Level of Madness
Chapter 1 : Despair
Hello everyone. I have the pleasure to present you my new story inspired by many video games and movies, and yes another one but I was dying to do it. But this one I warn you will be much more violent than all the stories I wrote, so sensitive souls try to abstain because too, the stories can express a lot of unhealthy passage, so be careful because ... The madness is going to start !
(Internal point of view: Damian Hart)
3 years have passed since this adventure, I keep remembering it and I think others too. The madness made us turn our heads and all this violence that we suffered made us sick for at least more than 6 months. Now we have reached thirty Pandore and I and our children have also grown old, Angel is 11 years old, Lucy is 9 years old, Mary is 6 years old and our little Michael is only 3 years old. As for me and Pandore we are already 31 years old, and for our other friends it's the same, even Rochelle and Jack as well as Emily and Kirron had children in their turn.
Life is back on its feet ... But
We can not forget what happened to us in this world of madness where death kept on pursuing us to break our soul and make us real demons, especially the person we met ... I was immersed in the despair and I saw her ... Her long black hair, her dark brown eyes, her radiant face often covered with blood, her beautiful red dress, her black sword and her demented personality :
The true goddess of Destruction!
Several years before …
(Internal point of view: Damian)
For several days we are not very good. Because since Pandora is 9 months pregnant and soon ready to give birth to our fourth child, she has fallen ill and it seems worse from day to day, she is more unbalanced than before, is always tired and sometimes she cries of pain in her sleep. So I lie down on my couch to empty my head while watching TV, that's when my little boy of 9 years with his black hair a little bristling like mine with his big gray eyes and in his little pajamas come see me
- Hey ... Hi little darling! I said, coming to take him on me, he snuggled against me
- Daddy ... Will Mom be better? Does he ask me worried
I stroke his black hair to reassure him that everything will be fine, as soon as our new baby is born, Pandore will be much better. I get up from the couch and then go to see my dear wife taking care of our little girls Lucy and Maria giving them a bath, the one with beautiful black hair and big gray eyes, it's our little Lucy, and the most small with beautiful blue hair a little wavy at the tips with the beautiful brown eyes of her mother, it's our little Maria. Our little last. I smile while holding my little boy in my arms and lean against the door
- Hello ladies of my heart! How are you ? I hear Pandore sneer before turning to me, I see the big dark circles under his brown eyes that make me dream
- Oh you're so cute when you play the big seducer! She said, getting up with difficulty because of her 9-month round belly where our fourth child is.
I sneer while coming towards her with a smile
- But it is thanks to my character of seducer that you marry me no? I said, coming to hug her, she smiles radiantly before exchanging a kiss with me
- Houuu they kiss! Chuckle Angel and Lucy as Maria applauds, Pandore and I laugh before I say with humor
- And how do you think you got there?
- Oh Damian, do not go to traumatize them with our personal things, go be nice my love! She answers me kissing my cheek, when I caress her hand where is her wedding ring, she do the same for me.
I start to caress her rounded belly to feel our baby while Pandore gets Lucy and Maria in the bathtub to surround them in a hot towel to wipe them and put their pajamas when I come to help him to spare a little bit, and then I remember something for today
- Oh yes Pandore darling! I forgot to tell you, today Kirron and Emily come to visit us with Rochelle and Jack, unfortunately Spandel and Helen are very busy because of their babies so they will not be able to come today! I warned her, and I see her frowning angrily.
- Why do you still have to invite Kirron? You know very well that he and I hate each other, the only way to stop fighting is when we are moving away from each other! She grumbles, crossing her arms.
I like it a lot when she is angry because her cheeks are swollen and I think it's so cute, so I come and press her cheeks and tell her
- Oh please, my pretty Pandore ! So be nice and let him say his nonsense, you know he an oversize ego, do not worry!
- Pff, he hates me especially ... I bet he would be happy if I'm sick or even dead. He would rejoice in happiness, I know him! I sigh on hearing him say such a thing, I come to hug him and caress her beautiful black hair
- My darling ... Nobody wants such a thing, not even Kirron! You are too precious for us all! So do not you ever say that again? I said, kissing her forehead.
Suddenly, I feel her hug me tightly while her breathing is jerky. His grip tightens on me and I see blood running under his legs
- Pandore ? You're bleeding ... Maybe you'll give birth now, let's go to the hospital! I said, raising her in my arms, she is terribly bad and she starts having a fever. Immediately I call Helen and Spandel so that he can babysit us while I go to the hospital with Pandore.
It is imperative that we go!
