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Chapter 9:
Labyrinth of the Mind
The previous night I remember in a blur of colors, it seemed that I passed out rather than actually falling asleep for once. I opened my eyes with a strong groggy feeling as I looked around the room it was still dark with a faint shade of the sky being almost morning. Starlight filled the room through the window allowing me to see the curtains of the bed above me slowly drift and I felt a hand holding mine under a pillow. I turned to my side to see Lysander still sleeping, knocked out cold in fact that he didn’t even feel my hand let go of his as I lifted myself up.
My head felt light headed and a little dizzy but I looked at Lysander to distract myself and saw his bare back as he laid stomach down with the blankets under him. His soft breathing seemed to soothe me as I slowly gained awareness about my surroundings. As I became more awake I could see he wore my grey sweat pants so I can only guess he ransacked my clothes, he had no socks on either. This was something I had no energy to deal with at the moment so I just got out of bed and began out of the room into the halls. On the way I put a loose shirt on and slipped on some gym shorts before opening the door and entering the dark hallway.
Darkness crept along the walls like spider webs clinging to corners as I made my way through the halls making my way to the stairs. Picture frames passed me one by one of different art paintings that had been given to us for the past couple years I admired a few as I passed by them but continued into a grand opening where a crystal chandelier hung in the center of a room with two sets of staircases spiralling downward onto the first level, two floors below me. Dimly lit orbs set into a night mode lead the way down with a peaceful light that was an almost sky blue.
I made my way down while yawning and rubbing my face to clear away the grogginess and to wake myself to start the day early since we still had to head up to the Yellowstone by twilight tonight. I hear a set of footsteps shuffle past me as I stepped down the 2nd floor and headed down onto the first floor, must have been someone up as early as me what harm could it do. I reached the first floor where the ceiling was so far up the halls and rooms of the floor seemed to gape open into a canyon.
Light shined in through the windows as I made my way across the smooth tile dragging my feet making my way to the kitchen appreciating the silent air. The walls much better lit seemed to provide a much more calming atmosphere to them as I went to the cabinets and grabbed my tea bags and began brewing my tea. I sat at the counter next to the brewer and laid my forearms on the counter as I tilted my head back to look up at the glass window on the ceiling above me. So many changes have happened since the junior year at highschool where we only started to fight the unknown enemy. I could almost feel nostalgic as I reminisced in the past and all the different memories we held of all the good times we had through the years before our war. I heard the brewer finish making my tea and went to sit down at a table nearby and sat there before looking out the window to see the sun's faint violet glow appear in the distance behind the mountains signalling for morning to come.
I sat there for a moment embracing the scene before deciding to go back upstairs to prepare for the day that I could feel was already prepared to enter a chaotic start. As I dragged my feet against the smooth steps I heard a burst of shattering from down the hall of the second floor. I feel a shiver go across my back before looking down the hall to see a thin row of light from a bathroom, I set my cup on the step and head into the darkness of the hall following the light.
“Hello? Is someone in here?” I ask as I hear a shifting in the bathroom as if someone is rummaging the soaps and hitting the walls.
Faint whispering could be heard as I slowly opened the door to find Britt looking into the mirror with a stare that seemed to haunt her own expression. She had blood dripping from her hands and forehead as she looked into a shattered image of herself in disbelief. I cautiously held my hand out to grab Britt’s shoulder ,but before I could touch her she turned to face me quickly and cut my palm with a hidden shard of the mirror.
“Stay away, I don’t know you!” Britt exclaimed as she fell back against the wall “Where am I? This isn’t the school!”
“It’s okay Britt, it’s me, Chase. We are inside a mansion at our headquarters, is everything alright?” I asked wincing and wrapping my hand with my shirt “That was a little bit too much don’t you think?”
“What happened, why can’t I remember coming here and having changed my features so much?” Britt asked with aggression in her eyes.
“How much don’t you remember? This is a place you have loved to come to for the past 5 years, every year for our migration north” I said holding my hand against my chest.
“I don’t remember this place at all last thing I was doing I was about to get ready for class and then I got hit on the head and fell unconscious from a sudden explosion” Britt stood still looking over my shoulder and her eyes lit up with fear “Get away from me I won’t tell you again!”
