Chapter 5 - The Boy in Black

Mikey sat alone at a bus terminal, watching the world pass him by. He was feeling fear, a feeling this very same city had never brought him during the day.

It was still night-time.

It was still raining.

Mikey still wasn't hungry.

It had been an hour since he ran away from Dee's apartment. He didn't know where he would go at the time, so he had picked a random direction and had stuck with it. That path, after an hour of running in the rain, had led him to this here bus terminal where he sat and waited. He didn't know what he was waiting for, but he knew he would know what it was once he saw it.

So he waited...

And waited...

And waited...

"This is so boring!" Mikey shouted to the sky, following up his shout with a loud and audible yawn. "Tell me about it" a person sitting next to him said. "Gyahh!" Screamed Mikey in shock, falling to the ground amd landing on his butt. "Oops! Did I scare you?" Said the person, reaching their hand out for Mikey to grab. Mikey reached out to grab the persons hand, before his own hand seemingly fazed through the person.

"Bwahahaha! Gotcha dude!"

"What was that!?"

"I'm sorry, Hehe! Let me help you up for real"

Mikey reached for the person, only for his hand to faze through once more

"You fell for it again! Hahaha! You're a dummy!"

"You're Mean"

"Well you're stupid, Mikey"

"How do you know my name?"

The person who had tricked Mikey stood up and walking towards him, allowing artifical light to illuminate their face. With the light Mikey could see that this person was a young boy almost identical to him in every way, besides the fact that his skin was dark as a Midnight and his hair was a bright coat of snow white. Besides that any passerby could easily mistaken them for identical twin brothers.

"I'm you"

"You're not me. I'm me, you liar!"

"No, I AM you. But i live inside of you"

"That's not possible, you can't live inside a person"

"Yes i can"

"Nah uh!"

"Yah huh!"

"Where do you live then, you liar?"

"In your big head, dummy" Said the boy, pointing at Mikey's head

"I don't want you in my head! You're a meanie!"

"I don't want live in your head either, it's pretty empty up there"

"W-Wait... It is?"

"Yeah! I could barely find your brain when I moved in, cause its so small"

"You Jerkface!"

Mikey quickly stood up and ran at the rude boy. Aiming a punch in between his glowing white eyes.

"Oh No!" Said the boy feigning fear

Mikey's fist fazed through the boy's body, causing him to fall flat on his face.

"W-what do y-you want from me?!" Said Mikey as tears began to protrude from his eyesockets.

"There there, big baby. I didn't mean to make you cry"

"I'm not a baby!"

"Only babies cry, Mikey"

"I'm not a baby"

"Are too"

"Am not"

The boy began to giggle, causing Mikey to follow suit. The boy's giggling began to grow louder and louder, eventually reaching the point where both boy's were giggling on the floor uncontrollably. An uninterrupted 5 minutes of laughter the boys eventually rised to their feet.

"Hey Mikey"

"Yeah?"

"You want to learn how to use that Z-an-Tet-su thing, right?"

"Yeah!"

"You want to find the Alien that killed our Mom and Dad, right?"

"Yeah!"

"You REALLY want to make it suffer, right?"

"Y-yeah..." Mikey said hesitating to respond, he knew he wanted to find the Alien that murdered his family, but didn't know what he would do once he found it. Would he try and understand its reasons for ripping his family apart, Would he kill it in the same gruesome way it had done his mother and father. Mikey was unsure to the point that thinking of what he would do to that Alien, crippled his thoughts for a moment.

"Look Mikey. I want you to avenge our Mom and Dad but you won't do that at this rate"

"Why won't I?"

"You're being a baby! You ran away from Dee, the one person who could help us. So go back to him"

"He's lying to me!"

"Don't you think I know that, Mikey!"

"Then why do you want me to go back to him!"

"He's the best we've got!"

"..."

"If there is even a chance that Dee can take us to someone who'll make us strong. We should take it"

"But-"

"Running away like a baby isn't gonna help us at all"

"..."

"So just go back to him. I'm not asking you nicely after this"

"I don't want to go-"

SMACK! The boy hit Mikey with a slap that caused him to fall to the ground.

"How can you hit me? I can't hit you!"

"I'm also Mikey by the way, but you can just call me Cyrus"

"Answer Me!"

"Bye Mikey"

"ANSWER ME!"

"Bye..."

With that final word, Mikey was once more alone at the bus terminal. The boy, Cyrus, had vanished into thin air, his words reverberating in the back of Mikey's head. He didn't know what had just occurred, he wasn't sure if he would ever know what had happened or if he even wanted to know. Cyrus had appeared out of nowhere and had left Mikey with unanswered questions.

It was still night-time.

It was no longer raining.

And Mikey had become hungry.

"I hope Dee will find me soon"

End of Chapter 5.