Sitting under a cherry blossom tree was a
family of tree, consist of a beautiful lady currently smiling as she took out a
box of ready-made sandwiches for a valiant looking man. A child ran to the man
as he called to him, “Father! Father! Why is it that we always staying in this
town? Can we not leave it?” The child asked as he hugs his father, looking up
to him with his big innocent eyes.
Winds flutters as the lady chuckled and pats
the child gently, “Riz, it is not that we cannot leave this town, you are just
too young to face the dangers of the outside world.” She smiled and kissed the
child forehead when he turned to look at her.
Riz blinked his eyes and tackle the lady as he
then hugs her, “Is that so? Then mama, what are we?” Riz asked, the lady, his
mother smiled as she opened the box, thus Riz attention moved to the sandwiches
instead as his stomach rumbled, so he ate with delish.
His father looked at Riz with a slight frown,
however his eyes are full of love as he hand some of his portion to Riz. The
question asked by their child, was simply left unanswered as the harmonious
atmosphere of the three of them were maintained.
‘I hope, you will never know.’ The man mumbled.
…---
The moon tonight is bright, as the light from
the moon came through the window of a room. From the mountains that the room
veranda was facing, loud howling were heard continuously. Never before such a
dreadful howl was heard, and the whole town shut their door and locked all
entrances no matter whether it is small or big out of fear of an unknown.
In the mansion, a pair of eyes glitters in the
dark as sound of ragged breath is heard, and it looked up to the ceiling as if
it can vividly see the full moon outside.
Meanwhile in the room where the said veranda
is, a child was awoken abruptly and gasped, the child looked startled as he
felt his whole body wet with cold sweats. He went off his bed and walked to the
veranda, though not opening the window he can still hearing those non-stop
howling, inside of him an uncomfortable feeling kept welling up that causes him
to clench his hands.
His body trembled when he saw the full moon
outside, he felt strong urges to run, to jump and to scream as much as he can.
Panting slowly, he blanked out and fall to the floor with a thud.
..---
“Riz…! Riz..! Wake up..!” A soft familiar voice
is heard faintly, calling for him. The warmth and worry in that voice is very
clear to him, oh how he wish to open his eyes but he felt that his body is weak
and unable to move. “Fuz! What should we do? He does not look okay…”
“Let’s take him to the hospital, doctor Marqou
should be able to help him…” Another familiar voice is heard, one sounded
rather stern but similar to the earlier voice, it sounded as worried as the
person before that.
He then felt that his body was lifted by two
strong arm, being carried to somewhere.
..---
Arriving at the hospital, an old man in a white
lab coat was seen waiting at the door, seeing the three of them, he brought
them inside, riding the elevator to level 10 where his office is, he then lead
them with a nurse then took over the child being carried and administer
emergency checkup.
“Fuz, Lyla, what happened?” The old man, known
as doctor Marqou asked as he watches over the nurse and stared at the man and
the lady.
“We don’t know, but Lyla found him uncouncious
by the veranda window this morning. We thought that it was nothing and put him
back on bed, but after a few hours we found out that he was till in that same
state.” Fuz explained with a worried frown shown on his face, his forehead
wrinkled badly.
Lyla held into Fuz hand firmly, her eyes is wet
as she glanced at Riz a lot.
“Doctor Marquo, I’ve finish checking him and
from what I can see, there is nothing wrong with this child.” The nurse
reported politely to the doctor as she kept back all equipment that she has
used to check Riz.
“Alright, temporarily let him rest on that bed
for now. You can return to your previous duty Ailee.” The doctor said with a
nod, and this the nurse bowed slightly and exit the office as soon as she done
tidying up.
“Lets talk. What did you two previously do
before today? You know Rizzer have a weak body constitution, so today incident
might relate to your previous activity.” The doctor pulled two extra chair for
both Fuz and Lyla.
“We were only having a picnic outside during
lunchtime yesterday… We had always spend our time like this before too and
there were nothing happening previously too.” Lyla said and looked down, as a
mother she hoped that her son would be able to play outside like other children
too.
“Yes, he was only running around the tree with
some of his cats… We also ate the sandwiches made following the diet given by
you…” Fuz added with more frown.
“Is that so? Hmn, could it be that something
out or ord-“ The doctor paused when he heard the sound of something fall behind
him. He quickly turned around to see, Lyla who had noticed earlier due to an
unsettled feeling that she felt, saw Riz was standing by the opened window.
“Riz!” Lyla gasped as Fuz and doctor Marquo
rushed toward Riz. “No! Riz!!” But it was too late, all they can see that Riz
waved his hand as he fall out of the window, his pyjama fluttered as he fall
from level 10.
Lyla screamed as she run to the window with
tears falling like waterfall as all she can see is how Riz small body hit the
ground with all the blood spilling around like a smashed fruit. Fuz and the
doctor called for the security and the other available hospital staff, they
would have never expected that Riz would jump off the window like that.
..—
My body felt so heavy, I cannot move any part
of my body, all I can do is stay still. My senses told me that I was being laid
on something, and there seems to be someone laying next to me. I can sense that
that person is watching me very closely, however it does not seem to contain
any hostility toward me.
