-----------------------------------------------(Zhou Yu's house)-----------------------------------------
"Well...I
guess I am going to have to leave pretty soon." SUn Ce said
sadly. All of a sudden, his memory remembered something, something
that Zhou Yu was serious about. "Hey, Zhou YU, I forgot. Before
I get picked up, what did you feel when you went into that trance?"
Zhou Yu reacted by looking at Sun Ce and looking down.
"Sun
Ce...It will be hard to explain." "I don't care. I want to
know. Please?" Sun Ce begged, with much sucess. "Alright
Sun Ce. This is what I felt when I was in the trance. I saw four
figures. I was one and Zhang He was another. I was in the lower right
hand corner and He was in the upper left hand corner. There were two
other figures that were in black. I felt like I was in another
universe. I couldn't remember where I was, I couldn't feel myself
here anymore. All I could feel were these forces drifting over me. I
alsoheard voices. I didn't know what they said, but I was sure that
they were talking to me. I could only hear my name being called out
by two to three voices.
"I continued to listen to try and
understand, but it was in some kind of different language. I
continued to be patient, not remembering the four figures. I looked
and it was like Zhang He was there with me. His figure was moving
towards me. I wasn't standing on solid ground, but instead in a sea
of flames. Then I felt you smak me." Zhou Yu said
sourly.
"Sorry, I had to snap you back to us
somehow...heheh." Sun Ce said sheepishly. "Sounds like it
would be kind of scarey to be walking through flames though. Didn't
you feel like you were being burnt?" Sun Ce questioned.
"No,
I didn't feel anything. It was like some bizzare dream." Zhou Yu
looked even more serious now.
"...Hmmmm...I wonder who the
other two were? What did they look like?" Sun Ce
quarried.
"Don't you listen? I said they were just black
figures. I couldn't tell what they looked like." Zhou Yu
retorted.
"Sorry, I guess I kinda zoned out there for a
little while." Sun Ce told Zhou Yu when his father arrived. "I
will see you at High School!" Sun Ce waved and Zhou Yu just
nodded and watched them walk away.
While Sun Ce was walking back
with his father, Sun Jian, he kept thinking about what Zhou Yu had
explained.
"What are you thinking so hard about?"Sun
Jian asked. "...Huh? Oh, I'm not thinking about anythin...woah!"
Sun Ce had tripped over a hole in the pathway back home. He had
dropped all of his stuff that he had packed from Zhou Yu's
place.
"Are you okay?" Sun Jian knelt by Sun
Ce.
"Yeah...oww...my head not though."Sun Ce started to
rub his head. He also started to rub the dirt off his face from
falling face first into the dirt.
"...What are you thinking
about? You know that you can tell me anything." Sun Jian pused.
He was eager to know what his son was thinking about so intensly.
"...I said it was nothing..." Sun Ce retorted, being
fustrated with his father being so nosey."I was just asking a
question Sun Ce. Plus, I don't want you to hurt yourself again by
triping over a rock or someth…"
"DAD! I TOLD YOU IT WAS
NOTHING!" Sun Ce hollard, continuing to be annoyed.
"Sun Ce…"
"No! Listen, I will be fine! Okay?" After Sun Ce and Sun Jian
had their fight, they continued to walk
home…silently.
----------------------------------------------(Back
with Zhang He)----------------------------------
"What…what
are these voices saying?" Zhang He asked aloud to himself. The
butterflies had disappeared and once again he was alone, with the
darkness and voices he couldn't understand.
Zhang He all of a
sudden let out a scream of pain. Something was devouring him, eating
at him. It felt like a thousand knives sticking into him. All he felt
was excruciating pain. He couldn't take this kind of pain anymore.
He went down onto his knees, tears falling from his eyes.
"Why…am
I crying?" He asked himself in a shakiy voice. Then he realized
that the voices could be heard more clearly. If only he hadn't been
crying. He couldn't stop though unless the pain went away. He began
to feel more and more pressure on his body. He eventually found
himself lying down and curled up into a ball. He was trying to make
the pain stop.
