do you know Yuki here?"
"Stupid question," Tidus said to me as if I were an idiot. "She's here more often then you are. Heck, she's almost here all the time."
I heard Fiona or…Yuki, curse under her breath, and clearly she hadn't wanted me to know.
"So what, I can travel to worlds! You never told me you could do it too!" Yuki said.
: END FLASHBACK : -
It was true…why was she so angry?
She didn't want you to know, in case you found out the truth
I bowed my head, there was no way this was true. But all these facts…
The truth hurts too, but as I offered before. I can make it all go away
……
It just comes at a little price, involving your friend Yuki…
Again, my eyes flashed red, but only for a second.
All the pain you have been feeling will go away, forever
I smirked, "How?"
: YUKI'S POV : -
I snapped my eyes open to see sitting next to me. I sat up and looked around, still in darkness. But at least the swirls were gone. He looked at me and forced a weak smile that I returned.
There was a look in his eyes that reminded me of what had happened.
"How's your leg?" I asked, looking down.
He shrugged.
He had wrapped his scarf around it to try and stop so much bleeding. I looked and slowly began removing the scarf.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"Fixing this."
I took a few cotton buds out of my bag (appeared out of no where, I know) but realised that wasn't going to help. There were several sparks coming from the wound and cotton buds weren't going to help. I sighed and took some water out instead. I dabbed the water around the wound to clean it up.
Albert groaned once or twice, so I tried to be as gentle as I could. I cleaned up around the wound and then wrapped it back up in this scraf, he was going to wear it covered it blood.
"You're pretty good," He said.
"Well, I wanted to be a doctor when I was younger. Not a mechanic."
We both froze for a bit and I realized what I had said, "Sorry."
"It's ok, not a bad joke, better than Jet's." Albert said with a smile.
I smiled back and looked into the darkness.
"Where are the others?" I asked quietly.
He shook his head and shrugged, "It was just the two of us when I woke up."
I sighed and curled my knees up to my chest. "I hope they are all ok." I thought.
Many minutes passed without either of us saying anything. I just stared at my feet. Right now I felt useless, the two of us were sitting here doing nothing while who knows what could be happening with our friends. There was no telling where any of them were now. Hopefully some where safe. So long as they are alright…
I wanted this to be a dream. I would wake up any minute and realise that I was late to school. I would tell Celia and Tiffany about my dream and Celia would say that it would be nice to meet Albert, then Tiffany would ramble on about meeting celebrities that were real. All this would be a nightmare I could leave behind, and only look back on and laugh.
There had to be something I could do apart from sit here and only wonder about what had happened to the others. What if they were hurt, what if they were…No! I couldn't think that way. They could surely take care of themselves?
I pictured to worse, and tears began rolling down my cheeks. Albert wrapped his arm around and me and pulled me in closer. I was taken by surprise and looked up at him.
"It'll be alright. We'll find all of them." He said reassuringly.
I smiled with a sniff and leaned against his shoulder. "Jade is very lucky to have you."
"No, I'm the one that is lucky to have her. She's a lot to me, and I can't lose her like…" He trailed off, but I knew what he was going to say.
"She's grown up to be able to take care of herself, she even scares me sometimes." I smiled.
Ceestar: Fastest update in a very long time! Hope you liked it.
So what's with the red eyes? Where have Jet and Tiffany gone? Will the answers be in the next chapter? Review and promote my story please! XD