Wither's POV

I was the only one to not fall over when Damian teleported us to the Sky Army library. But I saw that Damian wasn't looking too good, I mean he was stumbling around like a drunk Zombie...and I've seen one of those before. But I quickly teleported behind him, and caught him when he started to fall over. I knew he wasn't fine. I slung one of his arms over my shoulder as I supported his weight and started to lead him over to one of the chairs. Damian was shaking, and he was as pale as a ghost. He was breathing unevenly, and he could barely keep his eyes open for more than a few seconds at a time. I looked over to my brothers and saw that they were okay and that Paradox was still unconscious. I looked back down at Damian and saw that his eyes were closed for a longer period of time than they were before I looked way from him.

"Damian. Damian. Damian come on open your eyes. This isn't funny Damian. Damian. Damian! Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, Come on, no." I said as I started to get really worried. I quickly placed Damian onto the ground and started to shake his shoulder.

"Come on, Come on. Wake up already! We can't lose you Damian! We need you! You're the one that brought us together! You were the one that made the idea to give up our physical forms to save Soul all those years ago! Come on wake the Nether up already...Damian come on..." I said with tears about to stream down my face. I sat there with my hands on the ground in front of me as tears started to come off of my face and landed on Damian's hoodie. I took his hoodie off and placed it over him like a blanket.

I looked away and thought about what I was going to do if Damian was really dead. Damian must've used too much magical energy or something...I heard Damian gasp and sit up grasping his shirt where his heart was. He was breathing heavily and slowly as he tried to calm down. He let out a sigh of relief and looked over at me with his hand still on his shirt.

"W-What happened? Where am I Wither?" Damian said as he rubbed his forehead as though he had a headache. I let out a sigh of relief as I suddenly hugged him (Me: Awww :3 Wither: Shut up -_-). Damian got stiff at this but he hugged back.

"Um...Did I cause someone to worry about me or..." Damian was saying but trailed off when I broke away from the hug. I just smiled a sly smile at him before shaking my head as I continued to smile."I'm just glad that your okay...And we're at the Sky Army's library right now...You know cause, you teleported us here and all..." I said as I laughed at last part. Damian laughed as well but when he tried to even move an inch he hissed in pain and would moan as he did so. I eyed him nervously as I watched Damian try to get up off the floor.

"Okay, Okay. I can't watch this any more, Damian what's going on? I know there's something going on." I said as Damian gave up and just laid on the floor as he stared at the ceiling. He laid his hands on top of his chest and continued to stare at the ceiling.

"I'm just....I was just sapped of my energy is all. I just overdid it is all. I just need to get use to using this much magic again...Do you think Soul will remember us? Or will she be completely oblivious to our existence..." Damian said as he frowned at the thought of that. I nodded my head showing him that I was just as scared as he was. I leaned back and frowned at what that would be like. Would Soul even remember us or will she think of us as complete strangers?

"I...I don't know Damian...I just don't know..." I said as I shook my head slowly. Damian nodded his head showing that he understood.

Damian got up and started to walk over to Soul, while limping, and sat next to her. He watched her as she slept in the chair. I could see that he was happy and that it pained him to see her like this. He sighed and walked back over to me after he gave Soul a hug. He had his hands in his pockets and his head was hanging low.

"I think we should get going...We need to make sure nothing ever happens to her before we can show ourselves to her...You get me?" Damian said as his hands started to flicker. Oh ****, we have to go. I looked down at my hands but they stayed the same...Weird...

"Um Damian what's going on?" I said as I showed him my hands, which weren't flickering at all. His eyes widened as he saw this.

"Welp Wither, looks like you're able to stay out here longer than I can...Hehe, looks like you got a while longer with your brothers before you gotta go...Tell Sky I said bye would ya Wither? Thanks!" Damian said as his physical form completely vanished and he went back into Soul's mind.

I sighed and looked over to Jason and Paradox, and saw that Paradox was awake. I walked over to them and saw that everyone was up and awake. Paradox saw me and he nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw me. But he soon recovered, and he and Jason both ran over to me and gave me a hug and they wouldn't let go...And I literally mean they wouldn't let go. I hugged them back and I saw my physical form starting to flicker and Ender was dealing with the same thing that I was with Ty. I broke the hug and showed them my hands as they started to flicker and they looked at my hands then at me. They looked at me grimly before looking at the ground.

"I gotta get going you guys, but just know that I'm always watching over you and that you're never alone. I'll always be here...Just know that I'm somewhere watching you okay. I-I love you guys! I'll see you again soon! I promise!" I said as they vanished from my sight and I woke back up in the security of Soul's mind.

