Wake up

"WHAT?!" Both yelling at me, I raise my hands in defense. "Sorry, then! I thought I was doing a good thing!" Putting my cup down, Iris jumps from hr char and starts to wander around the house.

Getting really close to a plant, I pulled her back.

"Ah-ah! I keep my.... toys there okay?" Pushing her back into her apartment, I tell her to wait here.

"Raven, since when did you care about kids?" Pointing at myself, I wave my hand. "I don't care about kids, the sooner they become self-sufficient, the sooner I can stop looking after them."

rummaging through my wallet, I throw an ID at Amber. "What is this? Anna SouthStorm?" Seeing her picture there, she looks at me confused. Showing her my ID, I tell her that with this we can easily get Iris into school.

Getting up, she looks at me weirdly. "Wake up"

Startled, I ask. "What d you mean wake up? I'm awake."

Turning to Edward, I see him stare into my soul. "Wake up, this is not real." Taking a step back, I tell them that this isn't funny.

"WAKE UP"

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Jumping up, I find myself tied with chains in a dark room. "What's going on?" Trying to move, I find my hands bound with chains. Pulling at them for a bit, I find them stuck to a wall.

Where am I? Where is everyone?

Holding my head in pain, I try to recall the past events. We fought with Oswald, yes! We won, but the cultist didn't let it go! Not after defeating one of their leaders!

My memory starts to click in place.

We've returned him, we've shared goodbyes, and once it was just Edward, Alice, Amber, and me. They struck! The door got smashed and bright light filled my eyes. It was an Illusion. I've never cared about the kids, not to mention that the newspaper boy doesn't even live near the afflicted zone.

Having a terrible headache, I stumble, before the chains stop me. Grabbing my pinky, I dislocated it and pull out my hand. Doing the same for the other one, I pop my pinkies back in.

Stumbling around the dark room, I hit something that looks like metal, wrapping my hands around it, I feel it. It's metal bars. Snapping my fingers as if I were striking a lighter. Small sparks fly out, but no big ball of flame shows up.

There has to be a magical impression here.

Moving my hand over the bars, I find what looks like a door. I try to pull out my tools only to find them missing, but worse of all. My scarf is gone.

Getting mad, I place my hand on the rocky ground, I can't scream otherwise I would bring attention to myself, but in my mind, I scream louder than a lion roar.

Stretching the rock into my desired tools, I feel my muscles tense up. My body screams as it's pushed to its utter limit. The pressure on my back feels like a mountain.

Opening my mouth, I pretend like I'm screaming, but dare to not make a sound.

Finally making small rock tools from the rock, I tried to brake them off but feel it.

*Crack* A loud crack resounds in my head and all resistance fades away.

Grabbing the rock tools, I open the lock and make a ball of flame. Seeing and broken cell in front of me, I wonder what animal was kept in there. Hearing the sounds of fighting further in. I run towards the sound, Entering a large circular hall, I see Edward tied up with dark chains to the ground.

"Edward Tenfold, what a monster. No wonder you escaped, you punched your way out of the dream and out of the suppressed cell." A man in a yellow robe floats down from a balcony to Edward. "Oswald? Is that you?"

Slapping his face, the man in yellow tells him to not compare him to such an animal.

Watching them from behind a pillar, I come to the conclusion that this is some sort of a cultist base. Running behind another pillar, I watch Edward fight the chains to no avail.

"Stop fighting it," The leader says, he wears a similar mask that Oswald had but with more spikes on it. Snapping one of the metal spikes, he pushes it toward Edward's forehead.

"Shadow, Swallows-" *Clink* An icicle, hits him in the metal mask. Looking at me in shock, I pull my eye and stick out my tongue. Crushing the metal spike in his hand he, yells for the cultist to get me.

"Shadow, Swallows!" They yell as they run at me. Clapping my hands, I jump into the air, and a slide from ice forms. Getting speed on it, I jump off the first cultist.

