The Game Before the Fall

Chapter 70: The end of his world. (Part 2)

Endithalia:

Endi woke suddenly, her body covered in sweat. A single train of thought spurred her onwards. She had to act quickly. The vision from her dreams was echoing inside her mind. A war of against demons but beyond it all, an enemy that came from within. More than anything her instincts told her what needed to be done.

Endi broke out of her bedroom, ignoring the walker she had become used, pushing her muscles to move faster. She bounced off the walls, clearing the living room and exiting the apartment, falling against the door opposite hers. Her hands fumbled with the key, pressing it in place and pushed the door open. Without pause she scrambled through the living room and straight into her target's room.

"Aria!" Endi called and opened her door. "Aria wake up!"

The girl in question rose from her sleep confused, "Endi? What are you doing here?"

Woken by the sound, Erin rose as well, "Is something wrong? What time is it?"

"I need your help," Endi grabbed on to Aria's wrist and began to drag her. "We need to get to Elastire."

"O-okay," Aria allowed herself to rise, and after a few steps was helping Endi instead. She turned back for a moment. "Erin, wake the others. I think this is serious."

"S-sure," she nodded and began to get dressed.

As they moved back to the living room and towards Elastire's door, Aria questioned Endi, "Hey, what's this about? Where are you taking me?"

"We need to get to Ardent's arm," Endi shook, her weak body already pushed too far.

"If you say so," Aria trusted her completely and floated Endi beside her. "We're going to move fast."

The moment Elastire's door was opened, Aria flew through and traversed the castle grounds quickly reaching the courtyard where Ardent's arm still hovered, locked in place by dozens of layered spells.

"Here we are," Aria set Endi down. "Now what's so important?"

"Ardent needs his arm," Endi spoke, the word's sounding off but her gut telling her it was right.

"My brother needs his arm?" Aria turned to look at her confused. "How do you know that?"

"I don't know but I know he needs it. Something is wrong where he is and if we don't unseal his arm- I- I think something terrible will happen to him."

Though Aria trusted Endi she had also spoken to Arvel about it before, "Arvel said that his arm had to be sealed. If we let it go, it'll try to connect to wherever he is. He said it could break time and space. I'm not sure about you, but that sounds pretty bad."

"Yes... but I think that's what we need to do," Endi nodded her head, again something inside her telling her it needed to be done. "Ardent needs his arm."

Aria huffed a sigh, "You know I actually spoke to Arvel about using his arm to bring him here. He said that the problem is because they're part of the same body. The majority will win. So, I asked why not just send the arm away. Ardy not having an arm is a pretty big deal."

"Let me guess, it was a bad idea?"

"It was a bit hard to understand but basically that arm will fly towards Ardent, but it won't just be his arm, it'll be everything it drags with it. Energy from the Rift, power of the Void, whatever else there is. I can cap things on our end but on his end...."