Essence of The World [Favremysabre AU]

Figments

*Sabre*

I pull Ice Steve close and attempt to stop the bleeding, his eyes crack open to stare at me; eyes full of pain. Why must this always happen to me, why must I watch people die in my arms? I look up to see Yellow fighting 'Tulip'. The impersonator pushes Yellow aside and walks towards me. Ice Steve uses his hand to grasp me and frost crawls up my shirt.

"Before I replaced this foolish Orange Steve, the original gave you something very important to me. The Sun shard, where is it boy?" The Impersonator questions pointing his sword directly at me. All I do is glare; thankfully for my bandana, I don't think he realizes.

The sound of metal clinking against metal is heard and I smile just a little; the others must have heard the commotion. The Impersonator turns his head towards the door and snarls before vanishing on spot.

In comes the Colorless Guards and Pepper, the guards stare at me and Ice Steve before rushing to our side; Pepper follows suit. Ice looks up at me and another crystal appears in his right hand; shaped like a moon and freezing like Ice himself. He offers it to me as Pepper takes him from my arms, I take it gently as Yellow gets up and rushes out hollering for help.

The Steves minus the Colorless leave the house with Ice Steve. I stay on the ground to take out the so-called Sun Shard, frowning at the sight of the two crystals. I put both shards into my inventory.

Why must this keep happening to me? Does whatever gods out there think this is funny? Think my pain is hilarious?

Literally find out that I got off on the wrong foot with Ice Steve and then he straight up gets stabbed!

"Sir?" A hand settles on my shoulder and a glance at the Non-Angry Guard, I swear I see a glint of black that clashes against white.

I stand up and look at my blood covered hands, then I look at the two tense guards. "We need to get out of here... The longer I stay the more harm will befall these Steves.." The two guards look at each other.

"How exactly will we leave? We don't have a boat anymore." Angry Guard says. Can't we just teleport?

We begin descending the stairs of Ice Steve's house. When the sound of cracking echoes about the town causing panic upon everyone. I look up to see the barrier shattering and my eyes widen, the barrier is breaking.

"Did we ever figure out what that was for?" Non Angry asks as cracks spread even more.

"I did." Angry says, "Remember when Lavender said that a storm was coming but it never did?"

"The barrier is holding back the storm. But why?" I question myself more than I question the other two. "Are storms so bad that they need a barrier to hold it back or is it some sort of storm we've never seen?"

"You Three! Come here, we can get you outta here before the storm hits!" It was the other Orange Steve and a Green Steve, the Green was waving us over. We exchange glances, we seem to be doing that a lot.

"Hello?" I wave walking over to them, the Orange seemed sad; understandable since the only other Orange is possibly gone forever.

̶N̶o̶t̶ ̶R̶a̶i̶n̶b̶o̶w̶,̶ ̶H̶e̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶R̶a̶i̶n̶b̶o̶w̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶h̶a̶p̶p̶e̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶.̶ ̶W̶h̶y̶ ̶m̶e̶?̶

"Can you tell me what the barrier is for?" I ask the two but they frown.

"I'm so sorry but we can't tell you, but we can tell you that you need to get out of here and fast." The Orange Steve says, lightning is heard and I notice that the other Steves are evacuating. "Please step closer so we can't teleport you away.

I see Yellow standing in the distance staring at me, he's staring directly at me... he nods and disappears as lightning strikes around him.

̶B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶c̶k̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶h̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶a̶r̶r̶i̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶F̶r̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶e̶p̶s̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶a̶r̶m̶s̶.̶Y̶e̶t̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶a̶m̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶h̶o̶t̶ ̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶.̶

I sigh as lightning strikes around me and the guards. The scene changes and the two vanish from sight.

̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶v̶o̶i̶d̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶m̶e̶s̶a̶.̶ ̶R̶e̶d̶ ̶e̶y̶e̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶m̶e̶;̶ ̶d̶e̶m̶a̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶w̶o̶r̶d̶.̶ U̶n̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶k̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶w̶o̶r̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶g̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶w̶e̶l̶l̶.̶

"Sabre!" Hands are shaking me and my eyes open; when did they close? The guards are at my side and my back is against- Sand? No Grass. When did I lay down? What is happening? "Sabre? Sir, are you hurt in any way?" Oh, that's the non-angry guard.

I sit up, dizziness hits me and I lift a hand to my head. Uggh... I hate this feeling... "Where are we now?" Jeez, I really have been questioning everything lately. Lowering my hand to something that doesn't feel like grass makes me look down, a flower. A Azure Bluet to be specific, that's strange they don't usually grow in one- oh... I look up a little to notice the multitude of flowers around me.

I scoop up the Bluet and freeze when I remember the state of my hands, blood cakes my hands clashing with the flowers' natural hue. Is Ice Steve okay? Is he alive or did I manage to kill a Steve I just met?

"You really need to get clean, thankfully we didn't get comfortable..." Angry pats my shoulder, saying the last sentence under his breath; I still heard it.

Non-Angry returns, he apparently left when I got distracted. "I found a nice lake back that way." He points in the direction he came from.

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Arriving at the lake, little fish swim away when we get closer; the trees surrounding the lake blow in the wind. I watch as birds fly about and bees buzz around flowers, yet I'm still dazed and so very unfocused.

I take my outfit off leaving shorts on and my bandana, I can't risk startling or even scaring the guards because of my eyes. I slide into the lake and sit on the non deep side. The guards walk off to patrol the area; and to give me some time alone.

The water flushes against scarred skin and washing away salt that stuck against me. I look into my reflection and even with my bandana on I swear I see red eyes staring up at me, judging and taunting me. A purple crystallized shard pokes through my skin directly above where people say the heart is; a sorta rainbow glint comes from it.

̶A̶n̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶l̶o̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶g̶o̶e̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶v̶o̶i̶c̶e̶s̶ ̶s̶c̶r̶e̶a̶m̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶n̶a̶m̶e̶.̶ ̶

These strange figments of my imagination that I'm slowly believing are real, but how? I scrub at my hands in the cold water and watch as red spreads through the water. A fish bravely swims up to me; a smile appears as I slide my hand gently down the fish scales.

I push myself into the deep end with my eyes closed before opening them to reveal fishes swimming around me in a blur of color. I take my bandana off and tie it around my wrist as I begin to swim with the fishes. The glow of my left eye illuminated my fishy friends.

*3rd Person*

A figure leans against a tree and watches with amused eyes as Sabre dives deeper much to the panic of the heavily armored guards surprise. It has to hold back a chuckle as the two panic not knowing how Players act. A book appears in the beings hand and it opens it, the pages turn on its own. The being stares at the pages and a chuckle truly does escape it.

Players are quite amusing.