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꧁"𝗜'𝗺 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹, 𝗜'𝗺 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱."꧂
Violet had managed to successfully sneak in, without waking anyone up. When she entered her room, Stella was already asleep, so Violet did her best to be as quiet as possible when getting ready for bed.
The mind fairy pulled back her covers, before getting cosy under the duvet and lulling herself to sleep, from the sound of the crickets and owls making noise outside.
As soon as Violet had drifted off, she was teleported to her dream world. The girl woke up in her dream world, lying on the floor in a forest. Violet looked around, from her position on the forest ground and quickly stood up, when she noticed where she was.
Trees enclosed her in a small circle shape. They weren't just any normal trees though, the trunk and the branches, were an amethyst purple, with bubblegum pink leaves. The ground was covered in violet grass and the mind fairy was having a hard time trying to stop herself from freaking out.
The girl glimpsed down at herself, when she realised that she was no longer in her pyjamas, but in a full white outfit, only confusing the mind fairy even more.
The seventeen year old, walked to the edge of the forest, to try and find a way out of the circle of trees. When Violet got closer to the edge, she zoomed her eyes in, as she caught a sort of shimmer.
The mind fairy sceptically placed her hand onto the shimmer, only to find that, when she placed her hand further, her hand pushed through an invisible force field. It was a barrier, much like the barrier protecting Alfea. Violet took her hand away from the shimmering barrier and took a few steps back.
The mind fairy sighed deeply, before walking back to the middle of the circle, enveloped by the unrealistic trees. Violet brought a hand to her mouth, and bit on her thumb, while her other hand rested on her hip.
The girl stopped biting on her thumb, as she got impatient, when nothing was happening. "What are you trying to tell me?" Violet asked her conscience, frustrated and confused about why she was here, in this weird forest surrounded by a barrier.
Violet's eyes zeroed in on one of the tree trunks, when a bright light shined on a certain spot on the trunk. When the light dimmed, in its place, was a door.
"A door? Seriously?" Violet questioned, beginning to get annoyed with whatever was going on with her. When she got no answer, not that she was expecting one, she reluctantly marched towards the door, that had appeared somehow.
She attempted to turn the knob of the wooden door, but it was locked. She tried it a few more times, before ultimately throwing her hands in the air, when there was no change in result.
"It's locked!" Violet called out to no one in particular. "No fucking surprise there." The mind fairy then muttered. In movies, the door is always locked, so she isn't that surprised by the fact that the showcased door, isn't able to be opened.
Violet sat down on the violet coloured grass, after finding it irrelevant to be standing in front of a locked door. The girl sat, with her legs crossed, and her fingers drumming a tune on the ground. She waited, patiently for her to be woken up from her dream state, but again, nothing was happening.
"I don't know what you want me to do!" Violet stressed, when she still wasn't waking up from her unusual dream.
Just as the girl was about to say something else, a sudden weight in her hand gained her attention. Violet glanced down, and the object resting in her now open palm, caused the girl to roll her eyes and groan, displeased.
"A key." The mind fairy scoffed, as she sucked on her teeth. "A fucking key, of course." Violet nodded her head sarcastically. "Let me guess, you want me to unlock the door?" Violet continued to talk to herself, and she was beginning to consider signing herself up to be put into an insane asylum.
Here she was, talking to herself, pondering whether or not she should unlock the door, while being lost on what was happening to her. She was just waiting for the cherry on top, the voice that she has discovered to be the voice of her mother.
"I do." A voice chimed from a few feet away.
Violet nearly broke her neck, with how quick she turned around. Standing literally a few feet away, was a woman, dressed in a pure white dress. She had ginger hair and looked to be in her late twenties.
"Who the bloody hell are you?" The mind fairy asked the mysterious woman, standing up and then subtly taking a few steps backwards, while still holding onto the key.
"I'm not real, I'm just inside your head." The woman informed the mind fairy, who only freaked out even more.
"W-What?" Violet stuttered, as she asked.
"I'm a figure of imagination." The woman explained. "I can take any form of appearance that I wish." She continued, when Violet was too stumped to say anything else.
Violet just looked at the woman with wide eyes, wondering if she was actually going crazy. She wouldn't be surprised if she was.
"You feel safe with your sister, Bloom." The woman added and Violet had no idea why she was bringing her sister into this. "Which is why I have taken physical appearances of the person you feel most safe with, to make you more comfortable with talking to me." The woman finished explaining, smiling softly at the light brown haired girl.
Now that she thinks about it, the woman did have similar physical traits. She was a red head and had the same gleaming blue-green eyes. She also had the freckles and the slightly pale skin.
"I still don't understand why you're here." Violet told her, still stunned at the sudden appearance of this woman in her conscience.
"I'm here to help you receive the answers you request." The woman replied. Her voice was smooth and dreamy, it reminded the mind fairy of Luna Lovegood.
Violet perked up at her response. "Do you know about my past self?" Violet questioned her, hopefully. "My mum, dad?" The mind fairy further questioned, before pausing. "My...brother?" Violet finished asking. The word 'brother', created a weird feeling in Violet's chest and she had no clue why.
"Yes, I do." The woman answered. "I can see even into the deepest parts of your mind, I am in your mind myself, so of course I know." The woman further said, looking at the mind fairy closely.
"Well, can you tell me?" Violet asked, when the woman didn't say anything else.
"I'm afraid that I'm not able to do that." The woman stated. There wasn't any emotion on her face, but Violet used her abilities, and was able to feel the regret that the woman was feeling for not being able to tell the young teen.
"Why not?" Violet stressfully asked her, groaning displeased.
"Only you have the key to unlock the deepest and darkest parts of your mind." The mystery woman explained. "Only you have full control." The woman added, tilting her head and motioning to the key resting in Violet's hand.
