Hollie Pov

I begin to slowly open my eyes, feeling a sharp pain in my arms and legs. "Where...am I...." I say as I slowly sit up looking at the dark blue veins blending in with my already black skin. I began to recall what happened, "DIAMOND!" I shout as I stand up in a panic. "DIAMOND?! CHELL! BECCA?!" I shout hoping anyone would hear me.

I look around at the dark forest I landed in......."Oh god, my head hurts..." I mutter placing a hand on my head, trying to recall how I ended up here. I cough up what seemed like blood... but it was... Dark blue?.... I look down at the veins along my arms seemly changing color. Slowly but sure enough it was.

I stumble through the dark forest, hearing animal sounds and seeing deer. Surely everyone was okay, right? I let out a deep sigh as I kept walking, I cough more dark blue blood and fall on my knees as my vision blurs.....

Flashback time

I sat with Diamond.I had sent everyone to find the herbs to heal diamond... truthfully I didn't know if any of them would even work, this was new. Diamond Crystal had never blown up... or done anything for that matter. We had been experiencing weird changes lately, animals disappearing, people vanishing... certain things missing. People not able to fly to the once amazing end... it was all very worrying... I was snapped out of my thoughts, as I heard diamond coughing. My eyes snapped to him as I see him coughing up... black blood... Oh no.

Chell pov

I slowly begin to wake up, feeling pain in my back and chest. "Where... huh?" I mutter as I look down at my chest... It feels as if... It was stabbed... but no marks were there. "Weird...." I mumble as I begin to stand up looking around at the meadow I'm in. "Hollie? ... Becca!" I call out. I can't recall anything happening... though I feel extremely weak. I look around limping slightly, not a person in sight. "What happened? Where is everyone? Where am I?" I begin to question myself out-loud. I limp to the near-by cave taking a rest, everything hurts... it hurts bad. I lay my head against the wall of the cave.

Flashback

I flew through the air, landing in one of the nearby meadows. I began to search for anything to help diamond. Those black veins... they weren't good.... I knew that for sure. I looked at the list hollie gave me. "Lily of the valley, Cave mushroom, black-rooms" I read out-loud to myself. I spot the lily of the valley and quickly pick it carefully putting it in my bag.

I walked around and find a cave. "Perfect!" I shouted to myself as I opened my bag, grabbing out a headlamp putting it on, jumping down into the cave. I landed with a thump."Ow that... wasn't the best idea." I muttered out-loud to myself once again. I turned on the head lamp and begin to go through the cave.

I heard a rock fall and my eyes snapped toward it to find a spider. I quickly pulled out my sword as it jumped on-top of me biting at my face. From the fall my sword was tossed a bit away and I used one of my pick-axes to block the biting as I reached out and grabbed the sword stabbing the spider.

I quickly got up from under the dead spider and began to walk, hoping to find some cave mushrooms and soon spot them. "There it is!" I shouted running over grabbing my small knife from the bag cutting it.

Next thing I know I feel a sharp pain through my chest as I looked down to see a sword poking through it. I coughed up blood onto the ground and fell as the world turned black.