Time

Lucas

"You knew this would happen, didn't you?" a voice from behind me said, shattering my hopes and dreams even though my answer would have been positive.

"Why can't I just live my life, be independent?" I asked, tilting my head just so that I could see her broken face.

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" A mocked me, readying her stance for a fight. As if I was any competition for her.

I wasn't ready for a fight, neither did I know how to do so. Usually I would just let things happen and hope for the best but that couldn't be this time. I wasn't ready. If only I had given up before it was too late.

I could hear the rustling of leaves and rocks beneath her feet as she got ready to launch at me. Her artificial looking metallic claws reflecting the sunlight into my eyes, making it hurt a bit. The thing she would call a face being mostly torn into pieces only revealing some bits and pieces of her muscles and other insides. Her circular marble-like green eyes staring straight into my soul in anticipation. She attacked.

Soon enough I could feel a slight pinching on my neck. I could smell iron, mostly due to her claws and the now dripping blood. I was honestly expecting more from her. This couldn't be all. 

Instead of me, she was the one that reacted to this but the opposite of what I would expect. She started coughing blood and soon enough I could realize why. I looked downwards to see a staff-like thing on my hand penetrating A. She backed out from me and started wobbling left and right, coughing more frantically than before.

"I- uhh I didn't mean to do that, I don't know what happened", I apologized feeling scared for my fate after this.

"WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!!????" A cried out.

Shocked about the situation I tried to get back onto my feet from the ground. I failed the couple first times but then managed to get up. I wasn't sure what to do. Should I even feel remorse for her? I just stared at her with my eyes wide, wondering. I still had the magically in my hand appeared staff but wasn't sure where it came from or what I was supposed to do with it.

She then started laughing maniacally. I wouldn't be surprised due to her messed up set of mind but there was just something odd about it. How come one's emotions change so quickly from crying out in pain to laughing maniacally at the situation. 

"You fool! Did you think you could kill me? I'm immortal and wouldn't die due to such foolish reasons", she pointed at me from a weird angle making me feel pressured like I had done something wrong. "Maybe I could show you just a little something in return".

A started walking back towards me. Everything turned darker and more dramatic the more she acted out. She placed her hand just a mere 10 cm away from my face and whispered some sort of spell, changing the open hand into a grip. 

It felt like my insides were being twisted and turned around. Soon enough I would find myself on the ground again, my whines of pain echoing through the woods around me. Now there was a pile of red parts on the ground before me as my consciousness began to slip away from this being I called my body.

Fishy

I had just woken up, it was a nice sunny day outside. My mind filled with my love, Lucas. I felt like one of those teenage girls giggling over their crushes after they finally answered once to their hundreds of messages. Not in the way that our relationship was anything like that but I'm not sure what I'm trying to say.

I went to the main room of our house, a mix of a kitchen and a living room with both of those being combined into one room. There I saw A, she was leaning onto one of the countertops in our kitchen drinking a bottle of a dark red substance. 

"Good morning my dear, Fishy", she greeted. Wasn't it a bit late for her to be awake?

"Oh hello and good morning to you as well. Shouldn't you be asleep though?" I questioned her.

"Nah I just didn't feel like it today, Dawn didn't have anything for today either so I doubt she would be bothered", A answered. I mean yes I understand her explanations but I didn't know she was even capable of staying awake this long.

Thinking about Dawn, what was I even supposed to do today? She hadn't given me any instructions and this would be the time when she would but now that A's here instead of her that would be kinda hard unless Dawn had instructed A to take her place today. Even so, I doubt A would do so. 

"So how's things with you and Lucas going?" A asked me with a slightly mischievous grin. 

"I- uhh why do you ask", I tried to avoid answering knowing that Lucas' wouldn't like A to know the truth. Perhaps I need to train my acting skills since she saw straight through me.

"No need to answer, I know already", she got up from the countertop and walked past me swinging her finger in the air making a spell putting me back into my original form.

What did that mean? What was she gonna do now? The answer was obvious, she was going for Lucas. Getting me out of the picture made it easier for her to finish the job and I could only sit here almost lifeless with no movement leaving my form. 

I couldn't just stay here and do nothing. I have to save Lucas. If he dies then so do I. At least mentally, probably physically sometime after. We are like the mythical creator god who got divided into two, now only being able to exist if both of the pieces stay stable. I have to get back. I have to wake up. 

I saw a light of blue, then the beaming light of sunshine coming from outside through the windows and into the house, almost blinding me for a couple of seconds. Did I do it? I looked around, finding myself back where I left off. I took onto my feet and went outside as quickly as possible knowing that to be where they went.

I arrived, only to find myself being too late. The gory sight made me want to puke my organs out. Oh but then we would match, wouldn't we. A was nowhere to be seen. What an animal to just leave this here like it's a piece of art for passerbyers to see. 

I felt rage, sadness and confusion all at the same time leaving me into a panic-like state. This same scenario has happened so many times so why do I still feel like it's the first time, like a piece of me was taken away even though deep inside I was expecting it to come back, just not in the moment of panic. 

The familiar blue light that has guided me these past few years appeared again, my crystal. I kneeled before Lucas trying to ignore the lump in my throat or the stuff in my stomach ready to be released adding to the horrendous scene that painted the nearby area in red. I can still save him. I know it's possible. I'm not sure how but I've done it before, so why not now as well. 

Maybe the expectations that I could do it made it harder for me to concentrate on what I was supposed to do since before it had felt like it just came but now for me to actually have to try. Guide me like you've guided me before. I felt a rush of energy going through my body. 

The blue light spiraling around us making the scene feel all so magical giving me a glimpse of hope. This has to be it! I closed my eyes to concentrate on the magic I left. To forget what was before me and to remember what I had to do.

After a short couple of seconds I felt a bit of relief even without knowing if my doing had made a difference or not. Exhaustion conquered my body as I felt like collapsing but couldn't, not now, not here. Resting was for another time, a time where I was safe, where Lucas was safe. 

"Fishy?" a soft voice muffled from the ground before me.

I finally opened my eyes to see things being back in its full glory and probably even better than before. My eyes shifted to the boy in front of me as I looked into his confused yellow eyes. 

"Lucas! You're alive again, I don't know what to say", I said completely flabbergasted. "I'm just so glad that it worked, Lucas, my magic, I can use my magic!" 

"Really?! That's amazing Fishy, I'm glad you discovered it finally", he comforted me, struggling to sit up and pull me into a soft hug, "I don't know what I would do without you Fishy. Honestly speaking, I love you".

He said it, Lucas said that he loved me. I guess my life's purpose is met now. Not actually. I wouldn't have guessed for him to say it this soon. Am I really that important to him? I know it must have taken a lot for him to say such a thing but wow. 

"Oh Lucas how I feel the same!" I squealed in excitement, hugging him even tighter, now wondering if he was even able to breathe in such a scenario.

Soon enough we went home. I knew that I had to confront A and Dawn about this. I don't care what it will take, I will get answers.

"A!" I shouted bashing into her room only to find Dawn sitting on the bed drinking coffee. 

"Sorry dear, she's not here", Dawn said, not even minding to glance at me.

"You'll also do just fine", I sighed in response, "Why are you two so against me and Lucas having something or just Lucas having friends in general?" 

"Friends and such are a waste of time, we just want the best for him", she responded with no hesitation, sounding like she was completely sure what she said was right, "it's not like he has much time left anyway".

"But we people cannot survive without others! And what do you mean 'not much time'?" 

"That he's gonna die, in a year he will be 18 and as it's common knowledge your powers enhance when you turn that age, his body just won't be able to handle such power",

"What?"