"Adalyn!! Adalyn!! Can you hear me? Adalyn!!"
"She's not breathing."
"Check for a pulse!!"
"....Nothing."
"No! No!! Noo!!! There has to be a pulse. She can't die like this; not here…not now!! I won't accept this."
"Dandellion, she's dead."
"No!! What was it he said? Twist, and clench!! No."
"Dandellion!!"
"Clench and pull."
Dandelion!!"
"Ohh!! He said to clench and twist!!"
"Dandellion, stop!! There is nothing you can do. Her heart has stopped."
"Then give her a new one!!"
"I can't give her a new one….but I know someone who can."
"Who?"
"Defend me!! This will take a while. Come on Adalyn. I said you were needed down there, but you are now needed up here. Come back to me."
"Anything?"
"Let me put my ear closer…..no!!"
"Keep trying. I won't give up and neither will you."
"Hey!! Zoom camera seven closer in on the middle of the circle. I don't think Adalyn's dead."
"Dandellion, I hear something!!!!"
"What?"
"It's faint…..but there's a pulse!!"
"Mommy, could she really still be alive? I thought that evil man stabbed her heart."
"He did, Junior; but he must have not stabbed it hard enough. Now shh!! Pay close attention to that camera over there and cross your fingers."
"Okay, mommy. I'll cross my fingers and my toes. She needs all the help she can get."
"One…two…three!! Come on Adalyn. Stay with me. One..two…three. *Huww!! One..two..three."
"Is she gonna make it?"
"I don't know. I'm losing her pulse fast."
"Then hurry up with the transfer."
"I'm trying my best."
"Remember, in order for the transfer to work; she has to be able to hear you. We are no God. We can't make someone out of dead bones."
"Just focus on your fighting and keep them off my back.
Adalyn, your pulse is weak, but stay with me. Healer hands…do your magic. Ezekiel says, 'Therefore, if you are in Me then I will make you a new creation. The old is gone and the new has come. I will instill in you a new heart and put a new Spirit in you. I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit in you and move you to follow My decrees and be careful to keep my laws."
"Anything?"
"Don't rush God, but I can start to feel her pulse rising. Someone must be watching over us."
"I told you, mommy. I told you my extra precaution of crossing my toes would help."
"Yes, Junior. Yes, you did!!"
"HER FINGERS ARE MOVING!!"
"Come on Adalyn, I believe in you."
"Hey!! Ace, get over here and help out. Stop mumbling to yourself and watching the screens."
"Yes sir."
"Is she still with us?"
"Her breathing is slowing, but yes."
"Where am I? Am I…am I dead!!!"
"Miss, you are neither dead…nor living!!!!"
"Who..who's there? I see a face, but I do not recognize the man that speaks from it."
"Ugh, I feel hurt. After all I did for you…..sister!!"
"......Leo!!! You're a Hopegiver?"
"Ha. Nah!! I'm just a heartgiver; which is kinda ironic since you took mine; but that's in the past. We live in the present. By the way, you're in Nowhere; above the waves."
"Above? Why am I above the waves and not down below? Should I not be down there? I am a Hopegiver and have to inspire hope in a dying world so that they can get back to their families."
"Hopegiver!! You're not a Hopegiver…. yet!! Jesus has given you His heart, and right now Sixth Stars healing hands are the only thing keeping you alive so that you can retrieve it. The reason you must retrieve it is because Jesus may have offered you His heart, but He doesn't just freely give. You have to earn it. So, what's it going to be? If you fight me and win then I'll give you your body back plus a new heart and a new soul. If you fight me and lose though; then you stay a Hopegiver forever."
"What if I decide not to fight?"
"Well, if you don't want to fight for your heart and just give up instead, then I know this great stream of water that you can just soak your feet in and drown.
"Drown?"
"You're needed up here just as much as you are needed down there, but you can only choose one. So, choose fast before Sixth Star loses her hold on you forever."
"I'm not going to fight you, little brother."
"It's not me you're fighting."
"I killed you once already. Don't make me do it again."
"But I do want you to kill me. I want you to kill me over and over and over and over and over again. I never want you to let me live. Why? To follow God, you must put Him above anything and everyone you hold dear…..including family. If the choice ever becomes family or God; then I'm sorry, but you got to take up your cross and follow Him. He'll give you a new Family!!"
"I don't want a new family!!! I want my old one back."
"YOUR FAMILY ABANDONED YOU!!!!"
"No. That's not true. You speak lies."
"THEY LEFT YOU IN THE WOODS TO ROT WHILE THEY TURNED THEIR BACK!!!!!"
"You're wrong. My family loves me, and I love them."
"Then why are they all trying to kill you?"
"Sixth Star, I can't hold them off much longer. They keep coming. Can we switch?"
"No!! I am the only one standing between your sister and an eternal life as a Hopegiver. You have to keep fighting and never give up. Both of you!!!"
"If I have to choose between the love of my family or the love of my Father…..I'd choose family any day."
"Adalyn, I was really hoping you wouldn't say that…. but who am I to think you could've changed? Guess I was wrong."
"Leo, stop!!! Your attacks on me are meaningless. I will not fight you."
"Fine. I'll do the fighting for both of us then."
"Ow!! Ow!! Stop!! Leo, you're hurting me. Ouch!! Don't poke me there. I won't give in. Leo!! Leo!! I said…..STOP!!!!"
"Ooo. Good hit, sister. Wasn't expecting that."
"Leo? Leo? Stay with me now. Are you ok? I didn't mean to hurt you. It just happened. I'm sorry."
*Ach, ach* Adalyn, come closer. Closer!! I need to tell you something."
"What is it, Leo? Did I pass?"
"If you don't fight for the Truth, then how are you supposed to keep it? Nobody trains another to enact policies and fight across seas; when back home, they don't even enforce their own thing they are 'fighting' for in the first place. The reason the soldier went to fight somewhere else instead of at home is because he was first pushed out of his home because it was too rough. He thought that his town couldn't change, but if he goes to a town that doesn't know him; then maybe he can make a change. Remember, sister; it's never the knife that's away from home that cuts the deepest….ut the one closest to you."
"Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!! Huu, haau!! Huu, haau!!! *EEE ouch!!
You may have tricked me by stabbing a knife into my side…. but that's the last time you'll ever get close to me. I didn't want to fight you again, but it's not called killing if you're only practicing self-defense. I'm gonna peel you like an onion until your insides become your outsides!!!!"
"There is the Adalyn I know. If you don't see your family as the enemy then you'll never be able to win God's heart. Your family will keep yours under lock and key. It's your job to open it and use it as you own."
"Sixth Star…how's it going? Is my sister gonna make it?"
"....There is no pulse!!! I tried everything.
She's dead!!
The fight is now hers alone."