I am EXTREMELY sorry for the major delays of my chapters! I have alot on my plate at the moment and next week are my exams. I will be absent till NEXT monday as I need to really study hard for these tests. I thank you all for reading and supporting me, ESPECIALLY Jace! Couldn't have made it this far without you! You've motivated me every since my first book up until now! Once again, THANK YOU!
Sorry if this chapter is kinda off and bad... I promise to make it up after my exams! Thanks!
Chapter Twenty Four: Dream To Reality
White's POV
I couldn't move... All I could do was watch. I had no emotion. I couldn't say a word... I couldn't even move... My body was frozen. Held by invisible chains of suffering as all of my surroundings was nothing but black with glowing blue and yellow as the only light. My eyes moved on their own. I breathed deeply and my heart beat as steady as a drum... I don't know what was going on nor if this was a dream or not... But either way, I can't do anything...
In the open, I saw Frost, holding me in his arms as he stared deeply into my eyes and I stared back into his light blue and light red ones... Am I dying? Did something had happen to me after I went to sleep? I felt like crying. But I couldn't. It's like I'm paralysed. I couldn't hear anything. Not even the things that Frost mouthed, or seemed to mouth... Tears fled from his amazing white face and rolled down his cheeks, then down onto my senseless face... But why?... Why is he crying?
Suddenly, he grit his teeth slightly, looking up dead ahead of him with an angered, provoked face that yearned for blood and gore... He said something again. And again. And again. But I couldn't make out what... Everything was so silent, yet I could feel a strong sense of fear hovering in the air that we all breathed from... For a brief second, he looked down at me, cringing and letting loose of even more crystal clear, salty tears pour down from his face down onto my paralysed being. He looked back up, gritting his teeth twice as hard, glaring his glistening white teeth as his four K9's stood out like beacons of light... He spoke once again, yelling from the looks of it as he shook his face left and right, causing his messy, jet black spiky hair to dance along with his tears now falling down irregularly. What's gotten into him?... This has to be a dream. A nightmare. A reality...
Suddenly, I heard something. Something that caused my body to react solely without my influence... The sound of a small dagger being pulled out of a hard leather case. That infamous metallic, high pitch scrape. I could now hear Frost's sobbing. It was quiet at first, but then it proceeded to ramp up until my ears managed to recover completely from deafness...
"I won't let you kill White!", Frost exclaimed with anger and frustration, trembling in fear as bitter cold tears that fled from his eyes. Kill me?...
"You are BLACK HEART! You should not bare these feelings towards other people! Let alone a girl like White Heart!", A male, dark, deep demonic voice yelled from my left as I watched Frost's arms tighten around me...
"So what if I'm Black Heart?! That doesn't mean that I can stand to watch her or anyone die!", Frost yelled aloud with a serious face, cringing and gritting his teeth extremely painfully. Frost...
"Nonsense! When you were young and dead, you killed many people! The first was at the age of five! Know yourself!", The voice hissed dangerously in a threatening tone. Frost didn't seem to be effected by the voice and continued to argue with it, like his life was on the line...
"I was dead! There was no such thing as a light to guide me back then! All I cared about was survival!", Frost retaliated... Frost murdered someone at the age of five... Black isn't far from different as well...
"Then what changed you from your blood-lusted self?!", The voice demanded... Frost grunted, pausing and trembling for a good five seconds as I helplessly stared up at him with my blank facial expression. He looked reluctant, all of a sudden. Like he didn't want to answer. But right now, he didn't have a choice.
"White Heart!", He cried aloud... Huh? "The one who woke me up from my calamity! Without her I wouldn't have made it this far!".
"White Crimson?", the voice asked.
"White Heart! Both her AND Mindy!", He exclaimed... Me?... Why me? I never really...
"Disgusting! How could you allow yourself to purify under the influence of your mortal weakness and foe?!", It screamed out, bowstring my eardrums slightly before I suddenly felt myself shake... Huh?
"Because I was once White Heart! Mindy forced me to wake up from my depression and anxiety! Then I gave it to her, not forgetting the feeling of light!", Frost retaliated painfully with passion and anger.
"SILENCE!", The voice boomed as loud as the king of the world, echoing five times in this cursed, forsaken hellhole that wielded nothing but fear and despair. "If this is what you claim, then so be it! Our race will still prevail even IF you don't obligate to us... I beg you farewell, oh Black Heart and White Heart. Rest. In. Peace"... All went black...
