Chapter 10: Light

I gasped, and sat up quickly, my heart pounding against my rib's, my breathing uneven. God, that was a horrible experience, I had practically clawed my way back into reality, after being trapped in there for what seem's eternity. As my heart beat slowed to a more steady pace, I quickly examined where I was, squinting slightly as the room had the curtain's drawn. With a flick of my wrist, the window's slammed open, and with a click of my finger's, the curtain's was reduced to a pile of ash. Relishing in the natural light, I took deep breath's, trying to fill my lung's with clean, fresh air.

With the sunlight pouring in through the window's, I could see my surrounding's much more clearer. I was fortunately in my room, and my silk sheet's pooled around me, covering my lower body. Looking down on myself, I saw my clothes are in a horrible state, completely charred and ripped. I quickly took care of that problem, changing into a simple top and baggy jean's, paired with a scarf and my boot's. Tightening my sword to my belt, I felt complete, like I was a jigsaw puzzle, and I had just placed the last piece. With a small smile, I decided to test my power's, because I'm slightly rusty.

With a simple click, I was gone.

I pressed my body to the corner, quickly peeking to see Hannah and Lewis talking worriedly. Knowing that the two was in a relationship, I wanted to do some mischief before they figure out I'm awake. I look down at my hand's, glowing a slight green and seemed to be made out of plant's, I grabbed the air and sharply pulled downward's, seeing a nearby pot-plant react to my command. It slowly grew, the vine's creeping down into the floorboard's.

As the two people walked, small cherry tree's started growing out of the wall's, the pink petal's floating down slowly, causing them to stop in awe. The vine's reappeared in-front of them, binding together to create a small archway, and slowly pushing them forward's. They obeyed, and soon reached a room which has began to be reclaimed by nature. To stunned to speak, they watched as the vine's slowly pulled apart the brick's, breaking window's, creating a big hole in the centre wall. Sunlight poured in, bathing them in it's soft glow, as they stood, staring at each new leaf, each new tree.

Quickly, the vine's had consumed most of the room, leaving only small traces of marble and wallpaper. Reaching up, it created a small bench, lightly tugging on their clothes, as if asking them to sit down. They did, and looked out of the hole, at the beauty of the outside world, which most have forgotten. Turning to speak to each-other, their eye's softened, and Lewis leaned in, planting a soft kiss on Hannah's lip's.

Happy at my plan's success, I left the two love-birds alone, moving onto my next victim- I mean friend. This time I intended to play this in a more tactical way, I must keep each plan separate, and improvise if need's be.

Anyway, my next goal lie's with Sip's and Sjin. These two are well known for their pranks, and I feel like I should give them a taste of their own medicine. Smirking, I now had to dress up in a very particular way, one that involve's some chain's, some blood, and a really ghostly dress...

Teleporting to them, my outfit complete, I scanned the library for any other Yog's. Confident that the coast was clear, my hand's changed from that green, earthy glow, to a slightly transparent, wispy thing. Peering behind some bookcases, I noticed they were chatting quietly to each other, with a occasional laugh or giggle. If only they knew what's coming. I started by dragging my hand's along a invisible wall, making each book silently leak ink.

Unknown to the two men, the ink was trickling down the shelves, creating small pool's in the floorboard's. When the men finally noticed, they jumped to their feet, instantly running for the door. Unfortunately for them the ink had beat them too it, covering the whole door in a black, gooey slime. They clung to each-other, eye's as wide as saucer's. Time to get funky...

The ink mutated, building up into a figure, "Sjin..." It said, as it opened it's two eye's, one purple, one a hazel brown.

"Kim?" Asked Sjin, "W-what... what happened?"

"I'm free now... Freed by her..."

Before he could ask more question's, another figure appeared, it's eye's a bright green. "Sip's... join us... to be set free..."

The man didn't budge a inch, staying firmly in place next to Sjin, though he was shaking from obvious fear.

More figure's appeared, chanting "Join us", their eye's the only bit of colour in the library that has now been completely overrun by the ink.

Then I appeared, all in my majestic ghostly-ness. I had changed my skin colour to a dull white, my eye's sunken, my hair in a tangled mess.

"Join us..." I said, a creepy smile slowly appearing on my face. "This ink... it will set you free!" With a final maniacal laugh, I dove forward as they flinched back, screaming.

