Sapphire blue eyes hidden behind long eyelashes fluttered open and closed, trying to focus on the stark-white nothingness that surrounded them. Yu could not tell if he was floating of if laying on a flat surface, however he did know that he felt heavy and that wherever he was, it was not a land that man resided in. He felt weighed down by his heavy, silk night robes and ironically found himself wishing he had worn something else to sleep. Why he was in this white void and how he got there completely eluded him. Closing his eyes again, Yu started to shuffle through his memories of what happened. His father had been angry at him for messing up the ceremonial dance at the Star Lighting festival and he had gone to bed feeling miserable. While trying to figure out what went wrong, Venire attacked him in his own bed. Yu shuddered at the memories of his brother’s repulsive friend’s hands touching him, the heat from his breath still stung against his neck, making Yu feel neausted. That’s right. Venire attacked him and Angiel was there with him, which still was not all that surprising. Angiel was half the cause of the torment Yu had suffered his entire life. They had planned to take him somewhere, or end his life, maybe? Angiel said that he had to get him to border for some reason and Yu had tried to get away. No, he did get away. He had jumped out the window to get to safety, and he almost made it too. A red stain blurred across his vision and Yu bolted up, breaking his train of thought and flipping forward.
“I was stabbed!” His voice was as clear as day and full of a strange sense of energy that should not be possible who felt so ill just moments ago, “I must have died…”
Out of nowhere, something hit him in the head, as though a stone was thrown at him, and he fell backwards into the voided floor. He tried to sit back up again, realizing his hands would not move from behind his back. He looked over his shoulder and down at his chest his eyes widened as panic spread through him. His hands were still bound and the gag hung loosely around his neck. A large blood stain with a knife protruding from his chest stared back at him. He screamed out of fear but was cut off by another stone hitting him in the head, followed by another, and then the endless echoes of it rolling away across an unseen surface.
“So noisy,” a musical voice in a language he had never heard before but somehow knew all too well scolded him as it threw another stone at him.
Yu craned his neck to stare at the empty space where the stone and voice came from, a dumbfound look plastered on his face, “Do not look so silly as you look upon me, beloved vessel!” Another stone hit him in the head, this time drawing blood.
He started to become frustrated, and the voice, clearly not liking his more resolved look of anger, threw another rock at his face. This time, Yu was fast enough to use his strength to sit up and dodge it.
“Will you please stop that!” He demanded, anger burning in his features.
The voice laughed at him through the white void,
“Don’t look at me like that, beloved vessel. After all, I did save you from the Gates of Dread,” The voice snickered through the Void.
Despite the shrillness of the vhysp’s tone, Yu had decided to voice belonged to a male, although everyone knew that the Vhysps were sexually genderless in their true forms. He was about to interrupt him when a bellowing voice scoffed through the void. It was deep, low, and overbearing.
“Don’t pretend as though you did him a favor, Gailistrath. It is our duty to protect our beloved vessel from an untimely demise.”
“Calm your ego, Brothious. You could have saved him too. Death is your realm, after all.”
As the two gods bickered, Yu adjusted himself so sitting without being able to lean on his hands was a bit more comfortable. His head was spinning with confusion and he had so many questions to ask, he did not know where to even start. According to Brothious, he had been saved from death, so the world he was in now was not inside the Gates. The fact that he was still in the state that he was when he had fallen was annoying him to know end. Awkwardly climbing to his feet, Yu stood on the emptiness that was the world beneath him and stared into the direction that the argument was coming from.
“Excuse me!” He called into the void,
“What!” the two Vhysps yelled back at him, clearly agitated.
“I was wondering, is this real? Or have I splattered my skull on the pavement. I’d much prefer that my last hallucinations with life weren’t bickering voices,” HIs voice was very flat and matter-of-fact as he spoke.
Yu heard the wind stirring as a few more invisible stones were flung in his direction, “I said stop throwing those at me!” He called out again, nearly stumbling without the counter balance of his hands.
“And I told you, beloved vessel, to stop acting so unintelligent.”
Brothious started laughing, shaking the empty space like an earthquake, causing Yu to fall back on his rear again. Figuring it would be a waste of time to continue trying to stand up again, he stayed where he was on the floor of the void. Crossing his legs, he stared with an unamused expression into the void where Brothious was calming down from his laughing fit,
“Leave him alone, Gailistrath. It is not every day we invite someone into our realm.”
Yu’s eyes widened as his gaze started to wander around the white dimension. He had heard stories of the fantastical Vhyspian dimension and how it was a city made of gold, diamonds, and all of the precious gem and metals a man could wish for. Somehow, he felt really disappointed. Brothious scoffed through his nose and Yu felt someone patting him on the head, “Don’t feel so down, beloved vessel. There will come a time when we unmask our realm to your eyes. But even as our chosen one, you are still not ready.” Brothious’s voice was fatherly and the warmth of his words wrapped around Yu’s heart like a comforting blanket.
“If I can’t be allowed into your world, where will I go? Back to my room for Angiel to try and kill me again?” His tone was cynical but he was dead serious.
“Of course not!” Gailistrath chimed back in, he could feel the Vhysp god lean on his shoulder. Judging by the size and weight, Yu could not imagine the god was much bigger or older in appearance than himself, “That’s why we took you away from your brother’s grasp. Him and that young man. Oh, how I regret my choices with that one.”
“That doesn’t solve my problem of where I will go from here, though.” Yu was getting impatient with the Life Tier Vhysp god. Yu felt a sudden pressure against his skull, as though someone’s finger was digging into his bone. He was pushed back in the ground and he could almost see Gailistrath smirking through veil of invisibility that divided them, “That is why I am going to send you somewhere where he would not dare to try and retrieve you.”
A sharp of explosion of pain erupted from the knife wound in his chest as his entire body started to feel the heavy weight of near-death sink down on him. He screamed in pain, feeling his entire body being crushed by some unseen force. It was dragging him down, left, right, and every which way in between. Through his pained cries he felt bile rush up his throat and into his mouth. He was ready to throw up. Suddenly everything exploded into white as he hit his head on something hard.
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