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warnings: strong language, violence, descriptions of pain, kissing, screaming, crying
song to listen to: fallout, neoni
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I force my eyes open again, my ears ringing. Sam looks relieved, and he holds his hand out to Roberto and Rahne. "She's good! She's good, she's alright..." He shouts to them, and keeps his hands securely on my shoulders. I meet his eyes, tears stinging my own, and take a deep breath.
"I...I think you drained yourself, Raiya." Sam tells me, and I scoff. Not at him, though; it's not him who deserves the scoff. It's me, myself and I. Of course that's what it is. That's what I've done. That's why I feel so...wrong right now. "But listen to me, okay? Listen to me. Illyana's fighting that...that demon bear right now, but we are going to need you. I mean it."
"Sam, I...I'm drained."
"I know! I know, okay? There's gotta be something you can, do though...something that'll give you even the tiniest bit of power you can use."
I know what I can do. Immediately, it clicks in my head exactly what it is that I need to do. There's no doubt about it. I need to go to Limbo. I'm at my strongest when I'm in there, so that has to mean that me being drained right now...can get fixed in there.
"I don't want to leave you." I shake my head. "If I go to Limbo, even for a few minutes, I'll have to leave you, Sam, and I...I don't want to risk that. W-what if something happens and I'm-"
"Hey! Hey, hey, hey..." Sam presses his forehead against mine. "Don't worry about us, alright? Don't worry about me. You just...just do whatever the hell you need to do to get your strength back. Whatever it is, I don't care, just do it."
I squeeze my eyes shut again, and it feels as though it takes every ounce of strength I have left to teleport into Limbo. I look around at the chaos of the reds and the blues and the yellows, and sit down on the black rock I teleported myself onto. I close my eyes, lying down carefully and trying to picture the shadows wrapping around me, coming from any dark spot in Limbo.
"What was that?" Illyana laughs at me after my horrible attempt at a blast in her direction, and I run my hands over my face and through my hair. "Is everything okay? We can take a break if you'd like to, Raiya-"
"I'm fine, Illy. I don't need a break of any sort." I tell her, and grin as I reach a hand down towards the ground. The shadows from the darkness below us rise up into a ball in my fist, and her eyes widen as she deflects the blast with her sword. She does, however, go flying back. Lockheed squawks, circling over our heads and letting out small breaths of fire. Illyana jumps to her feet, laughing and clapping her hands.
