Legends Universe: End Of Time (draft one ARCHIVE)

Twenty- Fade(d)

    # - Fade(d) (3)

"Great. Juuuuust great," TFR rejoined the group, later in a spare room. Ava Max was painting her nails, and K-391 and Alan Walker were drilling each other on the lyrics of the latest pop hits.
"A storm is coming. We're gonna have to wait for it to pass before we leave." TFR continued.
Ava Max sighs. "You mean I'm stuck inside with you lot?"
Alan Walker took that as his queue to leave.

Later, K-391 found Alan Walker again on a cliff overlooking The Frozen Sea. He was soaked, but didn't seem to care. Alan Walker sensed his presence, but didn't move or say anything.
    "How are you?" K-391 asked tentatively.
    "Honestly, I'm doing a lot better than I have in a long time." Alan Walker responded. He turned to face K-391. "It's not just one good thing though. It's more like everything not going wrong for the first time in a while."
    "Same!" K-391 exclaimed. "It's only a matter of days now before I can see Ahrix again!"
    K-391 glanced at Alan Walker. "Hang on, is that a smile I see?"
    Alan Walker laughs. K-391 makes a grab for his mask, but he deflects. It was not a hostile gesture, but K-391 got the message. Surprisingly, though, it did not ruin the mood.
   
"This isn't much of a welcoming place." K-391 commented on the setting.
    "I kind of like it this way." Alan Walker countered. "Sand, and sun, and lots of people make it hard to enjoy the water."
    "So you're an ocean, not a beach person." K-391 concluded.
    "Yeah. Just open sea, not too bright and sunny, but overcast, maybe even raining is what I prefer." Alan Walker continues. "Even in a storm at sea, there's a hidden peace, a silence in the raging storm. I can find that peace in a river even."
    "So you don't like noise." K-391 concludes.
    "Nope."
    "You prefer peace and silence."
    "Yep."
    K-391 stared at him. "But you're a musician."
    Alan Walker snorts.
    "Of EDM, no less." K-91 continues.
    "You'd be surprised by the ocean you can find in music. Not all the time, but there are some songs in which the emotion is so clear that you can get lost and drown in it. In a good way, I mean." Alan Walker continues, a vague look in his eyes as he watches the water.

    "Wow." K-391 adds after some time. "That has not been my experience with music."
    Both of them laugh.
    "Yeah." Alan Walker admits. "Maybe it's just a me thing."
    Alan Walker grabs K-391's hood and attempts to pull him over. K-391 dodges and shoves him back in a playful way.
K-391 approached him. "So, this is your kind of weather?"
    "Not just my kind, it is me." Alan Walker said, with a dreamy and distant look in his eyes, almost perfectly reflecting the raging surface of the water.
    "You wanna elaborate?" K-391 smirked.
    "You know I do," Alan Walker smirks back. He takes a deep breath, and looks out on the storm at sea.
    "I've never minded being cold and wet. On the contrary, I love it. When it rains, I enjoy being outside. Water... is one of the things that can never change, never be so polluted that it can't purify itself. It pulls on in a storm, never changing, never breaking, almost like it's one, giant, living thing. They say water has memory. If so, that means thousands, millions, billions of years of time and space are recorded in water. I... don't really know how to explain it," Alan Walker says. "I just... sometimes feel like I'm part of this endless, timeless rage of wind and rain. It'd be nice to know I'm not alone." He walked to the edge of the cliff. "People are mostly water, anyway. So I guess It's reasonable that when I look out at the water, I feel like I'm... home."
    K-391 looked at him. "It's freezing out there, I can't imagine a place that feels less like a home."
    Alan Walker laughs quietly, turning to K-391. "Shows what you know."

    And with that, Alan Walker closed his eyes, and let himself fall backward, off the edge of the cliff. He fell 50, 100, 200 feet down. K-391 watched as if it was happening in slow motion. He could barely see Alan Walker by the time he impacted the surface.
K-391 watched with bated breath. "Come on Alan... please resurface, please, please, please!"
But K-391 could not see Alan at all. Shaking his head, K-391 took a deep breath and jumped in after Alan Walker. K-391 made impulsive decisions like that often, and he didn't realize how scared he was until he was falling. K-391 was screaming until he hit the water. But when he went under, he immediately started looking for Alan Walker. He found him unconscious, slowly sinking. He grabbed him and tried to teleport. It worked on the fourth try.

K-391 develops a serious fear of water after this. Sorry for not posting in days!