"OK," Zoey said testily. "So there is Dream, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Spirit. So there's one left."
"Seems that way," I nodded.
"Alex I know what it is," Jared said. He put his hands on my shoulders and shook me a little. "If there is Dream, the Dream is what the Mind makes. What does the body make?"
"Reality," I said. "But all the other elements fall into that. That's not right..... What about.... Wait. If Dream is made by the mind, what id the other element is made by nothing the mind can control? Like.... nature?"
"Oh good Goddess," Jared said. He looked at me, and our eyes widened at the same time.
"Weather," I said.
"It's a messed up version of some of the elements," Jared said. "Twisted until it isn't really the elements any more. And the mind doesn't really control it."
"You guys are just like the Twins," Zoey mused, looking at us.
"Dragon said the same thing," I said.
"He said they were in your group," Jared added.
"Yeah, Erin and Shawnee," Zoey agreed. "It's like they share a brain." Jared and I laughed.
"Actually, for us it's like that," I said.
"We have the same birthdays," Jared said.
"And the same eyes." I grinned.
"We both love bombs."
"And horses."
"Neither of us knew our dads."
"And we're only children."
"Oh, and don't forget we share these things," Jared pointed to our foreheads.
"And we have a secret," I said. I was careful not to hint what that secret was.... everybody would totally freak if anyone found out. I wasn't telling anybody. Not even you.
"Well that is a lot of similarities," Zoey nodded. "Erin and Shawnee are completely different on the outside, but the same on the inside."
"OK. Zoey, we need to know exactly what's going on," I said. "Dragon and us can only help if we know what happened."
"Then wake up and go back and just get me the hell back in my body!" she yelled. Jared and I exchanged a glance, nodded, and woke up. That was easy....
I looked around the plane. Jared was next to me, the seat was behind me, and the window was next to me. Everything was right. I stood up with my toes in the plush rug. Wait. What happened to my seat belt?? I looked back, and saw a sleeping version of my self. I screamed. Jared looked at me, then my body, then me, then my body again. He stood, also leaving behind his body.
"Shit. We didn't wake up," I said. "But wait...... we're only supposed to be seeing stuff that's important. Nothing is going on."
As soon as I said that there was a panicked yelling coming from the other room. Jared and I ran in... and Dragon was desperately flipping gear shifts.
"GUYS!" He yelled. "WAKE UP!" We didn't. We were still there staring at him. "WE'RE OUT OF GAS! GET UUUUUP!!"
I bit my lip and focused every speck of my energy into my right hand pointer-finger. I pressed it to the glass in front of Dragon.
WE'RE LISTENING.
"Oh Goddess," Dragon mumbled. "You really can visit places in your dreams... Well guys we're all about to die cause we're out of gas and we're gonna crash."
Then we woke up. We were jolted back into our seats. We unbuckled our seat belts and ran into the pilot cock. Dragon looked at us with a relieved expression.
"OK well you get to be awake when you die," Dragon said. Jared and I exchanged a glance.
"Jared, we have three options," I said. "We could jump."
"We could stay and die."
"Or we could reveal our secret and live," I added. He crinkled his nose. "Jared, you know it's the only gaurenteed way to live."
"Yeah, but what will we do once we live? Everyone will know," he said.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT!?" Dragon yelled.
"LET US DEBATE!!" We yelled back.
"We'll never know what we'll do if we don't live," I told Jared.
"I guess......." he said. I nodded and turned to Dragon.
"Open the door. We need to jump..." I said. His eyes widened, but he obeyed.
"Jared you're stronger you'll have to carry him," I said. Jared nodded. I bit my lip and Jared and I both slid out of our hoodies. I grabbed the pack we had filled with our bombs, and Jared hefted Dragon into his arms. Dragon's eyes were huge and he was struggling.
"Trust us," Jared said. Dragon settled, and Jared and I walked to the door Dragon had opened. We exchanged another look, and then we jumped.
