Dreams Around the Campfire

The girl was walking along a path when she saw before her a great structure of green. There emerged a manor. An ancient castle atop a hill with a path nearby. She went closer to the structure and touched the smooth surface and thought it was made out of something like limestone. There was an archway and when she took a look there were different paths going one way to the next. The girl realized it was a maze. She decided to walk away when she heard familiar voices.

“Al, we’re here. Can you hear us?” The voice sounded like hollow echoes, as if it came from a faraway place, somewhere she could never find.

“‘Where are you?” Alithea called out, hoping to reach the source of the voice wherever it was.

“We’re lost. Help us!” The voice was Lacaille’s. And Dea’s. Distant echoes that continued to call for her help while she raced blindly, trying to find their source.

“Don’t stop calling. I’ll come for you.” The pounding of her feet and her gasps for air were the only sound Alithea heard inside the maze. The passages seemed to look the same as the one before so she just relied on her instinct in proceeding through the maze. It seemed that her feet couldn’t carry her fast enough. She rounded a corner and found herself face to face with a solid wall. ”Shoot! A dead end.” She went back to the way she came and went to another direction. “Where could they be?”

She followed the voices inside the maze. Along the cracked wall were weeds, tall and thick, showing how the structure endured the time and the elements. Then, Dea’s voice, so near, not an echo anymore and Alithea realized it came from the other side of the wall. “Dhey, I’m coming!”

Alithea quickly found her way to the other side and saw a black hole on the wall, more like a vortex of whirling blackness. And there was Dea’s voice again and it seemed to come from the vortex.

“Al, Do you hear me?” It was definitely Dhey. Alithea’s heart beat faster at the thought of her friend. “Are you there? What’s happening?”

“I’m trapped here,” came the response. “You have to get me out of here. I think Lacaille may also be in trouble.”

“But what am I supposed to do?” Alithea wailed. She didn’t know how to help her friends get out of that dark forbidding vortex. She looked around for something that might be of use and felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up when she heard something move behind her. It was a black snake slowly slithering in her direction. She backed away but was sucked into the vortex, so cold and dark. She glanced at the way she came and saw the snake coil its way through the oval entrance. She felt hands touch her and pull her away.

“Oh my God! I’m so glad I found you!” Alithea let out a sigh of relief as she saw her two friends. “Are you both okay?”

Dea noted Alithea’s flushed face and smiled. “We’re fine. Thank you for never giving up in finding us.” She looked around. “Now, where is the way out of this place?”

“It’s over there,” Alithea pointed behind her but the opening was nowhere to be seen. A groan escaped her lips.

Lacaille was looking at the direction her friend pointed. ”What?”

“It’s gone.”

“What?” Two voices shouted in unison.

Alithea gave her friends a sheepish look. ”The vortex must have closed a few moments after I went in.”

Dea’s face paled. “But that means…”

“…that we have no way of getting out of here!” Lacaille finished in frustration.

“Now, now,” Dea consoled. ”We have to keep a clear head. Let’s just deal wit this situation the best we can.”

The three of them walked endlessly into a dark tunnel that seemed to have no end. They seemed to fly for hours and soon grew tired. They make their way to a speck of light from a short distance and found themselves on a small island on a dark colored sea with a lighthouse on top of a high cliff as the only structure.

As they landed on this mysterious patch of land, they heard grave whispers. “Transire iterum per naturam incantae cum cosmo. Cognoscere integritam autem apud solitudum. Perveni paucas conformas cum quid petemus. Es prope stagnum sapientiae et habe potiam…”

“Do you hear that?” Panic was evident in Dea’s voice. The three were startled as three gigantic but beautiful beings appeared from behind a small mountain range. They were formless, flowing creatures each clothed in white, green and blue. The three stood in awe as the faceless creatures that moved with the wind approached them.

“So, you have come.” The first being in white said. “We have been praying it wouldn’t arrive. But not even us cannot control fate. And the time has arrived for us to show you your heritage, your destiny and your duty.”

The one in green came forward. “You are here to continue a war of good over evil. You will lead human race and creatures of other dimensions to unity. It will be up to you to ensure the harmony of different worlds.”

Lacaille was looking around in bewilderment. “Are we on candid camera or is this some kind of joke?”

“Oh I don’t think so.” Dea’s voice was unsteady. “There are too many weird things to consider this a joke.”

“To you, we relieve your duty and from now on, you three will take your primary place as head of your elements and bring back the balance of life in the universe.” The third being, clothed in green, brought out a staff and pointed it at them.

This was all too much for a girl to handle. “Wait!” Alithea said to the mysterious figures. “There’s got to be some mistake! We came here by accident!”

The blue one shook its head. “It is no coincidence; it is your fate.” Blinding radiance from the end of the staff and the girls suddenly screamed and held their heads in pain as they fell on the sand, each receiving a sign on their foreheads. That burning pain was what woke Alithea from her dream.

Licorne’s Notes:
Jasmine Rose wrote the summary to this part but she left the narrative to me! The narrative was absolutely grueling!!! Leave it to Jasmine to dump the rest of the work to me. *grumble*

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