IF THIS, INSTEAD?" THE BEGINNING OF NEW
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN A GAKUEN ALICE
Chapter 1
TAKEN AWAY
I can't believe this, First Hotaru now, Jii chan.. no, U can't do this to me. You promised, Grandpa. You Promised. God, Give them back, Give them back, I won't let you, You hear, God… I hate you more than anything in my life, I hate you and I hate everything that u did."
The girl lay there staring at nothing and she knew that she had nothing left in life now. Her Jii chan's lifeless body was in the room, her neighbours were trying their best to console her but no one could reach her. It was only a day after but still she hadn't shed a single tear, she hadn't spoken or eaten anything since her grandfather the only family she had, was taken away.
A freak accident they said, but Mikan knew. Though dense and stupid, she had clearly seen that her Jii chan had tried very hard to stop those men. Those men in black suit, those who'd come to take something from Jii chan but he hadn't let them. He'd told her to hide under the floorboard, at her usual hiding place that she'd thought Jii chan did not know about. She'd cried and held on, but Jii chan had made her swear that she wouldn't come out no matter what, until he called for her. He'd promised he would call her and he'd promised he wouldn't leave her. So, she'd stayed there watching helplessly while her Jii chan fought with those men. He hadn't stood a chance, he'd been hit by something invisible and Mikan had started to shout when Jii chan had looked directly at her and mouthed No. And she'd hid herself covering her mouth until she bit hard on her own flesh. The men had started to enter the garden and to the place where she'd been hiding but then they'd stopped dead on their tracks, a blue light had occurred and they'd turned around and they ran away. Mikan, in her state of shock hadn't noticed the man in the white dress standing near her house, she'd been too scared for her Jii chan, she'd run through the blue light and reached her Jii chan, he had called out her name and she'd gone out of her hiding place to where her grandfather lay taking his last few breaths. He'd said,"Don't cry, Mikan".
She'd started to say No and was about to cry but her grandfather was already sound asleep and she'd sat there until the neighbours who'd seen the blue light came running. They'd been heartbroken by the scene they'd found. They helped carry Jii chan to the outer room of the house. Everyone thought there might have some electrical shot and Mika's grandpa had suffered from fatal heart attack from it. Noone could think of any other logical explanation and noone noticed the white clothed man disappearing beyond in the forest and he had a shocked expression. He had just witnessed the power of the Nullifier.
The man sat just beyond the house on a tree branch watching over everything that happened in the house. He'd watched silently as the little girl lay the head of the dead old man, lovingly onto the pillow of his death bead and then walk calmly to the corridor outside. He'd been silently watching the neighbours arrange for the funeral and had watched as they'd unsuccessfully tried to console the little girl. He'd watched her all night, she'd been sitting exactly where she was now on the corridor staring at nothing. He knew he had to take her away to the academy now, and he'd already made arrangements, he could leave the place but he was not going to risk loosing her. He knew now. He'd now figured out that what those men had wanted from the old man was this girl, the only Nullifier left in the world. He now knew that this was the secret child of that person from 10 years ago. He sat there silently watching over her, He sat there silently witnessing the death of a genuine warmth and innocence that may never appear again on the little girls' face again.