"Terra..." A mysterious voice called my name with a haunting tone. I opened my eyes, but saw nothing...nothing but the darkness that surrounded me. But the voice continued to talk to me as an apparition appeared before me...Kefka.
"I know you...you're perfectly fine...just like everyone else, and the child. The child..." He looked down, smiling wickedly, sending a chill throughout my spiritual body. He looked back up at me suddenly and laughed...his laughter echoing on and on. "The child is a perfect subject to get you all here. Taunt her in her dreams for eternity until you and your friends finally make your way here. If you make your make to my tower once more, the girl's horrendous dreams will cease...and I'll let her live, I promise." He snickered as he stepped closer to me. "But...if you don't...the girl's nightmares will turn her into a paranoidal, husk of a shell...until she can no longer take it and she takes her own precious life." My fears were founded...Kefka was using Relm to get us to him. He then vanished in a puff of smoke, laughing manically as I awoke from my dream.
I opened my eyes to find Locke hanging over beside me and Shadow and Strago standing in front. I looked around and gave a sigh of relief for I was awake, but when I looked towards the bed and saw Relm still asleep, I jumped out of my spot, startling the others, and I rushed to Relm's side. I started shaking her trying to wake her up when Shadow came to my side and grabbed my arms.
"What are you doing, Terra?!" He looked at me, frustrated, but I only looked back with panic, making him worry. I tore my arms from his grasp and tried waking Relm again.
"She has to be woken up, now! Before it's too late and she..." Before I could finish my sentence, Relm groaned and opened her eyes. I smiled but then frowned when Relm cried out for Shadow. Shadow sat down beside her and she fall into his arms.
"Daddy, they aren't gone! They aren't...!" She cried out, sobbing into Shadow's chest. Shadow held her tightly, almost crying himself.
"They're worst..." I claimed, but Relm shook her head yes proving me right. I looked away ashamed...I was too late. Locke came to my side and touched my shoulder.
"How do you know this, Terra?" I sat down beside Shadow and Locke kneeled in front of the bed while Strago sat on the couch closest to us. I explained my dream, and as I did, Relm gasped several times, crying harder into her father's chest.
"So...he is back? And he's using Relm to get us to him?" Locke thought to himself. He then got up and walked over to the wall, staring at it for several seconds before hitting it with his right fist.
"Locke!" I shouted at him, astonished at what he just did. Locke turned towards us again, tears falling down his face.
"How dare Kefka use a child like this!" Locke kicked his foot against the ground before returning to kneeling in front of the bed. "I'm sorry..."
"No, don't be, you only care about me. Thank you..." Relm stopped hugging Shadow and leaned over to hug Locke quickly before she returned to leaning against Shadow's chest.
"Now what?" Strago asked, a bit of doubt and hopelessness in his voice. I got up, slipped past Locke, and walked over to the desk, grabbing a couple of papers and a quill.
"I'm writing to the others...we need their help to defeat Kefka once more, and forever." I turned to look at the others and saw them all smiling. Locke got up and joined me at the desk.
"I'll write to some to hurry it up."
"I can go and find the mail delivery man." Strago suggested, standing up from the couch, hope returning to his voice. I smiled, so he rushed out the door as quickly as he could with a happy smile on his face.
"Can you stay here with me?" Relm asked Shadow, who smiled and nodded, slightly rocking Relm in his lap as Interceptor jumped up onto the bed beside them and whined. With Locke's help, we got the letters done twice as fast, and just in time as Strago came back with the mail delivery man. As he left with the letters, we hoped for them all to get to them and quickly.
"So...how long do you think it's going to take for all the mail to reach them?" Shadow wondered, concerned for his daughter.
"I don't know..." Locke affirmed, but then he smiled, raising his fist into the air. "But we can get Setzer here, and as the letters make their way to everyone, so will we!"