Author's Note:

Hello people of earth (or just FanFiction in this case (: ). Here's the promised next chapter! Yey!! I'll update with the next section of part 1 sometime this upcoming week.

Xoxo

Elizabeth Magnolia le Fey

Chapter 2

This dream was different. Arebella appeared as usual, but there was no lightening—she was just there, waiting. A cloaked woman stood next to her, both faces shadowed by the stormy darkness. Tanner felt a cool sensation against his chest, and realized the frigid waves centered at the crystal, Arebella's crystal, and held it out to the women.

"So you're the chosen protector the of Duchess Arebella and her crystal," Stated the mysterious woman in an icy voice.

"Duchess?"

"Tell me, young one. Would you like to find and save your friend? Her," She gestured towards the beautiful girl at her side.

"Yes, I suppose."

"You suppose or do you?"

"Yes, I do."

"Good. There is one way to save the Duchess." As the woman spoke and her crimson robe darkened to blood, a bright, silver light excavated from Arebella's chest and engulfed her body.

In a single moment, what was once the fair Arebella, had transformed into a magnificent Pegasus.

"Notice her wings. The feathers are her memories. When the Pegasus loses a feather, it loses a memory. Find a feather, keep it, and she keeps her memories."

"Got it."

"Not quite."

"How so?"

"The silver horn set above the blazing fierce emerald green eyes blazed red for a moment before becoming a glass crystal version and shattering into a million shards.

"…You will visit nine realms. Each realm represents one of the nine Necessary Learned Human Emotions and a situation in one of the Duchess' many lives in which she has exhibited or denied that emotion. The Duchess will have the glass horn in her care in each of the realms, but the horn will only return back to it's natural state of silver if it is given out of trust. The horn is essential to her being. Taking the horn or it being given to you by someone other than the Duchess will cause it to shatter, in which case, you will lose the Duchess forever. The horn holds all memories from her lives and her true mission in this world. Like said, it is essential."

The stranger's head swiveled towards Arebella, who suddenly imploded back into her human form and fell into the stranger's waiting arm.

"A Pegasus is the Duchess' inner form. Every creature has an inner form that usually doesn't depict it's physical self. A Pegasus only appears in one creature during the course of our world. Her final death without an heir will be the death of humanity and the world, past, present, and future. If the inner Pegasus dies, Arebella will die. If the Pegasus must emerge for whatever reason, it will use Arebella's entire life reservoir and kill her, although not immediately. A single person in all of Arebella's lives is entrusted with rescuing and restoring her. Needless to say, Arebella's life has never been restored before, and therefore has never lived past sixteen. The day she is completely restored is the day the world unites under her as queen, and then enters the greatest hundred-year period in the history of all worlds and realms everywhere. She will reign on equality, justice, peace, and every other notable aspect of her inner form."

"Sounds easy enough."

"Don't be so sure, young one. Your journey will be long and you will learn much about the Duchess and her sacrifices for us all. You will see, hear, dream, and remember things that you wish you hadn't. You will know all there is to know about the Duchess without actually being her. And, when you, if you, decide to meet me in the tenth realm, you will have to decide many things. These things aren't as simple as what to eat and what to wear, but they will decide your fates, and the fates of the whole world. Such decisions are not made even by the greatest, most experienced minds in time, much less by a sixteen-year-old boy, but they are yours to make—no one else's. If you fail this task, Arebella will surely die, but your life will return to normal as if nothing ever happened. You will wake from this and everything—Arebella, the realms, the Pegasus—will all be a figment of your imagination. You will resume life without her as if you never knew her. I hope you choose the correct path, as is written in your fate, but fate is written only to be edited and rewritten time and again. You will resume your role in society according to the time history and your accomplishments up until your sixteenth year. You will have all of your memories for that time and place, as well as your Agony memories from this mission and journey, but all memories of Arebella will be blotted so she is nothing more than a forgotten face. Your mission is to piece together the situation based on gathered gossip, dreams, stories, memories, people, and places. Once you receive the glass horn and you've realized your fault in that realm you be sent to another realm. Befriend the Duchess, save her, and identify the betrayers. Do you understand and accept your mission at hand?"

"Yes, I understand and accept."

Nine doors of light appeared behind the woman, who was still supporting the shell of Arebella. He walked towards the closest door, turned the small, crystal knob, and passed through, but before he was completely eaten by the darkness, he heard the woman say, "I can't believe that Arebella has chosen Sir Tanner again. He has failed her fourteen times before, and she is quite aware of that…"

As the cruel statement was lost to the emptiness, Tanner swore, "I won't fail her this ti--…" He was overtaken by a searing pain, first in his heart, but soon spread to his whole body. was the first realm.