Trapped With No Future

Chapter 9 Lifeless Spirits

Walking with dread, blindly into more of the ghostly unknown, the King slid his foot into an unnoticeable circle carved into the floor. With a haste interruption, something was created visible out of nowhere. Eliathem's mind was tattered with a feeling of horror and freakishness as she stepped foot towards the purposeless souls who lost their lives and spirit, who was in framed positions of scratching the air to unreachable safety. There was only one thing that was churning through Eliathem's head. I think I need to try to help them and see if their life is still findable, Eliathem thought with some certainty.

Eliathem started to carefully walk forward as if she was being lured towards them. She pulled out her arm and the palms of her fingers touched one of the Lifeless and right away they were face to face and Eliathem could see the glimmering whisper of pure light inside of her dead, yet twinkling eyes. Then with no haste, the young girl awoke and started to breathe. She had a relieved smile and then her face became blushed white. She fainted to the ground. Eliathem then yanked onto someone else and the same thing happened.

After a while of waiting the two of the once known Lifeless, finally started to come too.

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"What what what is happening, I do not understand. How did I get here? What is going on? Ahhhhh ahhhhh", the first girl screamed as she awoke, shivering in fear. Eliathem swiftly stumbled to the ground beside her starting to calm her down. "Everything is fine. You are fine. What is your name?"

"Uh, my name is Effealia but I go by Fea. What has happened to me and where am I", Effealia gulped out as she took long stuttering breaths.

Eliathem said very slowly and reassuringly, "My name is Eliathem and this is—"

"Ahhhh ahhhh, what is happening, where am I, who are you all, ahhhh", the second girl rampaged through her lungs as she breathed waking up.

"Do not worry, just calm down, you are safe. My name is Eliathem and this is the King. What is your name? Can you remember", Eliathem said trying to keep a low tone?

"My name is um, Lillian but you can just call me Lilly", Lillian said trembling as her heart rate struggled to go back to normal.

Both Effealia's and Lillian's limbs were triggered as they were being pulled up as if out of bloodied mud by the King and Eliathem, and they stood up acting as if they were traumatic puppets taking their first free steps onto a grave-like glimmering cloud of dust. Feeling blasted with mad shock, Effealia and Lillian were pulsed staring into each other's burning eyes. During that moment their sickening eyes formed a wave of indescribable hues that bulleted out of their eerie, blind eyes as an arrow of swerving light was shot by a steadfastly, glowed bow. After their dark stares created a lingering ring of terror around the room, they turned towards the King. Effealia's hand formed a knife shape and started slashing at him. Then Lillian jointed a lock with her legs which smeared around the King's torso. The King could fight back though, he used an earthquake that drooled throughout his tensing arms to shower them down. "We will kill you Donclane and your blood will sink into our veins and you will have no resurrection", Effealia and Lillian said in an alarming tone as if they were conjuring up a vicious storm!

As their still arms raised closing their hands as if they were trying to hold visible air, Eliathem felt the churning of deathly consequences burning brightly beneath her skin. She stood in front of them thinking of nothing and built a shield for the King. Her dilated eyes made a line towards theirs... Everything went quiet. Everything was finished. Effealia. Lillian. Transformed out of their possessive state with only a blank piece of paper memory of the sun in their jerking eyes.

All was erased from that event to Effealia and Lillian. "Is everything okay? What are you doing? We saved you", Eliathem screamed her screeching scream? The two of them just felt diluted of energy and did not obtain any perspective of what was going on with Eliathem because they had no recollection of what they did. Scars of sour gales suffocated and flooded the realm. This corpse-like world was compressing them with a gnarled rope of screams. Not just screams, but the screams of the Lifeless.

The ones who are trapped. The bursting wind swelled up and faded away. Effealia and Lillian felt a haggling message and Eliathem was inhaling that same sensation. She must let them free with a touch of her glowing power and is flaming on her hands, Effealia and Lillian traveled signals to each other's minds. I know the truth and I know that it enraging inside of me and out from my palms. I need to save the rest of the Lifeless, or else their time will be lost forever, Eliathem brewed this thought in her mind millions of times. Now she has realized her true potential that is amplifying her future. Effealia and Lillian shot a vast gaze towards Eliathem and before a crept sound was let out, Eliathem already knew what was winking through their heads.

With her numbed hand, she allowed the power to flow towards the Lifeless, allowing many purposeless souls to be free and finally get the chance to retrieve their true lives. As she grabbed onto them, she felt a tumbling weight fall onto her that she struggled to lift. The room became a mass-filled room tightening her as if she was trapped inside a cage or dungeon. A merging swell of claustrophobia enhances and strained her entire body. She felt as if she was losing energy however, more catastrophic power continued to infuriate above the slim surface of her skin. A stifling hole inside of her soul started to form...But then, that feeling left her and she was almost flying through pure joy.

Eliathem was giving back to these people what they had lost and never could feel forever. An overwhelmed gaze targeted across her eyes and around her brain as the repeated calls of the Lifeless were pushing towards the world. The Awakened world. Many traumatic-looking lives were sleeping in their slacking states. She could not hold herself any longer and her lingering opened eyes failed which caused her to collapse into a faint of fatigued exhaustion that overcame her, pulling her down slowly.

The transparency in Eliathem indulged her feelings as well as everyone else's inside the aching-hearted pain of almost pure nothingness. Her mind illuminated inside her soul and sang an unusual tone sinking her eyes into another room of a vision.

There was a tornado of swirling lights which created, as Eliathem expected, the revealing of yet another locked secret. The scratching senses pursued as designed landscapes, forming an unlocked treasure of truth. The two once Lifeless girls, Effealia and Lillian were the first souls to be unleashed from their purposes in this purposeless world and in fact sentenced to endure the horrid realm of the "underworld". This is why they were fate to be the first to be the Awakened. These two girls are young but as said, time does not exceed and life does not progress. Therefore, age has no standard and is not labeled.

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...At the rushed note of Eliathem connecting her body to align with the dirt, the pace of time trickled down steadily. As everyone's stance was sewed into the bruised burnt ground, everything whistled stumbling breaths into the cinders of the realm. As if a black bleached night and blossoming bulb day were mixed together, causing everyone in the realm to become bluntly frozen in place. There was no movement or sound. Two intricate planets of two fatal lines of time cultivated the speed of light to form as they were, breathing in a frigid position. But, only hours passed as days lingered on in their minds...Until Eliathem's blessed eyelids aroused from drowning in her mind...