Siphon

Chapter 5

After passing through the gate, the whole atmosphere had changed. Behind the gate the sky was blue with some clouds and a light breeze but on the other side of the gate the sky are was dark and gloomy with a very hard wind throwing my red hair all over the place. In the distance following a stone path, we can this enormous grey castle. 

"Is your castle that big Ziva?" I ask her jokingly. "Nope. It is bigger." she chuckles. "Okay we got here. But what do we do now miss witch hunter?" I turn to Cleo and ask her. "Follow me" she said and started to go down this dark path that was left of the castle and we all followed. "Now this should get us in the back way, where the servants come in and out. But be careful and stay focus." she tells us. "What do you mean it is just a path." Ziva says. "It is a cursed path, that makes you see your truest desires and if you go to them it will lead you into her giant maze that you won't be able to get out of." she says to us.

After following Cleo for about 10 minutes down the path, I start to feel light headed and my vision gets blurry. I end up having to stop to get my vision back in order. "Ruby are you okay?" Caspian stops and asks me. "Yea, I just got light headed. I'll be okay. Go ahead I will catch with you guys in a few." I tell him. "Are you sure? I don't want you ended up in the maze like Cleo told us." he says to me. "Ruby! Caspian! Where are you guys?!" we hear someone yell. "Ruby got light headed and fell behind. We will be right there!" Caspian yells back. "Okay just don't go..." the voice was cut off by the sound of the wind howling and then thunder cracking. "We gotta go. I don't like the feeling I am getting." Caspian said. I nodded in agreement. Caspian started to run, but I couldn't so I power walked basically and Caspian noticed and slowed down his pace.

"I'm sorry I can't run. I still feel light headed." I told him. "That is fine. We both need to get there in one piece and if old lady power walking is the way to do it then so be it."he chuckled. Then we came to a fork in the path. "Which way to we go?" I ask him. He shrugs his shoulders and says, "I don't know. Cleo's voice got cut off by the wind so I couldn't hear her tell us which way not to go". I hear a faint voice yelling my name and I guess so did Caspian, because we both said, "I think we go this way" at the exact same time and sprinted opposite directions.

After a couple yards of running, I noticed that Caspian wasn't with me and so I slowed down to a stop and turned behind me to see if was at the beginning of the path and he wasn't. In fact there wasn't beginning at all. It was a wall of bushes behind me. "Ruby" I hear a familiar voice whisper. I turn around and there she was standing there like the last moment I saw her. The red hair I got mine from and her deep emerald eyes and pale skin it was my mom.

"Mom?" I asked and she nodded yes. "Oh this is that desire thing Cleo warned us about." I said aloud to myself. "No it is not. I am here. I am a physical being." my mom said. Her voice sounds like a gentle wave crashing, just like it did when she was alive. "No this Aunt Amara's doing. Trying to stop me from getting Grammie Anne back." I said and pushed passed her. She was right, she was a tangible being. I stopped and looked back her. She her head down, and her hands covering her face so I wouldn't her crying, like she used to do when I little. I walked back over to her and placed my hand on her shoulder. She looked up at me and said, "I'm sorry little one. I never meant for this to happen to you." she says and brings me into a embrace.

"I was so young, but I remember every little thing about you. Why is that?" I asked her. "That what happens when you are witch. You remember everything when the little things." she told me. "But how come I don't remember dad then?" I asked her.  "Well, that is because you weren't born before he died." she told me. "How did he die?" I ask. "Well he went on a voyage to another land in a different realm like you are in know. He didn't come back when he was suppose to and a very long time after that, you were about a year and half a survivor made it back to the kingdom and told was happened. There was a big storm and the ship crashed and there were only so many survivors but your father was not one of them." she told me and squeezed my hand.