"Tessa." I heard a soft voice say.

I was standing in the middle of the new room I had and right in front of me I saw the statue.

"Tessa, my daughter, wake up from your slumber."

"I'm not sleeping." I responded.

"Open your eyes." I rubbed my eyes to make sure they were open and I saw a light at the corner of my vision. I turned to see the statue, but in life form.

"Nyx?" I asked. This couldn't be her.

"Yes my daughter. You are in a dream and I am here to help you."

"Help me with what?"

"I need to teach you how to read others dreams." She motioned me to go to a door that wasn't there before. Her long white hair rapped around my body and tickled my face. I could taste her love on my tongue. Wait taste her love?

"This is all really new to me Nyx."

"Just be calm now the only way to summon this door is to call it."

"Call it what do you mean it's right there?"

"Did you see it when you were in your room?"

"No,"

"It's because you didn't call it it's invisible that's why Kirsten didn't put anything there." I didn't even realize it.

"Okay, well, come out of hiding…door." I said.

It reveled it's self scarily. I was pretty shocked.

"Good, now let's open it." So I put my hand on the knob and opened it, and guess what, it was pitch black. Like I swear if I took one step I would never stop falling.

"Call a name." Nyx said.

"Dimitri." It was the first word to come into my mind.

I suddenly saw him running through a forest, a dark forest. There was nothing behind him, but darkness. Was that what he was running from? Then an opening from the end of the forest reviled a light, a bright light. It was me. Wait what? A smile crept to his face and he ran to me.

I closed my eyes and shook my head; I couldn't watch this. When I opened my eyes again I saw darkness the picture was gone.

"That's all you have to do." Nyx said.

I awoke.

"Omigod." I whispered.

The room was full of light; the sun was out.

"Tessa!"

"AAAAAAAAAAA!!!" I screamed and jumped out of the bed. The black night gown they gave me twisted and turned and my hair was everywhere.

"O, I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you, but come on we need to go!" said an unfamiliar voice.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"No time for questions." She ran over to me and swooped me in her arms. Her blonde curly hair and blue perfect eyes shut me up.

"I am Aphrodite, Love Keeper, I will tell you more later." She put me down grabbed my hand and we began to run.

We ran down hallways as tall as skyscrapers. They would be like something you find at church. Paintings on the ceilings and it was dark, really dark; the only thing lighting the hallway was scented candles.

"Where are we going?" I asked in between breaths. My voice echoed off the walls.

"We are going to the stadium, or what Anthern calls it, the sanctuary. He is going to sacrifice a human." What?!

"Who is it?"

"Some boy, don't worry it's not your human friend. It's another boy who found us. We are going to talk about that later." Okay that's good.

She was still grabbing my hand while we ran down flights of stares that went in a spiral. I swear I thought I saw an elevator though. I kept tripping on my night gown and my socks kept slipping on the cold stone steps. Finally I saw an opening at the bottom of the steps.

We showed up in a huge room that did look like a gymnasium, but carpeted and it had a huge statue of Nyx in the middle of the whole place. There were candles everywhere and CATS! Like a whole bunch of cats in different colors and shapes. They were soooo cute!

"Come on, Tessa." Aphrodite said.

We started down a hallway were every person was at. Way up in front I saw two men.

"Tessa Clifton nice for you to join us, come up here." It was one of the men at the front, and he was shouting over all the noise.

"Go on." Aphrodite pushed.

I started heading up and all the faces kept staring at me and not just staring, but glaring. They were whispering and pointing fingers.

"I am Anthern the ruler of this house and the Royal Court. I know you are knew here and you don't have any idea what are rules are, but next time were regular clothes." I looked around the room and no one was wearing regular clothes. They were like the gothic clothing from my closet, and there hair had different color streaks in it.

"You're about to witness your first sacrifice today, and to honor you as our new guest you could watch close up. Are you ready?" I didn't say anything; I couldn't even take my eyes away from the man on his knees, hands tied behind back and head leaning over bucket. I couldn't tell if it was sweat or tears that were running down his face, but there was wetness there. He looked up at me with large brown eyes and forgiveness all over his face.

"I want you to kiss him Tessa." Anthern spoke.

"What?!"

"This is how the sacrifice goes I pick one woman or man, depending on the sacrifice, because I am the Chooser, out of all these women and men, and they kiss the sacrifice with the kiss of peace so that they go peacefully. Go on now Tessa." I looked into the man's eyes again and I couldn't resist. I bent down on one knee and gently pressed my lips to his. Right there in front of everybody I felt a huge wave of relief go from my body to his. Then everything felt calm. I broke my kiss from him and he had a goofy smile on his face and his eyes seemed distant. I smiled and spoke:

"Have a safe trip my little human." It wasn't my voice though. It sounded like the woman from my dreams, Nyx.

Anthern smiled lifted his ax and slammed it into the man's head. I felt the scream from deep in my throat at the sight of the human head. I felt tears run down my cheeks as I fell back to my knees.

A/N: hoped you like this chapter :D

next one is already thought up in my head.

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Labrynth-of-Dreams