The Brightest Light of All Chapter 3
REVISED!
WARNING: Cutting in this chapter
Disclaimer: I don't jack shit! But I do own my OC's and my pre-ordered FFXV game!
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Chapter 3 What are Nightmares?!
A lady had been walking down the streets of Radiant Garden in the dead of night when she suddenly heard a growl. The woman was becoming paranoid as the growling became more audible and clear. She took off down the streets into an ally only to see one horrific creature as her last sight. Before she could even scream her head was ripped off clean from her body and eaten with ease. The monstrosity was gorging her insides, tearing the rest of her corpse apart limb from limb, and growled in disdain. This human's nightmares weren't strong enough to satisfy it. It growled loudly in the night as it ate the rest of its victim and left no trace but her head, as it was unsatisfied. It needed more. More! Stronger nightmares to devour.
Leon woke up with a gasp.
He had another nightmare again. It was of Cloud leaving him...for Sephiroth. Not only that, but he and the one-winged angel had killed all of his friends and everyone else in Radiant Garden...except for him. They left him alive, broken, and all alone. It was torture.
"*Hic**Hic*" Leon sobbed as he was crying from how real the nightmare felt. He couldn't take it. He had to 'punish' himself! The brunette had then taken out a secret knife he kept with himself and went into the bathroom. The brunette had slammed the door shut, locking it automatically. He ripped his belts off his arm, revealing his numerous scars and cuts that he healed himself.
Leon smiled crazily as he sliced his wrist, the blood seeping out of the wound always encouraged him. Maybe this will make him stronger...hehehe...Time for more, he always thought.
"You're nothing." Slice.
"You'll never amount to anything." Another slice.
"You don't deserve happiness." Leon was crying as he made a very deep slice. The blood started to spill and stain the white of the sink. There was so much and Leon thought there should be more of his blood on the ground. Heh, no one would care if Leon Leonhart were to die, it'd just be treated as another pointless death. Leon went to slice his wrist even deeper than before.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" Dark Leon yelled as he materialized himself and grabbed his Hikari(1) and restrained him. The smaller brunette was frightened from the tone in Dark's voice. Snapping out of his trance state, the light brown haired man looked down at the new cuts on his wrist. Realization finally hit Leon making drop the knife from his trembling hand. Tears began to fall more and more from his eyes.
"Why?! Why do I have to live this life unhappy!?" Leon screamed into his double's chest as he let tears and sobs escape him, voice filled with anger. Tears streamed down the brunette's face like rain drops. It looked as if they wouldn't stop falling and it just broke Dark's heart.
Why? Why did his Hikari have to love someone who won't remember him? His Tenshi(2) deserved so much better than that...Bastard!
"Shhh, shh. It's alright Hikari...Maybe someday he'll remember you, but you don't have to hurt yourself..." Dark whispered gently into the smaller brunette's ear. "Alright, now let's clean this up, so Cloud doesn't get suspicious. Okay?" Leon nodded before he looked up, revealing red, bloodshot eyes from crying.
Before the Dark brunette knew it, tears fell down his face from looking at his beautiful Hikari crying.
KNOCK, KNOCK!
"Leon! Are you okay? I heard the bathroom door slam shut, and you've been in there for awhile now," Cloud said very concerned for his friend. Heck, were they even friends? In all due respect, this is the most interaction that he and the brunette had ever had these past few days.
"I'm fine." Leon stated back as he finished washing the sink of blood and bandaging his wounds.
"O-okay?" Cloud said unconvinced of the other's tone of voice. The spiky blonde just sighed and decided to go back to bed.
Leon wiped his eyes and washed his face. Leon looked down at his thighs at the stab wounds. The stab wounds he himself inflicted.
Leon opened the door. He got back into the bed facing opposite of Cloud.
The blonde was falling asleep, but he could've sworn he heard crying coming from the bathroom...Why?
The very next morning...
