Chapter 5 - I Love Him. Right?

I Love Him. Right?

While I waited for Trevor, my gaze returned to the bed next to me. But when I looked, I had to look twice. The boy was gone. Vanished.

“Lucky,” I muttered under my breath. “Managed to sneak out with out getting caught.”

But then I noticed something. I had gazed at his perfect form long enough before to remember the way the blankets had been lying across his body. The blankets now lied not in casual disarray, as though someone may have gotten out of the bed, but exactly the way they had lied on his slender body before, as though someone had pulled him out from under them quickly and they had fallen to the mattress without being moved.

But it wasn’t just the blanket that tipped me off as on the strange side. Where the boy had once lied, now showed a thin scattering of a tiny gold coloured dust, matching his form. I quickly identified the substance as sand.

Before my mind could ponder the peculiar situation any further, I could hear Trevor calling my name outside the room.

“Eli?” he called softly, tentatively.

“In here Trev!” I called.

Trevor poked his shaggy, blond haired head through the doorway. “How’d you know it was me?”

“You know I’d know your voice anywhere.”

“Even in your dreams?” he asked, trying to fight smiling shyly.

“Even in my dreams.” I smiled slightly internally chuckling. Then I frowned, being reminded as to why I was here.
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Never let him go.

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Chapter 4 - Your Worst Nightmare

Your Worst Nightmare

“Tell me,” the man said in a deep husky voice. “What do you fear most?”

The man touched my throat where my collarbones met, and I screamed and convulsed to his burning touch. It was like ice fire, slicing down my throat and into my lungs causing my screaming to stutter. As it spread, a cold hand wrapped around my heart, squeezing it in painful jolts.

“What is it, hmmm?” the man persuaded gently, closer to my face than ever. “Is it the fire? Is that it?” His bloody right arm shot out and through the searing pain at my throat, I turned to see tongues of brilliant orange fire shoot out of his palm and race around the room. They engulfed it, towering high to the endless ceiling, and leaning in closer to me as the man beckoned them onward with the twists of his scarlet fingers. I could feel their heat radiating onto my body, my sweat dripping down my face faster then before. I whimpered pathetically. “The sweet, powerful flames of glory? No. It’s not that.” the man thought pensively. “It’s not that kind of flame. It’s the burning light of daybreak, the singeing arms of mother sun as she stretches out into the morning and takes the velvet cloak of night from under our very unconscious noses, teasing us Dreamers with her taunts of simplicity. She calls us into the day, out of the slumber for which we long for and cherish. It’s sunrise that you fear, my darling. The glorious early morning symphony of reds and purples. And the fire.”
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Where's my angel?

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Chapter 3 - Darkness. Fire. Him.

Darkness. Fire. Him.

Suddenly with a splat, I hit hard ground. But it wasn’t burning hot. It was cold. Ice cold. It stung as I stood up, my muscles spazzing from the impact they took and the rapid change from hot to cold. I could feel the tears still in my eyes freeze over and I quickly opened them to stop them from freezing shut. I watched as the crystalline ice droplets that had flown from my thick eyelashes tumbled through the air. They soared and gleamed like diamond, though I could not see how, there was as much light as the nothing had provided before. As they fell to the ground just below me and shattered into hundreds of beautiful fragments, I could feel warmth. Warmth that grabbed my shoulders and soon engulfed me in a warm embrace. I feared the fire once more, and looked down at my body in alarm to make sure I was not alight. But there was nothing. Just the warm feeling. But it was still cold, my legs could feel that, but in an almost hug like way, everything else felt warm.

Slowly I felt warmth edge closer to the side of my face, soon not inches away from my ear. Then I felt the soft warm touch on my ear that I could not mistake for gentle lips. There was a person beside me. I stretched out my arms in frenzy, but there was nothing there. I froze, and the lips I could still feel, so gentle and soft, spoke.

“Shhh... Shhh. Relax, it’s going to be ok.”

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He's there.

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Chapter 2 - The Darkness is Coming

The Darkness is Coming

I was back on the hill again, though the soft comfort of the night was gone and the flaming tongues of daybreak were singeing the grass on the horizon. I reached up my hand to the pale orange sky and imagined I was grabbing a piece of the wall. It gathered in my hand like cloth. Carefully, I peeled back my canvas like a sticker to reveal a desert world with deep purple skies and bright colourful auroras waving and flowing above millions of floating white orbs suspended over the dry, brittle ground. Another world... That was when I saw one of the orbs spew a thick black liquid like a fountain, only to be engulfed with it and burned until it was no more than an oily puddle. It was him, I thought almost instantly. I quickly pulled the cloth-like piece of wall back into place. For good measure, I thought of duct tape and duct taped the patch I had pulled on, just in case. I sat down then and started breathing quickly. Panic was taking me over. My place, this endless white canvas, my refuge from all the problems life threw at me, wasn’t safe any more. I could never come back. I could feel the tears on my cheeks, and I tried to fight them back but to no avail. I finally broke down and let the tears take my pain away.