Stepping from shoulder to shoulder on the cultists, I jump from the last one into the air and make an ice spear. Flying at the leader, he forms a shield out of the shadows to protect him.

"Wrong! I was aiming for this bastard!" Landing near Edward, I cut the shadowy chains keeping him bound to the ground. Archin his back, he screams at the top of his lungs, pushing his chest forward, he charges the cultist, and throws them like bowling pins.

Spinning my Ice staff in hand, I block a strike from the leader. "Look at you! In the yellow, you look like fucking banana!" Mocking him, He kicks me away.

"At least my sense of good clothes isn't a white scarf around my neck. Vein pops on my forehead, but I tell myself to be calm. "Please, go back to your fruit bowl, and let the smart organisms do the hard work."

Having enough of me he puts a finger to his mouth and whispers. "Lucernae umbra"

Suddenly the hall goes dark, it's similar to what Oswald did, but this time, it's fully dark, the ground feels like mud, and countless small balls of flame light the pure darkness.

What looks like a giant serpent, wraps around the man. "Ouroboros"

The snake lunges at me, so I jump over its face and run down its long body. When I turn around, the snake tries to bite me. Sliding down under its body, it follows me, but gets stucked as I looped it around it's own body.

"He's not the smartest cookie now is he?" Seeing the blood boil on the cultist's face, he claps his hands and tries to untangle to snake to no avail. "You bastard, You're gonna suffer!" Extending his hand the darkness forms into a large spear.

Running at me, he yells. "You don't understand The Lantern! Embrace the shadow!"

Stabbing his spear forward, I jump up and stomp it into the ground, Making my own ice spear, I stab him into his robe, only to feel a metal plate beneath it. Pushing him back, Ispin my staff, and strike his side.

Pulling out the spear, he tries to stab my stomach. Raising an ice pillar, his spear shatters the ice, sending shards everywhere. Hitting the floor with my leg, I create a sonic wave that throws the shards into the air.

Punching the empty air, the shards shoot toward him, ribbing his yellow robe, he takes a knee to withstand the onslaught.

Seeing his white eyes, peek from behind the mask, he sees me charge at him with my spear. I think won, but his sudden jumps turns the battle.

..........

Meanwhile, outside, Edward grabs one of the cultists by the leg and slams him over the others. Hameeirng them down into the floor, he stops as he notices a large black sphere forms behind them. Punching it, a loud ringing sound is heard. Switching out his arm, he twists his whole body.

Ring The loud ringing makes the cultists go deaf, some of them straight up fall to the ground and scream as blood sprays out of their ears. But Edward just smiles. Speeding up, his punches gain speed and the ringing sound is replaced by almost explosion-like sounds.

Starting to see a small dent, He pulls back and

*CRACK!* Shatering the shadow sphere, he sees a large snake turn into a mere shadow on the ground. Ravne stands proudly with blood dripping from his arm while the cultist leader holds a dark spear.

Pulling it back, Edward runs to Ravne to protect him, but it's too late, the spear pierces his stomach. Pulling it out, Raven's blood sprays over the hall.

"Raven!"

Raven's blood turns black upon touching the blade. Edward grabs hold of the spear and pulls the cultists closer. Headbutting his mask he screams in pain, hitting him again.

Screaming like crazy, he hits his head against the cultist's metal mask. Its spike bend upon coming to contact with Edwards's head, and his mask dents inwards.

His ink-like blood flows on Edwards's hand and the cultists' eyes get wide as the moon. Dropping to the ground the cultist leader only manages to whisper

"Shadow swallows..." And his body goes limb.

Running to Raven, Edward lifts Raven. Having a hole in his stomach, the blood flows onto Edward's hands.

"Edward!" Hearing a woman's voice. Edward turns around and sees Amber and Alice run to him. "Amber....."

Telling Edward to move, Amber puts her hands on Raven's stomach. "I hope that what I learned from the holy sister will work.

Green light shines out of her hands, and Raven's body takes a breath once more.