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The screaming stopped as soon as I stepped out of the fog. I might have thought that weird if the entire dream hadn't already been weird in the extreme seeing as nothing like this had ever happened to me before.
I was half way across the field when a twig to the right of me snapped and a person came crashing through the forest. A tall, thin figure dressed in something black with bare legs stumbled out of the woods and fell, landing on their hands and knees in the tall grass. It wasn't until her pale blonde hair caught in the moonlight that I realized it was Ariel who'd stumbled out of the woods and it had been Ariel who'd been screaming bloody murder all this time.
My heart skipped a beat inside my chest.
What the fuck was she doing here? She wasn't supposed to be here.
"Ariel," I shouted her name as I took off running in her direction. No matter how hard I pushed myself, no matter how fast I ran, she never seemed to get any closer, always remaining a good twenty feet away from me. Always out of my reach. It didn't seem to matter to me because I kept on running towards her all the same, hoping that something would change and I'd finally be able to reach her.
It never happened.
I watched in horror as she climbed to her feet and didn't even twitch when I yelled her name over and over again.
I hadn't noticed when she fell that she'd landed in a small puddle that happened to be the only one around. I didn't know who was controlling this dream but when I found out I was going to drag their ass over to that fucking puddle and attempt to drown them in it for this bullshit.
Mud streaked down her bare legs and I finally noticed what she was wearing. A thin, long sleeved black thermal up top and short black shorts on bottom. Her feet were bare and I wasn't at all surprised by this because she was wearing what she'd gone to bed in. It wasn't her dream and she clearly wasn't in control of it so she had no control over what she was wearing.
Then it struck me. This was my dream and I was supposed to be in control of it. Yet, somehow, I was not. I wasn't in control of anything.
Dream walking was a rare talent. The ability to take control of someone else's dream? Even rarer. That took a whole wealth of magic that was on par with the kind of talent and strength a person had to have to be on the Council. It terrified me.
The only thing I was sure of, the one thing this fucked up dream state I was stuck in proved, was that Ariel was indeed a dream walker, she wouldn't have been able to be sucked in otherwise.
I stopped running, gave up on it entirely, and stood there stupidly as my body shook uncontrollably with rage and my chest heaved from the effort I'd put into running flat out to get to my girl and getting fucking nowhere.
Ariel whipped around frantically, her eyes searching, scanning the woods she'd emerged from.
"No, no, no." I heard her whisper desperately.
My heart clenched painfully at her whispered plea and the frantic look in her beautiful green eyes. She'd been clearly running from something and she looked like she expected it to come bursting out of the forest from where she had come from and leap out at her and physically attack her.
She absolutely needed me to be there with her, standing beside her and whatever the hell she'd been on the run from. She needed me to protect her.
Even though I knew it was futile, I started moving towards her again. It felt like I was trudging through fucking quicksand and getting nowhere fast.
I was tired of this bullshit and there was no way I wanted to sit here and watch as something came out of the woods and tried to eat my girlfriend. I would blast the fuck out of this goddamn dream with my magic if I had to, I didn't care how bad that would hurt either of us and that we'd be painfully wrenched out of our dreams. Nothing in here could physically harm us in the real world. It could traumatize us to experience horrible things in here but it wouldn't and couldn't physically jack up our actually bodies that were sleeping at the moment. So, at least there was that. But I wasn't sure Ariel even knew that. As far as I knew, none of the guys or that old windbag Adrian from the perverted Council had explained anything to her about how dream walking worked. Which was pretty shitty now that I was thinking about it. That made the fear in her eyes and the terror on her face all the worse. She had no idea that what happened in here wouldn't hurt her in the real world. Hell, for all I knew she thought thiswasthe real world.
God damn it.
She needed me to be there with her and to tell her what the hell was going on so she wouldn't have to look so damned scared.
A surge or rage tore through me and I forcefully shoved out with my magic and stumbled. Heat surrounded me as the hair on my body rose, including my head and my body hummed with energy.
I fell down to my knees as I breathed in the thick air that surrounded me. When I'd pushed out with my magic I hadn't expected that much of it to come pouring out of me, I hadn't even known I was capable of pushing out that much magic at one time. There'd be a price to pay for it later and my energy level would be dwindling soon until I ran out of steam. That meant there wasn't much time left and I had to use what little time I had to get my girl and get us the fuck out of here before whoever was playing with us stepped out from their coward’s place in the shadows.
I climbed to my feet and wobbled forward on shaky legs. I was pleased when nothing held me back this time and I found myself free to move forward at my own pace.
"Ariel," I shouted as I began running at her.
This time she heard me and her head whipped around in my direction.
"Ty?" She asked in her sweet voice, sounding confused and scared out of her fucking brain.
"I'm here now," I huffed out loudly as I ran at her. "Everything's going to be fine."
I wasn't exactly sure that this was the truth but what I was sure of was that this was what I was expected to say to her and what she'd need to hear from me at the moment. If it turned out to be a lie then I would force myself to apologize to her later on, after we'd made it back to our physical forms and all was right in our worlds. Well, as right as shit could be for us when our lives were always running on chaos and crazy.
She stood there staring at me with parted lips and too wide for her face eyes as she watched me running at her. I had no idea why she hadn't come towards me when she'd first laid eyes on me or why she'd just stood there like a damn statue but didn't think I had the time to ask her about it. Maybe she was going into shock?
