~The Passing Time~ A Garmau FF

Chapter 21: Kiki's answer

Aphmau's POV
I fall asleep.

I'm in that room again. "M-Malachi? A-are you there?" I call out.

The room turns a reddish black color, pictures of lava, fire, volcanos, and darkness flash in my head. The room grows increasingly warm.

"I-is anyone there? H-HELLO?" I shout growing scared.

A large fortress finally appears in fromt of me, many guards, covered in red armor, standing guard.

"Wh-who are you?!?" I shout to them. They stand unflinching. As if I weren't even there.

"WHY WONT ANYONE SPEAK!?!" I scream in their direction.

The image fades, a tall, shadow-like figure looms ahead. It has a powerful dark aura around it. Its head is tilted down as if it were resting.

"WHY CAN'T ANYONE HEAR ME!?!" I fall to my knees. "I CAN'T LIVE A LIFE OF NOTHING! I REFUSE!" A bright yellow magical aura surrounds me. Me hair starts blowing around. "I WANT SOMEONE TO REALIZE I'M A THING IN THIS STUIPID PLACE!!" I scream irritated.

I conjure up a sword. "FIGHT ME FOR ALL I CARE!!" I run at the shadow. "I DON'T CARE THAT I'M OVERPOWERED BY FEAR AND RAGE! I WILL DESTROY YOU! STOP HURTING MY FRIENDS!" I scream, thrusting the sword through its chest. "YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!" The sword passes through the shadow.

The sword dissipates and I fall to my knees. "What is this horrible place?" I ask, tears starting to roll down my cheeks.

"Trying to fight will not work. Don't use brute force, use words. Attacking it will make you no better than any other. To control your true power, you must use kindness." I gasp and I turn to the voice.

"MALACHI!" I run up to him and hug him. "I-I can touch you?" I put my hand on the child's head. "H-how?"

"I'm not just your average spirit." He closes his eyes. "But now isn't the time." He looks up at me. "I knew you would pull through." He smiles.

"Wh-what?" I ask confused.

"You brought Kiki in with open arms. You thought of a plan to protect her. You saved her life. Before you came, her thoughts had turned sour." He frowns. "She would have killed herself if you hadn't have come." He looks up again. "I'm proud of you."

"But why do I keep coming here?" I ask confused.

"Within time you will see why, but for now don't fret, you wont get hurt here. I promise." He says as he fades.

"NO WAIT! MALACHI, COME BACK!" I scream tearing up as the image fades.

I wake up gasping for breath. I sit up and touch my tear-stained cheeks. "What... was that place?" I rest my face in my palms and start to cry. "Why can't I ever have a different dream?" I whisper. I gasp, my mind pulling me back to my dream.

Yellow light engulfs me, it swirls and shoots upwards. I ceel my hair whipping all around my face. I pair of wings and a sword are conjured up on me. "I DON'T CARE THAT I'M OVERPOWERED BY FEAR AND RAGE! I WILL DESTROY YOU! STOP HURTING MY FRIENDS!" The words spill uncontrollably out of my mouth as I scream. My eyes are pure white with no color to them at all. The blinding light that encases me shoots out in all directions. "YOU WIL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!!" I scream, completely blinded by raged.

My vision blurs. "That... thing... It was controlling me.." I whisper. "WHY?!?" I yell crying.

"BeCaUSe YoU'rE tHe OnE! EheHeHe!" A voice says in my head.

"What!" My eyes widen. "Who are you?" I ask.

My vision clears. "APHMAU! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Someone yells in front of me. I feel hands on my shoulders and I'm being shaked. I blankly look up at her. Who...

I focus. "Kiki? What.. happened?" I say slowly.

"I heard you whispering things and your eyes were dull.. What is going on?" Kiki lets go of me and sits beside me.

I look down.

"Tell me.." she says, she puts a hand on my shoulder.

I look up my eyes brimming with tears. I tell her of the reoccurring dream I have been having. About the blackness, and Malachi's visions. I tell her of my dream, the shadow figure, and my form.

"Malachi came out and told me, Trying to fight will not work.
Don't use brute force, use words. Attacking it will make you no better than any other. To control your true power, you must use kindness.
What do you think it means?" I tell Kiki.

"Wow. Th-that's alot to take in... Wh-what do you think he meant when he said there is someone who is in a great truama and that they're being conrolled?" She says thoughtfully.

"I-I don't know.." I trail off gasping.

Kiki looks at me. "What is it?"

"Maybe.. M-maybe the person i-is from Zenix's group?" I say softly.

She widens her eyes. "What are you implying?" She says slowly.

I look her in the eye. "I want you to really think about this, okay? Just ignore the fact that they bullied you for a moment. I'm going to make an inference and I don't want your past getting in the way of your judgement." I tell her sternly.

She closes her eyes for a few seconds and exhales. "Okay." She opens her eyes and looks at me determinedly.

I nod. "So... I think Malachi was talking about Zane.." I say after a moment, I see Kiki narrow her eyes. "Kiki. Focus." I tell her.

"But why Zane?" She says pointedly.

I close my eyes. "Kiki.." I open them and look at her again. "Why do you think Zane, of all people, was chosen in your blackmail?"

She looks at me confused. "I don't understand." She says.

"What if he had done something and the group found out about it. Then they decided to pick an innocent looking girl and put them together." I look away. "Then they used him to do something and threatened him with that picture if he didn't do it..." I pause tearing up. "M-maybe Zane is angry and takes it out on you? H-he might have been controlled by the group. However that doesn't explain the... red.. eyes... WAIT! Kiki I need to see something, where is your bag?" I look up at her.

"It's on the desk in my room, why?" She looks at me confused.

"Nothing I just need to check something, stay here!" I run out of the room and into Kiki's. I find her backpack hanging from the back of the wooden chair of the computer desk. I grab it and open it, rummaging through it.

Where is it?!? I know she wouldn't throw it away in the fear of someone seeing it. My hand hits a slip of paper.

"Got you!" I whisper. I pull it out and look at it. Huh? That jerk!

I'LL MAKE HER PAY FOR HURTING KIKI!!

~Heeeeyyy! BEST. CLIFF HANGER. EVER! AM I RIGHT?!?

Hehe! Anyways, I just wanted to tell you guys that when I said that I'll be posting once or more a week, I want to raise that to at least three times a week. I have been very creative lately and I fear that is going to run out soon, so that is my set goal. At LEAST 3 or more a week, sometimes it will be like yesterday with 4 updates in one day, others I wont have the time to post.

Guys also, I KNOW this is a Garmau fanfic, and I KNOW you want to see Garmau happen, but I think immediatly getting them into a relationship ends the story too quickly, so this will be more like a story, but it is still Garmau. It's just that my style of writing has changed dramatically throughout this book, and I want to keep up improving.

Calm yourselves! Keep your pants on as Jessica/Aphmau would say. There WILL be fluff, just not an immediate relationship!

Also fluff is freaking adorable! So.. yeah.

Aaanyways! This story will NOT be ending anytime soon so I just want to put that out there!

That's all for now!
Keep smiling!

Caio!
-GabbyTSN

(P.S. TODAY IS A DOUBLE UPDATE! SO KEEP YOUR PANTS ON!)