Born Again Ch.1 Re-write.
O.k. so I totally went way off track when it came to the story line and I added a whole lot of useless babbling in there. So let's see if I can do better the second time around.
Eclipse: So tell me again why you turned me into a girl.
Wolfy-chan: Sh, it has a lot to do with the plot actually. Believe it or not if I told you why I made you a girl it would give away the whole ending.
Eclipse: You're kidding right?
Wolfy-chan: Would I lie to you?
Eclipse: That's how you got us here in the first place. BY LIEING.
Reanef: Now now let's not fight…what's done is done.
Wolfy-chan: Yeah listen to your master Eclipse, wouldn't want to make him angry. Now then, Reanef will you please give the disclaimer?
Reanef: She doesn't own Demon Diary. But Eclipse says that she has a fetish for kidnapping fictional characters.
Wolfy-chan: WHAT?
Eclipse: ;
Wolfy-chan: Oh and in the last version of this fan fiction I made, a made the mistake of just jumping into the story with out developing Eclipse's new character so you may not see a plot for a few chapters so just bare with me 'kay?
Selene was a young woman who lived in the middle of a large city by the sea with many houses and important historical building dedicated to various Gods and Goddesses. Her parents ruled over this city for their King and Queen and she lived a very nice life.
But she was bored…OUT OF HER MIND. She didn't care for fancy dresses, jeweled shoes, and the like. She didn't even like the servants coming in to clean her room. Every time they tried she'd shoe them out or, if she was in a particularly bad mode, through something at them, just so she could get the privacy to clean her own room herself. Not that it got that messy any way but at times she would let it go and get a nice scolding from her parents.
What she wanted was an adventure. Some sort of thrill. The city hadn't seen a battle since well before she was born, when her father was a brave soldier in the King's royal army. But now her father was a stuck up coward who hadn't even seen a sword, much less have touched one, in a good long while.
Selene was out walking one morning, the sun was severely damaging her pale skin. She walked by the dock to watch the sailors come in, in their worn old boats filled with things to trade and sell that you just couldn't find in her city. She would get in real close to the old sailors, telling stories about their adventures, and would buy a few things from them and leave.
When ever she went to the dock, she would get odd stares from the old men coming to the city from over seas with their families. Some would be of shock, while others were of fear or anger. She never understood their stares until after her 15th birthday.
On the day of her birthday her mother made her wear a big itchy dress that you could hardly move in, nothing different here, tall shoes that were uncomfortable to walk in, same old and heavy jewelry, check. And, as usual, she was escorted to her seat by a young man she hardly knew, opened presents from people she didn't know, and was showered with "Happy Birthdays" and "Congratulations" from the whole town. But, out of the corner of her eye, sat a strange man dressed in old robes and wore a strange smile on his face. He sat in the corner of the room and watched her the entire time but never once moved, unless it was to follow her around with his eyes.
When the party was over and she had finished saying good-bye to her guests she climbed up the stairs to the second floor and in to her bedroom.
Once she was in she quickly undid the painful hair do her mother put her in and let her long black hair fall to her knees.
She looked around her room and violet eyes landed on what it was they had been looking for, her night cloths. She pulled off the many layers of itchy dress she had been wearing and slid the soft cotton pajamas on and sat on her bed. She picked up the hair brush off of the desk that was next to her bed and walked over to the window, brushing her hair the whole way. Just as she was about to pull her windows open something huge flew through the window. It landed on top of her and she looked up at it. It was the same man that had been watching her at her birthday party. He was (as all egotistical kidnappers do) wearing a black mask and a tall hat, but, being as close to him as she was, she could tell it was him.
The man pinned her wrists above her head with one hand and was rummaging in his robes with another. She could feel the glass cutting into her hands and arms. Finally the man pulled a length of rope from his robes and bound her wrists together. He then set to work on binding her feet. By the time he had slung her over his shoulder her parents came in with a couple dozen guards but they were already too late.
"Figures," Selene thought as the man jumped out of the window and slid down to the ground on a rope he had tied to the balcony. The man lifted her up and onto his horse then climbed on behind her and they were off before anyone really figured out what had just gone on.
As all this was going on our young demon lord was just waking up. He had taken to sleeping during the day and was waking up to find the moon hanging low in the sky.
"Are you just waking up too?" He thought. Of course he knew the moon would not talk back but he liked to think that she would at least listen to him. He walked out on to the balcony and looked up at the moon and had a silent conversation with it until he felt the need to eat.
Reanef walked to the kitchen and when he entered his mind sent the image of Erutis and Chris sitting at the table eating and chatting and Eclipse standing at the sink, washing dishes and trying to ignore Chris's "baby demon lord" comments.
But Eru and Chris had left the castle and, though his body was buried out side, so did Eclipse.
Reanef busied himself with cooking as he did every evening. He was becoming quite good at it too. At first his meals tasted like Eru's but then he found one of Eclipse's cook books and would practice every morning and every evening.
