Supernatural: Book 3: Yin-Yang's Story

Chapter 10 - The Seeker

(Yang)

Every day now when both me and Yin get home, she helps me with my homework. Every single day. After that, she does her homework.
I don't know what caused her to be like this. She's seen me struggle with homework before for years on end. Why is she so suddenly being so nice? It just isn't like her to be doing good deeds just to feel good.
While she's being so nice, it feels like I'm falling behind. Not in sisterly rivalry, but in our societal orders. I feel like I'm less upbeat and more sarcastic than ever before. It feels like we are becoming more of the same person.
What am I saying? The author would never do that to me! Our symbols are not colliding with each other by accident! Maybe it's because the author can't get in the correct mood every time they type!
We had another possessive attack a little more than a week ago, so we were not due for another attack for a while. Last time we were faced with two possessed people, rather than one. It was a difficult fight, but we got Sedna and Suena to calm themselves down.
Anyways, it is now Christmas morning. I love Christmas, the presents, the giving and receiving, and the food. Yin doesn't like it that much, because she actually has to interact with people. I thought that she would at least like the food and presents.
Once it was around eight in the morning, I woke up Yin, and we went downstairs. Both of our dads knew that we mostly didn't believe in Santa, but we kept doing presents, regardless. It was fun, and we never asked for a new gaming console, or the newest phone, or anything too expensive.
I liked to get involved with the presents, so I started to sort the presents and the stockings, and Yin started to sort too. I encouraged David and Garrett to set an alarm for eight-fifteen so they can come down and see all the presents that they have bought.
I opened up one of my presents, and then Yin opened up one of hers, then Garrett opened up his, and then David did his, and we went back and forth until there were no more. The parents always get the last because, you know.
David likes taking pictures of us opening our presents. I enjoyed it when they took my picture, Yin didn't. She thinks too badly of herself sometimes.
I got new earbuds, a few books, some clothes, and some fairy lights to put up over my bed. Yin got some candy, a few games for our computer, and a new bean bag chair.
Over the day, I read my book, and my two aunts and uncles came over. There is no family on Garrett's side, I don't know why and I really would not like to ask. He also becomes very comfortable when David's brother and sister come over with their spouses.
While eating, I feel another rattle, and then chaos happening outside. We all have learned the routine where we all go into the lowest bathroom of the house and wait until we get an alert that the city is restored.
How was I going to escape this situation? "David, I need to go get Dusk so he's safe!"
"You're right! Go get the kitten!" My aunt says.
"If he's hiding under one of our beds, I'll just stay with him so he's... safe." I say, get out of the cramped bathroom, and run up the stairs. The threat seems to be miles away, so I'm sure that my relatives will be safe.
I look around for Dusk, and I see him, under the bed. I feel like that sometimes my powers carry on without the need of my gem. "Hey, baby boy. It's going to be okay. Stay under here, just in case."
I go to the bathroom, and close the door so no one can hear me. "Light, transform!" I say, and I open the door. Sometimes, I wished that the walls of our house were thicker. If that did happen, I could just go next to Dusk and transform without a problem.
I silently flew out the door, and made sure that no one from my house or any other house saw me. I fly to get a better look of the threat, and I see that it's destroying the main part of the city. Luckily no one should be inside of those buildings, as it;s Christmas.
I landed on the building the me and Dark usually meet on, and I waited for Dark. I see that it's a teenager, or maybe someone younger that's been possessed. Their power is ice, and they are covering the city in it, especially the skyscrapers.
After several destructive minutes, I couldn't wait any longer, I needed to protect the city. Dark must have gotten into a situation, and I knew that I could hold them off until Dark comes.
I flew into the air, aimed for the person, and stopped right in front of them. I threw my hands at them before they could do any more harm. I use my water manipulation and deflect the ice to go away from me.
They back up, and I head closer to them. I use my other hand to fire a few pulses at them, to at least delay them. They ran on the ice that coated the streets to get away, and I missed.
I summoned my bow, and I tried shooting at them while flying. I kept summoning more arrows, and trying to aim as well as I could, but they kept moving back and forth too fast.
They summoned more ice, going up from a building, and the person went right up it. They must have skates on or something. There was a curve at the end, so they came skating right towards me.
I tried to stop as quickly as I could, but it's very difficult trying to go to a complete stop. They grabbed my arm, and attempted to take off my gem. I clenched my first so it became harder to grab, started to flail my arm, and shot a pulse in their face.
They went flying back, and I used two perfectly aimed arrows to hold her in place. I took a few breaths to calm myself down. I was nearly exposed, that could have been bad. That would have been... very bad.
I put away my bow, and all the arrows scattered across the city disappeared too. I wiped the newly formed tears off my face, and walked slowly up to the astonished person. Like they thought that they could have won. "Why, are you mad, or sad?" I ask, while trying to calm myself down.
