"Morning, Sunshine. How did you sleep?"
"It's morning already?"
"Yes!! Come on. I saw my dad sneaking around last night and I think I know why. Wolf is in trouble, and we need to go help him."
"What time is it?"
"It's five thirty in the morning. Rise and shine, Star."
"What do you think your father did? Maybe he just had a little chat with your brother?"
"I know my brother, but I also know my dad better and he's more of the hurt first, ask for forgiveness later kind."
"Where's the kid? We can't leave him alone this time in the presence of your dad. I am worried for him."
"Don't worry. I have hired an excellent babysitter. You know her well. Her name is Willow."
"Awwwwwwwaghhh!! What a dream I had last night. It more ended like a nightmare. Glad the sunlight is peeking through the window to remind me that darkness never lasts forever. Isn't that right, Adalyn?
Adalyn?"
"Adalyn"
"Rumour? Summer?......Adelheid!!!!!!
I remember everything."
*DING DONG*
"Oh no. I need to clean up."
"Wolf, it's me, Shadow, your brother. Let me in. I know father was here last night and left you a not so thoughtful present. I came to see if you're ok. Can we come in?"
"WE? Oh no..no….no..no…nooooo!!!!!
IS STAR WITH YOU?"
"She's right here. We came to see if you're all ok. How is everyone?"
"THEY'RE DEAD!!!!!"
"Are you sure?"
"I…I…I… didn't mean to say…."
"WE'RE COMING IN. Please greet us."
"Wait. DON'T MOVE. I'LL BE THERE IN A FLASH."
"Hello brother. Long night?"
"You have no idea. Please, come in. Watch your step though. The floor is still wet."
"Why didn't you put up 'slippery when wet' signs all over so that you know where not to step."
"I was too tired to bother."
"Haa!! There's the brother I know. A smile worth a thousand words."
"Well, I may be able to speak but our first victim can't utter a single one. Adelheid trapped her in a corner and froze her in time. In actuality, all of this started in the bedroom."
"Doesn't everything start in the bedroom!!!!"
"Well, I don't mind if I get soft bites on my shoulder of affection from my girl; but when my girl full on bites my fat, ripping it off, that's where I draw the line. Rumour never stood a chance. As you can see, the dining room is not that far from my bedroom. There is still a blood trail that leads back to my room. Adelheid cornered her and too weak to fight back, Night claimed his first victim."
"Wolf, father is nothing but water and ice. Why not just let Summer torch him to death?"
"That thought had crossed our mind, but Adalyn and I did our best to convince her not to. We couldn't risk her scorching Adelheid in the process. This upturned table that Adelheid flipped over is where we hid and plotted our next move. Believing fire indeed does trump water, Summer poked her head up despite our yelling her to stay down. She never stood a chance. As you can see, her mouth is ajar and she was about to spit fire, but Adelheid beat her to it."
"I'm so sorry, Wolf; truly. I wish we were here to help."
"It's okay. You're here now."
"Wait, there were five of you and Adelheid took out two of you so far. You are not harmed, and she was not harmed, so where is Adalyn? Where's my girl?"
"She…..she….."
"What? Speak it."
"She…. didn't freeze. NightMaster must have had a vendetta for her because her end was more gruesome than others. If you will please follow me into the kitchen, I shall show you. Just know that once you see her, you cannot unsee her."
"Wolf, Adalyn and I have been through it all. We have traversed worlds, galaxies, blocks, neighborhoods, and dominions together. There is nothing that can...oh!! Oh my!!!"
"She ripped her chords out like they were spaghetti. Left holes and scars all over her body and then left her to die…. squirming in her own pool of blood until there was no more blood to spill."
"YOU KILLED HER!!!! YOU KILLED HER. ALL YOU DID WAS STAND BY AND WATCH HER DIE!!!!"
