Lost in our fears

Chapter 2~Sapphire

«When will they arrive?» Sapphire sighs and looks at the others spending their time do to something while they wait for they friends to arrive. Swift and Shadow are talking, Sky plays cards with Tails, Knukles sleeps in a corner next to Sage, who tries to wake him, and Celina watches her iPod with ‘’fangirl’’ air, accompanied by of Milea. Mahyka check sometimes the iPod but when she returns her head, she seems desesperate. Sapphire approaches Mahyka and listens to the conversation of Celina and Milea.

Celina: You saw him on this picture? He’s soo beautiful!
Milea: I know!
Sapphire * speaks to Mahyka *: What they are talking about?
Mahyka: Celina has a whole bunch of creepypastas photos on her iPod, and Milea and her look at the photo since they arrived...
Sapphire: Ok xD and you, what do you do?
Mahyka: Watching a few times their photos, but I confess that I am not interested...
Celina: How you can you not be interested? It’s Ticci Toby!
Milea: And Ben... * blush *
Mahyka: T_T
Sapphire: Okay xD I'll let you then...

Sapphire chuckles and joins Sonic, who awaits the arrival of the others. She sits down and looks at Sonic.

Sapphire: The girls have not arrived yet?
Sonic: Not... Nor Silver.
Sapphire: And Domanic, where is he?
Sonic: He will arrive soon. He did’t want to wake up this morning T_T
Sapphire: Yeah...

Sapphire gets up and walks towards the forest. A little time alone will be good, after the awful dream that she did. Dream to be isolated from the world and be captured by a faceless man in a TV is not what she likes best... «Who was that guy first?» She continues to walk without realizing that she recedes slowly the trail. After a few minutes, she realizes that she has lost the trail. «Oops...» Sapphire began to run northward, to return to the trail, but she can’t see it. Sapphire panics and runs in all directions, only to find her way. But she is well lost, the trail doesn't appear. «This is not great!» The wind begins to blow very hard, Sapphire almost feels that her body is going to pull away from the earth. She starts to run towards a direction and doesn't stop. She runs, she runs, she runs... But it’s pointless. The wind has managed to remove her feet off the ground so it’s strong. She feels herself floating in the air.

Sapphire: HELP!!!

But no one hears it, the wind is blowing too hard. Her heart continues to beat very hard until that she strucks a tree branch and fell unconscious.

***

The wind stopped blowing, you can hear only a few squeaks. Sapphire opened her eyes slowly and distinguished little by little the landscape that surrounds her. Trees seem very big and dark, as if they were a prison fence. The sky is gray and the air is cold. Sapphire shivers and gets up with difficulty. Her head hurts, she feels a bump when she rubs her hair.

Sapphire: Great…

Sapphire turns dashboard and sees a large residence, which seems abandoned, but well maintained at the same time. Behind the House, she can see swings rusting move, as if children were swinging. Curious, Sapphire approaches the house to find help, but especially to see what there’s inside. She knocks on the front door (which is at least 3 times her size) and wait. After a few minutes, it’s clear that person responds, so she turns to the other edge to try to join her friends. But by turning, she hits it a black and long pole, which stands just in front of her. She views the bottom of the post, and looks quietly above. This is not a pole. It’s the faceless man she saw in her dream. He’s very tall and has a few other ''arms'' (which most resemble legs of spiders than other thing...) which exceeds him back. Panicked, Sapphire passes below the man and began to run at full speed. She must say to herself to don’t stop and melt into tears. She's afraid, she has never been so afraid in her life (except for her past... but that's another story). When she turned her head to see if the man follows her, she doesn’t see him. He disappeared. «He surely go away... You became crazy Sapphire, it was only your imagination... » But he appears before just in front of her.

Man: Sorry, but you arrived too early...

One of the arms of the man approaches Sapphire very quickly. She closes her eyes and feels only a slight pinch in her skin before falling unconscious.

***

Domanic: Sapphire! Sapphire!

Sapphire opens her eyes. She stays on the ground a few seconds before rising quickly, standing on guard. She looks around her. The sky is blue, the trees are normal and there is not abandoned house or alive swings. Sapphire sighs of relief and relaxes a bit.

Domanic: Sapphire! You’re here!
Sapphire: AAAH! * Turns and hits Domanic on arm * your spider leg will not touch me! … Domanic? Oh my god! Excuse me, you really scared me!
Domanic: Ouch! What’s your problem?
Sapphire: Sorry, you made me terribly afraid!
Domanic: It's okay... Were where you all this time?
Sapphire: I was in the forest! I made swept away by the wind and I fell in front of an abandoned house... You didn’t see the storm?

Domanic looks at  Sapphire with a worried look.

Domanic: There was no storm...

Sapphire looks the forest, the sky, then Domanic. She doesn’t understand, she was near the faceless man a few seconds ago... «The man faceless man…»

Domanic: Whatever... The meeting will begin.  
Sapphire: O-ok...

They go to the place of the meeting. Sapphire turns behind and stares the forest. «Im afraid now…»