She awoke in the middle of nowhere. The obelisk, Willow, and the ball of light were all gone.

"Hello?"

There was nothing but darkness and cold. Luna began to shiver as the temperature dropped, and it got colder by the second. Then she heard footsteps in the distance.

"Luna?"

She turned around to see a handsome young man with long red hair and a ruggedly styled beard. His skin was tanned, and he had scars on his nose and cheeks. His steely brown eyes indicated that he was battle-hardened. He was dressed in a brown long fur overcoat, a sight which Luna missed terribly.

"Marko?" She asked in disbelief.

"Is that you, Luna?"

Behind her, a young woman appeared. She had long, wavy brown hair that was beautifully braided and topped with a yellow bow, and her fair skinned face was filled with a teary smile. She wore a long cream dress underneath her short leather jacket with a fur trim that matched Baldric's. The young lady held a little girl in one hand, her hair brown-braided and topped with a yellow bow, and an infant in the other.

"Luna?"

It's not possible. Luna thought to herself. It's not possible.

"Beatrice... Bruno, Bella... Is that..."

The woman holding the two children smiled.

"Hey Bee! I was here first!" Marko yelled out, a smile on his face. "Are you going to trade me for her now?"

Luna didn't care if it was a dream or not; they were right in front of her.

"Bring it in!" he called out.

Beatrice nodded to Luna, saying it was okay if she went to him first. Beatrice stopped her daughter from running towards Luna because she wanted to see her.

Luna approached him slowly, and when Marko opened his arms for a hug, she ran as she tried to hold back her tears. But before she could get close, a loud gunshot rang out, and Marko looked down, as blood poured from a hole in his chest. Luna's eyes widened in horror as she froze. With fear in his eyes, he looked at her. Luna realised she was the one with the gun.

She dropped it and tried to run to him, but no matter how hard Luna tried, he was simply out of reach. With each step, a shot rang out, jolting him as it ripped through his body. When she looked down, she saw that the gun was still in her hands.

"Luna!" She came to a halt and looked behind her. Beatrice was surrounded by flames, and she clutched the two children to her chest as the fires grew closer. "Luna! The fire! Help!"

"Bee!" Luna tried to run towards her, but the flames exploded and engulfed them. All Luna could do was watch as the fire burned them alive. The little girl screeched in pain as the fire grew stronger.

"Luna! Baldric!" Beatrice screamed in agony. "Help!"

"Daddy! Daddy!" Bella wailed. The baby cried loudly.

When Luna desperately reached out to them, she realized the gun she held had turned into a torch. She was the one who set fire to them. Her heart felt as if it were caught in a vice. She was unable to scream. All she could do was stand there and watch Beatrice and her children scream in agony until they died.

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Luna shakily reached out to touch them.

Fall.

Marko's bloodied corpse crept up behind her, his wet hand gripped her ankles. Luna screamed in terror, but the corpse did not let go and continued to drag her down.

Luna panicked as Marko’s bloodied corpse climbed and dripped his blood and organs all over her. She screamed, but no sound came out of her mouth. Beatrice and her children's husks crawled towards her. Luna cried and tried to shake him off, but he wouldn't let go. When more people emerged from the darkness, Marko and Beatrice grabbed Luna's ankles and held her in place.

They were all so thin that they resembled walking skeletons, with skin that was even greyer and paler than hers and black eyes that stared directly at Luna. More and more of them started to appear all around her. They were all sickly thin and ranged in age from young children to the elderly, with some even dressed in the uniforms of soldiers and enforcers. Luna recognized all of the walking corpses and their injuries; some had been brutally eviscerated, others had limbs and arms missing, and others appeared to have been bitten and scratched to death. All of them slowly made their way toward her.

The corpses all had the same expression on their faces: hatred. Luna sobbed uncontrollably as a result of the anger directed at her.

Fall.

Luna couldn't even scream or look at them; she couldn't even close her eyes. She tried desperately to shut them, but it felt as if hooks held them open. Marko and Beatrice's corpses stared her down, and she felt their rage directed at her soul.

Luna's heart felt like it was ripped apart, and she couldn't breathe because her chest was heavy with grief, guilt, and shame. Their faces melted, and what emerged was her. Her image stared at her, and its eyes were bright yellow with black pupils.

Fall.

All of them were perfect copies of her and attacked Luna. It didn't hurt her body, but each blow seared her mind and heart. Her head had a migraine that felt like all her hair was being ripped from her head. Her heart felt squeezed and on fire. They scratched at her skin with their nails and caused her to scream in pain.

Fall.

They all laughed and jeered as they attempted to destroy her. They all held her down and forced her eyes open to watch the abomination that approached. It was a horror created from melted corpses that terrified her to the core. It had hundreds of faces, all of which cried and blamed Luna for their deaths.

Marko, Beatrice, and her children stood out, but their heads were fused together and formed into a giant black eye that allowed Luna to see her own reflection. Her hair had fallen out, and her eyes had turned black. She was so thin that the bones in her arms could be seen, while thick, heavy metal tubes, and wires were injected into her back and arms.

Fall. Fall.

“Murderer!” “Fraud!” The horrors mocked her, and Luna was unable to cry any longer. She attempted to apologize, but nothing came out of her mouth. The horror opened the mouth on its stomach and devoured her whole.

Fall. Fall! Fall!

She was engulfed in tar. Her ears rang, and her throat and lungs burned. She flailed, but the water seeped into her body and caused her to sink faster. Before she sank, Luna watched the sky rip. A giant tear shredded across the heavens, and what Luna saw were more abominations. They all fell down towards her. They dragged her down to the bottom as they all tried to rip and break her apart. Through the pain, she raised her head and discovered where they came from.

It was a large structure from which the demons emerged, and from it an infinite number of abominations spewed forth. The sky above opened up to reveal a massive eye that stared down at her.

Fall! Fall! Fall!

It was the one who spoke and she could feel its rage. It looked for something in her, something that made her resist.

Fall! Fall! Fall! Fall!

The illusions started to crumble, but not before she saw a planet. It felt familiar, and the eye noticed it as well, before everything vanished and returned to darkness.

=0o0=

Baldric got down from the walker and found Luna bound to a giant obelisk. Her eyes and ears were covered with black tar, and she shrieked in agony. He ran up to her when Willow, a ball of light, and Ada stopped him.

"Don’t touch her!" Ada held him back.

"We need to save her!"

"Baldric, whatever that thing is, my sensors are picking up it is incredibly dangerous!"

"We need to save her! Now!"

"Not if it means we will lose you too!"

Luna slowly sank into the obelisk.

"Destroy it!"

"We might lose her! We don’t even know what that is!"

"Destroy the obelisk! Now Ada! Now!"

"We might hit and kill her!"

More of Luna vanished into the structure.

"Cover her with the freezing chemical! That should shield her from the rockets!"

"She will suffocate!"

"Do it Ada!"

Ada sprayed the chemical on Luna, and her entire body was encased in crystal. She then launched a barrage of precise rockets that shattered the obelisk's base. The chemical shielded Luna as her body was freed, and Baldric rushed to her. She no longer wailed in agony. Luna was asleep, but her eyes were wide open as tears streamed down her cheeks.