Chapter Five The Sun and The Moon

"The little girl visit me again but this time she wasn't alone."

It was three years later, during the spring, and I was walking around my beautiful city; London. I was enjoying the warm air, blissfully. We were finally out of the cold, miserable season known as winter.

I didn't really have a destination in mind as I strolled around. Yet my feet led my to my favorite place. The book store, Persephone Books. It was entirely filled with female authors.

I was inside the small store and the old lady, at the front, glanced up upon my arrival. She smiled at me and I returned the nice gesture.

I walked farther inside, looking around. My fingers skimmed the book covers and they stopped once my eye caught something, interesting.

It was titled The Sun and The Moon. I picked it up and flipped it the backside. I read the description of the book. Then suddenly I was no longer reading but I was looking at the moon covering the sun.

The solar eclipse.

I couldn't see them but I heard their laughs. I saw fire, destruction. A new world engulfed in darkness except for the light from the destroyed moon.

I gasped as I came back and the book slipped from my hand and fell to the ground. In the silent store, the woman heard my noise.

"Are you okay, sweetie?"

I picked up the book before turning around. She had a concerned look on her face as she waited for my response.

"Yes, I'm fine."

I hurriedly walked out the book store and down the sidewalk. I wasn't sure what I saw or why I saw it in the first place. When I was a kid, I thought everything that happened or didn't happen was just a dream or coincident.

But now that I was slightly older, I knew better than that. There had be some sure of explaination to why I was seeing things others couldn't. Why I was dreaming of a world much different from the one I was living on.

I didn't tell Reid about my dreams until we got into Year 10, last year. He seemed on edge but he tried to joke it off. He said maybe I was one of billions would had this sixth sense.

Yet, every time something new arose he wanted to be the first to know.

I grabbed my phone out my colorful bag and called him. He answered on the second ring.

"Hello?"

"Reid." I said. "Something weird just happened."

"Weird as in someone eating a pickle with peanut butter on it weird?"

"No. That's just plain gross." I replied before getting back on topic. "Weird as in my sixth sense weird."

"I think that's kinda normal for you now, don't you think?"

"Reid." I said, sternly.

"Okay, okay. Where are you?"

I glanced around me. "Um, I'm down the street from Persephone Books."

"Meet me at the park on the next street." He said before hanging up.

I crossed the street and continued to walk to the nearby park. In less than five minutes, I was the park, looking for the American blond headed boy. I didn't see him so I walked over to a bench and took a sit, waiting for him to show up.

I pulled out my drawing book and pencil from my bag and glanced around to see what I wanted to draw while I waited for Reid. My eyes stopped on two young children playing on the monkey bars, laughing.

I begin to sketch them, capturing each and every detail as it was. Even if they did move on to the slide, I had a very good memory and it was no problem to me. If I didn't finish it here at the park, I could always finish later at my house.

The only thing about my memory, I could only remember each picture for twenty-four hours before it's erased from my mind. Yeah I could still draw it, but it wouldn't be the exact same and that's how I liked it.

I was just finishing the outline of the boy, when Reid finally came. He took one look at my new drawing and commented on it.

"It's gonna look great when it's finished."

I stopped what I was doing. "Yeah it is." I agreed.

He didn't waste anymore time after that and got into the reason why we were here in the first place.

"What did you see this time?"

"The sun and the moon." I told him. "It was a solar eclipse. I heard laughter. Not the happy kind either. It was evil. Then it changed. The moon was broken and the sun was dimmed. Almost as if, the light was disappearing."

"Did you see the little girl? The one with the sun necklace."

I shook my head. "No. She didn't come. The last time I saw her, she told me to destroy him before the sun turned red." I looked at him. "What does that even mean?"

He shrugged. "I don't have a clue. Maybe it's just a dream and you were daydreaming again."

I frowned. "I'm not daydreaming. This isn't just some dream. It feels real and I don't know why but I'm gonna figure it out. Are you gonna help me?"

"What am I supposed to do?"

"Help me try to understand why I'm seeing things that I am."

"Aliyah." He said. "It's nothing. What you're seeing it's nothing. Don't worry about it."

"You say that but I can't help but worrying. I know this is not nothing. It's like I'm reliving a memory but I don't know whose." I stood up. "Look if you don't wanna help me that's fine, I'll do it on my own."

