Life and Death

Chapter 7: Snowy part 2

Yin's POV

I was trembling in fear and cold. How long had we been in there? 2 hours? 3? I forgot. My eyes had got used to the dark and I could see Yuck in front of me, shivering, scared. Questions shot through my mind. What if we wouldn't get out on time? What about Mom and Dad? Did they know I was gone? Were they worried? Probably yes. I felt how I lost consciousness, my body wanted to rest, rest from surviving the cold and rest to forget the darkness and fear that filled the air. But I couldn't fall asleep. Not now, not here. If I fell asleep now it would be the end. No one would go and save Yang. No one would tell Mom and Dad where I was. No one would hug Yuck to brush the fear away. No one. I fought for staying awake. Then I saw the amber gaze looking at me. I suddenly wasn't tired anymore. I felt warm and safe.

Author's POV

Yuck stared at Yin for what seemed like ages. His own body heating up as he saw the sapphire gaze staring back. Then he finally opened his mouth to talk and break the silence. "Do you wanna cuddle?", the green rabbit saw the pink one's surprise and shock and realized how stupid and awkward he had formed his question. "I-I mean to keep you and me warm, like... penguins. Not that you are a penguin! No, you're pretty. No that I mean that I really look at you, I mean at your beauty, I mean-" He was cut off by feeling the girl's warm body against his own, both of them blushing, but enjoying the warmth. "Yuck, you don't have to be so nervous. Just ... be yourself." Yin smiled into the dark, wondering if Yuck could actually see it.

By accident Yuck dropped something that sounded like money. "Hehe, sorry.", the boy said and picked it up. As he did so, his fist hit the ground. "Did you hear that?", Yuck asked. "No, what?", Yin responded confused. "I think there's a room or something under this cave! It sounds hollow if I hit the ground with my knuckles." He hit the ground again to check if he was right. "There must be something under here! " The boy took out his sword and started hitting the ground with the end of it. His curiosity covering the thought of the risk that there was probably something horrible or at least worse that the cave under there. "Yuck, what are you doing?! What if it breaks?! We don't know what's under here!!" She saw that Yuck didn't stop. "Stop god dammit!" He didn't stop or listen. He was just eager to find out what was under them. He used several of his WooFoo attacks until the ground broke and Yuck fell into a hole, screaming. "No! YUCK!!", Yin screamed in fear.

Meanwhile...

"YO!!! YO!!!!", the afraid mother yelled. The aged panda opened slowly his eyes. "Yane, darling, what is it?", he said, turning around in his bed. "Our daughter's gone!!", Yane screamed in fear. Yo's eyes shot open, he sat up in the bed. "WHAT?!?" "I went to wake her up and saw her bed hasn't been used! Something terrible must've happened to her!" Yo hugged his sweetheart to calm her down, shushing her gently, kissing her forehead. "Yane, she received letters she didn't want to talk about, right? I have a feeling they have something to do with this." Yane sobbed. "But... they are gone now, she wanted me to make sure they don't exist anymore..." Yo sighed. He was yelling in panic on the inside, but didn't want Yane to get even more scared. Where was his daughter?

Meanwhile...

SPLASH!! After endless seconds of Yuck falling, Yin heard a loud splashing noise. She couldn't believe it. Her friend, her companion... was dead. She wanted to burst into tears when she realized something. "Why would it splash? Why would it splash if-""YIN!", Yuck's voice came from the hole in the ground and Yin looked inside of it. Yuck was swimming in blue greenish water. He smiled brightly at her, with a hint of mock about Yin's shock and fear. "Come on! Jump! The water is warm and I think here is a way out of the cave!" The smile didn't vanish. The girl looked down, those were five, maybe six meters of falling. Too dangerous. She wouldn't take the risk. "Come on! It's okay!" The pink rabbit felt her body freeze at the spot it was kneeling, fear grabbed her and clung onto her, not letting go. "I-I can't!", she admitted. "I-It's too high, I don't want to!" Yin backed away from the hole. The boy down in the water understood, but knew he had to get Yin into the water with him. He wouldn't leave without her. "Yin, it's okay, the water is deep enough, you won't hit the ground! I... I will catch you!" He held his arms open to show Yin he was there to catch her. He didn't know if he was helping really much, but he hoped he did. Yin looked down again, she looked at Yuck and the water. Swallowing down the fear she took all the courage she had and jumped through the small hole, tears in her eyes as she prayed to survive.

SPLASH!! Yuck had caught her protectively in his arms, but she still hit the water. The small girl broke into tears. Neither of the children knew why and neither of them cared. Yuck expected it to be the shock and fear coming up again, Yin didn't even want to think of it. She hugged Yuck tightly and cried into his warm chest. The boy wrapped his arms around the sobbing girl protectively. He wasn't going to let her go.

After a few minutes like this, both of them let go off this awkward position, not daring to look at each other. "Well.... look, there seems to be a way out. " Yuck said, blushing and pointing at a light spot ,which looked like the end of the cave. Yin smiled "Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" The kids made their way to what seemed to be the exit. It took long, because they had to swim, but it was definitely worth it.

