CHROMATOBER 2024!!!

DAY TWENTY NINE: FIGHT

Au: DOUBLE TROUBLE!!

Uh oh. Two sabres.. ones emo tho.

[TIMES POV]

Darkness. Darkness was everywhere. Digging into the ground and infecting everything. Innocent steves turned into mindless husks of who they once were.

This village was recently found, and was attacked shortly after. When the yellow portal opened.. Sabre ran in, excited. He didn't show his normal anxiety of what would happen- and.. he literally woke up from a coma a day ago. A DAY AGO. He grabbed his iron sword(where had he been keeping that?) and immediately ran in, so naturally- I followed. He did not listen to ANYONE. Especially violet leader and Thera when they told him that he couldn't. He just seemed... strangely filled with energy. He looked paler, yet didn't seem to be ill.

Fire lashed at the wooden houses, the gravel beneath me being coated in darkness. The grass was dying, the leaves falling off the towering trees that typically shielded this town. There.. there had to be survivors, right?

Metal against metal.

My head shot up as I scanned the village, only to see Sabre and..well shoot.

It was the copy known as 'Shadow Sabre'.

I heard Sabre laughing as he told a joke while slicing at his counterparts stomach. Shadow had powers, but seemed to be weakened... odd.

Shadow was only getting more and more irritated by the amusement Sabre showed. The player's energy seemed boundless. Even when crimson blood seemed to sparkle under the light of the moon when it stained the darkness infested ground beneath him. His excitement was never ending- despite the various sword slashes that made themselves evident by staining his white space suit red.

Yet... shadow was worse for wear, who was.. anxious. He wasn't using the shadow sword. He didn't have it.

He didn't have the shadow sword.

I glanced back at Sabre, grimacing at the blood- but quickly ran off to find survivors.

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After the battle.

[THERA'S POV]

Anxiety was visible on my face as I wrapped bandages around the- now cleaned- wounds he had sustained from the battle. It was a miracle he wasn't unconscious- or worse.

I was thankful- yet worried. He still seemed so energetic, and had his signature grin on his face, except it was wider, but not in a malicious way. He was chatting away about something, a story I believe? It was a legend from his world that he faintly remembered.. it spoke of a powerful crystal that had the potential to destroy worlds, yet grant great power. I was more focused on the injuries and so.. so much blood.

"Theraaaa! YOO-HOO!! Anyone home? "

He called out, a familiar energy filling his voice. I swallowed the lump in my throat and nodded.

[SABRES POV]

Numb. That's what I felt when I fought shadow. Just.. numb. No anger, hate.. not even joy. Just energy and numbness.

It was like a part of me was torn away. I didn't want to tell anyone that. About the gaping hole in his soul, his mind. He wasn't., sad actually. He felt more cheerful. He didn't feel safe, still on edge as normal, but I didn't feel bitter.

Whenever I thought about something that should make me feel bad.. a cold numbness overtakes me. I know I should be feeling something- ANYTHING..
But there was nothing. I try so hard to feel something, digging up the memories I never thought about due to the sheer pain they brought me, fighting, begging, praying to feel anything BUT this overwhelming numb. It was.. a cold, hollow pit in my stomach. I felt incomplete.

No matter how hard I fought. No matter who w̶e̶ I fought.. I would feel numb. The numbness always accompanied me, even when I was happy. It was easier to hide when all I felt was positive emotions.

...
The others have started to take notice. I see the concerned looked Thera and Time shoot me. Even elemental has asked about it....

I'm fine though.

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665

Woke up
Wrote this
Now I sleep