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Yoda slippers. The house was quiet without Darien. Mom and
Dad must still be in bed. Maddie grabbed an Ann
Riis's novel from her desk and sat downstairs to go
find some breakfast.
Speaker 9: Mmm, no more raisin nut cur You really are an
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Speaker 8: As the eerie words left Madeleine's lips, she let go
of the cereal box in her hand and it crashed
onto the well worn oak floor. She grabbed the counter
and paused as she knew that the wars that left
her mouth were not her own. Even as she did so,
a wave of vertigo, then anxiety mixed with a discomfort
and nausea, gripped her quickly.
Speaker 9: Stop begin preparations for reparations. You have made the people
in your life miserable, and now it's time to make
it up to them. You have brought a curse upon
the whole world. That's impossible. I do good things. What
good things? Fighting at school, lying to your parents about
where you were going? Every teen does that. I'm just
rebelling against the man your parents made the world a
better place with their inventions. What would you ever have
to contribute? But it's too late. Now you've lost your
drive to learn. You're not going to graduate valedictorian or
get accepted into a good college. Maybe you're right. Lately
I've been awful. I don't even feel like I exist
in this reality anymore. It's almost like I'm a shadow
of myself and the real me is actually somewhere else
doing something to make a difference. I really don't matter.
You know, if you weren't here, it would be so
much better for everyone. Maybe there's a way around all
this sadness. Death is pain release.
Speaker 8: Madelene's attention was drawn back to her bedroom. She drifted
down the long hallway to her room and sat at
her desk as if she was drained of all energy.
She stared into the mirror above the desk as a
single tear fell and landed on her diary. Madeleine of
tara Ian opened her diary to a clean page and.
Speaker 9: Wrote, November fourth, nineteen ninety five, Lately I haven't been
the person I was meant to be. I've betrayed you all.
I'm just a shadow of a daughter. Nothing feels real anymore.
Speaker 8: Inside the renegade base, Nightmare called for his two commanders,
Destroyer and Dominator. News had already reached Nightmare of their
failure infiltrating the academy. Therefore, he called them to dinner
together to hear their explanation and excuses as to why.
Nightmare sat at the head of an extravagantly long table
opposite the room's entrance. Before him sat silver platters laden
with decadent meats, fruits, and breads. Before him, and to
either side of him were eight dinner placings for people
to eat. The room was well lit, with elaborate electrical
lamps that looked fairly expensive. The room was also very
well decorated, with its faulted ceilings and gray marble pillars
with arches in between them. Mirrors also lined the walls.
The room felt more spacious than it really was. Destroyer
sat to the left of Nightmare, looking rather dejected, while
Dominator sat to the right, appearing defensive.
Speaker 10: So tell me you both headed the attack on the academy.
How did it go?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 11: It went pretty well. We managed to get onto the grounds.
Speaker 12: And oh we failed. We took their shield down, but
someone messed up in the process.
Speaker 11: Hey, their technology is more complex than anyone might think. Okay,
no one could have suspected that the shield was tied
into the lights.
Speaker 12: You alerted them to our presence. They were perfectly unaware
until the lights began flickering.
Speaker 11: As if you would have fared any better in my position,
how was I supposed to know that all the powers
of the school had been connected to the same box
as the shield. I didn't have a chance to study
their entire security system before we began, So don't blame
this all on me. In any case, your Red Beetles
should have been better prepared for the students to fight back.
Speaker 13: So it's my fault.
Speaker 12: They took out a large portion of my army because
you readied them and let them know we were coming,
and they were ready. Had you not, I still have
most of my Red Beetles left. If you were so useless,
I'm useless.
Speaker 11: I'm not the one in charge of obliterating all life
in that academy. What were your soldiers doing instead of
training playing games at a Teddy Bear festival?
Speaker 12: Don't you drag that into this. This has nothing to
do with it enough.
Speaker 10: I already knew you two were failures. Both of you
were at fault. If you hadn't fucked up, we wouldn't
have a problem, now, would we. They've now been alerted
to our presence, and who knows what else. If I
had no further use for either of you, I'd race
you from existence this instant. The next time I have
a mission for either of you, I expect you to
prepare better, You lazy scum. Now get out of my
sight before I changed my mind about sparing your pathetic, worthless,
and consequential lives.
Speaker 8: Destroyer fell out of his chair in fear and scrambled
out of the room as fast as he could to
avoid Nightmare's wrath. Dominator stood up abruptly and huffly left
the room. Nightmares left backwards into his chair and placed
his thumb and middle finger on his temples, stressed, enraged
and disappointed that his attempts failed and that his commanding
officers were complete ignoramuses. At least the homing beacon was
in place. Now he would be able to locate the
academy no matter what dimension it shifted to. He began
to decompress and try to calm down when a loud,
energetic knock came at the door.
Speaker 14: What is it now, hello, the friend, I come to
give report on new younglings. I see you are troubled.
Is it bedtime? I come from other time?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 10: No, I guess I need to hear even more bad
news today.
Speaker 8: Nightmary moved his hand from his face, looking Emerson in
the eyes as he spoke. He tried to regain some
level of composure and calm in his voice.
Speaker 10: Anyway, sit down and have a drink, my old friend,
tell me how are the new vampires doing.
Speaker 8: Emerson sat down at the far end of the table
and clapped his hands. A side door opened and closed,
and the young woman approached him quickly. She knelted aside
and offered her hand, which Emerson took and bit into
her rest. He then began periodically sipping from her while
he spoke.
Speaker 14: Many doing well, though others experiencing a rough start. Some
are very obstinate in manner which they deal with training,
acting like a rogue use. I will do a democraticly
and chan nol mercy as usual. Always have few testy
ones in each batch, but I set straight nonetheless. James, however,
that one is special. He defended himself well against entrance
tests I provided. In fact, he managed to pee me
and rough me up a bit. He is excelling to
the point I I've never seen before. He is prodigy.
James could even wait?
Speaker 10: Why call him James? If he's earning your high praises.
Anyone who's excelling at being a soldier in our army
should be respected enough to be reborn into a new
visage and title.
Speaker 8: Don't you agree?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 14: Absolutely? But what should it be changed to?
Speaker 8: Spike?
Speaker 14: No, that sounds like dog bang, No, that sounds an
exist How about Mortred? Yes, I like you are very brilliant,
my friend, absolute genius.
Speaker 10: Report the change to him as soon as possible. We
wouldn't want our new soldier to feel burdened and weighed
down by his previous life, do we?
Speaker 14: Absolutely not. I will do as soon as possible. For now,
I would like to finish my drink and head back.
Speaker 8: Of course, night Maren Emerson spent a few hours bantering,
talking about the other younglings, and enjoying a meal. After
Emerson left, Nightmare still felt the disappointment of his miserable
commander's failure, but his anger was quelled with a joy
he felt knowing he would be able to replace one
of them if the need arose. Jake and Mattie sprinted
down a wide, crumbling street. The buildings surrounding them mounted
a little more than ruins of a city that once
was The portal from which the beast had emerged came
without warning, and the speed with which the creature could
soar through the air was terrifying. Mattie turned her head
slightly to look back, and the winged monstrosity was nearly
upon them, jaws gaping wide. As she met its eyes,
it emitted a screech, and its foul breath filled the air.
Speaker 9: Get down.
Speaker 8: She dove down toward the hard roadway as the creature
passed above her. Jake followed suit a moment too late,
and the talon of the beast grabbed hold of him
around his wast as he dove through the air. Oh, Maddie.
He pulled out the crossbow and worked to load a
boat as the beast jerked him roughly through the air.
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Speaker 8: Looking all around her and trying to figure out a plan,
her eyes scanned the terrain in search of a weapon
or a place to take cover if need be. The
beat swifts around and began to dive straight for her.
