Mother5: Black Oblivion
Book One: Prologue
Chapter Two: Girl of the Forest
A/N: D: You might die a bit on the inside… gore, fire, and… pain.
Two years passed since Silvia and her family moved in to Lilight, she and Bowie did the same thing everyday, walk to school together, play together at recess, eat lunch together, go to Drago Plateau and play with the Dragos go home do homework and play some more until it's time for bed and they enjoyed it that way. Sometimes…
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Bowie stared at his homework, so hard his eye began to twitch and his frown deepened. Silvia blinked
"Bowie…" he did not look up from the paper, he stared down at it with an intense glare. "You're having trouble again with your homework?"
"Yes! It's so stupid!" he huffed
"…. But, all you have to do is add three…"
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"So? It's still stupid…" Silvia sighed; the things she learned in the big cit helped her in Lilight, at least education wise. Seemed their standers were lower than those of the city seeing how no one left the village, almost as if they were caged in a box.
"Your seven you can do it."
"No."
"…" Silvia shook her head, Bowie pouted and threw the homework aside, and it floated into his lap. He glared at it, unaware to them, in the tree out side of Bowie's room, was a figure, oddly, it was a young one at that... They grinned.
"Ah, my next victim…" judging by the purr, it was a young girl. She hopped out of the tree, the loud pound of her heels when the made contact with the dirt woke Lydia. The mother dog, who recently had her puppies, got on her defense and barked violently at the girlish figure. The girl glared at the dog, with one swift chopping motion of her arm, the dog toppled over.
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"Mommy, have you seen Lydia?" Bowie pouted, as his mother helped pulled on the dark blue uniform jacket. "I didn't see her at feeding time…"
"That's odd… Well… I'll look for her at lunch time, okay?"
"Okay mommy!" Bowie smiled, and skipped outside to where Silvia waited. She too was in her school uniform, a dark blue jacket; over her left breast was a golden star emblem with silver vines merging from the star, nice white dress shirt with a blue ribbon, a black and blue-checkered skirt, long white socks and black dress shoes.
"Good morning!"
"Thanks, you too," Bowie smiled and took her hand. "Let's get going, okay?"
"Right, big city officials come to see how much money they'll give our school…"
"So! Let's go!" With a yank on Silvia's arm, the two rushed off to their school, which was held in the town's church. No one mined it; it has always been like that.
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"…" Hisoka stared down at his find, their family dog lying on the ground, her poor neck twisted at an odd angle. Hana gasped. In a small town such information quickly got around, all ranch owners began to worry of their livestock and even children. Although, it flew over Kane and Serenity's heads.
"Who could have done that to Lydia…?" a villager whispered
"I saw the poor thing…" a woman sighed, "It was a sad sight…"
"Who could be next…?"
"Oh… I don't know… but what about the children?"
"God only knows…"
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Bowie skipped down the streets, behind him was Silvia, although it was going over most of the children's head, most of the adults were worried. She was surprised Bowie had not noticed, he may have been seven but he lived in Lilight for seven years, surely he should have noticed if something was off in his village. She walked onto the property known as Hope Ranch; the little puppies wined pitifully wondering around for their mother. As for Buton, she walked over to her master.
'Greeting master Silvia…'
"Oh, how are you?"
'Fine… That crazy poodle is gone now…'
"Poodle…?" Silvia blinked "Lydia?"
'Yeah, her. She's gone….'
"Gone?" Silvia may have been seven, but she was fully aware of what gone meant.
'She's been missing since last night, but they found her today… she was dead.'
"Oh no…" Silvia looked over at Bowie, who was happily playing with the puppies.
"He'll be so upset…"
'Just wait till his parents tell him…'
Bowie walked over to Silvia; he took her hand, grinning with out a care in the world.
"Let's go to our treasure chest!" Silvia suddenly brightened
"Yeah!" the pair rushed off to Silvia's humble home, her mother and father at the oak table, both admired their two year old daughter, who was a mirror image of the mother in a red dress. In her high chair Elisabeth clapped her hands both parents awed at their baby, Silvia peeled her shoes off and advanced across the wooden floor to the stairs. The pair climbed up to Silvia's room, painted a nice light blue color, the comforter was purple whit blue and white pillows, Silvia had a small desk where she placed her backpack down. Bowie reached under the bed, he pulled out a box. Painted green, in purple paint, there was not so graceful hand writing say 'Treasure'. the boy opened the box, filled with nothing but papers, crayons and childish pictures. The two smiled and began to draw pictures together.
"You're the pretty queen and I'm the king!" Bowie smiled innocently.
"Uh-huh! Strong and brave to keep me safe from those meanies!"
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Knock
Knock
Kane blinked, who could that be? He got up from his seat and shuffled over to the front door. Not so surprising it was Hisoka, although it was a surprise to see him upset.
"Hisoka… Can I help you?"
