The Savior of Souls ✔

Part Twelve

After traveling on the flat surface of the tunnel floors, I found it hard to walk through bumps and bushes of the forested area surrounding the entrance to the tunnel. Abby led the way to the well, though Anthony was close behind her. Abby stopped and said, "The Well of Souls should be in there. I feel the barrier."

"So I'm just supposed to keep walking?" Anthony asked. He stepped forward, sun still clenched in his hands.

"Yeah," Shane told him. "If you look, you can see the well now." Shane walked forward with a handout. He was stopped by the barrier, his hand pressed against it.

"Be careful," Abby said to him. "If you push too hard, the barrier will shock you."

Shane backed away instantly. Just as Anthony took a few excited steps forward. The barrier buzzed, sending a light across its walls as he passed through it effortlessly. Anthony turned around and said something, we couldn't hear him.

"We can't hear anything from inside the barrier," Abby told Anthony. He nodded, giving us a thumbs up, and he started towards The Well of Souls.

When he got there, he bent down, touching the well. He stood and walked around it, brushing the side of the well when he seemed to have saw something. He looked at the well, then back to us. I couldn't help but think something had gone wrong.

After he got over whatever bothered him, he started to recite something. I wished we could hear it, but we could only watch. He started to light up, an outlining glow of yellow, then white, and back to yellow surrounded him. He finished by placing his sun on the well. The light that surrounded him burst out, stopping at the barrier before us.

Anthony jogged through the barrier back to us. "I'm The Savior, but I can't restore everyone," he said, looking each of us in the eye with a confidence I didn't know he'd had.

"What do you mean by that?" Tyler asked, worried for only himself, no doubt.

"It means that, unfortunately, I can only restore three souls," Anthony said softly. The rest of us were quiet. We've traveled this far in hopes of one thing, we wanted to be human.

Part of me considered volunteering to stay vampire. I didn't hate it, but then everyone I've known would be lost. I wouldn't get to see my family, I wouldn't see Anthony or Tyler or Shane. I cared for them all, even Abby.

All Shane wanted was to live the life he'd lost. He wanted to right wrongs, he didn't want to live an eternity regretting one mistake.

Tyler had goals. He already planned out his future, college, jobs, everything. Becoming a vampire, for him, ruined all of his plans.

Abby spent so much time living a life in darkness, she wanted to grow old. She wanted to become an elder, she wanted to someday experience a peaceful death.

"I guess," Abby started, breaking the silence, "I guess I can stay vampire."

"Are you sure?" Tyler asked, though we all knew he wouldn't have volunteered himself.

"Yeah, I've lived this long like this, you guys shouldn't have to,"she muttered. Her shoulders slouched, and she leaned against a tree.

"Thank you, Abby, it means a lot that you're willing to let us be human," I said to her.

She looked to me with sad eyes, she was disappointed, I bet. "Someone has to stay human. Besides, there is still more languages to learn. There's more subjects I have little knowledge of."

"Okay, I have to be quick, the power is fading," Anthony said in a rush. "Who's first?"

"Do Shane," I suggested, knowing he wanted it the most. I would say he wanted to be human more than Tyler.