AN:First, let me apologize about the 1st chapter's title, I forgot to change it when i uploaded it. N also, srry about not updating n so long! Plz 4giv me! Well anyway, here's Chap 2
Chapter 2: Dark Dream or Dark Reality?
Cold and lonely, that was how Cat was feeling right now. All around her, no matter where she looked, there was nothing but darkness.
"Hello," she shouted out into the darkness, hoping to get a reply from someone, however the only sound she heard was the sound of her own voice, echoing through the darkness. "Tori, Jade, Andre, Beck, Robbie! Is anyone out there," she shouted again, yet like before, was replied by her own echo. At hearing this, Cat realized that she was truly alone, and suddenly felt a wave of hopelessness and depression wash over her. "I'm all alone. I'm really all alone," she said to herself, as she then fell to the ground, or better yet, whatever she was floating on, pulled her knees up to her chest, wrapped her arms around her legs, and started to cry. The state in which she was in was something rather odd. She felt no solid ground beneath her feet, yet she didn't feel like she was falling or floating, she was just there. Cat was truly frightened from both the unusual darkness, and the absolute silence, that she began feeling as if she was starting to sink into a sea of infinite darkness. Then, just when she was about to give up all hope, she suddenly heared something that would lift her spirit.
"Cat, where are you? Cat!" Cat recognized that voice anywhere, it was Tori's.
"Tori, where are you," Cat shouted, as she stood up looking around for her friend, yet saw no one.
"Beck, Cat, where are you guys!" Cat suddenly heard another faniliar voice shout out of nowhere.
"Jade, Tori, where are you," Cat cried out, as she continued to hear her two friends call out to her. After a few more seconds of this, Cat then took off in the direction of her friends' voices. Cat found, to her amazement, that even though she felt nothing under her, she could still run without falling into the darkness, she noticed that her friends' voices were growing louder and louder, but she couldn't see them. "Guys, where are you? I can't see you!" Cat was about to start crying again, when she heard Tori actually respond to her.
"C-Cat, is that you?" Cat, hearing Tori respond to her, was suddenly filled with new hope, as she then shouted-
"Tori, where are you? I can't see you! Tell me, where are you?"
"Uh..I don't really know! Cat, could you just follow the sound of my voice then?"
"Sure, just keep talking to me, I'll find you in no time," replied Cat, as Tori continued to called out to her. Cat did as she was instructed, and followed the sound of Tori's voice, seeing that it was working, as she noticed that Tori's voice began to get louder and louder, the further she went into the darkness. "Tori, it sounds like you're right next to me, but I still can't see you!"
"CAT, HELP!" Cat's body immidiatly frozed up, hearing Tori's scared scream.
"Tori, what's wrong?" Cat looked around, trying desperatly to find her friend, and to find out what was happening. But to her anguish, she couldn't see a thing. All she could do, was stand their, frozen in fear, and listen to Tori's terrified screams.
"Oh God, someone help me, it's gonna get me! Please, someone, help me!"
"Tori! What's going to get you? What is it? What's happening?"
"Oh my God, somebody h-." Cat was now completly paralyzed. She couldn't belive what she'd just heared. What had happened to Tori? What was chasing her? What was in this strange place with them!
"Cat," she suddenly heared someone else call out to her. She immediatly recognized the voice as Jade, and spun around trying to find her.
"Jade, where are you," Cat screamed, trying to locate her best friend, determined not to let whatever got Tori get to her.
"I don't know, but get me out of here! Something got Beck!" At hearing her say this, Cats' heart dropped. She couldn't believe that Tori wasn't its' first victim, and infact, it had already taken out Beck!
"Jade, hold on, I'm coming," shouted Cat, as she ran into the darkness. She wasn't sure where she was going, or what she would meet if she actually found Jade. However, she didn't care, all she could think about was reaching her friend before something happened to her. For what appeared to be forever, Cat ran throughout the dark emptiness that surrounded her, not finding even a trace of a person. By now, her fatigue had now caught up with her, and she had no choice but to stop and rest. "Jade..where..are you," she heaved, too tired to barely even stand. Just then, a hand suddenly fell onto her shoulder. Cat immediatly grabbed the hand, and flipped whatever had touched her onto the ground.
