Nightmare Quest (Book 3)

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"Azula..."

I faintly hear Essix's voice but I ignore it. I can't make myself watch any of them suffering before they die.

"Azula." Her voice gets a little stronger and more urgent.

Again I ignore it and cry some more.

"Azula!!" Her voice extremely urgent now.

I look up and see her dying form close to me. I can barely make myself look at her. The poison from Madam Silverclaw is slowly spreading through her body turning her black, and the pool of blood underneath her doesn't look promising. But what I don't get is even though she's dying her voice sounds so strong...

"Azula listen to me, everything you're seeing is an illusion." Essix says.

"What?" I half say half sob "You're lying this is real!"

"I promise this is all fake!" Essix says while dragging herself closer to me.

I look around and shudder. There's no way this could be fake. Everything is way too real. I slowly let my gaze rest on each of my dying friends gasping for air. I let my gaze rest a little longer on Erde and Briggan. If I hadn't had been in their lives, the love of my life wouldn't be dead and my brother would still be by my side.

"Come on Zu, you know I wouldn't lie to you." Essix says.

"How do you know that everything I'm seeing is an illusion?" I ask.

"Essix smiles "Why don't I show you?"

Somehow Essix can move normally, even though she's bleeding out, and without warning she quickly draws her sword and cuts right through the stone restraints on my arms.

I hear a loud angry cry of pain that sounds like it would belong to Madam Silverclaw. Then everything I see slowly starts to deteriorate until I'm standing on one of the floating islands in the Nightmare Dimension again. Except this time I'm not by myself, Essix is smiling at me with her sword propped on her shoulder.

I look at her confused. "Essix? How are you here?"

She shrugs and points at the gold W shaped stone on her necklace "I got a little help from the Warrior stone, turns out entering the Nightmare Dimension is one of Onyx's greatest skills."

I notice blood dripping off of the blade of Essix's sword. "Uhh...who's blood is that?"

"Oh this?" She pauses and wipes it off with a big leaf she plucks from a nearby plant. "It came from your "friend" over there."

I turn to where Essix casually pointed and I see Madam Silverclaw holding her arms. The bottom part of them are bleeding and Madam Silverclaw looks beyond ticked off.

"How dare you cut off my arm whips?!" Madam Silverclaw hisses.

"You cut off her...ooh go bestfriend!" I say while giving Essix a high five.

"Aww come on now Azula, it's not that big of a deal." Essix says while rubbing the back of her head.

"Are you kidding me?! That was something I was never able to do and I've trained with the woman." I say back.

"Enough!" Madam Silverclaw snarls "You might have Onyx's power Azula, but even then you still can't defeat me!"

"Such superiority, you got some serious ego issues there sister." Essix replies.

Madam Silverclaw crouches down and narrows her eyes. Then she springs towards us "DIE!!"

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