Nights Twilight Dreaming
Prologue
The story begins sometime after Crystal is admitted to the hospital due to a tulpa attack. She is now in a medically induced coma healing from the spiritual dragon king's grip. Her appearance has changed almost completely. Her brown, blonde streaked hair was now at shoulder-length, but she remained the same weight she had always been from the many battles she was a part of. As she lay asleep in the ward, she began to dream while surrounded by her friends, and her family. She began to dream of something she had not returned to for years.
Crystal is in a battle class against a student in this dream. She was wearing a different outfit than she did in the real world. A white camisole tank top, a crop top short-sleeved cardigan, a pair of pink arm warmers, a pink plaid skirt, a pair of purple leggings, and a pair of black boots. Her hair remained the same length as it is in the real world. The battle raged on with a few onlookers off to the side. Although the boy of the same age as her continued to strike at her with a barrage of stones, she was quick to dodge each one of them. She danced around her opponent, Millennium Rod in hand. As she ran towards her opponent, he uses a giant stone to try and strike her down, but she dodged out of the way rather quickly. She then imbued herself in a flurry of lightning and rammed into her opponent with enough force, so much so that she was knocked off balance. She aimed the Millennium Rod at him, and he said, "I surrender! I surrender!" Crystal sighed in relief, her golden-yellow eyes glistening with hope. The teacher of the class, her Aunt Iris clapped her hands.
"That's all for today, students," she said. "Class dismissed." At that moment, Crystal's phone rang out a notification. She walked over to her satchel, putting the Millennium Rod back on the holster, and grabbed it, taking out her phone in the process. She looked at the message, and it read the following:
"There's no divination lessons for today, sweetheart. You have some free time on your hands that you need to use for yourself. Tell your friends I said hello, all right. And do be careful while out and about." Typical mom, Crystal thought to herself.
"Mom's letting me go do my own thing today," she said to her Aunt Iris. "See you tomorrow, Auntie."
"See you tomorrow, kiddo," she said with her golden-yellow god-like eyes. Crystal and the rest of the students went out the door. Iris beamed at her niece and looked over at the calendar. It will be about three weeks before she enters the tournament of magic.
Meanwhile, in the city of Tacoma, Crystal is shown alongside her friends, Azure, a black-haired boy with violet eyes wearing blue, Crocus, a boy with long blonde hair tied in a low ponytail who is wearing yellow, her brother Zephyr who's hair is brown and is styled in a spiked pompadour, her boyfriend Casper, whose hair is brown and skin is tanned, and is wearing red, Azure's sister Malva who has cranberry red hair and is wearing mauve, Casper's sister Twila who has the same skin-tone as her brother, though with white hair instead of brown like her brother, and her younger sister Jessica, who is still blonde and is still with yellow eyes. She was busy chatting away with her friends and family. As she continued to walk forward, she noticed something in the window of a plush shop. It was an angel plush together with a devil plush, both leaning against each other. She began to feel sad, as she felt something nagging at her heart. This made her remember all the injured people she had encountered, and how she had been saving lives for many years. She looked away from the window and looked ahead at her friends who are looking at her in concern.
Am I really doing the right thing by protecting my kind as well as the mortals? I feel that every time I try my best to protect everyone, they end up getting caught in the crossfire anyway, she thought. She looked at the ground, sighed in resignation, and placed her hand over her face. Maybe I'm a good guy, maybe I'm a bad guy. What am I really? I'm so confused. All of a sudden, as though they were answering her thoughts, both plush dolls grew to human size, glared, and grinned menacingly at her, causing the glass to crack. Crystal's head snapped into the direction of the two, and she was knocked back by shadows after the glass shatters. She looked up in horror as the scenery turned to darkness instantly, and all of her friends and family turned into shadow-like beings. She promptly got up and began to run as fast as she could through the darkness, with the shadow creatures flying behind her, their eyes glaring at her menacingly in the darkness. The shadowy figures began to circle her in a taunting manner forcing her to stop running as she began attacking them in a blind panic. They swirled and danced around her elemental attacks, laughing, jeering, and tormenting her as they did. Every move she tried, they evaded with ease. Crystal was out of options. She needed to retreat.
She ran away from the monstrous shadows in a hurry, with them following her in hot pursuit. They were so close to her that they almost grazed her. The chase went on until a bright light had shown through, causing the darkness to recoil. Crystal stared in shock, wonder, and curiosity. As she reached for the light, the shadow creatures that pursued her before did not continue any further and recoiled from the light in fright. As she went through it, the light surrounded the young seventeen-year-old girl, and she is transported to another world.
To be continued…