The star i saw that day

Chapter 14: Emtiness

When I woke up again, I was back in my room at the shrine. At first my mind was a little blurry, so I went to open the window.

"Was it all a dream?"
I think to myself. Though when I left the room and started walking through the buildings, everything was silent; more than a shrine should be. None of the followers of the shrine were anywhere to be sean, and neither were any of the people who had been granted shelter. Also when I decided to go down into town, everything was silent. Confused I walked down the streets -looking through every window on my path- until I got to a the house of one of the girls I went to school with. But pretty much before I even touched the door, it opened on it's own and I slowly walked in.
"Hello, is anyone here?"
Not a sound.

I looked through most of the house before I then continued down the next street. Some time went by, and eventually I made it to the town square. It was just as empty as every house I had passed on my path. The only difference here - I felt someone was looking at me.
"Is someone here?" I asked again, as I had done it many times before.
Still only met with silence. Therefore I decided to go back to the shrine and go to Nostuynia. The only problem here - when I stepped into the fountain, I just got wet. 
"What the hell is happening here!"

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She looked so happy at that moment, finally, finally had they gotten rid of the goddess race. For her this was the happiest day in her life. Finally he could look his people in the in the eyes and say,
"I defeated the last of the goddesses. Finally the demons can conquer this world"

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I don't know for how long I was there. I stopped looking for other people pretty quickly, and pretty much all I did from there was stare into the emptiness. For a few days I had been looking at the river, that could be seen from the terrace, waiting for something to happen. It just never really did. The water was still, the sun high on the sky, no wind was blowing and there was no birds singing in the trees. There was nothing there. And I started giving up on finding a way out of that world.

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More days went by, where I just sat there. I didn't feel hungry or tired, I just sat in the same spot day in and day out. staring at the flowers and still water beneath me. Until one day, I heard a sound from inside the shrine.
Someone was finally there, and they bumped into something. So i got up, opened the door, and when I walked inside, there was Gwydion. He had tripped over a wase and that was what I heard. If he hadn't done that, who knows if we'd have found each other.
"Gwydion?" I said,
"Leila!" he almost shouted at me, "I'm so glad you're here, we've been so worried."
I looked at him, almost unable to speak, "W-we?" I got out, "The others are here?"
"Yeah, we were so worried something had happened to you."
"Oh, no I'm fine. I just thought I was alone here." I answered him, and continued,
"Do you guys know how to get out of here?"
He looked disconsolate at me and told, "No, sorry. I came here to check the portal actually."
"Well, that's no good. It's just a fountain." I continued, while shaking my head, laughing a little.
For days I thought I was alone and would never see anyone again; that I would be trapped in that weird world forever. And to be honest I regretted ever going to Nostuynia in the first place. I even had the thought that it was so weird how Hiroshi had just known so much, about these people that met. But in that moment, everything was different and I completely forgot about those thoughts. The others had just been somewhere else, they didn't know that I was there too, they probably didn't even know that each of them were here till they were lucky enough to find someone else. Maybe we had a chance, but if we didn't, at least no one were alone anymore.

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Gwydion took me to the others, apparently they had been at an old farmers house at the edge of town, and that was why I hadn't found them. When we got there, everyone smiled, and we shared a few hugs before sitting down talking about what we'd figured out about this world by then.
- First: We didn't seem to get either hungry nor tired.
- Second: Somehow, it was like time was standing completely still.
- Third: None of us could use any kind of magic. Not even magical items.
- Fourth: This world looked exactly like Kamakura village.
- And fifth: We had no idea how we ended up there, or what 'there' even was.

So we didn't know much about where we were, but we did have a slight idea about that it was Ahmya, who somehow sent us there. I did though feel like we were missing some really important information, but I couldn't quite remember what it was. I just had the familiar feeling of forgetting something, like when you walk out the door and feel like you forgot to bring something, but doesn't know what it is. That's how I felt that day, and I couldn't shake it.

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We spent a few days searching for stuff that seemed to be out of place. Though we were restless, and eager to find a way out of there, we had been enjoying those days free of the war. And I do admit, it was nice having peace to talk things over, and be the teenage girl I -in theory - still am for once. I was happy there, but I didn't think that I would ever be able to forget that we never really got rid of Ahmya, and because of that, we kept looking. Every one of us knew that we couldn't stay no matter how nice it was, for we had something that we needed to do. And if we didn't do it, all of the world that we left behind when we were sent here, would be destroyed. Maybe it already had been, we'd been there for weeks, and there still didn't seem to be any way of getting back to Nostuynia. But even though, we wouldn't give up because we had been chosen to defeat Ahmya, and that was for a reason.
"Morning." I said as I walked into the dining room.
Nephele looked up, smiling, "Morning"

I realised that I could really use that kind of life, doing nothing but what is needed to be done to survive. Though that hadn't really been my life, because a lot of my time had also been dedicated to sitting in a closed room; by myself. Apparently, that is what Celeste called training. It was pretty boring at times, but Celeste said that I might be able to get us out of there if I get a better grip on my magic. Though I had my doubts, I had been doing a lot of progress. By the end of the second month I could open small portals to the other end of the room, and that took me about 3 weeks to learn. So at that time, it seemed impossible to open a portal back to Nostuynia.

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Sorry I haven't been updating lately - I don't really have any excuses (-_-')
I'm thinking about maybe writing a fanfic of something, so please give suggestions it would be amazing!
Oh and thanks for making it this far btw <3