Hey guys, Rage here. I'm sorry for the long wait, I've been really busy, believe it or not. I had to go to the doctor repeatedly for various things, and I've had some other things I needed to work on. Hopefully, I can get back on track with this. Once again, my uploading schedule has changed, in fact, there really isn't one anymore. I'm a very inconsistent person and have much trouble keeping a schedule. Also, do to a request, I will now show who's perspective it is. Anyway, lets get started.

The Shadowed Coin

Chapter 7: Comatose

Perspective-Krio

Tervik and I were sitting in the infirmary, waiting for the nurse to tell them how there friends were. But first, let me explain what happened before hand.

After Tervik, Isabelle and I got to Ashamar's room, we found him lying in bed, completely unconscious. To be honest, if it were under different circumstances, I'd probably play some sort of prank on him, but that wasn't the case. Isabelle went over to his body and spoke to him a bit. Then, all of a sudden, his eyes turned black, just like before, and Isabelle seemed to be in some sort of trance and couldn't look away. When we tried to pull her away, we were knocked back by some sort of dark energy. We stood there watching for a few seconds, then Ashamar's eyes closed again, and Isabelle fell over. When we tried to wake her up, she wouldn't. She was in a coma very similar to Ashamar's. After that, Rosalia came back with Talimal, Allen, Lavi, and a few of the finders. We all decided to carry them to the infirmary, and then we got to where we are now.

"You think they'll be okay?" I asked Tervik. He seemed to be thinking about something so he didn't hear me. "Hey, Tervik." His head snapped up and he looked over to me. "You okay?" He nodded. I sighed. "What is taking them so long?" Tervik shook his head. "Don't know, but I think I can understand. Whatever happened before, it wasn't natural." I smirked at him. "Oh really? I thought it was completely normal." He smirked back at me. "Oh, like that totally real girlfriend you keep telling me about?" "Hey! That's completely different! C'mon, you saw her. You know, that girl at the jewelry shop from the last mission." He looked at me with an amused expression. "You can't be serious." "I'm completely serious! You saw the way she looked at me, right? She was totally into me." He shook his head and looked at me like I was an idiot.

The door to the patients rooms opened and the nurse walked out. Both Tervik and I both snapped our attention to her, completely ignoring our previous conversation. The nurse looked at us, then she motioned for us to enter. We both nodded our heads to her and walked in. We walked straight ahead until we came to the room at the end of the hall. I placed my hand on the knob, then turned to Tervik. He nodded, and I opened the door.

It was a fairly large room. There were to beds on either side of the room, a counter on the far end from the door, and a window above it that overlooked the ocean. Ashamar was in the bed on the left, Isabelle on the right. Rosalia and Talimal were both standing by Ashamar's bed, both of which seemed much more calm than you would expect, but you could tell they were concealing their pain. They looked over at us when we entered, and we looked back. Nobody spoke a single word, we just walked over to Isabelle's bed and stood there.

"Does anybody have any idea what's going on here?" I said quietly. Tervik shook his head, "All anybody knows is that Ashamar has something to do with it." I glimpsed behind us at our other friend lying in a coma, and I sighed. "This is just ridiculous," I said irritably. "As soon as we find Ashamar, one bad thing happens and everyone suddenly thinks he's a villain." I clenched my hands into fists. Tervik put his hand on my back, "There's nothing we can do about it now, Krio. We just have to wait for our friends to get better." I unclenched my fists and nodded, but I still wasn't satisfied.

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Perspective-Ashamar

Tic, toc, tic, toc; that was all we could hear. All we could see was darkness, the darkness that was our slumber. "Goddamn this is boring!" I sighed, "I know Tarrin, I know." "No, seriously, what has it been, two hours?" "Two hours, seventeen minutes and thirty seven seconds." Tarrin groaned even louder. "Tarrin, calm down, seriously. There is nothing we can do until we wake up." This didn't help Tarrin's irritation however.

A few more minutes passed before things started getting worse. Tarrin had started humming to himself in an effort to alleviate some of the boredom. After a while, I really started to get irritated with it. "Tarrin, stop." He seemed to stop whistling, but I could feel his attention switch t me. "It's not like I have anything else to do. Besides, isn't the coin supposed to stop things like this from happening in the first place?" I sighed again, this time a little more annoyed.

"The Coin is supposed to contain any excess dark matter from our body and protect us from being consumed by it. However, the dark matter in the coin is always trying to fuse with the dark matter in our body, and sometimes the coin has a hard time containing it. This results in a power struggle between the coin and the dark matter, which also happens to do severe damage to our body in the process. The dark matter attempts to take over our body and mind, so we feel an extreme pain, and occasionally, the pain is so great that we fall into a deep slumber with absolutely nothing to do. But really, this has to be the fourth time I've had to explain this to you. Seriously, you helped make the damn coin, you should know how it works!"