She caught sight of it and began running away. Just
as it was about to grab for her, Jake shot
the boat into its underside. It penetrated the flesh, and
the creature veered up, lifting back up into the air
and soaring above Mattie. Though it had served to distract
the beast, Jake knew he could do no real harm
to it. From his position, it would make another attempt
to get Mattie. Thinking quickly, he made a decision, Mattie,
take this aim for its face. He tossed the crossbow down,
along with a case or quiver full of bolts. She
quickly snatched them from the ground where they landed, and
made her way toward the closest remains of a building.
Only the bottom few floors remained intact. She knelt behind
some rubble in the street nearby the building and loaded
the crossbow, turning quickly to aim at the rapidly approaching creature.
The entrance to the building and therefore safety wasn't far away.
Hopefully she could make it in time. As the beast
barreled straight toward her, she held the crossbow steady, taking
careful aim. It was already so close. Had she waged
too long?
Speaker 9: Now or never?
Speaker 8: She let the bolt fly as the creature careened relentlessly
toward her. The bolt tore through the air and met
directly with one of the beast's fiery orange eyes. It
screeched again, and an orange aura seemed to leak from
the wound. Mattie leapt the side as the creature reeled
from the pane, its body jerking violently to the left
as it made its way around the building. Maddeline quickly
ran inside and ran to the opposite doorway to locate
the creature again. She quickly caught sight of it, letting
loose another bolt after it. The creature looked weary and
seemed to struggle to stay airborne, but just as the
bolt was about to hit, a portal opened up around
the beast and then closed, leaving the sky empty.
Speaker 17: Shit.
Speaker 8: She sat down to examine the scrapes and bruises she'd
incurred during the chase. After ensuring she had no serious wounds,
she drank from the bottle in her pack. What happened?
Speaker 9: Began to sink in alone again? Where did it take you, Jake?
And what the hell was it?
Speaker 8: With no idea how to pursue it, Maddie began to
press down on the road, limping a bit on her
left leg as she walked. It hard to put weight
on it. She hadn't noticed before. That wasn't good.
Speaker 9: It's not like I need ballerina legs in this life.
Speaker 8: She walked on it anyway until she was too tired
to keep moving. It felt like it had been hours,
but it was hard to keep track of time. When
the sky seemed permanently black, she saw the remains of
a small house that looked like as suitable a shelter
as any she'd be likely to find. At least part
of the roof was intact to keep her dry should rain. Then,
as she laid out her sleeping bag, she saw the
flash of light that they had seen before. She turned
and saw in the distance that same orange glow that
they had seen before, but this time one of the
orange dots appeared to be leaking, streaming wisps of orange
light out behind it as it moved.
Speaker 9: Oh no, it came back.
Speaker 8: Darien and Christen had just arrived at the library. They
had plans to study for their interdimensional log exam, but
Darien was visibly distressed. Ethan and Eric were already there.
Speaker 11: Hey, you look really stressed, man, what's wrong.
Speaker 8: Chad and Jesse entered the scene and sat down with
their tablets. Had another dream about Mattie last night. I
think she's all one now. Jake was captured by some
sort of dragon or something. I wish I knew how
to help her.
Speaker 16: Maybe I could help with my empathic abilities.
Speaker 6: If I'm close enough to you the next time you
have the dream, maybe I could feel what's going on
and give you a clearer perspective on it.
Speaker 8: I don't know that may be helpful, but I think
I'm supposed to find her. Well.
Speaker 11: I'm here for moral support if you needed thanks.
Speaker 8: I just wish there was a solution.
Speaker 18: Maybe I can help.
Speaker 13: How well, last night I was with Cynthia and we
were dream walking. I had full control over the dream.
Maybe if you call me into your dream, I can
help them some way.
Speaker 8: I don't know if they're exactly dreams. They feel more
like visions. I think there's a real person in danger here.
I really freaked out. I wish it had just been
a dream.
Speaker 13: Still, I think that I can be of use here.
Speaker 8: How Cynthia walked into the room. Her hair was still
wet from the shower.
Speaker 19: Hey, guys, what's everyone talking about?
Speaker 13: Darian's still having nightmares about another version of his younger
sister Maddie. I told him a little about our experience
last night. Figured maybe I could help.
Speaker 19: Did you tell him about the purple Hotel room?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 13: I figured the exact details of our experience were private.
Speaker 19: Hope please, Darian. Chad was able to conjure items in
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Speaker 8: Okay, but how is conjuring items and changing venues going?
To help? Was track down this Maddie from another earth.
She's left Terra too and went someplace else. She's all
alone now. Like I said, I'm not sure this is
exactly a dream that you can control. This whole thing
has me so distraught.
Speaker 13: Only one way to find out.
Speaker 8: I'll try anything. I definitely need help.
Speaker 18: Good, then it's subtled.
Speaker 13: Next time you have one of these dreams, you call
me in let me do my magic.
Speaker 8: The Aroom was still a bit uneasy, but accepted that
he had help if he asked for it.
Speaker 20: Maybe you should go talk to Sam, she said. She
wanted to know the moment you had another dream about Maddie.
Speaker 8: You're right, I should ask her about it. With Sam
and Chad, maybe we can actually do something about this.
Darien and Chad made a plan to go see Samantha
after dinner that night. Several belchimes marked the Nightmare's entrance
into Doctor boris Ale Emporium. He'd never stepped foot into
a demon bar before, but since acquiring the Renegades, the
idea wasn't unappealing, and you rather enjoyed the vigorous beating
of his heart, warning him of possible danger. These beings
would now serve as allies. They were figures he had
rallied in a campaign to protect and now equal rights
for demons was his mission, and he needed more bodies
to help in his cause. A gentleman with maroon's skin
and a tall pilates body smiled at him with his
ebony goatee. So Nightmare approached him.
Speaker 10: Well, they're stranger. Can I join you for a drink?
I'm new to Baltic City and you seem friendly enough.
Speaker 17: Yes, of course, I'm just relaxing with my team. We've
just been liberated by the Warrior Dominator. I'm Red beetle One,
leader of the Red Beetles.
Speaker 10: Liberated. You were enslaved, Oh, and I'm a Nightmare. I'm
pleasure to meet you, Red beetle One. It sounds like
you've been through quite the ordeal.
Speaker 21: Oh.
Speaker 17: Yes, my people were slaves. Just because we're strong does
not mean we should have been treated like livestock. Most
of my family died from the labor conditions.
Speaker 10: Sorry to hear that your people deserve better, my friend,
I'd like to help you, your team and your liberator.
Dominator you see, I'm on a quest to find allies
in support of my mission for demon rights. I need scions,
people with powers to assist me and my team, the Renegades,
to fight those who want to hurt demons who simply
want to live their lives in peace.
Speaker 22: Then you've come to the right one of the regulars.
Speaker 17: Here is an elusive man with the power to block
out the sun. If we leave a message with the
bartender and hang out a bit, I'm sure he'll show well.
Speaker 10: Then I shall go get us some drinks and talk
to the bartender.
Speaker 8: Nightmare came back to the table with several trays of
bubbling hot gagglesider for his new demon friends and a
whiskey meat for himself. After an hour or so of
battles stories, a greasy, ogre looking man with a scraggly
and unkempt beard came in. He had a chalkboarder around
his neck and a trench coat that looked like it
used to be tan.
Speaker 22: That's him. That's the man they call dark Cloud.
Speaker 10: Thanks, sorry one, I'll go ask him to join us.
Speaker 8: Bartender pointed dark Cloud over to the table where Nightmare
and Red beet to One were sitting. He sent over
fresh drinks and some snacks for the table. As we well,
Nightmare and dark Cloud met in the middle. Dark Cloud
picked up the chalkboard that lay on his ro ton
stomach and wrote, Hello, you were looking for me.
