Project Griffin (Discontinued)

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Whoops. I lied. No update soon. School has been hectic and I've had no time to write. Sorry!

Puppet.

The icy voice sliced through my mind like an arrow. I cried out in fear. My eyes flew open to reveal my room, just the same as it had been when I went to bed.

Dormien burst through my door with his sword held high.

"Where are they?" he growled.

"Just a nightmare," I sighed. These nightmares were getting increasingly frequent. 

Elwin said it was just head trauma from the splotching incident last week, but I don't know. This can't keep going on. Dark bags hang beneath my eyes from days of restless sleep, my face paled, and my eyes distraught and distracted.

"What am I going to do, Dormien?" I grumble, holding my face with my hands, "I look like I just died."

"I'm sorry, Miss Griffin," he replies, "frustratingly, there's nothing I can do."

I groaned sadly and closed the bathroom door to take a shower.

This past week was rough. No one could figure out what happened at the splotching match.

Keenin still gives me the stink eye in the halls, but I try not to let it bother me.

Sophie had come to the Healing Centre to ask me some questions during my recovery.

"I've never heard telekinesis described like that," she had replied to my bullet description, "But I'll look into it."

I haven't heard back yet, and Grey and Kayla haven't overhead anything either.

"Sorry," Kayla had apologized a few days back at Foxfire, "Sophie hasn't been around lately."

I told her I understood, but it seemed suspicious. 

"I need some alone time," I told Dormien after showering.

"I don't think that's a good i.." he started, but I held up my hand.

"Please?"

He sighed and moved out of the way.

I made my way into the forest. The crystalline leaves crunched beneath my feet, and the breeze carried the fresh scent of the lake and the sky. The tree's leaves rattled like wind chimes and filled the air with a serene melody.  Cries of unknown animals accompanied the sounds, turning them into their symphony of nature.

As I got closer and closer to the secret lake, I paused. Was I truly ready to face that place again? By myself?

"You'll have to it eventually," I chided myself quietly as I forged on.

I pushed through the bushes into the lake area. My small little lake. The lake where I almost died. My body shakes and I have to take deep breaths to chase away the fear.

"There's nothing here. There's nothing here," I whisper. 

Dormien spent many long hours scouring the forest for the Neverseen, but there was no trace of them.

I lowered myself carefully onto the sand, my body still weak from its recovery.

As I stared at the still, clear lake, I felt like something was missing.

"Oh!" I exclaimed as I realized what it was.

I grabbed my Imparter and hailed my friends to come over. They arrived quickly and I guided them to the lake.

"Awesome!" Mars exclaimed.

"Cool!" Kayla said.

"I already knew about this place!" Leo cried smugly.

"Whatever," I said, blushing.

Mars stifled a laugh. I glared at them.

We spent the next while hanging out and having a great time. We swam, played in the trees, at a lunch I grabbed from back home, and had tons of fun.

"This place is great!" said Kai as she and I finished up our meal.

"I know," I replied, "It's my favorite place in the entire forest."

The bushes rustled quietly behind us, barely detectable in the laughter-filled area.

My head whipped back in horror, knowing everyone else was down by the lake, nowhere close to being behind us. My suspicions were right.

"Well, well, puppet. I did say I'd be back."