Yami Shorts

 The Rebuilding Of Houses “Well, is it dead?” “I don’t know! Then again, I don’t think that I want to know.” “It’s probably alive, just we put it completely to sleep. Well for a good couple of years.” “Thank you! You saved us from that creature.” “Don’t mention it.” “I can’t believe that you killed that thing.” “We don’t know that dear-” “Cerpheres!” “What!? We don’t know! Could wake up in a couple of years!” “Look, the only reason we did that was to survive.” “We will call you three heroes of the pale!” “Don’t.” “We’re not heroes.” “Well you saved us from that thing. The island!” At this Bash and Chashathrophogh looked at each other and rolled their eyes. Already knowing that there was no point in arguing further. “Anyway, we need to get back to our raft and get back to our ship.” “‘Your ship’? You have a way to get off this creature island?” “Yes.” “Do you want to come?” “How about we help you build a bigger and better raft?” “Sure. And in return, we will help rebuild your homes...

 The Land Attacks After they had celebrated, the locals soon stopped. “So how many of those tried to take you down?” “What?” “How many of Dark Lord Jorrarah’s monsters have you taken down?” She told them. Yet that was when Cerpheres approached. “Actually, me and my dear Chashy took him down!” That was when they all looked at him as if he had spoken something offensive. So he shrugged. “What!? Interestingly enough, he wanted to kill you my dear Bashy!” They all looked at each other like they were caught with their trousers down. That was when the children started crying and some of the women wrapped their arms around their children or husbands and others just screamed. “What? What!” “That means his biggest monster is going to wake!” “And what is that?” “And those plants!” “What?” “And the tree!” “What is going on?” They all looked at them. “You should have let her die!” “Look, if there are monsters coming we will take care of them. Alright!” “But the trees are going to eat us!” “No,...

 Monsters Of Death It was night again and had finished the raft. That was when they were approached by a group of people. They had light brown skin and a multitude of eyes. Some looked eastern, others western. They all looked at each other. “Are you from the North West?” “Can you understand us?” “Yes.” “Who are you?” “We are the children of the ones that were shipwrecked here. None of them could escape. So they came together.” Bash nodded. “And why are you here?” Chashathrophogh asked. “We noticed that all the poisonous plants are now burned.” “We wanted to know what happened.” Bash explained. “Well, come. You do not want to be out here, on this night.” “Why?” “We could do something.” “Headless servants of Death. The dead brain eater and the blood sucker will come.” They all looked at each other for a moment. Then back at them. “We will stay and fight.” “Are you what is called mad?” All shrugged. “At least we tried.” “We will come in the morning to burn your bodies.” “Noted.” “As i...

 The Dark Lady Strikes  They had barely been able to get some rest as they tried to fix their raft, yet both took glimpses of Bash as she slept. Yet Chashathrophogh kept an eye on Cerpheres to make sure that he did not do anything. As the day wore on he took a glance at the ship. He could not help but wonder why none had come to this island from the shop or why his cuff was not pulling him to it either. However he knew that he would have to ask about that later,when they had returned.  Yet they both had to force themselves to keep up their work too. As they did both felt sleepy and had to fight this as much as they could as they kept working on and on and on. Then the feeling of drowsiness increased and increased until they could no longer resist it and soon their eyelids started to drop, but they continued to work and work. Soon the feeling became almost irresistible. So both took a tiny dagger and stabbed themselves in a way that minimised blood and maximised pain, just...

 The Dark Lord Attacks  It had been an hour after noon and they were all feeling hot. Yet only Cerpheres had the common sense to take his clothes, save his underwear revealing a pale lean but muscular figure and, suspiciously, without a scar to be seen. Yet they all could feel the sun beating down upon them. They knew that they had to get back to making their raft and fixing all the damage that had been done. However they knew that they had to rest after the night and morning that they had, especially Bash. She needed the sleep the most. So they just rested for a moment as she slept. Cerpheres smiled lazily as he looked at her. “You know, she’s quite cute too when she’s sleeping like that!” Chashathrophogh narrowed his eyes. “‘Too’? She is taken!” “Not yet! After all, you need to get, good ol’ Wolfie out of poor dear Zarry first!” He rolled his eyes. “And why do you call us cute when we sleep?” He let out a chuckle with an excited look in his far too gleeful eyes. “Because you...