Just before I collided with them, I teleported back, all the ink and people gone. The men lay in-front of me, both unconscious. Bent double laughing, I tried to compose myself, failing horribly. After a couple of minutes, I had placed them onto the chair's they were sitting on, like they had fallen asleep. That was extremely fun, I now see why these people pull these pranks, the look on their face's was priceless!

Shaking my head slightly, I made my quick escape, leaving nothing that showed that I was there.

"Your having a merry old time, aren't you?"

I didn't jump, but carried on walking. "Hello to you to Ridge, darn it! I could have done a awesome prank on you yah know."

He let out a chuckle. "Too bad I destroyed your plan's."

I grinned, looking back at the floating demi-god. "Not all of them!" I jumped and grabbed his arm, teleporting us both to a different part of the mansion. He blinked, still not completely familiar to the queer sensation of being zapped to another place at the speed of light.

I placed my finger to my lips, pointing my finger around the corner. We both leaned out, seeing Rythian and Duncan arguing about god know's what. I quickly tapped some morse-code, Ridge nodded, disappearing with a small "whoop". I slowly walked behind Rythian, Ridge appearing again at my side. We walked for around five minutes without them suspecting a thing, before Duncan finally looked behind him. With a shout of surprise, he jumped back, staring at both of us in a matching "Ridge-coat". Rythian raised a eyebrow as we both looked at each-other in silence.

"To be or not to be," I said,

"That is the question." Finished Ridge.

"What are you saying?" Asked Duncan eventually, tilting his head in confusion.

"I'm saying there's always a choice,"

"-But there's not always the right choice," Ridge said.

"What?" Rythian exclaimed.

"Why do you ask "what?","

"When the delicious question is "when?","

"Lives. Lived. Will live."

"Dies. Died. Will die."

"This is so confusing..." Muttered Duncan, and Rythian nodded in agreement.

"Hmm, surprising."

"Surprising that they didn't get it?"

"Surprising that they haven't died."

"But this information can come in handy."

"IF, it doesn't kill you."

"A Fair point."

Then we both teleported away, trying to stop us both from laughing, as they stood there, confused.

Once they left, I couldn't take it any-more. I burst out laughing, closely followed by Ridge.

"That... that was just pure gold!" I declared in-between my attempts to stop laughing. Sighing, I leaned against a window ledge, looking at the field's that stretched for miles.

"Never put you down as the crazy, mischievous one." Ridge said, leaning next to me.

"I have my moment's." I replied, still smiling. "Look, let's find everybody and I'll explain everything." Grabbing his hand, I dragged him down the hall-way, not seeing his startled expression, which soon melted into a content smile.

We soon rounded up everyone in one of the many living rooms.

"I have no regret's on my little plan's, but on the more serious side, I'm alive again!" Everyone let out a small cheer. "Tomorrow we are going to focus on figuring out the complicated thing that is tied to this world, and eventually change you guy's back. But for now... can you maybe show me what a "movie" is? I've never seen one and they sound really cool!"

"Movie time!" Someone shouted, and we all laughed. Most people instantly started choosing movie's on this thing called "Netflix", while some, like me, just sat down in the various couches and seat's in the room. Huddled in some blanket's, I spin my finger, creating some "popcorn" which they traditionally eat while watching.

After around 5 movie's, everyone was either sound asleep or drifting off. Looking around with hooded eye's, I quickly teleported everyone to their room's, before getting up and walking to mine. I was too tired to teleport, and I needed to stretch my leg's.

"Hey, Freya!" Said Ridge, jogging slightly to catch up with me. "You still owe me a room you know!"

I looked back at him sleepily. "Just sleep with me for tonight, I'm to tiiired..." I yawned, "The bed's massive, so don't worry about space..."

He blushed slightly but nodded, walking slowly beside's me. Once we got to the room, I didn't bother to change out of my top and baggy trouser's, and fell onto the bed. "You can sleep on that side..." I muttered, yanking the sheet's over me. I felt the bed sink a-little as I slowly drifted off to sleep.

"Night Freya..." He mummbled.

"Night Ridge..." I replied.

May your dream's be sweet tonight...

Authors Notes:

I Did this chapter as a sorry for the previous one, reading over it I'm banging my head on the wall, it was just so... ugh. I'm pretty sure I was half asleep when I wrote this, and wasted most of my time looking at fan-art... whoops...

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Signing out,

Deceptive Chrysalis