'Goodbye. I hope too see you soon. You must understand, I need to help him.'

My thought went out towards the glorious gates that slowly shrink in the distance. The call for my help was fading aswell, but I knew it was still out there. That person sounded so urgent, but now the sound of their cries for help were waning. But I wasn't going to stop. If I had learned anything about myself recently it was that I was very determined; I would no longer break my resolve. My legs moved in the blackness, in my minds eye I could see them moving back and forth. The fellow dweller of darkness was in my sights now. I lept from my position towards the figure, hands outstretched. My hands clasped the pilgrims wrists as I landed on my stomach. I imagined I would have looked like I'd just caught someone falling over an edge, while I myself lay atop it. Horror crept across my face when they were engulfed in the abyss, their form disappearing into obscurity. I could feel my hands slam violently into fists before me, as if the wrists of this person had turned into air.

My soundless screams raged in my mind
'NO NO NO NO! I WAS SO CLOSE!!!!'

My mind grew still for just a moment as a thought scuttled by. I turned my head towards my own gate to salvation, expression blank. It too, was fading. I couldn't make it there in time, even if I used all my energy to sprint to the gates, I know I would still fall short before they disappeared. I was doomed. I laid on my stomach in the darkness, light slowly fading before me, teasing me. I was once again reunited with the [i]Nothing[/I] as the only thing providing any light had disappeared. It was gone, but only for a few seconds. Another light had come, not as bright as the last light, but when their was an absence of light even a small flicker would brighten the world. The light grew fast and surrounded me just as fast. Before I knew it, the darkness had all but vanished and I was left standing there in the light. 

This isn't my salvation.

Rock formations all around me. A cave. The word came to me quick, I barely had to think about it. I didnt care though, at least i was rid of the darkness. The relief was shortlived when I saw the being in front of me. More darkness, this was different though. It seemed more...tangible, it was a being, like me, but different. Beyond the tangible darkness a figure stood, with the skeletal hand of darkness resting on their shoulders. 

My thoughts continued.
'This isn't a trap, this is real, they are both real. They-. Its bringing the person back into the abyss. The tangible darkness is trying to take them, they who I've come to save...not in my watch.'

I raised my arms and I swung my hammer down.