In a city that never sleeps.
No . . .
Shaded by the cruel night and dark shadows of corruption.
Please . . .
Laid a figure surrounded by a sea of red.
I don't . . .
Small, insignificant puffs of air misted in the cold atmosphere.
. . . want to die.
Lifeless eyes stared at the full moon in the sky.
Please . . .
The October moon glowed an ominous red.
Someone . . .
A hoarse scream tore out from blue lips.
Save me . . .
A single tear fell down a pale cheek.
Help me . . .
The rhythm of someone's heart beat stopped.
I don't . . .
Eyes closed.
Want to be . . .
Death had come to claim it's prize.
Alone . . .
A young woman with unnatural beauty stared at an old tome with the words of her family physician whispering in her ears.
You can't have any more children Kuran-sama. What Rido-sama did to you has taken its toll. I'm sorry, there is nothing we can do.
The young woman could feel the crushing despair slowly consume her soul. All her life, she had wanted to have a family with her beloved. But now, thanks to brother dearest, her dreams were destroyed.
Sure, she had her eldest 'son,' but looking at him brought up old wounds that she would rather not confront. Now on top of the tragedy that occurred to her family when her eldest was born, the news of her not being able to conceive any more children was devastating.
In fact, she would have given up all hope for ever having the family she desired if it wasn't for the tome in her hand currently. The tome was fairly ancient. She would have never thought to have look for a solution to her dilemma there if it wasn't for her eldest 'son' handing it to her.
The tome held a ritual to allow theirkind to be able to copulate. It was a fairly easy ritual, asking only for the couple to lay together on a day of a full blood moon. Afterwards, a ritual circle created by a pure silver knife, using the blood of the parents, was to be formed.
Inside the ritual circle should lay a Moon Flower, a rare flower that only bloomed every decade in the isolated mountains of Japan. The ritual would then activate when the moon was at its highest point in the sky. Once activated, all the blood for the ritual would converge into the Moon Flower. When that happens, the mother should consume the flower soon after to become pregnant.
Of course, even if the ritual was very simplistic in design, it still had side effects. However, those side effects were never mentioned in the tome. It would have sent alarm bells ringing in the woman's mind if she wasn't so distracted by the thought of having another pair of little feet running through the house.
And so, the young woman convinced her beloved to chance the ritual with her. It took only the sight of her heart broken face to convince him to go on with the ritual despite the consequences. So, on an October night with a full blood moon in the sky, the ritual commenced. Nine months later, the wailing of a child was heard.
In the month of October, during a full blood moon the winds scarred the earth and the wolves howled their agony to the sky.
A red haze enveloped the world and all sorts of monsters crawled up from the depths of the abyss.
An innocent breathed its last while a babe breathed its first.
A Life for a Life.
The dead for the undead.
An equivalent exchange.
Lesya Winston died alone and Yuki Kuran was reborn caged.
