TPT : The unPlanned Tragedy

Chapter 12

          Nothing bothered Snow's sanity more than chasing Blue that was always horrified at anything. Blue took a leap of faith onto the ground from the castle's rooftop. Star hid behind Blate's back.
"Please tell me that monster had gone.." Star whispered.
"Calm down Star. Blue is her friend. As long as she was near, that dragon won't do any harm to us." Blate scolded her while tried to freed herself from Star's grip.

Snow took no hesitation and made a slide out of ice from the top to the ground. She then slide onto it, leaving Blate and Star behind. They both were speechless. Her power was more efficient than Star's wings.
"Well, that was cool." Star has loosen her grip from Blate's hand.
"You need to tell me everything on the way. For the exchange, I'll bring you down." Star bargained.

"Alright, but careful.. whoAAAHH" Blate exclaimed.
Star struck her waist from behind and lifted her down to the ground. Blord and Noak slide down from the ice slide that was still holding there.
"Well, I suppose I picked the wrong transportation to get down." Blate sighed.

"Hmph.." Star pouted, folded her hand.
"Oh, don't be ridiculous Star. I was just kidding. Yours better." Blate made an excuse.
Once again, they scattered around the city to find Snow. It was hard to find Snow, since she had that speed of light power, she became like The Flash.

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           "Sheesh, ironic, isn't it Noak? A few hours ago, I didn't have any excitement of finding that girl. Now I'm curious of who or what she was." Star babbled things to Noak, even though she knew that Noak couldn't understand her.
Due to little amount of time, Star and Blate must searched for her separately.
Hoamm.. Star yawned. She was bored already. Technically, this was her fault, she was to be expected to find Snow.

Suddenly, the little shadow appeared in front of her. This time, it made a sound.
"Follow me.." the shadow whispered.
"It's you again little guy, I really do need your help to find the girl. Erm.. the girl with that fancy dress, straight hair..." Star described her.
The shadow floated higher onto someone's roof. Star didn't have any other choices, she flew upwards to go after it. Noak kept going forward, didn't realize that Star had left it.

The shadow didnot stop there, it flew higher and higher, almost catched the clouds. In the meantime, Star felt something was off.
"Where will you take me, little guy?" Star asked the shadow.
Apparently, the shadow only gave her a riddle.

Hide from where thou lie
Shall not make thou safe
Felt the breeze, close thy eye
Yielded by the sword, beg
Shall thou granted the beggar
Sculpted thy fate

"What a waste of time." Star rolled her eyes.
She tried to left the shadow, but somehow she couldn't leave.
She couldn't even flew downwards.
Strange.
She remembered a sentence from the riddle, to close her eyes. Therefore, she did.
Her surroundings felt changing swiftly. It became more crowded, but not the usual crowded, more like a tense crowd filled with suffering. Screams everywhere, someone called her.

STARRR

Familiar sound. She opened her eyes,  found herself inside the old castle. However, the castle wasn't seemed old at all. In fact, it was like the castle from TV shows. Birds chirping, sakura tree bloomed, she walked along a path she was given. Stopped by a big rock statue of a man whom his head was separated by a sword. Big thin sword. The man's face was filled with grief and misery. The point of the sword was attached to the man's back neck. That sword shouldn't've separated his head judging by the looks.
"Why's the sword looks very real?" Star mumbled.
She thought of something naughty, stealing those sword could've made her life better.
Apparantly, before she could do anything, fire filled the castle. Forcing her to back up. But the fire spreading faster than it should. This must be a nightmare, she thought. She screamed help. She wanted to fly away, but something was holding her in. She stucked inside.
Her breath was cutting short. She fell unconcious, coughing as hard as she could to release all the smoke inside her. The castle collapsed in half.

Before she closed her eyes, the floor felt colder. In the midst of fire, floor shouldn't still be cold. It was diffrent, she could feel ice was under her body.  Forcing her eyes to open, she saw a figure. Pushing its way forward, with the ice power from her hand. Star tried to remember someone. Someone she should've find.

"Uhuk, stranger girl? Is that you? Please help me.. uhuk uhuk." Star managed to talk to the figure with her raspy voice.
The feel of the cold hand on her shoulder startled her body. She tried to open both of her eyes, but failed.
A voice whispered to her ear.

wake up.. shadow'll misled you, do not be fooled.

AH..

Star rose her body into sitting position. White void filled her surroundings.
"Oh no, where the fuck am I?" she stood up.

Not long after, the place where she stood was filled with strange sigils. Red sigils, like she was about to be sacrificed to the devil. From those sigils, hands pulled her in.
"WHAT THE FUCK?? NOOO PLEASEE.. I DON'T WANT TO Dieeee..."
The hands was faster than Star could hold.

Suddenly, someone catched her left hand which wasn't devoured completely. Hold her hand tighter and helped her to get out from that situation.

She awoke from her nightmare.

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          "GO AWAY.. PLEASE.. HWAA" Star cried.
"Are you alright, Miss Star?"
She opened her eyes, found the strange girl sitting beside her, holding her hand tight.
"Why am I in this castle again? No no no,you know what this place is cursed." Star was scared to death.
She was already stood up and ready to leave.
"You both are not well." Snow stated
"What the fuck are you saying?? Huh?? Since you're here everything, something happen." Star said it angrily.
"They do not like me here. Anyway, my name is Snow, Snowflare Redlight."
"Yea, whatever, Snow. I just gotta find Blate, she must be worried. How am I even here?"
"The shadow brought you here. I sensed something was wrong since I arrived here." Snow tried to inform Star.
"If you know that there's something dangerous here, why sailed here? This wasn't the best place for princess like you. Also, why were you in my dream?"
"You were in danger, that's why I wanted save you." Snow answered
"How did you even know that I was here?" Star ignored her last sentence.

"I wasn't. I already found Blue and went straight back to this place. And catched you sleeping here."
"That's ridiculous.. I was on the street, I tried to find you with Blate. We were gone separately."
"I told you, the shadow brought you here." Snow whispered this time.
"How do you know about the little shadow?" Star asked curiously.

Before Snow could answered, Blate burst into the wooden door.
"Ah, there you are, I was trying to find you both." Blate stopped for a moment. 
"Geez, you two seems bonding. Good for you, Star.." Blate continued and teased Star.
Snow chuckled.
"I wasn't.... urghh.." Star annoyed, and crossed her hand.

"It's getting late. Usually, I sleep at the dorm room, but now I sleep at the castle. What a lucky girl I am." Blate murmured.
The three of them decided to sleep in the old castle, with their pets too. No blanket, no nothing. As long as they got some sleep to gain some energy for the other day, they'll be find. The wind were actually cozy that night, that's why Star and Blate slept faster than before.

Unlike them, Snow was actually still awake. The voices in her head were no joke this time. Very real, very disturbing, difficult to understand, to stubborn, to egoistic, to much anger, the sadness, everything became one. That alone made Snow felt stressed. She didn't want to wake them up, therefore she just closed her ears, trying to sleep. She worried about Tam Tam too, and her father. Oh no, her father would be so mad. If she didn't come back, perhaps the whole Colourlight Village will be vanished from the map.

This place felt like a bad place to stay. But, on the other side, she must helped them. They need her help, even if they didn't believe in her.

Perhaps, she will brought them to her place and getting the treatment they needed, if her father let her. He didn't like outsiders coming to his place. That didn't matter, she'd think about it later. For now, their problem were bigger, not that she ever seen. Star's was one thing, Blate's was even bigger. Also, there was something familiar with Blate's haircolour and figure, but she couldn't figure it out.

Is she that missing person?