She looked around the field, curious about her whereabouts. She hummed softly, walking through the nice and tranquil field, enjoying the light scent of flowers on the breeze.
After a bit, she noticed the ground shake lightly, and her eyes widened as the ground started to separate in perfect lines, strips of land clipping through each other and other things.
She tried to stay up, tried not to fall, but the piece of land she was standing on started swallowing her up like quicksand, slowly sinking.
She looked around wildly, eyes wide as she clawed at the ground, trying to keep herself up, but her hands just passed through the ground effortlessly, followed soon after by her sinking through the piece of land and falling down underneath.
The world was dark here, flashes of things passing by until she landed in another field, sinking into the elastic ground for a moment before it stabilized, and she was just lying on the ground.
She stood up, small blobs of inky blackness bouncing closer, the sky no longer a nice blue, but a soulless black.
"You'll always be alone," a blob said in a feminine tone.
"You're only wanted as long as you're useful!" Another chimed in.
"You know what happens once they get what they want," Another taunted, the blobs moving closer.
"You'll be abandoned! You'll be abandoned!" They started chanting, and she shook her head, covering her ears and closing her eyes.
"Shut up, shut up!" She exclaimed over the taunts of the dark blobs, running away.
She yelped when she ran into something, and she fell back, hands slapping out to catch her fall as she stared wide-eyed at what she ran into.
It looked like her, but goth and punk, wearing a cut black noose around her neck and silver pentagram earrings. The doppelganger also wore knee-high black boots with studs, torn shorts, and a black crop top with a net shirt underneath. The doppelganger was smirking, arms crossed as her dark eyes looked down at Cadence, wearing some black eyeshadow and black lipstick as well.
"You'll never see a day where I'm gone," the dark doppelganger cooed, helping Cadence up, "You need me."
"What are YOU doing here?!" Cadence exclaimed, looking shocked.
"Oh, just the usual," the dark counterpart drawled, circling Cadence and trailing her hand on the other's shoulders, "Convince you to do something bad. Whether it's killing yourself or someone else."
Cadence growled at the dark counterpart, who continued, "You gotta face it; the statistics of them staying after they get what they want is low. You know how slutty their species is, they don't do staying."
"You don't know that!" Cadence exclaimed.
"Do you?" The dark counterpart shot back, quirking a brow.
Cadence sputtered, trying to come up with an answer, but coming up short. "Well, not-not really. But I can think positive!"
"Aw, how cute," the dark counterpart cooed condescendingly, standing behind Cadence and wrapping her arms around the brighter one's torso, resting her chin on her shoulder, "You still think positively after all this time! You never learn, do you?"
"Fuck off!" Cadence exclaimed, pushing her off and running.
"I'll always be here!" The dark counterpart called, "Always waiting..."
Cadence ran for a couple minutes, stumbling as she grew a little shorter, panting as she slowed to a stop. "This is fucking bullshit," she wheezed, doubled over, hands on her knees as she caught her breath, no longer having the great stamina she usually has, but the stamina she had when she was a teen. Before she saved herself.
She tensed, a scent she hadn't smelled in years drifting into her nose. She slowly looked over her shoulder to see a dark shape looming over her, the only discernable features being a wide grin with a lit cigarette hanging out.
The mouth moved, but the deep voice didn't come from there, it came from everywhere; "I always come back."
She was frozen in terror, looking at the looming and slowly approaching silhouette of someone she thought she had long gotten rid of. A golden light washed over her, and she looked back in front of her, seeing Eclipse standing there, looking like Jesus or something, while Sun and Moon flitted around him like cherubs or little angels, playing tiny trumpets as Eclipse held out a hand.
Cadence started walking towards Eclipse, eyes wide. The silhouette frowned, looking angrily and saying sternly, "Cadence, get back here. You are not going with them. You will stay here, with me!"
Cadence whimpered, hurriedly scampering forward, heart pounding in her ears.
The silhouette roared, leaping forward, "CADENCE, GET BACK HERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW!"
Cadence dove into Eclipse's arms, holding him tightly. Eclipse hugged her in return, Sun and Moon coming over and resting on her shoulders as their trumpets were nowhere to be seen. The sound of the roaring monster faded away, the silence being filled by Cadence's pounding heartbeat.
"We love you," all three jesters whispered.
Cadence's eyes snapped open, sharply inhaling as she sat up in bed, limbs shaking heavily as she looked around wildly, every shadow seeming to leer at her, waiting for her to turn her back so they could pounce.
She couldn't remember where she was, this doesn't look like her room. Where are her sisters? Why is she alone? Why is there only one bed?
She whimpered softly, nerves jittering as she shrunk back. She hoped she wasn't loud. If Dai heard, she'd probably get her ass whooped and her phone tooken away. She can't have that, school would be so boring.
She stood up, the room swinging and swaying, and she stumbled to the door, slipping on her shoes without socks, and stumbled out. She could barely see, the world tilting and mixing together like oil. She didn't know where she was, just she was going somewhere safe.
She came upon a door, and her instincts told her safe people lived there. She went through the two doors, walking through the living room (why is all the furniture so big?), and went to a room, opening it.
Her vision was fading fast, and she could taste the faint taste in the back of her throat, she was going to black-out at any second.
She crawled into the bed, her shoes kicked off at the side of the bed as she saw two shapes. One was yellowish and the other... some kind of light purple.
She laid down next to them, clinging as her consciousness faded fast.