Guess what today is? AKUROKU DAY! XD Since everyone is possibly doing lovey dovey cuteness for this special holiday I decided to go dark…. Actually I had notin' for cuteness and just pulled this out of my docs since I got some reviews/ requests to write this story up since he was blocking all my thoughts for my other story Saving Roxas rewrite so I decided I would try and double task! :D
Full Summery: Roxas and his family move into a 18th Century mansion that supposedly was the home of an unknown wealthy Civil War soldier that lost his mind due to a tragic accident. Unknowingly to them everything was falling quite into plan. M for blood, gore, yaoi (and not the good kind…Until later), mind control, and mental breakdowns
Enjoy!
The Monster That You See
"Roxas are you ready to go?!" Said owner of the name sighed as he looked at his now bare room. He didn't understand why they had to leave New York. I mean they live in a up scale pent house that one would think their some filthy rich family for god sakes! To some rundown mansion that was probably haunted if not cursed.
"You okay Rox?" Roxas turned around and saw his older brother Sora at his bedroom door with concern laced in his ocean blue eyes very identical to his own other than Sora's twin Vanitas that had golden eyes and jet black hair.
"Yeash, I'm okay I just…I'm gonna miss this place… All my friends are here and I'm leaving them behind," Roxas replied. He ran a shaky hand through his blonde spikes as tears clouded his vision. He swore to his friends they'd always be together, now he was breaking that promise.
"Hey it'll be okay," Sora cooed and walked over to his brother pulling him into a warm hug that was truly one of Sora's signature hugs he gave when someone was sad.
"Oh my god would you guys come on already I- what's wrong with him?" Vanitas groaned but soon stopped when he saw his brothers hugging each other.
"Rox doesn't want to leave," Sora said as Vanitas rolled his golden eyes.
"Gosh your such a baby would you grow a pair!"
"Well I'm sorry that I'm leaving my childhood friends behind Vanitas!" Roxas yelled; he detached himself from Sora wiping furiously at his eyes to get the water out.
"It's always about your friends isn't it?" Vanitas scowled, he crossed his arms over his chest and glared at his younger brother.
"At least I have some!" Roxas shot a glare at Vanitas who in turn glared back enviously. For over 8 years or more Vanitas has yet to make a friend, everyone tried to set him up on dates and everything but he either stood them up or verbally attacked them; so their was no use in trying anymore.
"Boys its time to go!" Their mother called from downstairs. Sending one last nasty glare at Roxas, Vanitas turned around and trotted down the steps.
"It'll be okay Rox, we'll make new friends, right?"
"Yeah," Roxas nodded and Sora smiled at him cheerfully before exiting the room.
"I'm going to miss living in the city," With a sigh Roxas moved to the door then looked back at his soon to be old room and closed the door on his childhood room.
"Ready to go kid," His father Cloud asked as Roxas came down the stairs.
"Yeah,"
"Well c'mon then lets go the others are already in the van," Cloud told him, Roxas walked down the rest of the stairs and out the front door with a heavy sigh and into their new aqua blue Toyota Sienna minivan; after he settled into his seat he pulled out his blue iPod touch putting his ear pods in blaring The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy.
It took a good 9 hours (plus stops) and 15 minutes to get to Williamsburg then another 45 minutes to find the place…
In the middle of a freakin field...
"You have gotta be kidding me," Roxas mumbled as he looked at the 'rundown' in his eyes in the middle of no where mansion. The 4 story Colonial mansion was all whitewashed brick, 5 windows with black shutters that were slowly decaying on the first floor and 4 on the lower floor, two black chimneys, and a black oak door.
"What Roxas? It looks freakin' awesome!" Sora was practically jumping up and down in his place in his seat.
"I dunno Sor…There's something off about it," Roxas said quietly, he wasn't kidding either there was something totally off about it! It was practically radiating off of it, Sora and Vanitas just rolled their eyes at him. Sure he could be a little condescending at times but still.
"Something's off about every old looking thing you see,"
"Not to mention the time he was dead set that Repliku was a male striper for a living!" Sora said and laughed along with Vanitas.
"Hey that was years ago!" Roxas turned around in his seat and hit Sora who was all the way in the back at his favorite spot in the corner of the car on his leg hard.
"Ouchie! Mommy Roxy hit me!" Sora whined complete with a pout.
"Alright boys settle down," Tifa said through her giggles, she remembered that day so clearly like it was yesterday that Roxas came home from school yelling Repliku was a male striper and was so set on it he made a fake ID to local gay strip club called Fireworks just to prove his point only to get constantly hit on by guys, an almost lap dance, and got grounded for 2 months…Yeah not a good memory to remember.
Finally they came to the mansion and parked the car, everyone got out with a reluctant and unwilling Roxas.
