One sole Reason

Third person pov

Arthur's Pov

Y-Arthur's pov

I shuffled closer to the cave's wall as my younger self spoke.

Now I keep 'our' end of the deal.

For a moment my heart skipped a beat,it's words struck it in an annoying manner.

I couldn't really think how this... Younger version of me, who for some reason has my memories,could keep 'his' side of the deal.

The only possibility of finding me a reason to exist would be for him to know about me better than I do....I guess he would.

After waiting for a moment or two to get adjusted to the pain searing through my body,even though the wound it self is present on my torso,the pain it self seemed to be every where,the spots of numbness Is also present in an haphazard manner along those rivers of pain

I spoke out to my younger self,even though he himself is mighty aware of my thoughts,even the ones deep within,too dark and devoid of light for me to see and comprehend.

Arthur:".....Continue."

He was still,his voice still not appearing in my ears.

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I stayed silent as my older self pondered,even though he might think that I am much more aware than him about him self.

The magnitude of that 'further' awareness is only so much.

That bastard,though he may seem un aware,as I am,we both are completely aware of each other's thoughts.

Both of our's many-a shadow-y whispers to the other's.

It will take time for me and him to have more privacy.

I pondered for a reason for him to live...

I pondered for a reason for me to live...

Yet...

Yet...

We gave that ponderance to me.

We gave that ponderance to him.

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For a moment we heard each other's thoughts and words before I remained back in silence as his shadow whispers lay rampant at the back of my mind.

Both the voices of the mind pondered as the time passed by.

Before long,Arthur had fallen,while his younger dopplebanger stayed awake in Arthur's dreams,his thought's bending the world of Arthur's dreams as their thoughts and intent collide and clash.

Yet as the one truly awake and lucid,The younger version Won and made Arthur's sleep dreamless as he pondered.

The cave darkened further as the light of the sun receded back towards the opening.It was almost after noon.

The assassin had chased Arthur down to a cave in broad daylight,it made sense as the only village nearby is a rural village with not much authority.

The village was called 'ray catcher' or 'dalumen'.

Though the authority it carried was not too high,the sights there of the sun's llight is famous for being more extravagant and awe-inspiring,

especially so due to the cliffs, tall plateaus and forests in the vicinity.

The cave they were in is some where inside the forest called 'ley-fanged woods' by the locals as it is highly populated by leys,wolf like creatures that are known to be as tall as humans.

They don't hunt or harm human's as they are Too powerful for the leys to handle.

Though,as days pass,the leys themselves seem to find a reason or two to join and play with human cubs,even though juvenile humans are the easiest to prey on....

"Wait.... Hold on.. "

As I took a detour about the leys's conditions an epiphany had come my way.

That's it! Oh you son of a biii.... Hold on she's my mom too.

^^^~~^^^^^^~~^^^

Finally found it in you to wake up hah! Sleepy f**k

As I groggily woke up rubbing my eyes,

my younger self berated me.

Arthur:"Stop swearing at...*yawn*someone who just woke up....seriously...you have a ten year old's voice, so act like it."

The voice scoffed at my words as I straightened my hair.

But my memories are not a ten year old's though?...Oh! I see,it's because 'you' are ten years old right! Hah!

I ignored my younger self's teasing as I looked at my bloodied hand that had tugged roughly with my hair.

Arthur:"....i'm an absolute mess aren't I? "

My body And clothes were covered and soaked in blood. Although the blood had already dried the fact remains that I look like a murder scene if it was turned into a person.

Hey,listen to me.

I raised my eyebrow at his words.

His voice had a more serious tone to it than before.....ohhh, I see.

Arthur:"took you long enough."

Yeah... It did.

Silence swallowed the conversation once more as he remained mute.

Seeing this my face adorned with a frown as I called him,annoyed.

Arthur:"Hey! Aren't you supposed to be ten years old or something?

You're supposed to be a noisy brat who can't stay silent for even a minute so why are you always keeping silent like that? I know for a fact that I was one hell of brat when I was young you know."

I heard him scoff,any seriousness before was suddenly squashed down as we began our bickering which I couldn't help but think would become a gag of sorts.

Oh ho ho OH! you want me to be noisy do ya? Oh you will come to regret those words alright.

Hearing him, I couldn't help but scoff back at him,a small smile breaching through my former visage.

I'm telling you,i'm gonna be annoying the hell out of you! Even during se-

Author:"Oi! The hell!"

What,cat got you're tongue dumb ass?

I thought you wanted me talk,

didn't ch-ya?

This guy...

I couldn't argue with him about that anymore as I am completely in the lose here.

Arthur:"..."

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Even though I couldn't see him, I could still imagine him having a smug look etched onto his face as he harrumphed at me with arrogance.

