It's way past midnight. All lights are out. The Stock Pot Inn is enveloped by darkness and shadow. The Inn is fully silent... except for a feeble sound echoing through the walls. One fully attentive would notice the sound belongs to a humanoid creature. Sounds of torment and agony, pain and disaster... cries. Following the sound to his origin, one would stumble upon one of the Inn rooms. Further checking would reveal the door unlocked. Inside, in one of the rooms, lies a body upon a bed. It continuously trembles and has many cold sweats. A blue light shines from a certain location in the chest. During the tremors, the pijama moves, revealing the source: a blue orb, who seems to be emanating a soft and caressing light. Definitly, the cries belong to that person. Definitly, the cries belong to Tayro.

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Tayro is running. Running through a series of distorted corridors, with violet walls who seem to melt and orbs emanating light. Behind the boy, a cold, evil cackle is heard, who seems to bring upon the torment of one's soul. Upon minutes of running, that seem more like hours to the boy, he faces a dead end, in a large hall, with a chandelier, grabbed by the hands of those already past.
The cackles get closer, and yet, Tayro can't locate the source of the demented sound. It seems to surround him, envelop him in the darkest shadows of dread. At long last, Tayro finds the creature laughing. He looks down, as his shadow formed by the chandelier continues to distance itself from him, and suddenly, the unexpected happens, as the shadow raises, forming a second Tayro...
The foul creature glared at the boy maliciously.

"W-What are you?! W-What do you want?!"
As a response, the sillouette, the clone, grinned at the petrified boy. He then proceeded to raise his hand, forming a huge black orb of pure energy, concealing the essence of evil.
"Bye bye!"-the replica said, as it sent the torment of evil upon Tayro.
"No! NOOO!!!"

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Tayro woke up abruptly, coughing and his eyes wide open. His heart was pounding at quite considerate speed, and it took him a while to relax. Then, the moon shone in the window, lighting you up.
"WHA! How did you get in here?! You scared me!"

OOC: Anyone can post, and more than one person as well. ^_^

ummm, nothin... *backs away slowly....* what were YOU doing?

OOC: Remember, anyone can still join! In fact, I WANT more people to join

Tayro sighed of relief.
"Oh... it's only you, Kasei... my, you gave me quite a scare!"-he said, chuckling a bit.
"But anyways, what were you doing in my room?"-he said, smiling and still a bit sleepy.
"What I was doing? Hehe! I was sleeping!" - the hylian notified, laughing a bit.

Suddenly, you see that Tayro notices his stone shining hard.
"Oh...um... did you see this?" - he asks.- "It's a memento from my parents. I always keep it with me. It's the only connection I have with them..."- the boy paused a bit. -"In a letter I recieved from them, it seems that this is some kind of magical stone. I have no idea what it does, though..."-he whispers, making a silly face. (OOC: This one: )
"I find it strange that it's shining so bright now... such only happened once before... and I can't understand it. Is it somne kind of warning? Oh, I wish I knew..."
Suddenly, Tayro notices that he has been rambling a bit too much, and excuses himself.

"Well, I can't go back to sleep right now. I'm wide awake now."-he says, geting out of bed, and moving into another room.
"Wait just a bit, I'll be right with you."
The boy quickly changed to his regular clothing, and joined up with Kasei.
"Well, you still haven't answered me yet - what were you doing here?"

heading to my room...

Tayro laughed.
"Heading to your room? Well, why didn't you just follow the corridor to your room, instead of mine?"-he said, smiling. - "No matter. Well, I won't bug you no more. You probably want some sleep. Good night!"-he said, waving farewell as Kasei left. What he didn't notice was that you were still watching.

"Well, I really can't sleep right now... not after that horrible nightmare..." - Tayro told himself.
"I wonder if the stone had something to do with it? Nah!"
He then sat down on his bed, looking at the full moon on the night sky, and the little stars who were dots in the vast universe. It was relaxing.