“Britt what do you see? There is no one here” I looked over my shoulder to find nothing there “There is no one there”
“How do you not see her the demon dripped in blood with a murderous aura surrounding her I can hear the voices of screams, people, friends, family, even children I can hear them all” Britt dropped the glass and clenched her ears.
Doors could be heard opening behind me as others began to mumble down into the hall. Footsteps seemed to pick up pace as they got closer with them rushing down the stairs, Lysander came into view first and he sprinted over when seeing me with my hand wrapped in a shirt. His eyes filled with worry and confusion glimmered as he reached closer and took hold of my hand.
“What happened here?” He asked as he applied more pressure to the shirt wrap.
“I think something is wrong with Britt she seems a little out of it” As soon as I finished explaining it to Lysander, Britt dashed out of the bathroom and down the stairs bumping into Lindsey ,and Luna.
I hastily wrapped my hand and dashed after Britt and was followed by Brie, Hope, Lindsey, Luna, Kendall, Kendra, Lilithia, and Val one by one as they saw us running after Britt. I followed her through the halls of at least six parts of the house as she dashed outside the back door. I could feel the slight sting of my cut as my palms got sweaty. Once outside the skylight had become a little brighter making the dew on the grass shine faintly. There was a slight smell of campfires and forest pines that seemed to go unnoticed as I saw Britt head into the garden of black roses.
Brie caught up with me before asking “What is wrong with her? She seems legit scared out of her mind”
“I’m not sure I am about as lost as you are” I huffed as we sped up through the roses “Why of all places did she have to go into this garden?”
“Look she's standing still” Brie said slowing down.
“How odd” I said as the others caught up and walked with us all towards Britt “Guys be careful she is a little on edge make sure she doesn’t try anything reckless”
“You guys should be the one who is careful” Britt turned to us “She’s here!”
“Who is here?” Val asked “No one is here”
“Do none of you see her right before you! She is right here!” Britt began breathing heavily “Just look at her!”
“Have you lost your damn mind?” Hope called out to Britt crossing her arms “There is no one here ,and you’ve cause a big commotion for nothing”
“Now isn’t that rude” A woman with a purple and ebony priestess cloths appeared in a blur of purple mist above us “I was having a great time watching in the shadows”
“Kelsey!” Brie tensed into an aggressive stance “What do you think you are doing here?”
“Only waiting for my orders, oh-” Kelsey’s eyes gleamed bright purple and a grimly smirk went across her face “I understand, I’ll start it now”
Kelsey lowered herself to the field of roses and as her barefeet touched the ground the flowers lit on fire with a purple glow. She twirled and her hair and clothes swung around with a swift turn, as she took out an orb that broke into smaller shards and levitated around her. Brie lunged forward followed by Kendall and they were met with an unexpectedly quick sprint from Kelsey.
With a gleam of insanity in Kelsey’s eyes she started with Brie, first pulling her arm forward and kneeing her in the stomach, then dodging a punch from Kendall as she spun back and aimed shards of the orb and shot them at her. Kendra and Lilithia came from behind Kelsey with a dash that synced to begin a trap, however Kelsey quickly summoned a pair of scythes and knocked them both back with a blow to their heads. Kelsey laughed as she watched them fall as if she was in glee of the upper hand of the fight.
“Now that we have woken up a little bit why don’t we get to the reason I am here” Kelsey threw the pair of scythes behind her and they began to circle each other and glowed as a portal started to form and suck us inside.
“Chase-!” I heard Lysander call out in the distance before I felt my foot slip and I got absorbed into the portal.
A light in the distance suddenly grew and glared at a sudden intensity my eyes burned a little even as I held my hands over them. A faint lullaby sang before all noise went deaf and all sight went black. I felt as if I was falling but with no end to be seen.
A cold drift of air went up my back before I felt a gentle force set me on my foot onto a hidden floor of pitch black. I saw a familiar blue flame that seemed to emit warm vibes as it was joined by many others that lit a path. Around me seemed to be a forest of pitch black that seemed to give off an ink like texture. Hearing a small voice in the distance I followed the path and with each step I felt a little closer to a light. Darkness covered the whole world only a blue flame to guide me, this was an uneasy presence. Soon I saw in the distance an altar, I could feel my heart race with excitement as I picked up my speed and began to run there. Upon getting there it seemed to be missing something, it was an altar made of blue crystals that seemed to glow very dimly. There was a strangely placed casing that seemed to hold an artifact at one point.