"I... it's not something that you can fix." They start off open, but close up as soon as they realize they were starting to give up.
"There has to be a reason why you got possessed. It's okay to open up." I tiredly replied. I was exhausted. I used a lot of magic today, I needed to regenerate after this, and the cold wasn't helping at all.
"Well... it's... it's... it's Earl. My boyfriend, sort of. I saw him with another girl today. I could barely see him, but he was cheating on me. He betrayed me again."
It was Kyra, or at least I hope it was. She was transformed into a bleached person, and her hair was braided up very tightly, Kyra never had her hair up tightly, so maybe that's why I couldn't identify her.
"This sounds like a very unhealthy relationship. You need to do something about it. Break up with Earl, it's the best thing for you right about now." I calmly explained to her. She was sitting down, tears in her eyes, while I was kneeling to her.
"But... but... he's done so much for me. I don't deserve him, I've done so little for him. He's the one who should be breaking up with me. I need him." She blindly says.
"If you guys fight like this to the point where you get possessed, you need to do something. If he's doing so much to stay with you that isn't needed, he's going to do something bad to you in the future."
"...No! It's not like that!" She covers her ears, as she wants to hear no more, I took a step back. You don't know us! You probably have never seen me in your whole entire life!" She tried to freeze me, but I had a head start. My arrows kept her in place.
"Please, calm down!" I demanded, and I meant it. I didn't want to fight anymore. I did know her, but I couldn't tell her. I have seen her fight with Earl in the halls multiple times a week, ever since I tried to become more observant.
I don't know what happens before or after school with them, I keep updated from Yin, who regularly checks up on the drama. It sounds like a serious problem, and I want to help.
"I know what you're going through. I've seen you both. You are not destined to be with each other. You two are harming yourselves. You are not less important than him, but he's not less important either. You are both amazing in your own way." I said to Kyra.
"No.." She softly replies.
"Do not push yourself away from help. Please. I can try to help you in any way possible." I ease her.
"I...I...I'm sorry. I just don't want people to know." She says, and detransforms. I noticed something, though, her eyes were still icy blue. Maybe she already had blue eyes
"Is there any way that I could help you?" I asked.
"I guess there is one way." She asks.
I helped her get warm again, and I was able to talk with her about how her relationship was just manipulating each other for their other's enjoyment. Both of them were the victims and the cause, and both of them didn't realize it. She said that she will break up with him in person when she's able to.
Parts of the downtown city were demolished because of how cold and heavy the ice was. Dark didn't arrive at all during the attack, nor while I was helping Kyra out. Did something bad happen to her? No, maybe she just wasn't able to get out. No, I don't know!
The city can't be restored until Dark shows up. Some people's apartments and houses were demolished. They wouldn't have anywhere to go really until she shows up. I waited for as long as I could. Staring off into the horizon, hoping that she would just be very late.
I couldn't just sit any longer, I had to go back to my family. They must be worried sick about me. I've been gone for more then two hours, supposedly trying to "guard" the kitten. I breathed a sigh of defeat, and I flew back home.
They were all worried sick about me, they looked all over for me. I said that I saw someone in trouble and I wanted to help. They said that I was lying, and that you shouldn't run off or hide. Garrett stood up for me, and knew that I would help a person if they were in a life-or-death situation.
The rest of the family kept a close eye on me at night, so I didn't do anything else weird. We watched the news until my relatives went home.
Me and Yin were silent for the rest of the night. I don't know why she was so quiet, she wasn't the one who got out of the house during a serious threat. I shouldn't have left for that long.
The next day, school was still out, you know, Christmas. Aurora and I texted each other for a large part of the day. We were talking about the newest episode of Infinity Universe.
Wasn't yesterday so crazy with the attack? Dark didn't show up at all yesterday, and Light's gem was nearly taken from her! That would have been amazing to see her true identity!
Yeah.
Kyra was also the one possessed! She's grounded for a long while now, but she still can sneak her phone into her room sometimes. Light made her and Earl break up, which was just amazing! She did say things that only happened in the school though, since they never go out in public. Finally, she knew her name right away! That means that Light's true identity is most likely in our school!
That's very interesting. What happens if they aren't able to show their identity? Like something bad will happen?
Why would revealing something result in something bad? My social website for Light and Dark news would suffer if that was the truth.
You have a website for them?
Uh yeah, I've had it for a month. It's very popular within our school. I thought I told you about it.
Maybe you did, idk. What stuff do you have on there?
She told me the website url and I checked it out. She did very well with the graphical design even without my help. Maybe she learned some of the stuff from me. There were different links to different places. More parts of her website, or to photos, or to news articles. There are forums and questions that you can post on, and there are a lot of people on it. There is also the latest news and information on my latest attack, the last interview I had, and who I could potentially be, along with Dark. I wonder where Aurora had the time for all of this. There is also a live camera from a news site on our fights. It's currently not active, because there is no one there. I didn't realize how much people were involved into me.
