Stage 1~Dreams of Divination
It surrounds us all.
It is our jealousy.
It is our hate.
It is envy.
It is lust.
It could even be our reality,
But few realize it.
You, Tamuril Eledhwen, must conquer it before it conquers us.
Your wondrous crusades will overcome what is bad,
And reinstate what is good.
Though you yourself....
Have your own aspects to overpower.
Darkness has already begun its ascent into the depths of your mind and soul.
Block it out.
Kill it.
Weaken it.
Never listen to it, dear child.
For you are necessary for keeping your friend alive...
The flying of sheets. The panicked breathing. The small bead of sweat running down a side of her temple. The incessant shaking of her hands. Yes, Rain was alive, her heart throbbing quicker in her rapidly rising and falling chest than it ever had been. Why was she so frightened..? Rain, a reasonably brave thirteen year old, NEVER had a dream so utterly horrifying; despite the fact that it was only a voice that had been quietly speaking to her in her peaceful slumber.
'But...was it even talking to ME in the first place..??' Rain questioned, relaxing under her sheets slightly.
The voice, old, withered and that of an old man of at least ninety had referred to her--or someone else-as...what was it? Tamuril Eledhwen?
'What kind of a name is THAT? Honestly!' Rain scoffed mentally while shifting her body round to rest her feet on her bedroom carpet.
She stretched her long brown arms over her head, standing on her tip-toes. With a small groan, she resumed an original position and yawned, lightly patting her lips with the tips of her fingers.
'Maybe I'll ask Vicky today what that name could possibly be...she'll probably just come up with a random answer like she usually does, or she'll kindly just look it up, like NORMAL people...'
Rain smirked at the inside mockery of her best friend, a mental image of her constant companion flicking on. Long brown hair, square-shaped and purple rimmed glasses framed a slightly tanned face, which was connected to a neck, which was connected to a slightly plump but muscular short body. Boyish clothes, bright brown eyes, and a calm disposition...well, MOSTLY calm disposition, topped it all off.
'Ha ha, that little SHORTY.' she snickered to herself, rolling backwards on her heels to flop back down onto her bed.
Rain let her arms flail about her before finally resting on either side of her head, while she continued to dwell deeply within her thoughts of her dream and listen to her own quiet, rhythmic breathing. Furrowing her eyebrows and silently swallowing, the first thoughts entered her mind.
'What did that voice mean, about 'keeping my friend alive'? None of them are even dying! Unless one of them has been so RUDELY neglecting to tell me something. And...WHAT 'aspects to overpower'?? I don't need to overpower anything!'
Rain incidentally scoffed aloud, but made nothing of it.
'You know what? I'll just tell Vicky about this tomorrow, and then she'll laugh about it and then I can get on with life. Yeah, that sounds good. So now I can go back to trying to dream about Jake Gyllenhaal...oh, now that sounds REALLY good!'
Rain grinned slightly and turned around on her bottom so her long fingers could grab the pushed back sheets. She slipped her legs under her now cold covers and laid her head back onto her suddenly extremely comfortable pillow. Her eyelids slid closed and steadily she fell asleep to the chirping of crickets and her own deep breathing. The last thing she heard before she was back into dreamland was:
Your journey requires much rest.
Because much lies ahead of you.
It embodies us all.
Some, such as you, keep it in their heart.
Others carelessly toss it away
Like it is nothing.
And then, they forget what that is laughter.
That is joy.
That is smiles.
More and more people are forgetting their light,
And leaving themselves to dwell within darkness.
You, Eamane Alcarin, must do all possible to keep your light.
There is one, the Keeper of Darkness,
That seeks the light of your heart.
Though you may be the Prisoner of Darkness,
And you may find it difficult to cope whilst imprisoned,
Do all you can to keep your light intact.
It is crucial to yours and your friend's lives that you do.
Darkness has already begun its invasion.
And so has he...
Vicky sprang up with a gasp, shivering with cold and her blankets tumbling to the floor. After a few moments of quiet hyperventilation, she released her tight hold on the sides of her bed and sighed.
"Whoa...just shows ya that I gotta stop playing Kingdom Hearts for a while..." Vicky murmured to herself in reassurance, chuckling quietly and tenderly rubbing her sweaty forehead with her hand.
Rolling out of her bed so that her face was stuffed into her warm, fallen sheets, she took in a deep whiff of the smell of bed, and finally sat up. Yawning loudly and smacking her lips together afterwards just as noisily, she gave a catlike stretch, allowing her back to crack. With a satisfied sigh, she shuffled around to get up, and tiredly walked over to her window, her cheek bone crushed into the crook of her palm as her elbow found the small ledge to rest upon. The moon glowed gaily onto her droopy eyelids, causing the brown eyes beneath to glare agitatedly at the cheerful white object in the sky.
"Grr...why do ya hafta be so bright?! You're blinding me, for goodness sake!" she grumbled to herself, her words nearly incoherent even to herself.
She averted her burning eyes to the darkened street below, watching with a lack of interest as a small squirrel scampered under the lamplight and across the street.
With a small twitch, Vicky slowly began to recall the night's mental illusion, or at least, that's what she hoped it was.
'Wait....so was it about Kingdom Hearts or something random? Didn't seem like it...none of the characters were there, anyways...'
With a growl that turned louder than necessary, she moved her small hands up to her aching temples, massaging them in hopes of comfort. Another growl still lay in the back of her throat as she furiously rubbed the sides of her head. She was not one to not know things; she was so used to figuring out problems that she had in almost an instant, but the solution here just would not appear to her, not even in the depths of her mind where she could barely reach.
Vicky raised her freezing hands up to her burning face, trying to cool it off. She slowly shut her eyes and began attempting to breathe evenly through her nose, which for some reason had stuffed itself up in only a few minutes.
Vicky's dark eyebrows furrowed at what she saw through her eyelids, her now warm hands lowering from her now cold face. She saw a very blurry Rain shouting her name in a panic; for some odd reason, she was being sucked through a tunnel of light, and a desperate, long-fingered hand was reaching out in hopes of saving. Then the scene vanished with a bright white light, and was replaced with a tall, black-cloaked figure of a teenage boy. Only the bottom half of the face was illuminated by the faint light that originated from who-knew-where, and the thin lips that shown were drawn into a slight, mocking smirk. The boy mouthed something incomprehensible, due to the fact that his words were silenced by seemingly nothing. A grin of malice and a quiet chuckling left Vicky in bewilderment, and she opened her eyes and left her eyelids as far away from each other as possible.
Attempting to swallow away whatever fear and paranoia she had balled up in her throat, she tried to blink away the images that had been introduced to her in her subconscious. With a sigh she shakily made her way back into her bed, nuzzling the side of her face into her soft pillow. As she slowly drifted off to another sleep, the image of the boy came back into her mind, and he mouthed once more whatever he had attempted to say to her, only about a minute afterwards. But the words caressing her ear made her shiver slightly.
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