Take Me to the Sky✔️

Chapter - 30

"A very nice gem you have there."

Yoongi stopped breathing. Someone, a woman, judging by the voice, was there with him. He couldn't see her or know exactly where she was, but his ears placed her between the kitchen and the living room, so he looked in that direction, trying to discern something in the darkness.

"Where is all that confidence you had?" Yoongi didn't know if the question was rhetorical or if it was really directed at him. In any case, he was silent. "You were quite talkative before. I will have to force the words out of you then."

Before he was fully aware of it, Yoongi was speaking. "Who you are?"

"Wrong question." The voice said with an amused tone. "The right question is: why am I here?"

"To screw up my existence." He answered without thinking, causing the voice to burst into laughter.

Yoongi tried to follow the direction of the voice, but something quite complicated it was. Every time she spoke, it was as if she got inside his head and resonated inside him. With slow steps, he detached himself from the door, skipping a little when the keys fell from the lock and echoed in the house's silence.

"You are quite funny, boy." At that moment the shadow became visible. She was sitting on the windowsill with her legs crossed one over the other, but that's all he could see; the darkness and the fact that it was a shadow made it difficult for him to distinguish any other features. "But you're right. That is our job. And you're our target."

Our job. Was there one more shadow right now? Was she distracting him so that others would seize the opportunity to hurt him? He looked from side to side, tried to see if there was anyone else with them.

"Just relax. It's just you and me. No one is going to interrupt us, at least for now." The shadow spoke in a soft tone, as if it had read his mind. Although it wouldn't have been difficult to figure it out either, Yoongi hadn't been very subtle.

"Why me? Why now of all time?"

"The correct question is: since when?"

Ah, that was easy to answer. "Since two years ago."

"You're wrong." Yoongi frowned at the answer. "We have been close to you since you gained your gem, but you were never aware of our presence until recently, as you have said."

"You have not answered my other question. Why me?" strangely his voice did not tremble once, although on the inside it was the opposite.

"In this world, there are things that are right and others that are wrong." The shadow began. "Similarly, if there is light, there will also be darkness. We are creatures that belong to that darkness; we sow chaos and feed on the hatred, pain and despair of others. Therefore, you are not our only target, but one of many. A very interesting one."

"Interesting? Is that why you don't leave me alone?," He asked incredulously.

"We have been with the aim since it gets its gem, but it cannot see us until the end." The shadow answered after a pause.

"Until the end? Do you mean when they are about to die? "

Those memories returned to his memory of the night that he had woken up because of a nightmare, memories of a night in the bathroom, memories of when he was about to end everything. Suddenly, he wanted to cry, because if what this shadow was telling him was true, he was about to die. He was going to die at the hands of the shadows and no one would know, because they would surely make it look like a suicide.

"Is that why you are here? To kill me?" He couldn't contain the tremor in his voice. It terrified him. All of this was surreal and real at the same time.