Chapter Thirteen

"Ladies, Ladies, now calm down, I don't know what the boys are still doing here, I swear!" He said but somehow I didn't believe him and somehow I kinda did.

Then he signalled for the guys to leave but they shrugged and still stayed.

"Okay whatever, forget it. I think what Ella was tryin'a say before we got interrupted was...WE'RE NOT GYMNASTICS!" Anne yelled making Amun to winced and covered his ears.

Then she sighed and continued to talk calmly and softly to him.

"So technically, we've never done this much exercise before, so can we rest?" Anne asked.

"Yea can we?" Flow asked too.

Amun eyed us and sighed as he glared at Anne, who eyed him back head on.

"Well since Anne didn't succeed in bursting my eardrum and I'm also tired, I suppose we can rest by meditating" Amun said.

"Huh??" We all asked, confused.

"Wait, hold on, I'm not sure I heard you very well before, are you saying you want us to meditate?" I asked.

"Yeah pretty much" He said, nodding his head continuously.

"Grr! Amun, we've never meditated before, so how do you suppose we do that?" I asked again, angry this time.

Truth was that I was scared of closing my eyes cause whenever I did_well ever since I had that nightmare last night, I haven't been myself and if I closed my eyes for even a second; I always saw Octhelia's blood red eyes and wicked smile; and the truth was that it terrified me as much as it freaked me out. So that's why I didn't want to meditate.

"Come on, it's simple guys" Amun said.

"Easy for you to say" Anne muttered, Flow and I giggled, actually I think we chuckled cause Amun shot her a dirty look.

"Come on guys, sit on your floor mat, cross your legs, close your eyes and clear your mind from all thoughts...you'll see yourself achieving inner peace" Amun said and we did that.

But I don't think Anne and Flow did that, Nope! They were sleeping, He himself, Amun, seemed to be in his and I quote INNER PEACE state.

So I tried entering my inner peace but as I closed my eyes, Octhelia was right there in front of me.

Oh no! What should I do?!

I tried opening my eyes but I couldn't, then she stretched her staff towards me and touched it on my chest. Suddenly, I couldn't speak and I also felt very weak from my head to my toes. I wanted to scream for help but all I could do was whisper quietly. Too quietly and I hated the helpless I felt at that moment. All I could do was whisper,

"No, No, No, this is not happening_someone please...help me...please" I said and collapsed.

Looking up at her as she towered over me with a new, sharp looking knife. She looked down at me and laughed, then she spoke.

"You are weak...and you are supposed to have the most greatest power of all the eight stones? How do you think you can defeat me? You are pathetic!" She yelled and raised the knife up, I shook my head vehemently, tears falling down my eyes.

"I cannot believe the most powerful Stone of chose you... You are nothing so you have to die cause you have no use for the world" She towered the knife over my heart and made to stab it then suddenly I came out of my dream state.

I shouted and screamed out loud.

"No!" That made the guys jump in surprise.

"Ella what's wrong? Why did you scream like that?" Anne asked, concerned as she wiped the drool on her cheek.

"You okay sis?" Flow asked.

"Ella what's the matter? What's really eating you up?" Amun asked.

"Guys! I'm fine!" I yelled, as I wiped the tears on my face.

I said that to stop their worrying but I felt anything but fine.

"Ella we're your friends and family, you can tell us anything so what's really the matter with you?" Anne asked again.

I got angry and snapped at her.

"I said I'm fine! Jeez! Leave me alone! I just...need some fresh air" I said and walked out of the gym.

"Ella wait!" I heard Anne yell.