Sinistral

Chapter Eighteen

I never use to have much of a problem sleeping. It was something I never had to worry about. Being dead, even more so but because I was hurt. Zack had told me I had to rest, he was right of course. I think if I hadn't gone to sleep then I would have never been able to make the journey. I remember it crystal clear, like a shadow which would always linger over me though even if I had to rest and sleep. 

The first nightmare. My first within Sinistral. A veil of mist covered my brain, I felt like he was there right in front of me, Lucas. Looming over me, warning me about what he was going to do if he caught us.

When I woke up from it, I have to admit I thought it was just a dream, nothing to worry about. A nightmare, even if I had never experienced that before I knew what it had been. I thought it was just that, a nightmare but that was until he showed up. Until Actros showed up and told me otherwise.

A nightmare within Sinistral is never just a nightmare....

The blood poured out of my side. Tears filling my eyes, as the gang backed away.

This is how my nightmare had began.

"You're so weak," I heard a voice whisper from behind me. The gang had froze to the spot, everything had froze in place like time had stopped all together.

I turn my head ever so slightly and my eyes land on Zack. At first I didn't quite understand what was going on but he continued to talk to interrupt my thoughts.

"How do you ever expect to get by being so weak? You couldn't even stop that gang. They ripped you down, they destroyed you. At least I died in style, you died over your foolishness. You're weakness will destroy you, Cayden. It will claw at you and it will bring you down," he smirked.

"No, that's not it," I began but he continued as if he hadn't heard me talk.

"Poor defenceless, Cayden. How many times have I saved your ass? I should have left you in that tower, because I don't see how you can destroy the core. I would have done it better on my own. You were weak here and your still weak now. You will get us killed," Zack said.

Before I could protest he had vanished before my eyes and replaced by a figure. As he approached me, I knew it to be Lucas. He walked slowly towards me grinning from ear to ear. "You're death maybe something horrible, an experience that you wish to dismiss but if you had joined me you wouldn't have had too worry about it. Zack will leave you, he will abandon you. Like everyone does, your real parents did that too. Forget your real parents, your old life and forget Zack because he will leave you like everyone else. I won't I'll catch you when you fall. It won't be as painful as everything else," he whispered.

The image in front of me dissolved around me and was replaced by a new image altogether. It was the red eyes of the Scars that I saw first climbing the mountain with ease with Lucas travelling behind, his smirk as wide as I've ever seen it before. He looked pleased with himself.

His eyes landed right on me and his laugh cracked the air like a weapon piecing through the air, in silence. I gulped, could he see me? He vanished and reappeared in front of me his hands latching around my throat.

"I'm coming, Cayden. I'm going to destroy you. When I'm done, an empty shell will remain," he laughed as he continued to block my air.

"Please," I begged but he cut across me, "Zack will go down first," he sneered.

My eyes shot open, the cold taking over my entire body. I felt myself shacking but being alert. Zack's arms latched around me trying to help me calm, to breath. I look right into his eyes before I realise I had been dreaming the whole time.

"Cayden, what is it?" he asked.

"A nightmare...," I paused as he looked at me with concern before I continued, "It was just a nightmare," I whispered this time trying to convince myself and Zack that it was just that and nothing else.