Muted Treasure

Choices

"Lance."

It was dark, cold, suffocating, time stood still. Lance tried to move, he didn't even budge.

"Lance."

Lance tried to move again, still nothing. He tried to open his eyes, all he saw was more darkness.

"Why do you even try, it's not gonna work. Your stuck with me forever."

There was a booming laugh, the laugh started to get closer. Lance cringed when he felt the presence basically in front of him.

"I missed you, you used to one of my favorites to tournament." The deep voice said.

Lance tried to protest, he opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He wanted to scream for help but nothing came, tears pricked in Lance's eyes, why was he here again?

"My my, have you grown. You're not a little kid anymore."

The voice was practically at Lance's ear, he tried to move away, but it was locked into place. He wanted to run away from this voice, he didn't like it one bit.

"You know, you're not much of the talker anymore. Cat got your tongue?"

The voice laughed, Lance felt a tug at his face. His face was turned, he could see an outline of a shadow, a little light was in the background.

"D-don't touch me."

Lance's eyes widened, he finally could get word out. He tried to move, his fingers twitched.

"Now now. No reason to be rude."

"W-why am I here? I want to go home." Lance called out, he tried to move again. But only his fingers would twitch.

"You're stuck here for a while little blue, until I say so." The voice had said, Lances's breathing started to get a little faster.

"I want out of here! Let me out!" Lance screamed, he moved again. His breathing became faster. He had no memory on how he was here, he tried to look around the blank space. Why was he here? The invisible chains that were holding him down had snapped, he bolted up quickly. His head started to hurt, his breathing heavy.

"You need to calm down, your hurting yourself on the outside." The voice said bored, Lance look over where the voice can from and stopped.

"What do you mean?" Lance asked, he looked around. The blank space around him making his head feel fuzzy and his heartbeat pick up again.

"You're working yourself up on the inside as well as the outside, causing quite a ruckus out there." The voice laughed, Lance stood there.

"When can I leave this place?" Lance asked, the voice's laughed boomed through the hollow space.

"Never-"

"What's all this screaming and crying?"

There was a bright light next to the dark one, the more the light came closer, you could see the shadow more clearly.

"Now child, what's the matter?" The light asked, Lance just stared at the light.

"You have to tell me what's the matter or I can't help." Light said again, Lance shook out of his trance.

"Why can't I go home? Why am I here?" Lance asked, Light came closer. Light had a round shaped head, bright white skin. She had blue eyes with a little bit of grey with long flowing white hair that spreads across the floor, she had a white dress and was barefoot.

"Because you're stuck between life and death. That's why my brother and I are here, you have to decide which you wanna go with." Light said, Lance looked over to the Shadow, he had short black curly hair and tan but dark skin. He had black eyes, with a little grey in them wearing black cloak being barefoot just like his sister.

"Where am I exactly?" Lance asked, light looked at him and smiled.

"You're in your subconscious, coma as you humans would call it. You were so close to death when you first got here. If it wasn't for me, you probably would've gotten in my brother's hands immediately." Light smiled brightly to Lance, completely ignoring her brothers grumbles of ruining his job.

"Why did you save me then?" Lance asked looking confused, Light hummed and walked forward to Lance.

"Because, your life isn't over yet. You have others who care so much about you." Light smiled, Lance smiled unknowingly.

"Now, what is your decision mortal. I have other souls to torment, I'm running out of time here." Shadow growled. Lance looked around, did he want to go back?

"You look troubled. What's the matter?" Light asked, he looked at her and saw concern.

"Well, I don't know if I want to go back, I have no idea who these people are that care. I don't even know how I got here, but if I was killed I must have been hated." Lance frowned, he shook his head and looked at Light.

"You were almost killed child, not exactly killed. You were targeted out of hatred and revenge." Light smiled, Lance looked at her confused.

"Yeah, it wasn't like you were hated by all, you have your lover right?" Shadow piped up, Lance looked over at Shadow.

"Lover?" Lance questioned, he didn't remember this 'lover'.

"You don't remember do you? Well you have hit your head on the ground before you passed out pretty hard, I'm not surprised." Shadow said again, he walked over to his sister.

"You still have a choice though. Do you wanna come with me, live your life up in the heavens and be with your parents or go with my sister and live out your life?" Shadow asked, they both held out their hand. Lance had a decision to make, did he wanna live or die completely. He wanted to see his parents again, he started to reach out to shadows hand, but retracted it quickly. He wanted to live as well, he couldn't make up his mind.

"I don't have all day child." Shadow yawned, Lance looked at both at them. Light look at him encouragingly, while Shadow looked at him bored.

"I want to live." Lance smiled, Light smiled and grabbed Lance's hand, Shadow disappearing Light began to get brighter, he heard a whisper before the light dimmers out.

"Be safe love."

Lance started to open his eyes, the bright light returned again. He tried to cover his face, but something stopped him. Once his eyes got adjusted, he turned his head to see a raven headed male. The person had his head down against Lance's stomach. He tried to move his hands, but wrists were sore and so was his stomach. He petted the ravens head, he heard mumbles from the boy, he slowly raised his head, purple clashing with blue.

"Lance?"
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