Shades of Time

Chapter Nine: Sands of Time

"So what are the plans today?" Goth asked Palette, knowing that he really needed to get to a private place fast. The injury on his leg wasn't old, but new.. and it was leaking marrow.

"I heard that a new store opened, with new types of healing items." Palette said brightly.

"Sure." He said with a smile, glad his hood hid his face as he could feel his marks appear again from the pain.

If he was in this much pain, then how much trouble was Searcher in?

Ignoring the pain flaring, he followed his crush to the store.

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"I had fun." Palette said with a smile.

"Me too." Fell said.

"I hope that we can meet up again soon, hopefully by then I can have my Gothy meet you." Palette chirped, while the other skeleton stilled for a moment.

"I hope so." Fell said.

"Bye Fell." Palette said, as the other skeleton nodded his head and he walked away. Palette's smile vanished and the feelings of happiness vanished, he didn't... know what to do.

"Gothy..." He whispered.

Fell was his Gothy, the person who he hadn't realized that he was in love with, until they vanished. He didn't know why Goth was pretending to be another, but he had a bad feeling about it.

He didn't tell anyone that Goth was pretending to be a Fell Goth, something told him not to... Goth wouldn't be doing this unless it was important.

Yet...

"Wait!" Palette cried, as he ran around the corner Goth had just gone around, but no one was there.

"Goth." He sniffled, as a single tear rolled down his cheek.

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Goth blinked as he found himself.... somewhere not where he'd been moments before, and when he looked around, he saw the world around him was muted color wise, but he still recognized it as a temple, like the one he fought in before.

"Sand?" He questioned, realizing the floor was made out of heavy sand, the type that was hard to walk on.

And then, he noticed them, cracks in the muted color, tainted with magic.. Searcher's magic.

"Wait.. is this where Searcher was when he helped me?" He asked shocked, and a blur went beside him.

And a big honking snake.

"Owwww..." Goth.. no Shades said as the snake slammed into a wall, and he winced at the state of his counterpart.

Searcher was covered in sand from the arena that he was fighting, as well as his own Magic and Marrow. He had various bruises, cut marks and scrapes littering his body, but the most dangerous wound that he had was the impalement wound in his left shoulder.

A Marrow and Magic stained strip of cloth that was wrapped around his left leg, was the evidence of the first wound that he received from the Guardian.

"Work work work." Shades said as he pulled out the most powerful healing item that he'd bought, and he cracked it open before he ate it quickly.

The pain from earlier from his leg wound faded and he hoped that it had helped his counterpart.

"Move your Freaking Starry Ass Searcher!" He yelled.

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Fate paused, and she stared at her Destroyer.

"I'll give that line a 8 of a 10." She said.

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Shades quickly began to figure out what else he could do, other then munching on healing items and hoping this temple Guardian wouldn't have the same anti-heal ability his did. He then noticed the world was less muted by the cracks and he quickly began to pry at them with magic, physically and by codes.

"Come on... let me help him." Shades said, even if he was still in pain, he wanted to help his counterpart.

The cracks widened and so did his smile.

"Crap.." He swore, as he saw Searcher loosing his scythe, before he flung himself forward....

And the world shattered.

Suddenly, he was in a world of normal colors. He swung out his strings and leapt up, using the motions to land on the worm's body and he slammed his own scythe down, right next to the other scythe, before he ripped both of them out of the worm as it screamed. He quickly landed next to Searcher, who smiled as he took his scythe back.

"One scythe delivered." He said and ate another healing item.

"Aww, come on!" He cried, as he was pulled into the mono world again.

Shades could only watch now, and his eye widened as... the scythe evolved.

The worm met its fate as worm food.

((See you about. Library?)) He sent via the codes as the world faded, and he soon found himself in the anti-void.