The Elements

Chapter Twenty Seven

Selene was still locked in her cell, wondering if she'd ever get out.
They'll find me, I know it.
But somehow, she wasn't entirely sure.
Selene thought maybe some sleep would help so she curled up into a little ball and dreamless, bleak, darkness consumed her vision.

The dreamless sleep part wasn't true, but whatever this was, it wasn't a good dream.
She was standing in a vast area of ice, and nobody to be seen for miles.
"Where am I?" Selene asked herself, and studied the area. She started to shiver.
Soon enough, the ice beneath her started to crack, and she tumbled into the freezing water. But to her surprise she was thrown out of the water and landed in another part of the land of ice.
"Are you looking for your friends?" A voice asked.
Selene groaned as she sat up, and she found Coral looking at her with concern. "What are you doing in my dream?" Selene said, breasting heavily.
"Because I need to tell you something, and it's breaking the rules. Lilith is planning to hold you hostage and trade you for the Moonstone. She knows your friends care about you and would get you back no matter what. Or I don't know. If they don't make the trade, I'm pretty sure you die." Coral explained.
Selene was taken aback. This wasn't possible. She couldn't die. Not without her friends knowing, or living her life.
"Wait- WHAT?" She said.
"I'm sorry to say, it's true. You can't tell The Darkness you saw me in your dream." Coral warned.
"Well, I won't. I'm not going to say anything to them." Selene promised.
Coral helped Selene up, and then said, "I'm sorry."
Selene didn't know why she said sorry, but soon knew why.
Out of Coral's hands was Death Mist, and it was creeping towards Selene.
Selene began to run, but soon the Death Mist surrounded her, and she couldn't get away. A line of fire surrounded her too, and she didn't know how that happened.
"I'M SORRY!" Coral screamed as Selene fell into deep darkness once more.

Selene woke up with a start, still in her prison cell, heart beating wildly in her chest.
I have to escape, right now.
She looked around, and for some reason, the guards weren't around. Selene glanced at the lock, and it luckily has a keyhole. She scrambled on the ground for a key, and she found one.
And it unlocked the cell.
Selene ran out, worried thoughts swimming around in her brain, she wondered what could happen, and what could became of her.
Gotta run, gotta run, gotta run.
Soon enough she stopped, and heard footsteps that weren't her own.
"The girl. She escaped!"
"Let's go find her. She'll regret running away while we were on break."
The guards discovered her absence, which wasn't good. She looked around to see of the coast was clear, and it apparently was. Soon enough, someone grabbed her.
"I think we got it handled, guards."
It was the man who'd captured her, right behind her.
"Casper, Blair, take her to The Burning Room."
The man threw Selene at the two siblings, who looked just as tired as she did. They didn't speak to her, and neither did Selene.
She knew her fate was coming.
A trade.
Or death.