Several moments later, I am now in the waiting room with everyone who joined me, I was not even allowed to enter the room with Pandore, I do not know what is happening. pass but ... In my heart I have a very bad feeling. I feel Jack come and put his reassuring hand on my shoulder as well as my adorable kids wanting to come on my lap. In front of me stands a pretty handsome albino male with deep lavender eyes and features of a clever boy on his porcelain face with his well-coiffed white hair. And of course, still wearing his trusty gold watch studded with red spinels, and with his black scarf around his neck, and his black shirt covered with his vermilion red jacket, his jeans and his black boots: Kirron Asper Hope!
He is also author as my Pandore, unfortunately these two can not support each other, which makes the conversation very difficult. But on the other hand, I know he is impressed by Pandore's writing skills, he just does not want to say it! Next to him, sits a beautiful young girl with a beautiful blonde hair almost gold color with also pretty blue eyes like sapphires dressed in a pretty pink dress decorated with white lace: It's Emily Evans! A close friend of ours but also Kirron's girlfriend, next to Jack, is a beautiful honey-skinned girl with big curly brown hair falling down her back with worried chocolate eyes, wearing her black shirt decorate a pink paisley pattern hidden under a black cardigan, with a skirt, pairs of black stockings and boots. It is Rochelle Paris, the best friend of Pandore as well as the girlfriend of Jack. It's been over an hour since we have any news
- Damn ... But what's going on? Why do they take so much time? Normally Damian should already be able to return if Pandora is giving birth! Rattle a gorgeous girl with messy white hair with blood-red eyes and a very white skin and voluptuous shapes wearing a red tank top and black pants with high-heeled shoes.
This is Helen Scarsheld. She is Pandore's twin sister but she was also her greatest terror in the past. The story is complicated, but before that, Helen was a demon for all of us who lived in the body of my Pandore, but when she was liberated, we all discovered that she had not totally lost her humanity, she was even now one of the best doctor of the region.
She is a medical professional.
And beside her, a tall man all dressed in black with the appearance of a model with hair black as ink falling into his neck the same color as his deep eyes and with his bangs almost covering his left eye, a badge forming a black flash in his neck and a black opal in the middle of the chest. Spandel Philips, who is also a demon like Helen and her husband and the father of Alvis and Sparrow, my two nephews.
Suddenly, the doctor finally arrives, we all got up but his face is dark
- So doctor? What happened ? How's Pandore ? I asked him very worried, I see him put his glasses back in place then he looks up at me while talking to me coldly
- I'm sorry sir ... But your wife and your baby ... are both dead!
I feel like a knife in my heart, my head suddenly empties to the point that I lose my balance
- It's not possible ... I murmured under shock, when I see others react
- How are they dead ? But how is it possible? What happens? Helen gets upset grabbing the doctor by the shirt
- Why... ? Why... ? They are not dead ... I stammered while restoring myself, inside I feel deeply broken, I see the doctor lowered his head
- I offer you my deepest apologies Mr. Hart ... But unfortunately, your wife suffered a severe internal bleeding that we noticed too late ... And after the caesarean section applied to take out the baby can not be born by the ways natural, we took it out of your wife's womb ... He had a heart attack! We all did to save your wife but ... She had lost too much blood and her heart stopped during the operation, we have not managed to revive her ... All my condolences Sir!
My heart is breaking ... My Pandore and my baby ... are dead !
All the sounds around me seem to have gone out ... I can not hear anything anymore, nor the others crying where to get excited, I feel my tears flowing as I collapse on the ground screaming in tears.
I ended up losing consciousness.
3 DAYS LATER
I came out of the hospital to attend the funeral of my wife and baby ... He was going to be called Michael, but the Lord decided to take it back from me and with my wife with ... I hear everyone crying around me, while my children stay snuggled against me, it keeps raining on me who am ... broken from the inside!
(Internal point of view: Jack)
My heart is broken, for Damian, for Angel, Lucy and Maria having lost their Mom ... For Rochelle who is crying against my arm, for Helen who had just lost her sister that she took so much trouble to protect, but especially the loss of a dear friend, Pandore still considered me as her big brother, she adored me the first time we met at the HD Academy, she confided all her little secrets as well as the many gifts she was preparing for Damian. But the sadness of my tender Rochelle weighs heavily on my heart too, Pandore and Rochelle have been friends since school, of all it was always her that Pandore put first and who always told him things before Damian. They were inseparable, real sisters.
In the distance, I see Emily snuggle into Kirron's arms crying, Kirron is the only one not to cry, he just comforting Emily by remaining stoic, Spandel cries with Helen who can not help it ...
