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Note: I like this prompt idea. I'll give it a shot but it will probably be depressing.

(Vals point of view)

"AHGHHHHHHHHH!"

"Lia!!!!" Alex screamed in anguish as he sobbed uncontrollably. He kept repeating her name. Minutes passed in silence as he sobbed before finally looking up at his friend.

"Val, you have to go back. I know you can. Please. I can't live without her." Alex implored as he choked on his tears, her head laying limply in his arms.

" I can't Alex, I just can't." I said softly with a lump in my throat as I watched my friend hug the corpse of his lover, shoulders trembling.

How many times have I've tried now? I've lost count. No matter what I tried, nothing seemed to work. It's almost like some other force is at play preventing me from succeeding. Is this fate? Even if I can control time...can I not change fate?

Alex went silent as he continued to hug his ex-lover. Suddenly he said, "If you won't go back, I'll make you go back. " My friend stood up and glared at me in determination and slowly took out his sword.

Shiiing

Not again. How many times have I repeated this moment? I feel like I'm slowly going mad. I want to help my best friend and Lia. I want that happy ending too. I really do! I tried! I tried so many times! Tears started dripping down my face.

"Please, Alex, don't do this." I said, my voice cracking from the tears I was holding in. I can't redo it again.

"Then turn back time and fix this." He said viciously. Something snapped inside of me. I finally decided to let it all out.

Tears dripping down my face, I yelled back, " YOU don't THINk I haven't tried?! I tried more times then you can count!! Imagine how you feel right now and repeat it a thousand times! Maybe then you will know what I've been through." I glared at my best friend.

Alex's eyes widened for a moment at my outburst, caught off guard. I watched as he came to the realization. The way I was acting today, Everything. The sword dropped with a clang on a rock as he fell to his knees with a blank look. I turned and slowly walked away. I couldn't stand looking at him and her any longer.

(Alex point of view)

4 hours ago...

I flicked my sword to get the blood off of it and looked around the floor. My face sweaty, My pants sticky. Mangled monster corpses everywhere.

I spotted Lia and sighed in relief that she was alright. The way her silver hair shined from the mana crystals above took my breath away. We made eye contact and she smiled sweetly at me which made me smile back like a fool.

As a mage, she is strong but she doesn't have many options if she gets swarmed. That's where Alex and I step in. I'm a magic swordman specialized in using gravity. I can pull and push enemies or simply weigh them down while Alex has a unique way in fighting. With His specialization in using time he can fulfill a variety of rolls. He's the wild card. We gathered together in the middle of the floor.

" Good work you two. Next is the boss floor and then the mission will be accomplished. We went over the plan a hundred times so I'm confident we can handle it. " I said calmly as we gathered together.

Lia who was by my side spoke, "Let's get this over with so we can head back to town, I have something I'm eager to tell you, but not here." She said slyly as she hugged my arm playfully.

"And don't you say anything either!" She shared a glance with Val, Her silver eyes full of life.

Val simply nodded and smiled weakly,

"do I look like the type?" He joked

"Yes."

Val didn't banter back.

Lia frowned.

"Val you okay? You seem off."

"I'm fine."

Meanwhile, I was wondering what she wanted to tell me? I guess I'll find out later.

"Alright let's go."

"Wait." Val said suddenly.

"Hmm?"

"Let's not." His voice dead serious. Far from the jokester that I know. Now that I think about it, he's been kind of weird lately— far from the usual him.

I stopped and looked at my best friend.

"What do you mean lets not? After all the effort we put into clearing this dudgeon, your saying let's not?!" I said exasperatedly

"Yes, I have a bad feeling." He looked me dead in the eye as if imploring me not to go through with this.

I frowned. I took that statement very seriously. Everytime I ignored him when he said something like this, something terribly complicated and annoying usually happens.

" I think we should listen to Alex." Lia declared simply. She also learned to trust his instincts.

I sighed heavily, "fine. It's not worth it if your going as far as to say that."

Val sighed in relief, "thank you, now let's quickly get back to town so we can grab some food. I'm craving chicken."

"Yeah, yeah. You glutton." I retorted.

We turned around and started trekking back up the dungeon. Three and a half hours later, Fresh air greeted as we made it out. The smell of autumn in the air. The trees bristled. We walked in silence for awhile. I noticed Val was still a bit on edge.

Lia was giggling to herself as she clung to my arm.

" What are you so happy about?"

"Oh nothing just imagining your expression when I tell you." She smirked and said quickly. She really knows how to make me curious.

" Come on tell me, waiting is driving me nuts."

