"Everything was dark around her, fear seizing her as she kept wandering around that place, a soft cry left her throat when she saw her mother's body lying on the floor.
"Mommy?" She called her, running to kneel down beside her, blood pouring from her mom's body. "Please, wake up" she asked blinking to let her tears run freely over her cheeks.
She laid down her head over her mother's chest just to make sure that she wasn't alive, still a weak pulse was heard, but she couldn't tell if it was her mother's or hers.
She turned when she heard a noise, Kara was falling to ground from a building as she run wanting to stop her cousin from crashing into the ground. However, she observed in horror how her cousin's body crashed, staying lifeless there as she covered her eyes.
"Kara!" she screamed desperate to wake her up, she couldn't lose her too. "You can't die! You can't leave me!" she cried running towards her. "Please..." she sobbed while shaking her cousin's body without getting an answer.
A whisper made her body shivered while turning to look for the one who had talked, everything was still dark, but she could identify kind of a smoke moving while calling for her.
She stood up, walking towards the smoke after glancing for the last time her mother and cousin's respective bodies, observing how everything had changed, she was in a dark valley at that moment.
Branches were spreaded all over the ground, making her trip while walking towards the being that was repeating her name.
"You couldn't save them" that being was talking at her in Kryptonese, tears being contained in her eyes, she couldn't, her cousin was dead. "Join us or join them, that's your decision to make" it kept talking as she let herself fall to the ground in tears not really understanding what was going on.
She covered her face with her hands while sobbing, afraid of those whispers, feeling herself observed a scream escaping her throat when her eyes met a demon, a Kryptonian demon.
"Join us..., join us..." the voices kept saying as she covered her ears. "Or... Join them!" one of the demons shouted, scaring her.
She felt a painful ache on her chest, her heart beating as fast as it could, tears running down her cheeks as she stood up to run away from there. However, her small feet tripped with a branch making her fall to the ground before losing consciousness."
She woke up sweating, tears streaming down her cheeks as she tried to breath as normal, but not really getting it when the memories of the dream and the night before flashed in her head.
She buried her face on her pillow as she kept crying, hearing how the door opened, which got her to close her eyes afraid.
"Hey, kiddo" she heard Mon-El whisper. "It's okay, it was just a bad dream" he said rubbing circles on her back as if he wanted to comfort her, but she shook her head, her cousin was hurt. "Come here, sweetheart" he whispered picking her up to embrace her.
She let her head fall to his chest as she opened her eyes to look at him meeting a worried gaze, which observed her with precision before doing anything that could distress her.
"Kara?" she couldn't avoid asking.
"She's here, but she's still healing, kiddo" he answered as she frown, there was something else. "She's still asleep" he added.
"Will she wake up?" she asked with a lump in her throat.
"She will, we don't know when, but she will" Mon-El kissed her forehead before embracing her tightly. "Let's go see Kara, okay?" he told her while standing up with her in his arms, giving her the chance to observe where she was.
"Is this your ship?" she questioned, seeing him nodded, amazing her.
She laid her head on his shoulder as she kept observing everything, fascinated in how futuristic everything looked, really wanting to explore every single room of that ship. However, at that moment the only thing she wanted to do was to see her cousin and confirm by herself that she was alright.
Her gaze met Alex's, who tried to smile at her, receiving her in her arms when the woman asked Mon-El to hold her.
"Good morning, kiddo" Alex kissed her forehead before she turned her head to look over to where everyone was looking, Kara.
Her cousin was inside of a tank submerged in liquid, but the bruises from the fight were barely visible, Kara's face was no longer covered in blood as the night before.
Alex left her on the floor so she could approach the pod, putting the palm of her hand on the glass as tears ran down her cheeks, not really being able to see her cousin like that.
"Guys, I want to introduce you to Brainy" she heard Imra say, so she looked at her, her gaze focusing in the person that was by her side.