I sighed and looked at the window we have to see the outside world. My brothers were there and I could tell that they were already missing me, and so was Ender's brother Ty...I laid down on my back, and waited for sleep to over come me and bring me into it's madness...

Soul's POV

I woke up to hear some voices coming from all around me. But they weren't the voices of Sky, or Seto, or any of the guys...It sounded more like...

"Soul! Soul wake up already! We missed you so much! You've been gone for almost a week! We were so worried about you!" A familiar voice said.

"I wasn't so worried about her...She's capable of handling herself if you don't remember Sora...She was the one to save the three of us back at Zomopilis remember? You know that apocalyptic looking city with all of those Zombies that nearly killed us!? Because I don't know, you got Zach, yourself, and I lost on our way here!" Another voice said quite moodily.

I opened my eyes and sat up. I looked around the room, and saw Sora sitting in front of me with her back to me as she argued with Echo, and Zach was over by the table reading a book. I shifted in the blankets and that seemed to get Sora's and Echo's attention, even Zach who was nose deep in his book.

"Soul! You're okay!" They all said in unison as they got up and gave me a hug, or more like Echo and Zach did cause Sora just jumped on top of me catching me off guard as she caught me in her trap of hugs.

"Soul! Soul! Soul! Soul! Soul! Soul! You're mine now! Muahahahaha!!!!!! TO NARNIA WE SHALL GO SOUL! NO ONE CAN BREAK OUR BOND OF FRIENDSHIP! No one can..." Sora was saying at first as though she was on a sugar rush, but said the last part all sad and depressing like. She hugged me really tight and I could tell that she was trying not to cry into my shoulder.

I broke away from the hug and smiled at her as I saw that her eyes were red and puffy as though it was from crying. My hair fell in front of my left eye and Sora brushed it away while Echo and Zach sat on either side of the bed. I looked at them confused and tried to get up but Echo placed a hand on my shoulder. I winced at the sudden pain that came from what he did. They looked back at each other worriedly before looking back at me.

"What...happened? How did I end up back here? I...I thought I was in the library with everyone else" I said as I placed one of my hands on my head as it exploded with pain from something that felt like an intense migraine. Zach got up from the bed and came back later with an ice pack wrapped up in a towel. I accepted it from Zach and placed it on my face just to be funny, and they all laughed when they saw this. I took it off of my face and smiled at them, and placed it on my forehead instead. Sora exchanged a few nervous glances with Echo and Zach before she answered my question.

"Y-You d-don't remember?" Sora asked me with a really worried expression on her face as the boys looked like they were going to cry...I shook my head and waited for them to continue. Echo bit his lip while Sora looked away from me, Zach was the only to speak up after a few moments.

"Sky and the rest of the generals, including you Soul, were on your way to go eat but...On the way a few Squid hybrids ambushed you guys, and the generals made it out without a scratch but..." Zach was saying before he suddenly stopped and trailed off not even finishing. What happened that made you guys so worried?

"But while the generals were handling the Squid hybrids that were up against them, they didn't realize that you were left to handle the rest of them...We came out of our room and saw that a squid had you by the throat choking the life out of you while Sky tried to make his way over to you, but Squids kept on getting in the way though...We were able to get them away from you but when we came up to the Squid that had you by the throat, it threw you into the wall and you hit your head hard...really hard..." Echo said but did the same thing Zach did...

"When we got to you Soul, you were hardly breathing and I was running around like a maniac killing Squids trying to make them pay for hurting you...But you were covered in cuts and the worst one was the slash on your back that went from your left shoulder, all the way across your back diagonally ending at your right hip...You also had cuts and slashes on your arms and legs but they were minor and weren't as bad as these though...We thought that we were going to loose you and-and I thought you were going to die Soul!" Sora said as she hugged me again and began crying into my...White hoodie? I hugged her back and I could tell that this was important because Sora ended up repeating the word 'and' twice and that usually results in her being either A), really scared, or B), absolutely worried about something.

"I-I didn't know...But I have a question though...What happened to my hoodie?" I said as I showed them the white hoodie that was obviously to big for me. I mean the sleeve hangs off of my hands by a good four inches.

"Oh that...Well um, you see...Your original hoodie was torn beyond repair and um-" Zach was saying before Echo rudely cut him off.

"What Zach's trying to say is this." Echo said and picked up a bag and pulled out a torn up hoodie that was almost completely covered in blood...my blood, not Squid blood, my blood...My face paled as I saw how much was there...You couldn't even tell the difference between the black and purple from the red!

I started to get light headed and quickly ran over to the bathroom and threw up into it. I was not feeling good after that. They came over to me and Soar started to rub circles in my back gently as I threw up my dinner from last night. I sat away from the toilet as Zach flushed it while looking away.