"Don't wanna." She said snidely.

I turned my head back and noticed Val stopped suddenly. He looked pale.

"Val, what's up with you lately?" Suddenly Val disappeared and appeared In Front of me. He grabbed me with his left and Lia with his right and pulled me and her down to the ground. I caught a glimpse of a black figure flash over head.

(End of part one)

Part 2

What the hell was that?!" Lia murmured. I'd also like to know. I looked around until I spotted it. A wolf shaped Eldritch. It looked like a wolf but covered in shadow with many eyes and teeth moving around it. Shit.

Val disappeared again. He appeared right Infront of the abomination and punched it in the snout pausing what he punched in the process. The snout imploded. The wolf let out a monstrous howl. It's snout regenerated at a crazy rate as it retaliated.

"Lia!" Alex called out as Val defended himself by pausing the beast and teleporting.

"Right!" Lia gathered her wits and started gathering her mana for a spell specifically for these kinds of eldritch anomalies. But it will take time. The shadow wolf's many eyes glanced at Lia and growled, aware that she could hurt it.

I pulled my sword out and stood in front of her. I created a gravity field around us in a 1000 meter radius. Hopefully that will slow it down a little. I won't let this thing touch her.

Val kept punching and kicking while using time stops and skips but it wasn't doing much other then keeping the eldritch wolf at bay. Everytime time the wolf tried to ignore him to attack Lia he would teleport in front of it and give it a nasty punch sending it back.

Val cussed, " fuck! Why can't you just leave us alone?!"

Val screamed in rage as he beat the eldritch wolf while sustaining small injuries due to his recklessness. I've never seen Val so out of control.

"Val pull yourself together! Bring him closer so I can help!" He ignored me. I felt conflicted. I looked at Lia, she was almost done. 20 more seconds maybe. I can't leave Lia unprotected and I can't help Val either. I feel so useless! I tried using gravity to make Val faster but failed. I wasn't quite there yet in my knowledge of gravity.

Suddenly the wolf disappeared into the shadows. I saw Val stop while breathing heavily and kneel on the ground. He must have over done it. He called out quickly in a panic.

"Alex, Watch out!"

I was prepared. I kicked my foot off the ground and appeared where I thought the wolf would attack and swung only to have the wolf catch the gravity enhanced sword with it's teeth. The teeth cracked while the wolf snarled before returning back into the shadows and trying again.

"I'm ready!" Lia shouted. Val blinked and tried grabbing the wolf that sprang out of a shadow of a tree. But missed.

"Lia shoot it now!" I yelled.

I stepped in front of the wolf and swung my sword right as Lia let the rainbow colored spell loose. However, the wolf predicted the trajectory of my sword while ignoring the pull of gravity I created and slipped past my guard.

No! I turned around as I heard a monstrous whelp and saw the wolf collapsing as it slowly disintegrated into black particles. We did it? I looked at Val who had a really dark expression on his face as he was still kneeling. I looked back towards Lia. She looked at me, her eyes watery.

"I'm sorry Alex. I'm so sorry." She whispered before she collapsed. I used gravity to suspend her from falling and pulled her to me and caught her in my arms.

"Lia!"

No! Not like this. I searched her body. Her stomach? Blood. There's so much blood. I scrambled for my pockets. A potion. I need a potion.

She grabbed my hand weakly to grab my attention. I looked into her eyes. She reached up to touch my face only for it to fall back down. She smiled softly, "I lov-" she didn't finish that sentence as I watched her eyes lose color.

"AHGHHHHHHHHH!"

Lmao I just realized after a certain point I mixed up Alex and Val reading this over. I'm sure this will confuse people. I don't know how to edit a message yet cause I'm new otherwise I would. Just be aware that Val is the one that can use time and teleport and fought up close with the wolf while Alex used gravity and protected Lia. So some of the actions where I mentioned Alex is actually not him but Val. Rooky mistake on my part. xD

below your message are multiple buttons (on pc): Reply, Share, Save, Edit, Follow and three dots. It's rather obvious there.

on mobile, there are just three dots below your message, in that menu there's a pen-symbol to edit your message.

And, as a personal suggestion (that's how I usually do it): Write your stuff in a text program, save it, wait a few hours. then, read it again, correct every mistake you can find. at that point I usually go to bed, proofread it again the next day, maybe make more corrections and post it afterwards.

obviously, that's only how i post my stories, my regular answers usually are a mess :-D

Nice! Thanks for this. xD I'm to lazy to edit this now but I will definitely update this later today.