"Dandellion, are you ok?"
"It's my spirit. Without her; my heart is still learning to beat on its own. I'll be…wooo!!"
"Here, lean on me so you don't fall."
"Sister, I don't feel so….."
"Dandellion!! Dandelion!! Wake up, precious girl. Okay…okay. Chest impressions. One, two!! One two!! One..two…three!! One…two…three!! Oh God! Oh God!! God why!!! Don't take her from me. Not like this. I'll do anything for You if you'll only let my sister live. Please!! What do you want me to do? I'm listening for your still small voice, but it has not come. What are you saying?"
" Praise me for I have done great and mighty things."
"Praise You? How can I praise You? Dandelion, hangs on by a thread and you want me to just not do anything and praise You?"
"Do you not believe?"
"I do, I do!!"
"Then why don't you praise me? Are you not fearfully and wonderfully made?"
"I am!!"
"Then what is stopping you?"
"Nothing!! Nothing is stopping me. Nothing stopped me before and nothing is stopping me now. I just keep making up excuses not to do it."
"Then do it now. It doesn't have to be a long praise, but a short simple praise will do. Have it be from the heart."
"Staryln, it's okay. I'm not going anywhere. Psalm 150:6, 'Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!!"
"Father, we praise You for all that You are and for all that You are continuing to do. In Your word it says in Genes 2:7 that You formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life so that the man became a living being. Please breathe your breath into my sister and show her heart how to beat again. I pray."
"Adalyn…I mean Starlyn, look!! There is an object floating in the air just above your head. Catch it before it flies away."
"Got it!! Where'd it come from?"
"I don't know but flip it over. It has an inscription on it. What does it say?"
"Oxygen!"
"Oxygen?"
"Oxygen?"
"Wait a second."
"What is it, Dandelion?"
"When I was with the Christians and they plotted to kill you they were looking for pieces from Bible verses they spoke outloud. They already had the witch bottle but now they needed the fire and were so close to getting it before you showed up and I came back to your side."
"What are you saying? They forgot a piece?"
" It appears that way."
"Sixth Star, what do you make of this? Is Dandellions story correct?"
"Every word she says is true. So wrapped up were the Christians that they collected the heat, but when they got attacked; they forgot which piece they were on and thought they only needed the stake left."
"If that is true then maybe we don't need to beat the Christians to the stakes?"
"Huh?"
"If I'm thinking clearly then they may have forgotten one insy winsy little piece, but this piece is more important than all of the other pieces put together. Without oxygen, fire cannot grow and they will see that. They may be able to stun me with the bottle but once they tie me up to the stake and light me on fire…..it won't burn. Yea!! Yea!! We can use their mistakes to our advantage."
"What are you doing? You're gonna break it!!"
"I'm not going to break it. I'm just splitting it in two."
"Why?"
"Why? Well once they figure out that there is a piece missing then the two only other people they can point fingers at is us. When that happens then they'll attempt to hunt us down and take back what is 'rightfully' theirs, but even if they attack you or me; they won't have the full piece because...."
"Because we'll each have a piece. Now I'm starting to get it. But it won't work."
"Why not?"
"They will see that the piece is split on one side so that'll lead them to believe there is another side which in turn will lead them to hunt down both of us."
"I can see that someone has been listening. Heuwwwww!!!! There, I just used my ice breath and now this piece looks whole. Give me yours and I'll do the same thing."
"Whole? Hopper, we are not whole. In fact we are the furthest thing from it. Instead of being whole; we are the ones with holes."
"Shadow, don't back down on me now. Not like this. We are so close yet so far."
"Exactly!! Sixth Star showed us our true selves so we tried to repent our ways, but that didn't work. Willow and her family kicked us out and said we didn't belong. Next, we tried going to the Resistance, but they too kicked us out and said we didn't belong. Course they used more force to get their point across, but they are called the Resistance after all. Lastly we tried doing a good deed by helping a girl out in her time of distress, but it was too late."
"Shadow, good deeds do not get us into Heaven. It's our hearts that get us into Heaven. Also, what help did you provide?"
"Umm,regardless of what I did or didn't do; it didn't work. Adalyn mistook our act of helping as nothing more than fakes. Now Sixth Star and Adalyn have teamed up to give us the punishment we deserve….and we deserve it all."
"Shadow, don't say that. You act as if the world has come to an end. Wasn't it you who wanted all of this in the first place?"
"Yeah, but now a Hopegiver is involved. Eelon may rule over spirits and souls, but Hopegivers command spirits and souls. Who are we to stand against her?"
"Shadow, we are Christians!!"
"Are we!!"
"How could you say such a thing?"
"Adult fight!!! Adult fight!!! Adult fight!!!!"
"Shut up, Zeke!!"
"Look at us. We're supposed to be setting an example and representing to this younger generation what the word Christian truly means."
"Exactly, Hopper. It's just as Adalyn said. Christian is just a word. It has no meaning. It's not until we put action behind the word that it starts to show power and turns from a noun to an action verb."
"So are you with me or not? I know what the stakes are and they've just been raised. If any part of this plan goes wrong then Sixth Star could be lost forever and I….I mean we would never see Sixth Star in her true form ever again. What do you say?"
"Hopper, I see what you're trying to do here. She is your sister and someone whom I love so you're hoping that love will bring me back to your side."
"Is it working?"
"Well…..it's as they say….love always wins!!"
"Perfect!! I knew it would work. We leave for the stake at sunrise."
"Umm, not to intrude on your conversation or anything, but isn't the tournament tomorrow?"
"Hopper?"
"We leave for the stake in five minutes!!!"
"Can you make it twenty?"
"How bout I meet you halfway?"
"Deal!!"
"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ'S!!!!!!!"
"Dandellion, what are you doing? Wake up!!"
"I'm getting my beauty sleep for tomorrow so I'm wide awake and ready for anything."
"Dandellion, you don't need your beauty sleep because you're already beautiful as is."
"Awwwwwwwwww!!!"
"Umm, was that an 'Awwwwww' or was that a 'yawwwwwwww'?"
"Umm, a little bit of both to be honest."
"Come on. With the last of every dwindling light…"
"We praise the Lord tonight!!! No? Why are you shaking your head? Is that not what you were thinking? What were you going to say?"
"I was going to say we'll spy out the competition tonight….but yours was way better."
" Why thank you!"
"Save your P's and Q's for after we slay the beast tomorrow."
"Speaking of beast, where do you think Dragon has been this whole time?"