"Star, stop hitting me. I'm sorry. I was stopping Adelheid from further implicting harm by jumping on her back and holding her. It was either protect your girl by laying atop her, which would result in both of us getting killed; or I could focus on Adelheid and save my own skin thus helping secure the lives of many others as well."
"Speaking of Adelheid; where is she?"
"She's safe under lock and key. If you would follow me, please, Shadow. The rooms this way."
"Are you coming, Star?"
"Just give me a minute...maybe an hour."
"Star, if it calms your heart any…. Adalyn will now become a Hopegiver. Is that not a good thing? Father needs more of those."
"Not if there is no Legion that needs saving!!!"
"Come on, Wolf. This spot is nothing new for her."
"I just wish I could've done more. Maybe if I was more on my game, I would have been more prepared for this and could've defended my pack more."
"Wolf, don't do that to yourself. You know how that road goes. The past is the past. You can't change it. The future is what matters. Right now, we just have to honor and do what they would have wanted us to do."
"The only thing they wanted to do...was kill you. Kill Dreamworld. Everyone!!!"
"Wolf, it pains me to say this, but….We need to make the light shine forth."
"Shadow, before you give up everything you believe, just wait until I show you Adelheid, and the room. Maybe that can help explain what I cannot."
"Wait, why are we in an empty room with just a Bible on a pew? Is that?"
"Yes, yes it is. It's the very one, brother. And we're only getting started. Flip the page to Psalm 18. I want to show you something that I wish I could've shown you a long time ago. Repeat after me."
"What do we say?"
"Father, you reach down from on high and take hold of me. You draw me out of the waters."
"You rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me."
"They confronted me in my time of disaster."
"But the Lord was my support."
"He brought me out into a spacious place and rescued me because he believed me.
Umm, brother. Nothing happened."
"That's because you have to say 'Love'."
"Why lo…woo. What's happening?"
"This part always shocks people. Come on. The car's this way."
"Car!! What car? Last I saw you; you didn't have a…. HEALER CAR!!! How?"
"LET ME OUT!!! LET ME OUT!!!!"
"When Night was young, Mother and his dream were the exact same. He built this car, but then someway somehow; his dream started fluttering away. He locked the car away and kept living his life."
"Then mother took it out and gave it to you. Man, that woman. What doesn't she steal?
"She's ummm…doing the wrong things for the right reason.
I'll hold open the door, and you secure Adelheid tight. We don't know if Night is still in her. Ready? One…two..."
"LET ME GO!!! LET ME GO!!!"
"Ouch!! She still bites. I think he's active."
"Brother, she always bites."
"Squirmy slithering little thing. Are you sure she is not your biological sister?"
"Funny. You can let her go now."
"Wait a second. What are these posters on the wall? That one is a picture of me and you playing leapfrog. Look, there is another where we are running a race. I could never outrun you. I don't think anybody could."
"Adalyn came close. We ran to get here, but then she tripped on a branch as we were finishing so I touched the hole first. She was fleeing so fast and couldn't stop herself that she almost went headfirst into the hole."
"She's fast!!"
"Truth be told. Between you and me, I couldn't keep up."
"That's because she ran all her life…. outside!! What have you been doing these past few years? Oh yeah, sneaking in the shadows and working your upper body but not your lower. I can see why she beat you. Hold a minute. What is this a map of? Are those little Healer car stickers and red strings crisscrossing all the major cities?"
"This is the original dream that mom….and dad…..both had. They thought that if they were going to rebel, they were going to go big or go home. Sadly, since Nightmaster gave up, no one else could build the cars so the dream turned back into a fantasy. I've been trying to rebuild their dream, but I am only one man."
"Father didn't help by sending me to deter your progress. I had no idea."
"It's okay. You've only helped me grow stronger and more determined."
"What are you going to do now? Night has again killed your friends, making you writhe in despair alone."
"Brother, you are mistaken. I am not alone. I have you, which makes me wonder. Why did you come back? Did father send you to clean up the mess and dispose of the bodies?"