It kind of felt like an invasion of privacy. Imagine that you have only been out in public only around six times, around fifteen hours total, and you have more information on the internet about you than ninety-nine percent of people on the web. You never got permission, you never had any say in most of the information, and you didn't even realize it really did exist until months after your first appearance. The worst part of it is that your true self, along with your name, and what you like is barely known to less than fifty people.
Isn't this an invasion of privacy?
Not really, she's a celebrity. Anyways, I got to go shovel my driveway. Cya.
After around an hour, I checked the live camera once again, seeing if it did regular checks. It was online. It was difficult to see, but I saw someone.
It was a dark figure. I leaned in closer to the monitor and squinted my eyes. It was Dark. Sitting on top of a building, waiting.
I jumped from my seat, she was right there! I looked around, Yin wasn't there. I transformed in the bathroom on the ground floor. I ran out the door, and I flew into the air, looking for Dark. I see her, and I dive down. I landed softly on the roof, and I walked towards her. She feels the vibration of the roof, and turns around.
"Light! You're here!"
"Yes."
"Look, I'm sorry about yesterday. It was Christmas and we both probably didn't expect someone to get possessed. If I was there I could have protected you!"
"Look, it's okay. I understand. Please just try harder to get out next time."
"Really? I thought you'd be mad or something."
"I am a little bit mad, but you have a very reasonable excuse. Everyone in Minneapolis has an evacuation plan which makes it impossible to get out. On top of that, it's Christmastime, as you said. We were celebrating with our families."
"Well, thanks. I guess we should restore the city."
"Sure, I guess we should." We high five, and all the ice that we could see melts, and disappears. All the collapsed buildings came back as perfect as they were before. We both smiled at each other, and we went our separate directions.
Later in the day, I realized how I could trick Aurora into thinking that Light wasn't anyone in the school, or me. It was very simple, and something I was struggling with earlier.
Do you think that everyone has information on them, somewhere on the internet?
Well, of course. Social media, YouVid, Chatsnap, Delagram, and other internet sources. It would be very difficult to find someone who doesn't have a trace of them on the internet.
Isn't Kyra involved with a lot of gaming tutorials or something? She's popular on YouVid or something?
She has a cooking channel that has a lot of commentary. She has a few thousand subscribers, so I guess she's popular.
She's also been on the news for that thing that happened last year.
Yeah, she got in huge trouble for that, and it was all over the state news. What are you getting at here?
She's pretty well known here. Don't you think that she remembers Kyra from her cooking show, or being on state news?
I guess so. Light or Dark could be from anywhere around here, and she does look a bit older than us. More mature. But why don't you want to find out her identity?
What would happen if you spend all of your time trying to find Light's identity, and eventually you finally succeed. Then the person who's been controlling them could attack them in their sleep. Can you find anything on a person on the internet?
Yeah, that makes sense. I don't know why I didn't think about it. I'll remove the news about Kyra and Light's relationship from my website, I guess.
Relationship?
Well I was thinking that maybe they were friends at one point, but now it sounds silly.
That sounds kind of interesting. Maybe they knew each other from another life lol.
Imagine that!
Today was a good day. The city was finally restored, I have all of my extra homework finally done, I have protected my identity, finally broke up a toxic relationship, and I had an okay Christmas. I was finally able to go to sleep with a smile on my face.

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I was never very joyful about Christmas. Holidays are excuses to just stay happy, and to have a few days off and to finally eat more than you can chew. It's peer pressure from your ancestors, a tradition.
Any holiday is like that, that's why I never celebrate it. It's all just a big excuse. I would never want to get involved with such procrastinating ways.
Both, Yin and Yang, were not able to get out of their house unseen by their aunts and uncles, along with their parents. I hate how protective they all are, especially Garrett. It led to a much longer fight without Yin.
Kyra was scarred after all of this. She might not be able to go to her classes tomorrow. Her eye color may have also potentially changed as Yang said, or it's because people are finally realizing what she's all been going through.
Her powers were not only about ice and doing what she loved, most rather than cooking, but it was for others to forcefully feel sympathy for her when touched. Quite a useless power she assigned to herself, but it weakened Light, and could hurt her in the long run.
Kyra also did exactly as Lucas said, and did not try to fight back. She kept being manipulated and did not question why she was getting these instructions. She was very close to forcing Yang to detransform, which would have been fun to play with, but I would have to reset everything after that.
I've already talked with Lucas today, it's three in the morning where they are all located. It's a couple hours later from where I am at. I should go to sleep, but I can sleep later.
He talked about how he saw Kyra suffering, and how he probably knew that this would help her. I got angry at him, and told him to not care about his classmates. If he wanted to get his reward, then he would have to not care.
He probably won't listen. He probably won't care. I need to change how I do this, I need to do something drastic to solve all of these problems caused by humanization.