Altar of Awakening
VII
Sora stopped running when he felt nothing but the darkness surround him. He decided that he should probably keep going, but in what direction? 'I guess I keep going forward…' he took his next step and a bright light flashed. Sora quickly covered his eyes expecting something to happen to him but when nothing did he opened his eyes and looked around.
"Wow…" was all he could say. The walls were a stunning white with black cracks running through them which somehow made the room colder. The book shelf that she had talked about was half empty and by a large window that showed a view of bright stars. He walked over to inspect the books, but most of them looked like their pages were missing.
"Sora, this way," A voice said while a light illuminated a set of stairs that went down into the darkness.
He wasn't afraid of the voice but was curious as to where it had come from. "Hello?" Sora looked down into the darkness but couldn't catch a glimmer of anything.
"We've been waiting. Come down and see us. Listen to us…" the voice beckoned.
"What is this…" he felt a strange energy coming from the darkness but started walking down the stairs anyways. He noticed something else coming us along the rails and jumped back. White thorns branches were creeping up the railing and started to build a dense clump in front of him.
"Sora, listen. To stop them you have to bring her in. Be sure that she doesn't…" He started backing up towards the door when the voices began to fade and the thorns started creeping towards him.