Yuto POV

I slowly opened my eyes, I felt pain bloom all along my back, stomach, and pretty much the rest of my body. I slowly made my way out of my bed and to my desk. I opened one of the drawers, I looked through it until I came upon a small bottle of pills. On the side it said, pain killer. I opened the bottle and got four pills out. Usually, normal shadow knights, also known as dark moons only needed to take two. But, for some reason for them to actually work for just half an hour I had to take four. I got a cup of water, then I put all four pills in my mouth and swallowed. I drank some of the water so I wouldn't choke myself. I felt the pain slightly numb.

"Yuto!" "What?" I said as I took another sip from my water. I looked over to see Yuri, Shun wasn't to far behind. "Why are you still in your pj's?" Yuri asked. "Cause I just woke up, now, go away." I said i didn't notice how tired and sluggish my voice was. But, Yuri and Shun did. "Are you feeling ok Yuto?" I heard Shun ask. I could hear the worry laced into his voice. "Yes, I'm fine, just tired. Like always. I just took some pain killers a few minutes ago. Just wait until they kick in then I'll start my day." "Ok." Yuri responded . "Alright if you say so Yuto." Shun said, worry still in his voice and eyes.

I knew that I should be doing more than just laying in bed. But, the pills haven't kicked in yet, and every time I moved, or tried to, I felt pain. Pain everywhere to the point of which I just wanted to scream. I didn't notice that I was starting to nod off.

"Yuto"

"Silver"

"Phantom. See your heart, it's turning black again. Isn't it?"

"H-huh..? Who said that! My names Yuto! Not Phantom!" I felt my heart beat faster. Then I felt something in my throat. I started coughing, I saw black ooze come out of my throat. Then, I realized, it was my own blood.. But what is it black? Then I heard the voice again. "Told you Phantom, your heart is black, see, you have black blood." "M-my.. Name.. Is Yuto! Not Phantom!" I yelled at the voice. Then moments later a coughed up more of my blood. I felt something touch my shoulder. "I know your name is Yuto, but, your name has also been Silver, and Phantom. You are Phantom, and you'll learn soon enough who he is. But, for now, you should get ready for a lot more pain. After all," I heard her say, then I saw her take out a knife. Before I could do anything, I felt it Pierce through my skin. The knife I cut through my heart and lung, I felt blood pool into my mouth. All I heard her say as she left was this, "Soon you'll see everyone you love or ever cared about betray you, hurt you physically and mentally. Even Yumi." I coughed up ever more of my blood, non stop. Until I felt as if I had no more blood to cough.

Then, I jerked up. I found myself in my room, in my bed. That's when I realized. That was all just a dream. But, I started to think otherwise, mainly because my own blood was all over myself. Not just that, there was knife shaped hole in my chest. A new one.

Yumi POV

By now, Aphmau had taken me to where I could stay. I decided to wait until tomorrow to train. I knew who was going to be training with use though, it would be me, Aphmau, Katlyn, and Garroth.

The next morning I woke up early. Just as Aphmau had told me to. As I walked to where we would be training, I thought about before. Myself and Yuto's souls had been split after we lost to our according counterpart. So Yugo beat Yuto, while Yusi beat me. We didn't have any contact with the other part of our souls. I hadn't even notice that half of NY soul was missing. After our souls split, we had found ourselves in the woods outside of Phoenix Drop. Aphmau hadn't became lord yet, she had just gotten to the village a while before me and Yuto.

After a while of staying in the village, me and Yuto had realized that we wouldn't be going home any time soon. So, we both became guards. Soon after that, do to Donna's wedding, Zane had came. Not so soon after shadow knights took Yuto..

"Hi Yumi! Long time no see, how have you been?" "I've been good Garroth, thanks." I said, a small smile on my face. "I would've thought Yuto would be with you Yumi. Where is he?" I turned around to see Katelyn walking up, Aphmau wasn't to far behind her. "Um.. Well... Yuto isn't really on the 'good' since right now." I said staring at the ground. "Yumi..? What happened?" I heard Aphmau ask. "I-I don't know... He's joined Academia.. I don't know why he d-did.. N-n-now he hates me.." I hadn't noticed that I was crying until I felt Aphmau gently patting my back. "Shh.. It's going to be ok. I'm sure Yuto will come around." "I know I shouldn't mention this.. But, Yumi, what are those red marks on your neck?" Katelyn asked, then Garroth said, "Yeah, Yumi.. Did you get into a fight with someone?" "It's ok, you can tell us. We just want to help." I heard Aphmau say. "Y-Yuto had choked me.. It happened earlier yesterday. Before I came here..." "How?" Aphmau asked.

I explained to her what had happened the day before. After that, we trained for awhile. Now, we where in the little town square like area. We where all talking. Then, Hyria asked me something. "Do you know if Yuto's heart is turning black?" "Huh..? Y-Yuto's heart turning black..? I don't know what that means, Hyria." "Mm, it means that his darkness is taking him over, that he's becoming more of a Dark Moon Demon than a human. He might be losing the rest of his humanity, in a painful way." "What do you mean by a painful way?" "I mean that he may be acting the way he is, because he's feeling only pain and anger all the time. He might also be able to tell that he's losing the rest of his humanity. I also mean in a painful way because he's a dragon demon too, so, his body might be morphing too. Which can be painful." "That.. Makes since. Thank you Hyria." "No problem, dear, are you still going to be practicing your magic with me and Lucinda?" "Yes." "Alright. Go get some rest then, you'll need it." "Ok."