-Chapter XXIII- A Gathering of Companions
-Celestial Plane
-27 First Seed
-2:17 A.M.
-Saria
"Hello?" Saria called out into the seemingly endless void that surrounded her. She looked frantically about, expecting some sort of attack at any given moment. She watched as hundreds, possibly even thousands, of miniscule sparkles littered the ground, flying about like dust particles. "Is...anybody out there?" She moved onward, not even sure if she was moving, because everything around her seemed exactly the same, not even moving behind her, but like the entire world was moving with her. "Anyone?" she called out again.
She thought she heard a voice that wasn't hers, and she quickly reached for her bow, then realizing that it was not around her shoulder like it normally was. She heard it again, and she readied herself, not knowing just how close this other being could or could not be. Either way, she was unwilling to take the chance.
"Is anypony out there?" she heard in the distance.
"Hello?"
"Hello? Anypony?" she heard again.
"Dammit..." She thought she heard another voice, and quickly turned around towards it. "What's going on?"
"Kabayunjoy?" she looked about in surprise. That second voice was Rayman.
"Rayman?"
"Pi...pi pikachu!" she heard even further in the distance.
"What's going on?"
Lastly she heard strange noises, even further still. Noises that couldn't even be possibly put into words. "Is anypony out there at all?"
"Ghuyaboya!"
"Pi pi pikachu!"
All these different voices were all calling out simultaneously, all asking for the same thing. To find where they were, and where they needed to be. Everything seemed to spin around Saria, all concentrating on her as they continuously crept around her, all mixing together. She searched about, frantically searching for any sort of source they may or may not have come from, just...anything, at all. Just to prove that she wasn't crazy...
Suddenly everything stopped at once, and silence settled for a moment or two.
"Katrina!" a new voice called out.
"Saria!" she shot up, looking about frantically and being blinded by the sudden world of light that engulfed her. She turned to look at Nick, standing over her with a worried expression on his face. "Are you all right?"
"Uh..." she looked around, noticing they were docked at last. "I think...so..." she looked at Rayman, who had Crash and Sonic standing over him as he looked at her, seemingly just as horrified as her.
