Just a Dream

By: biacebaolck

She felt herself walking, unable to stop. In here, where the ocean, no, there were no waves… In this…beautiful sanctuary, she felt like she was…home…

She stopped in front of a statue of an angel, who looked like a mole with wings and a halo, his digging claws open, like he had been holding something. All around him glowed a green light. She took the Earth orb from her bag and placed in the angel's digging claws, not knowing why she chose to do that. It just felt…like…it was supposed to go there…

"What are you doing, Backlash?" a hare's voice called out. She wanted to turn her head and tell whoever it was she didn't know what she was doing, but she couldn't. She was in some sort of dazed state that she could tell what was happening but unable to do a thing about it. She was unable to answer.

"The Earth orb is given back to Venus." She said softly.

"What?" another hare's voice asked. "What did she bally well say?"

"Dunno." Replied the first hare.

She continued walking towards another statue that looked like it was created by exactly the same artist as Venus but a blue glow surrounded this one, and this one, was an ottermaid, with wings and halo. "The Water orb returns to Mercury." She placed the Water orb in the ottermaid's paws

A statue of a male badger lord, red light glowing around him, with angel wings and a halo like the other two stood a few paces away. Backlash walked towards it, still in the dazed state. One of the male hares she had heard before gasped in recognization. He had been studying much about this badger lord.

'It's Mars the Fire, the first badger lord.' He thought, still gaping at the statue. It was so much like the pictures of Mars he had seen in books back at home.

Placing the Fire orb in his enormous paws, she said softly, "Mars the Fire… I return the Fire orb back to thee, sire." She bowed her head once in respect for the stone badger lord.

She walked to another statue and it was surrounded by purple light. She placed the Air orb into the male mouse's paws. "Jupiter has regained his Air orb. Since Uncle Emrys and Aunt Rhia are now part of you, take care of them for me." She added, quietly.

Suddenly, the marble floor around the statues cracked and disappeared, revealing their elements. Around Venus was a sample of the forest that could be seen in the orb in his stone paws. Mercury stood on top of a lake, the waves rippling in the water. Mars the Fire stood on top of a lava pit, lava bubbling up every now and then. Jupiter stood, smiling his stone smile, on top of a cloud, wind blowing around him.

"The four Elemental orbs are now back where they belong." She heard herself say in a very, very, very strong voice she knew she could never repeat lest she scared herself.

Then, another voice, a male one, boomed out of nowhere. "The prophecy has now been fulfilled. The sacrifice will be accepted."

She paused. No! She didn't pause! Some other part of her paused, but not her consciousness. And was this about a sacrifice? Oh…damn… The voice couldn't mean her…could it? Oh, damn. Damn it all… She should have stopped herself.

But, she told herself, she couldn't, and it didn't matter anyways… No one cared anymore. Besides, she'd be happier in the Dark Forest Gates now that everybeast knew she was bad news.

But… What about Bucko? What would he feel? She hoped he didn't hate her for tricking him to think she was a boy. She didn't want him to hate her…because…she loved him…

It didn't matter… He must hate her now… It was impossible to go back and change the past… Still thinking this, her consciousness went to sleep, tired of all the thinking it had done. Her body was still functional, still moving, but this time, she didn't see what it did.

She fell into a deep slumber, oblivious to the world. Suddenly, a snake appeared out of nowhere, in her dream. She wanted to yell. This snake had taken her by surprise and once she had been taken by surprise, she wouldn't be the experienced warrior anymore. She'd be a weakling.

She woke up, drenched in sweat. The dream she just had… It was unbelievable realistic. The voices, the statues, the Elements… She knew who the voices were. They were Streak and Stryke. Stryke had already been with Lord Brocktree, the badger lord, when she had met him.

Lord Brocktree knew a warrior when he saw one, and immediately agreed that she could come with them when Bucko introduced him to her. But one thing the badger lord didn't know was that the warrior he let join in his ranks, was actually a haremaid in disguise.

Streak had joined the badger lord's ranks way before she had even met Bucko. He was a Torquoi like herself, and was not afraid to admit it. He told her that he was an Eastern Torquoi, way from the East.

Backlash had found out that he was descended from Mark, while she descended from Gaea's blood line when he told her that all half-Torquoi were automatically descendants of Gaea because Gaea had been a mountain hare when she sealed away the Elements into orbs.

Gaea, or Earth as she was now called, became half-Torquoi when Mark made her his blood sister by slitting both her and his wrists and bound them together to let his blood flow into hers. Mark had been the last of his kind, the Torquoi.

Backlash had also found out that half-Torquoi were rare because most of them had died during infancy. She didn't tell him that she was a half-Torquoi, partly because she didn't want to brag. All the other hares were awed by this story of the creation of the Elemental orbs and many wished they could have been a Torquoi as well.

She stood up and looked to where Bucko was. He was fast asleep. Good. She snuck away from camp to a river. She dived in, as quietly as an experienced otter could. She swam underwater for what seemed a long time.

Funny thing was, she didn't feel like she needed any air at all. She felt like she could go on for ages, swimming underwater. The water drowned out all the sounds of the cawing crows that were half-a-day's walk from the camp. It was…peaceful… She loved it here.

Wishing she could swim forever, she reluctantly, got out of the water and began her early morning jog. The sun had already begun to rise. She smiled. Had it already been that long since that dream in the middle of the night, to now, the rising of the sun?

Remembering one of her Uncle's quotes, she chuckled. 'Time flies when you're having fun.' She thought, grinning, still jogging. Then, her grin quickly turned to a frown as she remembered her dream. It was just a dream…wasn't it? Of course it was a dream…right?

Or maybe it was it something else…