The Song

Chapter 1

'…'

That's all that he heard. And he was afraid of it, knowing what just happened. "…" It's all he could "say."

"Is…is it true?" he had known it all along and for the past two years, he dreamt of it.

Darkness as far as the eye could see, in his case, eternal darkness. But he was still visible; he could see any being, or life. But this, he knew why, as it would confuse most who came from his universe. Some time before, he found the reason through what he called hidden memories.

"It…it's all…gone." He was speaking of his universe.

"I've, I've…" His continues blabbering bored the narrator, which in this case, would be me so he, I mean, 'I' skipped to about five minutes in the future.

"Gone…" said the boy, "It happened…after thirteen long years…" He was afloat in the void. "But, now that it's passed, that means…" the boy then tried to open a portal of darkness to the universe he would go to next. "…right…couldn't do it in reality, can't do it in the void" he then wandered off to try to open some kind of way out after many failures, he attempted to see if he could get to another universe.

At the time before he arrived, he was on the round ball of water and land that he had formerly regretted that in some way, he chose to live there for a certain 80 years. He just made it to 13. It was the day he called the thirteenth step. The day when the universe he lived in would break and crack and obliterate. This he'd sworn. He'd then be free to travel to the so-called "fictional" universes that every small child wanted to live on. Just 20 days before before the, pardon, rather 'his' universe had been destroyed, he found an area full of other universes he couldn't wait to travel to, for those "unfinished" universes had brought him so much pain. To fulfill this pain he made a promise that he would always follow by, and never forget…

Five days before the end of his universe, he had met someone, someone that gave him the message that the…'his'…universe. She was a universe "jumper". Not really though, he had known who she was. Some other beings had known who she was too. He met her "coincidently". By this I mean she was looking for him. But she had the wrong name; no one had the name she was looking for, yet. But after a series of strange and unpredictable events she found out that he knew. Quite even more coincidently, five minutes before the universe, er… 'his' universe was destroyed; she had thought she'd failed, but the boy's name and the letter 'X' was in front of her painted on wooden blocks. They were slightly jumbled, but she reorganized them to form the name she was looking for. Two minutes remained, she had to find him, didn't work out to be that way. But even more coincidently, she was on his hill.

"Darn it!" the boy exclaimed only to find out that it echoed quite loudly in the void, "This is contradicting…" The boy erm… made an attempt to sit and think, but only ended up doing a 360 spin. So he floated and thought. It was another five minutes of trying to summon darkness, uselessly. "Arrgh! Why won't it work?!"

"You should know," said a voice far off in the distance.

"Wha..? You, you're here too?" the boy said frantically, "Why wouldn't I be? You knew. I'm not from your place" came the voice from afar "…No…if only you knew…" the boy said, "I'm not here to play games right now…later I'll screw with other people's heads." No response, "If you just happened to notice, the place with all my remaining memories just blew up, and I can't get out of this darn void!" Moments passed, "You couldn't have said it better yourself," the voice said again, "Darkness looks best in Light, and Light looks best in Darkness."

The voice slowly seemed to fade as it said "Darkness." "What?!" the boy said, "WHAT?! That metaphor was being used to stress something else, but to get out of here?" he said in an angered and slightly confused voice. No response, "…screw myself and my crazed metaphors" still no response, "Ughh…fine then" he raised his arms, "LA PORTALATICIA!" For about three seconds, nothing happened. Then, light started to emerge from around him, the darkness slowly faded away, and just before his eyes, he found himself on a beach.

It was sunset; he could see a small island in the distance. Behind him were houses and palm trees. To his left he saw the shoreline continue on for what seemed like an eternity. "Here? I don't thin…" the boy cut off short. When he turned right he saw three beings. One had silver hair, wore a yellow and white jacket, and was a bit taller than the other two. The other, a female, had maroon-ish hair, and seemed like she still had her school uniform on. The last, male, stood a bit too close to the female, had incredibly spiky hair which was brown, and had a rather sleek looking uniform on.

"…Oh, great" the boy said. For moments, nothing was said. The three had not looked intimidated, judging by how he appeared in light, they didn't seem to fear him, but they were quite baffled. "Erm…uh…hi?" the boy suddenly decided to screw with their heads. But the spiky-haired one had to talk first, "Um…hi." The boy decided not to screw with them for know, just make him seem like a confused idiot, that just appeared out of nowhere, which, half the moment he was.

"So, um…er…what's…er…up?"

"For a moment, you were!" the tall one spoke, the boy knew of his obnoxiousness.

"So were you! And the other kid next to her!" they looked quite shocked, "Excuse me?" the spiky-haired said.

"You heard me! You two, you guys fell out of the sky like twenty times!" the boy had tried to screw with them, but he knew he was failing, "You landed out there!" he said pointing to the ocean, "…and swam back to her and a duck, demented dog, and mouse!"

He knew he was making a big mistake telling them this, "But…you're right. Wait, how'd you know that?" the tall and obnoxious one said. The boy fell silent; he wasn't quite sure what to say next.

"Hey, you, red head!" her attention turned to him as if it wasn't already, "What the heck is this?" she looked confused, "You find me in a void, then leave me with these two and your whole self, and they don't know squat!" at this point she was really confused. "I'm sorry, you must be recognizing me for someone else, I've never seen you before."

"You think you've never seen me before, you don't remember fully maybe, which is kind of ironic, but you have seen me before!" at this point the tall one took over though he was very obnoxious, he was also quite wiser.

"Wait, did you just say whole self?" the boy knew he was catching on, "You darn right I did!" the tall one returned his message with a; "Didn't we just get over this? Whole self? Incomplete? He's talking about your nobody!"

The boy grinned in a slightly evil like fashion, like he was up to something, "Nobody?!" the spike haired said.

"He he he…" the boy's grin was now a huge, evil, dastardly, smile with his head pointed toward the ground.

"Yes! He he he… you idiots blinded by light have finally caught on." The trio was confused, but ready for anything.

"Fools!" he was ready to lunge at them, but his knees dropped to the ground instead.

The trio started to drop their guard.

"No…already?! I hear it now? Of all times?! But…" the boy fell to the ground in much pain, "NO! THE PAIN!!! So…much…pain…" he started breathing in short gasps, "Sworn to protect…the othe…r s…i…" he then collapsed, unconscious.