"Ok well lets get the stuff inside, the movers will be here tomorrow with the rest of the stuff," Cloud announced, Roxas looked up into one of the windows he couldn't help feel like he was being watched. When he looked into the window in the highest floor he saw a tall, what looked like, a red head in the window staring down at them from the window. Roxas eyes widened but as quickly as he saw it, it was gone.
"You okay Rox? You look like you just saw a ghost or something!" Sora teased, but Roxas could care less.
"I think I just did,"
Unknowingly to them this was just the beginning.
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Cloud put a old looking key in the keyhole, turning it with slight difficulty. Once he got the door unlocked he pushed it open, the old door groaned in protest of not being opened in a decade.
"Wow," Sora mused as he looked around the old house. Chairs and tables alike where covered with an old musty sheet with thick layers of dust, on the roof of the house their was a dust covered chandelier, windows along the back wall possibly to the back yard only allowing very little light in since everything was so dusty; two love seats sat on each side of the room on either side of a small lamp table, a couch sat in front of a huge fireplace, a door was adjacent to the left wall possibly leading to the kitchen, two staircases one in the left and right (both leading upstairs) where in the middle of the foyer, and dirty white marble floors.
"Well guys go explore, or whatever you kids do in a new house," Cloud suggested as he put a suitcase down.
"Yeah c'mon Vani, Rox!" Sora being the happy brother he is took both of his brother's wrists and pulled them to the staircase.
"Sora," Roxas groaned as he was forced up the stairs, whilst all Vanitas did was glare at his twin, sometimes he wondered if they where even related. Once the trio was on the 3rd level, there where two opposite hallways, Sora released his brothers hands and bolted to the left with a trailing Vanitas yelling at him to stop running. Roxas shook his head about to follow them but stopped when he saw a shadow move in his peripheral vision down the left hallway.
"Hello?" Roxas called, he walked down the hallway, a window facing the woods, three doors lined the right wall and another across from them, it felt eerily colder than the hallway that he just came from. As Roxas walked down the hall he noticed that one of the doors that caught his eye was a gold number 8 on a red mahogany door. Intrigued, and drawn to this specific room Roxas took the brass handle turning it slowly while putting his weight on it to open the door.
The room wasn't as dusty as he thought it would be, but he could careless this seemed like the perfect room for him so he immediately claimed it. It was a fairly large room; one would think it was the master bedroom. The beds headboard was pushed up against the right wall with a flamed wood oak nightstand right next to it, two windows one in front of the bed on the wall across from it that had a window seat and the other facing the front of the house with a desk in front of it, a big walk-in closet on the other side of the bed while the walls where painted crimson red which was a little odd.
Roxas walked around the room looking out the window that over looked the green field, "Rox-oh, woah look Vani Rox has the best room in the house!" Sora busted through Roxas room yelling and what not as Vanitas waltzed in with a scowl set on his face.
"So? Who cares," Vanitas sneered, he was obviously jealous of the room, I mean it was nice and big and soon to be flashy once those posters and a good deal of black paint would do on the crimson walls, he was kinda thinking black stripes. But he has enough time to think about that later though.
"I do!" Sora said cheerily walking off into the room while Vanitas and Roxas were caught up in a silent glaring/staring contest first one blinks the other gets the room. A sudden gust of wind blew across Vanitas face effectively making him blink to clear the dryness.
Roxas smirked as he walked out of the room, "I get the room," He said as he walked passed Vanitas to the stairs to collect his belongings with Vanitas yelling insults.
"That's not fair! Wind got in my eyes!"
"You shouldn't have followed Sora if you wanted to get the first room, so don't blame me," Roxas said smartly as he picked up his backpack and slung it over his shoulder while taking two suite cases in each hand starting up the staircase.
"I'll murder you Sora!" Vanitas yelled and rushed past Roxas almost making him lose his balance.
"There will be no murdering in this house…that is if I don't strangle one of you kids by the end of the night-"
"Cloud!" His mother Tifa gasped and hit Clouds shoulder.
Cloud pouted and rubbed his shoulder glaring at his wife, "What? It's the truth!"
"There will be no murdering in my house!" Cloud replied to Tifa but Roxas was already turning down the hallway to his room, passing Vanitas and Sora who where fighting over a room. Roxas sighed as he put his stuff down in the middle of the room.
"Well, new start, new beginning," Roxas muttered, condoning a black cloaked figure with gleaming green eyes hiding in the shadows.
"Yes, new beginnings," The figure smirked cryptically to himself and disappeared into the inauspicious shadows.
He absolutely couldn't wait…
The Monster That You See…
Hope you liked the prolouge! PLEASE R&R! I really want to know if I should continue this or not, if so please review! :D HAPPY AKUROKU DAYY! WHOOT!
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