Shadow & Light The Ark Twins

Chapter 8: A dream?!

Raven:

Don't you humans hate it when your dreaming of running towards the Exit, and it keeps getting further away. Then the monster that's following you, is gaining on you over and over until *Snap*.

I woke up with a start and gasped for air. Not knowing where I was, I simply pinched myself to make sure this was a dream. And it was. So I laid back down, feeling very lazy about it.
"You will catch a cold laying there on the floor." Said my conscience in my head. I laid there on the grass in a small hill. The stars shined brightly above me, as if Heaven is sending secret messages across the sky.

"There is no rain, so what reason is there for me getting sick?". I said mockingly, but I spoke too soon. Thunder rumbled across the sky and made the dark night light up. It gave a feeling of being photographed in a second. I felt droplets in my forehead. As each drop got faster, it made me feel cold. I didn't care for it was a dream. None of it was real.

"Achoo! *Sniff* This is a dream, right?". My nose felt stuffed. I started thinking if I should even get up from here, but Weird enough I felt something trying to reach my mind, I blocked it as usual. If its the same as all my dreams then... It starts like this, and then something comes out of the pitch darkness, making me run none stop until I wake up screaming... "sigh".

"So our Uncle "Oscar" is actually Roran Garrowsson, just like the book he read to us when little. If what he said is true, then who am I... Or better yet, who are we?. Raven and Me are twins, and nothing more. But recent events say otherwise." I stretched and yawned.

I stood up and turned around still feeling something bugging me in my mind. Like a little tick trying to suck blood. "Ok, come on out. I may be young, but you should not underestimate me." I said looking at the pitch darkness. Rain kept falling getting heavy as time passed, my black short hair was plastered down, my clothes felt heavy on me, and I was getting tired by the second for some reason.
I heard Heavy foots digging and squashing against the grass and mud. The sound started getting closer and closer until it was close enough for me to smell it's breath. It smelled so bad I wanted to fall down barfing, but it was thanks to working at Uncles barn, cleaning the Horses stall that helped me. I assumed it was a horse, but It was not. Thunder rolled across the sky, and in that flash I saw something so horrific that it made my skin crawl.

"Do youuuuu knowwwww whyyyyy youuuuu areee heeeerrrreeee, Shurtugal?" Said a hollowed voice, followed by multiple whispers behind it.

"Yes. This is my dream, as it has always been. Now get out!." I said feeling confident, but my feet would not stop shaking. Nothing can harm me, for this is my dream, my mind.

"You thiiink... That you are safe heerrrreee?" Said the voice louder with laughter. Right Behind him, the multiple whispers started to sound as crazy screams.

The rain grew heavy on me. Thunder flashed on the background, and I saw the beast in front of me clearer than before... It was horrifying to say the least. A mix of a Horse and I don't know a huge bat of sorts in bones covered in pieces of its flesh, rotting with insects and worms around its body. It had a dark cloak over it that is now covered with holes and burn marks. Its eyes were hollow, but every time it snorted they pulsed bloody red. When it moved you could hear the squish of its bones and dead flesh move together. I wanted to hide in a hole, but what was more terrifying than the animal itself... Was the army behind him.
Another thunder flashed, and I could not lie to you, there were rows and rows and rows of undead soldiers just standing there as if awaiting for their order to attack and eat all in sight. Behind them was a City in Ruins, buildings on trees destroyed and a huge tree in the center burned to the ground.

I backed away slowly. But as soon as I was about to run, the voice came back so fierce that it made me kneel before it.

"Youuuuu thiiiink you can hiiiiide for everrrr... We will find youuuuu and your brotherrrrrrrr. Hehehehe..." The voice grew clearer, "No one can escape the wrath of the Shade and the undead... You will revive me young lord. Little by little I grow stronger and when I regain my strength You will revive me and I will serve you".