Yin blinked as her eyes met the light, she looked around. Yuck and her were in some sort of warm river, around it was no snow, there were grass and plants, offering to lie down and just forget all the worries. About 10 meters further was more snow. Both of the children got out of the water. A cold wind blew, making it unbearable to wear wet clothing. Yuck knew this and he knew that Yin and him had to get rid off the clothing until they were dry again. He blushed at thinking this. Yin would never get undressed in front of him and he guessed he shouldn't get in front of her. Something the boy could really understand. But if they don't get out of the wet stuff the cold might kill them... "Um, Yin.... we have to... get undressed...." Yin's head shot around at hearing this, her eyes in shock and disbelief, a strong blush appearing on her cheeks. "What?! Yuck, I know we are friends and very close but... I don't think we should-" "NO!", yuck interrupted her, to keep her from.... wrong thoughts. "No, that's not what I mean! But... if we keep the wet clothing on the cold might be life-threatening...." Yin nodded her head understanding. She had an idea. "Well, we could make a big huddle of grass and cover ourselves with it... I wanna sleep again, anyways... I think we were longer in the cave than I thought..." She looked around, realizing that it was already sorta dark. Yuck nodded. "That's a great idea, Yin!" Yin smiled.

After around 15 minutes the both of them had made a large huddle of grass and had gotten undressed. Their clothes lying on the ground to dry. Yuck fell asleep fastly Yin joined him soon.

Yuck opened his eyes. The rabbit looked around. Where was he? It seemed to be a large box in nowhere, maybe out of blood red rubies. "Um, hello?", Yuck asked. Suddenly there was some black smoke in front of him and it formed into a rabbit. A green rabbit with shaggy fur. Yuck. "W-what?! But... you're me!" The other rabbit smiled with a nasty grin. "Hehe, no, no, Yuck. You're me." Yuck stared at the other rabbit in confusion. "Where am I? How is this possible?!" "Oh, you're in your subconscious, in the dream-wing to be exact. You're in my world now." The nasty rabbit walked around the scared other, narrowing his eyes. "What do you want from me? And who are you?" The creature stopped in front of him. "I am you. You are me. That's who I am. And what I want from you? A lot. You see Yuck, you are just a copy. Not the original." "I was made by Yin and Yang, but I'm still original! I'm... me!" "SILENCE!", the creature yelled and the place they were in shook like an earthquake.

"Long ago, much before Yin, Yang or even Yo were born I existed. It was before earth was there, before the universe was there. There was a fight. Light against darkness, good against evil. Me? I was the evil, the darkness, trying to keep the light from creating a perfect world. A world without worries and fear. It was foolish of Light to think she could beat me and make a perfect world. Foolish. So everything she had created so far gained bad sides made by me. She created a mouse and I a cat. She created the sun and I the clouds. Sadly, she was able to put me into a jar made of ruby, so I couldn't escape. She would've put me into sapphire, a much purer and stronger stone, but couldn't so she took the ruby, after I was able to destroy all her ideas. In her sadness and depression of having her plans ruined she gave earth and universe bad sides herself and threw the jar with me in it onto earth. After being stuck in the ruby for ages, watching the destruction people made with joy the ruby jar was found. Some people use emeralds or rubies to get their power out of them. Guess what? WooFoo as well. So I was found by old master Yo, who -of course- wanted to use me for power. He placed me in the jar under his daughter's pillow so she would get more power for her magic. It's a wonder he didn't notice I was more than a ruby.

So his precious daughter slept with her head on me and at deepest night I felt her suddenly absorbing the ruby's power and with that me. The day afterward she got sick. They thought it was a case of the WooFooFlu, but it was her being suddenly more powerful than usually and not having control over it. Not much later you were created. Once again her power wandered, this time inside of you. And that's where I stayed. Causing you to cause destruction and fight, causing you to break Yin's heart after you had made it yours. Causing you..." A nasty grin came back "to kill Yang." Yuck's heart stopped for a moment, a wave of shock crushing his body. "But... after Yin and Yang got back to normal by destroying me. I was powerless... how come you stayed inside of me?" "Oh, I didn't. I went back to Yin, because I knew you couldn't let her fingers off her after I had seen what a crush your real you has on her. I just waited to the next time she touched you. Bad for me you were in service to the Nightmaster when I next came. I know you just did it so you could get your body and get the chance to be close to the pink girl, but it still bothered me.

But nevermind. I was back and stayed. You are just a copy of me. You got my look and my personality, except for the evil. And in the last time you were way too nice. I remember you once breaking out of my control and being all nice and sweet. It was horrible. And now you broke out again. But don't worry. Soon I am strong enough to get out again." He took a knife out and twisted in playfully in his fingers. "And who knows what I might to first?" With that he vanished.

Yuck woke up, sweating and panting, he looked around. It was dark night. Yin was asleep next to him. After he had calmed down he felt an urge to pull all the grass away from Yin. He couldn't believe he was thinking of that! He got up quickly. Got dressed and ran away as fast as possible. Away into the dark. Away into the night. Away from Yin.


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