Minions (editing and expanding)

Chapter Six- Your Worst Nightmare

Jonathon Little’s dream was turning fast.

Siobhan wandered farther into his dream, watching things turn from sweet to dark. A lady in red turned to a Medusa. A peaceful beach transformed into a dark swamp.

When everything was evil, the three redheaded girls reappeared just by the door. They smiled at the scene of destruction, then walked out of the dream.

They did that? Siobhan realised with a jolt. Oh my God! It was them! But they’re just… minions.

In the witching world, a minion was an evil, unfeeling demon who travels with a clone. The only way to remove a minion was to kill it, but if you harmed a clone, it dissolved, leaving two in its place. They rose up from the ashes of the clone and destroyed the being that killed the previous clone.

She walked distractedly out of the dream and back into the corridor. The minions were already gone, but it wasn’t too hard to track them down. The dreams that were already destroyed had large red ‘X’s on their solid black doors.

Just as she caught up to the minion and its clones, they disappeared into the door marked ‘Elaine Iquabeth’. Siobhan rushed after them, worried about losing them in her daughter’s dream. The minions were blowing on the different sweet things in Elaine’s dream, turning them bad. One of them blew on a teddy bear, and it grew pointed teeth. It stood up and roared.

Siobhan heard her daughter’s high pitched scream and caught her as she came running up. In a split second, she decided she could not leave her daughter in this nightmare. Gripping Elaine tightly, she headed for the door.

But before she reached the door, the minion and its clones appeared.

“Stop.” They ordered. “Threat detected. Give us the girl.”

She gasped and ran for the door, the minions following close behind with slow, measured steps.

She was panicking too much. She tripped, and one of the clones grabbed her ankle. They dragged her back, making her lose her grip on Elaine. She tumbled away from her mother. Just as she slowed down, she vanished. The dream began to melt around them, colours blending into each other, and then disappearing all together.

Siobhan thrashed around, trying to get out of the minion’s grasp without harming it, just in case.

All of a sudden, she was back in the real world. Melusine was holding her down, the potion pot on the floor beside her.

“Are you okay? You were thrashing around like crazy! What happened?”

She explained her trip to Melusine, carefully skipping over the featureless girl in Alexandra’s dream.

“Mel, we have some work to do.” Siobhan finished. “We need a revealing potion ASAP, have you got the supplies?”

“Yes, I’ll just go get them.” She left the room, to get the supplies, and Siobhan wandered over to Elaine’s cot to find her awake and terrified.

“What’s the matter, sweetheart?”

“Bad dream.” She whimpered, burying her head in her mother’s shoulder. “You helped me Mamma.”

“Well of course I did!” she laughed softly. “I’d never leave you alone when you were scared.” She kissed her forehead gently.

“There was a girl, Mamma. She told me to give you this.” She held out the bottle of dragon blood.

“A girl?” Siobhan murmured as she took the bottle. “What did she look like?”

“Like the girl in Aunty Mel’s shop. The girl that gave me your pretty necklace.” She answered.

“Yeh? And what did she look like?”

“Like you, Mamma.”

“Like me?” Elaine nodded. “Well, okay, then. Go back to sleep. You’ll be fine now.” She put her down as Mel came back.

“I’ve got everything.” She dumped everything in her arms onto the floor.

“Okay. I guess I’ve got a potion to make.”