The Restoration Committee was on prime alert as an attack on a civilian had occurred last night. The most shocking thing is that...it wasn't from a heartless attack. It couldn't have been because the blood was everywhere, and the only evidence left was the victim's head.
The poor woman's face still held the same terrified face she had as she was decapitated. The civilians were told not to be out during the late night unless they had proper protection to keep them safe.
After that, Leon was working on the lights and the water system in Tifa's bar.
They had built it for her as a gift because when Tifa was 12 years old, she said she wanted to run her own bar here, in Radiant Garden. The dark brunette almost forgot about that wish. As she was finishing cleaning the rest of dishes, she noticed Cloud sitting on a bar stool, moping again about finding his Light. Tifa could only sigh as the spiky blonde continued to brood over that.
"Cloud, you need to stop moping, got it?" Tifa said trying to get the blonde out of his depressed state.
Suddenly, the windows were broken from loud roar that seemed to produce strong shock waves. The sheer force of the roar knocked Leon onto the ground and before the brunette could blink he was surrounded by 3 horrendous, dark creatures. Leon scrambled to the floor, Gunblade in hand as he looked at the three creatures apprehensively.
The creatures were four-legged, their mouths big with acidic drool, as they closed in on the Committee Leader. Leon glared at the hideous beasts and charged in to attack, but when his Gunblade made contact it didn't cause the creature any pain at all. The skin felt like steel against his weapon.
"What?!" Leon muttered to himself in shock before he was roared in the face, but before the monster could even do anything further, a giant sword came smashing down its head causing it to disappear. Cloud glared at the other two before they roared and retreated. Leon was still shocked at as to what just happened.
"What the hell were those things?!" Tifa yelled as she ran to the still shaken up brunette. Leon finally got himself together and started to walk out of the bar, ignoring the other two. Tifa and Cloud were very stunned at this action.
"Cloud..." Tifa said in a concerned tone of voice. The blonde knew what she wanted him to do and nodded. Cloud started to follow the older male as quietly as possible.
Leon couldn't believe he needed to be protected by Cloud! Gods, why was he such a useless weakling. He trained with all his heart and yet he was still too weak to defeat the enemy. He was just...too weak.
The brunette walked dejectedly, his sadness radiating off his body. As he was walking by a group men had noticed the brunette and they all had a lecherous look on their faces as they thought up a devious plot. Leon had decided to go down an alleyway, you know just to clear his head when he suddenly was pinned to the wall. Leon had only glared as he knew who the culprit was.
Dilan and his stupid gang.
"Hey sexy, why you walking all alone?" The bastard had the gall to even try and flirt with him. Leon glared at the male who was taller than him. The jackass had green hair in a boyish ponytail, and he was wearing a red sleeveless jacket, and blue jeans. Leon hated Dilan because he always looked at him with that disgusting want in his eyes. The brunette wanted to punch those perfect teeth in green haired man's mouth.
"What do you want, Dilan." Leon grounds out the man's name, voice laced with repulsion. Dilan had smirked and purred.
Dilan was also a renowned playboy, and he hit on a lot of guys and girls in the town. However, he liked to tease Leon the most because of how calm and cool the brunette was.
"Don't be like that, baby," Dilan whispered huskily into the warrior's ear, causing an involuntary shudder. "I'll treat you right if you just give me a chance." Leon was gonna push him off until Dilan started to playing with a lock of his hair.
Now, normal people would not be shaken up by someone playing with their hair, but Leon had a lot of past issues and this one was...the worst. A sixteen year old boy, in a bar in Traverse Town, a few guys who are many years older start to hassle the boy, and play with his soft hair.
"Oh, looky here boys. The Committee Leader is all shaken up from my actions! He must want it bad~." Dilan laughed and so did the other men.
That boy was pushed onto a table and restrained and...and...
