Elementals: The Snake With Wings

Part Five: Where am I?

"H- holy shit...." I glanced around the room we had entered. It was captivating, two lava fountains on the sides, with brown clouds above. There were torches with white fire and I could feel a dark magic presence in the room. I wasn't very good at sensing magical presences, but it was so strong.

"Whistler? Are you ready?" I heard Eliza speak, putting a hand on my shoulder and smiling, "We're going to be in a safer area watching you encase you need help, but we don't want to interfere."

I see Kathrin and Gene head into a weird bubble room with a green translucent material covering it. Tony nods to me before entering aswell.

"I don't want you to freak out too much, but that mirror..." She looks way accross the room, I look too. There is a large mirror, surrounded with dark twisty vines and a purple aura, "That mirror is meant to trigger emotion as to bring out the most primal of magics.... just... be careful." She patted me on the head before joining the others.

"Primal...." I look to Kathrin before stepping towards the dark mirror, knowing it was definitely the source of the powerful dark presence. I stopped before it, no more then two feet away.

"Could it be? Someone looking into my dark dimension....?" A girl, no older then me appeared in the mirror, purple eyes and raven hair. She looked like a shadow, "Human? Or purhaps another Elemental seeking my wisdom..."

"W- who are you...?" I tried to look to the others for reassurance, but the room I was in had dissapeared. There was nothing but darkness, and the Mirror, "Where am I..?"

"Is that really what you want to know...? Wind Whistler...." I let my gaze wonder back to the Mirror, as it is the only thing I can focus on, "You will hurt people Whistler.... Another you by another name with cause great distruction and sorrow...."

"I- I... I don't want to hurt anyone! You're... y- you're just trying to freak me out!!"

"Oh? The Fire Queen has told you of me I presume..... I must say, it is true I am used to bring out emotions.... but I never lie."

The girl dissapeared, and a faded image of Kathrin appeared in the glass. She was crying, her smile was gone.

"What happened to her....?" I reached out and touched the mirror, more parts of the scene unfolded.

Kathrin was hugging a book to her chest, in a cave. There was a snow storm outside.

"It's because of something you will do.... This will happen...."

"B- but how?! You're not saying anything useful!!"

"I can only show you the truth, I cannot tell you why what I show you is the truth...."

"What else then....?" I pulled my hand away and hold it to my chest, "Where's Rider?"

"Ah... Dust Rider..." an image of my friend appears in the mirror, he seems to be curled up in a ball, also in some kind of cave. But at further inspection it's a dungeon, "You will bring your friend to this fate Wind Whistler..." I feel myself at the verge of tears myself,

"W- where.... am I...?"