I drifted my fingers across the crystals and it was deceptively smooth, I noticed my cut on my palm was fully healed. I could feel a presence in the area and I grew to have chills realizing I wasn’t able to see it or defend myself. The blue flames had vanished entirely and I felt a strong feeling of dread suddenly take over as I felt like the darkness was about to swallow me.
“Who’s there?” I called out “I know you’re there!”
“Now, it seems you do” Rize said as he stepped out of the darkness onto the altar “Seems we are in a predicament”
“Why is that?” I asked confused “What is this place?”
“This place? It’s limbo a hidden reality special to only you as a Gate, however I am here because of ties to these kind of realms” Rize turned quickly to face the forest.
“What is it?” I whispered and carefully squinted but failed to see any movement.
“He is here, come on let’s go we can’t be here” Rize said as he grabbed my arm and darted us off into the forest in an opposite path that I had come from.
“I know you can hear me, Chase” I heard Chaos’s voice echo “That man is guiding you to your death, run from him into the darkness I’ll find you”
“Chaos..” I whispered under my breath.
“What was that-” Rize tried to finish before I jabbed him in his side and knocked him to the floor before running off into the forest nearby as he wheezed “Chase! No! Come back!”
I ran through the forest with thick ink like twigs snapping under my feet and I pushed branches aside as I heard Rize gaining speed behind me. I could feel the branches whizz past me as I eventually got into an opening and jumped behind a cluster of rocks and logs. I crouched behind the bushes and looked into the opening through a split of a log to see Rize rush out of the trees looking at the trees around him.
“Chase, come on it’s not safe trust me whatever it is you are thinking it would be better to worry about it later” Rize ran back into the forest as a snap of twigs echoed in the distance.
I slowly turned to face the forest behind me to find a familiar face staring back at me. He was much more in depth than the previous time I had met him in my visions and seemed to be an almost entirely remade person. He smiled and held out his hand with a friendly gesture.
“It’s been a while my old friend, It’s nice to finally meet you in person rather than a vision” Chaos laughed as I grabbed his hand and we stood up.
“Why does limbo seem so different from all the previous times we have seen each other, even in those visions limbo was still there or at least I think it was” I questioned with confusion.
“Well it’s the effect of being ready to rebirth now we can finally open the Gate and allow you to learn all the secrets of your powers, your friends are also going through this process but with their own Gates to meet and show them the way” Chaos began walking into the forest and the trees began to form into cherry blossoms with a sweet scent in the air as I followed behind him “Our’s is the forest of cherry blossoms, the path is really nice to travel on”
“It does look rather nice ,but how exactly do I rebirth myself” I looked around to see the trees slowly sway and fill the air with blossom petals.
“Well just look at them” He held out his hand and the trees slowly formed orbs of memories out of their fallen petals “This place is the birthplace for our ritual, it’s where we can get our memories back of all the things we don’t remember as a Gate”
“They seem so happy and so peaceful it’s almost-” I tried to finish before I felt chains suddenly pull me onto a magic symbol on the floor “What the-”
“Man that act sure is a boring role all the sitting around and waiting for you to meet the requirements for you to rebirth and open the door” The figure of Chaos disappeared and was replaced with a more grimly looking version of myself that glowed a haunting green color with his eyes being a solid emerald green.
“Who are you, You’re not-” I asked failing to resist the chains pulling me against the floor.
“Oh well, Me, I am you ,but not exactly you see I am what could be considered a parallel version of you because in my timeline I am at least 500 years behind this timeline, and with a lot more death gotta say there sure is a lot of differences between the two” He seemed to mock as he formed a strange orb in his hand and walked towards me.
“What do you want, obviously that is not a gift” I glared as he stood in front of me.