Just like me !
Once the funeral is finished, everyone starts to leave, except Damian who is still in front of his wife's grave with his children, Helen goes to him with all of us and this one gives us his children
- Please ... bring my children home, I need to stay alone for a moment! He said, none of us got a word, Kirron came to take Lucy, Helen came to pick up Maria and Rochelle comes to take Angel then all go with the children to bring them back When I'm still watching Damian, he's still squatting in front of Pandora's grave, he's not saying anything, he's not doing anything ... He's totally paralyzed.
We stayed more than an hour in the rain in the cemetery, I finally approached him to put my hand on his shoulder ... Damian shivers cold
- Damian ... You have to go home now, your children are waiting for you at home! I tell him, I help him get up and bring him home where his children are at the edge of the stairs waiting for him, they too are very unhappy, the same for Damian ... Because since we left of the HD Academy, never again did I see the empty eyes of Damian, they do not reflect anything ... Just despair and sadness! I see him approach his children and then hug them, when we all stayed with him for the whole day.
Only Helen stayed in the rain, and I see her smoking a cigarette. She who specifically stopped smoking for Spandel and Pandora who was against smoking, the same for all. I'm going to join her outside leaving Rochelle to cry in the arms of Kirron and Emily
- You smoking again ...? Did I ask Helen to come and sit down, I heard her emit a groan
- Save me your lessons on the effects of tobacco, this time I can not hold, it's the only thing that keeps me in this moment! She answers me coldly, I admit that I too can not hold
- I'm not here to do you morals ... I can have one? I asked her, this one is surprised
- Are you smoking?
- Actually ... At the HD Academy, with Damian we smoked in secret, I even remember that we had a smoke a drug to both of us, we very regret this thing because of the effects and the punishment inflicted on us Ziggurat! But we still laughed together ... That day, Pandore was there and we made a scandal about it, she even sulk for a whole week ... It was the good old days! I told with a faint smile.
Helen's face darkens and then hands me a pack of cigarettes where I catch one and smoked it in my turn. I feel that I will regret but I can not really hold the end. I need ... to clear my head!
(Internal point of view: Kirron)
1 week has passed since the death of Pandore, several people are still in the process of mourning including Spandel, Rochelle, Jack, Helen, Damian (especially) and my loving Emily who today, categorically refuses to get up. I have already passed, Pandore is dead and we can unfortunately do nothing! It's like that and no other way, crying will not change anything and I'm not even sure that Pandore's spirit would like to see us crying for her, even though sometimes she became jealous because we just did not give her enough 'attention, even if ... I have a feeling of emptiness in my heart, just by telling myself that never again I could hear his annoying voice, his complaints, his tears, his taunts, his contempt for men and the world, her obsession with Damian, her stupid songs and music she uses for her books and her implacable maternal instinct.
Never again ... I will not hear his voice.
Today, I feel so empty that I do not even want to write a single line or even take care of myself, so I stay on my couch watching my cell phone, especially my photos and I stay in front of the one where Pandore had given birth and sent me the pictures of her infants to keep me informed and even for her first book where she had to harvest two more sales than me, she sent me a message with our percentage of sales where she had marked me with sarcasm and irony just to taunt me: You have it in the bone Kirron! With a smiley that makes a heart, I remember having laughed at his provocation to the point that I posted this photo in my office and made him the same with my second book while she wrote her volume 2 again.
A real kid competition!
I look at the time and see that it is only 10:00 am, so I decide to visit Damian to see how he is with his children, so I propose to Emily to come with me, this one s 'is immediately prepared and join me, she did not even bother to brush her hair. I shrug my shoulders and we wake up the others to come and see Damian with us and of course everyone hurry to come, despite their depressed heads! It's very annoying. Then when we get to Spandel and Helen's apartment, it's Spandel who opens us shirtless with just his pants for him, he's all depressed, sulky limit, to believe that we've bothered him, especially since he his eyes red, he had to cry this morning, at the same time he was very close to Pandore, she loved him the second she saw him
- Hello Spandel, we'll see Damian! Want to come with us? I asked him, I hear him sigh.
- You allow me to put on a shirt and take my children? He asks us coolly, I shrug my shoulders and he goes to get dressed, I sigh to see all these depressed heads behind me, I understand their sadness but they will not be destroyed so far. Nothing can change things, all we can do now is support Damian and his children. Several minutes later we went to Damian because, according to Spandel, Helen left early this morning and he does not even know where she is. At the same time, with this girl you never know where she is going and she comes back whenever she wants.
Maybe she is already at Damian's place?