The slight memory of him being like Indigo made her ran to hug Alex's legs in tears, coluans were evil and she did really experimented that with that... Woman?
Her cousin's sister picked her up again, that time trying to calm her down, everyone, except J'onn, confused about what was happening.
"Hey, What's wrong?" asked Mon-El worrily.
"She's scared of him" Alex answered embracing her tightly.
"What? Why?" he questioned.
"Because of Indigo" the woman whispered the name as she closed her eyes not wanting to remember those moments. "She used to be with her father and she would have done anything to get Halley hurt, Indigo tried to get rid of her so many times, more than the ones she will ever tell us" Alex explained.
"Well, he's not like them, he's not going to hurt you, kiddo" Mon-El caressed her face as she looked at him wanting to believe him. "Brainy will be able to communicate with Kara and help her to come back" he explained. "Whenever you're ready, Brainy" he said.
Everyone observed how Brainy was closing his eyes to concentrate, all of them keeping silent to allow him to talk with Kara.
Alex hugged her tightly, kissing her hair as she could observed the tiredness in the agent's eyes, she could assure that Alex hadn't slept during the whole night, probably she had stayed up besides Kara, keeping her sister safe.
"Well, the good news is her mind is active and alert" Brainy finally said.
"Oh, thank god" Alex exclaimed relieved.
"Yes. The bad news is she is very angry" the coluan told them.
"Well, I'm sure she loves being trapped inside a mind prison" Winn chuckled.
"You're speaking with her right now, even as you're speaking with us?" J'onn asked the same question she was making to herself.
"The crown connects to my internal AI core. It translates her brainwaves to English and sends electronic signals back to her" Brainy explained
"These tanks have incredible healing power, so she just needs to rest and let it do its work" Imra commented.
"You're from the future, Did you know this was gonna happen?" Alex asked keeping her a close as possible, both of them looking at Mon-El.
"No, but she's through the worst of it, she'll live" he answered.
"But when will she wake up?" J'onn asked, observing how Mon-El shrugged. "Well, Reign is stil out there and I don't like our odds without Supergirl by our side" he sighed as Alex nodded agreeing with his words.
She just stared at her cousin with tears in her eyes, really hoping for Kara to wake up as soon as possible, all of them needed her, she needed her.
For the next two days they changed the DEO for the Legion's ship, taking turns to take care of her, mostly Mon-El and Alex were the ones that was there with her, distracting her from everything that was happening.
At that moment she was sitting on a chair, reading a book Mon-El had given to her while being watched by Imra, who was just sitting next to her, observing her cautiously.
She kept reading the pages, amazed by every single picture that was about Krypton, caressing with her fingertips the one of Argo City, the city where her cousin had grown up. Honestly, she would have liked to have the chance of seeing it in person.
The next image that caught her attention was a valley, Juru's, it was kind of creepy, all dark and full of trees, that place was the chosen by all the dark mythological beings, such as witches or... She threw the book as tears welled up in her eyes, a cry escaping her throat while closing her eyes between shakes. "Join us!" their voices made their way to her mind.
"Hey, hey, Halley, What happened?" Imra asked placing her hand on her back, but ended up picking her up, embracing her as tight as possible, just letting her cry. "You're okay, kiddo?" the saturnian questioned pulling her away a little, but she shook her head while gripping her t-shirt not wanting to let go.
"What's wrong?" she heard Mon-El ask, so she looked at him.
"They want me to join them" she answered in just a whispered, Mon-El frowning.
"What do you mean?" he asked her before taking her from Imra arms.
"Them" she pointed to the image, observing how Mon-El stared at it for a few seconds before looking back at her, embracing her tightly. "I've been dreaming about them" she told him between sobs.
"It's okay, it was just a bad dream, sweetheart" he held her close. "You're safe, they don't exist, Halley" Mon-El whispered kissing her forehead.
She just rested her head on his chest just wanting to relax while hearing to his heartbeat, her eyes open scared of being haunted by the demons if she closed them.
