What happened at night?

'So soft and so fluffy' Isabelle thought as she laid on the bed and rested her head on the pillow. Nya had walked her to her room and switched off the lights before leaving.

  Isabelle didn't bother to change, she liked the dress she was putting on. Her shoe sat quietly at the foot of her bed while her body relaxed on the bed. She closed her eyes but sleep was out of reach, it seemed to be far away from Isabelle as she just opened her eyes and stared at the moon through the opened curtain.

She immediately clutch her blanket and pulled it closer to herself as she heard the hooting of the owls. Owls scared Isabelle, she heard stories state that owls could turn their heads 360 degrees. That was a full circle, she had a reason to be scared.

  Soon enough she fell asleep, her steady heart beat rose, her breathing became unsteady. It wasn't a bad dream but, she felt really uncomfortable. Beads of sweat began to form on her forehead and they ran down her face rapidly. She felt the hair on their neck and face stood still. She couldn't help but have this uneasy feeling that someone or a being was watching her intensively. Not able to take it anymore, Isabelle opened her eyes and what she saw made her immediately roll to the other side of her bed with her screams stuck in her throat, she lost grip of her bed and fell on the floor.

From the floor she stretched her hands to her bed to grab one of the pillows she was able to reach and dashed out of her room.

"What type of beast was that?" She asked herself finding her voice. Horrified by what she saw, she kept running down the hallway quietly looking for a safe place to spend the night, she wasn't sure if she would sleep in that room ever again.

She came across a wooden door with an intricate design on it, not sparing a  minute, she hastily pulled the knob and slammed it shut when she got in. She could feel the way her heart was hitting her chest in a fast pace. She placed her head on the door trying to catch her breath.

"Izzy? What are you doing here?".

Isabelle heard a familiar voice call her name, she quickly turned knowing who it was.

Jia saw her confused and scared face, looked at her hands and saw her clutching a pillow.

"Jia? I'm scared" She said walking quickly to his bed side , she turned back a couple times to look at the door.

"Scared of what? Sleeping?" Jia asked.

"They were staring at me, two big eyes were staring at me through the window" she whispered.

It didn't take Jia two seconds before he was able to understand what she meant by 'two big eyes'. He chuckled seeing just how pale she had become because she was scared.

"You should've closed your window before going to bed silly. The Gargoyles are on patrol every night. They guard the entire environment. You are lucky they didn't come in because they would've taken you for an intruder and things would've gotten messy"

Isabelle eyes widened when she heard the last part.

Jia smiled, he was amused by her fear. "Don't worry, it wouldn't have killed you, it saw you come in with us so you are safe. You can go back to your room now". Jia said and continued reading the book that was in his hands.

After a while he noticed that the human had turned quiet and was unwilling to move, he looked up.

" Is there glue under your feet?"

"Glue? No" she answered  surprised by the question he asked.

"Then why are you still standing there?" Its not like Jia didn't know the reason why she was still in his room, he knew. He just wanted go hear it from her mouth.

"Can I sleep here tonight Jia?"

"No! Go back to your own room"

"B.but those creatures might catch me."

"Then you scream for help when they do. Don't worry I'll save you" Jia said closing his book.

"But I want to prevent that. Prevent being caught"

"All of that could've been prevented if you had closed your window or curtains in the first place. Silly."

"Please Jia let me sleep here. Just for the night"

With a sigh, he said . "I can't let you sleep on the floor, stay on my bed"

Isabelle hesitated and decided to do as she said. She was sure sleeping on the floor would give her body pains and she wasn't ready for that, painkillers take a long time before killing the pain in her body anyways.

She slept on the extreme end of his bed.

"Careful. You might fall off the bed and when you do I am not going to pick you up" Jia said before placing the book on the shelve close to his bed side.

He saw her eyes threaten to close and then whispered "Goodnight" facing the opposite direction.

Yet again, Isabelle was visited by the same creature in her dreams. Its smile not making it less known that it had something up its sleeves.

"How sad that you keep resisting to join your mother. You think you have found love." It laughed, its tail curling the pillar it rested upon.

"Isabelle" her name rolled out sweetly from its tongue. "Isabelle?" . it called her name again. "They do not love you Isabelle, the only person who truly does love you is your mother . but she's gone" it paused for a few seconds letting its words sink in then continued.

"It must be sad to be away from your loved one, take my hands so you could reunite once more with your mother. All you need is your soul to get transported and in a twinkle of an eye you'll have your mother standing before you, you would be inseparable " it said stretching forth its hands , leaning forward from the pillar, its eyes anxiously waiting for Isabelle to decide.

' I could get reunited with mama?' Isabelle thought, she let the creature's words sink in. If this was possible then what was she waiting for?.She thought. But wait, her soul would only be transported to unite with her mother what would happen to her body? Would it just lay there?. Then she looked back at the creature after she had given it a long thought.

The smile on its face gave her another reason to not accept it's proposal. She took a take back, or maybe two and began to run away from the the creature before getting swallowed by the darkness.

Isabelle jerked awake panting, she swiped her sweaty forehead with the back of her hand.

"You are still having those nightmares?". She heard Jia's voice come from beside her. Instead of his usual dark cloak which she found to be annoying, he was in a loose shirt sipping tea out of a small cup staring at something out the window.

" So what happened this time?". He took another sip from the steaming cup.

"It said something about reuniting with my mom" Isabelle said looking at her palm that had turn slightly red.

"That's not possible unless you die. I hope you're not thinking of death" Jia looked at Isabelle from the corner of his eye.

"No! No! " Isabelle shook her head. "It said something about my soul leaving my body and reuniting with my mom"

Jia stopped halfway drinking his tea.

"When i thought about it, I wondered what would happen to my body"

"It would disintegrate, humans are way to weak for a demon to posses, way to fragile" Jia said looking thoughtful .

"Demon?"

"You didn't know that the creature responsible for tour nightmare was a demon?"

"No.. I just thought it was a strange creature, it being a demon never crossed my mind for a moment. How'd you know Jia?" Isabelle asked.

" well the only creature that has access to the dreams of people are demons. " Jia said. "But it asking you to leave your body sounds strange because demons don't posses a body that cannot withstand its power."

"What would happen if a demon perhaps possessed a body that cannot withstand its powers?" Isabelle asked.

"First of all, if you can't withstand the demon's powers it'll would know and look for someone who can, but if it does posses a body that cannot withstand its powers, the body disintegrate into nothingness instantly and demons are not dumb enough to do that. They posses to use the vessel and not to let it disintegrate" Jia explained.