Daybreak

Two Souls Collided

Ysa
I woke up and the brightness around made my eyes uncomfortable. I closed my eyes for a moment then slowly adjusted to the light. Where am I? Am I dead? I remember I was shot by King Magnus. Everything here is white. Am I in heaven?

"Hi Ysa" I flinched as someone from behind called me. I looked back slowly and saw a silhouette of someone. Wait... "Queen Gwyneth?" I asked but she just laughed. No, it isn't her. She slowly walks towards me. My eyes widened as I see her. We really look similar. "Princess Gwen" I uttered her name softly. "You really... looks just like me" I added that made her giggle. "It's nice to see you Ysa." She said with a calm and soft voice. She walked and pass by me approaching the swing. Oh, there's a swing here. I looked around thoroughly only to find out that we are in a park.

She sat down on one swing and I followed her sitting down on the other swing. "I wanted to ask how are you but, I know you're not fine." She said looking straight while swinging softly. "I hope you ain't blaming yourself." We looked at each other and smiled. Even our smiles are the same. "Thank you. Thank you for fulfilling the things I couldn't do. I know it's hard but, you managed to do everything." Says she.

"But..." I looked down and felt that she looked at me "... am I really dead? I mean, your father shot me." I look at her and she looks shocked. After a minute she laughed. "Of course not, silly." Okay, I suddenly feel embarrassed. "You're not dead yet." I look at her and tilted my head a little. "Yet? What do you mean? I could really die?" She laughed again "Yes, but I won't let that happen of course. You'll go back in a moment, don't worry." "By the way, where's the queen?" I asked because I can't see her anywhere. "She's just somewhere." She answered and smiled. "The thing is... I just want to thank you. You and your friends, you've done the things I was not able to do." I looked at her as she wiped her tears. "We didn't just do it by ourselves, there are a lot of people of Agartha that helped us. Chief RJ is one of them." She looked at me when she heard the chief's name. "Speaking of the chief, Ysa, can you do something for me?" She stood up and kneeled in front of me. "In my room, beneath my bed, there's a wooden box with our family's crest, can you give that to him? It was supposed to be my birthday present for him, but..." She looked down, I hold her hands and smiled "Of course, it's not that hard. I think I already saw that box you're referring to." She hugged me and thanked me multiple times.

"I think it's time for you to go back. They are all waiting for you." She walked towards the water fountain at the center of the park. "Wait..." She looked back at me. "But, do you happen to know how can we go back to our own world?" I asked. "Remember what my mother said? 'Just open your heart and follow the stars'" "Yes, but I don't know what that means. Can't you just-" She tapped my head and white particles disintegrated from me. "No! Wait! Gwen--!"

Shelly
"Gwen!" I woke up when I heard Ysa shouted. "Ysa, thank god you're alive!" I shouted. "Guys! Wake up!" The others woke up and immediately approach Ysa.

"Ysa, are you okay? What do you feel?" Do you need something?"
"Nigel, relax bro. One at a time." Tim teased him that made us laugh. "Where am I?" Ysa asked and looked around. "We are at the infirmary of the palace." Ryu answered. "Don't you remember? The king shot you yesterday." Aubrey added. Ysa hold her head "Oh, yeah. I remember. So I've been-" "You've been asleep for 10 hours." I continued her sentence.

"You're awake." Chief RJ entered the room together with Annie. "Annie!" "Hi" I hugged her and helped her with the tray of herbs she's holding. "How are you?" She asked Ysa. "It hurts a little, but I'm fine." Annie replaced the herbs at Ysa's shoulder with new ones and immediately went out to check for the other wounded people because of the chaos yesterday.

"What happened while I was asleep?" We all looked at each other before Vincent answered "Well, the rebels are here already, they'll not face any charges or punishments because we already proved that they've been fighting for the truth. The other royal families also went back to their kingdoms. The corpses were buried in the cemetery and was given proper ceremony. The princess' was lied down beside the queen." "And the king?" Vincent looked at us and then to the chief.