The Whisperer

Chapter three: Confrontation

            Iana was all alone, she had currently noticed.  "Where am I?" she confusedly asked herself. 

           A few moments ago, Mrs. Ace was droning on and on about the concept of Power and how it helped people go about their businesses, but as always, a strong kind of sleepiness started to overtake her senses even more powerfully than before.  So Iana, who had nothing else better to do, let it control her, and just like that, she was standing in the middle of a forest.  

           Tall trees loomed above her in a sinister manner, their crooked branches prostrated in a position that looked like they were all ready to devour her in a way that made Iana automatically shudder with fear.  Somehow, getting back to Mrs. Ace's Physics class wasn't so bad after all.  

           Iana frantically fished for her phone, but to her dismay, even the mint candies she had brought along to school seemed to vanish into thin air.  I'm screwed.  She told herself.  In that little while of hesitance, she decided to walk since it was better than standing alone in a somewhat alive forest.  

              The dried brown leaves crunched under her feet as her eyes examined the place cautiously.  The forest was deserted except for the probable fact that there were bats, snakes, spiders and other poisonous beings that lurked within the dark, also those cold yellow eyes that looked at her like she was an interesting subject.  Or probably that was Iana's mind playing tricks on her rabidly.

             Iana knew what she was going to do next was beyond stupid, but she did it anyway, ignoring the probability that she might was being filmed in a live creep television show.  "Lyla!?" Iana called out desperately.  "If you're here...uhm, I promise I'll do my physics homework from now on!" Nobody answered.  Obviously.  "Dad!? Help!" She begged, her voice near breaking point.  "I'll do my chores, even washing the plates!" Silence answered her back with a mock nod, Iana decided to give it one more try though.  "Mrs. Ace!? I won't sleep during your classes anymore! Just please get me out of here!"

                    "Iana Grey." A voice said.

                  She automatically spun, tears now threatening to burst forth like a fountain.  "Mrs. Ace?" For that little while, she was quite glad to think that they did intend to place her in a creep television show where fear was the highlight of the act, and that Mrs. Ace was the culprit of it all, but when she realized that the woman standing in front of her didn't look like her hag Physics teacher, Iana decided she was losing her sanity after all. 

                   "How do you know my name?"

                  "The noise you make is insufferable." The woman declared, her face pulled into a knot of an evident disagreeable frame.  "But you and those other two will have to suffice."

                   Iana lost her voice completely, despite the innocent beauty she displayed, and that smile that contradicted every threatening movement of hers, this woman just radiated so much power, but it was naturally dark, so dark that Iana wanted to recoil away from her sight immediately.  She wore a red linen robe, it reminded Iana about the fashion statement people had from the medieval times.  "Are..." She gathered whatever courage there was left in her.  "Are you going to kill me?"

                   "Funny, but that's what the other two had also said." The woman smiled, she smugly stretched her arms out.  "I am Lady Rhea, I am the creator of this magnificent void that you were sucked into.  But this is not all to waste Ms. Grey, as I was also sent here to tell you this during the same exact time that Carrius Klyne will be sent to get all three of you out of the human world and into Elluduras."