Chapter 31: Yuuri's POV

Where am I?

I wake up suddenly and find myself floating in a dark space. Black as far as the eye can see and the sound of water is all I can distinguish.

But this feeling I'm getting... even though I can't see anything, I feel like I've been here before, I feel like there's a warmth here that I can recognize, somehow, as my own.

For a moment, just now I lost control, but I'm pretty sure I was able to hold back just in time, so what is this?

I must be inside of my mind... or my heart, again.

I don't understand why this keeps happening to me, I could never hurt anyone, I believe that everything can be solved by talking, I really do... why do I keep losing control like this...

"Water is a tricky element Yuuri, sometimes I can be as calm a peaceful lake, others, it can have the fury of the ocean during a storm. That is a part of who you are" A voice echoes around me, that voice...

"Wolf!?" I shout out, but I get no answer, and the sound of water around me becomes clearer and stronger.

"You can't continue like this. Even the Maou's marioku has a limit Yuuri" the voice, Wolfram's voice sounds so calm that it's exasperating. If he's Wolf, if he's still alive that's all that matters, that's all I need to know, I don't care what happens to me.

"That's not true. Your life is what matters the most, you know that" I hate it when he does that, talking to me as a soldier to the king... He's the only one who's always treated me like a normal person, with all my flaws and my wimpyness...

Suddenly I feel something warm around me, somehow I can feel Wolfram smiling, it's calming and sad all at once... I doesn't make any sense.

"Look at them Yuuri..." I close my eyes and the image of my room slowly appears in front of me. At first I can't really distinguish any of the faces, but then the figure right in front of me becomes clear. It's Wolfram... no, it's not the real Wolfram. He's on his knees crying so hard it breaks my heart.

"I know you didn't mean to hurt him. It's not his fault and you know it, you can feel it" Wolfram's voice again, echoing right through my head. "You fell for those puppy eyes while thinking he was me, didn't you?" he asks and I wince. It's not like that! Not entirely at least... I still, for Wolf I still...

"Save him" he says and his voice, his presence goes away.

"...ya... buya... Shibuya!" Murata's voice. I can hear it coming from somewhere far away, but I can't answer. My vision gets blurred and I feel my body strength is fading. This is bad, now I realize what's going on, where I am, but I can't control my own body.

I can't see them, but I can sense them, Murata and Shinou are the ones calling for me, but the waves around me are hurting them, they can't come any closer and that boy, he's looking right at me..

"I'll do anything! Just tell me what to do!" he says and walks closer to me. How... why is he doing this? I don't want to hurt him but I can't control my marioku, why isn't Murata stopping him?

Hissing... The room is hissing... I recognize this energy, is the same as in the Bielefeld lands.

"Show yourselves!" Shinou shouts from somewhere at my right.

I can see the same purple smoke we saw that time gathering in front of me and slowly forming the figure of a person, a woman, tall and thin. Her hair is black and her skin is really pale, that's something I'm really used to seeing in Japan, but here... can it be another soukoku?

She opens her eyes and I see that's not the case, but those eyes, snake eyes... just like the ones I saw in my dream... fake Wolfram's eyes.

"Mirage, I suppose?" Murata asks her in a weirdly polite way. He knows who she is? How long has he known? Did he know about Wolfram too?

"I have no business with you Soukoku, I've come here to take back my son"

Her... son?

I open my eyes and I'm back in the darkness. I clench my fists and the anger starts to take over me again. This are the people that hurt Wolfram, here right in front of me... If I could only...

"No!" Wolfram's voice again, that demanding tone sound much more like him, I smile for myself

"Find the peace inside of you Yuuri, find that calm lake"

Peace, but where?

"Find it, and then you'll find me"

Then everything becomes white.

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Short chapter, cliffhanger, I know, I know, don't kill me. As you probably already realized, I've posted up to chapter 33 (figured I'd owed you at least that ), so the story doesn't stop here.

The chapter are this short because of the POV changes.

PS: I'll be responding to reviews made by site members by PM only, from now on.