~Mike's mind~
Mike and mal were staring angrily at each other and the whole room was silent even manitoba who was watching the whole thing. "MAL! YOU LIED TO ME!...about everything" Mike yelled, mal stepped back with a sad shocked look, he remained silent. Manitoba took this opportunity to save the others while mike was talking to mal. "OH NO YOU DON'T!" mal yelled and he waved his hand in the air and flew it down quickly, shooting manitoba back against the wall knocking him unconscious. Mike had tears in his eyes as he watched mal throw one of his personalities out like trash, "MAL! STOP IT!" Mike yelled, mal smirked and began walking towards mike. He was backing away and started to move faster until he was running, mal began to chase him and was beginning to catch up. Mike just kept running, he all of a sudden felt mal catch his shirt as he yanked it back mike fell in front of mal, tripping him. 2 seconds went by before the two began to wrestle. It grew increasingly more brutal and they were starting to get tired, the two were banged up pretty bad before the two boys finally pushed off from each other. They were a few feet away from each other and huffing from the fight, mal had a nosebleed and a few black and blue bumps on his face, as did mike only he was coughing up blood. Mike, though, wouldn't give up, he got up and ran to manitoba trying to wake him up. While he was doing this, mike didn't even notice a moving shadow creeping up on him until he was completely enveloped by it. He turned around slowly and shaking as he saw mal standing behind him, almost completely healed and licking his jagged blade with a sadistic grin. Mike couldn't move, as though he was sent into a trance and was unable to look away. Mal put the blade to his neck and mike was just frozen in fear...then all of a sudden...he heard a grunt and all mike was able to see (since he couldn't move his head.) was a hand on top of mal's holding the knife and he shoved the weapon out of mal's hand and mike turned to see manitoba. He was smiling but it was a very small one, seeing as he had just been thrown against a wall. Mal looked behind him and all he saw was a hand in front of his face as his head was slammed into the wall, knocking him out, this deeply pissed off manitoba as he lunged at mal. He grabbed his hand and pulled it towards him, surprising manitoba as mal did the same to his head and the two were now comatose. Mal laughed evilly at his accomplishment.
Mike was dreaming about how the last few weeks had been with mal and how fun it was. He started to feel guilty for some reason, His first thought was that he was only jealous of zoey and that was when he started to go bad...but he was VERY wrong. He then saw the seeing mirror in front of him and it played all the moments that mal was in charge, starting from when he was hiding behind the fridge and his dad was holding the knife. Then it all went black, he remembered. He then saw his father getting stabbed and tried to look away but couldn't and saw zoey getting beat up, "she never betrayed me after all...mal's been lying to me this WHOLE time?!" Mike stayed watch…,regretfully and was crying the whole time. Mike started to get angry again, more so than ever, he clenched his fists and got up quickly as the black aura appeared once again and mike began running through the halls, searching for mal. The darkness came off of mike and started moving forward, quicker than mike could ever run actually, he was never able to see this dark aura anyway as he started opening doors. All of them led to good memories between mike and mal, all the games they played, all the pranks they made, all the funny jokes that they shared, mike started to cry and ran out into the hall again. He was gripping his head tightly and started convulsing along the ground, crying, confused. This made him frustrated and angry all over again, knowing it was mal's doing. His aura was growing continuously.
