Chapter 19: Broken Reality

Chapter 19:
	Kayla looked down to see Kyle and Alex waving, she tried to aim the hotel key, however, when she threw the hotel key to Alex and Kyle, the card flew away due to the high speeds that the helicopter was going at.
	"Shoot, well, I think they can just buy another key, right" Kayla looked to see Terri and Julian shaking their heads. The copter went at a comfortable pace, and the view was also pleasant. The sky was a cobalt blue, and the many stars twinkled and appeared to form the shape of the sun. The crescent moon projected a soothing shade of blue on the city. The sight below was beautiful, but not comforting to look at when a couple hundred feet in the air. Kayla stopped looking out of the window by her seat and tried to fall asleep, but couldn't due to being in a cramped and uncomfortable place. As a last resort, she decided to look up and stare out from the dome-shaped glass covering the top of the aircraft, and started making up constellations.
	After about one long hour of flying, the atmosphere become more unsettling. there were no buildings or life below, simply gravel and tall, black forms taking the shape of Douglas Firs. The sky was also black, with no stars visible, just the moon, and dark, grey clouds surrounding it. Somehow, the copter jerked to a stop, and Mikey was forced to lower the craft and let the others off.
	"So, this is it, the great capsule you've been looking for will be just straight ahead, I have tried to examine this area and it seems like there's some abnormal amounts of magical activity here, I mean, any amount of magical activity is abnormal, but this area seems to be giving off more activity than to just be in a room with a few or even one hundred Figures. If I'm correct, the only humans that can safely enter this place are the Chosen Children, hey, you guys should make that your official titl- okay, I'm getting off track, I'm just gonna go to refuel and pick up the other two, adios." Mikey got back in to the copter, and flew away, leaving a doughnut-shaped cloud of smoke that smelled like maple frosting.
	"Wow, how did Mikey make a helicopter powered by doughnuts?" Kayla asked as she examined the large clouds of black fog near her, she touched the fog, and her finger was unscathed, she also examined a bird flying above and dove into the black fog, and left and exploded, the explosion was black, and no parts fell to the ground.
	"Woah, did you see that?" Kayla pointed to the explosion, she felt uneasy and wondered if the area would have the same affect on Mikey or Mars, as both were organic, or at least partially organic life that weren't chosen by Adrian
	"Hey, would you think that the fog would have the same affect on me?" Ura backed away from the fog.
	"Of course not, Mikey said that the fog only affects organic life, and you're not organic life" Terri said in a matter-of-fact tone.
	"Oh good, let's go in, then!" Ura walked into the fog, but Julian and Terri stopped him.
	"Wait! We may be safe from the fog, but not what's in the fog, the Guardian Figures are in there, and we all know how powerful those monstrosities are." Julian said, feeling like he was screaming, despite his voice being projected at a normal volume. However, Julian noticed something strange, the other side of the fog seemed to contain a large house, possibly three stories. A sign was perched by the house, reading "Welcome to The Unknown" but written upside down, every 'e' was written right-side up, but in reverse. Kayla, who was still on the other side, walked into The Unknown to see what was happening to the others.
	"Oh, this place feels oddly familiar, but I've never seen a house like this." Kayla walked around the house, and around  the garden it had, as if she knew where she was. The others followed, but kept their distance. Eventually, they all heard muffled sobbing in the garden.
	"Kayla, is that you? Did I say something" Ura asked, but Kayla didn't answer, she walked to a section of the garden that rose up, containing peas, leeks, and rosemary. There was also a section of the garden with aster and dandelion flowers. Kayla took the dark mulch path until she reached a fountain and a bench. A box was sitting on the blue bench, the inside being the source of muffled crying. Kayla opened the box and saw what appeared to be a girl, she appeared to be the same age as Kayla, she had red hair, green eyes, wore a green and yellow striped tank top and blue jeans. She was covered in a red blanket, and was violently shaking.