"I came to dispose of no one. I tossed and turned all night until Star saw my restlessness and convinced me to confront what was wrong. So...tadaa!! We've come to see if you are all ok."
"Thanks for worrying, but you are too late. The mess has already been done."
"There has to be something we can do. What are you holding in your hand?"
"Oh this? It's just a….wait a second. You're a Pure?"
"No, I'm not. I am the exact opposite of a Pure. Where did you even get the notion of that?"
"Adalyn and I were talking in the woods, and she said that when she went back in time to kill mother, you stumbled upon a cross."
"So, it fell out of her pocket as she was..."
"Flying away. As she flew away, it fell out and you took it."
"So, I became a Pure by mistake. That's impossible."
"True, but what if it wasn't a mistake."
"What are you saying?"
"Since you obtained it in the past, then that means it is here with you now. Check your pockets."
"What the? How'd that get in there? I swear, I never felt that before."
"Maybe it wasn't a mistake that she dropped it."
"Are you saying she dropped it to me, intentionally?"
"All I'm saying is that the cross is just a necklace, but she must've seen something in you that convinced her to believe you were ready."
"Ready? Ready for what?"
"To take your place. Nightmaster gave it to her to give to the next Pure, right?"
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I guess so. Then why give it to me. As far as I know, I am the enemy of their story; not the hero."
"Are you saying that Adalyn made the wrong choice and died for nothing?"
"I…I…no!"
"Out of all the people here, Nightmaster used Adelheid to kill her as brutally as possible making it impossible for her to come back to life. Night gave her the cross and in his clear mind of wanting to help, he gave the cross to Adalyn hoping that she would give it to you."
"But it would have meant so much more if he gave it to me himself."
"Yes, but…"
"He was afraid. He's always afraid. He was afraid back then and disguised himself as a cop, because when he got laughed at; he just gave up. It wasn't until I came into my power that he was willing to show his."
"Exactly. Once the girls left him that night, he went back to being mean ol jealous master of shade. Wanting to still give you the cross, Adalyn knew this wasn't the timeline for it. You would've said you didn't need it. So, she had to give it to you in a different timeline; hence…this one."
"Why this timeline? Father and I are at our Primes of building dreamworld and will have no outside influence. This demands our utmost focus."
"Right again my fellow brother. This timeline wasn't going to work, so Adalyn had to figure out another path. She decided she had to go further into your past when you were just coming to get your memories back. That's when she gave it to you. Course, you wouldn't know what it was, but that was back when Night was a good guy. He would've told you what it symbolized and for you to chase it."
"What if I didn't stay? What if I found it and then just…. destroyed it?"
"That's where faith comes in. Now that you know what she sacrificed; I pray you don't crush her dreams just like we did mothers."
"You know something."
"What's that?"
"You're very convincing. It's just that, I can see that your brother knew you so well that he knew where you lived. Sadly though, you never took the chance to know him."
"Shadow what are you...huuu!!!"
"Surprise!!!"
"Father?
Why?"
"BELIEVE!!!!!"
"Noooooo. STAR!!! STAR!!! HELP!!! HELP!!!"
"I love you so much Adalyn, please remember that. As it delights me that you will now become a Hopegiver like me, it also pains me that you must die to become it. I…I...wait. Do you hear that?
"HElllppp!!!!!"
"It's faint, but it sounds like.....WOLF!!!"
"Father, I came to say I'm sorry about last night. I wasn't obeying your wishes and I take full responsibility for my...…father? Where are you? Oh no. Wolf!!"
"I'M HERE!! I'M HERE. WHERE ARE YOU?"
"IN HERE. FOLOW MY VOICE BUT BE CAREFUL. Shadow is not Shadow. Nightmaster shapeshifted and took his likeness. He stabbed me pretty good close to my heart but got away before I could strike back."
"THE DOORS ARE CLOSING. Can you walk on your own?"
"I'm losing too much blood. It is pouring out in gushes. Please hurry."
