Chapter?: The Lady Of The Lake
Hugo stepped before the portal leading to hiraeths mind knowing that the force of her power can destroy a person from the inside out, but as he looked around his city the beautiful skies with puffy clouds that looked like cotton candy now were filled with smoke, the marble sidewalks dotted with shops and food carts that cast the most amrosial scents now were crushed piles of dirt and rubble, the people who filled the the streets now were covered in soot and either wounded, sobbing over their loved ones, or just lay there lifeless.
He knew what he had to do, he looked back on his team one last time, but they have become more than that, the trials, the danger, the amount suffering they faced together they were a family.
A dysfunctional, wacky, slightly crazy, family, and as hugo was about to take his , what he feared, last steps he heard them ,along with the Cazadores of the past, call out "Though in the darkness we shall stand, united we shall fight!" Then putting up their hands for the Cazadores sign, hugo nodded then gingerly stepped in.
It was cold, not like shivering longing for a blanket cold, more like an eerie, tingly, mysterious cold, also it was dark but hugo's eyes quickly adjusted. Hugo took his first steps in this infinite void, he cringed as the floor which he could not see echoed his footsteps for he felt powerless here and would not be able to defend himself if something were to attack him. After what felt like hours, he stumbled upon a young 12 year old girl crying by a familier lake her head in her hands, hugo reconized this place, this is where The tale of two sisters took place he cautiously walked over hand knelt down, "What do you want?" She sobbed "Hiraeth?" He asked, the girl nodded hugo looked out to the a dreary lake, the air felt hot and dry yet there was a sharp brease that pierced hugo's skin.
"What is this place?" Hugo asked "the isle of sorrows, where my sister sent me" she replied "after you tried to kill the cazadores and inslave the world" hugo said as if he was saying something as simple as 'when you broke the window' "how dare you I would never do such an atrocious thing!" She yelled now crying tears of anger, "what do you mean?" Hugo asked "I mean thats not what happend, let me show you" hiraeth led hugo closer to the lake, there feet crunching on the sand that looked like the night sky exept with a few less stars.
They sat on there knees peering into its calm obsidian waters, at first it only showed their reflections peering back at them "I dont see anything just us" hugo asked a little frightend now, "hold on" she ever so carefully, tapped the water causing it to gently ripple, mist swirled around them until all that was to be seen was the ivory smoke. After a few seconds it cleared Hugo was still at the lake exept, it was thriving, the water was a beutiful emerald green, birds that could not be seen were singing in the great oak trees that loomed high around him, willow trees giving sweet shade, and a fresh water trickling down from between two rocks, not at all as hugo rememberd. "Look towards the waterfall" hiraeths said just then a girl with blonde hair, clarity, jumped into the lake followed by hiraeth, it was the exact story that hugo was told as a kid but it was switched. "Whats going on here?" Hugo asked "what really happend" she anwered grimly "It was clarity who tried to kill the cazadores" " yes, she used to be my kind older sister then she touched the crytal and sent me to the sent me to the" hiraeth eyes were flooded with tears and was trying not to start sobbing again "to the isle of sorrows while she got to live a happy life" she nodded breaking into a much needed sob, part of him still hated her for having Rosierra killed but part of him understood her, sent to place of eternal torture constantly reminded of a home you can return to, of the happiest moments in your life and that you will never be happy again, just despair.