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Border Line
An eight-year old girl twirled a glittering golden blade in her right hand, toying with it like a cat would toy with a ball of yarn, both have a dangerous glint in their dark eyes. The dark surroundings and the golden glow that emitted her dangerous features caused her to look treacherous, yet innocent. The torches lined on molding brick walls of the small room she stood in flared casting shadows.
"Kid, young ungrateful brat, did you get it?" A gruff voice questioned demandingly from behind her. It was a voice that stated, if you got it give it, if you don't you'll pay. In response the eight-year old girl stopped twirling her golden blade and black handle dagger, sliding it in her left worn out black hiking boot that she wore on her feet. Reaching in her right worn out hiking boot she pulled out a wad of cash spinning swiftly around, throwing it at the older ragged man's face. "So I see you did," the man continued a predatory grin emerged on his wrinkled face, "Good little girl, now robbing that vault wasn't that hard was it?" The girl just glared at him, her dark blue eyes filled with disrespect and despise. "What the little lost girl is mad at me. It's not my problem you landed on this planet, all alone with your brother, and no money. You're lucky the strongest man on this planet decided to train you. You have potential, but remember if you speak a word to anyone about this scheme . . ." He trailed off clutching his chest, gasping. Pain ripped through his body, causing sweat to trickle off the sides of his face, "What . . . ar . . . are . . . you doing to me." He stared straight into the girl's dark blue eyes and a soft gentle voice filled his ears,
"For all the evil you have forced onto others. Just remember, I don't hate you, I despise you and your ways, so for now on may you rest in peace . . . in the peace of eternal sleep . . ." The girl's soft gentle voice tickled lightly spreading a warm sensation through the man's heart and soul. As he drifted to a dark black place . . . the underworld. The man was already gone not hearing the young girl's next words, "in the peace of eternal sleep, in the torment of the uneasiness you caused during your life, in the death . . . no one deserves but you have to pay." The young girl took the money from the dead man's pale hand, walking away not looking back, and never making a sound except for the soft words she spoke.
Calm steps the girl took as she walked towards the edge of the brick wall. Lightly she grazed her fragile fingers against a brick that was the only brick with no moss or mold. In a flash the bricks around that area transformed into an open door. Not wasting a second the girl stepped through now in a marble hallway. Stuffing the cash in her back pocket of her black leather pants, the door vanished.
"Selene, training." A cold stern voice caused the girl to stiffen.
"Yes, sir." She replied back in a deadly cold voice. Looking ahead of her was the man who called her name and told her to train. He was huge, way bigger then herself, black deadly crystal eyes were void of emotion and his hair was a short wild lime green, the guy walked past her not paying anymore attention to her as was needed.
Sprinting down the hall when the guy was out of sight she slipped into a small tiny room. The walls were all black, the bed sheets and covers were also a dark black. Pressing against her left wall, part of the wall opened revealing a tiny space for storage. In there were a bunch of papers, of paintings, and drawings. There were all dark pictures though, except for each one that was dark there was one that matched it and showed more light. For there was a picture on top of the pile of a dark navy blue and black butterfly, the butterflies eyes were red and it was laying on the ground, one wing had a golden and black dagger stabbed threw it pinning it to the dark green wild grass. The sky was black with tinges of red and dark gray. Mysterious dark trees were also shown in the background, but far way . . . the butterfly must have never made it to the peace or safety, but you could tell it was still slowly breathing, breathing in deep pain. There was another picture though next to it. It was of a butterfly that was sky blue, yellow, and purple, the butterfly was flying high in the air with the golden sun shining rays of light upon it. The sky was light blue with white clouds as the butterfly looked down upon the forest shinning with an era of hope. It's black eyes showed a glint of happiness. Deep in the forest buried sinking in the tough brown dirt was golden blade dagger with a black handle, both were cracked but held in place not yet totally broken. Selene stared at the pictures for a second then looked past them. Deeper there was a bag. Grabbing it, Selene yanked it open and stuffed the money in it along with the stash that was already there. Quickly shoving the bag back in it's normal place, she closed the storage passage by touching the left corner gently. Jumping up she sped down the hallway again heading towards the training room.