Speaker 10: Hello, I'm welcome to our table. Red beet on One
has told me so much about you, all good things.
Thank you so much for meeting us. You'll see I've
recently required the Renegades, and in doing so, I've given
them a new mission, the pursuit of equal rights for
danmonic life forms. My new friend RB one, and I
think you may be a welcome ally to our cause.
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clothing and some fell onto the floor, but he didn't
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Speaker 10: So I'm looking for sions powered people to help liberate
demons from slavery. We will also gather resources from various
dimensions to aid us on our journey. RB One said,
you may have technology that can help us.
Speaker 8: Dark Cloud wrote, I block out the sun. What can
you do for me?
Speaker 10: Well, that is a very useful ability. I have an
ability to I can teach you how to control your dreams.
I'm betting your dreams you can talk.
Speaker 8: Dark Cloud once again erased the chalkboard and dust went everywhere,
causing many to sneeze. He then wrote, I want to
control my dreams. I talk there.
Speaker 22: I have an idea, Nightmare.
Speaker 17: What if you take dark Cloud and I into your
dreamscape so dark Cloud can speak to us aloud rather
than scrawl on a chalkboard.
Speaker 10: Red Beadle One, I like you already.
Speaker 8: Nightmare held out his hands so the Red Beadle One
and dark Cloud could join Nightmare in the dreamscape he
was creating for them in the bar. Inside the dreamscape,
dark Cloud was able to negotiate his terms. He wanted
to learn the streams capability, so that he could communicate better.
The terms were settled, dark Cloud would now be an
ally to the Renegades. But dark Cloud would not simply
give this power to Nightmare. Dark Cloud explained that he
was part of the technology that his psionic powers fed
the technology. Whenever Nightmare needed dark Cloud to block out
the Sun, Nightmare would need to make arrangements and pay
on a case by case basis. In addition, Nightmare would
need to continue to give dark Cloud lessons on dream walking.
Dark Cloud's price was very high, but Nightmare felt that
this alliance was integral to his plans. Dark Cloud departed
as soon as the terms were settled.
Speaker 17: It looks like the Renegades are going to be a
powerful tea.
Speaker 10: I couldn't have done it without you. Your loyalty will
be greatly rewarded.
Speaker 23: Red Beetle one, January seventh, nineteen ninety three United Alliance
of Dimensions news bulletin. All associates be vigilant. The Renegade
threat level has now been increased from moderate to major.
Several cities in multiple Dimensions have been attacked in the
past few days with a new technology that wipes out
the rays of the sun. This technology allows demons and
vampires to feast and attack at any time, day or night.
We do not know when or where the renegades will
strike next. All battalions are on alert and communication.
Speaker 8: Even though Madeleine was still hunger for bread, she was
drawn into the nutcracker playbill tucked in the corner of
her mirror. It was a reminder of the ballerina legs
she dreamed of having since that day, and I'm warning
that if she kept eating, she would never achieve that dream.
Her mind drifted back to the aftermath of that trip
to the ballet.
Speaker 19: But you're starving yourself, Maddie. The school just called and
told me you fainted in pe. Why are you doing this?
Speaker 9: You don't understand. I'm too fat, I'm a gordo. My
legs are too thick. No matter how much I exercise,
I can't get ballerina legs. You're trying to get ballerina legs, Maddie.
Speaker 19: Those girls are born that way. Everyone has their own
body type. Starving yourself won't give you the body you want.
It will simply make your heart stop. Do you want
to die?
Speaker 9: I want to be skinny. I want to be an
elegant willowy twig.
Speaker 19: Madeline grinned, I'm not playing around, Maddie. Start, I'm checking
you into an eating disorder clinic.
Speaker 8: Madeleine drifted back into her current reality and stared down
at her muscular legs. She slumped with disappointment.
Speaker 9: See you never achieved your goal. I didn't die either,
and you're really fat now. I don't wear plus size.
You don't wear juniors either. Maybe I have put on
a little weight. Okay, I won't eat just for today.
Speaker 8: That should help teara one. Madeline opened her diary once again.
Speaker 9: And wrote, tomorrow, I will be thinner, just for one day.
I will be good and skip all my meals. Maybe
that can be my sacrifice to my family. I will
look beautiful for all of you.
Speaker 8: Madeleine took a picture of her legs from a visit
to the beach, used a black marker, and wrote on
the photo, I'll never be thin enough. She put the
Nutcracker playbill and the picture in her diary. It was
the early nineteen seventies, and for Andrea Kane, this was
the first Sunday afternoon she'd had to herself since her
recent marriage to Eugene. He'd gone over to his friend's
motorcycle workshop to try out some new fuel injection formulas
he created in his lab. This week. On the quaint
balcony of their condo, she had created quite a collection
of herbs and night shaped plants, lavender and mint for teas,
and habaneros and cilantro for Eugene's chilis. The lull of
the quiet afternoon soon took her into a meditative trance.
She found herself searching through her Acachic records. The Acachic
records didn't appear to her as a book or scroll
that was only possible with the Academy. Instead, spectral visions
filled her mind, and she was able to interpret their
symbols and messages with clarity and purpose by utilizing the
skills and knowledge she had gained during her training there.
As she she saw the images in her mind, she
began speaking the interpretations aloud and began writing the messages
in a diary she kept with her at all times.
Speaker 19: Half a dozen eggs will be given to her by
a wizard with a blue hat, but one will break
before she can bring it home. All of the eggs
will be in pairs and will be connected through yin
and yang energies to bring balance to the Cane family.
Speaker 8: Andrea paused for a moment. She knew there was more.
The message was blocked, then just as fast as it
had stopped, the message continued again.
Speaker 19: One will find a new egg. If the egg is broken,
it will cause this egg to rot and attack the
other eggs. But there is hope. The egg with no
twin will find a true mate and be a leader
among its peers. Only then will the pain of the
Cane family past be broken, and in this the Akashak
records can heal.
Speaker 8: Andrea knew that working the Akashak records was a personal journey,
but this time it involved her family. She would share
this with Eugene and try to discover what the eggs
were and how they could heal their family's records. Once
she returned from the trance, she quickly made some piping
hot coffee and ate her favorite lunch, a steak in
blue cheese salad. This would ensure that she was fully
grounded in terror won Kristin was sitting at her lunch table,
eating which she got a strange feeling. Darien had been
having dreams about a madeleine from another earth, a very
little thought had gone into what his actual sister, the
Madeleine of their Earth, had been doing. They had gotten
a letter from her stating that she was fine, but
that didn't feel like the truth. Kristin suddenly recalled that
about a week prior to them leaving for the Academy,
she had a troubling interaction with Mattie. Kristin was in
her room packing for the academy when there was a
knock on the already opened door. It was Madeline. She
had kind of a sad look in your face.
Speaker 20: Hey Maddie, come on in.
Speaker 9: Hey Chris, this kind of sucks. I finally have a
sister and you're leaving in a couple of days for
god knows how long. I'm really gonna miss you.
Speaker 20: Oh, I'm gonna miss you too.
Speaker 9: There's just one thing I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 20: What's that?
Speaker 9: I was wondering if I could borrow your leather jacket
while you're gone.
Speaker 20: You can borrow whatever you want, as long as you
promise me you're going to eat and not restrict yourself.
Speaker 8: Madeline was thrown by this.
Speaker 18: Come on, I.
Speaker 9: Haven't skipped a meal and I don't know how long.
Speaker 20: That's not entirely true, and you know it. What do
you mean just the other night you skip dinner? Don't
try to deny it. Well, see, I I don't mind
you borrowing my clothes, but I need you to promise
you won't skip any more meals. You need to keep
your strength up. I don't want to come home to
a sick sister.
Speaker 9: How am I ever going to be as beautiful as
you if I keep eating these fattening meals.
