The Glassy Sky

TOBY: The Asphodel Meadows

We were attacked by that demon and got separated from each other. I was teleported to a place where there are luscious mountains where the sky is dimmed and looks like it's always dawn, while there are rice fields everywhere my eyes go. "Hello!" I shouted. But one seems to have heard me shout. The silence is killing me, so I stood-up and try to find any people who can help me navigate through this place. Luckily, I found a village. So, I went there to search for people, only to find out that there's no one here but me. This place is creeping me out, I felt that this place has been deserted for a very long time. The houses look like an ancient Greek, Roman or Egyptian style houses like those that I've seen in the encyclopedia about the ancients. As I scout the place, I began to wonder where they are?

Minutes have passed but felt like I've been walking for hours. I saw a man walking along this abandoned street, he's an old man wearing a brown cape and hood with a wooden staff in his hands. "Wait!" I said. Then the old man saw me and stopped walking. I need to catch my breath for a moment because I felt tired from running. I am still a child after all, I don't have the stamina of a teenager. "Who are you?" The old hermit asked. "I'm Toby, and you?"

"I'm Chronos, why are you here?"

"Hypnos sent us here, but we got separated from the portal."

"So you're here to train?"

"How did you know?"

"I can see things from the past and even the future."

"That's cool! How can you do that?" He stepped in closer to me, patted my head like a dog and said, "I am the representation of time after all, so it only comes natural to me that I can see events from the past and the future. And I can tell that your future doesn't look good."

"Why?"

"I can't say, but you know the future is uncertain and things can change depending on the situation."

"What do you mean by that?"

"The future is ever changing, so yours might change depending on the situation."

"Okay, I still don't get it, but can you tell where my friends are?"

"They're already here. Look behind you." I looked behind as he said. I saw a tornado made out of blue flames, once the flame dissipated, I saw Zack and the entire gang all here with an angel as their companion, I looked back and was surprised that Chronos wasn't there anymore. "Who are you?" I asked the angel.

"I'm Azrael, I believe we haven't met yet, but I know who you are." Zack and Sam approached me as if I've been gone for a long time. "We miss you, Toby!" Zack said.

"Me too." I noticed that Sam has aninjury and when I looked behind him, he has a burn. "It's fine, you don't needto worry about me." Sam said. "Let me heal you." I said. I touched his handsand his back, then a white light came out from my hands then everything went tonormal, even Sam's shirt went back to normal from having cuts and burns allover the place. His wounds have healed back, but I can feel that Sam is a bithurt by what I did, I'm still happy that he's okay now. After all they are thevery first friend I ever had in my life who doesn't care about what I am.