"Hehe! Also, Leon I heard that you killed some people in Traverse Town," Dilan said casually with the same stupid smirk on his face. This comment caused Leon to twitch and become still. Him? Kill people? Oh yeah...
"So babe, I won't let that secret slip from lips if you give me and my friends a good time, if you know what I mean." Dilan snickered his gang of thugs snickering and laughing as well. The brunette had his eyes covered by his hair. His whole body trembled in anger, hell he was seething in uncontrollable rage. They needed to suffer. They needed to pay for making him feel like this.
'I can't take this!'
'Let me show them what happens when they mess with you, my Hikari.'
'With pleasure, do as you please...but don't kill them, okay?'
'Yeah, yeah...I got it.'
Dilan was waiting for Leon to reply only to receive a strong foot to the side of his face, blowing him across the alley way into a wall, actually leaving an imprint into the cement.
"Oops, sorry." Dark apologized sarcastically as he lowered his leg calmly. He placed his hands in his pockets knowing he wasn't going to need them for this fight.
The other gang members glared at the brunette before brandishing their weapons and charging at him with anger.
The first one who wielded a metal bat went down with ease. All it took was a round house kick to the face and he was incapacitated. The second one almost got Dark, well actually, Dark allowed him to get close because he saw his attack coming from a mile away, so Dark proceeded to break his pitiful arm with ease and stomped on his stomach, adding insult to injury. The third one who had a knife was at least smarter than the other two and attacked with skill and finesse, but when he thought he got Dark, the brunette had disappeared. The thug looked up to see Dark spinning in a vertical circle in the air before the brunette kicked the thug in the face with extreme force. As Dark landed on his feet, he surveyed his handiwork. Well, it wasn't as bloody as last time, so they won't be asked any questions. But more importantly...
"Hey, Cloud stop hiding you're terrible at it." Dark said casually causing said spiky blonde to flinch somewhat before coming out of his hiding spot. Dark then thought of something fun. How about he show the blonde the real Leon and Dark Leon. Dark chuckled and concentrated and separated himself from the brunette into his own form and body. Leon looked drowsy and confused, but not as confused as Cloud.
The spiky blonde was jaw dropped. He couldn't believe what he hell he was seeing. Why were there two Leons!?
Leon noticed Cloud staring in disbelief and was wondering what the blonde was so shocked about before he noticed that Dark was right beside him.
'Aw shit! Why did you do this, Dark?!' Leon was trying to find the right words to handle this situation, but he couldn't think of any excuse that would make this any better.
"Well, seeing how we're all together again, Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dark Leon." Dark said smiling sending chills down Cloud's spine. "And you are going to be Leon's boyfriend."
All that followed was an very long pause.
"What."
Both Leon and Cloud stared at Dark, but the dark brunette just snickered and focused on Cloud.
"You are going to pretend to date Leon so people like Dilan leave him alone. If you don't comply, I'll rip your head off. Bye!" And with that Dark vanished by fading away, leaving a very scared Cloud and a very speechless Leon.
"Did...he...just..." Leon couldn't even fathom what the hell Dark was even thinking. Why did he even do this?
At the same time, Cloud had to think about what he just got himself into, as confusing and weird as it was. On the outside, he wore his usual stoic face.
Consequently, if he doesn't date Leon then he's gonna die, but what if he meets his Light while he's supposedly "dating" Leon. Then what? Just leave Leon high and dry while he goes to be with his Light. Cloud can't do that! He's way too faithful in a relationship. He could never leave someone unless there was a good enough reason to. Not to mention if he ever leaves Leon like that, then that Dark Leon would kill him in the most brutal way possible. So, what could he do?! Cloud began thinking of multiple plans as to how he could deal with this kind of problem.
Leon sighed. It was already getting more and more difficult to fight back his personality shifts because he was living with his ex-lover, but now the blonde was racking his brain on what to do, which amused Leon. He knows he trapped the spiky blonde man from any escape points in this situation, but still Cloud just seemed to become instantly scared of Dark. Leon was one of the only people, the other being Aerith, who could actually read the through the stoic expression on Cloud's face.