I knock on the door of Damian, I hear no noise and then the door opens, it is the little Angel who opens us with his little sister Lucy, I lower myself to him
- Hello little guy! Is your daddy here? I asked him, he starts to cough a little while wiping his eyes
- Daddy crying in the kitchen ... He did not want to sleep and do not eat! Said Angel with his little voice, I take him in my arms with Lucy then I let in, business drag on the floor, there is food spilled, it's cold in the house and a smell of cigarettes invades any the house, then when I arrive in the kitchen ... Damian is slumped on the table surrounded by bottles of alcohol and pack of cigarettes. I am in shock
- Damian? But what are you doing? I cried, it was the same for everyone.
Damian has slightly raised his head and we have seen his eyes be completely red with a head to dig up, I have never seen such a threshold of depression, I sigh then catches his packets of cigarettes that I hide in my jacket and all his bottles that I empty into the sink then take a trash bag to put the bottles inside and then throw them away, then all have started to tidy up in his house. And Damian refuses to move, I come back to him and hit my hands on the table, Damian barely jumped
- Hey Damian! Take back, shit, you're a man. Okay, I know you're sad because of the death of Pandore and your baby, but you have to raise your head, go up the slope! You think it would please your wife to see you like smoking cigarettes and drinking beer and wine, and you think of the example you give to your children! Look at you Damian ! I shouted at him.
Damian collapses again on the table and he keeps apologizing, so everyone looks at each other and then we look at Angel, Lucy and Maria who have sad faces, I sigh and I take a few steps
- Damian ... I think it would be good for you to go see a psychologist, and in the hospital you can recover, when we can take care of your house and your children for example .. Emily and I can take care of Lucy!
- And me and Jack we can take care of Angel! Rochelle spoke and it was Spandel's turn
- And me and Helen we could take care of Maria if you want ... Suddenly, I see Damian get out of his chair and run to take his children, he cries
- No please ! Do not take my children ... I beg you, leave me my babies, I need them. Do not take back my children, pity! Damian sobbed, suddenly his breathing quickened and I remembered that Pandore had told me that Damian's heart was fragile, so immediately we rushed to help him.
- You have to find your medicine and quickly! Cry Rochelle while laying Damian on the floor while Jack keeps away the children who want to stay with their father, when to me I start looking through the house to find the drugs Damian, I start by going upstairs, then when I get to the hall, I see a room in the distance with the door ajar and a small key in the lock.
Curious, I go in this room and open the door, inside is a small desk with a bookshelf filled with his many books beautifully decorated in the old fashioned where she wrote the draft of her stories, next to is her desk with her computer where she finalized her writings surrounded by photos, drawings, images and publishing contracts, and then approaching a shelf, I see a row of books that is very familiar to me next to the manga Zelda Twilight Princess, Black Butler, Prison Lab and Kingdom Heart which are his favorite books. I grab one and then recognize the cover of one of my books and she has all the books I made and on the last of the row there is still the bookmark. I then remember that Damian told us that when Pandore was pregnant, have her periods, or did not want to write, she loved to read and could only put 2 hours to read a book in full
So ... Pandore loved my books!
I feel a funny sensation in my chest then I feel a tear run down my cheek, this is the first time I feel such heat in my chest.
- Hey, I found the pharmaceuticals ! Did I hear Jack scream, immediately I go downstairs but before I go down the stairs, I see Angel staring at a big mirror down the hall
- Mommy... ? He mumbled curiously, I sigh and then comes the recovered before going down.
I dream where Angel said "Mommy" looking at the mirror?
(Internal point of view: Helen)
I'm still walking along the beach, I'm quite confused by something, many times I coughed again, my bones started to crack again and I have funny things in my head, this remind me when I was merged with Pandore, I saw these things ... A world in destruction, demented decors, and this black shadow covered with blood with the same look that I have when I become a demon ... Then all of a sudden, I see the face of Pandore crying and reaching for me but behind her ... A huge black shadow waving his crooked hand where his nails are replaced by blades and fell on Pandore, the image is torn in my mind, causing me a terrible headache ...
This shadow ... I already saw it!
And that's it for the first chapter of Level of Madness, I hope that this first chapter unfortunately very sad you will have liked. If this is the case leave me a comment, it will make me very happy. Also :
- Rochelle Paris, Kirron Asper Hope and Spandel Phillips belong to my adorable and dear friend Charmpanda, thank you very much for having lent them, big kisses to you darling!
- Emily Evans belongs to the adorable SilverSwirls, I thank you very much for lent me, big kisses to you my dear!
Big kisses to you all