WARNING: SPOILERS!!! ~A Watty's 2019 Submission!

Saved for Return to Ni No Kuni

  It was dark. Very dark. Aaliyah couldn't see two feet in front of her. Then a light came on over a table, and there was someone on it! She ran over, begging to herself it wasn't who she thought it was, but she was wrong.
It was Oliver lying there, not breathing. She gasped, tears streaming down her face, falling to her knees.
"No. Noo! NOOO! Why would you do this!? He was just a child!" She cried to no one. Then suddenly, chains flew from all directions, and she was yanked onto a table next Oliver, her white dress turning black, feeling weaker every second as a black mist surrounded her.

"You are the Heir to Magic. Your soul belongs to Senkrad, the powerful!" She fought against the blackness, still sobbing. "No! You can't do this! I swore to protect him! You killed Oliver!" The black most laughed."Even facing death, you care more for the child than yourself? How quaint." Then the mist rose, and more lights came on, showing Aaliyah Esther, Swaine, Marcassin, Harmony, even Drippy, all in the same situation. She stared at them from where she lay chained, seeing four of them dead. Swaine looked right at her, his face twisted with anger."This is all your fault! You're responsible for this! For their deaths! For the destruction of all of Ni No Kuni!" Then he fell back, and Aaliyah sobbed harder than ever."Why would you do this!? They were innocent!" The black mist surrounded her, allowing her only to see her dead friends."They were in the way of getting to you and the Pure Hearted One. Your souls belong to Senkrad, and I shall take them to him!" Then the mist grew closer, and closer, and closer..."Aaliyah! Wake up! Your having a nightmare!" She sat up screaming, drenched with sweat and tears, her friends, very much alive, surrounding her. She rubbed her eyes and looked at them all."Thank goodness! You're all alive!" She cried. "Of course we are! What else would we be?" Drippy asked. She panted as she spoke."I'm sorry if I scared you all. It was just a bad dream." She walked away, not wanting them to see her face anymore, and went to the washroom to splash some cold water on it. Oliver followed her."Aaliyah, can't you tell me what happened?" She liked at his small, childlike, eleven year old face, and broke down sobbing again. He went over and patted her shoulder."It's going to be okay. You're safe now. With us!" He said. She sniffled, then hugged the small boy."Thank you, Oliver. This journey has really taken its toll on me. I feel like such a burden." Oliver patted her back."Aaliyah, you're not a burden. I promise. You're one of my best friends and we are going to get though this together." She hugged Oliver close."Thanks, Oliver." She said. "Of all the people who could've been here, I'm glad it's you." He shrugged, blushing. Then the two of them went back to bed.