Speaker 20: You are already at least as beautiful as me, if
not more beautiful. The only thing that makes you unattractive
is this anorexia of yours. I don't want to hear
about you feigning again from lack of food.
Speaker 9: I promise I will eat enough to survive.
Speaker 8: Not good enough, Madeline frowned at Kristin.
Speaker 20: You need to eat enough to thrive. If you're worried
about being healthy, don't restrict your food. Add in some exercise,
start jogging or Usdarian's workout equipment in the basement.
Speaker 9: Okay, I promise I won't restrict myself.
Speaker 20: Good, then you can borrow whatever you want.
Speaker 8: Kristin was not convinced by Madaline's promise, but I decided
at that point to give her the benefit of the doubt.
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had aniaxic behaviors. She worried about Maddie. She wondered if
Maddie had kept her promise or if she was restricting again.
She wished that she could check on her, but under
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attack on the Academy Dominator into the Napstone Dominator, felt
the cool touch of darkness overtake her mind as she
drifted away from reality, and then the cool blanket turned
to a frozen wasteland. She opened her mental eye to
find a misty area before her. Amongst the mists, she
found a chained up Lexi, bound to a stake in
the ground. Unable to move, she rested on her knees,
her legs wrapped around the stake and her arms tied
to her ankles. Dominator found a dark figure looming over her,
whispering inaudible things to Lexi. She looked traumatized. Getting closer,
Dominator could see images forming in the mist around Lexi.
One was of a large woman being taken into a
back room by a tall shadow with a malicious smile.
Speaker 20: Mom, don't go, don't leave me with Grandpa. Please.
Speaker 8: The tall woman did not turn back, she just smiled
sadly at Lexi. A tall man, slightly hunched in stature,
approached Lexi. He was a dark shadow with a malicious
smile painted on his face. He stared down at Lexi
and she tried to look away. The man behind her
grabbed her head and forcefully jerked it up to face
this man and slammed her head against the stake to
force her eyes open. She looked at the man's shadow,
and it seemed to say something to.
Speaker 20: Her, Grandpa, No, why, why? What did I do?
Speaker 8: Another figure walked out of the shadows. This shadow's form
was constantly shifting, how it appeared tall to short, thin
to fact stalky, the skeletal young to old. Many variations
of it formed, and yet the only consistency of this
warped figture was its gender. Many smiles coded this thing's body,
but the large, gaping, morbid smile in its face had
smoke trailing out from it, which dissolved in through the air.
Speaker 20: Mommy, help me, Grandpa's being made to me, game.
Speaker 8: Mommy, but nobody came. Dominator stepped closer, confused, and as
she approached the man behind Lexi turned and looked up
at her. Then he smiled. As she saw his eyes,
she recalled that glimmer of menacing joy, of sadistic glee,
of taunting despicability. Dominator immediately recognized this evil being and
read filled her vision. She remembered Adelaide. She remembered her
baby girl, how she laughed, how she acutely stumbled around
and babbled to herself with her teddy bear. She remembered
her smile, her first word, her pride, her love. She
then remembered how it was all suddenly taken from her.
She remembered her grief, her anguish, her hatred, all the
pain she has been through for years since her daughter
was taken from her. Her body shook with rage, her
eyes filled with tears, Her teeth were bared, and her
fists were clenched so tight she could feel her nails
piercing her palms and blood dripping down her fingers. She
noted that this man tried to speak to her, but
she could not hear him as her anger was blinding
and deafening. Reading his lips, she saw him say I
know you. She charged at him, fist raised, using all
her might, but the man disappeared. She she stumbled past
Lexi and turned around to find him gone. She roared
with pain and anguish. Then she saw Lexi, the large
amorphous figure now no longer has a smoke trail floating
up from its mouth, and in its smile was a
shadow of a foot, specifically the toes. Dominator, fed up
with this world, grabbed Lexi and tried to free her.
Upon touching Lexi, however, Dominator got a glimpse of what
Lexi was seeing. Dominator saw how this creepy, middle aged,
disgusting man was sucking on her toes, which were dotted
with small round scars cigarette butts dotted the floor. An
elderly man stood in a doorway, not turning back. Lexi
caught out to.
Speaker 20: Him, Grandpa, please stop this, Please help me.
Speaker 9: I don't like this.
Speaker 8: The old man had a callous look in his eyes.
He said nothing, and without turning back, and without a care,
he shut the door. All at once, Lexei's senses seemed
to become overwhelmed. Her nose was filled with a scent
of dead fish, seamen and cigarettes from the man's body,
her ears filled with sucking and popping noises from the
man's lips. Lexi's eyes were blurred with tears. Yet the
images of a man gripping her leg when she was
a child and suckling at her toes were so vividly
placed in her mind already that she didn't need her
eyes to see what was happening to her. She couldn't
seem to physically resist, but her body and her mind
were repulsed. Domineta ripped herself away from Lexi horrified, she
frantically scrambled to her feet and began quickly freeing Lexei
as the shadow began looming over her body, seemingly pinning
her down. Lexi, fully crying and screaming, was now free
to look away, and yet she didn't. As soon as
Dominator freed Lexi, she grabbed her arm and tore her
away from the scene. Running from the shadows, they dissipated quickly,
and as Lexi and Dominator ran, they heard men's voices
in the space around them. As the mist turned to darkness.
Speaker 22: Slut, want to eat you up me taste so good,
so deliciously young.
Speaker 8: Dominator felt the bile in her stomach begin to turn,
and then she awoke. After Dominator awoke, she lurched forward,
panting and sweating. Then she overturned on her bed and
began vomiting violently. Destroyer looked at her with confusion.
Speaker 11: What happened?
Speaker 12: I'm thoroughly disturbed. You have to send me back. I
need to kill that fucker.
Speaker 11: No, I can't send you back. You just got sick.
Speaker 8: Of send me back, Dominator lair to destroy her enraged,
he looked taken aback for a moment before beginning to focus,
and then looked taken aback once more.
Speaker 11: I can't find it, what, Dominator, I can't find it.
It seems to be gone now. Whoever was in there
must have.
Speaker 6: Sealed it shut, Hailey, I doubt that it's true if.
Speaker 11: I look harder.
Speaker 8: He paused and focused once more, and then looked at
her again. After a moment.
Speaker 11: The same location I just sent you to appears to
look like a castle gate. A large bar blocks the
door shut, and an infinite wall extends to either side
and into the sky. And I doubt you can go
under whatever that person is. He's obviously not willing to
let us back in. Lexi seems to be a bit
more coherent now, by the way, but she's not all there.
Speaker 25: What's that supposed to mean?
Speaker 11: Go talk to her, you will see.
Speaker 8: Dominator moved to Lexi.
Speaker 20: Hello again, I should say.
Speaker 12: I didn't save you for your sake.
Speaker 25: Don't even think that.
Speaker 12: What the hell was that in there?
Speaker 20: I told you Mommy always lets the bad men in.
Speaker 8: Instead of talking like her usual self. She seems more
dead and zombified. Her eyes were lifeless, and she didn't
look up to meet Dominators.
Speaker 12: Whatever destroyer, she's not all right, take her to the doctor,
keep her with the vampires.
Speaker 11: This, she gestured to Luxei, this is awful, yes, Dominator.
Speaker 8: He approached Leuxi, grabbed her by the arm and dragged
her away. Now Dominator stopped thinking about Lexi and thought
back to the man she saw. She took out and
stared down at the teddy bear, then gripped it to
her heart. She began to.
Speaker 9: Cry, I will find you.
Speaker 20: That man will pay for what he did to you.
Speaker 12: I will find him and I will crush him for you.
Speaker 9: I will find you, baby girl.
Speaker 12: I would do anything to hear you last again. I
miss you, and lady.
Speaker 8: She paused, took a deep breath, and then screamed out
at the top of her lungs.