"Ow, Cat that hurt you know," exclaimed an angry Jade, who lade on the floor.
"Jade," Cat practically screamed, as she picked her up, and wrapped her in a death gripping hug.
"Cat..You're gonna kill me," Jade managed to squeak out from the lack of oxygen. At hearing her squeak for freedom, Cat immediatly let her go, allowing her to catch her breath.
"Jade are you okay," she asked, now checking her friend up and down.
"Yeah I'm fine, I'm just glad I found someone else," she replied.
"What happened, where's everyone else?" The second Cat said this, she could swear she saw a tear drop out of one of Jade's eyes.
"When we got swallowed up in that mist, we all got sent here, but you weren't with us, so we decided to go look for you. While we were looking, Robbie said he thought he heard someone behind us and thought it was you. So he went to go check, and we waited for like ten minutes. After fifteen minutes, Andre went to go look for him, and we lost him too. Then we heard Andre and Robbie screaming like they were being murdered or something and we made a run for it! Me, Beck and Vega were together for a while, then Beck got attacked by something and we left eachother! I-I ddn't know what was going, Cat I was s-so," Jade explained, yet was too shooken up to finish. Cat embraced her friend once more, trying to give her any form of comfort she could.
Then, they heard what sounded like footsteps appraoching them. To this Jade became frantic.
"Jade calm down, what's wrong!"
"We've got to get out of here, it's gonna get us!"
"What got Beck and the others?" To this, Jade simply nodded frantically. Cat didn't need another second to think this over. She immediatly grabbed Jade's hand, and together they broke into a run. As they ran, they noticed that no matter how much they ran, the footsteps wouldn't decrease in their volume, and infact, sounded like they were getting closer!
"It's gonna get us! We're gonna die!"
"Don't say that! We're gonna make it," Cat shouted back at her friend. However, when she said that, she felt that Jade had stopped running completly. She turned around to see Jade simply standing there with a blank expression on her face. "Jade," she called, touching her cheek. But to her shock and horror, the second she touched Jade's cheek, it broke off like a crumbling piece of a building. Soon enough, her entire face followed suit, and then her entire body, until there was nothing left of Jade whatsoever. "Jade no," Cat screamed, kneeling down before where her friend once stood.
"My...how tragic this is," a dark voice exclaimed. Cat looked up to see a tall cloaked figure holding a blue orb in it's hand. As she stared at the orb, she saw the image of Jade reflecting off it.
"W-who are you? W-what is that," Cat asked, nervous of what this thing that stood infront of her was.
"Who am I is not important. As for this, this is your friend Jade," it informed her, it's voice completly absent of any emotion.
"That thing's Jade," Cat asked, standing up.
"Yes, this is her soul."
"Her..soul?"
"Yes," it replied, as purple flames engulfed the orb, and then it dissapeared. "Well, it was."
"What did you do to Jade," Cat asked in fear and anger.
"Nothing, I simply returned her and the rest of your friends to where you all belong."
"W-where's that?"
"Simple...the darkness." As it said this, Cat felt her body suddenly tilt, as if it was floating. "Now...return to the darkness, little white light," it said, as it made it's way over to Cat. Once it was over her, it motioned it's hand by her chest, appeared to prepare to stick it's hand into it.
"No..please stop," Cat practically beg, yet it didn't stop in the least. "Stop...stop...stop. I said stop!" As she screamed, both her, the figure and all the darkness that surrounded them were suddenly engulfed in a bright white light.
"W-what is this light," the figure asked, fear apparently escaping it's words. Cat couldn't see anything pass the light, and was completly engulfed in the brightness.
Cat opened her eyes to see that she was in her own room. She was sweating from head to toe, and was shaking eradiclty.
"Thank God, it was all just a dream," she sighed, as she sighed and returned to her slumber. However, as she returned to her sleep, she failed to notice strange shadows that were moving away from her bed. As well as the small white flame that diminished from her hand.