Magic, Strength And Speed

Chapter 2- Dreams

Bliss's Pov

After for what seemed like forever, my shift was up. Now time to wake Vixen.

Great.

I tried the nice way. I really did. I shook her and poked her several times to get her to wake up. Nothing worked. Then I spoke as loud as I could in her ear without waking Ember. Once again, it failed. I flexed my hand getting impatint. "Fine. Have it your way" I glared at her even though she couldn't hear me or respond.

I scrambled over to my bag quickly and dug around before finding what I wanted. The cold container had exactly what I needed. I grinned to myself admittedly always wanted to do this. Gripping it I stepped carefully around the twigs as I passed Ember. The girl's hair was quite short so it wasn't very messy. Today at least.

Ember wore mostly black. Long black pants, shirts and boots. Sure there were other colors but black overpowered everything else. Ember was quite quick so black was a good color for her. It helped her seem more like a ninja. Sometimes she had a black mask like thing to cover most of her face except her eyes, though, she had five different masks. I never understood why she had so many. One of them covered her whole face, eyes, hair, everything although she never wore it. I always suspected it was from her past. How she would hold on to it. After all, that was the same mask she wore when she met Vixen.

I didn't blame her for holding on. She wasn't the only one. Vixen held on as well and had several things to prove it, including her old uniform.

I would be lying if I said I left my past behind me.

I paused for a moment, processing what i had just thought. Holy crap that was kinda deep. I shook my head gently and finally stopped at my destination. I quickly unscrewed the cap and hesitated a moment before pouring the stuff from in the bottle directly on Vixen's head.

To my pleasure, Vixen woke up as soon as I did so in shock and uttered a single shocked cry. "AAAA!!!" She quickly wiped her face with her sleeve and locked her eyes with mine. Using only her hands (and very angry eyes,) Vixen expressed her extreme anger and frustration. I did my best to try not to laugh but completely failed and fell down, my whole body shaking.

Eventually, Vixen calmed enough to use words. "Did you just pour extremely cold water on my head?" She finally managed to get out. I took deep breaths. "Yes" I answered simply. "Why?" I stood up straight. "Because it's your shift" Vixen made very confusing hand gestures before speaking again. "Why did you do that?" I shrugged. "Nothing else was working. Next time, wake up faster." I winked. I made my way to the makeshift bed and flopped on it and wrapped myself up in the somewhat fuzzy blanket. Sleep was sounding really good right now. It wasn't long before I slipped from reality.

However, dreams flooded my mind and before I knew it, images burned in my mind.

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Darkness

At first that is all there was. My eyes soon adapted to it and I was able to look around. A glass forcefield of a sort blocked the way. I pounded on it but nothing happened. That never works. A disordered voice came behind. It echoed and glitched almost as if there was something wrong with it. Slowly, I shifted toward it.

A dark figure stood before me carrying something. Two things to be exact. "S-J-- T--O" The word was cut out and I couldn't understand what it said. "Huh?" I tried to get it to say it louder but it kept talking. I had no idea what it was saying. "T---- Num----- Se--" It spoke again but I had no luck, on understanding it. It started to step into my view but as soon as it reached it...

Pain flooded my mind and my head felt as if it was burning. "N... No not again. It always stops here. Why does it stop here? I want to see more!" I called out knowing I would get no response.

Then light flooded the room quickly and everything faded away.......

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"BLISS" A sudden voice screamed in my ear. "WHAAAA" I jolted upright panting. Cold sweat covered my face as my eyes adjusted to what was in front of me. A white face with some orange-ish colored freckles started into my eyes with concern. "Bliss! Finally, sheesh." Vixen huffed. "And you say i'm hard to wake up" Confusion and slight panic flooded my body but I pushed it away.

"Oh. Hey Vixen. Something wrong?" Vixen made a face like she was pretending to think. "Hmmm. Well, for one thing look around you." I blinked and did as I was told. A dome made up of the earth itself had blocked the sun out and kept me and Vixen inside it. It was almost as if it was protecting something..... OH!

"Oh crap! Sorry Vixen" I apologized quickly and held my hands up, extending my arms to their full length. A slight glow came from them as I felt the very energy inside me flow into the dirt taking control. Within seconds I lowered my hands slowly taking the protective bubbled made of the earth, and whatever grass got sucked into it, down with it. The dirt settled finally and I powered down.

"How did that happen?" I asked. Vixen stared me down. "You tell me. You did it after all" I blinked and tilted my head a bit to show my confusion. Vixen sighed impatiently realizing she would have to do more work to get me to understand. "I was doing my job making sure we didn't get robbed or killed in our sleep when you started to twist around like a insane bunny, so naturally I came over here to check on you." She locked eyes with me. "Your eyes glowed and as soon as I touched you, that dirt circle appeared and trapped us both." She finished and nodded at me.

"I had the dream again" Her eyes became wider. "Again? Do you ever dream of anything else? Do you at LEAST remember what happened?" She asked. I thought back and some memories surfaced. "They talked this time but, I couldn't find out what it said. Sorry" Vixen huffed out air in disappointment but smiled anyways. "Oh well, come on. We have a lot of ground to cover and I really don't want to sleep on hard ground again after weeks of doing this. My back hurts"

I thought for a moment thinking back. "It's only been five days"

"Shhhhhh"