 Little Monsters Cerpheres dished out some fish when they looked at the broken raft and then at the broken ship in dismay. He let out a slight whine as he knew that if they did not get off this island he would not see any more greatness other than the ones that Bash and Chashathrophogh would show surviving this island. Then they looked at the ship. “So fix the raft?” “Not until we make it safe.” Both Bash and Chashathrophogh before taking a bite out of their fish. Then Chashathrophogh raised his eyes to the island. “Which means we’re going to need to find out what’s on this island.” Cerpheres licked his lips as he smiled. “This ought to be fun!” “Sure!” That was when he looked at his far too excited face. “Just don’t have too much fun, you pervert!” His smile widened. “Make me, my dear beauty!” He let out a huff. “Dear niece, if you don’t collect his bounty, I will! I swear to Strena!” At this he laughed. “That sounds so much fun.” He purred, liking his lip. As soon as they finishe...

 Surviving The Monsters  It had been one full day of gathering both wood for a raft and a fire when the sun came down. Bash and Chashathrophogh lit the fire and looked at the wood. They all used their magic to fuse the wood together. Then they looked at the pouting Cerpheres as he gutted and put the fish he caught on a stick near the fire and let it cook away. “So, when do we set off?” “Tomorrow, first thing. Mermaids and mermen are usually busy eating or coming round from sleep during that time.” Both nodded. “You know, you sound like Zarry, right now. What's wrong? You feeling alright?” Teased Chashathrophogh. They soon started eating. “Nah! It’s just something I noticed when I was Captain.” They nodded.  Yet as they ate, they noticed that the shop had not moved all day. Yet as they looked at it, Bash could not help but think of Strena. “Do you think that she will be alright?” Chashathrophogh narrowed his eyes. “I don’t know. But I do know that when these cuffs are off ...

 Arrival Of The Monsters Bash looked at the horizon as she thought about how she used to have fiery red hair at the age of twelve only for it to quickly turn jet black by the time she was thirteen. It was dark and cloudy yet she could tell that there was going to be a storm.  Then she and Chashathrophogh looked down at a map to see that they were entering a black spot in the map. As they had to avoid a storm that had several tornadoes in the storm they knew that they had to risk it. So they had to divert their journey to this spot. Yet both knew that, as they were on uncharted waters, they all had to be very careful of how close they came to the black spot.  Yet the only one who seemed to be at ease and he hummed cheerily, was Cerpheres. “Why are you so happy?” “What? I’m always happy!” Chashathrophogh narrowed his eyes. “That’s not what I meant.” “Oh? Not buying it! Are you?” “No.” “Weeellll! I could say!” He let out a huff. “Just get to the point!” “Alright! Well it’s ...

 Broken  Strena sat next to Cerpheres as he told the rest of the crew what happened. She looked down. Her eyes were open but were not focused upon anything. She could feel the weight of depression, resting in her chest. She wanted to die but she knew that Kitsuné Ryu would never allow that to happen. No, not when he found all the pain that he was putting her through hilarious. No, he would put her through more just to get more laughter out of her situation. She also knew that she would not be able to handle it but would be forced to endure it. Just like how a man would be forced to endure the heat of the sun while walking through the desert, just dreaming of the ice cold water, not even knowing if he could find it. “Tell me, what should we do?” Zaryb looked down, both shame and anguish were written on his face. His shoulders draped as his eyes became watery. His face was pale and his eyes flicked up to her and back down again. His mouth opened and closed several times but said...