"A-All o-of t-that b-blood w-was m-mine wasn't it..." I said shakily as I thought about it. I started to get sick again but Sora managed to make me feel better with her comforting rubbing. They nodded and I began to feel really light headed.

I got up to go back to the bed, but I fell over instead with Echo barely managing to catch me. I felt the feeling in my legs go numb, as my vision started to get fuzzy. I looked down and saw that a wound on my leg had opened up and was bleeding heavily. Echo picked me up bridal style, and carried me over to the kitchen table and sat me down in one of the chairs while Sora got medical supplies. And Zach...well he was passed out on the ground...But I saw Sora wake Zach up with a bucket of water and told him to get the peroxide while she cleaned up my wounds with a wet rag and water.Zach returned moments later but when Sora applied the peroxide, I screamed out in pain as it burned the wound.

Let's just say that...hehe...I'm allergic to the chemicals in peroxide...Last time I had that stuff on a wound I nearly had my pain nerves go completely numb...I mean they don't know it yet but I have a disease that that attacks my nervous system and ends up making my nerves not able to interpret any kind of physical pain...I mean with this and the peroxide, it doesn't make this any easier to deal with...I can still feel pain...for now...But I opened one of my eyes despite the pain being unbearable, and saw Sora trying to clean the wound and to get ride of the peroxide. By the time she was done the wound was wrapped up in new bandages, and as I feared, I became more immune to the pain...I felt my golden eyes tear up a bit as I realized that soon...I'll be completely numb to pain...and the path of insanity begins...I looked up to see Sora wiping away my tears and she gave me a hug and didn't let go.

"I'm so sorry Soul...I didn't realize that it would hurt you that much...I should've remembered that you were allergic to that stuff...I'm so, so, so sorry for putting you through that...Come on let's get you something to eat..." Sora said as she started to make some dinner. I saw Echo walk off somewhere with something in his hand, but I shrugged it off as it being a notebook or something. Echo returned later right when Sora started to set the table and Zach brought the food to the table.

We ate dinner in silence and when we were done, Sora lead me to a bed and insisted that I get some rest. I did as she asked and laid in the extremely soft bed. But as soft and as comfortable as the bed was, I just couldn't sleep...To much was on my mind, I mean how could I not remember that something as important as that happened and if the guys were really okay!? I was about to fall asleep when I heard someone come into the room and not make a noise.

I sat up and saw that Echo, Sora, and Zach were fast asleep...except for a particularly shadowy person in the corner of the room.Upon further inspection, the person looked like a shadow version on me, except with no features at all...just swirling black mist in the form of me. It waved at me and motioned for me to follow. I was sceptical at first but I soon followed when it ran out of the room, not even waiting for me.

"Hey! Wait up! Shadow Soul! Wait!" I whispered yelled at the shadow version of me and soon caught up to it when it stopped at the gates of the castle.

"Do you want me to follow you Shadow Soul?" I asked the shadow as it pulled on my sleeve trying to motion for me to follow it. I nodded my head and followed the shadow as we ran to where it was trying to show me. We arrived at a small clearing where we rested and I tried to catch my breathe.

"Are we there yet Shadow?" I asked and the Shadow Soul nodded it's head as we continued to the destination, except walking this time...We arrived at a temple that was beautiful and had all these wild and exotic flowers growing in it.

Shadow Soul kept on leading me down corridor, after corridor, after corridor until we came upon a large room with a center stage alter thing in the center of the room. Shadow Soul motioned for me to go into the room and to stand on the alter thing. I did so but soon felt a strong power flow through my veins, and my veins literally glowed and pulsed a dark budder, purple, and grayish-black color, changing from one to the other in a steady flow of change. But I looked up and saw a crystal prism pillar mimicing these colors and the same pulsing flow. But when I looked in it I saw that my eyes were the same pulsing colors with the same flow of change as the pillar. I stepped back in shock when I saw this and turned around and saw nine pillars placed exactly the same distance from each other in a polygon formation. I stepped back into the center of the alter thing except this time, I stepped on a button like carving on the stone floor of the alter. It went down and made a tune.

I lifted my foot up and saw some carvings on it. It looked like the writing from that book I saw back at the Aether...I saw the sketchings move to form words and on the button it read 'The Enderian'. Wait...that sounds familiar...I looked around and saw that there were other sketches except they spelled out the following different phrases; 'The Brine', 'The Wither', 'The Sorcerer', 'The Derp', 'The Hunter', 'The Bacca', 'The Mudkip', and 'The Amphibian'. But what troubled me the most was the fact that there was a tenth one that spelled out 'The Destroyer'. This one was in the center of the other nine...Those nine were in the same formation as the pillars...and the tenth one was in the center of the other nine...Just like the alter thing I'm standing on...I stepped on another one of the buttons and it made a different sound...Interesting...

