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Feet hit dirt hard as a boy sprinted to the other side of the island. "She's gonna kill me..." The boy panted, white hair falling into his eyes and blocking out the bright midday sun. As his feet pounded along the bright almost white sand his thoughts raced. The dreams had gotten stranger last night, and more vivid. He had almost thought he was actually there if he hadn't remembered falling asleep. "I gotta tell Maya about this one..." He muttered, feet pounding up the wooden stairway now. When he finally reached the massive wooden outlook platform he saw her sitting on a log on the beach. Without even hesitating he vaulted the railing, landing hard in the sand before rolling towards the girl. As he stood he walked towards her, smiling guiltily. "Sorry I'm late Maya. What'd I miss?" He asked, sitting next to her.

 

Will grimaced when he saw the anger on her face. "I overslept?" He said, shrugging a little. "I didn't get much sleep because the dreams came back again last night..." He said, looking out over the ocean. "Maya, I'm beginning to think we should tell someone. I don't think this is natural. Last night in the dream I was at some sort of station... and there were three pedestals with a staff, a shield, and a sword, and a large door in the middle of them all... and a voice kept saying soon you must choose your path..." He described, gaze unfocused as he continued to stare out over the ocean.

 

"Maya? Maya?!" Kairi started to walk around the small town across from Destiny Island as she was doing some final checks to make sure that everything will be ok for the festival. "Now what in the world is more important than helping me? I have to be a little bit more stern to her." Kairi walked on to the playground to see Hayner in the area as he was busy practicing fighting. "Hayner? HAYNER!"

Hayner stop what he was doing and turned around to look at Kairi. "Oh. It's you." "Have you seen Maya and the other children?" "Nope. No luck. Even my son went and ditched me." Kairi then sighed and facepalmed herself. "This is no good at all."

 

2 Days before Darkness fell over Destiny Island~

"...I remember it being cold. I could feel. I've never felt something so real Uncle..."-Xeraph
"Tell me more about your dream. Did you see anyone? Anything?"-Redeck
A breeze rolled in through the window. Xeraph wanted to answer, but shivered at the illuminating thought that coursed through him. He didn't want to say. Cognitively he had no idea who the person was. He had no clue what he saw was, let alone who. But he knew the feeling. He could describe it perfectly. A being of light without light. Cold, bitter, incandescently numbing. It was as if Nothing was embodied within a lone figure. It had no viewable eyes, but Xeraph knew it was looking right at him. He could feel it creeping into his soul. Something that did not belong making its welcome. What was it doing inside his head? All of these things rushed thrugh his mind at his Uncle's question.
"I saw Darkness. A lone figure pointing me in a direction. The figure was not human, I'm not sure what it was. There was a marble floor with checkered tiles. As I stepped on one it became white, and all the colors would revert. It was mesmerizing. I remebering being able to see my breathe. As I walked toward the steps the figure pointed to, something came down. Some type of light. It was too fast for me to see. it struck the marble floor in front of me. It almost looked like..a Key. The floor cracked. Everythign came crashing down. The figure looked as if it was screaming as I fell down...into the darkness...and then I awoke."-Xeraph
"And what your telling me is true?"-Redeck
"You accuse me of lieing? I seek your guidance and you wish to ridicule?"-Xeraph
"Yes, and no."-Redeck
'He knows' said a voice within Xeraph's head. 'He knows your not telling the whole truth'.
Xeraph looked down.
"I'm going back to bed Uncle.."-Xeraph
"Xeraph...you know you can talk to me"-Redeck
"I know Uncle. I know.."-Xeraph

(The next Morning)

Xeraph woke up bright and early. The sun kissed his eyelids with a new day. He leaped out of bed and through on his trunks. He jumped out of his cabin on the cliffs, and leaped down below into the Great Sea. He broke out into his morning training. a lap around the island, tree training (ability to leap from one tree branch to another while keeping balance, no matter the size and density of the branch), and then his daily set of push ups and pull ups on Destiny Island.
He swam along the shore and passed the tents where the festival was being set up. He waved to some of his friends he knew from town, and continued swimming. Once he was done with all his excersises he went to get back into the Sea and go back to his cabin to get washed up and then go see Maya.

By the time he got back to the cabin on the Bluff he realized he was running late.
"Damn.."-Xeraph
He ran along the edge of the cliff as the sun rose. He took the smaller mountanous path along the edge of the island that lead down to the Beach.
He ran up to his friends, huffing and puffing.
"So sorry Maya. Swim ran a little long today."-Xeraph

 

Xeraph nodded.
"Sounds like a plan, haha. But uuuh...how are we gonna build this thing? And where?"-Xeraph questioned