Silence

Macy lied in her bed silently. She tossed and turned, trying to get comfortable. She groaned in frustration sat up and punched her pillow into submission trying to make it comfortable. She fell back down onto her bed, bouncing slightly, her bed creaking. She blinked and gritted her teeth. After a few moments of silence, she got up with a quiet groan, clutching her bedside. Rubbing a circle on her face with her claw-like hand, she got up and walked out of her room.

She walked through the corridor of the Fortrex. Macy wrinkled her nose in thought looking at one of the walls, she always wondered how the place worked. The outside looked to be the size of a simple storage unit, but the inside seemed to be the size of a small castle. Like a mystical being was taking the Fortrex and pushing the outside size down but keeping the inside big.

Macy shook her head discarding the thought. She continued walking, the sounds of her bare feet hitting the ground echoing though the small silent corridor. She grimaced and looked down. She thought her hollow sounding foot steps were too peaceful for everything that was happening.

Monstrux was back and in the form of a cloud that could bring statues to life, Jestro turned evil again and was working with Monstrux, there was a sculpture working with the evil duo, making statues for them to bring to life and fight them, their Nexo Powers worked on turning the living rock back to normal statues but then Monstrux just brought them back to life, Merlok's memory was lost and his hologram form maybe gone forever, but… above all… Clay…

Macy sighed dishearteningly and walked into the main room. She looked at the hologram deck, half expecting Merlok 2.0 to be there, leaning against his staff snoring away. Nothing stood there. The silent humming was the only thing that accompanied Macy as she stood alone in the dark room. She looked down pulling her lips into a thin line. After a few moments, she looked up to the one thing that stood out in the room.

She walked up to it and stared. Clay in statue form. Macy closed her eyes and looked down sadly. She dreaded this since she found out he was turning to stone. And when she saw his statue form fall out of his meck suit, she didn't think her heart could've dropped lower then it did at that moment. Opening her eyes she looked up to Clay. She did her best to pretend that she didn't know why she lounged for Clay to just jump to life, go back to normal run up and hug her. She wished this didn't have to happen.

She honestly thought things would be the same as the first time they fought Jestro and Monstrux. For them to attack a village, then her and the team to come and save the people and defeat the monsters with careful ease. Not to fall into the swirling pits of depressions, struggles and anxiety they were all currently drowning in.

She sighed and walked out of the silent room, the humming being the only thing that helped remind her that time was still going and there was going to be a tomorrow for them to face. She dreaded it. Nothing good was coming so what and who said things were gonna get better?

Walking back into the corridor she walked towards her room ignoring everything and pushing it into the back of her mind. She stepped to her door ready to go inside but hesitated when reaching the handle. Turning she looked at Clay's room door. She took a deep breath and looked around. No one was there.

Taking a few silent steps she walked towards Clay's room door. Toke a deep breath and stepped inside. The door lowly creaked as she opened it. As soon as she was inside she turned around and closed the door to close the door as quick as possible. The creak was louder but less long. Before the door closed Macy abruptly stopped pushing it and then slowly closed it, keeping the door silent.

Turning around she looked at Clay's bedroom gulping thickly but silently. She walked up to Clay's bed and laid down. She turned to her side and curled up pulling the blanket over her. She saw the tears forming in her eyes and fought to keep them at bay. A few slipped out and continued to do so even as she closed her eyes.

She remembered when she was little, her mother sitting her on her lap, telling her stories of when she was a knight. Macy was very riveted by the thought of being a knight. She trained to become one when she was older, but was a bit clumsy in the acts and ended up chipping a tooth. When her parents found out they were shocked by it, her mother eventually got very happy about it and managed to convince her sputtering king husband into letting Macy go to knight academy.

A ghost of smile rested on her lips, thinking of the memory as she drifted off to sleep wet tears still on her cheeks as she forgot all the problems of the world. Dreaming of fighting battling with her friends. Lance acting cocky, Axl taking the most of them and then getting distracted by food, Aaron practically showing off as he rode around on his shield as if it was a hover board, her as she took on as many monsters as she could trying to show she could be a knight more then she could a princess, and Clay leading them all to battle with a terrible entry line she honestly thought she would never miss.