I found myself surrounded by darkness, I couldn't breath and my body was numb. It felt like I was nothing and everything all at once, "Am I dead?" The thought crossed my mind.
"Poor child. Your life has been taken as a sacrifice to me." A bone chilling female voice responded inside my mind. I tried to speak but without any air or movement of my body it was impossible, "Try as you may, but you can't speak here unless I allow it." The voice rang again with a devious tone.
A maddened laughter breaks out as a chaotic female silhouette appeared. Her skin was pale, almost as white as snow, her hair was a purple flame, her garments only covered her waist and below, her neck decorated with a necklace with seven gems on it alongside a serpent with a black and white pattern and bright purple eyes. There was a symbol that laid on her forehead as well as the center of her chest and another at the base of her back, her eyes lacked pupils and were as white as bone, as fiercely as her presence appeared she was beautiful.
"I am Erebus." she says as a malicious smile is carved on her face, her voice instilled fear into my heart, leaving me in anticipation for what was to come next. The closer she got to me, the more my fear grew, however as soon as she gazed upon me properly, her face twisted in anger and revolt. She became furious the moment she laid eyes on me, "Child of Ruin." The words hiss passed her lips in a blood curdling tone, her eyes narrow in anger and cheeky demeanor turns to one of fury. She grabbed my face and her claws slowly sank into my flesh, yet I felt no pain.
"YOU WRETCHED CHILD!!" she yelled out in anger, her voice so loud it sounded like thunder. She then went silent and remained glaring at me, her lips slowly separated and for a moment and I thought she would say something, anything. But instead her expression shifts and a grin appears on her face, she then drifts closer to me and takes a bite of my neck and I slowly lose my strength and pass out.
When I came to I found myself outside the temple, I was alone and I pondered what could be happening. My mind span with questions and worry, I remember that I had died or did I? 'I can't remember ever getting in there.' I remarked to myself while scratching my head.
"How can you when you've never been here Eden." A female voice spoke to me, it was Hazel. When I saw her tears suddenly filled my eyes, the reason however was unknown to me. She whipped away my tears and embraced me with worry written all over her face. My arms wrapped around her tightly as though I had lost her before, it was like my body moved on its own.
"You don't have to worry anymore I'm here Eden, I won't let Whisper harm you again."
'again?' what could she mean by that, her body suddenly became wet and when I looked to see what could be the cause, I saw Hazel as a corpse drenched in blood.
I slowly stepped back, my arms were covered in Hazel's blood. I dropped down to my knees, I didn't know what was happening. 'Why. Why is she bleeding?' my lips trembled as I barely got these words out, mind raced in confusion of what just happened.
"You killed her kid." An oddly familiar voice spoke.
I turned my head to see who had said that, I was then enraged at the man who stood in front of me, 'Whisper.' The words slopped off my tongue. 'You bastard. Get away!' I said as I tightly gripped on to my daggers, "The daggers did not suffice last or do you not remember." The mask he wore fell to the ground revealing Erebus's face with a twisted grin on it.
What the hell is going on.
My head began to throb, my knees dropped to the ground and get wet with Hazel's blood on the floor. Hazel's bloodied corpse crawled up to me, "You let me die, why?" it repeated this over and over and over again, Whisper then appeared to me in place of Hazel and brutishly grabbed me by the neck and began to strangle me, another silhouette of Whisper appeared with another Hazel and tore her head off. 'STOP! STOP IT! STOP IT STOP IT!!' I let out a muffled scream and then snap, I died again.
Immediately after I awoke perfectly fine, I was in the temple halls walking alongside Hazel and Whisper. I stopped abruptly and dropped to the floor, vomiting as tears flooded my eyes. Hazel and Whisper tried to comfort me but I was horrified I pushed them away and shut my eyes. A sharp object then suddenly impaled my chest, blood flooded my lungs and spilled out of my mouth, the pain was unbearable. I gasped for air but only worsened the pain, Hazel grabbed my hair and lifted my head up and faced me with a grin on her face. Her mouth widened in a grotesque manner as black blood flowed from her eyes, mouth and ears. She then let out a ghoulish whale as giant blood tendrils emerge from her back, cutting into my arms slowly severing them and finally ending in my heart.
I wake up again, in a court room this time. I find myself surrounded by multiple clones of Erebus and Whisper. "Did you kill Hazel Evertwigh?" A deep ominous voice speaks; one I haven't heard in three years.
"I asked you a question, you will answer!" demands Daniel Evertwigh, Hazel's Grandfather. My tongue felt like a rag wrung dry-my body was in fear and my mind in ruins. Erebus reveals herself again "Look at what you have done child, you killed her." her voice drenched in mockery.
'I didn't do it.' The words come out barley above a whisper as my lips tremble, my eyes flood with tears once again and my expression lifeless. "But you did, you killed me." Hazel's voice rings through my mind.
Why is this happening?
The thought echoes in my mind over and over again as I die and watch Hazel die over and over again in a never ending cycle.
End of Chapter