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A/N: This chapter gets a little darker than some of the others. This is a warning.
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Lilly and Luke walked into another room. It was small. The walls, floor, and ceiling were all reflective like a mirror. It was completely empty besides the two friends.
"How many rooms are there?" Lilly asked looking around in awe.
"I'm not sure but in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone there were seven obstacles they had to pass. We might not even be haft way." Luke stated. Lilly laughed.
"You're such a nerd." She smiled. Luke beamed, taking this as a compliment. That was when look noticed something. There was a knife, hanging down from the ceiling. Lilly grabbed it.
"What's this for?" She questioned as she tried to use the knife to cut itself down. Luke shrugged.
"I'm not sure. Was that here when we got here?" He asked.
"I'm not sure... I got it!" Lilly exclaimed as she finally got the knife down. It was a large, decorated dagger with a gold hilt and jewels. The second she got it down the wall started to glow gold. This caught their attention and they stared at it.
Luke saw all his friends in the mirror. They seemed happy and peaceful, but then a wave of black passed over them.
First, Jade fell down dead, blood pouring from her side. A figure had cast a spell and it hit her side. She bled out. Next, it was Nate who had a bullet in his head. Luke wanted to scream at what he was seeing, but he couldn't. Olivia was beaten and bruised all over. She fell to the ground dramatically, almost like it was slow motion. In the mirror a dark figure appeared and started to choke Tyler. His face went blue and he too collapsed.
"No, no, why?!" Luke was terrified. Was he doing it again? Was this the future? Would all his friends die in some battle with dark figures everywhere?
The mirror showed Michael next. He was battling a dark figure. They were dueling with swords. Luke could tell that Michael was cracking jokes at the figure. He was laughing, a smile on his face, even though it was a battle. The figure took advantage of Michael's distraction. Michael's sword was thrown from his hand and the dark figure ran him through the stomach with his gray sword. The smile was wiped off Michael's face and color drained from him. He fell to the ground.
Emily ran to him. She let out a cry before turning to the dark figure. She quickly got out her spell book and started to shoot spells at the figure. The dark figure conjured a bow and began to shoot arrows at the teen. She kept blocking with magic until she tripped over Michael's body. Her spell went flying. One of the figure's arrows pierced her chest. Her death was slower than everyone else's. She stumbled and attempted to cast spells but failed every time. Eventually she collapsed.
Luke's eyes were watery now. He saw almost every single one of his friends was gone, except...
"Lilly." Luke mumbled. There she was. She had appeared on the mirror. Her eyes were red and she looked tired. She was wearing a fancy silver dress and had her hair up in a bun with a braid rapped around it. She was crying over the death of her friends and chained to a throne, being forced to watch everything happen. A dark figure ran up to her and unchained her. She ran to the center of the battle.
Luke couldn't see Lilly in real life now. He was so afraid that this was going to happen in real life. He was too focused on the mirror.
"Lilly, get out of there!" He shouted at the mirror.
The mirror showed Luke battling Max like in his vision. They both had swords. Just like what happened to Michael, Luke's sword thrown out of reach. Max was about to plunge the sword into Luke's chest, but Lilly got in the way. She jumped in front of her best friend and the sword ran through her instead.
Luke fell to his knees. Was this what was going to happen? Was he having another vision? He didn't know what to believe anymore. Lilly couldn't die, none of his friends could. They were all so young. He was afraid that his worst nightmare was going to become a reality.
The mirror wasn't done yet. It showed Lilly on the ground, dead. Blood stained her dress and her eyes were opened but didn't see. Luke was on the ground in tears, holding her body, trying to get her to wake up. It seemed that he couldn't except the fact that she was dead. Max seemed to have mixed emotions. Happy that Luke's world had fallen apart and a little sad to see Lilly die. He eventually decided to smirk at Luke's misery.
"You have nothing left to live for. All of your friends are dead. I won't kill you. I want this to haunt you every day for the rest of your life. Guards," Mirror Max waved over two dark figures. "Take him away."
The image faded out only to replay from the beginning.
"No, stop it! Haven't you shown me enough? It played again. Jade went first, then Nate, then Olivia, and then Tyler. Michael was again ran through with a sword. Emily was killed with an arrow once more. Luke couldn't watch it anymore but he couldn't seem to look away.
Is this why were given a dagger, Luke thought. To end this nightmare? He couldn't take it anymore. He clutched his head.
"Make it stop! Make it stop! Please, make it stop!" He screamed. Mirror Lilly had died once more. She looked beautiful even in death.
Lilly, on the other hand saw something different when she looked in the mirror.
She had married Max and her friends were trying to rescue her. Each one being slaughtered before her eyes. Nate had been struck down with arrows. Tyler was beheaded violently with an ax. Olivia was tortured with magic, leaving scars and bruises all over her body. Michael had tried to fight one of Max's guards and stabbed with a sword.
Lilly started frowning at the sight of her friends dying in front of her eyes. The mirror was trying to trick her, but why? What did the room want her to do. She looked at the dagger in her hand.
"Oh." She relaxed her hand. The mirror wanted to drive her towards doing something awful.
After Michael had died in the mirror Emily tried to use magic to save him, but there was nothing she could do. While she was distracted, trying to save her friend, the figure that had struck down Michael shot a magic curse at her. Emily wasn't able to dodge in time. She fell over Michael's body limp.
While there was a battle going on between the guards and Lilly's friends, Luke and Jade were able to sneak in to the Dark Realm's castle. They were caught by a guard. Jade told Luke to go on ahead. He did. Jade had found a sword and started dueling. The figure was too quick for her. She wasn't able to defend herself. The sword was plunged into her stomach.
"Jade!" Lilly gasped. She knew it wasn't real, but she still had seen her little sister die if front of her eyes. It shocked and horrified her.
The mirror went on to see Luke travel to Lilly's room. Max was waiting, ready. Luke opened the door and creeped in. Max was hiding behind the door.
"Luke, watch out!" Mirror Lilly exclaimed. She was chained to her bedpost.
Before Luke could process what Lilly said Max leaped out from behind. He stabbed Luke in his midsection and twisted it around. Luke fell to the ground.
The real Lilly gasped. She could see her friend doing something like this in real life.
What Luke had when they were kids started repeat over and over in her brain. I'll always find you.
The mirror started to repeat over and over. She struggled to look away from the mirror. It wouldn't let her.
Finally, after a couple minutes of struggling she was able to look away. She saw her best friend on the floor. He was screaming "Make it stop!" Over and over.
Lilly knew what she had to do. She had to stop this. She couldn't let it go on any longer.
Lilly grabbed a firm hold on the dagger. She raised it high and smashed it into the mirror. Her arm got cut in the process. The entire room shattered.
-----------------------------------------Shoutout to my friends Scott who is not on here and my friend SierraDuckland for helping me come up with an idea for this chapter. Scott, you were a really big help. Thanks, you guys!
What do you think is going to happen next? Was the mirror showing Luke another vision or is it just a trick? Is this the last trap or are there more to come? Tell me in the comments. Lucky chapter 11. 11 is my lucky number. Also this chapter was the longest one I've written in this story at 1518 words.
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