He kept walking towards the
light. The ones that shined ever so bright, emitting from the festivities.
Laughter echoed about. Friends dragging along friends to see a stall here or
watch something there or play with them there. The world still continued on,
its movement unfazed by any person who was lost within any moment. A smile
appeared on his face. It was the kind of smile where he felt at ease with the
world…that in the moment he saw her happiness, he had wished that the world
would have stopped for him to enjoy it just a tiny bit more. He hadn’t noticed
her grip onto him had left. He has yet to even realize that she is no longer
within his sights for all of his thoughts consisted of her and how happy she
was receiving good news. How happy she was when she knew that even though her
memories started filtering back, it wasn’t just all the bad ones that came.
Even the good ones flowed in. As he
stepped foot onto the stone ground he turned to see if she was following. “Hey,
Monique,” he turned and found he was by himself. “What the…OY! IS this some
sort of joke?” he looked around, “Don’t play games with me!”
“OY! If you keep yelling at
yourself in public, I’m going to have to reconsider our friendship.”
He turned to see Alexis and a
curly blue haired boy around their age rummaging through the crowds to get to
him. “Hey….I-I don’t suppose you’ve seen Monique…?”
“Uh. No. She’s supposed to be
with you,” she looked around, “Where is she?”
“I…uh…kinda...lost her…” he
sighed.
“How do you kind of lose
someone!? You either lose them or you…wait…HOW THE HELL DID YOU LOSE HER?”
“Well…um…you see I took her to
her parent’s altar.” He pointed to where he came from, “But I swear! She was
following me when we left. I had her by the hand and when I got here…she wasn’t
behind me.”
She heavily sighed, “I swear
sometimes I wonder how the hell you get out of bed in the morning without
tripping on your stupidity.” She yanked Lee by the arm, stomping towards the
altar, “We have to find her fast!”
“Whoa, what’s the matter, Alexis?”
The curly-q asked, “Why are you freaking out about this?”
“Because, she likes him.” Lee’s
eyes widened as Alexis continued to drag him through the forest.
“And? What does that have to do
with anything?”
“Don’t you get it, Ben? The only
reason that her…her inner darkness manifested into Annalyse is because of what
you guys did to her. But she never held resentment towards any of you because
she still wanted to make peace. All of that hatred and what not carried into
Annalyse which caused her to hate Lee. If she sees her being happy with him,
she’s going to open up the tragedy we kept away from her.”
“S-seriously?” Lee asked. He
managed to break away from Alexis’ hold, running faster than ever towards the
altar. A red blur found its way to Lee’s eyesight causing him to stop in his
tracks. Along with Alexis and the curly-q boy, they found Monique passed out on
the forest floor. He picked her up and scanned her entire body for any marks or
scratches. “This is bad…”
“What is?” Alexis looked around.
“L-Look at her arms…” From the
upper to the lower scratches had appeared. Blood dripped out. Her eyes were
open yet shallow. He tried desperately to awaken her yet it seemed that her
conscious was stripped away from her physical body.
“We…we should take her to
Lilith…” curly-q suggested, “Maybe she could help.”
“I-I think she’s the only one
who can help, Ben.”
Lee picked her up, cradling her
in his arms. She was amazingly light, couldn’t weigh more than a pound of
flower (well at least to Lee).
They left the area, rushing
towards the capital building where the statues of the fallen heroes stood. In
there at the very center of the room sat a girl with goldie-brown locks that
dropped a few inches past her shoulders. Her dull expression gazed off into the
blank abyss that was nothing but an empty entry way. She gave a heavy sigh,
“While everyone’s out having fun, I’m stuck here since brother decided to take
a supper long time on the mission.”
WHOOOOOOSSSHH!
A
sudden gush of wind slammed the doors wide open, causing her whole nervous
system to snap her out of her boredom, “Wh-what the?” She started walking
towards the front door. “Lilith!” someone cried out, “We need your help!”
She cockd her head to the side,
“A-Alexis?”
Lee jolted straight inside, “We
need your help.”
“What’s going on?” she looked at
Monique, “What happened?”
“We’re not entirely sure…” Ben
followed behind Alexis, “She was like that when we found her.”
She inspected her a bit more,
scanning her mind for anything that seemed amiss, “I see…” She looked at the
three, “I need you guys to do something for me”
“What is it?”
