The New Light of Hope: Books I to VI.

Chapter XXV: Getting Answers.

Commander Aurora:

Date: July 25, 2020.

The next morning came in a flash and, as I said before, I was going to talk to Amethyst and find out her reasoning as to why she carried out such an accost last night and why she targeted two specific people. Well, I was going to find all of that out that same day once and for all.
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I went up to the solitary room which was barricaded by two wooden boards which I had taken off and then knocked on the door and waited for a response from her. "Who is it?" She asked. It took her a minute to reply back but when she did, I answered back: "Hey, Amehyst, it's me, Aurora. I came here to talk to you about what happened last night when you went as far as to attack Summer and then Abigail, going so far as to nearly killing her at that if you didn't mind."

Amethyst: "You can come in, I guess."

I then opened to door to see that Amethyst was now back to her old self and was no longer trying to go on a rampage and was laying upward on top of the now made up bed covers she had tossed to the floor that same night of her rampage and looked at the ceiling for a moment and then looked at me as I entered the room. "Hey, 'Rora." She said in a gruff voice as she slightly turned to lay her eyes on me. "Come on in."

Without hesitating, I went inside of the room, closed the door behind me and walked over to sat down in the chair that was still in the room when Sadie experienced her partial corruption from a few days ago and asked: "How're ya feelin'?"

Amethyst: "I'm doing fine for the most part this morning. I mean, I'm just now starting my day off by waking up and laying in bed for a few minutes until I have to get up and head to the forest with all of my friends."

Commander Aurora: "That's good to know."

"..."

Commander Aurora: "You went umm... a bit--"

Amethyst: "Went a bit mad last night? Yeah, I know."

Commander Aurora: "Yeah, that's what I going to say. I came in here to talk to you for a little while and find out more about what happened last night but from your perspective on the situation that took place."

Amethyst: "That why you came in here to begin with and I will tell what happened, or at least what I think happened."

Commander Aurora: "Go ahead, take your time if you need to."

"..."

Amethyst: "Well, as you already know that yesterday, I all of a sudden felt depressed and tired just our of the blue throughout the entire day up until we all went to bed that now. I laid down on the bed to try and go to sleep. But then I spent the next hour tossing and turning, feeling restless, wakeful, and disturbed even though there was nothing or no one preventing me from sleeping, but eventually, I managed to fall asleep with no further problems coming up from there. But just about two hours after I managed to finally go to sleep, I shot awake again when I felt a dreadful headache hit me in the middle of nowhere; it was so painful that I ended up falling out of the bed all while I was holding my head with my hands due to how bad the pain was at that moment in time and I all could do was just grovel in agony to the point where I began crying due to how severe the pain was. Then I began coughing profusely to the point where I then coughed up the same black substance as Abigail and Summer coughed did days prior which was the same sort of thing Aurora threw up yesterday only with red and orange particals inside of it. The coughing then led to me throwing up as well. And then, I took a good look at my arms; they were beginning to be consumed by an unknown, yet mauvais darkness. Then the next thing I knew, the my right eye went pitch black out of nowhere and all I could see at the moment was just my surroundings highlighted in the same yellow color as my eyes were. I could hear my ears ringing at that very moment and I could feel my teeth sharpening as if you were sharpening a kitchen knife well. And I went on my rampage from there. And then... I heard it. The voices, the whispers from what felt like were coming from the sinful decibels of the devil; it honestly felt like someone or something was telling me to attack the ones that I disliked the most without holding back or having second though about my decisions and they just kept going on and on about it as if it was nothing and it just would not stop bothering me. And that's basically it, the rest I can't really remember."

Commander Aurora: "Oh, Amethyst, I am so sorry to hear all of that. I totally understand what happened now."

Amethyst: "I know another thing that I well understand, too: that this whole corruption thing doesn't just involve us feeling sick all of a sudden with severe symptoms that you see in some illnesses or deadly viruses because after last night, I now see that this is also another form of our corruption as well and there may be a possibility that it could happen again if so."

Commander Aurora: "You've got a clear point about that, Amethyst and after seeing what happened last night, you're absolutely right about it too. I'll be sure to tell Bella about this as soon as possible."

Amethyst: "It'd be best if you did it right now, as a matter of fact."

Commander Aurora: "You're right. I will be right back."

Amethyst:

"Summer, Abigail, I want both of you to know that I am truly sorry for what happened last night. Please know that I never meant to hurt neither of you nor would I ever do anything that would put you in harm's way at that. I went insane in the moment and I didn't think twice about what I was doing and I am deeply sorry for everything that happened last night and I hope that the two of you will find it in your hearts to one day forgive me for my mistake and move on from it." I told Summer and Abigail that same morning when I got up out of the bed. "Hey, you're completely fine on terf, kid. And it's okay, I already forgive you." Summer told me.

"Yeah, whatever." Abigail scoffed. Not even going to argue here. I told myself.

I was glad that what happened last night ended because otherwise I would have bitten Abigail's arm off if no one was there to stop me from doing it. But I could not help but worry that this would pop up again if something were to cross my mind again.

And rest assured, it would not be pretty.