A Dimension in Time

Hourglass Consequences

☆*:.｡. Chapter 13 .｡.:*☆

Hourglass Consequences

It's been a month and fortnight since the final battle at Time's End had taken place. The place where Dawn's way home was thought to have been lost in time forever. The time where everyone they met along this insane journey banded together to help in what could be called a final boss fight. Dawn had been with the young kids for many weeks over the summer; about a month from June to July. Good news did arise from the ashes however! That even with a destroyed Dimensional Traveling Device, Dawn's sister, Bella, can (hopefully) get the snow queen home when she needs it. The days spent during the post-Time's End era of the adventure felt like a well-deserved break. Dawn's family had checked up on her on more than one occasion; often chatting late into night. Dawn finally got the chance to introduce Hat Kid and Bow Kid to the people in her family they hadn't met yet, so that was fun! Both Hat and Bow were very joyous to meet and finally talk with the rest of Dawn's family after hearing so many stories about them. The only ones they had met at that point were Benjamin, Silvie, and Bella; but now they knew everyone. Things were going swell! But unfortunately, problems are always destined to rise from the ashes of a former problem. Now the trio had a new problem to deal with. Something that none of them could've ever prepared for; something that caught EVERYONE off guard. Dawn laid in her makeshift bed, the glow-in-the-dark stars that dimly lit the room, serving as nothing but nightlight to soothe any child to sleep. The young snow queen curled up in the cozy blanket that she'd been borrowing ever since she'd come onto the spaceship, dreaming sweet dreams and seeing the moon shaped spirit. But in the midst of Dawn's slumber... something had broken the spell keeping the girl asleep. Dawn lazily opened her emerald eyes as she tumbled around with the blanket on her. Her phone on the ground, still plugged into the plug in the wall, showed it wasn't morning yet; 4:30 AM. The snowflake-clipped girl was still surprised that she hadn't lost her sense of time, even with all these endless weeks in space and on the planet below.

The 11-year old girl moaned as she tried to go back to sleep, but found out quickly that she couldn't. That was- until she heard something being messed with outside Hat and Bow's bedroom. This made Dawn tense up immediately. Was there a break in!? No... *Clearly* the alarm would've gone off by now, it did it before! It happened too many times to count! So why not now? Dawn yanked the blankets off of her, quietly stumbling through the colorful hallway to the main living room/hub area. There was nothing... Instead of easing the tension, it made Dawn wary, leaving her no choice but to investigate. The young girl delicately looked around as though she was on a tripwire ready to snap. The snowflake-clipped girl's ears soon picked up the clinking sound again, this time from behind. Dawn allowed her powers to spark, preparing an ice snowball attack. The cryokinesis prodigy whirled around to throw her attack at the supposed intruders. And yet... she never did. Dawn instead let the snowball fall out of her hand and break apart on the ground; melting away as the girl stared at the noise she had been hearing. Dawn came into this room to defend the ship from intruders, only to find something that made her skin crawl instead. The window that was the door to Hat and Bow's ship... was OPEN. Dawn was HORRIFIED at the fact that not only was the spaceship slowly (and most likely) losing some oxygen, but that whatever intruder had been in the ship left in a haste. What made the cryokinesis prodigy even more tense was catching a glimpse of a note plastered to the left of the swinging glass door. Dawn frantically shut the door and grabbed the eerily familiar parchment paper.

It was the same paper a ghostly ghoul had written his contracts in. It even had the same texture as well... It couldn't be but it was eerily familiar. The same contracts Hat AND Bow signed, the ones Hat pleaded for Dawn not to sign as she'd tried to do it herself to save them and own up to her mistake; only for them to save her instead. She didn't get along with the ghost- at first. (Her reasons were valid for not liking him.) But as time went on... Dawn and her friends encountered a monster far WORSE than the contracting ghost could ever be. The monster Snatcher was up against long before they wandered anywhere near Subcon Forest. The trio had to face the monster in a dangerous hide and seek, and her name... was Vanessa. Ever since that day, Dawn couldn't blame the ghoul for acting the way he does. The cryokinesis prodigy eventually grew to like the guy. Even when he desperately tried to kill and sever ties with them. Despite what he did to get rid of them, before meeting him she would've screamed at him for lying to her and her friends... However, she didn't. At that time Dawn didn't feel betrayed... Perhaps it was the one lesson she got out of working in the film business. Although; Dawn held back her laughter when Hat Kid cleverly found a loophole in Snatcher's last contract! It was astounding! Dawn had never held that much laughter back in a long time, it was hysterical to watch the ghost who'd tried getting rid of them become Hat's contracted "BFF" instead!