	"Kayla, is it finally you?" the girl jumped up and hugged Kayla. Kayla noticed that the girl was very cold.
	"Uh, who are you?" Kayla got out of the girl's hug and backed away from her.
	"Wait, you don't remember me? I'm Carrois, I was the main character of a story you wrote, but never finished. I've been stuck here ever since you never bothered to write the story anymore. You stopped writing when I was sitting at this bench, I, I was never able to leave this horrible place. Could you finish the story so I can be free?" Carrois appeared to be crying, as her tears hit the colorful garden, the plants turned a depressing shade of grey and slowly died.
	"Sorry, that doesn't ring a bell, I remember writing a story, but her name was Carol, not Carrois, but that name sounds familiar." Kayla walked away from Carrois, but she stopped her from escaping.
	"Please don't abandon me again! I can't bear this place anymore!" Carrois seemed to be emotionally and physically unstable, her hair started flashing colors, and her eyes started disappearing and reappearing. Carrois held onto Kayla's arm and started crying again, however, her tears were black. Kayla started getting annoyed with her and pushed Carrois away.
	"Can you please stop? I don't remember you, Carrois. I never will nor will I want to, either." Kayla walked away again, but Carrois yelled at her.
	"Stop, I'm actually Carol, but my name changed to Carrois after I became a Guardian Figure." Carrois tried to mumble so Kayla wouldn't hear, however, Kayla heard every word,but decided t pretend she didn't.
	"Oh, Carol, I remember you now!" Kayla ran towards Carrois for a hug, then Kayla grabbed her hair and started violently pulling on it, making her yell..
	"Kayla, what was that for, aren't we friends?" Carrois backed from the hug and started rubbing her scalp.
	"Sorry, but I'd never write about someone with that kind of clothing choice. Also, you said you're a Guardian Figure, I kind of fight those types of Figures." Kayla backed away from Carrois and successfully landed a punch on her, making her fall to the ground.
	"I'm sorry Kayla, we cold have been friends but you had to do something stupid and picked a fight with me.  Well, I can play at that angle too." Carrois got up and grabbed Kayla by the arm and somehow changed the scenery from a garden to what looked like the room of a seven-year-old girl. Carrois grabbed a small paintbrush and acrylic paints and starts flinging black paint at Kayla. Kayla dodged the paint, but the black splatter of paint lands on a plastic doll, and creates a hole in the scenery.
	"Ah, I wonder what would happen if I used some of these paints." Kayla took some red paint off of a shelf holding pink, frilly dresses, and starts splattering paint everywhere, leaving more holes in the room. The holes in the room were all blue, but it appeared that there was another world beyond the room. So Kayla decided to grab some yellow paint and made a hole big enough for her to exit the room. As Kayla exited the room, she felt as if she was floating in space, for a second, she couldn't even move due to the fast shift in gravity.
	"You, you broke my room...." Carrois stood on her knees and appeared to be devastated "I guess I'll break you now!" Carrois dashed towards Kayla, and appeared to be affected by the other source of gravity as well, as large pieces of her room broke off and floated away. The blue area now black, with what seemed like stars in the distance, providing light. Carrois attempted to dash toward Kayla and kick her, but Kayla dodged.
	"Ugh, I'd like to get this over with as soon as possible." Carrois held out her hands, and a light formed around them, creating brass knuckles around her hands. She didn't use them to actually punch, however. She punched the air by her side and formed what looked like a portal, and pulled out a golden pitchfork. Carrois attempted to attack Kayla with the pitchfork itself, but Kayla got out of the way. Carrois appeared frustrated with Kayla dodging her attacks, so she threw the pitchfork in anger.
	The pitchfork seemed to be made of light, the pitchfork also multiplied as it traveled through the air, by the time it reached Kayla, the single pitchfork was now sixty-four pitchforks. They all rained down on Kayla, but only about five hit her. Kayla was heavily bruised, as the pitchforks hit her sides, chest, and left leg. Kayla's leg had a large wound sticking out, her sides also had deep cuts in them. Kayla was slowly floating away, blood was flowing everywhere.