"Aliyah." Reid said, standing up. "What if it wasn't a dream? What if what you're seeing is real? What could you possible do?"

"Anything I could do to help in anyway."

"And what if that's to do nothing?" He asked.

I shook my head. "I'm not gonna standby and let that happen. I know there's something I could do to help."

He sighed. "You're not gonna let this go, are you?"

I shook my head. "No, I'm not."

"Okay I'll help you but only on one condition."

"Okay. What is it?"

"If this leads to a dead end, you have to let this go and move on, okay?"

I nodded my head. "Okay. Deal."

We started our searching that day at the nearest library we could find. I searched up the moon and the sun, looking for anything remotely related to what I've been seeing but it was useless. What I was looking for wasn't on the internet and that's because thirteen years earlier, my father paid the government to erase everything from the internet about the ships that came to Earth. He got rid of all his trails, leaving me with nothing.

We were there for hours and we were nowhere near to finding anything we needed.

"See, I told you." Reid said as we left the library. "There's nothing there. It's useless to keep looking."

"It's only the first day." I reminded him. "I'm not done yet."

He walked me to my house and at the doorstep, he said.

"Whatever you're looking for, it's better left unfound."

He turned around and walked into the dark, leaving more confused. I didn't think much of it as I unlocked the door and walked inside. Mum and Dad were already asleep and I walked as silently as I could to my room.

I shut the door and placed my bag on the desk chair. I sat on the edge of my bed and thought about the solar eclipse. The moon came in between the sun and Earth. I tried to think back to if the little girl told about the solar eclipse or even hinted at it once.

But I couldn't remember because I don't think she did. She only talked about the red sun and this mysterious man that had to be destroyed.

And just like the previous times, I was no longer in my room but back into this strange realm. I glanced around and it seemed normal, nothing was out of place. The field of flowers was the only place I was allowed in. Everywhere else I was blocked away from an invisible force field.

Then just like it always is, the screams came along with the sound of destruction. On the other side of the line I wasn't allowed to cross over to. Not yet anyway.

"Those screams belongs to the past." Her voice reached me and I turned around to see she wasn't alone this time.

Beside her was another girl who looked just like her only wearing a different necklace. A moon one.

I frowned in confusion. "What?"

"Beyond the fields, lies what will become the future if nothing is done about it." The new girl said.

"Then what do I do? How can I help?" I asked, desperately.

If this turned out to be a dream of some sort, I still wanted to help. I wanted to figure it out and end it all for once.

They were quiet for awhile, almost as if they were their our private conversation. Then the girl wearing the sun necklace spoke.

"The older you get, the more helpful you can became. The things you are seeing, will prepare you for what will came if it's not stopped before the sun disappear."

"The sun disappearing?" I repeated. "Do you mean the solar eclipse?"

They ignored me and went into another confusing sentence.

"Find him and destroy him before time runs out."

"Find who? Who am I suppose to be finding?" I asked irritated.

But again I was met with totally silence. So much for their help. It seemed like every time I was dragged into the field of flowers, I came back with more questions than answers.

It was very annoying. Why couldn't they just come out and tell me what's going on and how to fix it?

Oh yeah because that would be too nice of them.

These questions had to have answers to them and they had to somehow me connected to one another. It's the only sense it made.

Or I was totally insane and needed serious help from talking to two imaginary girls that is a figment of my imagination. And this whole situation is a very weird creation of my own mind.

I really hope that wasn't the case and didn't have to be put into a mental hospital. That wouldn't be very good for me or my parents.

Yet I knew deep down, that wasn't the case, because somehow I knew those screams and girls from somewhere. I just couldn't remember from where.

And the more I tried to think about it, the more my head started hurting. It was like something was preventing me from remembering.

Reid's words came back to me.

"Whatever you're looking for, it's better unfound."

He knew something and he was going to tell me one way or another.

Okay who was I kidding. This was Reid I was taking about. He wouldn't just come out and tell me what I wanted, needed, to hear. It wasn't going to be that easy. I wish it was though.

Do you know how simple that would make my life?

It was until only a little of a year later, I found out I wasn't crazy and something actually did happen in my childhood.

I found her and together we would work together to solve our hidden lives. Because doing it alone would get us no where. They said so themselves.

He blocked our memories from us, took it away and now it was going to cost him. I saw what he was going for but in the end, it wasn't what was best for us.

Because either way, he was coming and he would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.