Hey, you! Yeah, you! There's a pole on my profile! Go vote, or something…(7/17/16). Did I really just write a segment on the word 'whatever'? That's probably my signal to go to bed (7/20/16 at 1:42 A.M.).

Sky's POV

I'm bored of thinking. I mean, I got nothing! We've sat here for ten minutes in complete silence. Hey, you would be bored too if you had to sit here and think about time travel, which is really freaking confusing! I decided to glance up. Everyone else seemed as bored as I was. Some looked outright confused.

"Okay, I give in. I got nothin'."

A few of the others agreed with me.

I leaned back in my chair. "Sooo, what now?"

"Does she have a house?"

"I don't think so, Jason."

"Well, why don't we get her one?"

And then I had an ingenious idea. "No." Everyone looked at me in shock. I forced myself to be serious, placed both hands on the table, and stood up in an over dramatic way. "We…" I looked up slowly, meeting each of my friends in the eye, noting their confused faces. "Build one." I couldn't hold it in any longer and burst out laughing. I fell back into my chair as well. Everyone else started laughing too.

After some time, our laughter died down.

Jason looked up at me. "Okay, heh, okay, why do you want to build her one any way?"

I raised a finger in an I-know-everything fashion. "I-" I stopped dead. Why do I? "I, uh, I don't know. I kinda feel like I have to."

Small mumbles of yeah resounded throughout the room.

"Besides, it would be the nice thing to do. If she's Seto's friend then she's ours too."

With that being said, I led the team down the stairs and out of the city.

Seto's POV

It had been sometime since we got Katie a phone and we were touring the city. I pointed out big stores or major landmarks and she listened intently, only occasionally mentioning a memory or two.

My phone began to ring.

I slowed my pace and answered it through my hood, which was magically tied to my phone. I was the first to speak.

"What's the problem?" Well, when you deal with people that require saving at least once a week you expect there to be a problem.

I stopped, caught off guard at the response.

"Not a problem, a question. Where does the girl want to live?"

It was Sky.

"Why do you want to know?"

"Just curious."

"I'll ask."

Katie had stopped with me.

"Hey, where do you want to live?"

"Ummm… I hadn't really thought about that. Somewhere in a forest, I guess."

"She says somewhere in a forest."

"Okay, thanks. You hear that guys? Somewhere in a forest. Bye Seto."

"Goodbye."

Click.

I severed the magic connection between my phone and hood. I looked up to see Katie with a quizzical look on her face.

"That was… random."

"That's Sky, he's always random."

She stopped. I was unaware so I kept walking for a few seconds. I turned around to see her a few feet behind me. She was looking at the ground, just standing there.

And then something glinted in the sun as it fell from her face.

And then another.

And another.

She sniffed.

She was crying.

Both hands flew to her face.

I took two quick giant steps to be in front of her.

I pulled her hands away from her face and she looked up at me. Tears were running down her face. I didn't know what was wrong. I didn't know how to help.

"I… I-" She hugged me and sobbed into my shoulder. We were the same height, so she fell onto me with ease. I was shocked. I wasn't sure how to react to this.

"I'm so sorry!" She spoke through sobs. "I n-never w-wanted to leave. I-I didn't! I m-missed you all so m-much! I-I was con-conscious the entire t-time. I-I was f-fighting for you, for t-them, for w-what c-could be! B-but don't worry…" She laughed. In that moment I saw her as a kid. The girl that sacrificed everything to save the world. I thought back to the night she left. She was basically repeating what she said that night. I then snapped back to reality. "I-I put a s-seal on it. H-he's never escap-scaping. W-we can go see if-if you want." She pulled away and wiped her face. "I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me."

"Don't apologize." I was firm, and I meant it. "You don't have to be sorry for anything. You're allowed to be upset, okay? I'm the one that should apologize. For what, I'm not sure. However, I know that you are okay and we'll all be fine."

"Yeah, you're right."

"Wasn't I always?"

"So am I."

"That's true. Why don't we continue?"

"I have no objection."

I continued giving her a tour of the city. An hour or two had passed and the sun was beginning to set. There was just one more place I had to show her.

"And this is the Team Crafted City Base."

We stood outside of the base. She looked up in awe. Not surprising since it was the tallest building at twenty stories.

"This is where we keep backups of everything, basically."

We walked in.

"I've enchanted this entire place after the accident so normal citizens are allowed on the first floor unless they're with a team member, have vocal confirmation from a team member, or have written confirmation that can be scanned by the door to the stairwell."

"Wow. I mean this place is just… Wow."

"Shall we go to the roof?"

"Sure."

She was looking around in amazement at the first floor. It's obvious that each of the various armies or fan groups claimed a section based on the decoration. She followed me to the stairs and we went up to the roof. The entire time, I listed off the name and purpose of each level.

However, the main reason I wanted to show her the roof was because of the view. It looked amazing, especially with the sunset.

"Seto, this is just… wow."

"You already said that."

We leaned on the fence together, looking at the sunset. There was a building towards the right of the setting sun. She noticed it.

"Hey, see that building in the mountains?"

"Yeah."

"What is it?"

"That's the Team Crafted Secondary Base. It's more like a vacation house, now that I think about it."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, it's secluded, there's a pool, slime blocks to jump on, and we really only use it for recreation."

"Okay, that makes sense."

The sun had set and lights were beginning to come on in the city.

"Shall we head back?"

"Back where?"

