Visions
The room was dark, leaving a blue luminous glow that came from the rattling windows of the strong gales that pressed upon them
The room was dark, leaving a blue luminous glow that came from the rattling windows of the strong gales that pressed upon them from outside. Opposite the two beds leaning upon the wall of the door of entrance was a dark alcove. The nightmare that haunted Claire in her sleep happened again. The woman with the dark aura was back again, going to take away her sister. Her screams of misery when dragged into the darkness by shadow-like entities that appeared like octopus tentacles, dragging her to the shadows. Her guardian realizing the screams rush to the door, forming a beam of light from the palm of his hands to strike at the shadowy woman, only to be swallowed into the darkness. The woman evilly laughed. "You cannot defeat me with those petty light beams. The darkness is too strong, and it will overcome all light." The woman spoke. Adrian only to growl in anger, unable to doing anything to save Claire's little sister Kristen that night, however something changed within that scenario that kept crawling back as that horrific memory. Adrian looked upon Claire differently this time. "You look different Claire," he said in a curious tone. "And what's that you're wearing around your neck?" The girl then looked upon herself realizing the Astral Amulet given to her by that fortune-teller. "It's the Astral Amulet. Adrian we can save Kristen. I just need to activate it!" Claire jumped up with a sense of realization. "The Astral Amulet?" the Witch of the Shadows questioned. "Oh no…"
A small sphere of light surrounding the amulet and then it became the Astral Wand, exactly the same as the one she used to fight against Aries. "That's magic…" Adrian muttered. "That's right Adrian! And now Witch of the Shadows, let my sister go before you really get hurt by me!" Claire shouted. "How did you know my name?" Adrian thought to himself. "You aren't going to fool me with your party games… Don't you know how this dream ends Claire? I always win." The Witch of the Shadows stated. "And the next night you'll be haunted by this dream again. Again and again till your death!"
Kristen's cries got louder, until the shadows drowned her out and suddenly disappearing. "Kristen!" Claire shouted out. "Your little sister is gone Claire, drowned out into the shadows where she'll stay with me and be part of the sacrificial ritual."
"Enough! I've had it with you." Claire yelled in a burst of anger. "Light! Bind this woman with your heaven's rays and punish her with your holy blades! I COMMAND YOU!" she yelled. Adrian never seeing her this angry before was undecided, witnessing powerful magic in the little girl's bedroom. Small ribbons of light surrounded the Witch of the Shadows, wrapping themselves around the Witch of the Shadows, making her unable to move. After, a magic circle appeared under the witch, rays of light bursting out from them. The Witch cried in pain, "Stop it. Stop it now!" Claire raised her wand up in the air, and swords with bright radiance appeared above her. "The crime you committed was wrong. And now you will receive the divine punishment. I bid you an eternity of suffering for all the sins you've committed!" Claire screamed, lowering her wand down "Judgment!" The swords that appeared above Claire then struck the Witch. "Do you feel the suffering you've caused others with your darkness?" she asked, with an aggressive tone. She then raised her wand and lowered it again, another sword then striking the witch that was in agony. The witch couldn't take it anymore, falling in the magic circle. "Please no more…"
"Then don't you dare come back to haunt my dreams! Give me back my sister!" The witch refused. "GIVE me back my sister Kristen!" she shouted once more. The final blade that hovered over expanded larger and developed more radiant glow than the previous ones. Claire then closed her eyes as the Witch refused. "Then meet your fate. May heaven's wrath judge you." And then she lowered the Astral Wand, the final and strongest blade striking the Witch. The witch screamed in pain and agony, the shadows disappearing and soon the Witch disappearing with the magic circle that surrounded her. An unconscious girl appeared with her hair messily arranged and her arms together as if she was praying for salvation. "Kristen? Kristen!" Claire called out, rushing towards the little girl. Adrian was spellbound from what he has witnessed, but before too long a voice could be heard from above the room. "Claire, I'm surprised you actually defeated the Witch of the Shadows… But you should know that your little sister Kristen's soul is absorbed by the darkness."
"What? Where is that voice coming from? It sounds so familiar…" Claire wondered. "What on Earth is going on?" Adrian exclaimed. "You've met me before…"
A woman appeared, resembling the fortune-teller that same night in the magic festival. "You're the woman from the fortune teller tent aren't you?" Claire expressed. "Oh you are a bright one. You might have defeated the Witch, but you wont defeat the curse I've put on your lovely… Attractive and loyal guardian Adrian." The woman then chanted the same incantations in the room, exactly the same as the one in the tent. A magic circle appeared under Adrian, resembling the same one in the tent. "What's going on Claire? What is this?" Adrian asked to Claire. "It's the curse… Stop it now!" Claire then held her wand and pointed it towards the woman. "Shadows, may you claim their soul!" Shadows consumed Adrian, and then disappeared leaving an unconscious Adrian lying on the floor.
"What did you do to him?!" Claire cried. "Why did you do this to him for?" The woman then laughed mocking Claire and her position. "I felt like it. And besides, don't waste your time trying to save him in the real world. He's already gone. My curse is too powerful to overcome."
Claire then woke up from the nightmare, opening her eyes in an instant feeling her hair stroked by a hand. She looked and saw Adrian awake with his eyelids opened half way. "Don't tell me you've been sleeping on my stomach all night!" he smiled. Claire squeezed onto him tighter. "Thank god you're alive…"