Stone of Gaia Island

Chapter 10

"Let. Me. GO!!!" Akrasia yelled, Lantern snapped at the strings, not making a dent,

"I'll let you go if you promise to help."

He stared at us, "...fine!"

The gold string fluttered into dust, and Akrasia glared at Jean,

"So, what we are doing?" he muttered, "just going to stand here and wait to be smashed by giant rocks?"

"Okay, okay, let's go!"

"How do we get to the dragon?"

Jean fluttered to a stalactite and whipped it with her silk,

It fell to the ground, "take cover everyone!" she squealed,

Akrasia made a shield and we watched as the rocks crashed to the ground,

"What about the plants???" I yelled over the loud crashes, "they'll get crushed!"

"it's fine!"

We waited a bit, soon all the rocks were on the ground, and Jean flew us up to the top of the cave, and there was a small crack, with light from the other side, gold silk wrapped around it, and it fell to the ground, we crawled through the hole and looked around, it was white.

"What is this place?" Akrasia mumbled, watching as the hole filled it's self with the white stuff "There's nothing here."

I looked over at Jean, confused, but then realized something else.

She was... smaller?

Jean was skinnier, and shorter, and her pink skin was lighter than usual.

"What happened?" I said, staring at her, "why are you so... different?"

"it's not just me, look at yourself."

I looked at my hands, they seemed to be smaller, "What's happening to us...?"

"it's an affect, the closer we are to the stone, the younger we get." Jean said, stretching her arms, "it only happens to magic creatures though..."

We looked at Akrasia, he seemed taller than both of us,

He sighed, "This only gets worse..."

We walked around the white space, there was nothing, just white, I touched the ground, it was solid, I grabbed my knife and started pounding on the ground, nothing happened.

"Guys." Akrasia said, "come here..."

We walked towards him, he took a vial of black ink, and poured it on the ground, it swirled around, but the ink disappeared. "There's no colours here, just white, no shadows, no smell, no sound" he muttered, "if we stay here long enough, we'll forget everything."

"But how do we leave?" I said, "Where even are we?"

Just then, there was a long creak, like a door, I looked down, black liquid, splattered behind me I turned slowly, there was a creature, 3 arms, 3 legs, 3 heads, the faces were burned and covered with scars,

"Glory..." 

I gasped, it sounded like... my dad?

I looked at the creature again, one of its faces looked like him.

"Dad?"

"Gloryyyy..." the creature slowly crawled towards me, and a hand goes toward my face, I was in trance, how was my dad's face there? Did he see this creature? Why is the voice so similar?

"Glory!" Jean yelled, pulling me away from the mysterious creature, "be careful!"

"g-l-o-r-y..." the monster mumbled, "its dad... don't you want a hug...?"

"You aren't my dad!" I snapped, shooting it with an arrow, "stop it!"

The other two faces turned to me and screeched, crawling on its burned limbs, "GLORYYY!!!"

A sharp hand struck my arm, I gagged, deep red blood dripped from it, it burned through my arm, I grabbed my dagger and cut off the monster's hand, it screeched,

Akrasia pulled me away from it, and started healing me, Jean wrapped a head with the gold silk, and ripped it off, it screamed as black blood splattered everywhere.

"G-Glory..." it said, crawling toward me, Lantern snarled and scratched it.

Then I blacked out.