Prologue
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"Mama, why are you lying on the floor, Mama? Get up Mama."
"Sweetie, no, go back to bed sweetie, Mommy will get up, just go back to bed honey." 'Oh please God no, go back to bed. Don't stay here, I can't let her see this, they might find her too.' She thought in a slow running wave of panic. Her vision was beginning to darken and she could barely tell if her daughter had gone back to bed yet. A flicker of something furry flashed past her line of vision. A teddy bear, her daughter's teddy bear. She was still here.
"Mommy, Hanu-li says get up. Nue Ehr is thirsty and wants Mommy to get her water so she can sleep. Get up, get up. Thirsty thirsty." She chanted the same thing over and over, swinging the teddy bear she had named Hanu-li over her head impatiently.
" Nue Ehr, go back to bed sweetie. Mommy will get you water in the morning, just go to bed, honey." Her tone grew impatient and the look on Nue Ehr's face turned pouty.
" Fine, Nue will get her own water. Stupid Mommy." She stormed off, batting her tiny socked feet against the floor, though barely making a sound. "Mama" sat up slowly and ran her fingers over the hole in her chest. The white lab coat she was wearing was completely soaked in her blood and felt horribly uncomfortable since it was squishy, so she slipped painfully out of it, but no before removing an injection needle and a 2-inch tall unmarked vial from the pocket. She drew the liquid from the vial into the needle and injected it into the area above her navel. She drew a sharp breath and exhaled lightly as the medicine took effect. A scientist always carried a bottle of morphine in their pocket and she was no different.
" Stupid Mommy, won't give Nue Ehr water when she is thirsty. Nue can get her own water, doesn't need Mommy." Quailed the voice of the toddler from the kitchen. A glass fell to the floor and shattered near her feet, causing her to squeak in surprise. Her mother slapped her hand to her forehead in defeat.
' And for just a moment I thought she could be quiet. They definitely heard that. Looks like I'll have to get her to hide before those creatures find us again.' She slowly began to stand up but collapsed again as needles of pain overtook her body. She didn't have nearly enough morphine to dull the pain completely, but she supposed she could lay on the floor and wait for the end, seeing as with her injuries, it wouldn't be long. She lifted her head high enough to see Nue Ehr again, except that she was now picking through the glass trying to pick it all up. She picked up a few pieces and squeaked in pain when a piece cut her, which had happened quite a few times already. She was sucking on her blood-ridden left hand while picking up the glass with her right hand. She was shaking the saliva off of her left hand when her head shot up.
" Mommy, who is that behind you?"
Her mother darted her eyes back just before a wraith-like hand (claw?) torn through her abdomen. Even the morphine couldn't help her there. She let out a mournful shriek and collapsed lifelessly to the ground, bubbles of blood bursting at the corners of her mouth. Nue Ehr stood and stared at the bloodied body of her mother, now with two holes in her body, her left hand holding Hanu-li and making a blood stain around his right ear. Her mouth curled into a contemptuous glare.
" Stupid Mommy."
She marched over the body to the creatures behind her mother. Their antennas twitched violently as she approached, a dark look looming in her eyes. She whirled deftly around and dipped her left hand into her mother's newest wound, soaking her hand in the blood that had pooled in there. After a while of soaking, she pulled her hand out, which was now literally dripping in the thick crimson substance, and licked some off. She held her hand out to the creatures and offered them some. The shadow creatures sniffed her hand and licked the blood off as well. There were three licking the blood off and since her hand was coming clean quite quickly, she rushed back the kitchen and picked up a rather large piece of glass from the pile that she'd broken. Handling the glass like a knife, she slashed the palm of her right hand open, as she did with her left. Skipping back to the shadows, she held her hand out again and they licked the blood even more eagerly from her hands, since the blood of a child is always sweeter.
" Do you like it? I'm glad. Now you'll be Nue Ehr's friends forever, because you drank Nue's blood. Now you can't leave Nue." A sadistic smile played over her face as she tipped her finger under the head of one of the shadows, and kissed it.
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Yes, I'm very sorry, it was excessively short but I didn't wanna get too far ahead of myself in just the prologue. Yes, I know there's a very small connection to KH right now, you'll see the connection next chapterish. "Nue Ehr" is Chinese for "Daughter" for those of you who don't know. I have a Chinese friend so she's helping me out with this. I hope this isn't too cliché of a story, I tried my best not to make it cliché, so please review! You know you want to...you see the button...and you must review... Thanks!