The dream world.

Sky sat on the rock in the woods and looked around. It was turning dark, and she was lost. The woods that had at first seemed so inviting now seemed so.... dark. She felt trapped, and knew that soon she would be unable to leave, forever.

"You shouldn't have come." Toki, her invisible friend said, sitting on the snow covered ground. "I told you dreams are no good place to travel alone."

"But I'm not alone." Sky answered, looking at Toki and smiling. "I'm with you."

"I'm not real. I can't protect you here." Toki answered, and she didn't smile. She stared into the darkness with the vigilance of a tiger. Sky rubbed her arms, feeling chilled by Toki's response.

"Why are you always so cold and sad Toki? You used to be fun to be with. Remember the adventures we used to have?" Sky asked, wishing she could conjure up a fire.

"That was when you were young. You weren't nearly as sad then as you are now either." Toki answered with a sigh, still looking around as though expecting an enemy to come out of the trees any minute.

"I don't feel that sad, and I'm not as paranoid as you Toki."

"Yes you are. I am you. I'm the bit of you that hides away and watches the world, waiting for it to attack. I'm the bit of you thats a killer, willing to do anything to protect you. Capable of unholy things."

"But then why in the world are you acting so paranoid? This is my dream, what could possibly attack me here?"

"He lives here Sky. " Toki answered, and a knife appeared in her hand. "Thats why you created me, remember? So that when he comes you have something to drive him away." Toki's breath came out like steam, her hair turned a more reddish color and her eyes went from the same ice blue of Sky's to a almost whitish grayish blue. They were also cold, colder than ice could ever hope to be. Sky shivered and turned away, not wanting to think of him.

He shouldn't have been in her dreams. He shouldn't have come with her at all, but he was here. He lurked here, with those eyes. She hated his eyes. They had big black circles underneath them, and they were black. In his big fat, piggy face they were the scariest thing she could imagine being anywhere near her.

Suddenly he was there, as though conjured by her thinking of him, which he probably was. He was wearing jeans with a bare chest. And Sky was no longer in the woods, but in a room. The room was small and a bed took up most of its room. What was left had a TV on it, and there was candy by the TV. Sky didn't want to be here, she tried to think about the woods but they wouldn't return to her. She looked around for Toki, but she hadn't been facing Toki when he appeared, and it might take Toki a while to realize she was gone. And then of course Toki would have to find her.

The man was standing in the door way, and Sky was facing the TV. Bodies moved on it, girls, naked and doing things to each other. Sky was horrified and fascinated all at the same time. And he was standing in the doorway. He came over to her and picked up her hand. For a few seconds he stood there, then he moved to the bed pulling her after him. Sky didn't want this to happen, so she tried to turn away, but she was small again. His hand engulfed hers. He pulled her unto his lap and watched the screen. Sky looked at it, and there Toki was.

She banged on the glass from the inside, and suddenly it shattered out into the room. The man didn't notice, he moved his free hand to Sky's thigh. Toki stepped out of the glass and now the man could see her. With a surprised yelp he jumped up, throwing Sky away from himself. Sky lay on the floor, not looking up as Toki attacked. She was transformed from the girl that had been in the woods into a warier. She had a shield on her arm, a helmet on her head, armor on her legs and her other arm, a breastplate and a big sword, chipped from  use in her hand. The man didn't stand a chance.

Toki stabbed him right threw the heart, then pulling the blade out and turning it chopped off his head and just like that it was done. Toki stood over him, wishing the bloody corps where real, instead of just the dream man that haunted Toki's world. She looked over at Sky, who was laying as still as she could on the ground. Toki walked over and picked the small frame of the girl Sky had once been in her arms. The girl looked exactly like Toki, except right now Toki had blazing red hair, and Sky was in her six year old form. Toki placed Sky on her lap, and swooshed the sword threw the air.

The room disappeared and a beach surrounded the two figures. Sky seemed to shiver, then she looked around. The eyes, which had been vacant and closed opened. She smiled, looking over at the water. Off in the distance two girl were playing on the sand.

"I remember this day Toki." She said, and as she spoke her arms and legs lengthened. "This was a good day." Toki nodded, and the Armour began to disappeared as her arms and legs too shortened to a young teens form.

"Yes." Toki said, and her voice was gentler, but still alert. "This was a good day."