I waited a few seconds for a response from Tarrin. "...snore" I was pissed off now. "Are you fucking kidding me! Wake the fuck up asshole!" Ahhhh! Oh, it's just you. Why'd you wake me up?" I sighed angrily, trying to contain the rest of my irritation. "It's very rude to fall asleep when someone is talking to you, Tarrin. Didn't the Earl teach you that when he made you?" Tarrin scoffed at me. "I'm an akuma, why would he teach me something like that?" I sighed again.

"Never mind. More importantly, how the hell did you manage to fall asleep?" It was quiet for a second. "What do you mean?" He asked as if he didn't understand the question. "I mean, how did you fall asleep when we were already asleep? Isn't that, I don't know, the least bit strange to you?" Tarrin seemed to think about this for a bit. "I guess that is a little confusing, yeah."

I lay there for what seemed like hours. Eventually, Tarrin started singing lullaby's to himself to try and go back to sleep, but he couldn't seem to do it again. Then, we heard a noise, it was faint, but we could hear it. "Hello?" We heard. I sat up and looked around to find the source of the sound. "Tarrin, you heard that too, right?" Tarrin made a noise that indicated he did hear it.

"Hello?" The voice said again, this time a little closer. "Is anyone there? Tervik? Krio?" My eyes widened in realization. "Is that...Isabelle?" I could see a figure in the distance coming towards me. "Yeah, I think it is. How the hell did she get in here?" I shook my head, "I don't know, but I intend to find out." I started moving in the direction of Isabelle's voice.

"Isabelle!" I screamed towards her. She seemed to hear me, because she looked in my direction. Her face showed relief, she was probably really happy to find another person. "Ashamar, is that you?" She yelled as she started running towards me. "It is You!" When she finally got close enough, she tackled me into a hug, knocking the wind right out of me. "Ooh, that looked like it hurt." "Shut up...Tarrin." I gasped out quietly .

Isabelle lifted her head from her hug and looked down at me. "Ashamar, what are you doing here?" She sounded suspicious but it was mostly covered up by her immense joy. "I was gonna ask you the same thing, haha, ow." She seemed a little confused, but she seemed to understand that she was crushing me, so she got off.

I sat up and looked at her. "Now, how did you get in here?" I asked her, still very confused. She looked at me, as if she had a lot to explain.

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Perspective-Isabelle

I explained everything that happened, from when I came into his room and everything became dark, to when I was wandering through this dark void. I left out the part where I saw him as a child murdering villagers, and I tried to lie as best I could about it, but I think he knew I was lying. I just got lost in his beautiful silver eyes, and his soft silky skin, his elegant midnight blue hair. Okay, I might've gotten a bit carried away there.

"Soooo..." I started, getting his attention. "Where are we, exactly?" I looked around the vast darkness, seeing nothing but, well, darkness. Ashamar seemed to think for a second, trying to think of an answer. Then he simply answered, "I don't know." His eyebrows scrunched and he seemed to get a little angry. "Ashamar, are you okay?" I asked worriedly. He looked up at me, shaking off the expression, "Yeah yeah, I'm fine." I raised an eyebrow at him, but he seemed to ignore me.

"Isabelle?" He asked, and I looked back at him normally. He looked worried, and I wasn't sure why. "Where are you going?" I looked at him strangely, not understanding the question. I looked down at myself, and noticed something odd. My body was fading.

"Huh!?" I panicked. "What's happening? Why is my body fading?" I started freaking out, and I looked back at Ashamar, but he was gone. "Ashamar! Don't go! I don't want to be alone again!" Then, everything went dark again.

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My eyes flashed open, and I saw a women standing over me. "Oh, you're awake. Thank goodness!" I sat up and looked around. I was in the infirmary, and there were several others in the room. Tervik, Krio, Rosalia and Talimal were all sitting around the room. When they saw me sitting up, they all smiled. "It's about damn time!" Krio said as he jumped to his feet. "We've been worried sick." Rosalia said with concern.

Everyone came over to the bed I was on. "H-how long was I out?" I asked, still a little shocked from everything that happened. "A little more than a day." Tervik stated plainly. My eyes widened, "A day!? What the hell happened?" Tervik shook his head, "That's what we were gonna ask you." I cocked my head to the side in confusion. "You must have seen something." Talimal said with curious eyes. "It has something to do with Ashamar, it has to. He's" He paused for a second, thinking of his next words carefully. "He's the reason you...fell asleep."

I looked around at all of them, "I...I saw..." They all listened inquisitively. I thought to myself, wondering what I should say. Should I tell them about the dark? Or the scene of Ashamar as a child? Or my encounter with him? Maybe it was all just a dream. No, it was definitely real. I looked up and they were all still waiting for an answer. "Ohh, umm..." I said, a little embarrassed. "I'll tell you later. How is Ashamar?" From the looks on their faces, the answer didn't seem good.

