A/N: Hello~ Here's the first chap of Shade and Svida's story. This chapter will be muuuch darker than the last one, so... I apologize for any mental or emotional damage you may suffer after reading this. (Seriously, guys, this is sad!)

Almost all of these characters belong to Daxelli. From this on, I'll follow the storyline she wrote for me so please review and tell your opnions. I'll show the reviews to Daxelli-san.

So, please read! よろしくお願いします!

"Wake up, Svida! Wake up!"

"What is it?" I asked quietly. I saw mom shaking me in order to wake me up. She had a worried look on her face while she told me to dress up and go to the basement where Shade-nii would be waiting for me. She said that we would have to hide for some time because some bad people had come here. I didn't understand why she was so worried since father would just chase the bad people away like he always did. He would chase the bad people away and we would live together peacefully again.

Oh, how wrong I was. We would never live peacefully again.

When I got to the basement, Shade was already waiting for me. His expression was scared but when he saw me, he seemed to be a bit relieved. He hugged me when mother closed the door.

"Why are we hiding?" I asked quietly when he released me.

"Some of father's old friends from his job came here", Shade told me. "They can't get to know that father has kids."

"Why?" I asked.

"It has something to do with father's research", Shade whispered. "I don't really know…"

Suddenly the door to the basement was opened and mom walked in. She was carrying our coats and shoes. Her expression was very tense and her face was pale. When I looked at her left arm, I saw that it was bleeding slightly. My heart started beating faster and faster when I saw mom's wound. I knew that the wound had been made by the people who were upstairs. Mom gave us our coats and shoes and then she suddenly hugged us tightly.

"You need to go to the church", mom said. "They will give you shelter. We will come there too with father and everything will be alright. Don't worry, you two. Everything will be alright. Father and I both love you."

"What do you mean?" I asked. I felt tears burning behind my eyes. "Are you going to…?" I couldn't end my sentence. I knew what those men were going to do to mom and I knew that Shade wasn't going to allow that at any cost.

"Nothing will happen to us", mom said and smiled. "We will come right behind. You two just go first."

"Okay", I smiled. "You two have to come right behind us. Please promise us."

"Yes", mom said and hugged me. "We'll come right behind. Now you need to go."

"One thing before we go", Shade said. "Who are those guys?"

"They were your father's co-workers when he still used to be in the military", mom said. "They're trying to offer him a new job in the military but he's trying to decline."

"Fine", Shade said. "Let's go, Svida. Can you open the back door?"

"Yes", I smiled and went to the back door. When I had put my hand on the doorknob, I heard father yelling at the men that had been upstairs with him.

"No! You are not allowed to go downstairs! You people should leave already! I have no intention to -"

Father's sentence was cut off by a loud gunshot and I could see mother's face paling more quickly than I ever had imagined. She looked at the door to our basement and I saw two men coming downstairs with guns in their hands. When they looked at me and Shade, they grinned ominously.

"SHADE! SVIDA! GO NOW!" mom yelled and took a sword from a closet.

"Open the door, Svida", Shade said quietly. "We should have gone already. We shouldn't have seen that."

Suddenly the men shot at us many times but we weren't hit. Instead of us, the bullets hit father's weird chemicals that had been above us. Shade reacted faster than I did and he shielded me from the chemicals. He got soaked by the chemicals pretty badly and he screamed from the pain. I could see that his face got burned badly which made me feel nauseous.

"Svida!" mom yelled. "Get your brother out of here! NOW!"

I nodded and opened the door. I dragged Shade out of the door and quickly glanced back, only to see mom fighting the men with her sword and zaiphon. I dragged Shade deeper into the forests while the gunshots and mother's angry and pained screams rang through the forest. I tried to keep my tears away but all too soon I felt the warm liquid falling on my cheeks.

After a time that felt like hours, we reached the forest edge and I could see the church. Shade was having a horrible fever and he was panting heavily even though I was practically carrying him. It would take another long walk to reach the gate of the church but there was no other option. I had to get Shade into the church. He had too bad fever and he was wounded all too badly from the chemicals. I glanced at him and saw his pained expression. My stomach felt like someone was gripping it tightly when I saw my dear brother like that.

"Don't worry, Shade", I said with a hoarse voice. "We'll be in the church soon. They'll take care of us. I promise that."

Soon we were at the gate of the church. I beat my fists onto the wood of the gate for someone to open it for us.

"Open the gate!" I screamed. "We're seeking for sanctuary! My brother is wounded! You need to help him!"

After some time, the gate opened and two men stood before us. The other was a blonde and tall man with blue eyes and weird earring. The other was a redhead with glasses and he was slightly shorter than the blonde man. The blonde gasped when he saw us and the redhead told him to take Shade to the medical ward immediately. The blonde took Shade from me and I was left alone with the redhead. He smiled to me and asked:

"Would you please follow me, miss? We will grant you sanctuary when you've come inside this church's walls."

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