“Ben, since I can’t be able to
pull them out when the time is necessary, I’m going to need you to stay here
and hold onto the life line I’ll be passing to you. When I give you the signal,
you are going to have to pull us all out.”
“Wait what are you talking
about?” Lee asked.
“Listen, her conscious is
trapped inside of her…possibly reliving the nightmare you had Karin lock away.
In order to retrieve her, I’m producing a sort of life-line to attach to you
and Alexis and Monique so when you find Monique you’ll be able to attach it to
her and Ben will be able to pull her out.” She hovers her hand over Monique’s
head and started to pull a string from her forehead. Voices were swimming out
as if the string pulled her very thoughts right out. She laughed as well as
Alexis and Ben when they heard many of them were about Lee.
Lee blushed.
Lilith proceeded pulling the
string, attaching it to Alexis and Lee. Horrified screams echoed from the other
end. “Both of your conscious will be intertwined and enter her sub-conscious.
Just be aware that even though you are within a friend’s mind, you may get lost
and find unappealing things. Be safe and stay together.”
They both nodded. Their eyes
closed tight from reality.
Darkness. Pitch black darkness.
That’s all they ever saw. All around was just an empty void that filled their
beloved friend’s mind. Lee grew increasingly worried that she may never awaken
from her nightmare and that she’ll find out the horrible truth which occurred
when she was young and unknowing of her gifts. Gifts that grew to be a curse
for those who knew what the darkness that grew inside did. Alexis saw how much
this affected him and said, “It’s not going to do you good to be worried over
her.”
“Wh-what if she never forgives
me for this…” he said.
She sighed, “She’s not that type
of person.”
“I took away a part of her life
that haunted her and kept it away from her. Wh-what if…all she sees is what
I’ve done?”
“She’ll see you in a different
light and probably keep away from you, but that isn’t going to stop her from
actually…you know…loving you.”
Voices echoed from the other
side. The room started disintegrating, black pieces peeling away to reveal a
fluorescent sunset where trees were filled to the tip with leaves. “We gotta
find her fast.” Alexis suggested. “I don’t know if this is the worst part…or if
it’s just the beginning.” Lee nodded. The two went searching around. High and
low but no Monique around nor in the flow. At the end of their search, they
ended up at a spot way too familiar. It was a rock wall, the rock wall in which
where Monique had been cornered and the kids had tortured her. Alexis saw
Monique running towards it, catching her before the fall of it. “Monique!” she
called out.
“A-Alexis?” She had answered.
She ran towards her and held her tightly “Alexis…Alexis I’m scared…what…what
just happened? What’s going on I don’t understand.”
“It’s alright, come on we have
to go.”
“I-I don’t know. I don’t know. I
don’t know.”
“What’s wrong?” She looked at
her.
“Wh-why is h-he here?” She
stared at Lee, “A-am I to be mocked at? Laughed at? Humiliated again?”
He turned his head away from
Monique, “Come on Alexis. Let’s just go.”
“What are you saying? You
brought her all the way to Lilith, searched all around for her and now you just
want to give up and go?” Alexis furiously asked.
He stopped and pondered a
thought for a moment. He then sighed and said, “Of course not.” He turned to
look at the two, “But I’m getting real tired of this fucking act, Annaylse. Why
don’t you be so freaking kind as to drop it and tell us where she is?”
“What?” Alexis pushed her away.
She maniacally laughed, “Oh how
ever did you know that I wasn’t her? Was it the way I talked? The way I acted?”
“Tch. You don’t think I don’t
know her? I didn’t dismiss any of the thoughts that initially came out of her
head. I heard them all. She was worried about not seeing me again.” Lee took
ahold of Annaylse by the collar, “Now give her back before I make you give her
back.” Claws started forming on his free hand.
“Whoa there Tiberius. If you
destroy me now, how will you ever know where she is?”
“Stop playing games with us.”
Alexis glared at her.
Annalyse sighed, “Ohh fine. You
both are a bunch of party poopers.” She snapped her fingers. Instantly, the
scenery changed. From the sunset in the forest to the sunny morning of the
island where water continuously fell from the top. Monique was lying on the
wooden ramp that descended to the beach. Lee ran towards her, “Monique!” He
cried out, “Monique wake up!” he raised her body up. “Please. Wake up.”
