Chapter updated on 6/29/15
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"Traitors! Traitors! They're all traitors. You can't trust anyone anymore. No one is to be trusted" I should have listened to my own words. Maybe I would have known better than to get into this trouble in the first place. I should have known better.
After Darkar left through the portal I fell down in despair. I let myself be pulled by the portal. I was fine with going into the portal after Darkar walked into it. After all he wouldn't kill himself would he? I closed my eyes and felt the intense heat radiating from the portal. It felt a lot like a big fireball. I began to feel my body being pulled from the sides it felt like I was being stretched first up then down. It finally stopped and I felt myself falling.
I felt my face hit the hard earthen ground. I opened my eyes to find myself in a forest. "Where am I?" I asked myself staring into the sky looking for a tall tree to climb up. I wanted to know where I was. Why didn't I land in Realix?
I spotted a tall tree standing high above the others. I ran for it making sure it never left my sight. I ran through trees of auburn and red wood, some healthy and young, others were old and long since dead or toppled over in age. I stopped running when I came face to face with the giant oak. I walked around the tree searching for foot holes but I found none.
"Guess I'll have to claw my way up." I said aloud to no one. It felt good to hear my own voice. I took my hands and dug my nails deep into the bark of the tree and pulled myself up. I continued to climb, eventually I climbed up to a branch. Tired from my earlier efforts I took the branch in hand tired and pulled myself up to it. I tested the branch to see if it would support my weight. When it didn't break I sat on it and closed my eyes taking a break.
I must have fallen asleep because when I woke up it was nightfall. I shivered in the cold hugging myself. I jumped when I heard voices coming closer to me. I looked around but nothing shielded me. I was going to be spotted. "Darn it!" I muttered.
I saw a light in the distance coming closer and the voices got clearer.
"Are you sure you saw someone head this way Codatorta?"
"Aye, one of my seniors saw an odd shadowy figure walking in the forest alone today and I take his word over anyones any day he is after all one of our best fighters."
"Of course well you take the lantern and search in the west, I'll take the east. This shadow could be dangerous"
"Aye, aye sir." The one known as Codatorta yelled.
"Shadow?" I mumbled as I watched the light flicker away but I heard some one coming closer. I felt my heart began to beat at an increasing rate. I saw a soft glow come from the tree a little far away from me. I saw a small mans face come from the shadows I knew that my only chance to get away now was to hope he didn't see me. I knew if I was caught he would take me into the authority's and then they would kill me.
I watched him walk around the clearing and then he stopped. So did my breath. He was looking right at me.
I watched in horror. The velvety red fabric that waved in the wind leading up to Dakar's suit rippled as he walked up the stair to realix the first place I had ever discovered that evil doesn't always lose. The stories I had been told when I was younger were wrong because sometimes the good guys lose and heck there weren't even good guys or bad guys everyone was just a little bit of both. No one was really good nor were they bad.
That last idea just made me think a little. It made me question who I really was and why I was here in this moment watching Darkar. It made me ask myself what if... What if I never became Dark Bloom would I be here now? Do I even exist?
These thoughts remained in my head until a scream came from the right side of me. I looked over and saw Baltor flying through the air. I could smell the scent of burning flesh. I closed my eyes not wanting to see anymore.
I could hear the blinding maniacal laughter and couldn't bear to keep my eyes closed any longer. I peeked my eyes open just a pinch and saw a shining light over Darkar. His hands were raised as he received the ultimate power I turned my head and saw Baltor on the ground struggling to sit up.
I summoned what power I could from myself but the fear , made it so it wasn't much. A spark of red and orange light flew from my fingertips and flew towards his armor. I opened my eyes wide it didn't even make a dent all it made was him look at me and begin to laugh.
"Do you really think you could beat me pixie?" He laughed raising his hands ready to fire.
He looked right at me his eyes wide. I held my breath and tried not to move but the branch I was sitting on apparently didn't hear the rules because it began to creak underneath me. It could no longer stand my weight and it began to creak.
I felt the branch begin to tear from the tree I had no choice but to jump. I leapt from the branch trying to land as silently as I could but a large snap sounded from the place I landed. A pain lit me like nothing I had ever felt before.
