370 The Ultimate Sacrifice

"Serena! I don't think I can hold out much longer!!"

"Horace! Keep the time bubble active! We must not let this escape into the mortal realm!"

"Arrrgghhhh!! Just kill it already! It's not worth it!"

"NO! I refuse! The bubble will soon pop! Come here and help me out then! AHHHHHH!!"

As the being still firmly held in the woman's arms looked up, his vision was continuously swathed in a dark aura of unknown origin, his ears were filled with static and the rumbling of the ground, almost as though he was at the foot of an erupting volcano. 

The face of the woman holding him was slowly fading away, and fear once again overtook his senses, the sound of crying exemplifying from that same origin unknown. 

"There there child…" Those same tender words entered his ears once more, like a wave of love and compassion fighting against the fear and darkness within.