“I want to create the true path of our Gate, the rebirth of True Chaos to become the entity, the form that I lack the means to do so myself due to there not being any Gates in my timeline; so in order to fix that I plan to have you merge with all of your past selves, about 13 more all with their own lives and own deaths, all of which have been changed to my liking all they need is a vessel to combine all of their paths into” He held the orb over my back and pulsed the energy into my back in a pain I remember all too familiarly “Remember this? It’s the pain you feel if you activate your Gate as you are now, It is only the beginning though you will have to endure it about 13 times over”
“What, kind of True Chaos would benefit us so much” I lifted my head as I felt blood drip from my back from what I can guess are imprints of the orbs seal carving into me “Why all of this?”
“Why? Well isn’t it simple? I need to recreate our Grand Ancestor the one we as Gates descend from. Eos has lied to you from the beginning ,oh, wait you know him as Lysander such a deceptive person he is. He was using you as a means to stop our ancestor from awakening ,because he knows just how much power would come from that. You should really wonder why is it that magic was obsolete from this world before 5 years ago when it flooded in. He has been using you from the beginning to fuel his petty goal to keep us locked away from the truth and left to slaughter each other while his ‘favorites’ live in a comfy little reality all to their liking” The grim expressionless face looked down at me before he pulled out a scalding knife and stabbed it into my back “Well not anymore”
I feel the burning sensation sink into my back as I saw flashes of memories of which I could see his memories. All of them screamed with murderous intent and smelled of thick blood as he made his way through the other timelines to invade and corrupt the endings. I felt the burn sting me back into reality ,but this time the scenery had changed to an abstract and hollowed version of itself with trees blurred black and the sky hazed a gray tone. I felt another memory lunge forward as I felt blood drip around my arms and images of my fallen allies stacked up below me; dread consumed me. I felt arms of hell drag me down further into the corpses and laughs of the damned mock me for my punishment. I felt my throat become silenced as I tried to reach up into the skies and call for help ,but the only thing I saw was more corpses until it all went black.
“Ugh-” My vision hazed as I felt my breaths slow and the knife stab the center of my back.
“I can’t have you passing out on me, now I have no clue why our Grand Ancestor was ripped apart but I can tell you this he was the strongest of the deities able to forge Gods themselves. It seems though this method could have been averted but when I came here your artifact of your Gate was missing so I had to resort to such methods. We need to change history, go back in time with the aid of Him and make the world as it should have been with the right ones, to let the traitors get the justice of the one they could never hope to stand a chance against” He laughed as he licked the blood from his knife even scalding his tongue but seeming to not even wince from it.
Once again I feel my eyes haze into darkness as I feel a sudden dread of falling, suddenly I saw a flash and awoke on a field of open grass. I stood up to look around to see nothing but an endless plain of grass with no other landmarks in sight. I looked to my sides then behind me to find myself suddenly stabbed through the stomach. Blood burned from my mouth as I looked at the blade as it was drawn from me by Britt as her laugh grew louder while I fell to my knees she seemed to gloat over my impending death.
“Yes! I’ve won, how about that huh, how ironic too it was the same place I slaughtered our dear friends Kendall and Val” Britt smirked “I enjoyed their suffering as I twisted them between the gears of the engine”
“Britt...why” I felt my voice break.
“It’s so pathetic they called out for you to come “save” them too bad you were too far as they reached their hands out I gracefully took the chance to rip the hope from their lives” Britt shoved the blade firmly through my heart as it's sharp slice stung through me she whispered “Trust is a stupid thing, only the strong survive there is no need for people like you, like David, you two rely too much on tedious things such as emotions I hope your descent to hell is just as painful as the rest of the groups”
As I fell face down I suddenly bursted awake once more but this time in a rainy temple in what seemed to be the mountain of ancient monks. The thunder roared and crackled outside making the building shake to life.
Fire smoke staunch the air I felt its embers seep into my eyes making it hard to breath and see. I covered my face with my arm the best I could as I made my way through the hall. In a split second part of the roof collapsed and grazed my back with a searing burn followed by a sudden collapse in the floor too quick for me to react to. I felt my foot touch the searing heat from below and pulled it up into a nail. I got to the floor and carefully pulled my foot from the nail then continued down the hall.
“Is anyone here?” I hollered out.