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Crashing dreams.

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Chapter 1 - Prediction

Prediction

“There will come a day, a day of light, the day the saviour will be found that can win the fight. The battle will be long, and many shall die, but the world will be saved by this fearless ally. Her powers are strong, but something is wrong, she isn’t aware of the strength that she holds. But things will change, as fate takes its course, and with men by her side, she will be a powerful force. Star-crossed it seems, by a man in her dreams, who takes her heart by day and by night. He shares this love, it flows through his veins, with blood from the monster that still here remains. He found the saviour and taught her to fight, and with her he’ll help to do what is right. The son of the monster will vanquish its rule, with his love at his side, they will end what was cruel. Soon the man who will haunt our dreams, the air filling with blood chilling screams, will turn from his lighthearted ways. The man of the future will not save us all, in truth, he will be our downfall.

“So, my brothers, now you have heard. And I advise you to live by my word.”

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Character - Clockwork

Clockwork

Major Side Character

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Clockwork is the goddess of the Dream World, assigned by the Lord on High to watch over and monitor this section of life. She died at a young age and when she became an angel, she was assigned this role. She used to enjoy flying around the Dream World, talking with Dreamers, many of which she eventually teamed up to form the original Gathering. However, she longed for many of the things she missed out on in her “life,” and much like an Ancient Greek goddess, had a number of affairs with several Dreamers. She fell into trouble in her affair with Seth, who ended up leaving her pregnant; something neither of the two thought was possible. Clockwork hid the pregnacy from Seth, but when the sandman predicts that Seth will become Nightmare and be defeated by his son, he finds out, and puts restrictions on Clockwork's powers through a necklace he once gave her she still wears. When Seth started taking control of the Dream World, the Lord on High found out and stripped her of her wings. She still retains what few powers Nightmare can't control, but she enjoys swinging from ropes in her "home" in the skies. She has short, bubble gum pink hair, and wears sunglasses over her eyes. She is about five foot six, and her son is Alec.

Character - Stephen

Stephen

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Stephen has a very small role for most of the story, acting as one of Seth's henchmen. However, after a rather dramatic climax, crosses the floor and re-joins the Gathering he was once a part of. He is/was a farmer in reality and knows his weapons well. He seems to have had a negative nature when the reader first meets him, but he knows which side he's on. Stephen stands five foot one and has brown eyes. His hair is blonde with blue streaks. He loves to fight and likes to be on the winning side of things, but he absolutely hates being put down.

Character - Jake

Jake

Side Character

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Jake is another side character that not much is known about. He is Trevor's father, Kit's husband, Skye and Sidney's Uncle, and Luke's brother. His occupation is a trucker, and he is bald with a strong build. He has hazel eyes. He seems to care much for his son, even though he is not around frequently. Trevor's tells him often of Eli, and Jake likes her very much. When Kit murders Trevor, Jake also dies as a result of injuries previously inflicted by his wife.

Character - Kit

Kit

Minor Antagonist

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Kit is a side character, but crucial to the first climax point. Kit is Trevor's mother, Jake's wife, and Skye and Sidney's Aunt. For a reason unknown to the reader, she hates Eli with a serious passion, blames Trevor for the fact she can't do anything with her life, and also blames him for the fact that her husband is gone on a regular basis. She blames him to such a point that she has cracked and physically abuses her son because of it. Trevor also mentions that she is a drinker, and she is frequently intoxicated. She is of an average height and has short, dark brown hair. Her eyes are gray. Kit, tries to kill Eli, but ends up killing her own son when Trevor saves Eli. She does not appear in the story after this, because she is taken away by the police.

Character - Luke

Luke

Side Character

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Luke is one of the side characters, a member of the Gathering. He is Skye and Sidney's father, as well as Trevor's uncle and Jake's brother. He is a Dreamer, though he does not seem to have mastered the graces that tend to accompany people in the Dream World, and is a bit of a klutz there. He has a sense of humor, and can fight when needed, but he prefers not to and has a softer side. Although he is funny, he tends to be quieter and self reserved. He's fairly tall and lanky, standing 6 feet tall. He has green eyes like his children and his nephew. He's almost as paranoid as his youngest daughter, but he's learned to control this to an extent. He is one of the characters that does not make it to the end, but dies while trying to take revenge on Nightmare for killing Sidney.

Character - Sidney

Sidney

Side Character

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Sidney is a side character in this story, one of Eli's best friends in reality, and one of Nightmare's eventual victims. She is quirky, nerdy, and paranoid about just about everything. She's typically very shy around people she doesn't know well, and she likes to read and write. She values her family and friends, and fears almost everything else. She's a few inches taller than Eli, standing five foot four, and has blonde hair cut in a page-boy bob style. She has green eyes just like Skye, Luke and Trevor. Skye is her older sister, Luke is her father, Kit is her Aunt, Jake is her uncle, and Trevor is her cousin. Unfortunately, Sidney is one of the eventual victims as Nightmare tries to pick off people close to Eli.