Island of Deathly Paradise
Chapter One: Aerial Memories
I am flying. Clouds and bird pass me by. I look down. I do not see land. I see flowers. Beautiful light pink and purple flowers. I laugh. It sounds like small bells ringing. I touch the flowers which feel soft beneath my scarred fingertips. Wait… I look at my fingers. They are not scarred. They are smooth and supple. I looked down at my body. I am wearing a mid-thigh length silver dress. The neckline plunged further than I would wear and I was wearing my brother's and father's dogtags and my mother's crimson pendant. I do not wear these. They are in a box under my bed at the Xavier Institute For Gifted Youngsters. This is not right. I am surrounded by darkness now. I turned around. I only saw more darkness. I began to feel scared. I blink. Why? I am not afraid of the dark. So why am I terrified? I see someone in the darkness coming towards me. Victor? Father? Mother? Wade? The man is in front of me. He is not a friend.
"Well Anna, shall we try the bonding again?" he says whilst smiling an evil grin. Next to him a Russian man and a Japanese woman came and stood next to him. "Shall we?"
I screamed.
I'm in the bloody mansion again. Godsdamnit. I know what's gonna happen. I'm standing on the top of the stairs. I had just come from my room hearing noises downstairs. I had been walking slowly until the shotgun blast. I saw the man on the floor, dead and bleeding. We were meant to call him 'Father' and his father 'Grandfather'. We were meant to call him that but I always knew it wasn't true. The man who really was my father was holding the gun. He dropped it and looked at me. Directly in my eyes. Now that I look at it, his eyes seem blank. And I vaguely recognise this blankness, but I don't know when. My attention was brought back when James cried out and ran to the fake 'Father'. Victor was standing next to Lilith who was looking shocked and had her hand over her mouth.
Mother was screaming at Father but he was only looking at me. James was screaming too and this got Father's attention. James was then running towards Father with what appeared to be bone knives sticking out of his hands. James ran straight for Father. With James' hand knives, or as I later learned his claws, in his chest he told everyone else about their parentage, that he loved us and died. Mother was screaming at James now and he got scared and ran. Victor and Lili followed. I was left alone. I made my way downstairs and looked at Father. Mother spat and screamed at me. She crawled over to where the shotgun was dropped. She picked it up and hit me with her hands. When I was on the ground she kicked me. I curled up in a small ball.
"You stupid witch! This is all your fault!" she shrieked before she put the shotgun under her chin and pulled the trigger.
Just as I was screaming, I thought I remembered hearing groaning coming from my Mother's bedroom.