I then thought of the idea of what these could be used for...I stepped on all of them and they made a different sound each time a certain one was stepped on, like some of the stones made three different sounds while some only made one sound...It was as though it was mimicing a song...Wait I wonder...What if in order for this thing to work, I had to play the song that it was trying to mimic? In all retrospect, it sounds a lot like 'Don't You Dare Forget The Sun'...It was worth a shot at least...I took my white hoodie off and placed it off to the side. I got myself ready and looked over to Shadow Soul to see her giving me a thumbs up. I smiled and nodded my head knowing what she wanted me to do. I got ready and placed a confident and firm expression on my face as I got myself ready. I took a deep breath and let out a calmed sigh as I looked straight ahead and got ready...Here goes nothing...

"3...2...1...LET'S GO!" I shouted and as if on cue, music note blocks started to play, but it was still missing the key notes which I believe were the sketched buttons. I stepped on the sketches that I believed were the missing notes, and before I stepped on them they would glow as though it was some sort of dancing game or something. And the song was defidently "Don't You Dare Forget The Sun"...When the song got to the point where I had to ready myself for the lyrics I was ready...Here I go...

(Cue in the music video at the start of the chapter to understand better...Enjoy!)

You're a mess

Tangled with your confidence

You think you haven't sinned

Well you're unstoppable,

You're walls are impassable

Oh, I think you're better off look'in alone

Cause the boys who chase your hips can just go find their way home

And at the end of the day, you think to yourself,

'My body is a product being sold on a shelf'

They tell me I change,

Tell me I change

Well I know you lay in bed, contemplating your own death

Just take a look at what you've done

Don't you dare forget the sun love

(Don't forget...)

Cold, white walls keep you from your pad and pen

You just wanna stab again

Can't believe half this hard,

I never knew your mind was dark

Come on breathe with me Oh! Breathe with me OoOh!

Well I know you lay in bed, contemplating your own death

Just take a look at what you've done

Don't forget you dare forget the sun love!

Dear Diary, life is trying me,

Can I get a sign? Or two of mine a piece of mind

Oh did I get a sign? (A sign)

Did I get a sign...(I know)

Well I know you lay in bed, contemplating your own death

Just take a look at what you've done

Don't you dare forget the sun love

You look down on me so casually in everything I know

You look down on me but not right at me

Is it plain to see that life is trying me!

Oooooh, Life is trying me! Life is tryin-

Gotta think of somethin can I think of somethin?

With that the song finished but I had a feeling that wasn't the end of this whole entire thing. My veins and eyes were still glowing, and I was tired. I heard a click, and saw that the crystals were emitting beams of the pulsing colored lights from one crystal to another, until all of them were connect to each other with a single line of light connecting them together. I stared at the lights in awe and in fear at what they would do. As if answering my question, all nine crystals shot their own beam into the middle space between them until they formed a spider web pattern a few feet above my head. But then they shot another beam from underneath the first beam, straight at me.I watched as they all fired and the moment they made contact with me, and my body was filled with a burning sensation. I screamed as I continued to feel the burning sensation and I had to resist the urge to fall on the ground because of how much it hurt.

I opened my eyes and saw the sketches from the buttons appear on the pillars but as each one appeared, the pillar changed to a single, solid, pulsing color. 'The Hunter' was red, 'The Bacca' was a tan-orange, 'The Brine' was a yellow-budder, 'The Amphibian' was green, 'The Wither' was a light blue that changed from light blue to a grayish-black, 'The Mudkip' was a deep blue, 'The Sorcerer' was a light purple, 'The Enderian' changed from green to dark purple, 'The Derp' was a silver-gray color.I turned around and looked at the crystals as this happened, I was just so terrified...Wait, where was the tenth one!? I looked up at the web of light and saw that the center had a sphere of light that had 'The Destroyer' on it and it was pulsing the dark budder, grayish-black, and purple colors from before...But then it hit me...What if each of these sketches where...the guys? Sky, Mitch, Kermit, all of them...What if one of them was...me?

Before I could see of I was correct, the center beam shot down at me and I couldn't take it anymore. This beam was the strongest and it was the most painful of them all. I was on my hands and knees as it continued to beam down on me. Soon all the pillars were glowing brightly and all I could see were the colors of the pillars and nothing else. Soon it was overwhelming me and I was on my side, with my eyes closed and my hands covering my ears as I waited for it all to end. But it didn't end, it only intensified and got stronger with each passing second. I was soon unable to with stand it anymore and soon fell unconscious with everything around me consumed by light...