Fina opened her eyes slowly, her vision still blurry. Her mouth was dry and patched and her limbs felt weak like her body was on lockdown.
The room she was in was dark and darkness oozes through it.
She was dying.
Her body suddenly became cold. Like ice.
And she felt something moving from her feet, passed her organs and out of her mouth.
When, she looked up, she saw herself staring at her.
Then, it turned and walked out of the room.
Blood spilled out of her mouth and with a single draw of air, she gave in to total darkness.
Fina walked past corridors.
Students laughed and chatted on the way.
She only have one destination in mind and that was the library.
When she turned another corridor, she saw Bryce Parker and Kit walking towards her.
Kit was reading from a book while Bryce walked straight.
As Fina walked past him, he suddenly turned making kit to look up.
"What's wrong?" Kit asked
Bryce Parker shook his head.
"Nothing. Let's go"
Fina walked through doors before finally getting to the library.
No one was there which made it extremely strange.
"I've been waiting for you."
She turned to see Xiana Kang behind her.
"We can speak" Fina said in surprise.
Xiana smiled.
"Isn't it sad? I really believed in you. He hasn't been able to find me. Yet. He wants something from me"
"The book" Fina said
Xiana nodded.
"Where is it?" Fina asked
"It's too late now. If there's one place dark students can find you the most, it's through your dreams. Sentimincus is a common spell we use. I truly wanted out. I didn't want to do it anymore. Bryce and Xavier tried to save me. I died in Bryce Parker's arms. I wasn't mad. They made it seem like that. You do not know what dark students are capable of"
"You are a dark student. What are dark students?"
Xiana smiled and shook her head.
"I swear on my grave, Fina Clark. You do not want to know. Anything relating to us, is horror on its own. I'd rather die than go back"
"Where?"
Xiana shook her head again.
"It's evil. They are taking the book there. I watched them meet every night. No matter how hard you could have tried, you wouldn't find all the clues. You'll only be left with more questions. More questions, no or few answers. They made it like that"
"Tell me where the book is, Xiana"
"I could but they'd take it easily from you. They can access you and right now, they awaits you. Either you wait until you are gone or you fight before you die" Xiana said "But remember, wandering deaths don't go anywhere except vanish completely. I knew I wasn't going to escape. I wanted to give the Guardian Queen the book but I knew I wouldn't succeed. I'd to hide it where no eyes could find it. I was cursed"
Xiana's head popped off suddenly and blue blood sipped out of it making Fina extremely terrified.
Xiana was gone.
Forever.
Something begin to write on the wall.
"It was nice meeting you, Fina Clark"
She needs to find that book.
In dreams does it all lay.
Translation - in death does it all becomes real.
Fina rushed through the library but came up with nothing. She did this multiple times but found nothing.
This is where Xiana Kang used to stay the most which meant that she's been guarding something for months now.
Fina searched through shelves. She searched the whole library but came up with nothing.
She walked slowly to the spot where Xiana stands the most and looked from Xiana's point of view.
She didn't see anything.
Then, she looked harder and thoroughly.
She saw it. It was what Xiana stared at the most.
In front of her lies a secret trap door.
Everyone passed through it everyday. Everyone moved around it. But no one will ever knew.
The search wasn't easy. No one said it was easy.
Because, you have to be on death list before you find it. And once you are already on death list, you are never coming back.
Xiana said she was once on the same page with her.
You have to die to get the book. You have to be far from reality to get the book.
The only way you can see something invisible is not by sensing or feeling, it's by death.
They haven't been looking for the book, they have been knocking on death's door.
And death have finally answer her call.
The trap door floats in the air. Gold decorated it's rim.
Bright light shone from it as Fina stepped towards it. The door opened by it's own and she stepped into it.
Everything changed and she found herself in a mirrored room.
The room was extremely chilly and she shivered hard.
Another trap door appears in the air and she entered. She entered through twenty one trap doors with intensified chilly background before the Trapdoor stopped appearing.
The room she was in was total ice and she knew her body was already freezing. The part of her that wasn't real.
Her teeth clattered so hard she was scared it might break.
She moved round the room to find anything. Anything.
As she kept searching she felt everything tilt suddenly.
Time wasn't on her side anymore.
Fina stood in the middle of the room and looked carefully at the glass mirrors.
When things becomes extremely hard to find, you wait, look and watch carefully.
Two minutes was already gone when her eyes fixed on the fifth glass.
Fina walked towards it and withdrew her hands, giving the glass a very hard hit with her fist.
It cracked but didn't shatter. She tried this thrice before the glass completely gave way and shattered. Her hand covered in her own blood.
There, in front of her, stood the strangest door she had ever seen.
The symbol of a star shaped heptagon with a red ruby in the midst was on the door. The door was built with turning wheels. Locked wheels.
Fina pounded on the door but nothing happened.
She kicked the door feeling the claws of death wrapping on her neck.
Nothing happened.
She sat down on the chilled floor with a frustrated sigh and glared at the door.
She was cold and the dress she wore have little impact on the cold air.
As she touched her locket, she remembered Xiana's ring.
Fina brought out the ring from her pocket and got up.
She placed the ring on the ruby and it got swallowed completely.
The wheels turned and the door unlocked.
To reveal a second door.
The red eye.