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happening? If it was real,
could I stop it? My eyes tried to communicate with my reflection,
trying to tell it that everything would be okay. I rubbed my eyes
and sighed. I was probably putting too much thought into this.
Maybe the whole thing with Jacob was a coincidence. Maybe that was
just a stupid dream. Then, I smelt something burning.
    I flashed my eyes open and found
myself in the middle of a burnt field. Ashes blew in the wind,
running into dead, burnt trees. The dust made a fog-like substance
out in the distance, making it almost impossible to see past
it.
    “Oh, God. Not again,” I said,
looking around. I couldn’t move again. I was forced to stay
there.
    It was dead silent. The only thing
I heard was the wind blowing. Just like the other dream. I tried
calling out, but nothing happened. I couldn’t talk
either.

    “ NICK!” The sudden shriek filled the whole, empty field
in an instant. My heart jolted in surprise. That’s when a body came
flying through the fog-like substance and landed a few yards ahead
of me. Then came another, running to the other. This one looked
familiar. It was the girl from the dream before.
    “Oh, God... Nick?” she said as she
knelt down next to him. She lifted his head up and I saw his face.
It really was Nick, seeming more helpless than a human possibly
could. A long, deep cut rode across his face, letting blood seep
through. He had one black eye, and was covered in soot.
    Out in the fog-like substance, a
flash of blue light would appear every few seconds. The sound of
electricity followed it. After a while, it stopped. Then it was
silent.
    The girl looked over her shoulder,
breathing hard and sweating. The sweat would pick up some soot and
have it flow down her face with it.
    “Luke?” she sobbed out. No reply.
“L… Luke!” The outline of a figure appeared, walking towards the
girl and Nick. She got up and started to back away. More sobs
started to come, sending tears down her face and trembles down her
body. “Please... stay away.”
    The outline of the figure stopped,
watching the girl. Then it raised its hand and the girl grabbed for
her neck, as if she was getting choked. Her feet started to flail,
but she didn’t fall. Something was holding her up.
    Then the sickening sound of her
neck snapping echoed throughout the field and her body flinched,
but stopped right after. Her body went limp, and she fell to the
ground. The figure stepped out from the fog. He wore a hoodie,
covering his face. The man pushed his hand out in front of him. The
body of the girl went flying and disappeared in the fog.
    “Oh, Nick,” the man said. “You
could’ve stopped this. This didn’t have to happen.” He started
walking over to Nick, but Nick didn’t react. He didn’t even move.
The man kept walking until he got right at Nick’s feet. He reached
down and grabbed Nick by the hair and lifted him up to his knees.
Nick slowly looked up at him, weak and angry.
    “This... this had to happen. No…
no matter how much we didn’t want it to,” Nick said. The man let go
of Nick’s hair. Nick looked down at the ground, as if he had given
up.
    The man pulled a
pistol out from his pocket. Nick looked at it and gave a weak
smile.
“You can’t kill me with that.”
“What? I can’t simply shoot you in the skull and kill you? You may
be able to create fire out of thin-air, Nick. But you are not invincible.” The man
rested the barrel of the gun on Nick’s forehead. Nick’s smile faded
quickly, but he seemed to accept it. He just gave
up.
    “You can kill me. But, I know,
people will stop you. People will see what you are." Nick started
to tremble. The man laughed more.
    “The people are too afraid to come
for me! They just won't accept what their world is coming to. You'd
really leave it up to them to stop me?"
    Nick smirked and butted the barrel
of the gun with his forehead.
    “You betcha.”
    The crack of the gun made my heart
jolt as it sent a bullet into Nick’s head. Nick