"Who goes there?" He screamed looking around and waving his dragon headed staff in the air before resting his eyes in the spot where I landed he continued shining a green light near me illuminating me in its soft green glow, "show yourself!" He roared a twinge of fear and a pinch of anger in his voice.
I scrunched my face up and used the tree beside me for support and turned to face him. "Who do you think I am?" I screeched at him balling my hands in fists.
He almost dropped his staff as he stared at me his eyes open so wide I was surprised his eye balls didn't pop out. It was almost comical. "Who are you shadow creäture?" He screamed waving his staff.
My heart fluttered in fear, "I'm not a shadow!" I yelled back, "why do you keep calling me that!" Anger rushed through my ears, my heart pulsated at the thought of being a creepy shadowy creäture.
"Yes, yes you are!" He yelled sending a bolt of yellowed light at me throwing me to the ground on contact. I looked at my hands and my feet in the low green light my vision swimming and my head spinning. My brow furrowed in confusion. My hands were wisps of shadow, "What?" I gasped looking at them and watching shadowy flames flicker off of them.
The wizard ran towards me as I began to close my eyes. He leaned over me holding the staff at my throat as I muttered the last words I could find, "What's happening to me?"
I stood using all my strength and threw a giant fire dragon spell at Darkar and sent him flying away the ultimate power still hanging in the air throbbing in a way that showed the imminence amount of energy it withheld. So close it was and yet so far. He laid on the ground obviously nearly powerless. Just when I was about to destroy Darkar forever I was thrown into a nearby still standing pillar. My body smashed into it at such a quick rate that I passed clean through it.
I stifled a cry and tried to move but, I was paralyzed from the stomach down. I couldn't move anything. I cried out struggling to gain control and to at least move.
A shadow of a man appeared in my vision walking closer to me. He leaned in towards me and kneeled putting his hand on my head and turning it to face him. I groaned and he laughed wickedly. "Don't touch me!" growled struggling to move away from him only to move my pinky finger.
Baltor just laughed, "you know you never should have trusted me." He laughed.
"Traitor!" I spit out hitting him in the eye, "you lied to me!" Tears began to build in my eyes my heart-felt torn into two. I felt so betrayed and somehow I was angry. I was angry at myself for actually trusting the wizard standing before me.
"I never lied I just didn't reveal my true intentions." He said laughing as he leaned down and hissed it into my ear. Anger rose into my body pumping from my heart and into my veins. The emotion gave me strength. It gave me courage.
Anger surged inside me my fist clenched in anger I pulled myself up with the new found strength surging in my body I realized I could move again and I pulled my hands up and sent Baltor flying through the air. He felt to the ground gasping in pain,
"I never trusted you!" I screamed waving my fist in the air and pounding into him not caring if my punches and kicks looked desperate. No one was watching.
I looked around distraught and saw the portal and I knew exactly where I was going. I ran to the portal and was instantly transported to Alfea knowing that at least for now the ultimate power was safe in my hands in the small golden jewelry box that was still in my pocket from that beautiful palace I had found in my self conscious. I walked to the grounds before falling into darkness the last thing I remember is Flora catching me. She just came out of nowhere.
I woke up to voices around me. I could see the faces of people wiz past me mumbling about wanting to know who I was and why I had been in the forest. I tried to shift my gaze to the left where most voices came from but, I stopped in the first second as pain lit my neck in flames. I gasped in the pain trying hard not to notice the hard tug of unconsciousness that was hitting my eyelids and soon I was swallowed into the darkness again.
I woke up a few more times. It could have been weeks or months I didn't know .I went in and out of the darkness but, some how each time I woke up the pain was less and less. I remember vaguely seeing an elderly woman by my side but, each time I tried to focus on her it all went blurry and my head started to ache.
Occasionally the old woman would say things to me when she thought I was still in what I had taken to calling the shadowy place. I never really understood what she was trying to say. Her words brought comfort to me and left me with a tingling feeling of warmth.
The final time that I woke up it felt different from all the other times that I had awakened from the shadowy place. This time the pain was gone and I didn't feel tired anymore. In fact I felt more awake than I had ever been in my 'lifetime'. The old woman was at my side once again staring at me I wondered if she ever left my side when I went unconscious. I like to think that she never left my side.
