Mercury's Trails

Chapter 6: The Army

I fell towards the ground, and I felt like I was taking my last breath. I closed my eyes, I was getting sick. All of a sudden, gravity stopped. I opened my eyes, and I was facing the dirt. I was lifted and brought to my feet. I stood, and looked around. I was surrounded by a flat plain of grass, and rare trees now and then. Suddenly, a girl walked right through me, as if I were not in real life, in a dream like state. I watched as she fell to her knees, and a dark gray tornado surrounded her. The tornado surged to the sky, and she walked out of the tornado. She lifted up her pale right hand, and she clenched her stomach with the other. It looked as if she was in pain, but as I walked around to face her, her face showed no signes of pain, or exhaustion. I turned to look at the tornado. A dark figure emerged from the tornado, and stepped out of the swirling winds. The ground trembled as it stepped down. More began to emerge from the shadows of the tornado. It was an army, an army of men and monsters. They kept emerging, by the hundreds, eventually the tornado slowed, then stopped. The girl from before, stood up, faultered, and then regained her balance. "I have gathered you today gentlemen, to help us in our test of the Non-Existents. If they pass, you will have failed Chaos, after all, he did make you for destruction." She said. "We walk until sunrise tomorrow, then we shall attack." The figures of men on horses, and the monsters skyscraping over the men, all started to cheer. "My name is Glacia Storms, in battle, tune your ears to listen to my voice, not anybody else. If you don't listen to me, I will make your life a living Hell." She said. I started to be lifted off the ground, I was leaving this place, but I needed to know more. The last thing I heard Glacia say was, "We will destroy the newbies first, Cheron, go for that girl Decana, and Hydra, take care of that nuisance Meghan." Yay I get to face the Hydra, at least I took Greek Mythology in high school. I wonder why Glacia put the ferryman of the Styx, against Decana, he's a ferryman for crying out loud, what could he do to her. I was pulled into a vertex of darkness, and the dream ended.