Memories raced across my mind so fast I couldn't comprehend what they were about. I tried to focus on everything that was happening before me, but with so many things running threw my head, it hurt too much. All I could make out was Marlex, if that really was his name, advancing to me.

The strange thing is I didn’t feel like retreating from him. I could see words form from his mouth but I couldn’t hear them. His Grey eyes came into view, looking down at me, I thought I saw worry. Everything happened in slow motion then, his hands reached down to pick me up, at the same time I felt someone’s presence, no a group's outside of these walls.

"This isn’t what we wanted Nxy. If Xerebus finds out we will all be in danger, thanks to that stubborn group. No surprise since it seems like Lexian, Triskix, and ReXi are leading it." Even though he was right next to me, his voice sounded so far away. Then I remembered what that other guys said about the original organization. I tried to say something but nothing came out. I couldn’t let my friends get caught up in this, reaching behind me I made a random portal small enough so Marlex could not see it until I was ready to go. When he began lifting me to my feet, I gathering all my strength and pushed the man, twice my size, backwards.

I let myself falling back into the random portal. I looked up from inside the portal not seeing the man but the boy from long ago, yelling down at me while the portal closed in front of him. I knew there was no use fighting where the portal would drop me, holding on to my wounded arm I let everything come back. Marlex… Lexian, Triskix, ReXi, the other girl from my memories, and me… we were all friends. Very good friend, at least we were ten years ago. Now...

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Sometimes we focus so intensely on our destiny,
that we forget about the beauty of the journey.
~Nyx