Life and Death

Chapter 10: Preparing and Caring

Yuck's POV

I saw a bright blue light, before everything turned dark. Then there was a voice in my head, the voice. "Missed me?", it asked evilly. Now I saw the weird world again, I found myself facing the inner me once again. "Running away was I wise move. I have to admit that.", he said looking away from me. Then he turned his gaze towards me and gave me a nasty grin. "But it won't be of any use for you!" And he laughed a terrible laughter that sent chills down my spine. "Leave me alone! I've already done enough damage! You don't need to make things worse!", I yelled, mad.

"Maybe I don't need to, but I want to.", he grinned.

"I won't let you! I won't go back to Yin until I defeated you! When I'm alone neither you nor me can harm any people!", I grinned, thinking that was my way to easily solve the problem without risking any lives, besides my own.

"Oh, don't worry about that, I already manipulated your little girlfriend in her innocent sleep.", he grinned.

"W-what? Manipulated? How?", I asked, worry and fear flooding through my body.

"You will find out soon enough. And so will she, in about... three hours. Now get out of here, you little bastard." He threw a knife at me and I immediately woke up."

Author's POV

Yuck woke up, a headache torturing him. What did his real self just say? He manipulated Yin? But how? Was he maybe bluffing? Yuck had no idea what to do. If he went back to Yin to maybe save her from whatever that beast inside him did to her, he could possibly lose control and hurt her. But if he didn't go what would happen to Yin? Questions without answers. Yuck thought about the situation. He just sat there, not caring about his hunger or any of the other needs he felt. He just sat there and thought. He thought until he finally made a decision.

He'd not go back to Yin, not yet. The beast couldn't really harm her physically without Yuck's body. And as long as Yuck still had control over it, he wouldn't move it back to Yin, he wouldn't bring her life into danger. Besides, he didn't even know where Yin was right now. It would take too long to search for her. In the end, Yuck would've just wasted time. Precious time he could use to kill the beast within himself. He still didn't know how. The beast wasn't physically alive, he just lived through Yuck's mind. So if there was no other way, Yuck could suicide. But that wouldn't really kill the beast either. He said he manipulated Yin, so there must be a way, a dimension or something for the beast to live without needing a real body.

Then something came to Yuck's mind. When the beast killed him in his dream, he just woke up. What if he killed the beast in his dream? Would he die? He had nothing to lose, did he? But then Yuck couldn't practice. All he needed to fight the beast was a good sleep, so he'd have enough time. He could attack the beast from behind. So he only had one chance to surprise him. This was how it was gonna happen. He was gonna kill the beast in his sleep, so he was out of danger. He just needed to sleep good and long enough so he had enough time, since in dreams the time seemed to past much quicker than in the reality. So there was just one way: getting himself as exhausted as possible. With that idea in his head his feet started moving, carrying him faster and faster until he was running as fast as possible. While he did so Yin appeared on his mind a few times. He still played with the thought of searching for her, but his other option, the thought of defeating the beast, was stronger.

Yuck then realized that there was a city in front of him. On one hand that was good, on the other it was bad. What if the beast would try to kill innocent citizens? The boy made once again a decision: He'd stay in this town, he was strong, he was gonna manage it. As he got closer and closer to the city, he saw a church with a big clock on it. 6:35pm. About ten minutes ago, Yuck had started running. So if the beast wasn't bluffing, the manipulation he put on Yin would take effect at about 9:25pm. Yuck just begged god that he was bluffing.

Meanwhile...

Yin's POV

I just lay there in the bed. Nameless had told me to stay in bed, so I decided to do what he or she said. They brought me more tea and some noodles after I asked for something to eat. I tried not to think about anything sad, I tried not to think about this whole situation. But somehow I had to. I thought about Yuck. What happened to him? Where was he? Was he alright? And what bothered me the whole time was the weird dream I had when I was unconscious. I saw Nameless entering the room, carrying something in their hands, some sheets of paper and a pencil. "Hey. I thought if you get bored you might wanna draw something."

I looked at them. "No, sorry, I'm really everything else than bored..."

"You can't get all these things out of your head. They put pressure on you. Pressure from which you can't escape."

Damn he or she had read me like a book. "Yeah..."

"I'm sorry... there's nothing I can do about that... I'll see if I could find something to distract you a little." They placed the objects they had brought with them next to the bed I was lying in and left me alone again. Then a word rushed through my mind. "Timor" What the hell did it mean? But then I remembered something.

Author's POV

Yin remembered that "timor" was one of the words those voices in her dream had whispered. She quickly took a sheet of paper and wrote it down. Maybe she could collect all the words and ask Nameless about it! She went deep into her mind, into her subconscious. "Hic timor est." That was even a whole sentence!

Later...