I was only answered with a distant cracking and falling of a wall and the floors of the hall cracking beneath my foot steps. The air became heavy with a stench of burning flesh as I heard muffled screams from a distance. I picked up my pace as I began to enter a wide space with three separate room doors closed tight.
“Hello, there” I called out hearing the screams much closer “Don’t worry I’m coming in to save you”
I tried opening the door but right as I touched the handle the searing metal handle burned my fingers. Gathering up the strength to continue onward without wasting time I firmly grasped the handle and pulled as hard as I could until the door cracked open enough for me to fit through. The burn was a sensation of pure agony the second I let go of it and stepped back to slip through the crack.
“Chase...” I heard a moan “You came back”
“Lilithia?” I gasped and took her hand as she laid on the floor with sears across her body “What happened?”
“Seems we were wrong...She came after me anyways” Lilithia held a detonating device in her hand “At least we can keep our promise to Brie and Winona to never let her go free, I can hear her in the temple all we need to do is this”
“I don’t fear it, if it is for the best I’ll stand by you until the end” I put my hand over hers and laid her head on my lap “So what do you think your dream will be of tonight?”
“I think-” she coughed harshly before continuing “I think maybe this time we will see mommy again and she can welcome us all home”
“I’d like that” I smiled looking at her closed eyes for a moment and then pushing the button to see a flash of light and I felt at true peace.
Sudden rush of air pushed into my lungs as I felt a light behind me begin to shine and my vision regain as I laid on the floor covered in blood. Crackles of energy echoed around me as my hearing slowly came back from a loud ringing that pulsed with my heavy heartbeat. I could faintly hear voices around me and the shape of Deus and Lysander come into view and flashes of colors pass them in the background as the earth shakes.
“Chase-” Lysander could faintly be heard “Open your eyes,Chase stay with us”
“He is merging with his Gate too quickly” Deus turned me on my back and laid my head in his lap “Chase listen to me I need you to blink once if you can understand us and two times if you can’t”
I blinked once and felt my head tilt back from a dizzy feeling. Lysander pushed my sleeves up and I could see the others fighting behind him as I tried to keep myself from falling back unconscious. I could see both of their eyes filled with determination hiding a wall of concern as they kept me aware.
“Okay good now listen to me I have your entity right here but you needa allow him to open the path otherwise you're gonna go back to the memories you were in for eternity” Deus took off both of his necklaces and placed them in my palms.
“I’m sorry, Chase I didn’t know this,please don’t-” Lysander tried to manage as I glared at him with as much anger as I could.
“You used me” I felt the urge to speak as it pained my throat to avoid saying more “Was it even real”
I closed my eyes and opened them to find a gentle spirit in front of me whispering hymns of my old friend. The surroundings were high in the clouds next to mountains as I saw the constellations pass by in a sped up motion. Hues of blue and green filled the skies of aurian lights that passed overhead. I smiled and reached my hand out to my old friend as if seeing him after a long departure, I felt a burst of energy enter me as the two artifacts cracked and released a new awakening.
“It’s nice to finally see you again Chase I’ve missed you even if we had to meet like this the other you has allowed us to finally meet and merge as an entity” I heard Chaos say in my mind.
“I’m glad to finally see you again too Chaos I feel him, his anger, his strength” I felt warmth come to my hands “Let’s regain our memories and change our path this time to save our friends”
“Yes” Chaos smiled “Let’s save the Gates and our timeline, Let’s change the fate of humanity together once more”
My hands began to glow with the formation of tattoos my right hand glowed blue with tattoos more time based and runes that wrote the laws of time, my left hand glowed green with tattoos of symbols and patterns for space with runes writing the laws of space. The tattoos spread through the rest of my body as I felt them pulse and then form all over me. My clothes took on a more refined look as I felt my old ones get stripped away. My fingerless gloves reappeared refined and my button-up shirt turned black changing the pentagram into a blue colored chaos star symbol and my trench coat reformed into a light weight military trench coat which changed my whole appearance into a new standing. I now had a necklace with a glowing light of my two gems inside with a golden glass case and chain. I gained new jet black pants and military grade boots to my knees as I finished my rebirth and felt a surge of energy as I closed my eyes and opened them one more time to clearly see the others now fighting the ghost of me.
