What is born of flames?
A/N Hi~! It's me again~! To those who don't know me, my name is The 5th ARISU and every time you review one of my stories, you get a cookie. C:
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Have you ever felt like some thing's not right? Like when you're climbing a staircase at night and you think there are too many stairs? Or like when you wake up in the early hours of the morning and not know why, because there is absolutely nothing wrong and no noise? This is what I felt like one warm Autumn night. Some thing unsettling in the air, like I was saying more than good night to my family.
I just found out why.
I opened my eyes to see half my roof missing and my room catching ablaze.
The world, for just a second, was silent.
Then there was noise.
A battle in the sky, three figures were fighting monsters that looked like the things even nightmares turned away. I only looked to them for a moment before slowly getting out of bed, only to step into a world of chaos.
"Mo... ther? Brother?" I started yelling at the top of my voice. I batted away the flames licking at my father's shirt that I wore to bed and my brother's shorts with it. I picked up my teddy bear and glasses then ran through the burnt out door way. I ran around, searching for life. I got stabbed by twisted metal and falling debris. I was bleeding and weak. My mother was gone, my father was never home, but I saw my brothers form down the hall. He grabbed my hand and pulled my back into my room.
"Get out through the window, Alice! Get out, now!" He yelled over the fighting and the screaming flames.
I couldn't move.
This isn't happening.
"Brother?" I asked him quietly.
"Get-" He was cut off by a piece of roof. It was about too fall on my head but he pushed me aside and I crashed through the fragile glass of my window. I felt a searing pain on my right cheek. That was the last time I saw my brother when he was alive. Then I stood up, reaching for the broken glass.
"No! You are not dying, Marco! Get up, you idiot! Get up!" I screamed at him. I reached into the glass towards the flames. The sounds of battle had stopped with a fiery explosion behind me.
I didn't care. I started to clime back in to find my brother.
But some one held me back.
Slender arms and long dark hair.
"Don't do it!" She yelled at me. "You'll die if you go in there!" She was right. She pulled me back several meters from the burning house. I fell to my knees, the girl still clinging to my back.
"... They're gone... Aren't they...?" I asked her. I think that was all I could manage. Talking seemed so hard right now. I'm so tired...
"I'm sorry..." Said the girl quietly. I could hear tears in her words. I may not have realised it, but I had been crying since I woke up. She sat in front of me so she could see me, blocking my view of the home I had know for so long, burning to the ground...
"I'm so sorry, miss. I really am." And even though I only just met her, I knew her tears were true. She pulled be in and hugged me. I felt warm.
"Such kindness and beauty... She must be a saint..." I thought distantly. We stayed like that for a while. She pulled away slowly, as if fearing I might break if she moved too quickly.
"My name is Lenalee Lee. What's your name?" Lenalee asked me.
"What a pretty name..."
"M-my name i-is... Alice... Why are... Y-you here?" I asked her truthfully. She was fighting monsters for God's sake! The other two people were standing behind Lenalee, a boy with white hair and a kind smile, and the other had long dark hair and was stern, but handsome. Lenalee gave me a smile.
"We are exorcists of the black order, and we are here for you, accommodater Alice. We are here to bring you to the order, but those akuma got here before us." She said with a small frown.
"... Say what now?" I asked. I hugged my teddy bear to me and looked at her like she was crazy.
"She means, your gonna kill giant monsters for a living." Said the handsome one.
"... Excuse me Mr. girly-haired bitch! I don't think I heard you right." I said angrily. Girly hair popped a vein but white hair held him back.
"Hear her out, Kanda." He told him. Kanda glared but said nothing.
"My family just burned to their unholy graves, I've been burned, scared, and stabbed to hell and you want me to. Kill. Monsters." I snarled at Kanda. Only Kanda because Lenalee is nice and white hair is kind. Kanda's a bitch. "Where is the sanity! Where is... The..." I trailed off and slumped unconscious against, I amused to be, Kanda.
"Oops..."
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