Fading Into The Sea

Chapter 8

That night I woke up to a soft knock on the door. Instead of allowing whom ever to enter I just simply ignored them and tried to go back to sleep. But then I heard the creaking of the door followed by some heavy foot steps and felt the bed dip with the weight of a body sitting on the corner of the fluffy bed. Opening my eyes I found Asten staring at me, the expression on his face seemed almost sad. There in his hands sat a plate of bred with some rice and a couple of dried pieces of fruit.

"I uh, brought you something to eat." He said awkwardly, I gave him a blank stare and watch him sigh and set the plate of food on the night stand, then he stood up to leave. An odd feeling crept into the pit of my stomach, I wanted to be alone but I also wanted the feeling of loneliness to go away.

"What are you?" I softly asked, he paused for a moment with the door slightly a jar. The silence in the room was almost unbearable. I could tell he wanted to say something but could not find the words to say. 

"Its not my place to tell you." he almost whispered, then he walked out and softly shut the door. A tear plopped onto my pillow followed by many more, I was scared.  I wanted to talk to someone, to vent to, to cry to, someone to be there to tell me that I was not alone in this situation, but the truth of it was that I am all alone. I read stories when I was a little girl about far off places, about fairy tales with dragons, knights in shining armor, fairies and princesses. I had come to idealized the heroes of the story, because they were so brave to fight the dragon or to climb the tallest tower. In every story all the heroes had that one thing that drove them, whether it was a girl in a pretty dress or if it was just because it was the right thing to do. What they all had was determination. Picking myself up off the bed I looked at myself in the mirror. My eyes looked tired and my hair was in knots, in short I looked pathetic. 

"No...This will not do." I said to myself with confidence, I washed my face and braided my hair. I straightened up my cloths and that is when I decided I am not going to be the damsel-in-distress,  I was going to be the hero. I was going to get home. I looked back at the mirror and the girl that stared back seemed to have more confidence then before. Or at least that's what I am telling my self. A deep groan rumbled from within my stomach, I hadn't realized that I was starving. I walked back over to the night stand and picked up the bread and took a bite of it. I was expecting it to be dry, but to my surprise it was rather moist. I sat down and ate the rest of the food enjoying the delicious rice and pieces of dried fruit, well, at least I think it was fruit, it was sweet and and a little tang to it. After that walked to the door and opened it, a shiver ran down my spine, standing on the other side of the door was Obsidian. He stood with his arm up and his hand balled in a fist as if he were going to knock on the door.

"Oh, Brea! I was just coming to check on you." He said a little bit surprised. I swallowed the lump in my throat and forced myself to look at him, remember you are the hero. I reminded myself. "How are you feeling?" He asked a little more serious.

"I'm fine." I stated.

"Are you?" 

"Maybe a little bruised but... I'm fine." Just then I remembered the dream I had about the captain and the boy from my past. I couldn't shake the feeling that we had met before. That he was the boy. He raised an eyebrow at me and I realized that I had been staring at him while I was lost in my thoughts, I looked away at the the ground and tried to find anything to look at other then him.

"look Brea, we need to talk. Will you walk with me?" I looked around the tall man in front of me to see if any of the crew men were out on deck still. "Don't worry everyone is asleep below deck." At this point I'm not entirely sure who I should be more afraid of, some of the crew, or the captain. I nodded my head yes and shut the door behind me. We started walking about the ship, the night air was warm but a small breeze would pass by every so often it was refreshing to the skin, millions of little stars danced through the sky, it seemed like one of those nights you would only be able to read about in books. "Brea, I hope you know that I very much want to tell you everything and answer all your questions. I just don't know how to say it all."

"Tell me who you are." 

"You already know who I am."

"Tell me who you are."

He stopped walking and leaned over the side of the ship and released a small sigh. "My name is Obsidian Solasta," he paused for a second " I am going to tell you everything that you need to know but you have to promise to keep an open mind when I tell you." I shook my head yes and he continued " I am not part of your world, I come from a place called Laret, it is a far away land that no human has ever seen, my people are what we call the Ermati, translated into your language it would mean people of the wind. My brother Asten is also a Ermati, we were sent by our queen on a mission to bring back a sacred item that was stolen from our home land 1,000 years ago." I had started fidgeting in my place and kept my focus on the horizon, as Obsidian went on. " You see this item is what keeps the world in balance, and kept our world safe,  since it was taken life has been turned upside down, things have been spiraling out of control and we have been able to control most of what life has thrown at us until recently, a great enemy of ours has been kept at bay for over a millennia but hes recently escaped from his prison, and he is looking for the sacred item to use it to take over Laret and the rest of the universe." So many questions were spinning around in my head I had no idea what was going on, I looked at his face to see any indication that maybe he was just pulling my leg, but I could tell all of what was said was true.   But a question I could not contain any longer suddenly slipped.

"But why do you need me?"

"There was a prophecy sent to the royal family from the gods after the item went missing, it said that of which keep us safe will destroy. The time of peace will end and darkness will rain down upon the land. Only awakening the goddess of the moon will restore peace,"  I started to panic and shake at his words "We have waited for a long time to be told when the right time was to awaken the goddess and by whom will do it, for years upon years we waited for a sign, then one night  about a year ago the queen had a dream that a young women not of our world, who had hair like lightly colored sand and eyes that were blue like the ocean would help us."

"There are many other women with hair and eyes like mine!" I almost yelled. I started hyperventilating and pacing back and forth while nibbling my finger nails out of a nervous habit.

" I said the same thing to the queen, I asked her how would we know who the right girl is, and she then told me that the gods would guide me to her and show me a sign once I saw her. That day we set out to find you, I had a strange feeling to go to your town first but I ignored it and we stopped at many towns along the way but none of the women I saw were the chosen one. Finally I followed the feeling that had berried itself inside of me and went back to your town-"

"Back? you mean you have been there before?" He paused for a moment carefully selecting his next words.

"Yes. But it was a long time ago. As I was saying I went back and by total coincidence there was going to be a Ball of sorts going on the night we showed up an-" I had to ask, I couldn't hold in the question that I have been dying to ask since the moment I saw the captain.

"Have we met before?" I stopped pacing and met the mesmerizing eyes of Obsidian. He didn't speak, but I knew the answer, I needed to hear him say it. "Tell me, have we met before?" I pressed. He inhaled deep and replied "Yes". 

Hey guys! Sorry that this chapter isn't as long as I would have liked it to be, but I thought It was about time I updated!