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AN: WOW! Been awhile. But here I am! Still alive! (for now...>.>) On to part 4! Who shall I kill this time:p
Alone
Part 4: Desperation
Chapter 1: Pain
The screams were fast fading now, only a memory skittering on the edges of his fractured consciousness. It was odd, he could feel the sensation of falling, yet at the same time, he could feel that he was not moving at all. Could this be what death felt like?
No.
He paused in his dark musings to glance about the darkness that pressed in around him. The effort was futile, or course, since the 'darkness' surrounding him was not merely the lack of light, but the lack of anything. He was surrounded by complete nothingness, absolute and unyeilding. No one was with him. It was not possible.
No. Came the whisper once more. I promised to be with you.
He paused a moment more, a promis seemed familiar, but he could not remember how, after all, he had always been here, nothing else had ever existed before this.
No.
The voice was getting annoying. It had to be lying...after all, the voice itself could not exist in the first place!
Sora...
The abyss around him convulsed in a sudden spasm, then quickly calmed.
Yes...that word...he had heard it many times before...it has been his name once, perhaps. But that mattered nothing anymore, the voice was only trying to trick him, to confuse him.
Sora...
He very much wished it would go away.
Sora, open your eyes.
Open his eyes? Why should he do such a silly thing like that here? It would only waste his energy...after all, there way nothing to see.
OPEN YOUR EYES!
-/-/-/-/-/-/
Pain...so much pain...it hurt...fire and blood.
Why does it hurt so much...?
"--My goodness!"
Who is there? Where am I?
"Do you have a potion?"
"Why doesn't he log out and reload?"
Log...out...
Log...out!
"I can't!" He screamed, leaping up.
A young twin blade woman and a blade master both stared wide-eyed at him.
"A-are you alright?"
He glanced down at his injured shoulder. Already the pain was beginning to numb, the system eliminating abnormalities.
Abnormalities... He laughed bitterly to himself. Like me.
"U-um..."
"I'm fine."
-/-/-/-/-/-/
It was as if the world was frozen. He could not feel his own heartbeat, nor could he breath. Nothing moved...except BT.
"N-nnooo!"
"Kenyth..." She mouthed. "I'm sorry..."
"YUURIIYOO!"
He could not look away, could not break his gaze from those lovely, tortured, emerald eyes...eyes that would never shine again. He could not scream, he could not cry...he certainly couldn't help her. He was helpless...there was nothing he could do.
Nothing.
No...BT...Yuriyo...
There was a heart-wrenching scream as she splashed violently into the waves below. It could not have been him, could it? That full-throated cry of agony? He could not be the one sobbing like a child...right?
"BT..."
How...can life just...end like this? This can't be natural, this cold, terrible death? It can't be!
"Nnnooooo!"
Ch 1 end
AN: Yeah! I'm back! Adhering to a strict 4 page rule in this series--except occassionally. There should be 8 installments in all, four chapters in each(save the first) So that's a full novel in all...kinda. >.>
Previous installments:
Alone--Mimi/Crim/Tsuk triangle
Torment--Tsuk/Mimi/Crim/Sub square?
Lost--Bear/BT/Crim triangle?
-Yusagi Sombermoon