Kapitel Drei

The End

            David turned to Melanie, who lay on the ground, in a loss. He didn’t know what to do. He went to her aid just as the girl he’d seen before came up on him. He looked at her and she looked at him;

            “What happened?” She asked him,

            “I dunno she just collapsed.”

            “Here, let me help you help her up.”

            David took one arm of Melanie’s, and Kendra took the other. As they get Melanie to her feet, her eyes opened, and she looked at Kendra. Before she can even say “thank you” however, the attention of all three of them is directed in front of them.

            They are covered in a shadow as a ball of blackness forms a few yards in front of them. It expands and looks as though a giant ink blot swirling in front of them. It looks beautiful, with a purple-ish tint, and electrical like arms extending out from it. In the center a white dot appeared, grew, and then the entire thing collapsed in on itself and exploded. Upon clearing, a man dressed in a brown robe stood in its place.

            “Melanie, your time has come.” He spoke in an omnipresent air.

            “But I’m not even eighteen yet.”

            “I am not here for that, or your power. I am here for you.”

            “W… what?”

            Without any further explanation, he threw his hands in front of him, his robe revealing them. They were old, pale white, and look almost like bones. From the tips of his fingers came forth a black lightning that slammed into Melanie’s chest. Melanie’s entire body was engulfed in the electricity until it entirely covers it, then a black light shone out from Melanie, blinding both Kendra and David.

            Kendra shielded her eyes, and David gripped onto Melanie tighter. When the black light clears, Melanie is gone, and David is gripping at thin air. All of this happened within a few seconds, and left David and Kendra bewildered. David quickly spins his head towards the man in the robe, only to find him gone.

            Kendra didn’t know who she had just seen disappear. Nor did she even believe what she had just seen, with the random man appearing and lighting everywhere. She was very confused, but not only at that, but by the complete calmness taken within the boy who she now faced.

            “What…” was all Kendra could muster to say.

            David turned to Kendra, “Did you see any of that?” Kendra nodded. David came at her quickly and grabbed her arms, “Who are you?” David asked, a little less than calm, but attempting to not be mean.

            Kendra was taken by alarm, and reacted by bringing her hands up to grip this stranger’s shoulders and push him back. However, when her hands brushed against his skin, she felt another surge of energy course through her fingers, and the pressure on her arms was removed. Suddenly, she was looking across the street. She stepped back.

            Now the boy was gone too. What the hell had just happened? None of this made sense, she must be losing it! Then she heard his voice again, but this time quieter.

            “Help!”

            She tried to find the source of the sound, and instinctively looked down. There, between her feet about a half foot in front of her, was the same boy who had just grabbed her arms.

            “What did you do to me?” He yelled up to her,

            “What? I did that?”

            “Grr… Never mind that, help me up, we have to get out of here.”

            “Err, how?”

            “Pick me up! We need to leave now!” David was speaking louder, getting a little agitated.

            “Okay, here goes.” Kendra said, as she knelt down and picked up the boy with her thin fingers. She held him in her palm and brought him up to her face, standing up to her full height. “Where do I go?”

            “Anywhere. Anywhere but here, and fast.”

            Kendra did as she was told; she took off and went straight for her home. Knowing nowhere else to go, she just went there naturally. It didn’t occur to her to hide him, or even move him. She just held him in her hand around her waist as she walked towards her final destination. She went into her house, finding it empty again, and shut her door behind her in her room. She quickly deposited the boy on her bed, and knelt down on the floor in front of it, bringing herself down to near eye level with him.

            “Are we in your house?”

            “Yes. Who are you?”

            “My name is David.”

            “Nice to meet you David, my name is Kendra. Who was that with you earlier?”

            “Her name is Melanie.”

            “Ah, and what exactly happened?”

            “I don’t know. I didn’t expect anything to happen for a few weeks.”

            “What do you mean ‘a few weeks’? Were you two waiting for something?”

            “You can say that. Now, an important question… Why am I small?”

            “I don’t have any clue. But if you don’t mind me saying, you look too calm, as though you’re used to it? Because I don’t know what to think, whether or not I should be freaking out or not, but I’m probably pretty close to.”

            “Don’t panic, everything is alright.”

            “That’s what that book of mine up there says,” she pointed towards her bookshelf, to a huge blue book, “In it the author repeats over and over again, Don’t Panic. I think it’s a good philosophy.”

            “As do I.  I feel like I’m forgetting something. Was there something she told me that I’m not remembering?” David started talking more to himself than to Kendra,

            “What?”

            “Oh, I am just trying to remember something.” David thought to himself for a moment, “Hey, where were you going when you went out today? Were you going somewhere important?”

            “I don’t think so. Why?”

