Between Dreams | Sander Sides Story

Chapter 14

(Roman Pov)

Though I was warming up to Melissa I still didn't trust her. She skipped over details when she felt uncomfortable. I knew she was hiding something but then again we are are in this place. No one in this place is them truest self. You can't judge a book by its cover in this place even when every fibre of your body tells you otherwise. Everyone is hiding something whether they know it or not. Melissa did kill an innocent but so have I. We have to convince ourselves otherwise in order to sleep at night.

In the middle of my slumber, I was shaken awake. I grunted before opening my eyes. To my shock, it wasn't Melissa who awoke me. A hood figure with piercing yellow eyes hunched over my body. Their pearly white teeth sharpened to a point sent shivers down my spine. I backed away only to bump into another one of them.

The Viverna sisters. Their robes have been updated since I last saw them. Their crest was updated. It was the head of a dragon. It looked really cool but they were my enemy so I shouldn't compliment their logo.

A muffled call was coming from behind one of the hooded figures. MELISSA. I jumped up and pushed past the one on in front of me and moved towards the noise. Melissa was being restrained by another one of the sisters.

The closest of the two behind me who seemed to be the leader snickered.

"Thanks for finding him sis," The leader said. "Knew we could count on you."

"Yeah, thanks, Mel," the other behind me said giddily.

Melissa bit her captures hands and spat out "Fuck you, Cassidy!". She squirms about trying to escape her holder's grasp.

At first, I thought the hooded sisters were talking to each other but when they mentioned Mel, I knew something was up. Was Mel related to these girls? If so does that mean she is a... dragon? The clan is known for being well dragons or other creatures like that. How did I not know this about my friend? Wait was Blue one too? Oh my, I have so so many questions.

"Why do you want him?" Mel asked.

"We have a little surprise for him"

A surprise for me?

Mel's eyes widened. She knew something I didn't.

They blinded us and gagged us before forcing us to walk for what felt like ages. We . I heard Melissa get pushed to the ground than dragged. They treated her worse than me. What did she do to her sisters?

We were thrown into adjacent cells. I spat out my gag and used my shoulder to remove my blindfold. My hands were tied behind my back. They removed my sword from my body. I cursed. They had to make this difficult. Good thing I love a challenge. I looked over at Melissa's cell. She laid in the centre of her cage, unmoving. Her body was covered in scratched.

I call out her name. A faint sobbing emerges from her cell. I inch my way to the bars separating us. I call her name again. Pattering from her tears hitting the floor was an unwelcome sound. Footsteps coming from the staircase was the only thing that registered in my friends head. She jolted up and turned to look at me.

Her face was just as badly wounded as the rest of her body. Her eyes were just like the others. Bright yellow. The lack of lighting made them more noticeable.

A hooded person stopped at their sister's door. Melissa stood, her body jerking as she struggled to stand. Her cell was unlocked. The next few moments went by so fast I almost missed it.

Melissa's body morphed into a humongous bee with metal appendages. She leapt forward and stuck out one of her front metal legs. Blood splattered everywhere. Her leg went right through her sister. Melissa went back to her human form. Picked up the key and tossed it into the air.

"You wanna get out of here?" she asked.

My face was painted with horror and some blood from the now deceased guard.

"And that's how I kill so don't insult me with that miserable display back at your place."

She let me out and we were off.

Third person

I shouldn't of let you see the roaster on the wall. If you never found out I overworked I wouldn't be this this mess. Virgil imagined himself saying to Roman. He had a tendency to create scenarios in his head and let them play out.

Anxiety thought as he slumped to the wall.

This wasn't about him. Not everything is about him. He worked all those hours so no one had to. He started it for somehow had a date one night and somehow keep doing everyone's shifts. He tried to help Roman with his night terrors when he didn't have to. He hadn't thought about him that much at all recently. It's so out of character.

He didn't foresee the circumstances he fell into but that's okay. Help was just around the corner.

Roman and Melissa were on one of the spiralling staircases that lead to the highest tower. Melissa didn't want to go up there but It was the quickest way to get out. They reached a door labelled "Kaida's room" and was written in blue. The door was unlocked which surprised the two of them. Behind that door was someone they didn't expect to see. Virgil.