I really wish I didn't remember at all.

It was just yesterday that he was still standing there, smiling and laughing, joking about how Annie couldn't even cast a snaplight.

His snaplight had been brighter than all of ours, bouncing off trees and branches. The beam of light lit up the forest grounds.

It had only been seconds after we had gotten separated, and there was already screaming.

At first I had assumed that Annie probably just sneaked up on our friend, Jedi, but the screaming continued.

 I was stupid to not know that this was a trap, and he was the bait.

I had ran through the bushes without a second thought, branches whipping at my face, there was probably some blood involved, but I couldn't care less at the moment.

I had arrived at a clearing in the middle of the woods, his figure slumped against the ground, eyes closed.

My friends burst out of the dimly-lit forest not long after I had arrived.

"Now, the games can begin"

Roots of the trees shot straight towards the sky, suddenly sharp and as hard as metal. I should know, as I almost ran into one.

It was confusing to say at least, trying to win but also trying to save ourselves.

Snaplights couldn't do much than to temporary blind your opponent, and even so, Jedi and Finn had been the only ones to succeed at it. 

Jedi was camouflaged, just ever so slightly, in the leaves of the trees.

Annie had been outright fighting, alongside with Star, they did their best to distract Moonshine, and... Venus I believe?

And I... I had been beside Finn, trying to do help him. Trying to wake him up.

Venus rolled her eyes at our futile attempts at stopping them, boredom showing clearly in the way she held herself. She waved her hand in the shape of wind before slamming her hands together.

The spell threw all of us off our feet, Jedi swinging wildly, trying to grasp something to slow his descent to the ground. I watched everything happen in that second, before realizing that I was fine, unmoved from where I was crouched.

We all had enough; my friends and our enemies. 

Annie had been thrown back, her head colliding with the ground with a painful thud, but now she was up and ready to go.

Star had ran to Annie, Me following close behind, she had explained about an ancient seal that needed six elements that could banish them away for good.

Annie glanced at the roots, Venus and Moonshine, and then Finn's body before nodding solemnly.

Star grasped our hands, as Annie screamed for Jedi to come.

"What's going to happen if our elements don't correspond to the ones that are needed?" Jedi yelled as Annie yanked him to our line.

"The worst chance is that we die!" Star called back, "Which is going to happen if we don't try!"

Moonshine's eyes widened as she realized what Star had been planning, frozen in thought. Venus hadn't wasted a single second, launching herself at Finn's unconscious body. 

"Don't do it!" Venus yelled, holding Finn in the air "Another step and I kill him!"

I would have let go of Star's hand in that moment if I could have, but she held on tight, chanting.

"Quod carissimi deam!" She yelled as our hands started to glow "Quod numen creaturae!"

"Placere nobis vestra virtute commodare!" The ground was shaking tremendously as Star continued, "Nam et nos postulo vestri auxilium!"

Venus stared right at me, tilting her head at Finn's body.

Let go if you want him alive.

I looked my hand, interlinked with Star's. But before I could have even tried to let go, Star had finished chanting.

"Nos sumus in reincarnation ignis, aqua, naturae, aer, lux et tenebrarum!"

There was a blast of light and everyone was thrown back.

Our hands were unconnected sometime when we were thrown back against the ground.

When the light faded, there were multiple things that had changed. One, the roots have returned to their natural state under the earth. Two, Venus and Moonshine was gone. And three, Finn was also gone.

Fear gathered in my mind, much like a fog on a cloudy day, blocking me from thinking about anything other than what had just happened.

Suddenly the sky darkened, fog gathered, and rain started to fall.

We looked at each other, shock clearly written on our faces, and slight relief was shown in their eyes; they didn't believe that this would have worked.

I surveyed them closely looking for any differences.

Jedi's hair was messed up, sticks and leaves nested into his hair, probably from his fall off the tree in the beginning. Annie's clothing looked brown and black, mud, of course it's mud. Finally Star, her hair was plastered onto her head, already soaked and wet from the rain.

Jedi narrowed his eyes as he glanced at me, squinting at my eyes.

"What?" I snapped, "What is it?"

Jedi shook his head, "It's nothing, your eyes are bright, you know?"

He muttered something else that I couldn't hear before talking to all of us again, "We should head back to camp and tell Olek what happened"

Annie nodded and stood up, reaching for Star's hand as I pushed myself off the ground.

The absence of Finn would start to sink in on our way back, wouldn't it?