Nightmares ; Bonkai

chapter 18

She felt a static charge come over her body in waves, startling her out of her dream state and sitting upright, rubbing her arms to brush the goosebumps away. She looked to her side and discovered what had woken her; Kai's broken sounds. He grumbled deep in the back of his throat as his fist twisted against the sheets, his breathing harsh. She reached out to touch his chest and felt he was cold and clammy, his heart pounding underneath her palm.

"Kai..." she said weakly, not knowing what to do or how to stop the dreams.

"Hey!" she said louder, putting her other palm against his chest and pushing down. "Wake up, Kai!"

His hands locked around her wrists, his grip tight as she tried to pull away.

She looked at his face and noticed his deep worry lines and ragged breath as he was still lost in a dream. She tried to rip herself free of his grasp but he wouldn't budge.

An idea hit her like a freight dream; her thoughts hovering over it before they drifted off to sleep but now seemed like the best possible option. She vaguely remembered her book of sleep spells she used to read when she first discovered she was a witch. There were countless small sayings you could say to switch a person's dream, see what they were dreaming, or pull them out of one. She wasn't able to do this for herself since it needed to happen while the person was in REM but it may just work on him.

She pushed her hands up until they were around the sides of his neck, closing her eyes and mumbling the saying a few times over, imagining him getting pulled from his dream until she could feel her senses become overwhelmed by vertigo, everything going dark.

I stood in front of a large white house, two-story with a porch wrapping all the way around. It stretched wide in mass over height, the roof a combination of hips and valley's with small windows to peek out through and two chimneys on either side. Overall it seemed like a pretty quaint place. I glanced to my left at the large tree and noticed a treehouse high up near the leaves, the rope hanging down.

"Weird..." I noted, walking over and pulling on the rope.

I climbed the ten notches all the way up, peeking inside at the few random things; comics, waters, but no pillows and blankets, and definitely no Kai. I made my way back down and headed for the house, walking aimlessly through the large rooms and not coming into contact with a single person. I check upstairs and head back down, walking out the backdoor and notice a large white shed off in the distance. I hop off the porch and head towards the back left hand corner of the yard, wondering how no one is home in such a big place.

"Stop!" pierces through my ears, my skin breaking out in goosebumps at the voice I've come so used to hearing.

I run the last fifteen feet to the shed and glance into the window, my breath catching in my throat at the sight.

A teenage Kai is standing in the middle of the shed, shirt off, arms raised and holding onto a metal bar. I watch an older man walk around him in circles, speaking too quietly for me to hear. I look at the door next to me and open it a crack, Kai's yelling drowning out any noise the door or I could have made.

"I'm trying to help you, Malachai," she heard the man that must have been his father say. He stopped in front of him. "You're 16, you should have gotten your powers by now. If they won't come to you naturally, maybe there's a way we can push them out of you from within."

A loud gruff left his lips before gritting his teeth, his father continuing his walk until he ended up behind him.

He raised his hand in front of him and with a flick of his wrist Kai yelled out in pain, his wrist flicking back and causing the same reaction. I squinted to look at his back and my mouth dropped open, deep red slashes were flittered across his raw skin.