When Reanef was done eating he cleaned up and went outside. He walked around to the back of the castle where a well tended garden rested just out side of Reanef the 4th's window. There he sat in front of a small memorial to his father and Eclipse's grave, and then he began to talk. He chatted cheerily at Eclipse's grave and would, every now and then, make a comment to the former Reanef. Sometimes he would chat all day, and others maybe only a few minutes. This day it was only for a few minutes.
When he was done he set off to clean the castle. He didn't know why he was doing it but he was. As he was talking a feeling came over him. It was the feeling that one normally gets when you have company coming, like a friend that you hadn't seen in a long while was coming for a visit, and so he started to clean.
Selene couldn't remember how long they had been riding when she fell asleep. She remembered they stopped at a cabin in the middle of no where; they then rode along the beach for sometime when they came across a bunch of people who she guessed were his allies because they rode with them.
When Selene came to, how ever, they were no longer riding on horse back. She was locked in a dark room that seemed to be moving. Her hands were tied behind her back now and she was beginning to feel motion sick. When she tried to move to a more comfortable position the room moved violently and she was flung forward and onto her stomach.
"OW!" She said more out of surprise than pain.
Just then a door was slung open and she was hit in the head with the corner of it because of how she had fallen.
"Hey!" She yelled at who ever had opened the door.
"Ah it seems as though the little princess is awake." Said the man who had kidnapped her.
"Seems that way." She said, desperately wanting to rub her head. She looked out the open door and discovered that the reason the room had been moving was because they were on a boat.
The man and Selene had a long talk during the short voyage. She learned that his name was Capio and that he and his crew used to be members of a Knights Guild until they were kicked out for wrongful deeds that they had all committed at one point or another. They had two sword masters in their group, and she had been kidnapped so they can get the reward for finding her. They were to have him kidnap her and someone else was to take her back as though he rescued her and collect the reward money.
When they had finally reached dry land it was well after night fall and they went to an inn to rest. Selene had been untied for a while when they first went into the inn but once they got to the room they retied her hands and left her alone. When they left she started looking about the room. It had been an hour before she found an object sharp enough to cut through the ropes on her hands. It was a pocketknife that the previous occupant had left behind and it was well enough under the bed that she had to crawl in half way to get it. When she resurfaced she cut through the ropes and went out to the balcony, pocketing the knife, just in case.
But just as she started to climb down the man who had kidnapped her burst into the room. He had heard from the man at the front desk that the man who had previously stayed in his room asked him to keep an eye out for his pocket knife. He immediately went to check on his hostage. She was hanging from the balcony and just as she heard the door open every muscle in her body froze.
Capio ran to the balcony when he could not find her anywhere in the room. He grabbed onto one of her wrists and attempted to pull her up. In the end this plan had failed. When Selene cut the ropes off of her wrists she had cut her self as well, causing a lot of blood to flow from the wound, making her hand hard to hold onto. She slipped from the man's grip and fell to the ground. With out wasting any time she darted in the first direction she could and ran as fast as she could.
After traveling for who knows how long and who knows how far, she came to a city that the locals called Pulhel.
As she walked through the citizens would stare at her just as the old travelers would stare at her back home, only more intensely. She continued to wonder about the city when she came across a group of what she assumed to be the guards talking to the citizens. They're conversation seemed important so she attempted to move around them when one of them shouted out, "There he is, it's the demon!" The guards then took up arms and began to move toward her.
"What business have you here this time, Demon?" Said the head guard.
"What demon?" Asked Selene. "I am no demon and this is my first time here!"
"She does look younger," Muttered a town's woman.
"True and the demon was much taller." Said a man.
The guards approached her none the less and she began to feel as if she should run when she heard a voice behind her.
"Eclipse?"
She turned, and there stood a young boy who couldn't be much older than herself with blonde hair and deep blue eyes.
Earlier that day, after Reanef had finished cleaning and began to get bored he decided to go see Pulhel. He had no clue why but he felt as though something were tugging at him from that general area and so he put his cloak on and left. The first place Reanef headed to when he arrived was the old stone building where he met Eclipse for the third time on both of his visits. The building, he found, had long since been re-built after his last visit but that was not what surprised him.
When he got to the building he saw a large crowd of town's folk and guard as on the day when Eclipse came to find him when he was in a state of amnesia. He then looked to where a town's folk had pointed and yelled and his heart skipped a beat. There, to his great astonishment was Eclipse.
Eclipse and the town's people exchanged words for a while as Reanef walked closer to get a better look.
"Eclipse?" Reanef called out and all the people there turned to look at him.
"This must be the demon then!" Yelled a guard. "It's the same boy that was with him when he came last time!"
The murmuring about the square just got louder and louder.
"Someone," called the head guard. "Summon the clerics!" A couple of the men and guards ran off to find the clerics as the head guard and some of his followers stayed behind to fend them off.
"I will ask you again," he said. "What business have you here?"
It was then that Reanef knew that it could not be Eclipse. But he knew that she was in great trouble.
