The Glassy Sky

TOBY

I'm grabbed by that demon's tentacles, leading me to an alley below the big overpass. It almost looks like it's about to rain or it's dawn. For this alley has little to no light at all. It's very dark in here, and I can barely see a thing. "Where am I?" I asked myself. I used my staff to produce light, then I saw the very thing that frightened me most. Morpheus. He's right in front of me, and I can't say a thing for my mouth is all dried-out from fear. "You're the most annoying of the bunch." Morpheus said. I finally found the courage to speak, so I forced myself to man-up even though I'm afraid of him. "Why do you say so?" I asked.

"Because you're a healer, and I hate healers." Morpheus said.

"Why?"

"Do you always have to ask why?" He replied angrily. Then I saw from afar that lightning struck something, and It began to rain so strong that I can't leave this place. "I'm sorry." I said.

"Now, be a good boy and come to me." Morpheus replied.

"What are you gonna do to me?"

"I'll use you as a bait."

"Your plan will fail."

"And why is that?"

"Because they'll never hand over the sword to you. Not without a fight."

"I'd like to see them try." From afar I see a tornado made out of water, maybe that's Hunter, doing his thing? If he's able to do such thing, I might have an offensive power that I haven't discovered yet. I'll try to imagine how my outcome will be and use all of my might to channel my power to the staff. A few moments later, Morpheus materialized a black sword from his hands and as he approaches me with a grin in his face, I tried to channel all of my energy towards the staff, aimed it towards Morpheus, and it created a ray of light so bright that it struck him. It punctured a huge hole in the heart leaving his clone lying on the floor. I just imagined it blasting him away, but I didn't expect it to kill him. I guess I'm more powerful than I expected? "How did you do that?" Morpheus asked.

"I don't know. I just have it in me all along, I guess." I replied. As his clone slowly disappears, a troop of soldiers stepped in, telling me to surrender myself. I used the light of the staff to heal them all from Morpheus's hypnotism. "Where am I?" All of them asked. "Why are we here?"

"Thank you for saving us, for a moment we thought we're going to kill you because we can't control our own body." One of them said.

"No worries, as long as we're not in danger, that's fine." I replied. Then a few minutes later, a blue flame came in whirling in front of me. All of the soldiers pointed their guns towards the flame, then we all saw that it was Zack and the entire gang all together. "Stand down!" One of the soldier commanded.

"I guess we're late?" Zack asked.

"No, you're just in time." I replied.

"I see what you did there!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, it was cool! And you've manage to defeat the clone without our help and heal all of the soldiers from his hypnotism."

"Woah! You really did that?" Sam asked.

"I think so."

"That's so cool!"

"Where are we headed next?" I asked Zack.

"We're going to fight Morpheus." Zack said.

"Where is he right now?" Sam asked. Zack pointed the eye on the middle of the sword's guard in the middle of his eyes where the third eye is located and tried to locate where the real Morpheus is. "He's on the riverside, along with a brigade of soldiers guarding him." Zack said.

"What's the plan?" I asked.

"We'll protect you, and you use your healing ability to heal them from their hypnotism. Can you do that?"

"Sure, I can." But I noticed that Hunter's hurt, so I tried to heal him first. "Thank you, Toby." Hunter said.

"No worries!" I replied.

"Great! Let's go!" Zack created a tornado of fire, enveloping all of us while we hold tight to him and we we're teleported to Morpheus's location.