Meanwhile in mike's room, mal was sitting beside him when all of a sudden, he saw his dark aura. It then flew into mal...he was stunned at first then he felt tingly and he started to wobble a little until… "Haha! Mike! Thanks for giving me your anger, I deeply appreciate it!HA." It made him stronger. Then manitoba, who was across the room, started getting angry as well. Mal was getting more powerful by the second. Then mal froze and looked over at mike who was now crying in his sleep. "Mal...hel-...help...help me...no,no,no,NO!" Mike yelled and turned over in his blankets to face the wall. For some reason mal felt...guilty and walked over to mike. He sat down again and the room became silent for a while. Mal started to pet his head slowly and carefully, not to hit the bump. Mike calmed down but the tears wouldn't stop, "mal...don't leave...don't do it...please, I need you." Mal was shocked at this, mike STILL needs me, after all that I've done? Mal thought curiously. He was caught in between, on one hand all he wanted was to kill people and get his revenge, on the other hand he just wanted everybody out of the way so that mike and him could play together always. "Leave the others, get rid of all of them, mike is yours...you FINALLY HAVE HIM!" Mal was stunned, "who's...who's there?" He asked afraid. "Don't be afraid, I'm here to help. "WHO ARE YOU?! WHERE ARE YOU?!" "I'm your friend." "Are you in my head?!" "In a way, you could say that I'm your conscience. I want to help you, I'm your friend." "NO, MIKE IS MY ONLY FRIEND!" "Listen, just listen,... Kill them…" "What…?" "Kill the people who tried to separate you two, you two were meant to be together!" "But…" " Am I wrong...mal?" Mal was beginning to get scared that there's now a voice in his head and it didn't help that his arm was starting to go numb, he tried to shake it and smack it a little but, nothing. "If you don't do something… I WILL!" Mal's arm started to move on it's own as he tried to hold it back, "LET GO OF ME!" "No, you're gonna kill wether you want to or not!" "NO! I DON'T WANT TO!" Manitoba heard him yell and turned around, he pretended to still be asleep but with one eye open as he saw mal freaking out. It looked like he was arguing with himself. Manitoba was alarmed but decided to remain quiet to see what happens. "You can't make me kill them, I WON'T LET YOU!" Manitoba was starting to wonder what was truly happening to him until something popped up in his head...but he felt stupid for thinking so. A personality within a personality? He tried to ponder this but just shook his head knowing it's impossible….Then how could he explain this. Mal was now twitching trying to regain control. "TELL ME WHO YOU ARE!" I am your evil side hahahahahahaha! "GET-GET OUTTA MY HEAD!" Mal yelled. Manitoba was starting to freak out but kept it contained as he saw mal gripping his head tightly and his whole body began to shiver. Mal looked at manitoba, it was like his head had actually snapped around to face him and his eyes...were just blank...a blank brown, his face was expressing no emotion as opposed to how he was panicked just a few seconds ago. This was no longer mal...it's someone else, but how can this be?
~In MAL'S mind~
Mal was ALSO trying to piece this together, surprisingly, he remained calm and had a serious and determined look to get to the bottom of this. He got up and summoned the seeing mirror to, hopefully, reveal a few things. The questions he had in his mind were, "how could I have a personality?" Just then a memory showed up in the mirror. It was after him and his mother had gotten back from seeing his father and the conversation that he and his mother had after they entered the house: "What did you tell your father,..I heard yelling." "My father?"...no I think you're mistaking that old bastard for a relative of mine." "What...did you...tell...him?!". "Just that I won't support his case of denial in the court,...the poor sap was begging me. HA! as if! he was clearly asking the wrong person." "personality...personality, you mean…". …, "NO, NO...I'M NOT...I'M REAL...I'M REAL DAMMIT!"
This got him thinking and he remembered how upset he was with his mom after that. "Was I that determined to prove her wrong?" They say "you can do anything if you put your mind to it". But I didn't think it was actually possible…. Mal had a theory going for him now. "Are me and mike REALLY sharing the same mind in one body. This was different from sharing the mind with the others. They were actually two minds in one body, him and mike. Mal's dream had FINALLY come true! He giggled a little out of pure joy, then he was reminded of his own problem yet again. He became serious again and continued to gaze at the mirror as it showed him something a bit more 'intriguing'. Just a few days ago, when mike first met zoey and he was watching through the mirror next to manitoba. The night before, after mike and mal played for a while, mal had woken up in the middle of the night. He didn't remember it so he just assumed he was sleepwalking until he got a close up, his eyes were open, clearly he was fully awake. "What?" Mal thought aloud and saw that his eyes were black again. Most of the time it was only when he was angry or feeling evil, would his eyes turn black. It's not like his black eyes were new to him or anything...but...he was just shocked at how malevolent he looked, is this how people see me when I'm like this?" He didn't want to think of himself as 'scary' persay but it DID make him feel uneasy. He continued to watch as it seemed like he was conjuring something, it looked to be...PAPER! Come to think of it...when I got angry at manitoba and entered my room...there seemed to be more papers and more pens in the drawers. Like I'm being encouraged to do these awful things...without my own knowing! Mal thought as he stepped back shakily. He tripped over his own foot and snapped out of it. Then it hit him, "MANITOBA! MIKE!" Mal yelled, worried. He put his hand up onto the mirror and focused, he was able to see into what was really going on while he's in here, manitoba was gripping his arm and trying to push it back as his evil self tried to take a swing at him. He already had a few cuts but he was still able to fight. Mal began to sweat and then turned his head to see mike, he was ok and still sleeping. He started to believe that his evil self put him under some kinda spell so that he wouldn't wake up. Mal was now biting his fingernails in nervousness, afraid for both mike AND manitoba. He tried to take control but couldn't, then an idea came to him, he wasn't sure it would work but it's worth a try.