Speaker 5: Do you hear me?
Speaker 9: Heaven, I will find you and you will pay.
Speaker 12: For the life of a creature is in the blood,
and I have given it to you to make a
torment for yourselves on the altar. It is the blood
that makes a torment for one's life.
Speaker 8: Then she crumpled to the ground and she cried silently,
clutching the bear to her breast. Gnawing hunger began beckoning
Madeline to eat. She wanted to follow through with her pledge,
but she also wanted to not think about food every day.
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Speaker 8: She reached for the phone in her room and dialed
the one number she knew by heart, Matt's school.
Speaker 9: Hi, it's Madeline King. Kind of important. Can I talk
to Matthew Kane one sec.
Speaker 23: Looks like he didn't show up for classes today. He's
not checked into his dorm either. Would you like to
leave a message?
Speaker 9: Thanks? Yeah, telling to call his sister Mattie asap. Thanks.
Speaker 8: After feeling defeated and weak from not eating, Madeline decided
that she wouldn't be able to go into school today.
She needed time to sort out these resurfaced feelings from
her disordered eating. While popping her head outside of her
bedroom door, she shouted toward her parents' bedroom.
Speaker 9: Mom, Dad, I'm not feeling too well. I'm gonna stay
home from school today.
Speaker 8: Andrea came into Maddie's room and looked her over.
Speaker 19: You don't seem sick. Did you drop the cereal.
Speaker 14: In the kitchen?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm sorry. I got dizzy then came in here
to lie down. I'm sorry I didn't clean it up
right away. Probably just a headache or something.
Speaker 8: All of this was true. She wasn't sure why this
felt like a lie. She really wasn't feeling like herself.
Speaker 19: Okay, baby, do you need anything? Do you want me
to make you some cream of wheat?
Speaker 8: The thought of warm, buttery, sugary, milky cream of wheat
made by her mommy sounded amazing, but Madeline decided to
stick to her resolution and not eat.
Speaker 9: I'm a bit nauseous right now.
Speaker 19: Okay, Well, if you need me to come home, just
call me at work. You know the number.
Speaker 14: I love you.
Speaker 8: She kissed her on the forehead and updated Eugene on
Madeleine's sick day plan. Madeleine slumped back into her bedclothes
and fell into a jarring memory. A boy she didn't
know grabbed her by the waist One afternoon, as she
was walking home from school, he pressed her up against
some nearby bushes and began to shove his long, greasy
tongue down her throat. Madeleine shoved him off of her
and began screaming a scream and so excruciatingly loud that
Banshees would be terrified. Darien heard her and pulled the
boy off of her. He beat him down and carried
Madeline home On that day. He swore he would be
there for Madeleine any time she needed him. He promised
that he would protect her always. As Madeleine came out
of the memory, she thought about Darien's promise, he was
not here. Now she was alone.
Speaker 9: You know, Matt left you, Darien left you, and your
parents left you to go to work. Despite living in
a large family and being a twin, they all abandoned you.
No one cares about you, Madeline.
Speaker 8: Instead of sinking into her depression further, Madeline pulled out
a piece of paper and began an angry letter to Darien.
He would receive a severe tongue lashing for breaking this promise.
Speaker 9: You think a letter is going to bring Darian home?
Shut up. He's stupid, little girl. You will see. Well,
we'll just have to see about that now, won't we.
Speaker 8: It was nice when classes let out for the day,
so Max decided to walk around the campus. Darien and
Kristen had wanted some alone time, and Chad said he
was tired. Whatever that meant. He seemed to be tired
a lot lately. His hands in his pocket, he walked
along at a pace that most people would have called sauntering,
but Mattie would have called.
Speaker 16: Taking Maddie beautiful a lot lately. I have to write
her a letter or something to see how she is.
Speaker 8: He sat on the grass and leaned back on his elbows,
staring up at the sky. His memory tugged at him
and he.
Speaker 16: Smiled, Oh, yeah, that day, I remember it. That was
a day like this one, maybe not so bright. There
was something I had wanted to talk to Darien about.
I can't remember what it was, though I remember I
walked to the Cane house instead of driving. It was
too nice out. I saw the family car was gone
when I got there, but decided to knock anyway. When
I did, something glass shattered against the door. Do you
have I was worried so I turned the doorknob and
pushed the door open. Looked around and there you were,
sitting on the floor with your back against the couch,
your arms around the shoe lox. Your head was over
the box and you were crying. I stepped inside and
fell a crunch into my boot. There was a glass
on the floor, some chunks, and a lot of shards.
I sat next to you, waiting for you to say something.
You might have been waiting for me to say something.
I don't know, but we stayed that way for a
few minutes, maybe two, maybe ten. But when you picked
your head up and looked at me, your eyes were
red from crying and there were white streaks on your face.
I couldn't help it.
Speaker 24: I smiled.
Speaker 16: You were cute, and now.
Speaker 8: You're badful started the grass.
Speaker 16: I looked in the box and tugged it from your arms.
You pulled back a bit, but I managed. The hamster
was definitely not sleeping.
Speaker 9: I killed him. I killed everything. I only had to
take care of him for the week, and I killed him.
Speaker 16: I recognized the biology pet from when I was in
the class two years ago. He was old back then,
and I mentioned that to you. You shrugged and said,
he was still your responsibility. You stood and disappeared upstairs.
When you came back down, you looked at me more
sure of yourself. Your eyes were dry, your hair was brushed.
I think I even remembered smelling something like flowers. When
you came near again, you had a black T shirt
in your hands, and you folded it around the body
of the hamster.
Speaker 9: I asked if it was one of darre He had
so many, he'll never know what is this one missing.
Speaker 16: You smirked, and I laughed.
Speaker 8: You were right.
Speaker 16: You put the lid on the box and set it
on the floor, then sat on the couch.
Speaker 11: I joined you.
Speaker 9: He's not home, Darien, mom and dad are all at
Kristens soccer game. They left me here alone again, this
time with a dead hamster.
Speaker 16: The hamster probably died from living too close to Darien's socks.
I said to you, and you smiled. What a smile. Besides,
you weren't alone. I was there right. You smiled again,
and it was then that I knew that I loved you.
But I only said that I'd always be there for
you if you needed me, just a phone call away. Well,
I'll let her know, but I'm still here, Maddie. I'm
going to make this right when I get home. I
hope you'll take me back. I was stupid and should
never let you go. I won't let you go again.
Speaker 9: Oh, that vile man.
Speaker 12: How could he my sweet Adelaide?
Speaker 11: You mean dark Cloud might have been the one to
her Adelaide.
Speaker 12: I saw him, I saw his youngest self. It was
definitely him, and I saw what he did to Lexi.
It's too gross to describe.
Speaker 8: I need to Dominator lost everything in her stomach again.
Then thick tears began to drop from her.
Speaker 12: I'm going to kill him. I'm going to murder him myself.
We need to tell Nightmare now.
Speaker 24: Wait.
Speaker 11: If we tell Nightmare and he terminates the relationship with
dark Cloud, then we will lose his dark Cloud technology.
Speaker 25: Don't care.
Speaker 12: It's against our ethical protocol to influence someone in the
dreamscape and he hurt my baby girl.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, let's just take a breath. Nightmare could get
angry if we disturb him with something that will upset
his plans. We need to think this.
Speaker 12: But I saw him, I knew him. What he does
in there. It's not just mental, it's sexual and violent.
I could smell everything I could taste him. I will
make him pay please.
Speaker 11: I know you were upset, but we need to go
into this with a rational head. What if you tell
me everything that happened and I explained it to Nightmare
coming from me, it might be easier to hear, especially
since your emotions are so strong right now.
Speaker 12: I experienced it.
Speaker 11: Yes, and you can burrite additional information as we need it.
