Silver Fox

Illusion Final part 2.

Once I fazed out of my brain, back to reality I heard the peace keepers talking along themselves. I was laying down in someone's lap, my hair slowly stroked from behind. When I finally let white light fill my eyes, my stomach knotted. I jolted up to the side expelling a thick black liquid from my mouth. My hair was lightly held from behind, while they rubbed my back slowly for comfort.

Once I cleared my blood from my mouth I turned around to see Watinie drawing circles on my back with his hand. Soothing my erratic heart beat.

"D....did it work...?" I questioned quietly.

"Yes. You did great." Watinie smiled reassuring me, "The spirit keepers have Wihu and are executing him tomorrow morning."

"That's good......but..."

"But? Be happy for a bit. You've done something that all of us wish we could do!" He said gesturing to my now brown fading hair.

"But, have they said anything about my execution..?" Watinie's smile quickly downturned, while he avoids direct eye contact with me.

"You have a week....then they will come find you........we are allowed to leave as soon as we get the ok..."

I nod in satisfaction.

"You know that once I die, I'll still be here right?"

"Yeah. You'll always be in all our hearts." Watinie stated staying strong. Alwost choking on the words trying to keep his cool.

"No. When I die. I'll become a spirit, like Wihu. I'll become a spirit animal and be given to another human and turn their lives upside down. I'll still be here."

He stared in shock. Not knowing if he should be happy or to be sorry for me. He opened his mouth and closed it, friguring out what to say.

"Who!?"

"I'm not sure yet...I'd be lying if I said that I really wanted this myself...." I said while I pulled my knees closer to my chest, as if giving myself a soothing hug. "To be completely honest....I was looking forward to not be part of this miserable world anymore...."

"...make sure you don't break the rules...I don't want you and Wihu sharing the same fate.......don't forget that their are so many people here that would kill to keep you alive.....so....please don't leave...." Watinie said, cracking our the last few words. This is probably the hardest on him, I knew that he suffered from loneliness.

"....I promise, to stay alive as long as I possibly can....ok?" I smiled up at him reassuring him. A promise that I wasn't entirely sure that I could keep, and stay sane.

He nodded back showing that the promise is good enough for him. It's not ideal for either of us, but a promise is a promise. And that promise I intended to keep.

I stood up feeling a slight pain in my spine. I whimper at the stinging.

"Shinata?! What's wrong?!" Watinie's concerned voice filled my ringing ears.

I turn around and pull the hem of my hoodie to reveal a now appearing black bruise, that ran all the way up my spine. I whined as I felt more black bruises cover various parts of my body.

Watinie picked be up bridal style carrying me somewhere. I had sewn my eyes tight together while trying to deal with the pain. I clenched my teeth when I heard random bones cracking in my body.

My eyes widened as I realized that all these bruises are from injuries that I thought I healed. Why is it coming back?!

When Watinie stopped sprinting, I was placed at the feet of multiple spirit keepers. Watinie begged for them to help me.

However how would they know what is wrong? I questioned myself. This is all my fault...I should have given in and let Wihu kill me from the beginning....

"Kitsune. Answer me this. Did the fox spirit Wihu cause any hallucinations while he was in your mind?"

"....I-I don't know!" I answered desperately. "He did say that he could heal my injuries with magic..but it worked!"

"Magic? What magic?" Watinie questioned.

"I never realized that the demon would go this far." On of the peace keepers sighed. "An animal human does not have magic. He was tricking you. He was inside of your head making your eyes see what he wanted them too."

"....n-no..." denial filled my head. "...but...I saw....?"

"No. Those bruises where always there. You just couldn't see them. Because your mind was so convinced that they were healed you couldn't feel them. And because you are covering your body with all that fabric, nobody could see the damage."

Taking in all the information I realized just how much Wihu killed me from the inside out. I slammed my eyes closed again while tossing and turning on the ground. Sweat beaded down my face as I let out an ear piercing screech. I felt numb to all the pain surrounding my body. Everything started going cold, all the voices started to mesh together. And then it stopped.

It all stopped.

Helllllooooo! I'm back and better then ever! Sorry all my stories have be on a break because 1) I've had the worst writers block. 2) I've been kinda lazy ^^;;; not gonna lie.

So anyways! Don't worry this isn't the end, more of a filler chapter actually 😅 sorry! Also your welcome for posting this chapter with the next one as well! I was hoping to make up for my absence by giving you guys two chapters in one day instead of one!

Sorry for the long author note, but you guys probably really wondered where the heck I went! Long story short I was unmotivated.

Anyways thanks for reading!

~Kyshie

(Also ignor the fact that my name keeps changing! I swear that this is the one I'm sticking with!)

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