Through to the Other Side

Prologue

(Third Person Point of View)

Mars, a young 6-year-old girl with bright blue-green eyes and fire colored hair, ran up to her best friend, Laken, who was also a 6-year-old little girl with bright blue eyes and blonde hair. Mars and Laken were running through the forest next to their local high school in their small town that only contained roughly 2,000 people overall. They ran through all the trees and brush, not caring about all the small wounds and scrapes they were inflicting on themselves or how dirty their nice school uniforms were getting. They ran for hours on end, playing hide and seek, playing tag, chasing each other until they were out of breath, and they collapsed next to a cave they discovered earlier on and swore they would come back to. They looked at each other and started giggling uncontrollably.

"Laken?" Mars said between her giggling fits.

"Yesies, Mars?" Laken replied gasping for breath, because she had been running and laughing so much.

"Lets make a big girl promise, right now, that we will always be best friends, no matter what" Mars said sincerely. Laken nodded, knowing exactly what she meant. They had both seen the older girls at their schools do it during recess, and boys too. They knew it meant a lot. Mars looked through the brush and twigs on the ground until she found a sharp rock. She picked it up and turned back around to her best friend and smiled confidently, despite the huge gap between her 2 front teeth. She walked over to Laken and handed her the rock and held out her hand. Laken smiled brightly back at Mars, and nodded at her, and sliced a gash into the palm of her hand. Mars gasped from the pain and started to tear up, but she knew she had to be big to do this for her and for her best friend. She bit back her tears and grabbed the rock from Laken and gashed her hand as well. Laken wanted to tear up as well, but even at 6-years-old, Laken had been through much worse pain. The two young children smiled at each other and then clasped their blood pouring hands together and looked into each other's eyes

"Best friends forever, Mars."

"Best friends forever, Laken."

The two girls hugged each other tightly and when they pulled back, they started staring into each others eyes once again. Mars wanted to blame it on their pact, Laken wanted to blame it on a spur of the moment thing, but little do they know at this time, what will happen in the future. All of sudden, the two girls lips connected together. Neither of them knew what they were doing, seeing as they were only 6-years-old, but neither of them seemed to care that their first kisses were with each other, or that they were both girls, they just knew that in that moment, they loved each other. When they pulled apart, Mars looked at Laken and started giggling uncontrollably again, and Laken joined along with her. They sat down on the ground and laid back on the forest floor and looked up at the sky through the trees with their hands entwined together. Once the girls calmed down, they looked at each other and smiled brightly. Laken rolled over towards Mars and laid her head on her tummy and began to speak.

"Mars?"

"Yesies, Laken?"

"What do you know about soulmates?" Laken asked bashfully. Mars giggled softly and smiled down at the girl laying on her stomach.

"My Daddy says its when two people really love each other and want to be together for the rest of their lives no matter what."

"Are we soulmates, Mars?" Laken asked with an unreadable look in her eyes.

Mars looked at Laken, and then looked back at the sky. "I think so Laken."

Mars stood up and stretched her body, it being stiff from laying on the ground. Mars went to rinse off the rock they used to make their pact in a puddle nearby. She bent down and scrubbed all of the two children's blood off of it, until it looked just how she found it. She dried it off on her school uniforms pants leg, and started walking back towards Laken, until she realized she was no longer there. Mars started to freak out and yell for her.

"Laken? Laken! LAKEN! Where are you! If this is a joke, please stop I'm scared Laken!"

Mars yelled for Laken for about twenty minutes until she realized that she was no longer there. She sat down and began to cry, until she heard a noise come from the cave the girls had been sitting by. Mars jumped up and ran into the cave and started yelling for Laken once again. She walked the cave until she realized she could almost no longer see the entrance. She looked back at the entrance with fear. She turned back around to look in front of her and was met with a creature with red and white eyes. The creature looked human, and was almost beautiful, except she had pure white eyes with solid red dots for pupils. Mars screamed at the top of her lungs an ear deafening scream, and turned to run away, but the creature grabbed her shoulders and turned her back around to face her. Mars continued to scream as the creature held her in place, but the creature placed her finger against the petite girls lips and it was as if someone pressed a mute button on a television remote, and Mars could no longer scream, or make any kind of noise. The creature looked into the girls eyes and smiled.

"Mars Langdon, you are six years old, and live with your father, Michael Langdon, because your mother disappeared last year, am I correct?" The creature asked her with a tender, but powerful voice. Mars nodded, confirming the creatures accusations. The creature removed her finger from the girls lips and released her.

"You will never remember meeting me Mars, but you will always remember my voice, my eyes, and what I am about to tell you. You will return to us, and you will take back what is rightfully yours." The creature then placed her hands over the child's eyes and Mars fainted. She then carried her back to the edge of the forest and placed her on the ground, and laid a blue rose in her hand, and left.

Mars jolted awake. She couldn't remember anything or how she got to the edge of the forest. The only thing Mars remembered was that Laken, her best friend, and little did she know, soulmate, was missing. She realized it was getting dark and ran home. She busted through her door and ran to her father.

"Daddy, Daddy! Somethings happened to Laken!" Mars spouted frantically and hysterically. Her father gasped and held her tight and nodded rocking her back and forth.

"It's okay, my little Mars Bar. Laken will be okay, I promise. You need to listen to me. You won't see Laken again for a long time baby. You'll have to learn to play without her and to make new friends. Someone has taken Laken from you, and I'm so sorry, but there's nothing we can do right now. I Promise you that the police will do everything they can do to find her, but they most likely won't love. It will be okay, because you'll see her again someday. I promise."

Michael Langdon called the police and informed them about Laken's disappearance, although he knew there was nothing they could do, and they wouldn't find her. He knew exactly where Laken was, and who took his daughters best friend and soulmate, and for his daughter, he was going to start a war to give her back her happiness. He would get Laken back for his Mars, even if it took his last breath, because they took his wife, Marissa from him. They took his soulmate from him as well, and he wouldn't let them do it to his little girl. He refused to let it happen again.