Lost in our fears

Chapter 3~SwiftElement

Swift: Are you sure you’re okay?
Sapphire: Yes…

Swift looks Sapphire with a worried look before turning to Sonic, which begins the meeting. Usually Swift listens carefully to the meetings, but this time, she only thinks of what Sapphire has him tell. «Poor Sapphire, I confess I'd be tromatisee also... Especially she said that she saw the same faceless man than in her dream... And mine!»

Sonic: Swift.
Swift:...
Sonic: Swift!
Swift * returns to the real world *: Huh what? À
Sonic: You come?

Swift looks the others and realizes that she’s excluded from the group. She approached Melody and sits beside her. The meeting finally begins.

Sonic: Good! We can start the meeting! Firstly, I would like to know if...
Sky: I would like to talk about something weird! Very weird…
Sonic: T_T can you let me finish?
Sky: Oh no! There's not only Eggman in life! And I can assure you that I didn’t see him in my dream last night!
Sage: Me neither!
Sonic: What you are talking about?
Swift: Personally, I had a dream very scary last night...
Jackie: Me too...
Melody: And me too...
Celina: I dreamed about a man without a face living in a TV then killing me T_T
Swift: O.O me too!
Sonic: STOP! What you are talking about?
Milea: We all made a weird dream last night… And the most weird part is that we did the same dream!
Shadow: Pff... If it’s scary, it’s no longer a dream, it's called a nightmare...

Orion looks Shadow with large eyes.

Orion: I didn’t have this nightmare…
Domanic: Me neither.
Sonic: What was your dream?
Swift: It is rather long to explain... First, there was a storm, then my window broke. I went to see my neighbour if he has a window (I don’t know why I went to see my neighbor...) but I saw that he wasn't there. I went to see all the other people but no one was there either. Then I returned home to listen to TV. The TV screen to started to ‘’toast’’, and a man without a face appeared on the screen. When I touched the screen, a big explosion took place and I found myself facing the man... And I woke.

Sonic looks Swift with large eyes, as if she was an alien.

Swift: What do you want?
Sonic: Nothing... Your dream is really weird...
Mahyka: No, really? I just realize it T_T
Melody: She said it in a really sarcastic tone.
Sonic: I know T_T
Sapphire: I’m tanned to hear of this faceless man, I seen it enough for today.  

Sapphire rises and goes quietly. Domanic rises and joins her to convince her to stay.

Sonic: Great… And Eggman?
Swift: I am tanned. I say that we report the meeting to another day, because I think that the majority of the people here are tromatisees.
Sonic: No, it cannot.
Swift: And well sorry, but you will make your meeting without me.
Celina: Me too.

Celina and Swift rise, followed by Sky, Sage, Milea, Luna, Melody and Jackie. Only boys stayed seated on the ground, to the meeting.

Knuckles: Thank you eh!
Sage: No problem! *chuckles*

The girls continue to walk in silence. After a few seconds, they see Sapphire and Domanic approach.

Domanic: What are you doing?
Jackie: For us, the meeting is finished. There are only guys.
Sapphire: Where do you go?
Milea: Unclear, but me it's sure, I won't be home alone.
Sky: Me neither. It should be great that we stay together tonight, if the man appears, we will not be alone…
Sky looks at Sapphire.
Sapphire: Stop looking at me whenever you talk about this man, you've all seen in your dream also.
Mahyka: Yeah but...
Milea: Shhh! I understand her... And I agree with the idea of Sky. We should all meet tonight.

*LATER, IN EVENING*

Celina: Its more like a sleepover than another thing…
Swift: Bah! At least it’s alright!

Only Celina and Swift are ready. The other girls walk everywhere to get their business, and certainly not in silence!

Milea: EEECH!

Milea arrives running and shouting in the living room and views the kitchen quietly.

Celina: What is it? O.O
Milea: I found a spider in a cauldron!
Swift: What you wanted to do with a cauldron?
Milea: Mac’n’cheese
Celina: Okay xD

Luna arrives in the living room laughing.

