Chapter Eighteen

Now it was quite odd for Elijah to admit something. Especially to me or Josiah.

He must've been very willing to change back to one person again.

I honestly didn't know how to get them back as one person again, but I tried to be helpful.

Elijah looked at Josiah.

"I'm sorry. I mean it. I'm sorry for being jealous of you, for nearly killing you multiple times, for hating you, you're my brother after all and we shouldn't fight like this. I'm sorry," said Elijah.

Josiah smiled.

"I'm sorry for always acting better than you. After all, we both are the same in the end," said Josiah.

I felt like crying.

But nothing happened.

"Why?-" started Rufus, who I almost forgot about.

Rufus was able to break free from the human's grip and walk over to me.

The human didn't bother to stop him since he knew I was powerful.

Just then I watched as Josiah and Elijah both lifted their hand at the same time and their indexed fingers met at the same time.

"This is it," said Josiah.

"I'm ready," said Elijah.

Just then a form of twisted logic began, as if it were all a dream.

The room around me was spinning and I heard voices from all of the original Seven Saviors.

There were illusions of Melathiah smiling saying "I'm proud of you," and Ephraim being his typical idiotic self.

I saw Elvira and Jeremiah living a normal mortal life and how happy they were together.

I saw Josiah and Elijah become separated by a mirror, as if Elijah were looking into a mirror and saw Josiah as his reflection.

Rufus and I grabbed each others hand and held on.

I saw the Elijah's mortal human friend be sucked up by a tornado and was carried away back to the surface.

Then I saw Josiah and Elijah as two separate people but were slowly combining into one.

I then saw an illusion of myself with my old family.

That was the worst illusion.

I saw how happy my siblings were when they grew up, and how much they all missed me.

Mom and Dad lived a long time and thought about me often.

They wasted their entire life wondering about me.

Tears rolled down my face.

"I don't understand this," said Rufus.

I did.

Then I saw my brother speak to me.

"Melanie!" he said.

It was him as the way I last saw him, a little kid.

"Hi," I said.

"We miss you, please come home. Where are you? Are you happy?" he asked.

"I can't come home. I'm living a new life now. I'm happy here but I miss you all," I said.

"Okay. Maybe I'll see you again. I love you!" he said.

Then the illusion disappeared and the next one showed up.

It was all my family - including my old self.

We all just smiled.

"Why is this happening?" I questioned.

"Regrets," said Rufus.

I then felt someone else grab my other hand.

It was Jeremiah.

He was holding onto my and Elvira's hand.

We all watched the memories go by.

Many of them were visions of what all our lives could've been if Melathiah never found us…or Jeremiah.

The final illusion was of me.

I was wearing my favorite outfit I wore on my first day in the cave.

"Hey, you'd better know who I am. I'm just here to let you know that you made a good choice to live in the cave. Today you are about to save the world, as you may know, during these 'twisted logic' moments you are seeing now, the world is exploding. It's time to put this all to an end. Go for it, Melanie," said the illusion of me.

I didn't realize the world was exploding.

I did have to do something.

I let go of Jeremiah's hand and grabbed the necklace Melathiah gave me.

I yanked it off my neck and held it up in the air.

"Come on…work…," I mumbled.

I used all my mental power to get the oddly colored stone to light up, and finally it did.

"Yeah!" I cheered.

The gem on the necklace glowed and all the illusions and logic disappeared and was sucked into the gem.

After several moments of holding up the gem, all was quiet.

I found myself lying on the ground in the Zylphia cave.

"How in the Hell?" questioned Rufus.

"We're home!" yelled Elvira.

She started crying from happiness.

A tear escaped from my eye too.

"Um…according to the map, this is our only location," said Rufus.

"What happened to the one in Japan?…and China? Or even Antarctica?" asked Elvira.