"Hey!" He yelled. "This way!" He motioned for her to follow him and she did. They both ran together through the winding streets of Pulhel, all the while the words "Eclipse would have killed me for yelling out 'hey' in public." Were pouring through his head.
Reanef led Selene through various allies and passages when they came to a stop near a small inn.
"Who are you?" Selene asked him as she sat down to rest her feet, they had scabs and blisters and they hurt like hell.
Instead of answering right away Reanef sat down next to her and would not take his eyes off of her. "It's amazing…." Was all he could say.
Selene looked at him with profound curiosity. "What is?" She asked.
"You look so much like him…."
"Who?"
"Eclipse."
"Who?"
"He was a friend of mine along time ago."
"Is that who everyone else thinks that I am?" Selene asked as she took time to look at her cut wrist.
"Yeah," Was all that Reanef could say, too busy marveling about how much Selene looked like Eclipse.
"Was Eclipse a demon then?" Selene continued, looking up at Reanef and becoming unnerved when he wouldn't look away.
Reanef nodded and stood back up, holding his hand out to her. "Come on; let's get out of here before the guards come."
"Are you a demon?" Selene asked, not sure if going with a demon would be the best idea in the world.
"Why, are you scared?" Teased Reanef.
"No," Said Selene defensively. "I was just wondering." And she took Reanef's hand.
Reanef pictured the castle in his mind and they were instantly teleported in side.
"Let's get that cut cleaned up." Reanef said, leading Selene into the bathroom attached to the bedroom they appeared in.
Selene nodded and Reanef took her hand and began to wash and bandage the wound.
"So how did you get this cut anyway?" Reanef asked when he was done.
"I was kidnapped from my home across the sea and used a knife I found to cut the ropes around my wrists but I slipped up and cut myself." She said, not acting the least bit phased about teleporting into a castle and getting helped by a demon.
"So where are we?" She asked, looking around for any clues.
"This is my castle." Reanef stated simply.
"Does that make you a demon lord then?" Selene asked, turning her attention back to Reanef.
"Pretty much," Reanef said, knowing what was coming next.
"You don't exactly look like demon lord material."
"I know, I know," Reanef sighed.
"Why did you bring me here?" Selene asked, changing the subject.
"I'm not sure why," Reanef said, going along with the change, happily.
"Is it because I look like Eclipse?" Selene asked accusingly.
"I don't know." Reanef answered honestly.
Silence took over from there, Selene inspecting the bandage job that Reanef did and Reanef inspecting Selene.
"There is no demonic aura surrounding her," Reanef thought to himself. "There aren't any other powers about her either."
"I wonder just how much I look like this demon, this guy won't quit looking at me and it's getting annoying."
As if on queue Reanef turned his attention to an interesting pattern on the wall.
"So what's your name?" Reanef asked, just realizing he never bothered to ask.
"Selene," She stated. "What's your name?"
"Reanef,"
And the silence once again took over.
"I'll go find a room for you then," Reanef said and then teleported away with out another word.
Selene walked out of the bathroom and in to the room connected to it. In one half of the room there was a large desk stacked with papers, books, and other things that she couldn't identify, a large book case, and a chest of drawers.
She poked through the mess on the desk and found that many of the papers had hand written spells on them, and the books were written in a language that she couldn't understand but that seemed familiar.
She then moved to the other half of the room which had a large bed with a night stand beside it, another chest of drawers, bigger than the last one, and a stool beside it.
She took a few steps closer to the bed and saw a covered portrait above it on the wall. She pulled the string that would reveal it and gasped at what she saw.
There, hanging from the wall was a man with her face. Her slim features. Her violet eyes. Her long black hair.
She took a few steps back, needing to compose herself.
"I see you've found Eclipse." Reanef said, walking up behind her.
She turned to Reanef and nodded, not sure if she was going to get in trouble or not.
Reanef, after fixing the curtain back over the portrait, walked back over to Selene and said, "I've found a room for you." He then grabbed onto her arm gently and they were teleported to a large room almost identical to the one she was previously in except there was no portrait and instead of black silk sheets on the bed there were deep purple.
"What do you think?" Reanef asked.
"It's better than my room back home." She said, still looking around.
"I guess you like it then." Reanef said and before walking out added, "By the way, there are clothes in the dresser and closet for you to wear. You should get some sleep; the sun will be up soon. I'll have a breakfast ready for you for when you wake up."
Selene was about to oppose, saying that she could cook herself when she thought better of it, he is a demon lord after all and might not want her going through his things, so she just nodded understandingly.
Reanef nodded back and with a brilliant smile teleported to what Selene guessed must be his own room.
But she was wrong, Reanef teleported himself the Eclipse's grave.
For the few remaining hours until sun rise he just stood there, smiling at Eclipse.
I know it isn't much, considering it's a re-write, but it'll do for a first chapter.
BUT, now that my muse is done bar hoping I think that I'll be able to get the next chapter up real soon. But no promises!