7: 13pm

After 38 minutes Yin collected enough. She collected the words and sentences quicker than she had thought she would. Nameless had been in a couple of times to check on her and see if she needed company or a distraction. Yin always told them that she was fine and that she needed to be alone. Nameless left understanding. "Okay, I think there weren't more..." Yin said to herself and looked at the sheet of paper in her hands.

Hic timor est

id Time!

Mors veniet!

Armor a te osculariet et invidian a te necabit!

Time!

Yin wondered why she was able to write this, it was really different written than someone would speak it in English. Was that really a language? "Nameless! Come!"

Nameless came rushing in hurriedly "Is everything alright? Do you desire something? Did something happen?"

"Don't I'm fine... you remember the dream I told you I had when I was unconscious?"

The cloaked person relaxed at finding the girl being okay. "Yes, I do. May I know why you ask?"

"Of course you may know, this is why I called you." Yin turned her gaze from Nameless to the sheet of paper. "I remembered what those voices said and it really seems to be a different language. I wondered if you might know it since you.. .well you seem kind of wise and smart."

Nameless felt obviously friendly touched by that compliment. "Thank you, Yin... well, show it to me, I'll see what I can do." Yin handed the paper to them. Nameless read it and then was shocked. "Y-yes, I know this language... it's Latin... and I also know what this says..."

"What are you waiting for? Tell me!... Please.", Yin said.

Nameless didn't really know if it was right to tell the girl the message, but after all it was her dream and she needed to know. "Okay, I'll tell you...

here is the fear!

Fear it!

Death will come!

Love will kiss you and jealousy will kill you!

Fear!"

Yin was shocked. Her heard beating furiously against her ribcage as she felt tears forming in her eyes. This was saying... that she'd die! "... I'm gonna die..."

Nameless gave the sheet of paper back to her. "I don't know how serious you should take this. But I suggest not to put too much thought and worry into it. Dreams are not always correct. In fact, most of the time they are not correct."

Yin looked at Nameless, then back to the sheet of paper. A tear dripped onto it.

Meanwhile

Yuck was leaning against a wall. He was panting, he was sweating and we was tired. Perfect! This was the perfect timing to have a good sleep battle. He lay down in the grass and waited for sleep to overwhelm him. But that didn't happen. Sleep didn't come. Not even a yawn. There wasn't even the real desire to sleep in him, there was just the feeling that he was K.O. . What else could it possibly take for him to fall asleep? A warm milk? A bedtime story? Anything else ridiculously childish he was willing to do right now?

YAWN

In all his thought all his worry about not being able to defeat the beast he didn't notice slowly drifting into sleep.

"Hello, there, I wasn't thinking you'd come visit me once again."

Damn, he already knew, there was no way attacking from behind. "Well, I just enjoyed our encounters so much that I thought I'd want to meet you once again.", Yuck answered him sarcastically.

The beast didn't look too happy with that sarcastic statement. "What do you want?", he spit the words out and glared.

" I want my own mind and my own dreams back! And I want you to leave Yin alone!" , Yuck answered, growling.

The beast grinned evilly. "And why would I do that?"

"Because you have no reason to hurt Yin or anyone else!"

"Yes, I do!"

"And what reason would that be?", Yuck yelled.

The beast smirked.

" I won't tell you , but you will find out..."

He pulled a knife out of his pocket and grinned bloodthirsty.

"Alright, give me the worst you've got!"

"My pleasure..."

Another finished Chapter ^w^ Hey, I got a comment, I'm not gonna tell who it was, but it kinda hurt me and pissed me off. Someone told me to make my next chapter longer. Now I appreciate the interest of all of you in this story but I gotta say: I'm very busy. I'm in 9th grade and in Germany that's a really hard one. I need to do a lot of homework, study a lot and then I also gotta go to accordion orchestra, flute ensemble and keyboard lessons and I gotta practice for that. So you can imagine that I only have a tiny bit of freetime. Since writing fanfiction also causes me to focus a lot I can't write that much and often, so I decided to rather write many short chapters to give you guys updates more often than to write very long chapters which would just take too long. This way I can give you a chapter at least once a week, isn't that okay?

AquasDragoKnight: Thiiis happened to yuuuck! Heh, him or her! :D

AngelTears: Thanks^^ Well, I also wanna continue with Yin since it has to be parallel so I had to add some yin, but I hope you're okay with mostly Yuck in this chapter^^

jemaxlena: Thank you!

RoseBloodInkHeart: Heh, thanks for the interest!

LeebiLong: Well, it's good if you have your own ideas, who knows, maybe it's true :3

MidnightBunny: Okay, I'll check it out, thanks for telling me about that song^^

SHADOWWOLF: Poor you, I hope this chapter helped you forget :)

Fe: 1. I told you above why I don't/can't make long fics, 2. How the hell do you wanna know/decide what happens in my fanfic? 3. What creatures?

Squad Unit 19: Thank you! Let me spoiler you a tiny bit. With saying that the blue light was Yang you weren't wrong ;3 But not completely right either as you see XD

Thank you all for your comments!