I just think we need to be cautious, especially after
the cadet.
Speaker 12: Ball that was my debacle. We both messed up.
Speaker 11: I know, but you are very emotional right now.
Speaker 12: Emotional you haven't even seen emotional. If Nightmare finds out
that we knew about this and we didn't tell him,
then we would be in worse trouble.
Speaker 11: Look, we are going to tell Nightmare and we are
going to figure this out. Okay, babe, I'm with you. Now,
come here and give me a hug.
Speaker 8: Dominata reluctantly moved into Destroyer's arms, where she continued to
sob for a while, letting all of her grief about
Adelaide flow freely. She felt grateful to be working towards
the solution, but wanted to find her daughter as soon
as possible. Would Adelaide's mind be altered like Lexis? Is
she even still a lot? The two then walked arm
in arm towards Nightmare's office, full of purpose in their mission.
Speaker 19: Eugene, are you there?
Speaker 13: Yes, dear, how can I help?
Speaker 19: I'm worried about Maddie. The way she was acting this
morning wasn't her usual grumpy goth self. Something else has
gotten to her, maybe a boy.
Speaker 22: It's slow here at work, don't know.
Speaker 13: If I swing by Maize and grab her some cream
of crab to cheer up, she'll be back to hating
the world and no time.
Speaker 19: Would you? Oh that would be great. I've got five
more meetings today and I don't want to miss them.
Speaker 13: I'm already out the door.
Speaker 8: You know I love you, right?
Speaker 18: I love you more.
Speaker 8: When Eugene burst into the kitchen with a soup, he
saw Maddie through the kitchen window twitching on the back lawn.
It was practically winter and she was wearing a tank
top with sleep shorts.
Speaker 13: Maddie, what are you doing?
Speaker 8: Madeline gave no sign of recognition of her father's voice.
Speaker 13: Madeline, Josephine came, get your we're inside right now again?
Speaker 8: There was no movement from Maddie. Eugene took steps three
paces wide to reach her faster. It began to shake her,
but she did nothing more than smile oddly with her mouth.
Eugene picked her up, wrapped her in his navy windbreaker,
then brought her back into the house and laid her
under her black and white polka.
Speaker 18: Dot comforter Madeline.
Speaker 13: If you don't respond to me, I'm taking you to
the doctor.
Speaker 9: Go ahead. It's not like you actually care. You're only
here because a mom didn't want to come home. I'm
a reject. Nobody wants to spend time with money.
Speaker 22: True.
Speaker 13: I have a whole afternoon plan for us.
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It was a rental from Blockbuster Video. He then fetched
the still warm soup from the kitchen. It only took
Madeline one second to decide what to do. She flipped
the pole on the soup one everywhere. Now she wouldn't
be able to eat it.
Speaker 9: You don't know who I am anymore.
Speaker 8: Eugene pulled the comforter off of her bed, laid her
grandmother's afghan over her, and went to the living room
and sat down in his easy chair. All he could
do now was put his head in his hands and sigh.
Eugene sat in his easy chair, trying to figure out
when his little girl had changed so much. Her attitude
was darker, meaner, and he didn't like the crowd she
was hanging around. Now. He knew that there were always
friends that parents didn't approve of, but this was different.
That boy, what's his name? He was dangerous. He'd have
to talk to Madeline about him. That wouldn't go over well.
Eugene's sighed and leaned back. His eyes were drawn to
a picture on the table, one of himself and Madeleine.
It was taken two years ago around Christmas, but she'd
said that the pure joy and innocence in his daughter's
smile was something that should never be lost. Madeleine was
grinning at their purchase, a sterling silver menora that had
obviously been loved in someone's home. They weren't Jewish themselves,
but they had family in California who were, and Madeleine
had wanted to include them in their Christmas festivities. The
item gleamed. When the polaroid's flash went off, it startled Maddie,
but she just smiled again and laughed. It was a
good day for her, for both of them. When did
he lose her? Where did he go wrong? Eugene covered
his face with his hands. For once in a while,
Dominator and Destroyer felt like a strong couple, once more
united in their cause. For they strode into Nightmare's office.
Speaker 11: Good evening, Nightmare, our apologies for the disturbance. Dominator and
I have an urgent matter to discuss with me.
Speaker 10: I do hope for your sake that this is truly urgent,
and don't like having my time wasted.
Speaker 12: Of course, sir, we know that your time is valuable,
but please hear us out.
Speaker 11: You see there is a chance, sir, that the ethical
protocol of the Renegades.
Speaker 12: Has been broken, more than a chance.
Speaker 11: Please can you make time for us?
Speaker 10: Okay, destroyer state your case, but make it fast.
Speaker 11: Thank you, sir. Last night, one of the Vampslot's pretty girl,
long blonde hair, young pagan, quite busty Lexi, was acting
out of sorts, well out of sorts for her, saying
things like, Mommy, lets all the bad men in, and
Grandpa told me to do it.
Speaker 18: Well.
Speaker 11: She asked Dominator to join her in the nap zone.
We assumed she met the drink scape gone, so Dominator
followed her in using ethical protocol of course, of course, Well,
what she saw in Lexi's mind in the dreamscape was horrific. First,
Lexi was being tortured sexually and mentally by dark Cloud. Second,
Dominator saw a younger version of dark Cloud, and it
appears he is the one who hurt and took Dominator's daughter.
Speaker 10: Adam, you understand that the dreamscapes are not reality. It
sounds as if these images are disturbing, But how can
you prove they're real? And how do you know that
dark Cloud is really behind me?
Speaker 12: I saw him. I know that It's difficult for me
to think rationally about this since my daughter is involved.
But you know that dark Cloud's dream walking powers are strong,
and it's not just what happened to Lexi there. It's
about what happened to her when she came back. She
was mind raped.
Speaker 11: Yes, I saw this with my own eyes. Lexi is
not herself. She's not reading any of her vampire fanfics,
and she didn't go to her office job at the
car dealership today. She's in Dominator's room, resting. We didn't
know what else to do with her. Emerson is looking
at her now.
Speaker 10: I see, I think I remember Lexi now. She's one
of Emerson's favorites. As I remember. Mind rape is a
serious accusation.
Speaker 11: We know this is serious, and we took the time
to deliberate it ourselves. Thank you for your full attention
to this issue.
Speaker 10: Well, breaking the ethical protocol is a serious issue. Tell
me more.
Speaker 8: Madeleine was sitting on her bed looking over her clothes.
She had decided what outfits she wanted to be buried in.
She quickly decided on a black dress, black shoes, and
a black jacket. She wrote a note and taped it
onto the neatly folded outfit. The note read good choice.
Speaker 9: Death really is the only answer. I never said it
was going to die now. I just want an outfit
picked out for whenever it does happen. But today is
the last day of your life, says you. You must
die before you and your family destroy this world. Without you,
your twin cannot hurt this world. But if you live,
there is every chance that you and your twin will
destroy this planet, maybe even the entire universe. Do you
remember that night, the one where Mat knocked you out,
the very incident that took him away from you? Vaguely
I was knocked out, so but you do remember it.
I can tell you know when he comes back, the
two of you will destroy this world. You don't know
that you're lying. Search your feelings. You know it to
be true. You keep trying to contact him. Your parents
don't want him in your life. You know that too. Ever,
ask yourself why that is you are lying? Don't quote
the Holy Trilogy at me, No, you are the one
that always lies. You promised Kristin you would eat. You
lied about that. You told your parents you were sick
today you lied about that too. And if Matt comes
back and you are still alive. You both will destroy
the world. You know that too, Stop lying and take
responsibility for this. And this is why you're a bad person.
You know what you will do when he comes back,
and yet you still refuse to end your life so
that others may live. Matt is too far gone to
realize this. But you you know this for a fact.
