"Zok, stop whatever you're doing."
A woman amongst the group of ten speaks up. She's wearing purely blue clothes. Beside her is muscular man who has his arm extended, it seems like he's the one who threw the sword. The sword on the ground jumps up from the ground and returns to the man's hand as if it's the most natural thing in the world.
Thud! Sea who was beside me collapses and hits the ground hard cutting her forehead.
I'm torn between standing still and observing the strange sights that I see and helping her up but I eventually decide to check on her.
Although, the soldiers around me said that they would cut anyone who moves, they won't do anything.
Why was I so sure?
I don't know, I just knew.
While I was trying to wake Sea up. The guy as Zok must have interpreted my actions as hostile as his gaze shifted from Mr Red hair to me.
"Hmm, interesting."
He said as he slowly walked over and stood near me.
The group of ten were staying still and watching me with odd eyes. One of them stands out, a girl who is wearing clothes too fancy for normal people. A pure white coat which glitters and almost reaches her knees. No matter which way you look at it, she seems to be standing out. The girl who was at the back suddenly disappears without anyone noticing, its's as if she's melting into the background.
Suddenly she appears near Zok and thrusts a sword at him but he glitches and the blade cuts through Zok as if he's air, leaving him unwounded.
The next moment, the girl's arm falls to the ground and Zok is still where he is.
What was that?
I ask myself. Was it a vision or something?
While I'm still wondering. The girl with the fancy dress suddenly puts her hand on a sword behind her back but before she moves, she stares intensely at me and...
She removes her hand from the sword and returns to her original position.
Something about that felt wrong, it's as if it wasn't supposed to happen.
"Zok, we are not here to fight."
The woman who seems to be the leader of the ten speaks up.
"Oh yeah? Then tell me Laura, what is it that you seek in my domain?"
Zok asks with a smirk on his face while he readies his blade as if preparing for another fight.
"You know what we're here for. Please leave. I'm not too happy about violence but you seem to be forcing my hand."
Laura replies and unsheathes two swords on her back, as if that's the cue, everyone with her take out their various weapons. Everyone except the girl with weirdly fancy clothes.
Zok suddenly disappears from vision and in the next moment he appears at the very back of Laura and her team.
Right where the girl with fancy clothes is, pointing his sword at her. The girl seems paralyzed with fear seeing a blade mere inches away from her eye.
Laura and everyone else turn and put their weapons around his neck. But he ignores them.
"I-I-I I'm not afraid you."
The girl says stammering. Contrary to her words, her body seems to be sweating buckets.
"Haa, you still haven't changed a bit, Nia. Always requiring someone to protect you."
Zok says his blade moving even closer to Nia's eye.
"Haa, still the same, forever weak. The only brave thing you did was selling your soul to that devil. Pathetic."
Zok says and his blade finally stops as it touches Nia's eyelashes.
Zok glitches again and disappears, and reappearing next to his men who had also taken out their weapons. He raises his hand and they return their weapons. And then they all glitch and disappear as if they were never there.
Once his gone, Nia's shoulders start shaking and muffled sounds of crying can be heard.
"He's gone now, okay"
Laura says and the others nod. It seems they're really close.
A boy holding a spear puts his hand on her shoulder and she shakes it away,
"Leave me alone." She says and moves away to cry alone.
...….
--"Come on, let's go back."
**"I'm sorry, I can't."
--"What are you talking about, do you know how hard I worked for this?"
**"I don't care, if you wanna go back do it alone."
--"No, no, no! I brought here, you wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for me!"
**"I never asked for any of this in the first place! I never wanted to come here! You basically kidnapped me. You don't get to tell me anything."
--"But you're mine. And I'm doing what's best for you."
**"You're doing what's best for you and you only. Just because you didn't like the old world, you brought me here with you and now that you don't like this one either, you want me to go with you."
--"I-I- I only wanted what's best for us."
**"No, you only want what's best for you. Has it ever occurred to you that I have people I love, in this world and the old one?"
--"But I love you. It's why I want us to be together in whichever world."
**"What? You love me?"
--"So you never noticed…. This whole time….. You never noticed."
**"I'm sorry, I thought I was hurting you. I thought you hated me, I thought you were only putting up with me out of kindness."
--"No, I've always loved you. Now, come on, let's go back. Please."
**"I'm sorry, I can't."
--"Why? Why don't you wanna go back?"
**"Because I already love someone else."
The ground is shaking, footsteps are approaching.
**"Go! I'll hold them back."
--"Why, why? Why can't we go back together?"
**"You know as well as I do that I can't"
**"Go now! And, and tell my mom and dad that I'm doing okay, tell them I'm fine, they don't have to worry."
A bright light appears on the ground and rises up circling me, I'm so close. Isn't this what I've always wanted?
Just then, I remember certain words from someone.
"You don't have the right to be angry, everyone is here because of you. Because of your selfish whims. You brought them here, where they might die even tomorrow. Now you must take responsibility for them. You must make sure they're okay. The moment you brought them here, that was the moment you were supposed to throw away your desires and take on the role of a selfless big sister."
Just as the light is about to surround me, I jump out of it and it vanishes like that. My only chance is gone.
**"You're still here?"
--"Yes, what kind of big sister would I be if I abandoned my family."
I say with renewed vigour.
...…..
Haaaaaaaa I suddenly wake up and look around me. I seem to be sleeping on the ground with a thin blanket on top of me. I look around me and I see everyone else sleeping, except for a few who are awake and are surrounding a big fire.
Among the sleeping, some faces stand out.
Nia in her expensive clothes who thinks the ground is too dirty so she would rather sleep on a tree branch.
Skye who hated his name at first so I told him I would call myself Sea and when people see us together they would say it's Sea and Sky which sounds cool.
Fitz who sleeps sprawled on the ground and wriggling around like a fish thrown out of water. And who always dreams of something positive.
Riell, my best friend. Who sleeps straight like a vampire in a coffin and can't be woken up by anything except when you remove her blinds and the sunlight hits her making her scream. I'm still not sure if she's not a vampire.
I pull the blanket closer and cry myself to sleep, cursing my stupidity.