The Cold Truth (Sting x OC)

Chapter 28

Crystal's POV
~in her dream~
I'm in the ground, a ringing in my ear and sweat pooling down my face, why is it so hot? I open my eyes to see I'm surrounded by burning buildings. That answers that question. I stand up, but immediately feel pain in my stomach. I touch the spot where my stomach hurts and then look at my hand. Blood? Am I bleeding.

I look around at my surroundings. Everyone's on the ground, they aren't knocked out or dead, just on the ground injured. "Aurora." I call out weakly as I turn to see Sting holding her and Lector tightly. Both are knocked out. Sting looks at me, and smiles weakly.

Must get to them. I think as I walk towards them. Something tells me to turn my head, I look to see some tall muscular guy. He's laughing, and talking but I can't make out what he's saying. I can see his body features. But not his face. He's tall, his skin is white and from the light coming from his eyes, I'm assuming they're red. He has horns, long spiky horns.

My eyes widen when I realize he's chanting something. And it's pointing straight at Sting! I begin to walk to him, but he seems so far away. The spell fires and I watch as it slowly gets closer to him. My eyes widen, and I begin to run. Everything's going in slow motion but I make it! I feel a sharp, burning pain as the beam goes through my stomach, several more are fired, some going through my arms, some through parts of my legs, and some miss. I fall to the ground, but someone catches me before I hit the ground completely. My breathing slows... Why is it so hard to breathe?

I look at who cought me. Sting! Thank go he's safe! But, he's crying? Why is he crying?  Then I remember I just got hit, that makes since... Wait, Aurora! Where is she? Is she ok? I turn my head, pain, and see Gray hugging her tightly. She's crying too. Sting is saying something. I hear loud crashes, and spells being called. I hear so much sound but no voices. Wait no.. I hear one. It's his voice.

"Cris, please! Don't die on me! Wendy hurry up! Get over here and heal her please!" He yells. I feel a warm sensation throughout my body.  Relief... But then it disappears.

"No! Why did you stop?! What do you mean your out of magic?! No Crystal! Please look at me don't close your eyes!"

I'm..not...wait everythings going black, I feel pain in my arm as I raise it to Stings cheek, water..why is there water on his face? Oh..tears.

I look back at him and cough up a thick liquid. I smile slightly, it's becoming harder to see...black, light, black light... "Sting...I..." I go to speak, he looks down at me. "I love...you..." I say, my voice horse and shaking. It's hard to make out what he's saying..."I love you too." He says as he grabs my hand that's on his cheek. Then it all goes black...
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I sit up in a rush, my head is pounding and my heart is racing. It's 3:30 in the morning right now. I look next to me to see Sting is gone, this makes me panic even more. I stand up and run downstairs, not caring if I wake the others up. "Sting?!" I repeatedly call out as I search the house. Nowhere! He's not here... I quickly run back upstairs to Rogue's room and I pound on the door.

I hear him groan as he opens the door. "What?" He asks annoyed.

"Stings missing!!" I yell at him, my voice shakey and my body trembling

"Did you search the house?" He asks.

"Yes!! I searched everywhere in the house! He's. Not. Here!" I say panicking.

"Alright, alright. Calm down. I'll call the others." He says calmly as he heads into his room to get his phone

I pace around in front of his room biting my lip and trying to steady my hands, clearly having a panic attack.