The Soul in the Dark

Chapter VI

Slowly Tyh opened his eyes, he found himself laid out on the floor face first, below him he could se was bright white. "W...What the?" He looked to his side, to find it all bright white also. Panicking he rolls up, continuing to look around "Where the hell am I?"

"Your home" A soft voice replied. Tyh's eyes widened at the familiar voice from behind him, he turned around to see the interior of his Mog House, within it was all his furniture, and his past love Natalie.

"Natalie!" he questioned to himself, stepping closer, his armour making a loud clanging noise but went unnoticed by the female Hume. He stood a foot away from her and brought a hand to her shoulder, the armoured hand passing through her.

"Natalie...What happened?" Tyh gazed over the shoulder of the image that was of Natalie to see an image of him lying on his bed.

"We got out numbered again, you should really watch out when using -ga spells you know" she smiled down at him

"I remember this...this was shortly after me and Natalie met each other" he moved to the side, getting a good look of her face, reaching out to touch her cheek, his hand once again going through

"Heh, I don't know where I would be without you y'know" The ghost Tyh grinned weakly and sat up clutching his sides "How about you? Are you ok?"

Natalie Nodded with a smile "Yeah, they didn't get past my armour, and Lady took the majority of them out"

Tyh looked confused, was he seeing his past or just his memories, why wasn't he in Bastok? He turned around to see a new area, a horde of Yagudo surrounding the two 'memories' them picking the birds off one by one with their spears. Cutting down the feathered Beastmen until none was left standing.

"This...This is too weird..." he said looking behind him, he saw what was perhaps one of his favourite moments with Natalie, when he first asked her to date him, he walked towards the two to listen in.

They were sat behind the waterfall in Gustaburg, it had been six months since they met and Tyh could not deny his feelings for her any longer.

"Uhm...N...Nat..." Tyh started, getting nervous, he put his hands together.

"Yeah Tyh?" She said looking towards him with a smile.

"Well...Uhm...I don't know how to tell you this but...Uhm..." he started sweating now, if it wasn't for his Dragoon AF Armet she would have noticed "You know how we have been friends for a long time now?"

She nods a yes

"Well...within that time, my feelings for you have grown...I once saw you as a friend...But now my feelings for you have, like I said, grown..."

Natalie tilted her head toward him, her smile went from a happy one to a compassionate one, taking in everything he said, "What...What are you saying Tyh?" she asked, even though she knew what he was talking about, she too felt their bond strengthen, they did almost anything and everything together.

"What I'm saying Nat is that...I...Love you...and if I could, I would want to be with you till the day I die"

The real Tyh snickered at the cruel irony in that

"Tyh..." Natalie started, moving a little closer "I...Your feelings that your feeling now...they aren't alone..." she grabbed the AF Armet from Tyh's head and took it off of him, sitting on her knees looking into his eyes, smiling, holding his hands "I...I love you too Tyh...every minute, every second I'm with you I treasure..."

This was enough, the real Tyh Turned around with a growl, not wanting to hear any more only to find himself back in Konschtat, the two Humes on the steps of the Crag, Tyh holding Natalie in his arms, his metal armoured hands drenched in crimson red from Natalie's cut neck as he tried to stop the bleeding. "C'mon Nat, you'll be ok, just hang in there baby" he looked to Firewing "Firewing...Healing Breath!" Tyh commanded, with that a white beam of fire shot at Natalie's neck, yet the wound did not heal the huge cut.

"Damn it, C'mon, Nat…stay with me"

He looked down on the lifeless body, knowing It was too late, Firewing's healing breath didn't work on the dead, that's when he decided to give up.

"I'm sorry Natalie…I tried…but it wasn't good enough"

Suddenly the atmosphere around him turned back to the bright white it was before and Tyh clutched his chest in pain, closing his eyes tight as he fell to one knee groaning loud

"What's going on?"

"CLEAR!" A deep voice is heard as Tyh jolts back to reality…almost literally, a black mage had used a weakened Thunder magic to restart his heart beat,

"There we go" another voice said "we got him back"

Tyh sat up, his breathing fast "w…what happened? Where am I?" he said looking around panicking.

He felt a hand on his shoulder; he turned around to be face to face with Cid.

"Easy there kiddo, your in my lab, we almost lost ya there, whatever poison infected you it was sure strong" Cid told him, smiling slightly

"Poison?" Tyh asked confused "Wait…DeMondé…Where is she? How did I get here?"

"You Teleported" a Mans voice spoke up, it was of a higher tone, his hair was spikes up at the front slightly with a light blonde colour to it. He also had a Bark coloured Bow on his back, Two axes strapped to his waist and a quiver of arrows next to the bow.

Cid looked over to the character "Ah, Produn, I see you made it then"

The Character known as Produn nodded and stepped towards the desk, picking up thr blood stained arrows. "you got injected with Bio IV arrows, a very strong poison, I'm surprised that you survived as long as you did"

Tyh looked to Produn, holding his head softly "I…I don't remember getting here, I don't remember warping…" as he looked down he noticed he wasn't wearing his armour, and that he was topless with white bandages covering his wounds on his shoulder "I need to get out of here" He stood up but stumbled, clearly the anaesthetic hadn't worn off, he leant against Produn instinctively, shaking his head "whoa"

Produn looked down at him, managing to hold him up easily "you should rest, you just recovered"

"No!" Tyh interrupted him "I need to save her…I need to get her out of there" Tyh struggled to get past Produn, casting a quick Absorb-STR against him to drain him of some of his strength and put it to himself, feeling a little better "Let go of me!"

Produn had enough and put his foot behind one of Tyh's and tripped him up in a Judo style takedown, holding him down on the floor with his arm and wrist at the top of his chest "CALM DOWN, You have just recovered from a near death attack and now you want to go out and endanger yourself more!"

Tyh started to resist a little less now, holding his arms up and hands open in defeat "Fine…Fine…you win, just let me up"

Produn hesitantly did, removing his arm allowing him to get up. "You need to control your damn actions, next time me and Cid wont be around to save you"

Tyh got up slowly facing him "I couldn't help it, I got ambushed by a Dark Ranger while trying to save a friend of mine." Tyh Sighed and put his head down "its all coming back now, I went to Eldieme Necropolis to save a friend, that's when I got blindsided and hit with them arrows.

Produn tilted his head in wonder "A Dark Ranger?" he asks

"Yeah, he goes by the name of Orlock, he enslaves people and subjects them to indecent events, I think you know what I mean"

Produn nods "no doubt if you go back he'll use the same arrows on you, and you wont get very far if he does, you need to recognise how to avoid arrows…And I'll help you out with that"

Tyh shakes his head "I don't need any help, I'm not fighting him, just getting DeMondé out of there and to safe keeping"

Produn sighs "Tyh, I have been in the field of battle longer than you, He'll be anticipating your return, he will attack you again, from afar, with arrows, and he will kill you….I will train you so you DON'T get killed"

Tyh Gave Produn a look of uncertainty but then nodded, "Fine…if it helps me get DeMondé out of there"

Produn nodded and smiled "once I'm done with you, his arrows won't be able to touch you….