Crimson
Chapter 1
The red and gold sky reflected off of the lake's crystal clear waters. The smell of sunshine and tulips filled the air. A willow's leaves and branches rustling to a gentle breeze. A young girl of 17 was sitting on a smooth boulder with her feet swirling in the warm waters. Her onyx hair moved about her shoulders like the willow's leaves against the grass.
Her aquamarine earrings and cross necklace glinted in the sun's final rays. Earthy brown eyes searched the waters; for answers, hope, and her dead parents. As she scanned the horizons she fidgeted with the ring she received from her father. A small dagger with the same pearlescent gems inlayed into the hilt as the ring lay next to her on the boulder. On the metal of the dagger in lettering lost to human eyes there was a name, Kagome. An ancient tattoo on her neck pulsed and glowed red on her neck in the fading light.
The incident of her parent's deaths happened a year before. They didn't die an honorable death in combat or die silently in their sleep. They were killed by a thief, whom is not as normal as every other thief. Since the car was not in the drive-way at the time and no lights were on, the thief thought nobody was at Kagome's home. Kagome was out of town with her Aunt for her 16th birthday. Her parents were sleeping in their room on the 2nd floor.
The thief was able to get into the house easily as if the door was wide open. His needle-thin tools and nimble fingers made quick work of the security system and the lock on the back door. He crept through the house like a shadow over a wall. He went through the first floor, not finding much of value. So he headed up the stairs to the second floorHe looked at the three doors in the small hallway of the second floor. The first on the left was a bathroom with blue and white marble tiles, which smelled like the sea. He went to the room across from the sea themed bathroom into what looked like a teenage girls room; Kagome's. The walls of the moonlit room were orange and brown, the colors of fall. The room smelled of grass after a rainy day.
A puppy with black and tan fur with big paws and ears was lying on her bed, sleeping, when the thief opened the door. Leo's; the puppy, ears perked up and twitched as he smelled the man's confusing scent in his sleep. He got up and looked at the man with his big gold brown eyes, then he started to growl as the man started to move about the room, looking at the intricate drawings and symbols on the walls which Kagome's father drew. The drawings seemed to glow dull silver in the moonlight as the man touched them. As the man touched the drawings, little did he know he became marked, a tattoo of a cross and black rose appeared on the back of his neck.
The thief looked at the puppy and he scowled. He quickly grabbed a small ball out of his bag and tossed it to Leo. Leo being the hyper husky/german shepherd puppy that he is went straight for the ball on the bed and rolled around with it. But as soon as the thief began to look through Kagome's jewelry box Leo got straight back up and started barking. The thief put most of Kagome's aquamarine and crystal jewelry into his bag and turned around, gun in hand, "shut it mutt," he said.
At the sound of the puppy's barking Jake; Kagome's father, woke up and bolted out of bed. His eyes searched his room for intruders, they seemed to glow red in the dark. Seeing nobody else in the room other than his wife Hannah, her long light brown hair flowed over her shoulders and was splayed over her satin covered pillow. Jake ran his fingers through her hair and kissed her lips before going to his door to see what or who was making Leo bark like mad. He opened the door quietly and saw Kagome's door slightly opened and heard the man talking to the dog.