"Cloud, I thought you didn't take orders from anyone?" Leon smirked a little amused at how hard the blonde was thinking.
"Leon," Cloud said in a serious tone as he turned his expressionless face to the brunette, "What do I do?" Cloud asked.
Leon honestly didn't know.
Later that day, Leon found a piano in Cloud's house and couldn't hold back to try it out. The brunette looked around before closing the door and turning the lock. Leon was actually very skilled at playing the piano, and actually he can sing, but he'd never want any of his friends to know that. He'd die of embarrassment.
Leon sat on the piano bench, cleared his throat, and thought of what he would play. The brunette decided to play a song that he wrote right after when he first met Dark. Leon started began to sing in his beautiful voice.
(AN: This is "Lost Boy" By Ruth B. I obviously do not own this song at all! In this fic I'm just going to say that Leon wrote this song when he was young.)
"There was a time when I was alone
Nowhere to go and no place to call home
My only friend was the man in the moon
And even sometimes he would go away, too
Then one night, as I closed my eyes
I saw a shadow flying high
He came to me with the sweetest smile
Told me he wanted to talk for awhile
He said, "Peter Pan, that's what they call me
I promise that you'll never be lonely, " and ever since that day
I am a lost boy from Neverland
Usually hanging out with Peter Pan
And when we're bored we play in the woods
Always on the run from Captain Hook
"Run, run, lost boy, " they say to me
Away from all of reality
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
He sprinkled me in pixie dust and told me to believe
Believe in him and believe in me
Together we will fly away in a cloud of green
To your beautiful destiny
As we soared above the town that never loved me
I realized I finally had a family
Soon enough we reached Neverland
Peacefully my feet hit the sand
And ever since that day
I am a lost boy from Neverland
Usually hanging out with Peter Pan
And when we're bored we play in the woods
Always on the run from Captain Hook
"Run, run, lost boy, " they say to me
Away from all of reality
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
Neverland is home to lost boys like me
And lost boys like me are free
Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Wendy Darling
Even Captain Hook, you are my perfect story book
Neverland, I love you so
You are now my home sweet home
Forever a lost boy at last
Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Wendy Darling
Even Captain Hook, you are my perfect story book
Neverland, I love you so
You are now my home sweet home
Forever a lost boy at last
And for always I will say
I am a lost boy from Neverland
Usually hanging out with Peter Pan
And when we're bored we play in the woods
Always on the run from Captain Hook
"Run, run, lost boy, " they say to me
Away from all of reality
Neverland is home to a lost boy like me
And lost boys like me is free
Neverland is home to a lost boy like me
And a lost boy like me is free"
"Wow!" A voice shocked Leon out of his singing trance state. The startled brunette turned to see the door was opened. Wide open. However, that wasn't what shocked him the most. What shocked most was that everyone was staring at him with surprised looks on their faces. Which meant they heard him sing...
"Please...Please tell me you guys didn't-"
"Hear you sing in the most beautiful voice ever!" Yuffie finished for him, exaggerating just a little too much.
"Uh yeah. We heard you." Tifa said in a calm voice, being the only one smiling at how lovely Leon sounded. She could practically feel what Leon was feeling while he sung. It was so...entrancing.
Leon groaned loudly, head falling on the piano.
AND SCENE!
(1): Hikari means 'Light' and Dark And Lee...mostly Dark calls Leon their precious Hikari because right now only they, Aerith, Tifa, and Miyiko can see and feel Leon's warm light.
(2): Tenshi means 'Angel' and Dark is the ONLY one allowed to call Leon an Angel even though it is a term usually used for lovers. This is showing just how much Dark loves Leon.
How was that...Also, I'm trying to make this darker and darker as I go on, So if you have any suggestions please do tell me. Loves you all, Please Review though!
