Everything was black and slowly began to shine through with a little bit of light. Cerene found herself in the middle of a field with a valley. She walked forward looking around.
"Hello?" She called out.
She hated these dreams. Why couldn't she just have normal dreams like normal people. She hated that everything was a nightmare. She continued forward and got a chill.
Brrr "Why's it so cold?" She started shivering as she walked further in. Everything was sunny and bright, the sky was clear and beautiful yet she was freezing.
"Watch out"
"Huh?"
She turned around to look for the voice that called out to her. She saw a giant eyeball behind her watching her.
"AAHHHHHH"
She ran.. She ran as fast as she could but the eye was just as fast, it was on her heels. She tried to run around and lose it behind trees but to no avail.
"Stay still and duck." The voice said.
"What's that supposed t- Huh!?"
The groud slowly turned into quicksand and Cerene began to sink. She began to struggle to stay up and then she remembered what the voice had said.
"Still and duck."
She kept still and ducked her head down. The eye lost her and eventually gave up the search. Seeing that the eye was gone, she tried to make her way out.
"Not...this... time!" She waded through the quicksand. She was ready to give up. Her strength was fading and she was tired. She finally got to the otherside Luckily it wasn't deep and her feet were able to touch the ground. She climbed out and shook some of the mud off of her clothes. She saw a small house in the distance and headed towards it. She knocked on the small house to see if anyone was home.
"WHO THE HELL IS IT?" An angry teenager answered the door.
"Excuse me, you don't have to be rude y'know! I'm lost and I need directions."
"Ewww you flithy thing! What are you a glorf!?!"
"Excuse me?!?! You dare insult ME!!! That way? The hell do you think you are?!?!?!"
"Oh ho ho. Let me guess, you're one of those lower demons that my father sent to retrieve me? He must be desperate to send.." He paused and looked her up and down. "This." He pointed up and down at Cerene.
".....The fuck did you just say?"
"Be gone filth the future kiiii-" He was interupted as Cerene pushed him.
"Oh feisty, are we." He readjusted himself. "Bring it on mudpot" He pushed Cerene back. "NOW WHAT!"
"How dare you push me!! I am-"
"You're what? My foot stool? Glorf peasant ." He said as he spat on her.
"AHHRRGG" She yelled before punching him in the face. She climbed ontop of him and hit him in the face. The two of them kept landing blows on one another as they both yelled insults. Rolling aorund on the floor, Cerene rolled near a mirror and caught a glance of her appeareance. She looked.. older.... She couldn't look away... She didn't even reconize herself. The boy took that opportunity to sneak her. As he punched her in the face the door swung open.
"We have found you Prince."
"Bastard!" She got up and stomped on his stomach.
"Wanna go? Let's go!" She jumped ontop of him as he was trying to crawl away. She grabbed his hair and sat on his back.
"Guards, get this glorf off of me!!"
"Sir, you probably shouldn't call the princess a troll." The guard on the left said.
She smashed his face in the ground
"Muffish?"
"Yes, Sir, Princess."
"Eh mate gerr"
"Sir, we can't understand face smash talk?" The guard on the left said.
"Good one!" Cerene called out.
"Thank you Madam."
*Riiiing Riiiing*
Cerene let go of the Prince.
"What's that sound?"
*Riiiiiing Riiiing*
Cerene woke up reaching her hand around everywhere to cut off her alarm.
Cerene rolled out of bed and face planted on the floor. She could tell what kind of day she would have.
The day went as planned and Belle dropped the girls off to their classes. Thankfully he didn't have to keep traveling back and forth to help them find their classes. He decided to go and visit his mother. He went to the bathroom and checked to see if anyone was around.
"Patentibus." He whispered before opening the door to a portal. He stepped inside and was on their side of the universe.
Back in school, Cerene was having a hard time paying attention. She kept zoning out thinking about the dreams that she had been having and the fact that she had a whole grandmother that she didn't even know about! She was one step closer to finding her mother. It was like her dreams had been realized. She could finally have a mother. But then again.... She really liked Ms. Zyneil... She was like the mother she always wanted. What would happen to their relationship?
"Zee!" Mila called
"Huh?"
"Everyone's leaving for their next class."
"Oh.." Cerene gathered her things and got up.
"You okay? You seem like you're out of it."
"Yeah, I just haven't been able to sleep lately."
"Sounds like you need a girl's night how far away do you live?"
"I'm not sure... I don't go a lot of places." She says as the bell rings.
"We'll talk more after class. Lates." Mila says as she heads to her next class.
"Yeah.. Lates.."
Cerene continued with her day stuck in her head. She had so many questions. She really needed to talk to her mother.
"Maybe, I should talk to her tonight..." She thought.
When Belle took the girls home it seemed more empty than usual.
"Sooo listen." Belle said as him and the girls were in the kitchen. "My brother and sister will be away for a bit. They'll be back in a day or two though. I'm in charge while their gone. Chores will still be done and rules will be followed, got that?
"Yes Sir." The girls said in unison.
They ate a snack and did their chores. Spent time with their uncle took baths, then went to bed. Sharrie went to sleep, but Cerene couldn't. She laid in the bed tossing and turning. Every groan, every angry pillow face plant led her the "I should visit Nana thought." She searched around for her necklace in her drawer rubbed it, and she was gone.