As he layed down on the bed, Tayro heard yet another sound. He quickly grabbed his staff, and moving towards your location, asked: "Who's there?!"
You finally decide to show yourself.

whats with all the noise!
I am trying to sleep
azador walked out of the room

Whats going on?

just a nutjobs nightmare... hehehe, we can go to sleep...

"Azador? Excuse me? Sleep in MY room?"- Tayro asked, a bit confused.
Wow... this is one intense night.
Seeing him leave the room like that only makes him even more dizzy.
This is one of those nights... definitly.
The hylian then heard the conversation outside, and yelled at them.
"I heard that, Kasei!"

Closing the door, now believing it's safe, gets again on his pajamas, and goes back to bed.
I've got no desire to sleep, yet I must, so I can be at tip-top shape again tomorrow.
He closes his eyes, trying to get a nice rest...

OOC: That doesn't mean that this is over

Azador? Excuse me? Sleep in MY room?"- Tayro asked, a bit confused.
Wow... this is one intense night.

You left the door open.. you should put a lock on it you know..

OOC: I wanted to join in sooner, but I just couldn't think of a good excuse for Blank to be in Tayro's room

IC:

A disturbance. Blank awoke, stretching and yawning as he always did when he had not had the correct amount of sleep. So many nights spent awake... Why is it that of all nights that I stay at a real Inn, people have to be talking this late? Blank grumbled as he thought about falling back to sleep, but he just could not force himself to. Instead, he instinctively crawled from his bed and stumbled across his room, attempting to find the door in the darkness. He tripped, unfortunately, on his sword, and he felt quite foolish for leaving the weapon laying about right in the way. Finally grasping the doorknob, he proceeded to exit his room. It could be considered unfortunate that his hand slipped as he turned the knob, so instead of walking through the door as it opened, the fatigued Hylian slammed his face into the hard, wooden boarding. Rrgh... Too tired for this... he thought, stumbling into the Inn corridor as he violently kicked the door open.

The nomad could hear the sounds of speech across the hall. There are three people... I recognize two of them... Kasei, that strange Sheikah, and Tayro, that young scholar. Blank beamed with pride at his excellent memory. There were few people that he could recognize by voice alone. Victor the bard was easy, his voice was usually expressed with a tone of cheer, and Blank could recognize that easily. He found it odd that he could recall the voices of two men who he had experienced very little of. The third voice he did not know. He heard only pieces of the conversation. "A nutjob's nightmare," Kasei had exclaimed. Nonsense, I didn't have a nightmare, thought Blank grinning, but sighing as he realized there was no one around for him to say this to. Bah, forget it.

Blank was nearly knocked aside as Kasei and Azador left Tayro alone in his room. What's going on here? he wondered to himself, not sure whether or not he should get involved. Kasei was a shady character, and this Azador fellow looked far from orderly. Chaotic, perhaps. Bah, forget it. The same thought rang through his head every time he decided something was not worth diving too deeply into. He knew that if Tayro was anything like himself, he would not have fallen to sleep so soon after his "guests" had exited. He knocked quietly on the door. "Tayro... Hey, Tayro Wind! It's me, Blank. You know, Blank? We met once... Is something wrong? Your conversation woke me up." The nomad crossed his arms and looked at his feet as he awaited a reply, hoping that the boy was still awake to give a response.

Tayro quickly got up.
"Oh, Blank. Sorry about waking you up!" - the boy apologized, opening the door. He proceeded in looking at the drowzy nomad - "It's just that I woke up and Kasei and Azador were both in my room, for matters unknown. Kasei simply said that he was on his way to his room, and Azador was sleeping INSIDE my room." -he notified, inviting him in. He then sat down on his bed. -"Somehow, I don't buy neither of their answers." - he confessed.

Seeing his rock was still shining, he hoped that the nomad hadn't seen it, and tried harder to conceal its presence.
Just what I didn't need - more people knowing about the stone... come on! Just stop it!
Trying to get the nomad distracted, he simply devised: "It's a nice night today. The moon is quite preety, and the stars, glimmering a faint light."
Another thing here is also glimmering, one that I'd wish for it to STOP.