"Well, you could stay at my house. I can always sleep on the couch."

"No, I'll take the couch."

"Really, it's okay. I'll be fine. I insist."

"Alright, but only because you insisted."

I held out my arm as a gesture of teleportation. She took it and we were gone in a flash, quite literally.

Sky's POV, a Few Minutes Before Sunset

We built most of the framework for the house. It's actually looking pretty good. It's going to be a basic two story house made entirely of spruce wood near the edge of the forest we found her in. However, the sun was getting low, so I thought we should head back.

"Yo, guys," they all look up at me, "It's getting late, we should go back."

They all begin to get off of the mostly-built house, one by one.

We all just stood there, admiring our work.

"You know, it doesn't look too bad."

I believed what I had said too. It may have been a simple two story house, but it was homey and cozy and… something else that rhymes-y. We began to head back to the Secondary Base, making general conversation about whatever. We were literally talking about whatever.

"Now, is it a noun or an adjective?"

"No, Jason, it's an exclamation."

"Ty, it's obviously an adverb."

"Don't be silly Ian, It's a pronoun."

"No Quentin, you're wrong, it's a noun."

"Wait, Jerome, I've decided it's an adjective."

"Exclamation!"

"Adverb!"

"Pronoun!"

"Noun!"

"Adjective!"

Mitch was walking with me towards the back as the others disputed over the part of speech. And then he got involved.

"Do you even know the definition?"

All was silent.

"Because there are a few, you know."

I got involved too.

"Well, I know it's not an adjective."

Mitch agreed.

"Yeah, that's pretty basic."

Jason proceeded to face palm.

"Well, whatever! I guess it's a noun."

"Not so fast Mister Spaceman! You just used it as an exclamation! HA!"

Jason tried to give Ty his 'I really don't care anymore' face but ended up laughing, along with everyone else.

"Did you really just call me Mister Spaceman?"

"It just came to me! From where? Not a clue!"

Some talking and a few jokes later, we arrived at the Secondary Base and split up to do our separate things. Mitch went up to the fourth floor to get in some late night archery practice, Jerome and Ian headed towards the TV to play some videogames, Quentin wanted an evening swim on the fifth floor, Jason went to work on his new album, and Ty went to the third floor library. I decided to go to bed. I just felt tired.

And then the nightmares came.

Cue Dream Sequence

I was five. I had just met Ty and Jason. We were checking out this new jump map. We finished. Ty won, I came in second, and Jason last.

One of my first memories with those two.

Two years passed. I was seven. We were in the woods when a small brown haired kid fell out of the sky. We went to check on him. He was okay. Turns out he was a sorcerer.

"Sorry about that, that was my first time practicing flying. I'm Seto, by the way. Apprentice Sorcerer and only seven, the youngest in my class might I add."

We were impressed. I'd seen a few sorcerers and sorceresses before, but never spoken to one.

"Cool! I'm Sky, he's Ty, and the other one's Jason. We're all seven too!"

He seemed...happy?

"I've never met anyone my age that's not a sorcerer before."

Ty had come up with a brilliant idea.

"Hey, maybe we could be friends?"

He was definitely happy now.

"That would be amazing! We can head back to the school and I can show you guys around!"

Time flies and we make more friends. First Mitch and Jerome, then Ian, and finally Quentin.

We're nine now. Seto was about to become an Advanced Sorcerer in about a month. There was someone else. A girl? Our age? It gets fuzzy.

Something bad happened. The sorcerers are dueling someone. No, something. There are casualties. Everyone tries to help the sorcerers. Some older kids, random people, even our parents. My friends were left at my house with me for safety.

"Stay at home, Sky. We'll be back." The last thing I heard my parents say was a promise that they broke because they don't come back.

The battle continues. They don't come back.

The battle continues for a week, maybe more, when, suddenly, there's an eerie silence. Normally fighting can be heard, but now there's nothing.

I look out of my house and we all leave. We walk out of the city and see people. Some standing, some sitting, some lying on the ground. They're leaning on each other. Some are injured.

There's blood.

The ground is scarred with black streaks.

We make our way through the crowd, slowly. I can hear talking.

"He's down for now."

"How long?"

"A week on the outside, but he'll be weak when he awakens."

"They knew the costs."

"They sacrificed themselves for us."

"The distraction was just long enough."

And then I hear Seto.

"They have kids, you know. They're my friends."

We manage to finally get to the small group of sorcerers that were talking. Seto sees us and his eyes go wide. That new girl is with him. The other sorcerers notice us and mimic Seto with perfect accuracy.

Except for one of their eyes.

One of the sorcerer's eyes quickly flick to his left.

I follow his eyes and gasp in disbelief.

There, on the ground, are fourteen bodies.

They all looked so familiar, but I just couldn't place it.

Then I saw it.

Those people, on the ground, were each of our parents.

Mitch's, Jerome's, Quentin's, Ian's, Jason's, Ty's, and mine.

They were just lying there, unmoving, blank stares looked up at us.

In a creepy unison we walked over to each of our parents and kneeled down.

"Mom? Dad?"

"What's wrong?"

"Why aren't they waking up?"

"Come on, get up!"

"No, no, no, no, no!"

"This can't be happening!"

"You promised you'd come back…"

I'm going to end it off here. It feels right. The dream sequence will continue in the next chapter too. Also, I'm going to be at a camp thing for the next week, so there might not be an update. All criticisms are welcome. See you in the next chapter.