Peregrination- Chapter 12

While Serena was learning more about her past and future. Bard, Eric, and Anneliese quivvered in fear, for they were about to be judged by the faeries.. in order to deem them worthy enough to live.


The tall silhouttes loomed over them. Coming closer at each breath. What are they gonna do with us? Looking up they saw that chairs and balconies of the colloseum started filling up the tall, tapered creatures. Looking around the whole room quickly, they saw that they were all darkly colored creatures, with pale skin.


"There's no way these could be faeries." Bard said looking around.. "Faerie's have always had a light colored scheme."


"I wonder if their change in colors was affected by the disappearance of the stones." Eric said.


Silence.


The group stopped talking instantly, as not to anger the already seemed ticked off faeries.


Your time for judgement has come.


~.~


'Where is this portal exactly?" Serena asked.


"It's closer than you think. Remember that big ball of light that you were in? Well it was a penumbra, an eclipse."


"But I thought eclipses were when the moon is right in front of the sun, allowing no light on the world."


"True, but in our World, the light that was hidden from the Eclipse comes here, which allows one to travel by it. That's why you were floating endlessly."


"But that doesn't explain how we reached the 'walls'. Light doesn't have an end."


"There are things past the science of this world that we don't even know of."


"So this, penumbra, how does it exactly help us get to the world portal?"


"Because it is the world portal, and the only way to access it is during the penumbra, which only comes once a year here."


"So it's to late then? We are going to hafta wait a whole year before we can even get a chance to retrieve the stones?"

"There is actually a way to start the penumbra again, but its very risky and messes with the balance of time."

"By the time the next eclipse should come around, it would be to late for Tarigot." Serena said seriously, realizing basically Tarigots future was now resting on her shoulders."I'm going to take that chance." She said firmly looking up into her mother, the faeries eyes.

"I understand. In order to perform a task of such feat would take time traveling."

"Time traveling? That actually exists?" Serena said as her jaw nearly dropped to the floor.

"Of course! Naturally, how else do you belive we came to be here?"

"What do you mean-?"

"The rest is for you to find out eventually." Her mother replied.

"When and how will this time traveling take place?"

"Now."

"What-?" Serena started but was soon cut off, with a blinding flash of light that took her away into itself. She kept winding around and around and around. Becoming every dizzy, nearly causing her another fainting spell, but she knew she had to takes to bring back the stones. Tarigot was counting on her. The lives of all the people Tarigot contained were counting on her. The light that had gathered from the eclipse started spinning faster and faster, when then. Silence collected around her as she fell slowly in what seemed an endless black. Is this the world portal? She thought. It just seems like nothing, how is this suppose to get me anywhere?




'I thought you would be here soon,' said a familiar voice.




"huh?" Serena said as she jerked around seeing nothing, there was nothing in this endless abyss.




'Please, Serena, can you not tell it's just me?' Said Eric as he popped out of nowhere.




"What are you doing here? Your not physically able to be here!" Serena questioned him, more scared than puzzled.




'Is that what that faerie told you? You trust her why? Did she not appear to you in a dream? In that dream did she not try harming you?" He asked as he started pacing around.




"You are not Eric," Serena continued.




'Why do you think that? How can I prove it to you? I was impersinated by a nymph, in the Forbidden Forest, he lead you into a bed of Scares. You were the only one considered 'worthy' enough to communicate with dragons. Is that proof enough for you?" He smiled crookedly.




"NO! Your not him! What are you?!" Serena shouted taking a swipe at Eric, whom her hand went through him like he was air.




'How do you know its not me?!'




"Because I never told Eric what happened in my dream! You are not him!"




"Ah, you are smart child," Started the Eric impersinator as he melted away tranforming into a black mist almost as dark as the emptiness that surrounded her.




"What are you?"




"I think you should know. Think about it, Serena, really think about it."




Serena closed her eyes slowly, she thought deep and hard. Remembering all the times that had happened during this Peregrination.





"Fear." She said opening her eyes as the darkness became closer suffocating her. "You are fear, and I shall not let you take over me." She said choking as she said it. Fear had turned into a mist, filling up her lungs nearly suffocating her, as she died.





There was a bright light, Serena, saw as she opened her eyes. However she did not flinch from the quick change from pure darkness to the purest light.





"Where am I? What happened?"




"You are here. The world portal." Said the light whispering back to her. "The darkness had taken over you, but you had resist, allowing it to kill you. You were dead."




"Where? I am alive now? Why was that fear there?"




"To turn you astray from your goal, to retrieve the Sophia Stones to save Tarigot."



"The world portal? So that emptiness back there wasn't the world portal?"



"No, that was a black hole."



Serena's brain felt like it was nearly about to explode with all these new ideas, and explorations going through her heads. Fear? Black Holes? World Portals? But then she cam back to herself, remembering what she had to do.



"Where are the Sophia stones?"



"They have returned to where they have came from."


No one knew where the stones came from, nor did anyone know what source of power the stones contained.



"But only two disappeared, the Oceanus stone is still in Tarigot."



"True, but it is soon fading, so it will return soon too."



'How can i prevent this from happening?" Serena said to the light. "Tarigot depends on those stones! Thats the only thing keeping Tarigot alive!"



"Tarigot has become foolish."



Serena straightened up, surprised. "What do you mean?"



"Tarigot has grown to attached to worldly things, allowing stones to do the work. Thinking that they can easily just live off them. If you honestly tried, Tarigot could live in harmony easily amongst everyone." The light said angrily.



"How did this happen?" Serena said. "Have i also become attached to these stones?"



"Yes, you are also committed to them, for you have the desire to bring them back and protect your world. Laziness, sheer, laziness."



"So, you know that Tarigot can easily get into harmony if we just try?"



"Yes,"



"How am I to get back?"



"We will send you back to the faerie's world." The lights started to swirl around her faster and faster.



"Wait! Before i leave, I must know. Where did the stones go? I must know!' Serena said her voice rising over the lights.



"You will find this out in the future," They replied. Then everything turned dark. As Serena floated through the black hole, back to the faeries.