Understanding that his sentence was purely stupidity of his part and would only attract the attention to himself, he felt like slapping himself for being so idiotic, but restrained himself. At a last shot, he turned to Blank.
"Well, give me a minute. I'm definitly getting changed this time" - he said, laughing a bit, and quickly getting out of sight to another room, to devise yet another strategy
This'll buy me more time to think of something. I just hope he didn't see the light...
He then looked at himself in the mirror.
Who am I fooling?

Blank had noticed the shining sensation quite easily, of course. I'd have to be an idiot to not see that... well, more so, anyway. Deciding that is probably just an heirloom, he shrugged his curiosity away. He leaned against the wall, watching Tayro carefully as he left for the moment. There is definitely something going on.

The nomad believes that Tayro can hear him from where he is, so he begins to question the scholar in a friendly manner. "So, I overheard Kasei saying that you were having a nightmare. And in Hyrule, that can only be a bad thing. Anything you want to get off your chest?"

Blank had never been one to help others in such an outgoing way, especially this late at night, until he had arrived in Hyrule some time ago. He had learned to value friendship, and he truly cared about the issues of the ones that deserved to be cared for. Tayro was a wise young boy, and Blank saw no reason to leave him alone. Nightmares were ominous in this land, and Blank did not care to see an ill fate befall his ally.

As he finished getting his garbs on, Tayro heard Blank.
A bad thing?... Might that have something to do with my stone? Well, better tell him then. He surely knows more about this than I. He must've had more experience of the subject if he said that.
Re-entering the room, the boy sat on his bed.
"This..."-he said, taking his stone out of his necklace-"...is a mythical stone that I had in my posession since baby. According to a letter by my parents, it has some kind of magical properties, yet I don't know what they are. This is the second time ever that this stone shines. Do you think that the nightmare had something to do with it?"- he asked, hoping that the nomad would be able to help him.

Tayro then motioned for Blank to sit down, as he started retelling his dream.
"Well, I was running in some endless corridors, who seemed like they were alive, and were constantly mutating. Also, an evil, defiant laughter seemed to chase me no matter how much I ran. After all that running, I bumped into this room, with no way out. There..."
The boy sighed, and streched his arms wide.
"...my shadow left my body, and from it, another me appeared. He was exactly like me... and so very different at the same time. He was evil. Very evil."- he said, a shiver going down his spine when he remembered him.
"His robes were just like mine, only black. I asked him what did he want, and he sneered and laughed at me, and then, attacked me. I woke up then."

Sighing of relief, he thanked Blank for hearing him out.

OOC: Sorry I took so long to respond. I really have no excuse, and I apologize

IC: Blank listened intently to the unveiling of Tayro's nightmare. He shuddered as he recalled the nightmare he had been overcome by upon first stepping into Parapa Desert. Tayro's nightmare seemed just as bad. Although, in Blank's, he had been attacked by the King of Evil himself and his hordes of minions.

"That sounds terrible," said the nomad, a look of sympathy hanging on his face. He sat on the bed and placed his head in his hands, his elbows resting on his knees. He let out a deep heave of air, a confused sigh. "When did this stone of yours last glow like this?" he asked.

OOC: Don't worry ^_^

IC:
Moving asid, to let Blank sit down, he looked at the nomad, expecting something to come out of his lips. His 6th sense never failing him, he replied to Blank's question.
"Well, it was just as I left my Orphanage. Oh yeah, that's right. I never told you. I'm from the North Castle Orphanage."- the boy added, hoping that Blank wouldn't be like those pesky and uncaring people of North Castle - "So, as I was leaving on my 15th birthday, I had this most peculiar dream... I was sailing on a ship, on a very stormy night... Many people were watching me from the shoreline, yet I couldn't distinguish their faces. Then, a lightning hit me, and the boat was torn apart. I began drowning, and drowning, and drowning, and couldn't get up. My stone was fuly glowing as I drowned. Then, I woke up, and the stone was again shining."

Recapping all of that, the hylian examined his stone, whose light was starting to fade away.
"It's so strange... What do you think I should do?"-he asked the nomad.