I always seemed to be running. Running from a lot of things. But this time, I wasn't getting away. The blazing fire was catching up to me. I felt as though I was on a tredmill, just running as fast as I could in place. No amount of adreniline was going to get me out of this, it seemed.
"Help! SOmeone please help me!" I cried out hoping for someone to come to my rescue, like they do in the movies. But this was reality. No one was coming. I was all on my own as the fire krept nearer and nearer.
"Ariel? Ariel?" A voice from above called to me as a figure appeared. It was my dad coming to my rescue as he had done all those years ago.
"I'm here!" I yelled frantically as I reached my hands up for him to take them. But, when he grabbed them, he fell down beside me. "Dad!" I rushed to his side as the fire made a circle around us. There was no escape.
"Ariel. You must get out. You alone must escape," my dad grabbed me and threw me back up the way he had come. I traveled through clouds and fog before I was suddenly on top of a hill, watching my father burn to death.
"Look what you've done!" it was my mother's voice, but I couldn't see her anywhere. "You killed him! This is your fault!"
"No!" I shook my head as tears fell down my face. "No!"
The next thing I knew, I was back in our house holding onto my dead baby brother. AGain my mother's voice pierced through the darkness that surrounded me. "Look what you've done! You are a murderer! No one is safe near you!"
"It was an accident! I didn't mean to!" I shook my head as heavy sobs stopped my words.
"You are a monster. No one loves you! You wreak death and destruction no matter where you go! I cannot love such a hideous beast!"
Then, I was in a graveyard, crying still. Glancing at the nearst headstone, it read Asuka. Looking around, each headstone had the name of each of my new friends: Sky, Dani, GRay, Lucy, Kara, Io. I stood up and found that the headstones continued on for miles.
I had done this. I was a threat to everyone. "NO!" I cried.
"Ariel! Ariel, wake up!" I opened my hazy eyes to find Asuka standing over me, shaking my shoulders gently. I sat up. Everyone was alive. I was back in the cave.
"Just a nightmare," I whispered running my hands through my hair.
"That must have been some nightmare," Asuka looked at me with worry heavy in her eyes. "You were thrashing all over the place and yelling 'No!' What did you dream about?"
I rubbed my temples; I could feel a nasty migraine coming on as they usually did after my intense nightmares. "I can't remember," I lied as I leaned up against the wall.
"Maybe it's a good thing you can't remember," Asuka said before she handed me my breakfast. "Come on, we need to get going. We are moving out today."
I nodded as I grabbed my stuff. I wished I didn't have to remember my nightmares. I really did.
