Lemon- No
Continuation From - 6 Hell
Warnings- mentions of violence.
7 Heaven
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Someone's approaching…
How I know this, I'm not sure. But yet another is coming to me. Help me… please…
I'm weak. There's no way to measure strength here… my strength is measured by hope; and it's fading. I'm just about to accept that this darkness is going to take me until there's nothing left, I've been fighting it for so long.
Help me…
Warmth… a flash of distant warmth… like hands cupping a face yet you only feel the echo, or imagine it. But there is no way I could imagine this…
The warmth sometimes leaves, and I scream after it to come back, and it always does. I'm grateful to this someone providing the warmth, it seems to dull my shattered mind's pain.
However the returning warmth is becoming less frequent. The person has grown tired of me?
No! Please don't leave me! Please, help me!
This Hell must be tormenting me, I have to be losing my mind…
A time later, I have long forgotten how to measure time, this Hell makes it endless. But time passes. There is another presence.
A touch… warmth… a hit of light. This presence is stronger than the other one before, I believe it's younger too… I try and reach out, and find that I can!
I feel the one giving me a taste of heaven. It's a young soul, full of light… oh so much light, warm like a star… but lonely. I feel the yearning… I wish for some friends.
That pretty voice, it shot through my silence and I clung to it, harder than I have ever clung to anything. Even my sanity. It was beautiful, I was determined to never let those words go. Not them or the sound of that voice, that voice was the soul offering the comforting heaven.
Just as the hope before, the young soul sometimes leaves.
I pray and plead for that young soul to come back. And it does!
And it keeps going, and it -for I don't know if it's a boy or a girl- keeps returning to me. Providing me with temporary peace, light and warmth, heaven. With that gift, I try to repair my wounded mind, I try to find sense in the dark madness, but time after time I find myself simply bathing in the light of the heaven bringer.
I get stronger, I can push back the darkness, drag myself out of the shadowy lake I was mentally submerged in. I can feel more of this young soul when it comes back to me. It's a boy, he's young, he's lonely, he's pure inside and out.
I relax in his presence when he returns to me again. I believe I might have smiled if I had a body. I'm remembering little things -I'm making some progress with my minds shattered edges, piecing it back together slowly but surely. I remember nothing personal, no memories, but little things; like light, pain, joy and heat. I don't have memories for them yet, but I know what they are.
My connection with him is so strong now. I feel around him too… there are others, vague but they are there… and they're hurting him!
I shout and scream from my Hell for them to leave this angel alone! But I have no voice to make them stop, I have no arms to protect him, I'm trapped in this Hell and I cannot save him. I feel his pain, and I welcome it, I wanted to take it all from him, I wanted to take all his suffering, little light I wish I could help you.
The connection gets even stronger, he's doing something! I can feel it! I urge him on, the thin barrier separating us is now nothing more than a layer of silk. I can almost reach through it, but not quite. Little light, hurry! The shadows will come for me, I'll go back to Hell. That idea terrifies me, I don't want to forget this, I don't want to lose this light! So close to heaven, and yet so far.
I hear a click. Then the barrier shatters. I'm… Free…
My mind expands, light up, I have a body. I can move! I look around and see a maze, but the only open door is what shocks me. Light pours through the door, and it's beautiful, I inhale and smile. I pick myself up, hardly noticing the clothes I wore or my reflection in the shiny metal door, and leave the maze. I'm in a corridor, there's another door. I can sense that someone's there…
I almost enter, but I hang back, it's almost rude to just enter, I'm not sure where that notion came from… but I know that it's true. I knock and as I touch the door knowledge flows through me. I know about this age, common knowledge flows into me, the owner of such knowledge is very intelligent.
When it ceases I know what I am. A spirit, whose strength and centre point is a golden puzzle. And my host is…
I turn and walk down the corridor, that puzzle connects us, I can sense that… I suddenly appear in reality. The corridor of my soul, now linked with my host, vanishes with the rooms and I step out of my host's body, to float like a spectre and discover who he is.
I see my host, I'm now a part of him, my angel. I know his name, I know who he is, I know everything about him. His name is Yugi… a beautiful name… I cannot help myself, I kneel down next to his barely conscious form and weakly –as I have no body in reality- hold him close. I'll protect you, my angel. I promise.
He's so beautiful… his soul is beautiful, his appearance is beautiful; large amethyst eyes, skin like the moon, perfect body. And yet he is so small, his soul is small as is his body, but that makes him no less perfect in my eyes.
I see in his memories who hurt him, my rage is so much that I manage to overpower the very shadows that once held me prisoner. I turn them on those who dared to hurt my light and those precious to him. I tried to keep fear and pain far from him, I helped him from afar. I was ruthless, I know, but they deserved no less for what they had done.
I'm in heaven when I'm with him, little Yugi. He wears the puzzle, keeping his warmth close to me, I cuddle into his warmth. For so long in a cold, dark, tormenting Hell this could only be heaven. I wish I could speak with him, my Yugi, but we're not strong enough yet, his body hasn't adjusted to having two souls possess it and I am using a lot of energy trying to get used to having a body again.
Only one can be awake at a time. Although that's a torment in itself, it's not a permanent one. He'll be ready one day, so will I, and heaven will be complete…
Yami being rescued from the puzzle, when Yugi solves it his personal Hell ends and he kicks Ushio's butt in a shadow game, because he hurt his 'angel'. :) The presence before was Yugi's Grandpa, he gave up on solving it and Yugi inhearited it when he was eight, took a long time to solve, but now Yugi has a guardian angel of darkness watching over him. :)
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