"I think she's waking up for good this time!" The old woman called over to people I couldn't see. My head began to pound as six other people came to my side followed by a certain limping red-head that I knew way to well. Looking at her now it was like looking in a mirror. I took the time to study the hard lines of her face and realized how much older she looked now that she had fought many villains. You could say I respected her a little more now and I no longer thought to underestimate her.
"Where am I? What happened?" I muttered barely clinging to stay conscious as another wave of sleepiness hit me.
"You passed out and have been unconscious for three weeks waking up every now and then." Mrs. Faragonda, the old woman in my memories, said, "you see when you took over Bloom's body you ripped your soul into two and when Bloom became whole after escaping the prison you put her in, you became the last piece of soul the other half you might say. As for you passing out it is because a soul can not be separated from the body for long or else it will begin to wither away into nothingness. A mere shadow you could say." She explained.
"What about Darkar?" I asked anger filling my heart at the news that I would never be free. I will always belong to the red head.
"Already in custody of the Magix officials along with Baltor." Bloom, my other half, said looking at me sympathetically.
"You're not going to make me go back are you?" I asked sitting up getting ready to bolt if they did.
"No you see we can't force you to join your other half you must go willingly and become one with the other forever." Faragonda said sighing.
"I don't want to go back!" I moaned leaning into the bed going further down sinking half way under the covers.
"Why?" Bloom asked me waving her hands in the air.
"Because don't you see I want to live my life not be a lost soul stuck in the back of your head I'm sick of being there and not being there at the same time. See you don't know what it feels like when no one even notices you're gone!" I screamed at her.
"Mrs. Faragonda isn't there some way you can make them into separate bodies?" Flora asked.
"Perhaps I do know of a potion that could sustain her but it would have to be okay with both of you." Faragonda said looking at me and bloom.
We both nodded our heads in a yes. As Faragonda headed out of the room the other six followed her out the door to help her with the potion. Bloom looked at me and asked, "why don't you want to be with me and become united as one body?"
"Because I was one body once until you came along Vanessa and Mike loved you. They began to sit with you by the fire on winter nights and sing you lullaby they forgot all about me they didn't even know I was there!" I screamed.
"What do you mean when i came along?" Bloom asked me looking a little off.
"When Mike brought you home from the fire that day a light lit up in their eyes and do you know what it was? Do you? I asked my fists shaking at my sides angrily.
"I-It was love wasn't it?" Bloom asked after a moment of silence.
"They never looked at me like that so on Christmas I came into your room and tried to destroy you once and for all with my magic but, Mike stopped me and held me back. In the struggle to hold me from you the knife got lodged in my heart and I-I.." The words i wanted to say choked in my throat.
"You died." Bloom said moving over to me and hugging me. I hadn't been hugged like that in years. The hug was filled with the warmth that I missed so much. Tears fell down from my eyes and leaked down my cheeks. I quickly wiped them off and regained my expressionless face.
I pushed her away. "Don't touch me!" I screamed pushing her away, "After I died I was a lone spirit and I waited for them to mourn for my loss but they didn't they went on like nothing happened. They just pretended like you were the only child the had ever had. When the neighbors asked where I went they pretended like they never knew who I was. So in a desperate attempt to be noticed and loved I came into you and clung on to your soul occasionally fighting to get control, succeeding and destroying all that was around me."
"I'm so sorry." Bloom said.
The doors slammed open and Faragonda came in with a bottle in her hand. It was a funny looking purple liquid held in a glass vial. She handed it to me and i took it in one shadowed hand I was about to drink it when I stopped inches from my mouth it clung. I threw the bottle on the floor and leapt up from the bed. I walked over to Bloom. "All is forgiven." I whispered and took her hand in mine and let her and I become one once again.
I'm sad to see this go, It has been a really good adventure and it was lots of fun to write I hope to rewrite some of these chapters some day and make them longer and better described and I hope to see your reviews and read what you think and yes I know it is a little rushed and I'm sorry about that, please review and Thanks for your support throughout this story!