"WHAT DO I SAY? HOW DO I KEEP THE DOORS OPEN?"
"USE THE BIBLE SITTING THERE ON THE STAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME!!!!"
"WHAT BIBLE? THERE IS NOTHING HERE. NIGHTMASTER MUST'VE TAKEN IT. DON'T WORRY. I'LL THINK OF SOMETHING. WHAT ARE THE WORDS?"
"THE WORDS WILL DO YOU NO GOOD. YOU HAVE TO USE THE BIBLE TO HELP."
"THEN I'LL FIND ANOTHER."
"NO!! YOU CAN'T. IT HAS TO BE THAT BIBLE AND THAT BIBLE ALONE. I wouldn't be surprised if Nightmaster put charges around my whole base. GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE IT BLOWS. SAVE YOURSELF. GET MY BROTHER AND KILL NIGHTMASTER FOR ME."
"Noooo!!!! YOU'LL GET HIM YOURSELF."
"I can't. The blood won't stop coming."
"I CAN….UH….I CAN…DON'T WORRY. I'LL GET HELP."
"Did someone request my help?"
"Summer, how…how…..how'd you get out?"
"You seriously think a little bit of ice is going to keep this bird caged? What do you need?"
"The doors are closing, and Wolf is trapped inside. He has lost a lot of blood and can't move. You get him out and I'll hold the doors open."
"How? They'll crush you to death if you try to stand in the middle."
"Summer, I'm dead. How much more dead can I be? Now hurry."
"WOLF, I'M COMING."
"SUMMER. IS THAT YOU?"
"I already lost one of my packs. I don't aim to lose another."
"Go! Go! Go!! I'm holding the door but can't stay stretched forever."
"I only need a few minutes. WOLF, WHERE ARE YOU?"
"MOTHER!!!
MOTHER!!!!
MOTHER!!!!
"I got you. Hop on my back. We are about to break the sound barrier by how fast we are about to go."
"Summer, hurry!!! It's crushing me."
"REACH OUT YOUR HAND AND GRAB MINE.
I GOT YOU!!!"
*Boom*
"Welp, there goes my home."
"Shut up Wolf and stop moving, I need you still in order to heal your wounds."
"Wait. Where's Adelheid!!"
*Vroom*
"Hey girls. Mind if I share the sky with you? It would've looked pretty weird you flying around with a dragon and me having nothing to fly on. So, I took this car and.... can you believe it flies? I had no idea."
"Hold steady and open the doors. We are coming inside."
"Woo!! What happened to Wolf? Last I saw before I ran out the doors was him talking to his brother Shadow. Did Shadow do this?"
"I can assure you he had nothing to do with this. Shadow is probably lying-in bed right now waiting for me to wake up beside him and give him a kiss good morning. What you see before you is the work of shapeshifting Nightmaster. The first time he sees his son....and he kills him."
"Wolf, hey buddy. Are you feeling better?"
"Where….where are we? What happened?"
"We saved you. Star held the door open like a boss and I flew you out. Jesus may have asked the question can a camel fit through the eye of a needle, but I answered it by saying yes. We narrowly escaped before they closed, your place blew, and then Adelheid drove out of the destruction saving us all!! What about my brother? Where is he?"
"Brother? Wolf, do you not remember? Your brother was never there, but your father was and he seeked vengeance."
"If he truly was your brother, then he would've cared."
"I do care!!!"
"Shadow, what are you doing here? Why aren't you back home sleeping?"
"How can I sleep at a time like this when the cries and bleats of sheep are in my ear? I rode Autumn down here and then when I was close enough, I teleported inside and sent her home. Brother, I'm sorry. I had no idea he would've come. If I did I ...."
"Shadow, it's ok. Your love and trust in him blinded you from preventing."
"Love? My Love for him died when Adalyn did."
(This marks the end of this section so stay turned how it ends!! Even I don't know the end so expect lots and lots of more twists hopefully to come. Thanks for reading :)