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Chapter 39: Dreamweaver

Max ran towards the fire. He could hear others yelling for him, Tyson and Ray to stop, but hell they didn't understand! He was still in there. And then, the bomb exploded. The Abbey disappeared in white light, Max could feel the heat in his face and lifted his arms to protect his eyes.

Max opened his eyes and sat up in the chair. He blinked and tried to focus on his surroundings. It was dark outside, the only light came from the lamp on the table. A man sat beside him. Max gasped as he saw who it was.

"Kai?"

The man jumped, and nearly fell of his chair. "Wh...Max? Dude, how could you scare med like that!? Its dangerous you know!"

Max sighed. It wasn't Kai, it was Gryff. Why did they have to look so mutch alike! "Sorry, Gryff. How long have I've been sleeping?"

"'Couple of hours. I didn't have the heart to wake you up." Max smirked and stretched. He looked up at the clock on the wall. Gryff looked at him. "Dont worry, Max. Theres still a couple of hours before we'll have to get ready."

"What about Kai? Is he here yet?" Gryff shook his head. "Nope, but he'll come. I know he will."

"Yeah..." Max rose, walked over to the sinc and slashed some water in his face. He was warm, like he'd actually been there in the dream.

"Have you talked to him?"

Max turned around slowly. "What do you mean?" He could see Gryff frown, and put the gun inside his jacket. "You know what I mean. You had a dream, I could see it."

"He wasn't even in the dream. It was just...yeah, a dream...nightmare."

Gryff snorted, but didn't ask anymore questions. Max looked out the window. "Where's everyone, by the way?"

"Not here. I think Tyson and Ray are upstairs, Tala and those guys are keeping an eye on the Abbey, and God knows where Loki is. Not that I care..."

"And Runa?"

Gryff froze. "Ehm...not sure...I guess she's outside or something."

Max yawned and walked out of the kitchen. He felt so tired! Like he hadn't slept for a week. Out in the hall, he stopped. A sudden feeling made him nervous. Max leaned on the stair rail and tried to figure out what it was. For a moment Max was sure he'd heard a faint sound. Maybe it was all in his head? 'Couse, you know, that was where everything seemed to happen these days, with his dreams and stuff. Max decided to stop thinking about it, and continued up the stairs. Up in the hallway he could hear voices talking. They sounded so distant, like he was moving away from them, and not closer. Max frowned. Only a moment ago, he'd been standing right outside the room where Tyson and Ray were, but suddenly he was back downstairs again! Max couldn't even remember walking down the stairs. 'This is just too weird,' he thought.

He was just about to walk upstairs again, when this feeling once again came to him. But this time he understood what it was. Someone was looking at him. Someone he couldn't see.

"Hallo?" he tried. No one answered. But he was sure that something was out of the ordinary. A brief second he felt something move behind him, and turned around to see. Max had to bite his lip so he wouldn't scream. Now, I guess you belive he saw something wery scary and stuff, but not really! On the wall in front of him hang a framed photograph. It looked like it'd been taken in Russia, because Max recognized the mountains in the background as the same you could see from the road where Kai disappeared. But there was something moving in the other end of the road, like someone came walking towards him.

Max stood there for a long time, watching the person coming closer and closer. He couldn't have moved even if he wanted to.

'How long have I actually been here?' Kai thought and looked out the window. It felt like days, maybe weeks? Would it ever stop snowing at all?! Kai rolled his eyes and leaned his head in his hands. He was exhausted and desperat. This place seemed to drive him crazy. He kept asking himself all these weird questions without answers.

It was nearly like last christmas when all this started. Now too he saw things! Like that mirror upstairs, it was like his own reflection changed by every time he looked into it. Like he was about to become somebody else. Kai smiled of that thought. It was kind of true actually. Something in his eyes had changed dramatically. They didn't look so dark and cold anymore. 'I guess that's a good thing', he thought.