	"Okay, Kayla, it's time to end this fight, so...." Carrois dashed towards the helpless Kayla, but something stopped her attack. A large, orange flame formed, and contained in the flame was Mars.
	"I know that you're basically supposed to be a guard, but that doesn't mean you can seriously injure somebody like this!" Mars shot a barrage of flames at Carrois, but she successfully blocked all of them with her pitchfork.
	"Mars, what are you doing here?" Kayla could barely speak anymore.
	"Kayla look, look this fight that's happening right now now isn't real." Mars' voice had an echo-like quality and sounded as if he was repeating some words, Kayla could hear Mars say the same thing over and over again, each time more urgent than the last, the entire void that Kayla was floating in started flashing from black to red, then green, Kayla started freaking out until Mars spoke again "This is a dream Kayla, just attack carrois one more-" Mars strangely stopped talking mid-sentence.
	"Okay..." Kayla tried moving, and felt an immeasurable amount of pain in her leg and sides, she noticed that Carrois and Mars didn't notice her anymore, so she did the best she could to take the pitchfork from Corrais. As Kayla finally got the pitchfork from Carraois' grasp, she noticed that Carrois just took the barrage of flames, Kayla was slowly floating away, so she threw the pitchfork at Corrais. The pitchfork multiplied like last time, and the second the tip of the pitchfork hit Carrois, Kayla's vision slowly turned white, then she woke up to find herself by the fountain in the garden, with Terri, Julian, and Ura looking to see if she was okay.
	"Wow, what happened?" Kayla needed Julian and Ura to help her get up..
	"Well, you saw this girl, and you two talked for a second, then she grabbed your arm, then you two fell unconscious, and just now, she blew up and left, this." Terri handed Kayla three small papers stapled together, the first was a drawing of Kayla and Corrais running through a field of dandelions, the words "Me and Corrais" were written in a font that comforted Kayla, then it hit her.
	"I know why her name was Corrais, this font is Corrais Gothic, I guess Kyle wasn't lying when he said that some Figures are named after fonts." Kayla put the small papers away in her pocket for later
	"Well, I guess there's only one Guardian Figure left, but Julian and I haven't gotten our day in the limelight yet, so how's that going to be solved?" Terri appeared to be concerned.
	"Well, my theory is that since Plutus was a pushover, we'll fight him again, but I don't know which one of you will fight him again" Kayla shrugged, and started leading the group to the other side "I don't feel comfortable in here now, let's see if Mikey's back." Kayla walked out of the fog, and suddenly felt ten degrees warmer. She saw Mikey with Kyle and Alex, who seemed to be losing their patience.
	"We've been looking for you out here, and of course all of you were hiding in the one place we didn't look." Alex was relieved to finally reunite with the others, Kayla thought that it was a good time to tell eveyone about Corrais, the dream, and seeing Mars in the dream.
	"Oh, I'm kinda happy that I wasn't chosen, that sounded quite stressful, I enjoy not being assaulted in my dreams." Mikey started pouring glazed doughnuts into the helicopter's gas tank "Can't you believe this place? Every bakery in Portland has only sugar free doughnuts here, with sugar free doughnuts I might as well not even bother with them, since sugar is really what makes this thing go." Mikey got into the helicopter and was about to fly away, but Ura and Kayla stopped him.
	"Wait, Mikey! Since we have to check out of our room tomorrow, can we stay in your room?" Kayla was trying to force herself to cry to make Mikey feel guilty if he said no.
	"Well, okay. We're all going back to the hotel in one go this time, I'm not wasting more money on gas." Mikey got into the pilot's seat, with the others following into the helicopter. Mikey got off the ground and headed towards the hotel.
	Of course everyone fell asleep on the ride there.