“You have finally returned. That was quite
long, Valence.” A deep voice is heard not far from where I am, and a small hand
touches my forehead slowly, brushing away my messed bang. “It never changed,
your way of returning here.” That voice continued with a bit sigh sounded soon
after.
A pair of wings fluttering as a tapping sound
can be heard next, making me wonder, ‘is someone flying?’, though a small
childlike voice then said, “Ah, he is sleeping as always.” Which then I felt
that my cheek was being poked by a small finger. I assumed that there is three
different person is currently near me.
However, who is Valence?
“Anyway, because he had returned, we need to
wake him up, right?”
“Yeah, but he does not seem like he want to
wake up at all. I’ve been trying to wake him up for almost an hour.”
“is that so? I guess its okay we let him sleep
more for now. I hope he stay here obediently though. Its already enough trouble
as it is now when he left… Ugh.” The person grumble unhappily.
“Yeah. That’s quite true..”
As they were talking, the weight on the bed
decreases as the sound of a person left the bed can he heard, “Lets go.” Said
the person, and all three seem to exit the place one after another, and the
place become very quiet.
“…”
“Now, We, Can, Go” Said a sudden voice.
All I feel then was a burning sensation
throughout my whole body, causing my stiff body to automatically react to such
sensation, “What.. is this pain? It’s hurt…! So hot! H-Help… me..!” I gasped
and pant in pain.
“Aha… ha.. Scream, scream more~” That voice
laughed maliciously, a cold aura can be felt just next to me, it felt really
evil and dark, one that can instill fear into people’s heart with just a small
contact of such aura.
“Don..’t… w…wor…ry… I’ll sa… ve… you..!” A
static noise flooded into my head, it sounded like a girl voice however was
quite broken and not clear, so I was only able to hear bits of them without
fully understanding it. “I’m… co…ming…! W… ait… fo… r… me…!” another sentences
seems to be said, however it was already faint and soon no longer is heard.
When it was gone, the painful and burning sensation that I felt earlier reached
its peak and I jolted before my conscience drift away.
..---
The sky was dark and the moon
looked really big outside, the area was illuminated by the moonlight showing a
young man was laying on a big bed, beside the young man is a black cloaked man
standing and staring down on the young man.
“Oh, you have woken up.” The man
said when the young man opened his eyes, only to see a masked man with a bulky
body build. He stared at the man with questioning gaze, and the man opened his
mouth and ask, “Do you remember who you are?”
“Where is… my father? And
mother?” The young man sat up and glanced around, all he can see is just an
empty room, but there were no ceiling so he can see the outside, where there
were people with big wings flying, passing by from time to time.
“Gone. Probably you’d never met
them again.” The man replied.
“What why?”
“You died. That’s why.” The man
said and laughed slowly, he can see the young man is looking sad now, but he
didn’t offer any consolation as he instead added with a wide grin, “Everyone
who knows you over there consider you to be dead.”
“Y-You are lying! It cant be
true!” The young man pointed his finger to the man in anger.
“You don’t believe me? Why don’t
you see by yourself then.” The man waved his hand and the dark space open up,
and the young man can see a couple crying by a tombstone, mourning for the one
buried there.
“No… Its real?” The young man
watched with a stunned expression.
“Its because of your beast
bloodline. You are too weak when it was triggered, so you went out of control,
making you unconsciously jump to your death.” The man explained with a smile,
“So your body go splat when you literally jump from that level 10 office.
Haha.” He added with amused face.
“I-I don’t believe! Lier!
Definitely a lier! T-this must be an illusion! AAHHH!!!” The young man bend
down while holding his head, he look very confused, his head ached, his
feelings is in turmoil, he is in chaos.
“Ha-.. AHAHAHAHAHAAHAH~” The
masked man laughed, seeing the young man in a mess.
.._..
“Ah? What is that? Laughter?”
Shinai stopped walking and turned around, her eyes widen as she glanced at
Juniel next to him. “We better go check!” She said and with tacit agreement
they ran back to the room.
Juniel kicked the door harshly,
opening it with such force, “What? Gone?” He froze. Shinai enter the room, the
bed sheet are in tatters, the bed mattress are full with claw marks, causing
them to be unusable. The bed frame have traces of the same marks as the bed
mattress, however it only left scratches marks.
“He escaped?! Ah Stupid Valence!”
“Oh god… Why is he always like
this… One can never take their eyes off him even for a second. Aigoya…” Juniel
sighed as he facepalmed. He enter the room and looked around to find a trace that
are oftenly left by Valence.
Shinai picked a small coin on the
floor, it was found below the tattered bed sheet. “As usual, same thing, same
person, haish!” Shinai complained as she turn to Juniel, “Juniel, lets go!”
“Alright.” Juniel nods and the two of them looked up to the open
ceiling. Shinai hold into Juniel hand as a pair of white wings appear behind
the two of them, simultaneously a black hole open up in the open ceiling,
symbols of ancient language appeared around the black hole, and two symbol
halted its motion. With that the two of them enter the black hole without any
hesitation.
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