Chapter 35

Dreaming

The only thing that made me realize that this was a dream was when I felt Star enter it. Now she was seeing everything I saw.

I've had this dream before, at the lab. It was the night after they had told me about Iggy and my mission to kill him. They had shown me pictures so I knew what he looked like.

In the dream, I was chasing Iggy through a maze and I take a wrong turn and end up facing three windows. The first window shows me and Shadow happily kissing. The second one shows me standing next to a girl I didn't recognize at the time, holding her hand looking at the sunset. The final window showed me killing Iggy and Shadow curled in the corner, hiding from me. The dream always ended when I realized the last window was actually a mirror. My creatures always found me screaming in my cage after that dream, like Shadow found me right now, on the island.

"Nova! Nova, wake up, it's a dream wake up!" she exclaimed shaking my shoulders.

"I'm awake, I'm awake!" I cried.

"I know, I just wanted to shake and yell at you." she said, grinning. "Must have been some bad dream, you've been screamin' for over 20 minutes."

"Ahh, yea."

'That dream was… strange.' Stat thought.

"What do you mean by strange?" Shadow asked.

"I'd rather not think about it." I replied.

"Oh, did the sleepyhead finally decide to wake up?" Nudge asked sarcastically.

"Can we get some lunch now? Or is Nova gunna have another mental breakdown?" Gazzy moaned.

"I did not have a mental breakdown! Did I?"

"Mhm." Shadow conided.

"Yep." Nudge said.

"It was a breakdown worthy of Total." Iggy smirked.

"I'll take that as a compliment." Total growled.

'We need to go on another run, if you're up to it. More training.'

'Iggy won't like it.' Shadow thought.

'Who cares what stupid Iggy thinks?' I thought back.

"Shut up Nova." she spat at me, "Star, why don't you and Nova go by yourselves this time."

"Uh, ok? I guess…" Star said slowly, "Come on Nova."

"I'm not going unless Shadow goes." I said stubbornly.

"Goes where?" Iggy asked.

"Another run. Star wants to train." Shadow explained.

"Heck no. did you already forget what happened last time?"

"I did not forget. That's why I want to go back so early, so we can be prepared for any threat. If Shadow's right about Knight, which I'm pretty sure she is, than he can come up onto the island. It does not repel him." Star said quickly.

"You wouldn't want her to go about unprotected and unable to defend herself, would you?" I smirked.

"Okay, first of all, I can protect and defend myself. Second, isn't it my choice wether I go or not?" Shadow burst.

I stuck my tongue out at Iggy and he glared back at me.

'You two are like little children fighting over a toy.' Star thought skeptically.

"I'm going for a fly. I'll either stay on the island, or join Star and Nova later. It's my choice." she said to Iggy before taking off.

'Come on Nova, let's go.' Star thought as she started to walk towards the edge of the cliff. Sighing, I followed her.

'What's that?' I heard Shadow think to herself, 'Guys, I see something right of the edge of the cliff. I think it's circling it. I'm going down.'

'Shadow, no.' Star thought franticly.

'To late.'

"Nova, go down after her. Now!" she screamed at me.

Me and Shadow both landed at the same time. Me with a clumsy thud of a newby, her with gracefulness that was completely uncharacteristic.

'Shush.' Shadow mentally shushed me.

'I'm thinking, not speaking.' I argued

'And I'm trying to concentrate, so shush.'

'I can't stop myself from thinking!'

'Well think quietly!'

'Can both of you please try and concentrate. you're scaring me so much I think that I will jump of the cliff if the leaves rustle!' Star scolded.

'One sec.' Shadow said, giving a small grin. She knocked me off of my feet with a sudden sweep of her leg. When I was able to get back up Shadow was gone, replaced with a black wolf.

Now that I was closer to the wolf, I noticed that she wasn't only black. Her jet-black fur had random neon blue hairs in it. Just hear and there, it had a beautiful effect. It was like a stars on a moonless night in the country.

'You should never let down your game Nova.' Shadow scolded mockingly.

"You shouldn't attack your teammate." I growled back, rubbing my side.

Shadow sniffed the air and started walking to the south. 'Two.' was the only thing she thought before instinct took hold.

'Shadow, you promised Iggy you wouldn't go after him!' Star thought, trying to get past the wall Shadow's instincts were creating.

Shadow broke suddenly broke into a run, chasing her prey.

(end of chapter 35)