“What did you do to her?!”
Alexis grabbed Annalyse.
She sighed once more, “Tried
showing the kid what had actually happened but she refused to see it. Refused
to open it. Said if Lee had locked it away he probably had a good reason too.
Kept thinking about him and eventually some of the memories before she came
back to Destiny Island leaked in, causing her to faint.” She pushed Alexis
away. “I may want to ruin her, but I am her sword and shield. Not just a
beautiful monster. And because I do get so much enjoyment from seeing you in
pain,” She stared at Lee, “I think it’s best if you tell her every detail.” She
disappeared from sight, leaving Alexis, Lee and Monique on the beach.
Alexis walked over to them,
staring at Monique as she quietly slept. “Wh-what are we going to do now?”
Lee stared at Monique for the
longest time, pondering every motive that he could come up with and all the
consequences that may cause it to fall. In the end, he said to Alexis, “Switch
places with me.” Alexis nodded and did so. She watched Lee walk towards the
cave her brother, Sora, had went in when searching for Kairi. “Wh-what are you
doing?” She asked.
He placed his hand on the
makeshift door that blocked off any entrance into the cave, “Making a guardian.
This cave…it held memories not only for Sora but for you guys as well…this
guardian that I am placing will keep all of her memories before her mission
here…but more importantly, it’ll keep all the bad ones away from her. It’ll
guide her out of this place and will only show it if she’s in a critical
condition. For now…this is the best I can do.”
Her eyelids started slowly
opening. She looked around, trying to figure out where she was. In the midst of
her search she saw Alexis staring at her, “Wh-where am I?” She got up, still
looking around, “Wh-why are we back on Destiny Islands?” She turned to see Lee
coming towards them, “And what is h-he doing here?”
His eyes widened. He didn’t
believe that the memories that leaked were those. The ones where he wished
never existed. “We’re here because we’re trynna get you back.” Alexis stood up,
“Come on, let’s go home.” She smiled.
“I-I’m afraid though…”
“Afraid of what?”
“Afraid that when I go back
home...back to my birth home…I won’t…I won’t realize what I’m supposed to do. I
won’t remember what I’m supposed to do. What my parents left me behind…I can’t
remember anything. All those pieces of memories that comes trinkling back in
just scares me because what if I’m just…a…monster…?”
“You’re not a monster.” Lee
said, “You’re just someone who, like many of us, have suffered due to their
perspective gifts. Besides…you have friends who’ll help you and guide you to
where you have to be. You’re not alone.”
“A-are you one of them?” she
asked, “Are you one of my ‘friends’? Last...the last thing I remember before
waking up here is that…you hated me…”
“Oh come on now” Alexis grabbed
Monique by the hand and grabbed Lee’s as well, “If he hated you he wouldn’t
have taken you to the festival nor would he wouldn’t have carried you all the
way to a friend of ours to get your head examined then come all the way over
here just to get you back home?” Monique shook her head, “Then he obviously has
a thing for you.”
Lee blushed, “Sh-shut up.”
“And he didn’t deny it too.” She
laughed, “Alright let’s go home yeah?”
“Pull them out, Ben!” Lilith
shouted. Ben nodded and, with all his might, began pulling onto the glowing
thread that was given to him. He assumed since it was three relatively average
weighted people that it would be a tad hard to pull them all out at once. However,
since they were merely conscious that he was pulling out all he had to do was a
simple tug and the three came out awakening in their unconscious bodies. Both
Alexis and Ben left the area, leaving Lee and Monique with Lilith. “Y-you both
should go back out. The fireworks are to begin soon.” She smiled.
“I-I just kinda want to go back
to the room…” Monique said.
Lee looked outside the open
doors, watching as the world still continued on as if nothing ever phases it.
“Hey…can we use the roof to watch it?” Lee asked, ignoring Monique’s request to
go back to the room.
“Sure! Use it as long as you want
too.” She smiled. Lee took Monique by the arm and walked her up the stairs, up
to the roof to get a better view of firework show. “C-Come on I don’t want to be here.” She
pleaded, “I just want to go back to the room.”
“Please…” he asked, “Just allow me
this little moment in time to try and figure out the best way to tell you
everything that happened before the mission. Before you lost your memory.”
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