"Hey White... And eye for an eye, right?"... Frost?...
Frost's POV
Argh! What kind of a dream was that?... I knew I shouldn't have eaten those sweets before sleeping! Dammit Jace... You really know how to get someone good! I sighed quietly, staring up into the darkness of the pitch black ceiling as the light blue moon shone through an opened window to the far back of the room, two mattresses behind me. We all slept in the same room. A large, kingly sized room that held nothing but evenly separated mattresses and a chess board all the way to he far right, laying messily on the amazingly polished wooden floor. I knew well that that dream meant something. But I couldn't put my finger on it just yet as many different kinds of thoughts invaded my mind... And the one that stood out the most, was the imagery of the kingdom... Completely hesitant to break down the image, I sighed once again, hearing Ruby's sweet, steady breathing from my right which made me smile warmly. She must really miss her mom... And I still have to make up for the time lost during the past few days...
"Frost?", I heard a quiet whisper say from my close left, causing me to blink and react very slowly as my mind failed to comprehend the given situation.
"Yeah?", I whispered back blindly, turning my head towards the left to see a beautiful pair of glowing light red eyes staring back into my light red and light blue eyes. At first I thought it was Chaos, but I then almost immediately spotted the dead give away to who it was. White, silky smooth hair rested to the side of the figure that trembled very slightly in the influence of the cold, midnight air.
"Are you awake?", She asked me. I smiled, holding in the urge to crack up right in front of her, shaking very lightly. White can be so cute sometimes... What am I thinking?...
"Mmm", I hummed to her in a 'yes'.
"Did I disturb you?", She asked quietly.
"No. I just woke up", I replied with a small smile.
"Eh? You too?", She said in awe, staring deeply into my glowing colourful eyes that wielded calmness and rage. "Was it a dream?".
"A nightmare", I instantly said in a warm whisper, blinking once as a cool, short breeze blew in from the wide opened window. Ruby grunted quietly in her sleep to my right as quiet whispers of Melody and Vortex could be heard from far behind me.
White seemed to freeze for a bit, blankly staring into my eyes which brought wonder and confusion to me.
"A tear?", Melody whispered. White blinked at the same time as I did, staring deeply into one another's eyes as she suddenly smiled and closed her eyes lightly, hiding away those glowing light red eyes that reminded me so much about Mindy.
"Yeah. I saw it in the sky earlier today. I'm surprised no one even noticed it", Vortex whispered in her sweet tone of voice to Melody.
White blinked once more, slightly narrowing her eyes and broadening her smile as she stared into my eyes with passion and happiness.
"Is something wrong?", I asked her in a whisper.
She exhaled her warm, fruity breath quietly, suppressing a laugh before she took in a small breath of the cool air and replied.
"No. I was just wondering on how something with something so evil inside of them can have so much light shining out of them", She whispered in a soothing voice that made my eyes widened for a second, forcing my lips to curve upwards into a warm smile that appreciated what she said as I knew exactly who she was referring to.
"I wonder as well...", I began, blushing slightly as realisation hit me as hard as a speeding freight train carrying three megatons of explosives in each cart. Slowly, I turned my face away from hers and looked back to my right, staring at Ruby's adorable sleeping face with a smile. "I think... It's because... Of White Heart"...
"Mmm. Mindy must've been a great help to you", White whispered.
"...I... I was referring to you...", I managed to say in an embarrassed tone, closing my eyes slightly.
"Why me?... I... I mean... I didn't really do m...much to help", White quickly said in an extremely embarrassed tone of voice with stutters here and there.
"Remember back in the Colour Plane? How I was despised by every colour but you?... You gave me hope back then... And it's so strange to have two bodies that share the same memory...", I said... "I mean-".
"I remember...", She interrupted me almost instantly, relieving half of my embarrassment as I let out a warm sigh... "But back then we couldn't talk to each other. Despite that, we managed through even the most toughest of times".
"Those memories are the best...", I whispered in another sigh. "In my male self, I feel like I'm more separated from you than in my female form", I stated... I remember how we'd used to hug all the time and fight to our hearts content without killing one another to pass the time... Damn... I feel like I have two souls inside of my being... Strange.
"I know what you mean, Frost... Say... Do you think it's bothersome?", She asked me in her sweet, innocent tone of voice.