Violet followed her gaze and her eyes stopped on the stone key sitting in her palm.
"You are the only person in control of your mind, of your monsters." The woman added, as she looked at the mind fairy intensely. "Unlocking that door, will give you the answers you want." She explained, pointing over at the still locked wooden door. "Whether you receive those answers is up to you." The woman, with features similar to Bloom, told the teen.
Something seemed off. Why couldn't this woman just tell her the answers straight up, instead of talking cryptically with that creepy and dreamy voice?
"It doesn't seem like I'm in control..." Violet practically whispered. "Considering the fact that no one has ever given me a choice before." The mind fairy bit her lip and shrugged her shoulders.
Violet brought her hand up, so that she could see the key more clearer. The woman looked at her, wondering about what she was going to say next.
"I'm not opening that door." Violet shook her head from side to side. "Why now? I have a feeling that if I open that door, my life will only get more complicated." Violet confessed.
The woman watched the seventeen year old, staying silent, as the teen continued to speak.
"This feels like a test, like your tricking me, or twisting your words." Violet narrowed her eyes, as she decided to listen to her instincts. "I feel like if I open that door, I'll finally be letting the monsters, that I locked up long ago, out." Violet explained how she felt and the woman narrowed her eyes at her. "I'll let them escape and torture me more." Her voice was quiet, as she spoke.
Violet had locked away the demons that had haunted her, from the time that she was nine, all the way to now, she didn't want to risk letting those monsters out again. Violet squeezed her hand, that was holding the key and she could feel the stone digging into her skin.
"It'll get so bad that it'll be hard to breathe." Violet seethed. "Those monsters, my demons, will sit on my lungs." The mind fairy pursed her lips, as she felt the tears beginning to appear. "They won't let me sleep, as I lie in bed and can't do anything, but watch as I'm being murdered by my own mind." Violet's voice started to grow louder.
The woman in white, watched the girl with a blank face, but Violet could sense fascination, with a hint of anger, flowing off of the red head woman.
"Why should I unlock that door and put myself through that?" Violet asked the woman, her anger getting the best of her. "Give me a reason!" Violet stepped closer. "TELL ME!" The mind fairy finally broke, as her throat felt raw from her loud tone and the crack that accompanied her voice.
The imaginary woman in her head, gritted her teeth, but that was the only physical reaction that she gave. "You aren't going to conquer your demons by locking them away." The woman finally spoke, less dreamy than before. "You're just delaying the inevitable." The woman stepped closer to the mind fairy, just like Violet had done. "Delaying the victory of your demons." The woman slowly explained, making it more dramatic.
Violet looked at her with clouded eyes, as the woman got closer to her.
"You have to let the monsters in, let them become apart of you." The red head woman explained, her eyes never leaving Violet's. "You have to express that part of you and put yourself through troubled waters because your enemies can't swim." The woman smirked faintly, but it was encouraging, rather than evil.
"I don't want to put myself through that pain." Violet whispered, as she broke their eye contact.
She would rather lose the chance at gaining answers, than let her monsters out. She has been in the dark about her past life for the past eight years, she can last a little longer.
The woman sighed heavily and Violet felt the woman's mood shift, from encouraging and patient, to annoyed and quite angered. "If you won't do it willingly, then I'm going to have to make you." The woman told her forcefully.
Violet could no longer feel what the woman was feeling because of a sudden feeling of death and darkness. Snarling, screeching and heavy breathing suddenly echoed around the circled forest.
Violet's breathing halted, as she caught sight of at least twenty to thirty burned ones, all waiting outside the barrier. Violet only stopped looking at the creatures, when she noticed the woman lifting up her hands and a sort of mist surrounding her palms.
The woman's once pure white dress, turned black as night and her red hair changed to the same colour of black. The final physical appearance to change, were her eyes, and they changed colour to white, similar to when Bloom had witnessed the woman who left her in the first world.
"You will unlock that door Violet." The woman seethed to the troubled girl.
Violet could only watch, as the woman brought down the only thing protecting the mind fairy from the burned ones, the barrier.
"You bipolar bitch!" Violet fumed towards the woman. "You really know how to persuade someone." Violet was defeated, so she then took of running in the direction of the locked wooden door, as the burned ones made way to attack her.
She had no where else to go, apart from further in the forest and past where the barrier used to be. The burned ones would just eventually catch up to her though. Unlocking the door was the only way to save herself.
Violet finally made it to the door, and just as she was about to turn the key, she halted in her movements, as she realised something. She slowly took the key out of the key hole, before turning around and facing the woman, who watched her confused, as well as angry, that she wasn't opening the door, when she was literally surrounded.
"This isn't real." Violet remembered, as she shook her head. "This is just inside my head." She tilted her head to the side and narrowed her eyes towards the woman, who looked even more furious, victoriously.
Violet dropped the key on the Violet coloured grass ground and closed her eyes, waiting for the impact of the burned ones that she knew she wouldn't feel in the real world.
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The girl sat up straight in her bed, in her room, with Stella, in the real world, and out of her head. The teen leaned her head against the headboard of her bed, as she tried to calm herself down.
When she was calm enough, she reached over her dresser, grabbed her earphones, as well as her songwriting book and her pencil, before playing her most recent composed recording and writing a song.
This would hopefully get her mind off of the dream that just occurred. She had no idea why that woman would want her to unlock that door so bad, but Violet wasn't planning on opening it anytime soon.
Hopefully, she wouldn't experience the same dream a second time, because something about that woman was off and really made Violet's stomach churn.
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♡︎ 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚟𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛, 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝙳𝚢𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝙾'𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚅𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚝'𝚜 𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚝𝚠𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛, 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚘 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚎. ♡︎
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𝓥𝓲𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓘𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓰𝓸
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