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"We'll be okay Lex, don't worry." Jaden reassured her. Alexis was still in shock from the fact that she was stuck inside her mirror along with Jaden.
"Lex?" She just stood up and walked away from the portal, shaking with every step. Jaden rushed after her, for she would definitely get into trouble if she walked alone; Jaden had enough common sense to realize that.
"Come on, we need to try and get out of her." He directed to her, as she turned around and took a deep breath. She walked towards the portal, this time with Jaden walking next to her. She gently touched the shimmering glass, but quickly took it back, for she was shocked with some type of electric attack. Jaden saw this, and tried to touch it himself, but it was of no use. He received the same shock Alexis had, but only the attack was stronger, for he was not Alexis.
"Ouch!" He said, as he shook his hand to make the burn go away.
"Jaden…" Jaden looked up and saw Alexis talking for some time now, her voice only a slight whisper.
"Yea?"
"Let's go. I have this feeling… it's not safe here, not now." Alexis warned him, fear coming back into her eyes once more.
Jaden heard the glass moving… it sounded like water. "What the hell?" He touched it, and some sparkling gel-like black force reached out to grab Alexis.
"Run!"
Jaden grabbed Alexis's wrist because she seemed rooted to the spot. He turned at a corner, taking Alexis with him, and narrowly missing the mystical force. They backed up into a wall far away from the turn. Jaden was panting, as well as Alexis, who was sitting.
"Oh God, what was that?" Jaden asked, sitting next to Alexis. He looked to see her eyes in a far away place. They seemed distant and clouded. Alexis just fell onto Jaden's shoulder, and she quickly wrapped his arms around her back. She was crying, and he was trying to soothe her by rubbing his hand along her back.
"Alexis… what's wrong?"
Alexis stopped crying to look up to Jaden's eyes. She felt she could trust him, and he was the one who her mother told her about. The one she could love, trust, and befriend.
She sat up, but let Jaden put his arm around her. She leaned onto her shoulder, and closed her eyes. She sighed and prepared for what she was about to say.
"When I was a young girl, my family had given me the mirror as a gift. I didn't know what, but I always thought there was something special about it. It always glimmered in that one spot, and it always shined a little brighter when the moon reached a certain angle, like it did tonight."
"Was it always this bright?"
"No… my mother had told me that once the destined one came in a room with the mirror and myself in it, at the time the moon was at its strong point, something magical would happen. I was to enter the mirror with the destined one, and we were to find some evil which lay beneath my mirror." She said, mimicking the exact words of her mother.
"Wow. Does this mean… I'm the destined one?" He asked, unbelieving.
She looked up to him and said, "Yes."
"Cool!" Alexis just shook her head; Jaden could be so… innocent at times. "But seriously, what was that black thing? And what evil?"
"The black 'thing' is the minion of the evil one basically. It wants me to get out of the mirror."
"Wait, isn't that what you want?"
"Not now! I can't leave until the same time tomorrow. If I leave, I'll be stuck in the mirror for the rest of all eternity, including you."
"Yikes."
"The evil is… I don't know what it is. I just know it has to be stopped."
"Okay then… how do we defeat it?"
Alexis smiled. "In a duel."
"SWEET!" Jaden yelled, practically shaking the mirror.
Alexis went wide-eyed. She got up and grabbed Jaden before he could say anything. She ran, taking Jaden with her, and went into a room, which looked a lot like Bastion's.
"Lex, what's-"
"Ssh." She said, shushing him. She stood behind the door, and Jaden could hear footsteps walking past them, and a faint 'They Got Away!' by someone yelling. Alexis waited until they left, and then calmed down.
"Jaden, you can't yell in here. The mirror is very sensitive on the inside, and if it breaks, we can't get out. We also don't want them to find us. It's better if we're unnoticed by everyone until we reach the evil. The Shakir can chase me for as long as he wants."
"Um… the Shakir?"
"That black mystical force."
"Oh, well then, why didn't it chased us to the end of the hallway?"
"Because it was outside the mirror. The moon is what will kill me and banish me to the mirror unless I stay away from it. I cannot leave until the exact time we came in. The Shakir is not affected by the moon."
"How do we know what time we're supposed to leave?"
"Your Winged Kuriboh will tell us."
Jaden was surprised to see and hear his little friend on his shoulders. "You can see him?" he asked Alexis.
She nodded. "Anything is possible here. Trust me on that one."
"Like what?"
"I'll tell you later." Alexis smiled. "All right, let's go."
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