After, I yelled my voice hoarse, and let myself drift, I blinked and found myself somewhere I have been a million times. I was back in Fas, I glanced around. Finding myself in my favorite shop. It seemed real, but it also didn't. Like the image was being forced on me. I was being forced to see this. If I focused hard enough the vision started to blur and disappear, till I let it go then it feels real again. I went to the chocolate in the shop, grabbed some and tried it. It had no flavor.

“This is very poorly made.” I mumbled, already very tired of getting toyed with.

The abyss was trying to lull me into letting my guard down. This is not just darkness, there is something out there. Maybe all of it as a whole is a single entity, or many together. It seemed to be trying to pull from my memories. I best not trust anything I see. I felt my head pound before I was standing in a different street in Fas.

I was standing outside my home. It looks empty, and unused. No one has been home in a while. Well that's how it has been a long time. I lived here a long while by myself. I walked up to the door, and let myself inside. Dust has settled on everything. Nothing has moved since the last time I was home. The only sounds I could hear were my claws tapping and sometimes scrapping on the ground as I walked. It felt more like exploring a museum than coming home.

‘If I do get home, what will be waiting for me? If so then what is the point in going home? It would be nice if mom was home.’ I pondered the thought.

I settled myself. I took in a huge breath, and blasted my home away. This is all fake. It feels so real I am not sure how I just know, but this is not it. I know I might not be home, but I surely have not been gone too long. I know I have grown more here, than the last time I was home. Maybe twitch the size I was then.

Suddenly the ground shattered and I was dropped, and landed my feet in mud and sprained with rain, as the wind howled. I blinked a few times to gather my bearings as I saw a destroyed village in front of me. The voices of the screaming humans asking me questions.

“Why were you not here sooner?! How could you let us die?!” The voices demanded, though one stood out among the rest.

“You took my son from me!” Sally screamed, her face covered in blood, an arrow lodged through her chest.

She stood in the middle of the town, mouth open all the voices coming from her. Then suddenly the ground starts collapsing around us, as a disfigured ice speared shade howls, before being swallowed by the huge serpent. Tearing and destroying the ground around me. Sinking the village below the waves of water washing across the land, working its way up my legs. I struggled to try to get my legs free as the arms of the dead reached out and held my legs down. I howled.

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I froze all the water, before shattering it around me. These are my elements. I won't let some serpent, or some coward who refuses to show its face try to convince me that it is stronger than me at my own element. This doesn't seem to be a physical attack, but mental. I thought from what I heard that soul space attacks are not possible unless your near said person. That being said, this doesn't feel like a soul space attack. I don't feel like I am in any soul space.

Suddenly the ground started cracking underneath me completely, then the serpent lunged at me, as the ground gave out sending me into a large empty cavern. Taking a quick glance, I was in that cylinder building, but no water was here. I am free falling to the bottom, where no blue glow resided. Above me is the serpent's open mouth. If I try to stop my fall it will eat me, if I do nothing it will get me in the end. I cursed all of this. I must be, in all of creation, the most unlucky dragon to be born.

I looked below me again and threw water below me toward the ground. Then I started gathering water in my claws keeping it close to me. If this doesn't work, or whatever is distorting my sense of reality doesn't mess with what I am doing, I should be safe. If I get a moment, I will see if I can repel whatever is messing with my reality. Getting close I could see that I had done, had in fact, worked. I grinned, as I looked at the serpent.

Suddenly I felt the ice hit my back, as I was thrown to the side from the ramp which was made from the water I threw earlier, moving me out of the serpent's path faster than my wings could without slowing down. My wings were not happy about the tumble, but I didn't have a break. I quickly launched what I had been making in my hands as a much larger spear skewered the great serpent's head, piercing through to the other side, just as it hit the ground. Looking up I quickly flapped my wings, to gain air to avoid the falling body of the serpent as it fell.

I was tired of the abyss’s tricks and games. At first it lured me in with sweet dreams, happiness and hopes. I noticed its game now it is on the attack. I feel it's almost already too late. I let it in. It's in my mind, I just have to retain control over myself. If I think it's stronger than me, then it will be. This is a matter of self control. I may be Lost, but I won't be lost that easily. Shades, the abyss all can burn. I start willing my mind full of flames. Brilliant blue flames stretched far and wide across my mental scape. I could feel a searing pain in my left eye, I wasn't sure why but the more I fought the worse it hurt. I hit myself to bring my attention back. Realizing I had control, I forced myself away. I lurched awake. I was beneath a half star half empty sky.

“Feels ironic at this point. On a planet not even sure if I am sane.” I mumbled and sighed.

I glanced over to my side hearing a loud crashing sound, soon I saw the source. Storm clouds seemed to be approaching. On my island there is no shelter from this. I wondered if this island would even stay above the water. I heard from Hickory that islands can flood. Then I saw a flash of bright light, then 6 seconds later I heard the crashing sound. It's getting close.