Britt now had a silver color to her hair which was held at the side with a violet rose and wore a one-piece dress that went to her thighs and hung on her right shoulder. It was various complimenting shades of violet and pink to match the rose with golden embroiderment, that hung a piece of her dress on her left side go down to her ankle of faded and light pink that could easily be mistaken for white. She wore a forearm gauntlet on her left arm and her whole right arm was a loose side of the dress with under armour. Two white strips of leather hung off her right shoulder embroidered with pink and violet petals. She now wore a full stocking on only her left leg and matching plated boots. Her eyes now gleamed with hues of violet.
Kendall’s hair now shone white as snow and curled to the left side of her face with a hairpin of diamonds that flowed with her hair to put the right side of her hair behind her ear. She wore a armored dress that had silver plate shoulder guards that thinly went onto her arms and a thin silver plate chest piece that shined brilliantly with a skirt that tilted elegantly to her left leg. Behind her trailed her white undercloak of her armor which drape to her ankles. She wore silver plate boots that went to her knees that seemed to glimmer with her footsteps. Her eyes matched her hues of white and silver which embroidered her armor and clothes alike. Hues of blue blended with her under cloak and her clothes to make it seem like a misty design.
Brie had a much darker appearance to her clothes she now had a black eye patch covering her right eye and her hair let loose to freely hand over her new cloak. Her cloak was slim and loose it draped her arms and hung down to her ankles with gems attached to the bottom corners that glowed a vivid red. Its sleeves and edges held red embroiderment and matched her under dress which went to her mid thigh. Her under dress gave the appearance of a high class style which changed her look into seductively deceiving. A vividly red tattoo of her Gate went down her thigh to her knee. She wore high class boots up to her knee that had inch sized heels.
Luna let her hair hang over her ocean blue dress that hung over her left shoulder with blue thin plate armor that held onto her thin chest plate and draped two strips of silver ribbons. Her arms were covered by a loose part of her dress that drifted in the wind and attached to her shoulder fabrics of the under dress. The dress split on her right side exposing her leg and showing her blue plated boots. Her outfit teamed with an ocean blue tint.
Lindsey now had black short hair to her neck that hung to her left side of her face and laid on her left shoulder. Her new arraignments were silky black that exposed her chest tattoo of her Gate. It covered her arms with full sleeves attaching to her middle finger, it hung tilted toward her right leg and draped behind her down to her ankles. The dress filled itself full of white embroiderment and on the inside it had bright hues of blue. She wore a necklace with an obsidian gem that gleamed. She wore her usual knee high boots that now were strapped with a more refined material to make them shine.
“Where are the others?” I looked to see Deus still holding me as he had before my rebirth “I’m sure of Kendra, and Lilithia following us”
“Seems they didn’t need to rebirth their Gates, they already had them fully unlocked because they were practically born with them somehow” Deus explained as they fought the visage of the evil me off with flurries of combined attacks and blocks.
“Chase I-” Lysander began as he looked at me with regret.
“We can talk later” I stumbled to my feet with Deus helping me stand steady looking at the ghost of a man.
“So it seems you’ve lost imposter” Brie walked in taunt to him “I’d retreat if I were you I’m feeling nice today but don’t make me change my mind cause I’m not afraid to fucking obliterate you”
“Oh, it is not I who lost” The imposter looked at me with a smirk “He may not have been fully changed into what I planned but now he is something even you can’t control Eos, isn’t that right Deus”
“What?” Brie and I looked at Deus “What is that supposed to mean?”
“You’ll know in time won’t they Deus?” The imposter chuckled as he vanished as whispers echoed with a chill “Won’t they”
“What does that mean?” I asked Deus.
“Well I’m not sure now is the best time to explain” Deus looked around “It’d be better to explain it to you in a more secure place”
“I can agree to that-” I felt my heart drop and a sudden dizziness overcome my head “I don’t feel so well”
“Chase?” Lysander came over and held my face in his hands and I felt his grip.
“Quick hold him up we need to get him out of here” Rize could be heard faintly in the distance.
