"You need help up?"
"Thanks, but I can watch my own back."
"If it wasn't for me then you would have no back to watch."
"Sixth Star, watch out!!"
"Wha...where!!! Ohh, hi Dragon. We finally meet. My name is Sixth Star and you are…"
"Roarrrrrrrrrrrr!!!"
"Phew!! What bad breath you have. Your breath stinks, your gums need brushing, and your fire is only half max."
"Zeke, you see this? Even the Dragon can't sway here."
"Why have you not disintegrated like the others? I burned you?"
"Yes, yes you did. You may have burned my physical body, but the same place you came from is where I just left. You may burn me all night long but I will keep rejuvenating parts. Why? The souls that linger in the deep are the same ones that come whenever I need them?"
"Sixth Star, what are you talking about? You make no sense. Where exactly were you?"
"Zeke, I told you. I came from the depths where light and dark don't even twine. Lost souls wander aimlessly in an attempt to find their way, but there is none. It is my job to keep them as comfortable as possible and if I can; restore hope in them."
"That's impossible."
"What's impossible, Shadow?"
"The only place that comes close to existing as you described; would be…...NOWHERE!!!"
"Precisely. I am glad someone has remembered our little journey."
"But..but...but...I built it. I set the rules and I govern it."
"Hah!! You built no such thing and governed no one. Dragon here simply told you where he was born and asked if you could help bring it closer to the surface. In your stupid dimlighted mind, you said yes and did what he asked. There are no rules in Nowhere. Wait, I was wrong. There is one rule."
"What's that?"
"Survive until your last breath. The funny thing is; I was never alone myself. Before you called me up, brother...I already had company. On my quest to restore hope I chanced upon a girl who said she was a sorceress in a past life. Now that I think of it. I can't remember her name anymore. All I can remember is her always talking about one man and saying one phrase over and over again. I love you Maurice. I love you Maurice."
"She was of a pure heart and Maurice killed her. He killed his only wife just because he physically saw her too strong but never looked within."
"Thataboy. Now you're paying attention. Just recently there was another young lad who joined us on our quest to restore hope. He also I don't remember his name but he kept referring to himself as….Lionking!! Now I don't know how much truth there is in that for I never saw him transform but yeah. It was just us three purebloods out trying to save the world and restore hope in a dying race."
"Maam. That Lionking you referred to."
"Yeah, what about him? You know his name?"
"He….he was my brother."
"Sister, is my uncle down there? Uncle Aaron is his name, if you remember."
"Nope! I'm sorry Hopper. I don't ever remember seeing a Aaron that ever walked with us."
"How is that possible? He was the most selfless man I knew."
"I'm sorry, but the waters only accept people of pureblood. It doesn't matter if you were born pure either. You have to stay pure and you have to die pure; that's how it goes. Somewhere along the lines your uncle must have held a grudge against your dad and he never let it go."
"But it's the other way around. My dad..our dad...held grudges against him. It was never the other way around...right?"
"I'm sorry, but I can't look into his heart to find out. Only God can do that?"
"Who all is down there? I mean, how many lost souls are there?"
"Zeke, they are as numerous as the stars. As numerous as the stars. The only way they can be released and travel up the river to up here is if they infect a live host. That live whomever will bring them up to the surface and they'll be able to taste fresh air , but they'll still be trapped in their vessel. It is only through the power of love that they will be able to come free and reunite with their physical being once again."
"How many times has that happened?"
"Ummm…"
"Is it less than or greater than one hundred."
"All I'll say is that there are still a lot of people under there that need my help. Oh look; here comes Dandellions spirit that I cast out."
"The...the...That's a spirit!! She's so…..beautiful!!"
"Zeke, mouth closed. You're drooling again."
"Umm..hello! My name is Zeke. What's yours?"
"My name is Willow."
"Pleased to meet you Willow. Will a kiss on the hand suffice, my love? Tell me; why are you so shy? Your voice is like a whisper and...Waa. I got you. Can you not walk?"
"Pardon my stature but you see; I haven't been in my own body for more than four hundred years?"
"Four hundred!! What have you been doing this whole time?"
"I've been wandering."
"Uhh..come again?"
"Willow, come here. It's me, Sixth Star. Boys, you see now; everytime someone dies they don't go straight to heaven. Hopper, your dad said Jesus won't ever open the gates until it is judgment day. Then everyone will stand in front of the gates and judge. If Jesus does not intercede and say to His Father, 'Hold up just a minute. You can't hurt my son for I know him,' then you'll be cast into the lake of fire along with all other lost souls forever. So where do they go?
"You all chanced upon one of these meet and greets once."
"We have?"
"Yes, when you were in the dark cave and had to find the sword of the spirit. Those were Mists back there you had to escape from. Now there are portals like that all over earth that transport you to different places. If you looked hard enough; you would've found a small opening not even a few clicks in where you could've walked through and been transported to here."
"Here?"
"Sorry, I meant Nowhere. You could've been transported there. There are soul portals, hell portals, and even angel portals. What, you don't expect demons and angels to just fly around all day do you? Some of them fly around and that is when we catch them and they are seen on camera but nobody believes."
"So there are other AirBnB's other then me."
"Shadow, there are hundreds...no...thousands upon thousands of AirBnBs where angels and others go to change clothes and disguise themselves so that they can fit in with us. You could have an angel walk up right beside you and you wouldn't even know it. Imagine what shock the two must have felt if they would have known that the 'gardener' they were talking to that tended to the burial grounds was actually Jesus. They would've flipped their lids. Now imagine if I locked one hundred of you up in a room; turned off the lights, and then turned on the black lights then you would see twenty of them were actually angels. How would you act?"
"I think I can speak for everyone here that how the people of the Bible acted when they saw an angel would be the same way we would act."
"How is that, Zeke?"
"We'd be scared out of our wits or either start bowing down and worshipping."
"None of those are the correct responses when you see an angel though."
"I know, but can you blame us?"
"No...I guess I cannot. Shall we continue?"
"Continue?"
"Well, you slayed one Witch, but now it's onto the big one."
"I thought you didn't want us to kill her."
"Haa, I'm looking for new recruits down in the depths anyways. I rather her die, be transported and then help us there instead of being guiltful up here. I hate to say this but it will be a good test to see how pure she really is. You've scarred her up so much that to be honest; she would be ten times more effective down there helping us then wallowing in sadness up here."
"So you're not going to stop us?"
"Nope, and I'm not going to help you either. I have a new mission and a new journey now. I am doing what mom would've wanted, Hopper. I am doing what she trained me for. I am reviving hope in a dark world. I just didn't think it would be on this grand of a scale."
"So where are you going?"
"Well, Willow here has been in darkness so long that she's had no one to care for her. So we're off to go find her family if any and then reunite them."
"So this is goodbye then?"
"Hopper, if you need me; you know what to do."
"Goodbye Sixth Star."
Goodbye Hopper."
"Goodbye Willow."
"Goodbye Zeke."
"Goodbye Dragon and Shadow. I still love you both. Don't you ever forget that and what we had was real. It's just that you were a bad guy and I had to…."
"No worries. I'm just glad that you're still alive in a sense. I thought I lost you forever when I stabbed you."
"You could never lose me, Shadow."
"Goodbye Sixth Star."
"Bye Shadow. I hope you all the best on your journey."