Nightmare Quest (Book 3)

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I feel air rushing around me, but everything is still dark. I try to open my wings to see if I can slow my descent, maybe spot something about where I am, but my wings won't open. I panic slightly as I continue to fall further into nothingness.

Finally I see a dim light underneath me. I fall into it and see that I'm plunging straight into the bleak and barren landscape of the Nightmare Dimension. There's no way I'm going to be able to slow myself down enough to escape minor injuries. Heck I'm already injured enough as is.

As I'm falling to my death I frantically try once again to open my wings. At first nothing happens, but thankfully I'm finally able to open them right before I hit the ground below me. It didn't slow me down much, so I hit the ground hard enough to knock the wind out of me and I roll across the ground for a few feet.

After I stopped rolling I just laid there and stared up at the dark churning sky. (Or at least I think it's the sky.) I didn't want to sit up because I knew it was going to feel like my chest was caving in, but slowly I reluctantly pull myself up in a sitting position. Instantly, like I had planned, there are sharp pains in my chest and just about everywhere else. I probably added to my long list of injuries. Which is great.

I gingerly stand up and limp over to a rock so that I can stand on it and get a better vantage point. Once I'm on top of the rock, I notice something strange about the piece of land that I'm on. I go over to the edge and find that it's floating in the air! I stagger away from the edge and freeze when I hear the all too familiar voice behind me.

"What's wrong Azula? You look really beat up."

I turn towards her and grimace "Silverclaw. I should've known that you would drag me into this abyss with you."

Madam Silverclaw pretends to be hurt "I needed someone here with me. This eternal prison is very lonely and dark you know."

"You just can't stand the fact of me not being your secret weapon can you?" I reply with a smirk.

Madam Silverclaw looks taken a back "I always knew you would be my greatest creation, and I was right. You were my best warrior right from the moment you killed your first opponent." She pauses and flashes an evil grin "You were born to kill Azula, and that's just what you're good at."

I jump off of the rock and take a step towards Madam Silverclaw "No! You might have made me but I am not a killer!"

Madam Silverclaw shakes her head and makes a sympathetic tsk tsk sound "You say that but you seem to have forgotten...you killed your own brother Azula. There's no way that can't label you as a killer."

A wave of memories come flooding into my mind like a tsunami. The crazy look in Thorn's eyes as he lunges for me, the dagger in my hand, the dagger plunging deep into his chest, the glazed look in Thorn's eyes as he laid there in his own pool of blood.

Tears fall from my eyes and I clench my fists in anger. "It was never my choice to learn to fight! Everything that ever happened to me was because you made it happen!" I yell as more tears stream down my face "Thorn never wanted to fight and neither did I! You never gave us the choice you forced us to be the way we were!"

"I forced you to fight yes, but you were the one who loved every second of it." Madam Silverclaw replies. She comes closer and lifts my chin so that I'm looking her in the eyes "You know we're a lot a like you and me. You killed your brother to become the better fighter, and I killed my sister so that I could inherit my father's lab."

I push her away "I am nothing like you!"

Madam Silverclaw laughs "Oh Azula, we're more alike than you know."

I clench my fists and before I can stop myself I lunge towards Madam Silverclaw. My attack caught her a little by surprise and my punch barely misses.

Madam Silverclaw looks irritated "I thought for sure that would have made you break down."

I smirk "It's going to take a lot more than that to keep me down. Your biggest mistake was thinking I was one of your sheep."

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