Gasping, Selene sucked in fresh cool air, with her mouth open blood slowly trickled out trailing down her pale chin. Selene was outside and just finished her eighteen-hour training for the day/night. When thoughts of her twin brother came to her mind, Xander. Xander was gone and she inherited his powers. They used to be the balance of the world. Of good and evil, but no Xander had to go and get himself killed. Selene was born of pure innocence, Xander of pure darkness. Selene was pure good, Xander pure evil and since they were brother and sister they never were at each other's throats. In fact they were very protective of each other and would always look after each other. Xander would always tell her dark stories about murders, killers, and the evil out there. Selene in return would cry wondering how such cruel people could be out there and Xander he told her these stories for a reason, and Selene knew it, Xander was warning her that evil was out to get people like her, kill them, make sure they didn't exist. All this so that evil could conquer. Until one night Selene was sleeping peacefully, when a piercing power raided her senses attacking her from within, distorting the pure innocence she had once had. The balance was broken. Destiny failed its mission for Xander was dead and Selene knew it. Though for some reason she couldn't cry. Xander died at the age of seven, and she was seven, and he was gone, out of her life, never to return. Slowly she started to realize these things and a tear escaped trailing down her pain-etched face. That was the day she received the powers of the dark and light, therefor she was good and evil, light and dark,
"I kill the innocent, I kill the tainted. I'm the protector of the balance." Selene became the protector of the balance and now at age eight she stood outside in the night staring at the stars wanting to cry but refusing to. In order to protect the balance she had to become strong and crying was a weakness, or so the darkness inside her told her, the light believed crying was good for the soul, to express your emotions, keeping them hidden only weakens you. Selene was torn and being on the planet where everything reminds her of Xander didn't help. She had to get out of here and that's why she was collecting the stash of money that's hidden. Killing the old hag earlier didn't bother her. In fact it evened the balance more, she did her job and that's all that matters. The guy was evil anyway, but the evil inside her whipped at her slashing at her heart for being such a traitor. Traitor for killing her own alley, alley of evil and the light inside her was ashamed at her for not giving the guy a chance. The only time she got the approval for killing was when she killed an innocent, but the approval came from the evil core inside of her being.
The Warmth By: Incubus
I'd like to close my eyes and go numb
But there's a cold wind coming from
The top of the highest high-rise today.
It's not a breeze cause' it blows hard
yes and it wants me to discard the humanity I know.
Watch the warmth blow away
Do you think I should adhere
To that pressing new frontier?
And leave in my wake a trail of fear(?)
Or should I hold my head up high
And throw a wrench in spokes by
Leaving the air behind me clear?
Don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone is that fucked up and cold
Remember why you came and while you're alive
Experience the warmth before you grow old
-Incubus
Selene lived a thousand years ago, as Cosmos, protector of the Galaxy, Xander in the beginning was by her side as Hades. Whenever they had to kill an innocent Xander would do that for her, since he was darkness after all. Whenever they had to kill an evil person with an evil essence Selene did it so Xander wouldn't be killing his 'supposedly alleys'. It went like that but didn't last long, for when Xander died for the first time, killed by a human, a human, Selene came shortly after for she was off guard. Being reborn wasn't what either of them suspected, and Selene was crushed when Xander died again and he was only seven when it happened. Now instead of being off guard Selene trained harder, and inheriting Xander's powers unlike last time helped her, but now she didn't know if it was a good thing or not. She was lost, now standing here in the crisp cool air staring up into the outer space, not knowing what to do. So she turned back heading into the castle she was adopted into and went back to training, drawing, and killing.
