Peregrination- Chapter 10

It seemed like the darkness would never end. On top of that, it was cold, we atleast to Serena it was cold. It seemed like everybody had a different point of view of the cavernous tunnel. It seemed like they were going nowhere, their little bit of hope that still had existed was crushed. They all were discouraged. Serena sighed as she walked on, the cold seemed to get worse, but that was probably just me she thought. Nothing had changed in the tunnel since they had began walking nearly 5 hours ago. Then suddenly, Serena had a thought. What if we are walking in circles?!


"Guys wait!" Serena shouted.


They came to a sudden hault.


"What is it?" Eric asked trying to make out her face in the dim light.


"What if we are back to where we started? What if this whole time we have been walking in circles? Most likely there is a exit on the sides! We need to go to the sides of the tunnel!" Serena said as she walked over to the wall feeling along it. Shrugging, the group scattered among the wall feeling as they started walking again.


Anneliese was soon getting bored of this, she was about to put her arm down when she felt a bump.


"Hey guys! I Felt something over here!" She said excitedly.


"What do you think it is?" Anneliese asked as she stepped out of the way allowing the rest to feel for themselves.


"Its almost like some sort of knob or something," Eric noted, as he tried twisting it, then pushing it.


"Here lemme try," Serena said who started to pull the knob. Thats when a sort of door popped open allowing the group to go through it.


"I was sure I tried pulling it," Eric said to Serena.


"I thought you did too." Serena said allowing her eyes to once again adjust to the new light that was coming through the tunnel.


"I may have seemed unconcious when we were at the nature magicians lair, but I heard everything they said about you being part-faerie.. do you think its true? That the only reason you were able to open the door was because of your ancestry?" Eric asked looking down at Serena who was still confised herself about everything that had happened so quickly. Back in Oceanus, she would live day by day waiting for something new and interesting to happen, now on this journey nearly everything she had only dreamed about (not being attacked by the scares and such part) was blowing by her so fast. She almost wished it would slow down.


"I've pondered upon that subject myself." Serena answered looking up firstly ahead watching Anneliese and Bard running off into the distance, then looked up at Eric.


There was silence as they continued on.


"Can I ask you something?" Eric said breaking the quiet.


"Yes?"


"What exactly happened in your dream that frightened you so much?" He asked slowly.


Serena gulped, and became quiet for a moment trying to recall the nightmare. When suddenly she started screaming, falling down to the floor she started having convulsions, her eyes started rolling back. But before rolling back they turned into a bright red.


"WHAT ARE YOU??!! GO AWAY!!" She started screaming as she writhed in some sort of invisible pain on the floor. Eric fell to his knees trying to hold her down.


"Whats wrong? Stop it!" He started yelling at her. She started slowing down, when her eyes turned back into their orginal state. She laid there on the ground breathing heavily.


"What.. what happened?' She said trying to regain her breathe. Her face was pale white, her forhead bleeding from where she had hit her head on the ground. What HAD just happened? Thought Eric.. did her fall cause some sort of concusion causing her to go into convulsions? What was happening to her eyes? Why and how did they change so suddenly?


"What happened?" Anneliese said as she raced back to Eric and Serena, with Bard at her heels.


"Yeah, and why are you on top of her?" Bard asked quizzically.


"What-? OH! Crap," Eric said, getting up from his position over Serena, which he had taken when trying to stop her from hurting herself.


"I'm fine guys, I just fell, and Eric tripped over me." Serena said covering up the episode that had happened previously. She stood up dusting herself off. "I believe we are almost there, lets continue on." She said taking the lead.


Eric and Serena didn't talk at all through the rest of the journey down the small tunnel, however Anneliese and Bard chattered and quibbled constantly the rest of the way.



The light gradually got brighter when the group finally arrived at what they thought was their destination. It was just basically a room of light, making it seem like there was no floor, or ceiling or walls. It was as if they were actually IN the light. Or were they the light itself?


"Whats going on? Is this a type of dead end?' Bard asked looking around.


"Its almost as if it was a test of some sorts. To see if we are intellectual enough to figure out this, if we are we are considered to meet with the Faeries." Serena said, suprised that she knew that, but she didn't know where from. Sigh, its probably because I have supposed faerie blood she thought. She shot a sharp look at Eric making sure he wouldn't say anything about her being part faerie.


Oo. Whats that cold breeze thats bearing into the back of my head? Eric thought. (haha)


"Hey everybody try spreading out to see if there are any sort of walls, i'll go this way, Eric you press that way, Bard you go that way, and Anneliese head that way. Now people lets walk!" Serena said as she walked to her side with her arms in front of her, at a slow and steady pace. It seemed that they kept walking on and on, but they never got anywhere.


"I don't think this is working, Serena!" Anneliese said irritated.


"Your probably right-! UGH!" Serena said as she ran into something. It was what seem like a wall, then suddenly everybody else found walls on their side.


"We found them!" Serena said happily.


"Yeah, but what are we to do now?" Anneliese asked as she started kicking her wall.


"Well for crying out loud don't kick it! All you'll get out of that is a sore foot!" Bard said.


"Bite me."


"Well what are we to do now?" Eric said who was still pressing on his wall.


"Lets keep pressing, maybe its a sort of a puzzle. One has to keep enduring, also what else are we going to do? There is no way to get out!" Serena said, pushing harder than she had earlier. Then something popped, and the wall seemed to fall through, with the group falling through it as well. However, they didn't fall. They were floating.


"Whoa this is awesome!" Bard and Eric said in unison. But the awesomeness soon ended, when everyone came to a sudden stop.


"Crap, are we stuck or something now?" Bard said as he was stuck in a starfish position.


"LEAVE! you have no business here!" Said a slick voice said.


"Umm, Bard I think we have just entered the faeries domain." Serena said as she fainted.