"Impossible...", Melody whispered in awe to Vortex far behind us.
"Very", I replied.
"Hmm... Anyway, goodnight Frost. Don't let the bed bugs bite", She said childishly in a warm voice...
"Night", I simply replied... I think tomorrow's
going to go along greatly... Especially my game of Champion Chess! I wonder who'll my opponent be! And hopefully, I'll be able to debunk what my dream was all about... Loosing an eye and actually feeling it inside of a dream is one hell of an experience...
Frost's POV
This is it! The moment I've been waiting for! My battle in Champion Chess! Last night I practised myself to sleep for thIs day. I take challenges very seriously if they're not biased or rigged. But even so, this was an offer by the second highest command in this monarchy! There's no WAY that I'd back out!
We all walked in an orderly fashion through a pale, glistening marble hallway that gave off eerie reflections of us from all surfaces. Small, candle chandeliers were hung up on the ceiling, attached via a very short iron chain that looked as good as new. I of course, was at the front of the group, leading them towards my battlefield whilst Ruby held onto the back of my jet black shirt tightly. I could see the entrance to the throne room up ahead, really inducing many electrical shocks to vibrate throughout my entire nervous system like an infective virus. It was nerve racking, but also embarrassing for one simple fact... How am I going to tell them that I'm Black? I mean... Argh... Never mind... Thinking about it already gives me the shivers... Let's see how things go!
"Do you have a strategy in mind?", Sapphire asked me calmly from behind. I replied after a good three second pause, looking for the right words to say to her.
"A great one", I replied.
"Will it be able to defeat a grandmaster?", Milk asked... W...what?! A grandmaster?! I gaged, choking on my own breath to what she had just said as my mind literally blanked out... A grandmaster?! What... That guy never mentioned that I'd be up against a grandmaster! Let alone in Champion Chess! Dammit...
"You look pretty drained", Melody chuckled... Why wouldn't I?! A grandmaster, up against ME?!...
"D... Don't worry Frost. You can take them on. We'll be cheering for you!", White announced cheerfully... Dammit... I can't back out... Looks like I'm going to have to give it my all!
Shine's POV
We walked out of the dreaded, winter white doorway casually with loud, tapping footsteps that echoes thoroughly inside of this demonic hell hole. I could feel the invisible eyes staring at all of us... At me, Frost and white... I have to stop Frost from showing himself before it's too late... But what can I do? Nothing... Maybe I can give advice to him... But I'm too shy... Dammit. They'll all die!
"Ah, Black Melody is absent today it seems?", Sir Black Raven Von Dree said in extreme surprise, giving me an evil stare that told me so many things... We stopped I our tracks, standing right in front of the doorway as the man stood before us with Glow standing to his right, holding a small, glass chess board with the pieces inside of a tiny green pouch that lay on top of the board... He then shot a glance at Frost... His eyes widened... A smile formed on his face... A broad, demonic smile that said it all... "Black Heart"... Oh no...
"What?", White whispered in shock to what he had just said. "How does he know?"... This is bad!
"How do I know? Ha! Haha!", He laughed maniacally, arching his back like a reptile as he held of his hands like claws, staring directly at Frost with his intimidating eyes of bloodlust... "DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! I've heard so much about you! Killing three Overlords like they were nothing!", He exclaimed like an insane maniac, baring his fangs like a dire wolf which caused many of us to gasp in pure shock and fear...
"Command?...", Glow whispered in fear as she shuddered like a window being beaten by the harsh winds and droplets of icy cold water from a super cell... She looked right at up the man's face with pure disbelief, unable to comprehend just what was happening to that man... That man who tried to use me as a weapon when I was little... The reason why I was separated from my twin sister! Glow! "You're emitting dark energy?... You lied to me?"...
"Poor, poor you!", He said, slowly turning to her uncannily before slowly placing his right hand onto her right, soft, white cheek... His eyes widened, his smile broaden extraordinarily larger before suddenly, he did the unexpected... "NOW DIE!"... With lightning speed, he smashed the side of her face with the brute force of his right hand, sending her spiralling to the left like a bullet. She screamed aloud in pain and suffering, causing us all to gasp as Frost immediately sprung into action as well as Melody... No!
I took in a deep breath of air through my parted lips and mustered up all of my confidence for one, epic shout... I have to give him this one advice!
"DON'T LOSE!".