I felt foggy as I slipped in and out of consciousness with voices blurring between each other eventually being overcome by a sleepy feeling and I sunk into the void of my thoughts. I could hear Rize, Allen, and Lysander in the distance ,echoes as they grew closer their voices hitting me all at once. In a flash all at once I saw a flicker of the past memories once more before lunging forward in realization of them to find Lysander sitting next to me looking worried as I brushed my hair out of my face and wiped away the cold sweats.
“You’re awake!” Lysander cheered and hugged me before slowly letting go.
“I see limbo has disappeared” I said as I watched Lysander sit back in the chair and bounce his leg nervously.
“Yeah, we left it with the help of Rize and Allen finding a way out for us” Lysander nodded “They really helped us out”
“I see well I’m glad they did” I took a breath to look at Lysander “What is it?”
“Well, um, what happened back there” Lysander cut himself off.
“Lysander, I wasn’t me at the time, something else was there before I could even react I was already speaking” I looked him in the eyes to almost see him shed tears.
“ That bastard tried to control you like a twisted puppet next time I see him I swear I’ll kick his ass” Lysander thrilled with determination.
“I’m sure you will” I looked at him with a crack of a smile.
“I’ve been wondering” Lysander poked his index fingers together while blushing “Do you wanna go on a date sometime with me”
“Hmmm? Where is this coming from?” I looked at Lysander still embarrassed expression as he tried to make eye contact.
“Well Britt said that we are going to Yellowstone and there might be a couple good spots for us to go to and I was sorta curious as to if you wanted to go” Lysander smiled and looked at me nervously.
“Well as long as you do your best to get the best places I don’t-” I was unexpectedly cut off.
“I’ll do my best I promise you!” Lysander held out his pinky finger “I’ll swear it for you”
“Pinky swear?” I cracked a smile.
“Pinky swear!” Lysander laughed.
Down the stairs we could hear Britt call up to us about it being time to go as I noticed all our stuff had been moved from the room. I shakily got out of the bed and almost slipped ,but was caught by Lysander and met with a smile. It filled my heart with warmth I felt a swarm of happiness well up that seemed to have almost disappeared entirely.
“Want me to carry you down?” Lysander swept me off my feet and laid my head against his chest.
“Well guess I have no choice about it anymore huh” I looked at him before looking out the windows as we headed out the room “The sky is such a pretty color today it’s so full of colors that I haven’t seen in so long”
“It sure is, huh” Lysander walked down the hall and began down the stairs “Isn’t this how we met? Under a starry sky”
“Yeah, except back then there was no way I would have seen this” I yawned as we approached the truck and saw everyone inside already asleep “Long day for them?”
“Oh yeah, believe it or not Rize and Allen spent 3 hours trying to keep you stable and then we all had to pack up everything in a couple hours it was not fun without you” Lysander sighed as we boarded the truck and we laid down on the packed bed mattresses.
“Oh I bet it wasn’t for you ,everyone else probably rejoiced” I laughed light heartedly.
“Oh my god I fucking swear! I told you he was a pain in the ass” Brie could be heard talking to Rize as she boarded last and closed the truck doors.
“Okay, but like at least I actually did something unlike you who thought sitting in a lawn chair reading Britt’s diary was productive” Rize snapped back.
“Don’t be fucking rude” Brie slapped Rize’s arm “I was merely doing some research about her lady kinks with David”
“How vile,woman, you have got to get a better hobby, though I’m not much better I spent the last couple days trying to snoop in on Lindsey and Luna I swear they are definitely a couple the two are so perfect it’s painful to not think of them as a couple” Rize admitted.
“We both nasty, snooping hoes” Brie shrugged her shoulders “Oh well now we can be nasty ,snooping hoes together”
“Two is better than one” Rize continued as I looked at Lysander and we silently laughed.
“I can’t believe we are off to Yellowstone” I said with a sigh “It’s been a long time”
“I can’t wait to see all the stuff you guys have there” Lysander whispered as the truck began moving and the road rumbled under us.
“I wanna get some sleep with you though before the sun rises or we reach Yellowstone whichever comes first” I yawned and felt Lysander pull me close and wrap a blanket around us.
“Good night” Lysander kissed my forehead and closed his eyes as I closed mine.
“Good night” I smiled with a feeling of uncertainty next to Lysander hearing Chaos saying one last thing to me.
“Deus is the one”