Chapter 38. Dark Visions

I woke up, my mind was working but my eye's refused to open. I couldn't open them as much as I did try and I couldn't move. But my mind was still awake. Maybe my energy was so low my body can't move but my mind can still work. I try to look around but all I could see was blackness. I couldn't hear anything, I couldn't move and I couldn't see. I was just laying still in darkness. No matter how much I tried I couldn't do anything aside from think, so that's what I did. I thought about how much I trained which led to me thinking about how far I've come. How I ran from the only place I could call home. How I had to sneak past her at Zaun. How I got forced to join Noxus only to escape. How I was going to be backstabbed by Zed. I had come a long way in 1 and a half short months. All the while I had something inside me, eating away at my mind.

"Hey" I tried to call out only to hear something like my voice in my head.

"Are you here" I asked. I waited for a response but never got one. I went back to thinking about my training and what I had done. I wanted to get that power even though I had only seen it once. The fact that I could do it was enough, It to up to me to find out how to do it. I did my best to copy what the Living Shadow did but could only get a small impact of what I had seen. I couldn't control it so I had cut myself multiple times. I didn't have the energy to increase range either. I might need to use adrenaline instead of calming down... So it would be a heat of battle attack... So was I training for nothing? Wasting my time? No... something's telling me otherwise...

"Is it awake" I could hear suddenly. I strained my senses again to see if I could detect where or what the voice was. Eventually I could see and a large man with a large beard and mustache holding me up. I understood what was going on. I was seeing the Living Shadows life again.

"Are you sure this will work" He said holding me(?) up higher.

"It's the only answer I have" a old dry voice said "He wont last long without something to drain the power". Drain the power? I(?) turned my head after the man did to see a small child wrapped in a strange clothe with markings on it. I didn't think much of it before I saw the child get slightly disturbed after which a large amount of black and red sparks started shooting off the child and onto the floor below it, burning it.

"We don't have much time" Said the dry voice again.

The man nodded and layed me(?) down on a table "I know you can understand me" He started "but I need you to drain the power that boy has inside him. But in order to do it you must leave your body behind". Once he said that I realized that the Living Shadow must have been bound on it's limbs because it didn't struggle as the man pull as strange rock shaped like a knife from his pocket. The knife had marks on it that lightly glowed blue and started pulsing once he brought it near the Living Shadow. From there my sight failed and everything became black, aside from the small sound of energy shooting off the child.

What was that?

Me and my family were about to start eating breakfast. I went up to wake Blade but found out he went off to train. I left it to him since I wanted to start forgetting about my brother... I brought out the silverware and plates while mother finished cooking. Rena was bouncing around like usual after explaining what had happened the night before. I must have looked so stupid... I pushed the thought from my head as I sat down and waited for Rena to come back downstairs to eat. However before we started eating the sound of the front door opening caught all our attention. We all turned to see a beaten up, bloody, dark man standing there. It took me a moment to figure out it was Blade as he hit the floor hard. For a moment nothing happened then all at once we all got up from our seats. I was the fastest and quickly ran over to him. Rena was about to break up into tears as she slowly walked over beside me and mother as mother looked over his wounds.

"He's not dead" She said swiftly "But if we don't do something fast he might".

I nodded as she rested Blade's head on her lap "Rena go get my medical kit" She shouted making Rena and me jump. She pulled Blade's coat and straps off but left the rest of his clothes on. There were cuts of all sorts all across his entire body making his clothes turn a deep red.

"What was he doing..." I mumbled.

Mother took a moment to check the wounds carefully while she waited for Rena to get back "These cuts are self inflicted?!" She said in shock suddenly.

I looked up at her in surprise then looked back at the cut's. The all seemed to have angles that pointed towards the front of his body. They were also wider close to his back. The sound of footsteps said that Rena was coming back. I looked over to the stairs to see her carrying a large white bag. She put it down next to mother and she began picking through it. She pulled out a wide box and opened it to show many types of medical equipment. She picked up a small vile and a cloth and started to pour the liquid onto the cloth.

"Is he going to be alight?" Rena said shakey.

I looked over at her then to mother waiting for a response "Que take Rena to her room, stay with her tell I'm done" She said with a serious look.

"No, I'm staying here" I shot back.

Mother looked back at me with a angered look "I will be fine without you, if you want to help go help your sister" She said as she stopped to pick a needle from a small box.

"I'm not leaving" I said louder. I didn't want to leave. I still owe him to much. If he dies without me paying him back it will kill me on the inside...

"Que!" Mother yelled making me and Rena jump as she glared at me with the eye's you would only see if you made her mad.

I was going to argue more but didn't bother as Rena finally started sobbing. She didn't like to see people in pain. I took her hand and walked with her to her room shooting glares at mother the whole way.

The moment my eye's opened I shot up from my bed to find a sheering pain all across my body. I coughed twice then spat blood into my hand, I guess it's what I get for moving far to quick. I slowly leaned back and took time to look around. I was back in my room in Que's house laying on my bed with... a large amount of stitches. A few had already ripped and blood started leaking from them. I looked outside to see it was pitch black night. The room was lit by a candle on the table. Once I looked to the table, I saw the sleeping girl sitting at the table with a book in her hands. The book was open but a few pages had blown over her hand. I could tell it was Que off the bat but I took a moment to try to see if I was wrong. I was still a bit shaky and my body felt both to cold and stiff. I still had my clothes on but my coat and weapons straps were taken off and hung on the hooks next to the door. I slowly got up and out of my bed, I was sore all over but and while I didn't feel most of it a lot of my wounds started to open up and leak blood again. My clothes were a mess with dry blood and rips all across them. I tried to sigh but only groaned as my body tried to get me to lay back down, But I knew what would work better then laying in a bed. I slowly moved out of the room and with a little effort I moved down the stair to the kitchen. I looked around for a small closet or storage. Any pitch black room would help. More and more of my blood was leaking from my wounds, I didn't have a lot of time before I passed out again. I slowly moved around the first floor making sure to lean on something the whole time and eventually found a closet with coat inside. I pushed myself into the closet and landed with a thud as my head hit the back wall. It took me a moment but after a groan of pain and a lot of effort I closed the door and sat in the darkness. Nothing but the slightest crack of light from a lit candle in the room behind the door showed. The rest was pitch black darkness. I sat there waiting for either my energy to come back to me or for me to pass out but I thought over what I saw. What happened? Now that I thought about it, it was a little fuzzy. I remember seeing a man and a child, the child had something wrong with it and then everything went dark. What was it... That's all I could think as my mind slowly stopped working and I blacked out from blood loss.

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