You are the only person who can stop this madness,
and the only way to do it is to end
your life. Yet you refuse. You suck. What do you
even have to live for? Darien is gone, your parents
are clueless. Just end it, bitch.
Speaker 8: Maybe this voice was right, but there was just one problem.
Speaker 9: I'm not ready to die.
Speaker 11: So when Dominator and I encountered Lexi originally and she
started saying odd things like the man my head told
me to do it, and when I think of you,
I touch myself, we knew there might be problems. We
tried to converse with her to get more.
Speaker 25: Some really disturbing things came out of her mouth, like
I'm gonna let him suckle me a while till the
brain's are gone.
Speaker 21: That.
Speaker 10: Lexi is quite the character. Sometimes she can be a
bit over dramatic.
Speaker 11: She wasn't doing one of her acting bits, not a
character from one of the vampire novels. She said things
that would disturb anyone, like puts his cigars out on
my feet when I was a baby. Then he sucked
my toes. Now I can let all the vampires in.
I let them suckle at my breast.
Speaker 10: Sounds very sexual. She is very into fetishes and she
going through some sort of foot fetish thing.
Speaker 11: At first we thought maybe she was playing a game too,
but the way she said it, Daddy says he's going
to hurt you if you don't stop. He says, go away,
give me Dolly as in Rosewater and we can fall
in love. Don't you want me to bring you into
the nap zone. I can make you feel so good there.
Then we realized she was talking about the dreamscape. She said,
in my dreams, I'll dominate you and he can watch
from the dark clouds. Come to think of it, do
you think when she said dark cloud was giving us
a hint?
Speaker 10: Please tell me more about what happened.
Speaker 11: Dominator, you were there, Why don't you describe your experience?
Speaker 25: When I saw Alexi, she looked like the tarot card
eight of sorts, bound and staked and chained to the ground.
There was an old man there, she called Grandpa, sucking
at her toes. It was part of some perverted fantasy,
some nightmarish recollection. I could smell semen and cigarettes, burned
flesh and rotten fish. Nightmare.
Speaker 12: It was horrific. It was so vivid. I got sick
as soon as we came.
Speaker 11: Dark Cloud was the one who hurt Adelaide. You see nightmare,
Lexi said, he can watch from the dark clouds, and
Dominator saw him.
Speaker 10: You were correct in bringing this to my attention. I
like seeing the two of you working nicely together again.
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felt true, and they felt right. She held her hands
through her temples, her frosty hands, trying to massage the
pain away and maybe send the messages away too. Was
this hurt? And then before she could take a respite,
the message continued.
Speaker 9: By allowing yourself to live, you will cause the greatest
war the universe has ever seen.
Speaker 8: Stop, But the voice did not stop, and they began
to sound more and marle like her own.
Speaker 9: I have seen it. You will steal the abilities of
others and use those abilities to destroy everything.
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Speaker 9: Okay, but your words confuse me? What burden did I
place on my family? One egg will crack, but then
reappear as if it were reborn. Its twin will be
scrambled inside its shell laid in a basket and end
up isolated. I feel isolated? Am I the isolated egg?
Am I scrambled? Are my brain scrambled? When a set
of twins leaves the nest, one will find a new egg.
If the egg is broken, it will cause this egg
to rot and attack the others. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
So you see you are rotten. You are no good.
It's time to let go, and this will save my family.
I'm the rotten one.
Speaker 8: I'm the rotten It's the only.
Speaker 9: Thing, dear family. I hope what I do will remove
the family curse. I know you'll all be better off
without me. Now the universe will be safe. Love Mattie,
Egg York. Bust it, bust it. It's all yellow and yucky.
Bust it, bust it. It's all funky and moo. Bust it,
bust it. It's different from the white bust it, bust it.
Mix it in with the white white toast. Bust it,
bust it. It's different from.
Speaker 12: The white nightmare.
Speaker 25: I know you think Lexi is flighty, but she was
screaming in terror at the phantasm is in the dreamscape.
I don't think someone who wants a pleasant fantasy would say,
and mommy would let him in if she knew him.
She lets off a padna in I tell Grandpa, But
he just said put a dresser against the door.
Speaker 11: It sounded to me like she was trying to protect herself.
Speaker 25: If this was mind rape, which it appears to be,
we have a very serious situation on our hands.
Speaker 11: That would be a breach in our ethical protocol, and
we know you'd want to be the first to know
about it. If dark Cloud broke ethical protocol, then we'd
have to break our partnership and we no longer have
access to his dark cloud technology. I know that we
use that tech in all of our missions to darken
the cities so that our armies can roam free. But
we have to consider who we are as an organization.
If we were to keep him on just to use his.
Speaker 10: Tech, You're right, destroyer, But we must know for sure.
We cannot accuse people without a fair investigation.
Speaker 25: True, but we must look into this right away. What
does it say about dark Cloud ethics if he does
attack in the dreamscape.
Speaker 10: You both have excellent points. I'm still on the fence,
but I'd like to hear from Emerson on how LEXI
is doing?
Speaker 8: Madeleine startled awake, drenched in sweat, heart pounding. Why had
she been dreaming? She looked around, brushed off the momentary
confusion of broken sleep. A whisper there?
Speaker 10: What was that?
Speaker 8: It had to be left over from the dream. Whatever
it was, She turned on to her left side, pulled
her blanket over her shoulders, her eyes closed.
Speaker 19: You don't deserve em, you know.
Speaker 8: Mattie opened her eyes to slits.
Speaker 9: What denise?
Speaker 8: Her voice was thick with sleep and disuse.
Speaker 9: How why are you?
Speaker 19: You'll never be your brother, mamma.
Speaker 8: Mattie opened her eyes completely and looked around in confusion.
She peered into the darkened corner of the room when
a shape moved just enough for Mattie to notice it.
Speaker 13: Dad, You're such a disappointment, baby, You never lived up
to our hopes.
Speaker 18: How could you?
Speaker 8: Anger flashed through Mattie as tears prickled her eyes. Flinging
the covers off, she rose her bare feet, digging into
the carpet cautiously, still uncertain if she was really awake,
she approached the shadow.
Speaker 9: Who are you? What do you want? You're not my father?
Speaker 8: The shadowed pulsed, expanding and contracting before settling into a
single shape.
Speaker 9: You're right, I'm not dead.
Speaker 8: A car passed outside her window, its beams falling across
the face of what the hell Before her stood a dark,
wavering version of herself, grinning maniacally. The last of her
sleepiness was burned off by adrenaline, and she took a
quick step backwards, bumping into her bed.
Speaker 9: They're not coming, your parents, they won't be here to
save you. You're all alone. They're too tired, stretched out.
You're not exactly easy on the psyche.
Speaker 8: You know, Shadow Mattie smirked.
Speaker 9: They wouldn't anyway. You're a burden, a blight on this
perfect little family.
Speaker 8: I mean, look at you, shadow Mattie passed a hand
across her body.
Speaker 9: You're not exactly prom queen material. You're needy, you're dependent.
You suck the life out of everything, out of every one.
You take, and you take, and you take. They'd be
better off without you, don't you think?
Speaker 8: She smiled a knowing smile, but then creased her brow.
Speaker 9: But wait, who says they'd be better off? I mean
they're the ones who stop you from having any fun.
They're always pushing you harder to learn more to do more,
be better. You'll never be good enough for them. You'll
never measure.
Speaker 19: Up to your brother.
Speaker 9: That's not true. My parents love me, my family.
Speaker 8: The shadow made a rude noise in his throat, interrupting Mattie.
Speaker 9: Shut up, you stupid girl. Can't you see I'm getting
a brilliant idea. It'll be so freeing for both of us.
Your family is what holds you back. Of course, you'll
never measure up because you're better than him, but they
keep holding you to the standards they set for him.
They're in your way, girl.
