lostmoonchild: Hey, this is my first Kyo Kara Moah! fic for *pushes cat away* this site so I hope that you'll all enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kyo Kara Maoh. What's mine is mine and if you wanna borrow: ask nicely and I'll consider it.
Prologue
When times are hard and demanding, we do the things that we aren't proud of. There are those that seem to enjoy the nightmare more than others. It's those people, the ones that enjoy this nightmare, that you have to be wary of.
My crimson eyes flickered to the man that stood next to the Maoh, seeing the greed in his eyes. He thinks that no one sees the greed in his eyes, that he's going to continue with getting away with things. He's wrong. Everybody sees but no one has done anything yet. He even thinks that I don't know why I was spared from being slaughtered like an animal.
He wants my abilities and thought that he could control them by forcing me to look at whatever he wishes. I tried to warn them about the dangers but my cries fell upon deaf ears. Soon I'll be useless to them and I'll be either killed or used for breeding. "Tell the Maoh what you see!" Stoffel orders.
I bow slightly to Lady Celi and offer her a small smile. I know that she hates this war. Two of her sons are fighting and the third wants to join up. Thank Shinou that he's still thought of as a child and is impulsive enough that nobody's willing to let him out of their sight. "When I see something, then I'll tell the Maoh after she tells me to tell her." I inform him. "The last time I checked, Lord von Spitzwig, you were not the Maoh. Lady Celi is."
"I know you've seen something!" Stoffel's beginning to get angry. Good. Let him throw his damn tantrum.
I look at Lady Celi and see her nod slightly. She wants to know what I've seen. This war isn't kind to her. She hasn't been sleeping very well due to worrying about everybody and it's obvious that she tries to keep it from showing. "Please tell us, Jeremiah." Lady Celi tells me with a small nod.
"Very well." I confirm with a small sigh. "I have seen a child born as the month of July dies. By his side, I have seen the Great Wise Man of Double Black as well as a child hidden in winter."
"What significance do they have?" Stoffel demands.
A small smile spreads across my lips as I look at him. I'm not telling him what significance they have. I'm not going to let him control anybody like he's doing with Lady Celi. They won't know it but I will protect the ones that are not yet born. I'll keep them safe and sound until their arrival.
They won't know my name nor will they know my face. They won't know that I kept them safe from Stoffel and from everybody else. Stoffel's intimidating when he has any amount of time to plot and I'm almost afraid to find out what happens when he plots for years.
There's so many ways that I could take advantage of their fears and some part of me longs to do it. However, I know better than to take advantage of their fears. I am the Maoh's eyes and the one whose eyes beckon the truth from amongst lies. My crimson eyes, the one thing that keeps me apart from the other Mazoku, are beacons that shine through an everlasting darkness.
It's my crimson eyes that the others fear because they know that I could look into their futures on a mere whim and see how they'll die. Some even say that those like me have the ability to manipulate the future to suit whoever's needs. If that's true then I'd like to learn how so I can buy myself just a little more time.
As I leave the throne room, I can hear the whispers that follow. Tonight will be the last night that I spend amongst the living and in a short time, Julia will die.
lostmoonchild: Okay, prologue's done *pushes cat away again* and I'm thinking how *puts cat on floor* this story's going to end. Since somebody decided to tear my notebook of infinite knowledge (okay, it only carried chapters), I wasn't in a happy mood when my muse grabbed a white hot pitchfork and started threatening to poke me with it if I didn't get to thinking about what's going to happen next. Anyways, read and review!