Dawn Til Twilight Prologue

Prologue

A small boy huddled in the corner of his room, closing his green-blue eyes. He could hear the screams of pain just outside his door. He felt his headache grow worse as he wondered what was happening. Why had his father told him to stay in his room and not come out until he told him too?

Fear crept into his heart and he began to sob. His cries were muffled by his hands, but he cried and cried until he could cry no more. He was only three years old, and all ready, true terror had entered his heart. He looked up at the window. What he saw made him scream and jerked backwards, slamming his head into the wall. On the window, blood ran down the glass, staining it forever crimson.

A scream tore through his lips as he felt himself begin to shake. "Daddy!" he screamed over and over, wishing, hoping his father would hear him and come and save him from the nightmare, but his father was outside, protecting him none the less. The boy, however, would rather his father be with him, not outside with all those creatures who wanted to kill him.

Just as he was about to scream again, looking away from the window, the door busted open. The dark shadows that he had been in, that had been broken by the pale light of the full moon, was shattered as the light came on. His eyes began to sting at the sudden blast of bright light. Holding his hands to his eyes once more, he was aware of people coming towards him. "Daddy?" he whispered, but even so, he knew it wasn't his father. No, this was someone else. But at least it wasn't those creatures, those scary creatures that wanted him.

He looked up, his eyes narrowed into slits because of the light that continued to intrude on the darkness, and making his headache all the worse. He brushed his silver hair out of his face as he caught sight of a young woman he had never seen before come towards him. His mother was dead, it couldn't have been her. And besides, he had seen a picture of her, she had had black hair, this woman had dark brown.

The young boy found himself being picked up by the woman. He struggled in her arms, suddenly breaking down in a hopeless hysteria, "I want my daddy!" he yelled through the noise coming from outside.

"Shh," the woman coaxed, carrying him towards the door. "Your daddy isn't here anymore. He…left," she told him quietly.

"Will he be back?" the boy asked, the tears coming down his face suddenly stopping. He wanted his father, but his father had left him. Why had his father left him? Why?

The young woman shook her head, "I'm afraid not, honey, but you're going to come live with me for now,"

"Wh-Why? Where did he go?" the boy wailed out as he was carried outside to a car. He started to look around, but the young woman covered his eyes, obviously not wanting him to see what was happening. He didn't want to see anyway.

"He went to a better place. He'll be happy there…" the woman's voice was gentle but the boy failed to miss the cold streak and misguided truth in her words. She had lied. "What's your name?" she asked him, changing the subject as they climbed into a car.

"Riku…My name is Riku,"


Please review. I hope you liked it so far. Chapter One will be up really soon. It's been a while since I've written about Riku, but he is my favorite character in KH, and so I shall try and keep updating reguarly, okay? Twice a week maybe, sometimes once. It depends on how many reviews I get at how fast I update. In fact...I think I'll finsih Chapter One tonight and update Wednesy. (It's Monday)