I groaned, looking around me. Wasn't I a Lion? I thought to myself trying to figure out how I got here. Everything was blurry. I saw a man in black dragging me by the arms across the dirt floor. "Who are you?" I said in a groggy voice. He looked down at me, before he could say anything, my head fell back down, and my eyes closed. My eyes opened, and I was standing alone in a white room. There were crowds of people standing in front of me, and I was standing on a stage. I looked around, confused at the crowd that was laughing, whispering, and screaming. "What the-" I said out loud, looking over the crowd. "WHERE AM I?" I screamed. "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?"
I couldn't remember how I got here, I just knew I had to leave. Suddenly, I heard a voice a deep voice. "Leo Moonlight." I heard the sound a man's boots clinking on the floor. The man was walking right toward me. "What do you have to say for yourself?" The man asked. Then, he stood right in front of me. He had his hands in front of his torso. He was wearing a black hood with long robes that covered his entire body. I couldn't see his face because it was so hidden, and he was holding a sword in his hands that was pointing toward the floor. "What did I do?" I asked the man. "Leo Moonlight, what do you have to say for yourself?"
The man asked again. "About what?" I repeated. "Leo Moonlight, what do you have to say for yourself?" The man asked once again and I was starting to become angrier. "I DID NOTHING WRONG STOP ASKING ME!" The entire crowd gasped. "There you have it, Leo Moonlight everybody." The entire crowd booed and threw random stuff at me. The man turned around and raised his hands at the crowd. "And what should we sentence him to?" He asked. "DEATH!" The entire crowd yelled out. He turned around, "Leo Moonlight, by judgement of the crowd you have been sentenced to death."
He started to walk off the stage and waved somebody to come on. "What do you mean?!" I attempted to follow him but suddenly my hands were chained and I was on my knees. A woman came on stage with a long robe and hood on so I couldn't see her face. She had a scythe in her hands that she was leaning over her shoulder. She stood right in front of me lifting up her scythe. "Goodbye," She said. She was about to strike my head with the scythe when I held up my arms. "Wait!" I said as the chains blocked the scythe from striking me.
She sounded intrigued. "Say what you need to say." She said putting the scythe down. "What did I do? I don't understand why you're doing this?" I asked. She turned toward the crowd pointing her thumb back at me. "He doesn't know what he did!" Then, the entire crowd started laughing like a god damn sitcom and I was overly confused at what was so funny. The woman started to laugh as well clutching her stomach. "Since he doesn't know what you did, you will have to tell him! So? What did he do." She raised her hands hyping up the crowd. "Allowed Mimic to control him!" The crowd said. "What's that? I cant hear you!!" The woman said putting her hand behind her ear and pointing it toward the crowd. "Allowed Mimic to control him!!" The crowd roared back. "I tried to resist!" I yelled toward the crowd. "I tried…" Tears starting coming down my face.
The woman leaned down in front of me then she took off her hood revealing her identity the woman was no other than Luna. She was smiling. "You should've tried harder." She patted my head. I was still in shock, I couldn't say anything or do anything I was frozen. She stood up. "Leo Moonlight, in the name of the people I sentence you to death!" Her hand gripped the scythe one more time the blade catching the cold, white light of void around us. Without hesitation, she raised it high above her head. The entire crowd screamed in frenzied approval. I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe! I was still staring into her eyes when her blade came down and everything went black. I woke up choking on air, my heart pounding so hard, I sat up quick. It felt like it might crack my ribs. "Ow." I said lifting my shirt and my side was all bruised up.
"Ah." I lifted my shirt back down. My entire body burned, it felt like a friction burn. I massaged my temples trying to relieve some of my pain. That dream, it had been a reocurring nightmare that I had not exactly that way though it always ended up with Luna killing me. I had lied to her, the memories of what I did while Mimic was implanting memories into my head I hadn't healed from it because yes maybe Mimic was controlling me but I still did it. How could I ever forgive myself?
"Ha! So you're finally up are you?" Someone from behind me said. That's when everything that happened came flooding back. "Luna…" I whispered out loud. "What?" The voice yelled. I ignored him, "I have to get back to her." I said standing up. "Kinda hard to do in a cell eh?" The man said when I realized I was in a jail cell. "What the-" I said looking around the room. The cell I was locked in was something designed to block powers. There was no windows in sight, I felt weaker, and I had an odd looking bracelet on my arm. The walls were made of smooth dark metal. I touched the walls and I felt this cold feeling go through my hands. The floor was iron plated and uneven with bolts anchoring it into the ground. The cell door wasn't bars but it was a single slab of reinforced black alloy that etched with runes that made me weaker whenever I walked to close. Everything here was meant to drain me, confuse me, and keep me powerless. I fell back down onto the bed exhausted.
"You noticed." He chuckled. "I have to go." I said trying to stand up only to fall back down again. "Good luck you can't even stand!" He started to laugh at me. I turned around angrily. "Shut up." I said my voice cracking. "I need to t-" It felt harder to breathe. I shook my head shaking away the fuzziness. "I need to think." I said, "think about what? You're trapped and there's no way out. I'm Henry by the way your cell mate that you have been ignoring." Henry said extending his hand. I just gave him a death stare I didn't trust this man and I wasn't about to pretend like I did. "What do you want?" I asked. "To be your very best friend!" He said mockingly. I scanned him from head to toe, rolled my eyes, and then went back to trying to escape.