            “I just had this suspicion, was all.”

            “Oh, okay.”

            They sat in silence for a moment, David looking down with his head in his hands, mumbling to himself, and Kendra looking at David, then looking at her bed, then back to David, then back to her bed. She wasn’t sure what to do.

            “What is the first thing you remember about that happened, Kendra?” David finally spoke, and looked up at her.

            Kendra thought for a moment, she snaps her fingers, the bright light! However as she did so, there was another flash of bright light. Except this time, it was smaller, and much closer. It was definitely only a flash, and David saw it this time as well. He jumped and looked to his left; there, sitting on Kendra’s bed, was a shimmering silver portal.

            “What… What just happened? What is that?”

            David looked at Kendra, at her hand, which was still extended in the air, then back at the shimmering portal. “I think Kendra; you just opened a portal with that snap.”

            “I what?”

            “I’ve seen that before, it’s a portal. And it opened when you snapped your fingers.”

            “My fingers?” She looked at them, “That’s never happened before.”

            “Don’t do anything for a minute; I’m going to go through it.”

            “Okay?” Kendra asked, sort of confused.

            David walked towards the portal, stuck his hand out and touched it. It was almost as though it didn’t exist, as his hand passed right through it and he felt nothing. However his fingers, which lay on the other side of the portal, felt a cool wind on the other side. This told David it indeed was what he thought it was, and he stepped forth, into the portal.

            Kendra watched David step forward towards the so called ‘portal.’ However, when he walked into it, Kendra expected him to be on the other side, when she looked, he was gone! But how?

            David was standing in a stone room, and a memory hit him of a similar room he once stood in ages ago. Except in his memory, there were many portals around the room, and a wood table in the centre of the room. However he can’t remember actually standing in a room like this, it felt like a dream, the memory he’s reliving. However there was a man in his dream, introduced himself as Nelf…

            “Hello David.”

            David was taken aback, lost in memory; he hadn’t seen the man off in the corner of the room; who looked exactly like the man in his memory! “Hello?”

            “I am Nelf. We’ve met before, but I don’t think you’d remember.”

            “Not exactly…”

            “I’ve directed you here, through the help of your new friend Kendra, to tell you of grave news.”

            “What is it?”

            “The Melanie, whom was taken from you earlier in your day, was finally found.”

            “What?! Is she okay?”

            “She is in a state of zero consciousness. She is basically in a prison of the mind, spirit, and body.”

            “For lack of better word… What? Why?”

            “I notice you notice your own repetition. That is fine, pay no matter. She was being consumed by the Wave, and in your world that is not something The Council could not allow.”

            “Are you part of this Council?”

            “No, I am not a member of The Council. I am a member of The Order. A different faction entirely.”

            “Then why did you say you’ve found her?”

            “Because based on Wave law, none from within the Wave are allowed to take someone from your world into ours.”

            “Then why have you brought me here?”

            “I’ve brought you to the Gathering Room, the only place allowed between worlds. Come here, I have something to show you.”

            David slowly approached Nelf. When he was closer, Nelf touched the stone wall underneath an arch, and instantly it melted into a pool of what looked like water. And within the water, cleared a picture of Melanie against a wall, her eyes closed, and apparently none of her weight on her legs.

            “What?”

            “Melanie is held captive. It is going to take some time for us to get through to her; they’ve taken her deep within their citadel. For the time being you are going to have to forget everything you know; otherwise you could become a target of The Council, and having two people taken hostage, is not something The Order wants.”

            “What do you mean, I must forget?”

            “I mean you must forget everything you know about her. You must go on with your life without the knowledge of her; otherwise your knowledge of her could put both of you in mortal danger.”

            “I don’t want to forget her.”

            “Well it's not really my place to make the decision, nor is it yours. Lives are at stake, and The Order has already decided. You will forget everything you know about her, in order to save her life. If you do not, she will die.”

            David didn’t know what to say. He didn’t know what to feel. Everything had hit him so fast, there wasn’t even any time to prepare. He didn’t want her to die, but he didn’t want to forget her either.

            “I’m sorry David, but time is of the essence, and I am needed at the front, I cannot stay with you any longer. You must go now.”

            “But…” But before David could finish what he was saying, Nelf tapped him on the shoulder and his head spun, and his vision blacked out.

            When David’s eyes opened, he was laying on a very soft surface with warmth emanating from his sides, he looked around and he was being half held by Kendra’s slender fingers, while still laying on the bed.

            “You’re awake!”

            “Yes… I’m awake. I don’t feel well…”

            “Oh don’t worry; I will take care of you. You wouldn’t mind would you?”

            “No, in fact I would like that very much, thank you.”