Prologue:
"A memory best left forgotten"
"I
can't believe that it happened all those years ago, sometimes I think
that it was only yesterday when Rose Mary Smith was a normal teenager
with a normal life and ambitions.
I still see this girl look at
me in the mirror from time to time, when I feel that I hate my life,
the life of a one third reaper, one third nergal, one third devil
with pincers.
However, there was one thing that was common to
those two very different lives, I noticed it only a few nights after
I found out what I really was, after my father, Grim Jr. gave me back
the memories from the first years of my life in the underworld and
the world of the living.
It was a memory, so strong that it
haunted me in my nightmares, too powerful to ever be completely wiped
out.
I never told about it to anyone before but my family,
they were so concerned they seriously considered wiping my memories
again but in the end they made me keep quiet about it.
But I'm no
longer under the rule of my parents and I can't keep quiet anymore!
This is the story of the first time I've been to earth, the first
person I loved except my parents, the first time I saw death:
When
I was three years old, another crazy demon lord decided that he can
be a better Grim reaper then my grandfather and decided to target his
relatives, so my parents decided that they wanted a normal life
anyway so we left to earth where it was safe.
We were disguised
as humans of course, it was then when the Smiths first hit the block
so to say.
My parents of course wanted to spend time
together, with no children!
So I had a babysitter, a young girl
called Alexandra, Alex, for short.
Alex was an Asian Russian I
think, she told me that her grandfather was a Chinese magician who
discovered he had special powers and ever since then all his children
had powers too.
I thought she was just telling me stories,
until one day she took me to a small field out of town, it was a nice
afternoon and we were sitting next to a small stream, having fun,
suddenly Alex asked me if I want to see something cool, I said yes
and wondered what could it be, a pet maybe?
She stepped into the
stream and said "That's should spare some trouble to your
folks", she whispered something I couldn't hear and suddenly, a
bunch of big creatures with dragon like heads and black skins
appeared out of nowhere and began to attack Alex.
I thought
she was a goner but then she caught one of those things by the arm
and broke it like it was made out of chalk.
There were about
twenty demons over there, I think it was also the number of seconds
it took her to finish them all off.
I learned years after that
those demons were called "Dragonheads"(Jee! I wonder why)
and they were considered as the underworld's elite.
But back to
that afternoon!
I was barely able to talk all the way home, I
mean, I always loved Alex, she was like an older sister to me but now
I also admired her for the things she could do, I felt like I'll be
happy for ever with her.
We left for home when it started to get
dark, when we got there, my mom called and said that she and dad will
come back late and that Alex would need to go and buy food from the
store across the street for dinner.
Alex left me in our garden
and went to buy us some food, I was playing in a small sandbox that
dad built me.
When I saw Alex walking towards me from the
edge of the street I was getting so excited, I was too shy to ask her
how she did all that stuff in the afternoon but I told myself I'd ask
her at dinner.
It was getting cold and dark already and Alex
shouted me to wait for her inside, I was just about to get in when it
hit me, there was something dark in this cold but whatever it was, it
wasn't a demon.
And then I heard it, running, something was
running at Alex! and it was holding a sort of blade, I covered my
eyes when I've heard a snap, I looked and I saw the dark figure
collapsing after being hit by Alex straight in the neck, I felt
relief and laughed, I forgot what Alex could do for a second.
But
before I realized it, the figure stood up on it's feet once again and
attacked Alex and this time it was wining.
It moved so fast I
could barely see it, it's movements felt natural as if it was acting
by instinct to each of Alex's moves and before I knew it hit Alex in
the chest and she flew straight to the bottom of the street lamp next
to our house, she was bleeding badly.
I wanted to go and help
her, but the second Alex saw me approaching she lifted her arm and I
couldn't move my feet, as if they were nailed to the ground, all I
could do was to beg her to let me go.
The figure was gone, but
the cold was getting stronger, suddenly the lights in the end of the
street turned off, I thought it probably had nothing to do with it,
but then the lights next to them turned off as well, and after a few
moments the lights next to them.
It looked as if our house was getting surrounded by darkness that was closing in with each light that turned off untill only the small street lamp above Alex was still on, I was ready to tear my legs off just to crawl near Alex not to leave her Alone like this, I screamed at her to let me go, but all she said was that she loved me, I had no hopes of anyone else hearing us, the rest of the houses near ours were still under construction.
And then the light above Alex flickered for a
few seconds and went off, it was dead silent, not even the cars from
the other parts of town were heard, not even the wind, and then I
thought I could hear something whispering and when I tried to listen
closely, it came, a shriek that was capable of piercing the heart and
bone of the bravest man, capable of shattering glass, it was barely
human and full of the deepest of fear.
It was the kind of thing
that you knew that could only come from someone who dies terribly,
and in the solid darkness you could just close your eyes, and prey to
god that you're not next...
After what seemed like the few
longest seconds in my life, the lights turned back on and the cold
seemed to grow a little weaker, I saw Alex laying down, I could move
my feet but in the second I approached her, I run away screaming, her
face was twisted in an expression of deep horror, her mouth was still
opened after screaming.
It took me a few moments where I layed
cying near the lamp post, not daring to look forward when I realized
to my horror that the dark figure was still standing at the shadows,
watching me in silence.
I felt an anger so strong I couldn't
hold it back and I screamed at the figure to show itself, it was then
when I saw him, the freaky green glare in his reddish brown eyes, he
patted my head in fake sympathy and said in a cold heartless
voice:"now now... be strong for me little girl"
I felt
something in me that wanted to attack, to kill! and he looked as if
he felt it too, he said:"not yet, it's not your turn, there's
slaughters to come first!"
And then vanished into the
darkness like mist, never to be seen again for the next 19 years! I
lost my memories a few months later, starting a fresh life and it was
only when I was fifteen that I got them back and knew it wasn't a
dream, I'm 22 now and I know more then ever that it was real."
"But why are you telling this just now?" Asked Dan
In a small coffee shop in at the underworld's capitol sat
Rose and her two friends Dan and Kat, whom she invited earlier that
day with great emergence telling them she had no one else to tell.
Kat, who was always a great believer in the supernatural was the
second one to ask a question:
"And what makes you feel so
sure that it wasn't just a mix between dream and memories? maybe Alex
existed but she simply left and you last saw her last in the dark?
can you really remember any details of that man?"
Rose
looked at Kat in an annoyed look
"Kat! I can't believe you
don't believe me"
"All I'm saying...!"
Rose
got up and shouted:
"I will never forget him! not that cold
that always comes with him! nor the fancy cane with the silver ball
at it's edge! not the long black coat he was wearing! nor the the big
round hat that shadowed his face all the time and made you able to
see only his murderous smile! and you want to know why now?! it's
because I saw him walking in this very street! this very morning!"
Dan and Kat looked shocked and then they heard something
break, the old human that was running the cafe collapsed on the
counter, it was Dan who quickly ran to help him and while trying to
calm him, the old man muttered:
"He's here! he's after all
of us even in death! D...Di...the second dark lord!"
And
soon after that he dropped his head on his chest and fainted in front
of a crowd of shocked and concerned customers.
