The Missing piece

Chapter 16: The swamp of lies

The road seemed endless since they have been walking for days, all the supplies they had, almost gone; they had only enough food for a few hours ahead, and the most important thing they needed was water which they were desperate for. They have been suffering for hours before they saw something on the horizon, a mirage that they thought a lack of any source for water. The thirst pushed them to walk faster with whatever energy they had left, so they could reach it before losing all their power. Unaware, that what they were running into was a swap, when they reached it they were disappointed, suddenly a fog started to cover the place until they could barely see their own feet. Out of nowhere, each one started seeing stuff in that fog,

Anna was seeing her mother, still alive and she was sitting in her garden waiting for her as usual, she reached her hands to touch her... Evander was seeing his parents beside him holding his hand and kissing his head smiling at his face, in their eyes he saw the pride of their own kid, just proud to be his parents; Shadow On the other side was seeing the girl of his dreams, the one who truly loves him, holding her hand walking side by side laughing and just enjoying the fact that they found their soul mates; Adam was looking at his parents calling him to go with them somewhere far away, when he was just about to walk towards them Anna pulled him back. They had no idea what happened to them until Anna started calling them and shaking them to wake up from those lies. Seconds after she saw those images she realized that her mom was gone and she'll never come back, they were all confused and sad, Evander said:

· I think I should go back, my parents would be worried!!

· You were wrong my parents are still alive, and I have to go back and look for them, they must be waiting for me!! Adam said.

When Anna realized that they were all saying some things that could not be true, they sounded like dreams or wishes. She knew that the fog did that, Shadow fell and start saying non understood words, Anna was stuck in a situation where she had to guide three guys, hallucinating about wishes they wanted to come true. she started shacking Adam to wake up from his dreams and convince him that his parents are gone they was no way they were coming back ever and she reminded him of the revenge he wanted and the memories he wanted back, and it worked; Adam finally got back his mind but Evander was afraid of his parents' disappointment, so Anna had to tell him the truth she was hiding:

· Hey, listen to me. I haven't told you everything I saw when I touched your hands, the people you think are you parents, are not, they couldn't have babies so they decided to adopt someone to hieratic their fortune, You're just like one of their properties, they don't care about you.

Anna knew that she shouldn't tell him those harsh words, but she needed to wake him up from his illusion although his reaction was absolutely not expected. Evander kept looking at her for a while then he started laughing so hard until his stomach was hurting him, Anna thought it was because of the shock, no sane person will laugh at those rude words, he was so happy that those inexorable people aren't his true parents. At last, they all got their mind back and defeated those lies but Shadow was still in shock, they had no idea what happened to him, but they didn't have time to wait for him, Adam held him on his back and they kept walking through the fog. Unexpectedly a young boy showed up, they were all scared and had no idea where he came from, Anna was just about to ask him, but he disappeared again in the fog like a ghost, at that moment they all started screaming, and running around terrified from what they just saw, after a few minutes they got back their conscious and started thinking of somehow to go through that swamp, Adam noticed that it was ending at some point far away, so the best decision was to walk around it since the forest looks right after the swamp but it was so far, the detour was going cost them a lot, they barely had any food or water left, the exhaust and fear were also preventing them from taking any big steps, Evander said :