Part 10- Dreaming

Wait, that door doesn't open. Wait... how do I know that? Right, Lucky told me. She drops a ring in the keyhole before inserting the key. Rena drops down the small door first, Marigold follows next before Lucky can even say anything. Lucky goes next and I follow, holding a candle carefully to avoid the dripping wax. Farther down I can distantly see Iaso leading Rena down the stairs, holding a candle.

Stairs and stairs and stairs. Endless stairs, threatening to trip us at any second. Lucky rams into something. I hear the thump, she must have run ahead of Rena.

I can't hear the swearing. Marigold's sighing and yelling swear words back at Lucky. Iaso's trying to break them up, having Rena hold the candle while he gets in between the two.

Smart idea. The finally break from a fistfight, both of them clock Iaso in the face and open the shadowed door. Both the girls give each other a glare and then step into the door.

I put my arm around Rena's neck. She clenches a fist and follows. I can barely see a red stone around her neck. We follow the obnoxious duo through the door, picking up the Iaso on our way.

There's rocks. And shrubs. No flowers. Everythings dead. I go to ask Lucky a question but my voice is blocked. She's sitting on a rock, almost like she owns the world.

What the...? Lucky's standing near Marigold, her eye's fierce, the only time I've seen her wear a kimono. Why was that? Marigold's birthday or something.

I turn back to Rena and Iaso.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?"

Rena's voice. Iaso was acting strange. He had pinned Rena against a wall and, holding her neck. His hands clapsed around her neck and tugged. A chain fell off into his hands. Rena's eyes blinked and she whispered something I couldn't hear. Her head lolled back and Iaso dropped down to the ground.

Iaso opened his mouth and drops the necklace in making a slurping sound as it drops down his throat. Lucky punches him. Marigold's dropped down to Rena's side.

Iaso and Lucky are going at it. I step in. Lucky's fled before I can say anything. The first punch hurts, and the face changes. I'm not fighting Iaso, I'm fighting Rena. The face melts and dusts off to see an otline of Rena.

Lucky's unclapsing something from her neck. She puts it next to Marigold who's already drawn an alkahestry symbol in the red dug up earth. She drops five kunai's into the points of the star. She puts her hands in the circle and takes a deep breath. Her's and Rena's body starts glowing.

"It's time to die."

I jolt awake, smacking my head into a bookcase that juts out right above my head. I mentally curse myself, bookcases, and people who make bookcases.

When I walk downstairs, I find Iaso half asleep while eating toast and eggs. One of the maids comes up behind him and smacks him with her broom before retreating to her closet.

"Goooooood moring, dear brother! Good morning Sam!" Lucky's down the stairs. She's still in her baby blue pajama's and carrying a stuffed animal but doesn't seem the least bit embarrassed.

She takes a seat in between her mom and dad and starts inhaling (Ok, not literally.) everything that she see's.

Iaso is asleep. This time, Lucky drops a pineapple on his head. Was that necessary? Yes.

"Up until five in the morning and this is the thanks I get?" Iaso asks bitterly, rubbing his head.

"Maybe you wouldn't be up until five in the morning if you didn't take care of Rena all freaking night. She pukes! SO WHAT? She has it under control with that phil-" Lucky stumbled and returned to her eggs.

Iaso gives me a stare before rushing upstairs towards Rena's room.

"Yup."

I found Iaso in Rena's room, pacing the floor and looking sick, clenching his hands tight.

"Um..."

"She has a philosphers stone. Look here." He jesters me over towards Rena and I stepover lightly. Peeking out from under her pink pajamas is a red stone attached to a chain.

"That could be a ruby." I suggested. Iaso shook his head. "I would smash it into the floor for you but I think that would be a bad idea."

"Because it's a ruby?"

"Ye- No! What? No! I have a different theory that we need to ask Rena about."

Rena stirred in her bed. "And we ask her soon."

Author's note: Before you all start yelling and screaming at me, Rena got the philosphers stone from her father. Remember how Rena's been puking up blood since like ever? Well, no child could survive that much loss of blood.

Also, I was going to write this all in one go, and then I got bored and decided to write the rest tomorrow.