Speaker 8: Mattie didn't want to, but she felt anger start to
creep up, first from the pit of her stomach, then
from her fingers and feet. Her heart began racing, and
her breathing became faster and more shallow. Her eyes glistened
with the beginning of tears.
Speaker 9: No, they're not like that.
Speaker 12: They love me.
Speaker 9: They love both of us, all of our family.
Speaker 8: They memories came unbidden to Mattie, her parents smiling at Darien,
congratulating Darien, being proud of Darien, whispers and furtive glances
toward Mattie, pitying, hands placed on her shoulder. They love me,
the tears ran freely now. Her eyes searched her room,
now noticing that the shadow was no longer there if
it had ever been. Feeling disconnected with the pressure building
in her chest, Mattie walked from her bedroom to the kitchen.
What had just happened? Was she still dreaming? There was
a roiling anger still in her heart that she couldn't explain.
A cool glass of water later, and the rage was undeniable.
She heard whispers again, mocking jeering, indistinguishable from each other,
but the intent was there. Mattie clenched her hands into
her fists, then released them, then clenched them again. Visions
continued to play through her head, memories distorted by anger, paranoia,
and the twisting of self doubt. Her hands continued their
pulsing dance as she left the kitchen. Soon she found
herself in her parents room, standing beside her sleeping mother.
Her father's snores were loud and steady. Mattie knew that
it would take an explosion by his ear to wake him.
She looked again at her mother, Andrea's eyes were closed
and a small smell seemed to take years off.
Speaker 9: Her lined face, probably dreaming of a life without me.
Speaker 8: Mattie was startled to realize that the thought was spoken
aloud and with such vitriol. She made the fist again,
but this time her hand clenched around something cold and hard,
something metal. She looked down. A butcher knife was in
her hand, her fingers dripping blood with a gripped part
of the blade. Her mother's eyes opened slowly but focused
on Mattie immediately, Mattie felt a smile on her face
and her mother's confusion. Andrea's lips began to form a question,
but her eyes wandered down to Mattie's bloody hand and
the knife she held there. She stiffened, but her eyes returned.
Speaker 19: To her daughter's baby, Mattie Madeline.
Speaker 8: The voices were loud in Mattie's thoughts. She could see
her mother's lips moving, but she couldn't hear her. The
fury was still there, still gripping her heart and pounding
in her ears. Her vision blurred at the edges, but
came into sharp focus on the rapid pulse in her
mother's throat. Something pulled in the back of Mattie's mind.
She knew there was something wrong, something off, and it
was tugging on her memories, Andrea began to set up
her hands, slowly reaching out toward Mattie's.
Speaker 19: I love you baby. Whatever this is, we can deal
with it. Okay, You're stronger than this, Mattie, stronger than
you know. I love you, baby, I love you, Madeline.
Speaker 8: That phrase continued to echo through Mattie's thoughts, interrupting the
cycle of anger and pain and breaking through the red
haze in her brain. Mattie blinked and gasped. Her eyes
were wide and wondering. Her hand closed harder around the
knife as she seemed to notice it for the first time.
The whiskers got louder, pushed harder, encouraged her to swing, jab,
plunge the blade deep into her mother's cold, on caring.
Speaker 9: Heart, Twist it, pull it out, stab again and again
and again, ruin the heart the love that she could
never bring herself to give to you. No, this is wrong.
I won't do it. My mother loves me, my father,
my family.
Speaker 8: Mattie roared against the invisible forces, her hands flying to
her ears, the knife nicking the skin above her right eye,
her chest. Heaving her eyes wide and rolling, Mattie brought
her hands down to her shoulders, the knife forgotten but
now resting against her own neck.
Speaker 9: Just one swift, deep cut, do it, bathe her in
your blood.
Speaker 8: Mattie's eyes sought out her mother's as she fought for
control of her thoughts and body. With one last push
of her will, she flung the knife away, turned and
ran from a parent's room. Her mother cried out behind her,
the sound waking her father. Mattie heard her mother's feet
hit the floor, then stumble ash. She tried to catch up.
Unable to speak, Mattie kept running. Her bare feet took
her from the house, through the yard and across her neighbors.
She ran and ran, fighting with every step. The thing
inside her head kept yelling at her to turn around,
to free herself from her overbearing parents, to save herself.
Speaker 9: That's exactly what I'm doing, you asshole.
Speaker 8: Mattie had considered joining the track and field team when
school resumed, and as in all things, she had thrown
herself from the training tonight. She was grateful for it.
Scenery flew by her as Mattie continued to run, her
black hair flying out behind her. The air stung her
legs and her heart felt like it was going to
burst out of her chest, but Mattie didn't care. There
was only one thought left in her mind. That was
her own, stop herself and save her family. She smelled
the water before she saw or even heard it. She
chose the path with the steepest climb, the one she
knew would take her to the most beautiful view of
the city, if not the state. She stood on the
rocks beside the rushing water, looking down into the shadowed
depths broken by churning of foam over rocks far below.
Mattie took a deep breath and felt it catch in
her throat. She smiled and told herself that the water
in her eyes was really missed from the water around her.
She stepped closer to the edge of the cliff, over
the deep portion of the Potomac River. She closed her
eyes and thought of her family. Her mother's smile, her
father's laugh, her brother's bear hugs, and Max, Oh, Max,
He would never know just how much she meant to Mattie,
None of them would. She knew this would hurt them,
knew they would have questions, knew they would never know
or understand her pain, her loss, and her loneliness. They
deserved this pain, this not knowing. She wanted to hurt them,
one of them, to know what it is like too.
Mattie squeezed her eyes tight, blocking out the cacophony of
voices for one blissful moment. She braced herself, took a
deep breath, and let go. She felt herself falling, falling, falling, falling.
Just before her world went black and empty, she heard
her mother's voice whisper, I.
Speaker 19: Love you baby.
Speaker 9: November fourth, nineteen ninety five. I had a dream last night,
a dream that I was falling. It really unnerved me,
and I don't know why. I mean, we've all had
those dreams before, right, but this one was different.
Speaker 18: Off.
Speaker 9: When I woke up from it, I felt like there
was something missing, something I never knew was there until
it wasn't. I don't know. I feel like my soul
was split into a million pieces, and now each piece
is screaming out at me, trying to tell me something.
There's a void. No, that's too simple. Before my energy
was harmonious, but now it's discordant. Well, Jake's gone missing,
but that's not it, and dragons are real. Go figure.
I've said my goodbyes to everyone, Darien, Matt, Max, Mom
and Dad and Jamie. She'd be proud of me, I hope.
I'm sad that the only thing I have to remember
her by, to remember any of them by, is my memory.
Well that, in this rage inside of me demanding vengeance,
sometimes I think it'll just bubble right out of me
and make me do something I'll regret, or maybe I won't.
I'm not giving up hope on Jake, and if I
find someone, anyone, I'm going to hold on tight. Maybe
I should just end it. Maybe that's an easier way
to go. I'm going to try to find the academy today.
I've gotten pretty successful at aiming my portals. Only once
did I land Jake and I in a patch of
some wheaty stuff. Nine times out of ten. Isn't too bad, right,
I'll let you know how this one goes. How the
fuck am I supposed to do this without Jake and
journal entry. If you or someone you know needs help,
please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at one eight
hundred two seven three eight two five five. The call
is free and confidential, and there is someone to listen.
Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 11: Hey, babe, looking fine? What's different? Wait, let me guess
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Speaker 19: Instead of feet.
Speaker 9: Here's the vampires.
Speaker 11: Wow, you really did like her. Are you guys going
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Speaker 12: I'm not sure yet. I did place an order with
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way I can.
Speaker 19: Find her in case I change my mind.
Speaker 11: Still, it does look like she gave you a pretty
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Speaker 12: Thanks babe.
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