Any way...

His tone changed as he changed the topic.

You should first eat the ley meat,eat it raw.

I gave him an incredulous look at those words.

Seeing it.....or knowing it,he answered,much to my self dissapointment.

We already cleaned the ley meat anyway, so you don't have to worry about that, besides, leys are known for their anti-bacterial blood and skin-tissues.So it should be fine,we need more iron intake for you to be at least able enough for walking.

Understanding his reasons I nodded before looking for the bag I had with me, though it was already Torn I figured the meat Bag wouldn't be too far away.

It was quite embarrassing for me to forget something so vital,especially because I am known for being some one that knows a lot,Perhaps i didn't forget it but....maybe instead the other me took it.

Sighing and shaking my head I began my search.

I reeled my head here and there and stressed my eyes to see further in the dark, it still hurt to strain my eyes but it had become much better than before.

And I had found it,not the bag but the meat bag, it was Out side the cave with a length of perhaps two or so inches distancing it from the cave's entrance.

Arhtur:"I guess it won't be an easy one this time."

Yeah,did you think every thing would be handed to you?

I could tell it was his usual teasing yet I could't take it in a light manner.

Arthur:"yeah,but.....everything is taken away from my hands Instead."

.....

Acknowledging his silence as defeat I started to make my way to the meat bag.

Arthur:"Ha-uah! "

An immediate pain Coursed through my body once the pressure finally fell on My torso.

Arthur:"I can't do it like this."

Knowing that moving at all in any sudden manner would sorely undo my stitches I decided to do something else.

I couldn't crawl either so I chose to Lie on the wall after painfully standing and shuffled slowly with some difficulty towards the cave entrance and picked up the meat bag before going inside the cave once more.

The entire sequence was a painful escapade.

There was naught a need to go too deep, so I decided to take two to three steps inside before getting seated and taking the meat out of the bag.

The meat would have gone bad by now if it weren't for the meat bag being specialised for preserving meat.

Bon appetite sucker.

My younger self teased gleefully,can't he just stay silent?

No!~ how could I do that to you of all people?

Arthur:"Why are you still so hung up on that? What are you,a child?"

I am! Ten years old to be exact!

Arthur:"w-what? You bastard how are you so good at this!?–Ouch!"

Damn it,talking so loud made the pain rile up again.

The bastard in my head was laughing boisterously at my pain and lose.

Arthur:"why are you so damn good at this damn it! I still haven't won in a single argument! I don't remember being this good at arguing when I was your age."

I'm simply just better than you that's all, get good.

Arthur:"Fine! You arragont bastard"

Saying so i bit into the meat and winced.

What the hell is this!

Meat,raw to be exact,never had it before?

Why are you even asking that? You know i never ate anything raw before,you're literally me! And stop breaching Into this side of the mind.

Fine,Fine.

as I bit down on the meat I waited for him to leave.

Although it hasn't been too long since I became this insane,i had already made discoveries and determined names for them as well.

Over all,there are two sides of the mind of mine.

One side is his, and the other mine.

It is a bit weird to explain,but those sides are for thinking in private.

As in,we cannot hear each other's thoughts,but can talk to each other...

Ok, let's put it like this.

Although younger me is an amalgamation of my subconscious,he can distinctly make his words be separated as thoughts,those which I cannot hear and speech,which I can hear.

It's the Same with me, he can only hear things that I say out loud and my thoughts are shadowey whispers at the back of his side.

We can collapse the wall separating us if we need to have a conversation within our mind and not outside, the problem with it is that it would break the immersion of separate personalities formed by virtue of my insanity if we do it for too long.

Done getting your sh*t together there?

You Son of a–Damn it! You bastard,i told you to stay on you're side!

Then stop staying silent,if you're majesty please take a look at you're hand then you can surely see that you have already eaten?

As he had said,i already ate everything, although it was slightly weird at first,i soonly got the hang of eating raw meat,it wasn't too bad.

Or you're just a 'cave' man, who knows?

Arthur:"why are you always so mean to me?"

I'm you're subconscious dear! It's my birth right and duty to sh*t on you.

Arhtur:"......."

Arthur:"can we just get on with....what ever we are trying to do?"

Hearing my words,the tone in his voice Shifted

Yeah you're right.

i gave out a slight chuckle at the tone of his words.

Arthur:"It's like we're having mood swings isn't it?"

*chuckle* it's a perk of us being insane I guess.

OK.

Arthur:"yeah... "

First of all, I can't give you many reasons.

You can only get one and only one reason.

And this reason will be the one that you will carry for the rest of your life.Something that should keep you up when you're down, it won't have the same effect when you are already up there.

This,will be your One sole reason.