Dwayne and Sharlette emerge from the woods at the first sight of daylight, into the field a few hundred yards away from Chesters mansion. Morning had brought dark skies, which would later prove to bring rain. They ran the last hundred yards, leaving both breathless.
"Master, there are people approaching from the field." Ferris said walking into the room.
"Dwayne??" Shadow say as she runs out onto the porch.
Puck stares out the window in silence, oblivious to what is going on.
Shadow reenters the room with Dwayne and another hooded figure. Both breathing like they couldn't catch their breath.
"How did you get away?" Chester asked Dwayne.
"Anna." Dwayne said as he took a glass of water from Ferris.
"Where is Rachel?" Shadow asked, as she noticed the other hooded figure was definately not Rachel.
"I had to leave her." Dwayne said, hoping that it was not too late to save her.
"She is His slave." The old woman said, as she turned to face Chester.
"And who might you be?" Chester asked curiously.
She takes off her hood revealing long dark hair and a young beautiful face.
"SHARLETTE!!!" Chester screamed in horror.
Her beauty faded in seconds, and she was an old woman again.
"Get out!! You can't be here, I saw you die at the stake. You are nothing but a ghost. Get out before the townfolk know..."He said, starting to push her back outside.
"You need me Chester." She said, standing her ground.
"Rachel is his slave now, there is no telling what he will do to her." Dwayne said, as he took off his robe revealing the long shirt. "Chester, give her a chance.. For Rachel's sake."
"Why??" Shadow says pointing at the shirt on Dwayne.
"Long story." Dwayne says, breaking into a smile.
"Yes, Chester, that boy is a smart one." Sharlette said and then laid a hand on his chest. "With this heart, believe in me. Believe in Anna. There is still hope. Help me, help us, bring her back. Help us save Rachel."
"I don't know how." Chester said, sadly.
"Can you die in dreams?" Puck asks, but his question goes unnoticed, or just unanswered. He shrugs and goes back to looking out the window. It was getting darker outside, they were in for a nice storm.
"Chester, are you going to offer an old woman a place to sit, a drink perhaps?"Sharlette said, as she sat on one of his plush couches.
"Please excuse me as I suffer from shock. Two people I thought were dead, are really alive. I watched both of you burn to ashes."He said, as he poured a drink for the both of them.
"Drinking already??" Shadow said, as she tried to take the drink away from Chester.
"In times like now, what does it matter?" Puck asks, as he too decided he would like a drink.
"I left Anna and Rachel in a locked room in Sar...his mansion. He attacked Rachel, and somehow she ended up his slave. " Dwayne said, as Ferris brought him in some clothes.
"Why a slave?" Chester asked.
"She would not follow through with a deed, she bit his manhood." Sharlette said laughing as all the men winced.
"How is Anna??" Chester asked longingly.
"Cursed." Dwayne said, feeling better out of the long shirt and in normal clothes.
"Chester, she tries to get away from him. But you know his powers. These people here are not the first she has tried to send to you, there were many others. She wanted to tell you she was alive, but he always captured them. Turned them into her play things. " Sharlette said, holding out her glass for more wine.
"How many where there?" He asked her.
"Hundreds maybe?" She said, sipping slowly at her drink. "He is scared, I can feel it. It's become a game to him, but....Anna's blood runs through one of you." She said as all eyes turned to her.
"What?" Dwayne asked her.
She just stared back at him not answering.
"The dolls in that room. I held one and it fell apart in my hands." Shadow said to the woman.
"It's soul was set free." Sharlette said, putting down her glass.
"How do we kill him?" Puck asks, as he sees the first rain fall.
" I do not know, i am sorry. I do know that its up to the four of you though.All of you have to be brave facing this evil." Sharlette said looking around the room.
"Is there a way into the mansion without him seeing us?" Shadow asks Dwayne.
"Yes, how I escaped, through tunnels." Dwayne said, as he sits next to Sharlette.
"We will not enter that evil palace. We musnt ever enter there." Sharlette said, hoping she was getting through to them.
"Why did Anna not come with you?" Chester said, as he poured another drink.
Shadow boldly removed the glass from his hand, as Chester scowled at her.
"Her mind his not her own, Chester.. you should know that." Sharlette said to him. "Her powers are not her own."
"Does he know you left?" Shadow asked Dwayne.
"I am almost positive he saw me escape into the woods. I could feel him watching me, and yet he did not come after me. It's as if he wanted me to escape...."Dwayne starts, but Sharlette interrupts.
"He needs a woman to bare his son, Dwayne can't do that. He was of no use to that beast." Sharlette said, as she held Dwayne's hand.
"What special thing could we possibly do to render him powerless." Shadow asked the woman.
"Honesly, I don't know." Sharlette said, as her eyes moved to Puck at the window.
"Chop off his head." Puck said, looking back at her.
She nodded to him and smiled.
"We have to get to Rachel somehow before he kills her, because that is what i have the feeling is going to happen." Dwayne said, squeezing the old womans hand.
"We have to get her before he finds out." She said with frightened eyes.
"What?" Shadow asked her confused.
"What?" Sharlette asked blinking at Shadow.
Shadow looked to Dwayne to see if he understood what she meant. She was so confused, and from the looks of it so was he. Puck looked to be the only one that was up for the deed.
Pucks gazed drifted back out the window and to the sheets of rain. Somehow the rain made him feel braver than he actually was. This dream of his felt too real. There was nothing anyone could tell him anymore, that could make him think that it was anything more. He guessed if it was his dream, then he would have to be the one that would kill "THE EVIL ONE." he thought.