"Why…am…I feeling…this way?" He asked the
darkness hoarsely. He looked around at his surroundings, remembering
that he was surrounded by darkness.
"You…are the one of…"The
voice had been heard more clearly. It seemed to be made of three
people talking all at once. It had gotten cut off, so he wondered
what he was the one of?
"Whoever…is out…there. Please,
help…me. Take….away rhe…pain." Zhang He had begun to feel the
presure come off just a little.
"You must find…" The voice
continued. "What…am I …supposed to find?" Said in agony. He
was still feeling pain. Pain beyond what he ever felt when falling.
He then began to feel the pain lift off of him at once.
He gasped
for breath and stated to relax just a little bit. He was once again
on his knees. Just then, when he thought the pain was over, he felt
more pain. Not physically, but mentally. He felt all of the insults
from the past year. He began to remember his sister picking on him,
how he was more girl like than a boy.
He couldn't fix that
problem. Sometimes he even wished that he was never born. His familiy
insulted him, he was always being made fun of and now, he was feeling
all of that again, except all at once.
He couldn't take it
anymore. He began holding his head, and felt the heat of the
threatening tears. He was trying to hold them back, but he failed
after a few minutes. He felt like he wanted to commit suicide, but he
knew that he had friends.
"friends…" He thought to himself.
Whenever he said that word, he felt more confident. He remembered
what Sun Ce, Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao and Zhou Yu had been through with
him. Remembering them was what made all his pains go away.
His
mind was suddenly racing with thoughts, images and other things. He
was becoming so confused and couldn't understand anything that had
happened to him.
"What…what is happening to me?" He
repeated over and over again. He stood back up and staggered around a
bit, knowing that he wasn't reaching any specific destination
point. He knew he was just walking around aimlessly, but with his
mind the way it was, he couldn't care less about where he was
going.
He continued on his pointless journey through darkness and
found himself lost, deep within his thoughts. A few minuets later, he
heard the voices again.
"Why am I an elemental character?" He
asked the voices, where ever they might be coming from.
"You are
the chosen ones. You have the power over darkness." "Why?"
Zhang He held a conversation with a voice that was invisible. He
looked up and realized that Zhou Yu was standing there.
'That
can't be Zhou Yu…he isn't here.' He thought, confused with
his friend being there.
"You have the power over darkness. Use
it wisely and train yourself how to control it." The voice said
Zhou Yu's lips moving with the words. The voice was using him as a
puppet.
----------------------------------------------------(Back with Sun Ce)--------------------------------
"Sun Ce, come
on let me know. I promise not to think your crazy." Sun Jian pushed
again when they got home. Sun Ce went straight to his room and put
his stuff away.
"Fine, you know why I have finally agreed to
tell you, right?" "No…why? Did you figure out that it wasn't
really that important?" Sun Jian asked. "…" Sun Ce stared at
him.
"I finally agreed to tell you because I'm sick and tired
of you asking." Sun Ce said. They both sat down and Sun Ce
explained the whole
scenario.
----------------------------------------------------(With Zhou Yu)------------------------------------
"So, did you
have fun with your friend being here?" Zhou Yu's mother asked.
"Yes, I did mother." Zhou Yu responded. "That's good. You
will have to go over there on time to repay him for coming over
here." "That sounds like a plan." Zhou Yu agreed.
"Maybe
me and Sun Ce will finally figure out more about these powers, and
eversince he can have more than one friend over, then…" Zhou Yu
looked up from what he was thinking. His mother glanced over to see
Zhou Yu looking up like he just remembered something.
"Dear? Is
tere something wrong?" "No…I have to talk to Sun Ce!" Zhou Yu
ran out the door.
His mother ran to the door to say wait, but it
never came. "I wonder if they will allow him to surprise them like
this. I wonder what he was talking about anyway. humph Oh well. I
will have to wait for him to come back and pack I guess.
Zhou Yu
was running as fast as he could. When he was about half way there, he
tripped on a hole. The same hole Sun Ce tripped over.
'Man, this
is really going to slow me down' Zhou Yu thought as he quickly got
up and ran off again.
