I Am An Assassin

Arachnia Part 11

Ona gasped out for air, she sat up and rubbed her eyes harshly. When she opened her eyes her vision was a blurry, her sweaty palms grasped her knife harshly. She was panting and she could tell she had tears on her cheeks, she wiped them away and rested her arms and head on her knees. Ona's breathing became slower and slower until it was normal. Ona looked at the sky, it was early in the morning.

"Ona are you alright?" Ano asked her, just as he was doing yesterday, he was cleaning his sword. Ona felt sweat drip down her neck, she shivered.

"Physically.." Ona muttered out, she stumbled up onto her feet and looked around for Tera's bag, she found it next to Tera. Tera was leaning against Talon and was sound asleep, Ona couldn't smile at the peaceful image in front of her eyes and it disappointed her.

"The dream was worst this time." Ona thought to herself, Ona walked over to the bag and rummaged around inside of it. Once she found what she was looking for she grabbed it out, the water bottle Tera had filled up yesterday. She opened it and placed it against her lips, she tipped the bottle and took a huge gulp of water. The water was cold because of the climate they were in, it didn't help with Ona's  freezing body temperature but it helped with her state of mind. She placed the bottle back into the bag and walked back over to where she had slept, right next to Tiko. Ona sat down and stared at the ground for a bit, all she could hear was the cleaning of Ano's sword. Ona placed her hand near her back and pulled out her sword from her holster, Ona's eyes widened, she winced as she placed the sword flat onto the palms of her hand. She bit her lips and let the sword slip out of her hands and she placed her palms on her eyes. Her sword fell onto the ground beside her with a loud clinking noise

"The sword I killed grandma with." Ona thought to herself, Ona felt herself tremble. Ona picked her sword up and stared at it, she traced every detail on it with her finger.

"Just a dream, my sword is clean." Ona comforted herself with those words, she closed her eyes and breathed in and out slowly. Ona opened her eyes and looked around, the sun was just starting to rise a little bit. The morning air was chilly.

"I think I got atleast a couple hours of sleep." Ona thought to herself, she felt under her eyes with her fingers then sighed. She felt bags under her eyes, sleep used to be so peaceful for Ona. Someone sprinted across the sides of her vision, Ona tilted her head.

"Ano what are you doing?" Ona asked, Ano wasn't in that direction. Ona snapped her head in the direction where Ano was sitting before, Ano was gone.

"Ano?" Ona asked out, she panickedly looked around for the others, everything was gone, everyone was gone. Ona noticed she wasn't leaning against anything anymore, Ona jumped up holding her sword in a defensive stance, she tucked her pocket knife into her clothing.

"Tiko and Talon are gone too, its just like last time- wait the surroudnings are the same?" Ona questioned herself in her head, Ona felt a sting in her face, she felt like crying. With glossy eyes she tried her best to look terrifying, she inhaled slowly. She knew she couldn't cry in a situation like this, crying last time with Sage and Alec didn't help.

  "Show yourself-" Ona was cut off, she saw a figure holding a sword around the same size as hers,  Ona glared at the figure. It grew closer,closer,closer, and closer. Ona almost dropped her sword, the figure was- Ona? Ona stepped backwards, an image of her was walking straight towards her.

"That can't be me." Ona thought to herself, the figure got closer. It was her, exempting the facts that it had black eyes and with every step it took, the more intimidated Ona felt. It walked lazilyand sluggishly but it had no openings. It smiled at her, showing of it's harp teeth, Ona shivered.