* 9 YEARS LATER *
A fourteen-year old Selene sneaked out into the cold night carrying a bag that was packed with personal items, clothes ect, her drawings/painting, and money. On Selene's forehead was a jagged scar that ran straight across, and across diagonally of Selene's left eye was another one. Around her neck was a silver necklace that had a silver skull on it. It used to be Xander's, and after she felt him gone she cried and cried, but then got up and grabbed as much of his stuff she could to keep. The next day guards came in and burned his stuff, for when's a persons gone they don't care the least, they believe that once someone/thing is gone everything of theirs should be to. She kept the things she grabbed ever since. Selene wore another necklace also though that hung next to the scull, it was gold and had a golden star that had several sharp points. Running on the ground through a dirt path she came up to a ship. Paying the captain of the ship a smaller bag. Selene then entered the cockpit starting the engine and took off, not looking back at the planet she is forever leaving, the planet Szethy, but behind her the captain screamed in rage, yelling at her, demanding for her to stop,
"COME BACK HERE!!! THIS IS ONLY A DOLLAR! A DOLLAR!!! MY SHIP COSTS MORE THEN THAT! YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE ME OVER A MILLION!! HOW DARE YOU! COME BACK! COME BACK I SAY! GET BACK HERE! GUARDS! GUARDS! SHE STOLE MY SHIP!!" The captain's frantic vengeful voice echoed all over the planet Szethy. This caused the guards closest by the captain to attack the ship Serena was using to make a getaway escape. Beams of ki blasts, and silver and black energy were all shot at the ship hitting it dead on.
The energy tanks that kept the ship flying exploded sending hot green energy pricks to attack from the inside like lighting electrocuting a closed room non-stop. Selene in response scrunched to the floor covering her head. The energy pricks bit at her skin leaving mini cuts wherever they hit. The pain quickly added up as the ship crashed down falling into the black abyss of space. Selene's mind became fuzzy, and her head blared with the unexpected intrusion of suffering. That's all that she remembered before everything crashed black.
Opening one-eye she slowing stood up. Looking down on herself she saw a bunch of scratches that adorned her skin. The dark red/purple streaks stood out brightly against the paleness of their host. Looking around she noticed the once new polished sparkling white ship was charred and dented. Her dark eyes landed on the window where she saw the dark black patterns of outer space. Violet blue gasses that were green and yellow also floated peacefully that it took Selene into a wistful trance.
"Ahh . . ." Selene groaned as heat rushed around her burning into her flesh. 'An atmosphere, entering an atmosphere.' Selene thought as she opened her eyes finally adjusted to the different heat temperature. The heat slowly faded and quickly turned to freezing. 'What the hell?' Serena thought, her temper rising as her body spasms to the abrupt temperature change. Looking out the windows again she saw . . . blue, fish, blue. 'Shit, under water, not good.' Selene growled under her breath as water slowly increased flooding inside the inside of the ship in which she stood. 'Ice.' There was only one idea that Selene took into consideration in order to get out of this ordeal. Lifting her palms above her head a dark blue energy beam shot threw the ships beaten shield, water poured onto her cutting off her breathing, causing her to choke on the salty bitter taste. Quickly moving so her palms faced towards the bottom of the sea she shot another energy beam shooting up above the water heading to the top. Bubbles gurgled as she flew upwards and the ship downwards. Shooting out of the water she took a deep breath savoring the cool fresh air that blew at her wet form.
Out of nowhere a deep pain shot through her spine and she flew back down crashing against what seemed to be hard ice cold water. Managing to turn and get a view of her attacker, she saw a teenage curl with short blonde hair and ice blue eyes, next to her was a guy with short black hair and ice blue eyes, they looked like twins and both were flying in the air. Shooting back out of the water she floated not to far away from them in the air. None of the tree had wings or anything, it was an ability they shared and much more. Selene floated there her silver hair was held in a ponytail trailing down to her shoulders, as her dark blue eyes flickered with black desire, desire of the darkness to kill, but she held back. The black T-shirt she wore and pants clung to her body since they were soaked as did her hair.
"Who are you?" Selene questioned her two attackers as all three of them floated to solid ground near by.
"Android 17, this is 18." The black hair boy responded coldly while pointing to the blonde girl when he said 18.
"Leave her out of this, this is between you and me!" A deep voice came out of nowhere. Selene turned her head to see a lavender hair boy with royal blue eyes. He was full of rage and remorse, that she could quickly see. Turning back to the androids they just stared at the new boy blankly,
"This is between no one. Anyone who gets in our way . . . we exterminate." Android 17 responded with no emotion.
"And that means anyone who stays on this planet." Android 18 continued as they blasted off.
"Who are you, and what are you doing here? This place is dangerous." The boy questioned Selene wearily and annoyed.
"Doesn't matter who I am." With that Selene took one last look into the boy's royal blue eyes, elevated into the air and blasted off, leaving the boy shocked that she could just say that and then FLY off.