Chapter 7:The Dark Tunnel

Sari was dreaming. In her dream she was running, Charismi by her side. They were running from Midori, the green flame dragon. Midori was enraged. Green, flickering flames spewed out of her mouth. Sari kept running. She could feel weight on her hands as she ran. She could feel that she was holding something, but what? Sari just couldn't see it. It was too dark. All she could see were the dancing flames. Flickering closer, and closer.

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Sari sat upright, panting.

"Oh, you're awake," Benny said. "Come quickly, there's someone I want you to meet," Sari stood up. Calling Charismi to her side, she threw on her coat and walked out the door after Benny. He walked swiftly down the street. Sari walked after him, struggling to keep up as she look around town. Benny abruptly stopped, and Sari bumped into him, startled.

"Quietly now," Benny whispered, looking around suspiciously, then starting off into an alleyway. Sari followed closely behind, careful not to lose him in all the twists and turns of the alleyways. Benny muttered to himself quietly, "Hmmm... left... left....... right..... left, no right; yes, I suppose that's correct," Cats lurked about watching them run to and fro, left and right.

Then Benny stopped, at a brick wall. It was a dead end.

"Oh yes, here we are, said Benny, still keeping to himself.

But Sari had heard his whispers, and she questioned him, "Wha-" But before she could finish her question, he rapped his knuckle five times on the seventh brick from the bottom; and the whole brick wall came down, disappearing into ash. Benny stepped calmly over the ash and into what looked like a dark tunnel.

As Sari stepped into the tunnel after Benny and looked back, she saw the ashes come up and form bricks, covering the gaping hole they had stepped through.

"Like Magic," was Sari's last thought as she held disappeared into a world of darkness.