Chapter 3 Where The Journey Starts

*So hot* *I can’t breathe* I woke up startled by the sudden heat and smoke that made it hard to breathe. A fire, there was fire to the shelter that kept me, Lilith and all the other kids safe. I tried to find Lilith as soon as I could through the smoke and fire. My eyes felt like they were burning.

I found Lilith and tried to wake her up. Her eyes started to open, and she started coughing. She looked up at me and tried to speak but just coughed more so I put my hand on her mouth. Lilith understood immediately that it wasn't time to ask questions. Lilith started to wake the other kids and lead them outside the same did I. some kids even helped to take others outside. I walked outside to find that everyone had escaped, everyone except Lilith. Again, I felt my blood fizz as I ran through the flames. My vision this time was clear even with all the smoke. I saw Lilith lying on the ground hugging a little boy, protecting him from the stone she now was under. I lifted the stone as if it was nothing but a little feather. She was bleeding. I lifted the little boy up on my back, he was still conscious so he held me as tightly as he could, and then I lifted Lilith so that she was laying in my arms. I ran, avoiding the flames this time because I could go through the flames, but they couldn’t.

I laid Lilith down on the ground carefully. somebody else had taken the little boy from her back and was treating him. Lilith wasn’t breathing. I hadn’t realized that I was crying until my tears dropped from my chins down on hers. It had been a long time since I last cried. The last time I cried was after my parents dead. Without realizing it Lilith had become somewhat her new family. Five years had already passed since we had become friends. I couldn’t lose her too. I smiled with hope when I saw her eyes starting to open and she took in the air. Lilith came to her senses with tears.

“I’m so sorry” she said

“For what?” I would have laughed at her silly apology if it wasn’t for my own tears starting to fall.

“I don’t know” she stared at me and then the both of us started laughing while many tears escaped our eyes.

The next day came as a surprise. Everything had been burning down to the ground. Some of the kids were trying to find some of their things in the ashes, others were leaving to find a new place. I was helping those who had gotten hurt in the fire along with Lilith.

Suddenly I felt a feeling of being drawn to something. Was it another fight? would someone Kill'd? I couldn’t think clearly. My instincts just told me that I had to get there fast, so I ran. I heard Lilith calling me in the distance and her voice was getting closer she was following me, so I forced myself to slow down just enough for her to catch up. We ran at the same pace until she suddenly pulled my arm.

“Where are you running off to?”

“We shouldn’t leave the slum” Lilith said while breathing hard.

“I need to get up”

“Up where? Witch layer?” she asked, still trying to catch her breath.

“Water” I just said without really thinking. It looked like Lilith had even more questions to ask but she kept her mouth shut. She sensed it was important, I could see it in her eyes that she knew that I might be running on the feeling in my gut. I began running again still so that Lilith wouldn’t fall behind.

The two of us took a break when we had reached the 3rd floor. When we had caught our breath, we started to walk. Now that I felt close to whatever I was heading I didn’t feel like rushing over. Suddenly I began to hesitate, walking a lot slower. Fear was creeping up my spine.

“What's wrong?” Lilith looked confused at me so a said sadly with tears almost running from my eyes.

“This is where my parents died” I found myself looking at the place where my parents died, and the big rocks were still there tough the rotting smell of corpse weren’t. How surprising but after five years It kind of made sense. I turned away to see a tear rolling down Lilith’s cheek. We started walking and we walked to we had reached the 4th layer.

It was gorgeous. In the 4th layer was a giant waterfall and it looked like there were stars on the Sieling. The waterfall had formed a lake beneath it, and the water was so clear that we were able to see our own reflections, even with the rushing waterfall. Oddly enough I felt more than safe there. I just kept staring at my reflection and suddenly it changed. I now looked like I did when my blood began to fizz, and instinct started taking over. Lilith stood beside me, and she was crying. For me her reflection looked normal but maybe she saw something else.

“What do you see?” I asked with a low voice. She didn’t take her eyes off her reflection, but I could see that she was listening because she started whipping her tears.

“I had a brother we got separated when we were younger” Lilith started to cry again. She turned her head in my direction.

“ and... We were...” Lilith closed her eyes and took a deep breath and then continued with even more emotion.

“Twins... we were twins”

I then hugged Lilith and she hugged me back. We held tightly on to each other. We just stood like that for a little while.

I suddenly felt tears trying to escape my eyes and one succeeded. The one tear dropped down in the mirror like water and then it was like it all came undone, like a mirror shattering. The waterfall had dried and so had the lake. What was ones a waterfall now became a gloomy cave.

We weren’t holding on to each other anymore. We were now scared. Scared of the sound, a rustling sound that was getting closer and closer. Lilith almost screamed when she saw it and I, I couldn’t help but want to get closer. I felt it again, the feeling of being drawn to it, it called me. I knew it wouldn’t hurt me, but Lilith didn’t, so she pulled my arm when suddenly she just stopped. We both stared at the snake that came out. It looked like if it had been just a little bigger, I wouldn't fit in the cave. The giant snake was greenly silver colored, its scales were almost glowing like a crystal, gem or maybe even like a diamond. Its eyes were red like blood just like mine.

*Finally, you have come* the snake spoke.

“Are you the reason why I wanted to come?” I asked the snake.

“What? No, I'm not. Why would I want to take you to a snake?” Lilith said

“I was talking to the snake” “didn’t you hear what it said?” I asked confused. Lilith also looked confused, still scared of course. Lilith shook her head.

*She can’t hear me and that just proves that you are the one I've been waiting for* the snake said, and I could feel it was glad about it. But what would a snake want with me? Was it the snake I felt when I was younger, when the spider and wolf fought each other, when my parents died?

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