He looked down at the pile of books in front of him. One of them, the one right in front of him, was his grandfathers journal. Kai lifted it up, like he'd done so many times before, and looked at the first page. 'Son of a bitch,' he thought, and threw it back into the pile.

A thick, black book fell on the floor. Kai sighed and bent down to pick it up, but froze as he saw the title. This was a journal too. His fathers journal. Kai frowned, but opened it and looked at the first pages. It looked like his father had started to write quite early, eight or nine years maybe. Kai found a page, and started to read.

11th of April 1976

Dear Diary.

I'm turning 18 soon. I can't say I'm not nervous. Everything seems so hard you know? They expect so mutch from me, and I don't think I can make that. I don't know how to make my father proud of me. All he's doing these days is writing and working! I just don't understand. He's not like other fathers, that I've noticed, but it feels like he don't even know I'm here. I just wish that there was something I could do.

Kai looked up in wonder. He had never really thought about how life had been for his dad. And it was weird reading about it like this. He turned some pages and read. His fathers world became clearer and clearer by every page.

2th of September 1982

Dear Diary.

I had this weird dream last night. I have no idea why I saw what I saw, but it's a pain in the ass, walking around and thinking about that all day. I didn't see wery mutch, but I am sure that there was a fire, a building was on fire. And it's weird, but I just knew that someone i cared for was trapped inside! In my dream I tried to run inside to help whoever it was, but someone grabbed me and held me back. Weird huh? Well, I guess I'll never know anything more, so I can just as mutch forget it.

Kai sighed. It was getting late, the sky turned darker and darker. He was just about to fall asleep, when he recognized a name.

18th of December 1982

Dear Diary.

Two of my best friends died today. The police still don't know how, but they say they'll get the answer next week. It's so quiet her, no one's talking to each other anymore, and by good reasons. I do think I have an idea what's going on though. I think it's time for the phoenix to fly. To finally be free like it's meant to be. I'll do what I can, maybe I can prevent this from happenning. I don't want anything to happen to anyone else! I want Anya to go to school, for Kai to do what he's always been dreaming about. I'm scared. Something is happening, and I've never been more terrefied. I wish Ravn was here. But I'll never see him again, that mutch I know. I think the only thing I can do now is hoping for something better.

Kai looked up from the diary. He had to read the page twice just to be sure he hadn't read wrong. A strong feeling filled him. 'They...died?', he though. 'But...I thought Ravn and Karin just disappeared! That they never were found. But then...how can they be here now?!' The memories of Black Dranzer, how Voltaire made the bitbeast create pictures and sounds in their heads just to drive the insane, came back to him.

The kitchen-door opened, and Karin enteren. She stretched and walked over to the sinc. "Hi, Kai. What are you doing?"

Kai just stared at her. He couldn't come up with anything to say. Karin looked at him with concerned eyes. "Honey? Something wrong?"

He blinked, and placed the diary on the top of the pile of books. "No!" he said, a bit too quickly. Karin raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything more. Kai started to sweat. He had to get away! He had to get back! But how? He couldn't just run into the snow, he'd freeze to death! Kai took a deep breath, and tried to make as less noise as he could, as he rose from the chair and took a few steps towards the backdoor. He looked back over his shoulder, and saw that Karin had started to clean the desk. He slowly opened the door. For a brief secound he saw Ravn right in front of him, before something wery hard hit him over his head.

It was like watching a movie. The dark shade came closer and closer by every second. Max just stood there, waiting. A sound behind him made him turn around. Ray and Tyson stood on the bottom of the stairs, looking at him.

"Dude, you've been standing there for several minutes!" Tyson said. He looked a bit concerned. Max tried to say something, but it was like his voice just wouldn't work. In stead he looked back at the photograph. The road was gone. The only thing that filled the frame was the person, whho had finally reached him. Max was just about to take a few steps backwards, but suddenly, a long, black arm shot out of the photograph and reached out for him.

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