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Perspective-Ashamar

"Okay, this is just getting annoying now." Tarrin said, somehow more irritated than before. "It's been annoying the entire time, Tarrin. You can stop mentioning it now." I sighed. I understood where he was coming from, for this wasn't any less annoying for me. "At least we got a visit." I reminded him, trying to be optimistic. "I'd hardly call it a visit. She was here for, like, ten minutes." I sighed, "You are such a downer."

We sat there, waiting. It had been so long since we fell asleep, or at least it felt like it. This place makes time much longer, much to our displeasure. "Why can't we ever have good dreams?" Tarrin asked me. I shook my head, "Because we can't have nice things. They always end up breaking...or dying...or exploding." Tarrin groaned loudly, hurting my head a little.

"Hey, wanna play a game?" Tarrin asked. I raised an eyebrow, "A game?" I couldn't see it, but I could tell that Tarrin was nodding. "I say a letter, and you say everything you see that starts with that letter. Sounds fun, right?" I shrugged, "It's better than nothing, I guess."

"Okay, I spy something that starts with the letter...B." I thought for a second, "Is it...black?" Tarrin clapped, "Yes! Okay okay, I spy something that starts with the letter...D." I thought again, "Darkness?" Tarrin clapped frantically, "Yes! Your good at this. Okay, another one. I spy something that starts with the letter V." That was a hard one. "Hmmm.." I thought for a few seconds, "Umm...void?" Tarrin started cheering, "Yes, yes! Okay, one more. I spy something that starts with the letter...that starts with the letter...hmmm..." I waited a few seconds. He didn't say anything.

"Tarrin, is something wrong?" I asked my friend. "Umm, yeah."I waited. "Well...what is it?" Tarrin was a little surprised, "Oh, it's just that...there's nothing left." I was confused. "What?" I asked. "I mean, there's nothing else here. I'm out of things to name." He sighed irritably. "Oh, right." I said, as I came to the realization that where we are is completely empty. Not sure how I forgot that.

Then, all of a sudden, everything started to shake. The entire void seemed to begin collapsing. "Is-is it happening?" Tarrin asked excitedly. I nodded, "I think so." Tarrin started rejoicing, "Yes! Yes! We're gonna wake up! We don't have to wait any longer! Thank God-oh wait, I can't say that." I laughed loudly, "Ahhhhh, finally." I looked up, and a large black shard like object was falling down towards us. I closed my eyes and smiled. Finally. Then it hit us.

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My eyes opened slowly, as I awoke from my deep slumber. "Are we there yet?" I heard Tarrin ask. "Y-yeah." I said groggily, slowly gaining my composure. When I finally did, I sat up and yawned. I rubbed my eyes and looked around. I was in the infirmary, and nobody was around. I was still wearing my Exorcists coat.

I stood up and walked towards the window, moving away the curtains. It was dark out, the moon was out and full in the sky. "Huh, it's night." I turned and looked over at the clock on the wall. "10:00 p.m." I read from the clock. I looked around to see if I could find anyone. I opened the door into the hallway, which was also empty. "You'd think at least someone would be awake." I nodded in agreement.

I walked down the hall for a little while, looking for anything that could tell me what was going on. I saw a calender on the wall a few meters from me, and made my way towards it. I took a few seconds reading it. The calender said that it was Saturday, all the days before it marked off. I stood there for a few seconds.

"Hey, Ashamar." "Yeah, Tarrin." I said blankly, still quite sleepy. "Wasn't there something we were supposed to do on Saturday?" I thought for a second, "Yeah, there was." …My eyes widened, "Oh." "Shit." I immediately bolted back to the infirmary room.

"Oh shit oh shit oh shit!" I was running down the hallway, moving as fast as my legs would take me. "How did you forget about our visit to Road!?" Tarrin screamed. We were asleep for two days! And you forgot too!"

We got back to the Infirmary and I ran straight in. "Window!" Tarrin screamed. I looked over to the window from earlier, and ran over. I started opening the locks on the window, "Come on, come on." The window opened, "Bingo." I got onto the edge of the windowsill and prepared myself. "Ready?" I asked. "Ready."

I jumped.

Whew, that's over with. I hope you all enjoyed, and I'll try to make sure the next chapter doesn't take as long. I should be able to work on this story more, since I don't have as much to do. I have some band rehearsals and a few more doctor appointments in the next few weeks, but besides that, I should be free as a bird. Okay, I'll just stop it there. Thank you all for reading, if you have any advice or complaints or just feel like expressing yourself, give this chapter a review. Damn, I need a nap. And no, the irony is not lost on me. Thanks again, I'm gonna go to bed.