I wake up from the ground of the forest and slowly get up from the ground. My head is aching… I get up and see Adrian standing up with some giant cow skull thing behind her. I try to warn her, but she shushes me.
“It’s okay, Zach. It’s just like your Street Prince… Tudor.” She says calmly as she desummons the skull behind her. “I don’t really understand what happened… But I feel a lot stronger now…”
“I get it.” Matt says as he walks up to us. Robert was still out cold like a baby so Matt had to pick him up and throw him into the lake to wake him up. Robert then jumps out of the lake, shivering and running out.
“C-cold! Why the hell would you do that?!” He yells as I hear laughter coming from the trees.
“The hat guy is funny! (･ω├┬┴┬┴” That same childish voice from before said as a girl steps out of the trees. She had blue hair and small little horns. She was wearing a jacket and a skull and was fidgeting with her hands while she stared at us. “Haii!! ٩(＾◡＾)۶” She says waving at us… But then I realized something.
“Hey aren’t those my clothes?” I say pointing at her. She giggled and proudly exclaimed
“Yep! I didn’t have anything to wear so right after we left that spooky castle thingy, I went inside your house and put them on!”
“Oh what the hell!” I yell in anger, but then lowering my voice. “Who even are you?”
“Silly human!” She says waving her finger around. “I’m that deer you and greenie tried to help earlier! I wanted to help you two too! (=^ ◡ ^=)” She says laughing more. This is the deer from earlier? Well that explains those small antlers on her head… I turned to Matt confused.
“Hey man, what the hell is going on?” I say, remember that he figured out what happened. He sat down on a log and took a deep breath.
“That castle was a manifestation of Adrian's mind. I somehow was able to get in there with all of us… and that other version of Adrian looked similar to something I’ve seen in the past. Something I had to overcome… But when I accepted it, it created something wonderful…” He says getting up. “It looks like we still have a chance to save certain people from the King. And they seem to get a guardian if they manage to do it…”
“Ugh… Other this, other that… It’s such a mouthful… Can we call them something else?” Robert says, getting out of the water. “Like Mirrors, or Windows… or Reflections…”
“How about we just call them Shadows?” Adrian perks up. Everyone turned to each other and nodded, agreeing on that name.