Luna: Oh my God you should have seen you! xD
Milea: T_T
Luna: I handed the spider in freedom in nature... In your yard x)
Milea: Thanks...
Luna: Not problem!

Milea and Luna return in the kitchen. Swift watches them leave and turns to Celina.

Swift: I admit that it looks more like a sleepover...
Celina: That’s what I said x3
Swift: Okay, I'll get me another sleeping bag, it looks more like a plank of wood... Mahyka?
Mahyka: Ouch! Cursed furniture!
Swift: MAHYKA!
Mahyka: What?

Mahyka go down the stairs by taking the right foot.

Celina: You still knocked the little toe on the corner of your nightstand?
Mahyka: Yes :(
Swift: Okay... Where are your sleeping bags? That one looks like a plank of wood.
Mahyka: They are out in the shed.
Swift: O_O Who puts his sleeping bags in his shed?
Mahyka: Me! :3
Swift * growls *: Well…

Swift rises slowly and is dirgie to the door. The air outside is cold and windy lot. She moves quietly and goes to the bottom of the yard. It’s more and more windy.

Swift: My God! I didn't know the hedges of Mahyka were so high!

Finally, she sees Mahyka’s shed. She enters in the shed and she goes directly to the bottom. But whenever she thinks reach the end of the small house, she sinks even more inside.

Swift: What is this shed? It’s infinite!

Swift stop to walk and look around her. There are weapons everywhere. Knives, axes...rakes?

Swift: This girl is a psychopathic!

She sits down and looks every details of the so-called shed. She then sees something that interests her. She touches and feels a twinge in his finger. She looks at her finger. It bleeds.

Swift: A knife? What the…

But before she finishes his sentence, she hears a noise coming from the end of the shed.  

Swift: I'm not going further, I'm going to lose me with all these weapons...

Swift gets up and run to the door for a long time, what seems it to be an eternity. She finally managed to get outside. She raises a foot out and the door closes violently. Swift hears footsteps approaching.

Voice: Tic toc, tic toc, tic toc...
Swift: O_O
Voice: Tic toc as time passes...

Swift turns very very very slowly. Her face is frozen by fear.

Voice: Tic toc, tic toc...

Swift then sees a shade. The shade is very big, and Swift feels that it looks at her.

Swift: H-hello?
Voice: Tic toc, tic *crack*

A broken cassette goes out of the shade. Swift takes it and notice note words written on the cassette: SwiftElement The DarkHedgewolf. The words are written in red brown, as if it were blood had dried over time.

Shade: You don’t know how much time you have spent in the shed...

The voice is hoarse and dark.

Swift: H-how long?
Shade: 20 years. You have spent 20 years observing this shed. But I can bring back you to normal...
Swift: R-Really?
Shade: You'll suffer as ever. You'll be afraid, you're going to lose dear people... But I can help you...
Swift: H-how?

The wind that had disappeared suddenly reappears. Branches, pieces of wood and objects float in the air. Swift protects her face for not having one on the head. The wind blows around her and became little by little a tornado. She feels floating and screams with all her strength. After a few seconds, the tornado stops drying, but Swift is still in the air. She sees the ground coming closer quickly, she’s in free fall. Just before that she hits the ground, she reviews the shade.

Shade: Don’t trust… anyone.

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Jackie: Swift! Swift!

Swift opens her eyes and looks at Jackie.

Swift: Jackie? What are you doing here?
Jackie: You falled asleep outside T_T

Swift rises. She feels no pain, however, she just fell off 30 meters from the ground violently.

Swift: Sleeping?
Jackie: Yes. Whatever, the mac’n’cheese is ready.

Swift suddenly remembers what the shadow said. «Don't trust anyone...»

Swift: Hum, it's fine. You can go there, I'll join you.
Jackie: You’re okay?
Swift: Yes.
Jackie: Okay.

Jackie enters the House and Swift waits. After a few minutes, Swift has finally decided to enter. «Contrary to Sapphire, I shall not speak of this shade to anybody...»