She let herself leaned on the bed her cousin was lying on, her head resting in her arms as she kept staring at Kara, only hoping for the superhero to open her eyes and smile at her.
However, not even Brainy understood why Kara hadn't woken up yet, her cousin should have done it when they drained the tank.
She had been talking with Kara through Brainy, asking her cousin to wake up, Braniac 5 telling her everything Kara would answer, which had made her feel that she was able to have her cousin close to her.
"Hey, kiddo, why don't we go somewhere more comfortable?" Alex asked, but she shook her head holding her cousin's hand. "No? Okay" the agent sighed sitting in front of her.
Both of them stayed there staring at Kara, observing a small movement of the superhero's eyes before she opened them, which got both of them to look at her with relief.
"I have to help them" her cousin whispered sitting up as she held her hand tight.
"No, you can't, their using kryptonite" Alex tried to stop Kara.
"I don't care if it makes me vulnerable, I'll use it against her" Kara answered before looking at her. "It will be okay, baby, I promise" her cousin caressed her face as she shook her head, no, she wasn't going to lose her again, so she didn't let go of her hand. "Halley, hey, look at me, I won't leave you, ever, okay?" Kara put her hand on her chin before kissing her forehead and leaving her and Alex.
"It will be okay, kiddo" the agent tried to reassure her.
She tried to nod, but she couldn't help to feel like she was going to lose her cousin again, tears being contained in her eyes.
She didn't waist any time to run to her cousin the moment they were back, Kara picking her up to embrace her tightly, her head rested on her cousin's shoulder as she started crying.
"Oh, baby, it's okay" Kara whispered kissing her hair. "I'm here, I'm here with you" her cousin told her as she gripped her cousin's cape.
"I've missed you" she sobbed.
"I've missed you, too" Kara smiled. "I love you so much, little one" her cousin kissed her forehead.
"Love you" she whispered while closing her eyes, her cousin was finally back.
Kara walked passed by the med bay, her gaze focusing in what was happening inside, a sad smile on her face as she stood at the door.
"Hey, we did it, thanks for fighting with us" she thanked them.
"It was an honor" Imra smiled.
She smiled back, at least she tried before stepping away, listening to Mon-El calling her and, for a moment, she thought about not stopping, but ended up doing it.
"I was really worried about you. When you didn't wake up... I still care about you" he whispered as she nodded.
"I know" she smiled.
"It was great fighting with you again" he told her with a smile on his face. "Kara, I have to talk to you about Halley" he said returning to be serious, so she nodded waiting for him to keep talking. "She's been dreaming of demons, she says that they want her to join them... I'm not sure what she means with that, but maybe you should talk to her" Mon-El explained her, breathing with agitation as she listened to his words. "I'm sure is because she has seen an image of them, but you know what they used to say" he tried to calm her down a little, but she couldn't avoid being worried, because that could mean that something really bad could happen.
"I'll talk to her, thanks for telling me" she smiled at him.
"No problem, I know that the last thing Halley needs now is to be haunted by demons" he commented worried as well.
She nodded, she should talk with her cousin as soon as possible, listen to whatever the child has to tell her and find a solution to it.
"How's Halley?" her sister asked after she returned with the child in her arms.
"Super clingy" she answered sitting next to Alex, accommodating the kid in her arms. "She's afraid of losing me, I guess" she commented observing her cousin. "Did she ever tell you something about demons?" she asked.
"Halley?" her sister questioned to what she nodded. "No, Why?" Alex looked at her kind of confused.
"No, it's okay, it's just something Mon-El told me" she answered not wanting to worry her sister, who observed her for a few seconds before nodding letting it go.
She stared at the six year old hoping for everything to be just a bad dream, because, as they would say back on Krypton: "once you have become haunted by a demon, it would never stop."
Hi!
Sorry for the long wait, but I wasn't sure where I was going with all of this, but then I thought that I could play a little bit with the demons and the Valley, since it's an important part of the third season.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin
