Earth and Shadow (read desc)

Dark heart, Dark soul

He concentrated again and his chest once again went partly see through. He reached into his chest and took his crystal. He pulled it out like it was nothing. He blinked and looked at it.
For a second nothing seemed to happen
"I feel weird but I think I'm--" Suddenly his body dissolved into a shadow. The shadow went into the crystal, getting absorbed by it. Within a few seconds it fell, laying in the grass.
My eyes widened.
"N-Nightmare!?"
Nothing moved, it was just me, alone in a field, with a black crystal just laying in the grass. The situation was so surreal, did he.. Did he just get absorbed into the crystal? I-is he even alive?? What the hell do I do...
Then I remembered. He told me to take this to Scratch if anything happened. I was pretty sure this counted as something.
I shakily picked up the crystal, looking at it. I could see some shadows swirling inside, and the crystal felt strangely warm. Whatever was happening, I knew one thing was for certain. Nightmare was DEFINETLY inside it.
And I was scared for him.
I ran back, going as fast as I could. I burst into the house, panting. Scratch was laying on the coach, reading a book. He looked relaxed, unaware of what just transpired.
"S-Scratch!!"
He looked up and blinked.
"What's wrong?"
I showed him the crystal shard.
"N-Nightmare, h-he took this out of his b-body and.. a-and he vanished into it!"
Scratch looked surprised. He put down the book and sat up.
"Can I see it?"
I nodded and gave him the crystal.
He studied it for a moment, looking at it carefully. I was nervous, worried something might have gone wrong.
"We might need Blaise. Angels tend to have a better sense of dark and light magics... However, she is sleeping right now. Oh screw it, I don't care if she kills me, this is important."
He went to her room and knocked on her door. For a moment nobody anwsered, then blaise grumbled
"Go away, I'm trying to sleep.... Bastard..."
"Its me. Something happened and we need your help."
She opened the door. She yawned and rubbed her eyes, obviously not happy.
"What do you want."
Scratch showed her the crystal. She blinked.
"Wait.. Is that Nightmare?"
"Yeah um, how can you tell?"
"I can sense his mind. He's definitely in there. Is that what you wanted to know? Because I REALLY need my beauty rest bud."
Scratch shifted his weight.
"Well, um, can you tell us how to get him out?"
Blaise grumbled.
"Dammit... Fine. His soul is stuck in there 'aight? He's probably recovering from what happened. Give him a bit, maybe a half hour if your lucky, and he should come out on his own. If not then I dunno, summon him or something. Can I PLEASE sleep now?"
"In a second. Do you know how to summon him?"
"How would I fuccking know? Now goodnight."
Scratch kissed her cheek.
"Thanks Blaisey, I owe you one."
She blushed and smiled, then yawned and said.
"Bug me again and none of you will be able to have kids." She shut the door.
Scratch sighed.
"Well, that was something at least. Why don't we- Rain?"
But I wasn't there.

I sat outside, against a tree. I hugged my knees to my chest, making little flowers grow then wither away. My eyes felt quite wet, and I feared I might cry... Eventually Scratch found me, and came over.
"Hey, are you alright? Blaise isn't going to hurt you y'know. She says things sometimes just to intimidate you."
"I-I don't care about Blaise... I'm worried about Nightmare..."
Scratch sat next to me.
"I'm sure he'll be fine. He's done some crazy things before, I have no doubt that he'll be ok after this too. And besides, according to Blaise, he should be back in a half hour or more."
I sighed. I had no idea why Nightmare decided to pull that... But now I'm scared. He literally ripped out his soul in front of me, and he just, well, vanished. What if he never wakes up...?
Even though I didn't believe it, I said.
"A-alright.."
Scratch looked at me for a moment, thinking.
"You guys are close, and you've only known each other for a few days. Why's that?"
I blushed a little and looked away.
"I-I don't know I guess we just get along."
Scratch raised a eyebrow and smiled.
"Hmmm do I sense a crush?"
I felt my face go hot.
"A-a crush?? N-no!! We're just really good friends..."
"Oh come on, we all know otherwise. Nightmares not really the type to, for say, make 'really good friends' in a few days Rain. And besides, your pink. Admit you like him already."
"Fine... I do like him a lot."
Scratch grinned, satisfied.
"Knew it. Hm, now that I think about it, the only way he would trust you so much is if he liked you too. Either that or he knew you were trustworthy. I mean, come on. The dude LITERALLY gave his soul to you. Speaking of, you'd better take this."
He handed me the black crystal. I took it and held it gently.
"It's probably the second one.. No way he'd like me back."
"Eh either way he's going to wake up soon. It's almost a half hour."
"Yeah maybe..."
Yet another flower grew up out of the ground and withered away, my worry not allowing it to last very long.
Will he wake up..?