James just turned red with embarrassment.
“So, whats your name then?”
“My name iseths Missy, Melissa Raven-Shade.”
James looked at the girl in utter amazement.
“You are actually a Raven-Shade?”
“Yeth, me iseths.”
“It’s a bit of a mouth full is your name isn’t it? Missy Melissa Raven-Shade.”
“No silly, my pwoper name iseths Melissa, but My Mummy haseths always referred to me aseths being called Missy.”
“Oh.”
Remarked James feeling rather stupid, just then.
Missy’s Moon Crystal pendant began to dim.
The pendant began to look like a marbled crystal ball.
James looked at Missy concerned, her face even had turned an unnatural pale shade of white.
“Missy, what is happening?”
Missy’s voice faltered.
It became different.
James had noticed how her voice changed and switched between being an infant and mature-like.
It was a little confusing at first for James.
However, he was slowly getting used to it by now.
But this time, Missy’s voice had changed completely.
It was eerie.
James felt a cold chill come all over him, as Missy spoke, as though she was possessed.
“The living world is awakening this weakens the link between your realm and this realm.
Fore in this realm, night here is eternal.”
James began to feel weak, he could hardly breathe.
It was as if there was no air in the realm of the Dead.
He suddenly realised what Missy had meant about her pendant which protected him.
It made it possible for him to exist here.
His whole body began to fade away.
Missy knew that James would be drawn back to the realm of the living.
The Moon Magic had been weakened.
Missy reached out her hands towards James, wanting to hold onto him.
“No… it’s too soon, no please don’t take him away from me.
Please…. Nooo.”
James vanished before Missy’s eyes that were filled with tears.
James found himself now to be in the middle of his Aunts garden.
Tears streaked down his face and not knowing why, he cried too.
James Mayflower was standing in the center of his aunt’s garden.
The tears streamed down his face.
Soon he walked back towards his aunt’s house, and quietly returned up into his bedroom,
There was so many questions on his mind.
Such as, just how old and ancient was this Moon Magic.
Why did it become dormant.
Why had Missy, Melissa Raven-Shade re-awoken it?
At first James could not get back to sleep.
It was the early hours of the morning.
The sky was still dark.
He drew back the curtains of his window, and in the far distant horizon, there was a small sparkle of light.
The sun had not as yet arisen.
Dawn had not as yet set.
But Missy was right.
The realm of the living was awakening.
He closed the curtains and got under the covers of his bed.
Soon he fell off to sleep, and his mind drifted off into a dream state.
He stood inside the Gothic hall of the Raven-Shade Hall itself, looking confused.
“What am I doing here?
How am I Here?” James said to himself until a certain voice suddenly spoke back to him.
“You are now in the Dream Realm silly, a place where the dead also exist.”
James turned around and there she was.
“Missy!” Exclaimed James in complete surprise.
“How can the dead exist in dreams?”
“Have you ever wondered why you meet people in your dreams at all?
Even though you have never met them before, and yet you seem to know them.
They are real to you?”
“Yes, why?”
“Well, those people are the dead.
Not all of them.
Some are people you are going to meet.
But on the whole, the Dream Realm is another part of our existence.”
“What… everyone dreams of DEAD people?”
Missy laughed. “No silly. There is an integral link between the Dream Realm and the Realm of the Dead.”
“You mean it’s like the link between the Realm of the Living and your Realm?”