"Bowie… Is he here? I… need to talk to him…"
"Right… sure…" Kane walked over to the stair case and yelled the boy's name, with in seconds both Bowie and Silvia emerged from her room. There they stood at the top of the staircase, when Bowie took notice in his dad he rushed into Silvia's room to grab his backpack, and hugged Silvia good bye. She sadly waved as Bowie ran to his father's side, the two walked out and Bowie closed the door behind him. Bowie knew his father was a quiet man, and they never spoke often as they walked, but he knew something was off.
"Dad?"
"Bowie… we need to talk…" the child blinked his eyes.
"Why dad? What's wrong?"
"It's about Lydia…."
"What? Did something happen to her…?" Hisoka sighed and stopped walking to turn around to kneel before his son. He placed his hands on his son's shoulders with a heavy sigh. "Dad?"
"She's gone Bowie…"
"Gone? Where'd she go!?" Hisoka looked up at star filled sky, Bowie did too. He dint understand she was in the sky? How did she get in the sky? She's a dog not a bird…
"Dad… I don't understand… Where's Lydia…?" Hisoka sighed deeply and hugged his son the second he looked like he was going to cry. "Dad?"
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Silvia knocked on the front door of Bowie's house, no answer. If she din't leave now, she'd be late for school… but what about Bowie?
"Bowie?" still no answer came, with her head hanging low Silvia walked to school alone. It took a good number of villagers by surprise, some gasped and murmured among themselves. With in the two years of Silvia's stay in Lilight the villagers never saw her with out Bowie or vice versa…
Silvia did not acknowledge, and frowned the whole way to school.
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"What? Bowie isn't here?" a familiar brunette girl frowned.
"No… he did answer or his parents…"
"I wonder why…"
'I guess he was really close to Lydia…' Silvia pouted and opened her text book.
"Geez, how do you do this stuff?"
"It's easy…"
"Nu-uh…"
"Attention students," the talking cease students returned to their seats, and turned to the teacher. "as you all can see, Bowie isn't here, he is out due to family reasons, but that will not stop us from today's lesson. Open to page 32 in your textbooks…" students awed in disappointment.
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Back to the ranch the usual seven minute walk took ten minutes because she had to carry Bowie's homework too, and they got a lot today, or maybe she felt tired and lonely with out Bowie at her side and was sluggish due to that. Either way she trudged her way back to the ranch, walking over to Bowie's own house first. She knocked,
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Someone answered. Hana opened the door, she look exhausted and worried at the same time.
"Oh… Silvia…"
"Can I see Bowie…?"
"I'm sorry but he doesn't want to leave his room…"
"Oh… I see… I hope he gets better…"
"Thank you, Silvia, you're such an angel…" Hana smiled, Silvia nodded and crossed the ranch to her humble home. She opened the front door, perusal it went over her parents heads see how occupied with Elisabeth. Silvia sighed and walked off to her room, it seemed empty with out Bowie at her side.
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It was dark, Silvia checked the clock, seven thirty am. She looked out her window, stars illuminated the bleak sky. Reaching under her bed was a bag, she yanked it out and pulled the bulky bag onto her back. Turning to her window she effortlessly opened the window, Silvia stuck her had out, the cool night air bushing against her face and cheeks. She looked over her shoulder and sighed.
"They're clearly happier with Elisabeth than me…" reaching out to the tree limb she climbed across to the base of the tree, she slid down the tree trunk to it's roots. Quiet as possible she slinked across the farm land to Bowie's house. Silvia picked up a rock and threw it at a window, Bowie's to be exact.
Clank
Clank
Clank
"Bowie! Bowie…! Bowie…!" a quiet shuffling sound came, soon Bowie's own window opened, he poked his head out the window to see whom it was, his face was dirty and tearstained, sadly he looked down at Silvia.
"Where are you going Silvia…?"
"I'm leaving Lilight, do you want to some with me?"
"Yes! Take me with you!" Immediately Bowie hopped out of the window, painfully none the less, but being the boy he was he pushed it aside.
"Bowie are you okay?!"
"Yeah, Where are we going?"
"Midnight Castle… I'm gonna live with the vampires now…"
"Cool! Let's go!!" Away the two friends ran away, shrouded by the dark cover of the black night sky.
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The two families ran around the village, their children, where could they be? The villagers went around the village as well in search of the children, fearing that they would lose the bright happy children. Kane stopped to look towards the forest, no. Silvia she wouldn't think about doing that, she knows not to enter that forest, ever. Forest was a dangerous place for a small child of their age…
"No… Serenity! They're in the forest!"
"The forest!? They know not to go there!"
"We've checked everywhere but the forest!" Kane snapped "It's the only possibility!!"
"Alright, Hana, let's go." the blond woman nodded and turned to her husband
"Hisoka, please say at the ranch and watch over Elisabeth, please." there was a sudden seriousness in her carefree voice, one that tolled him he couldn't refuse what she asked.
"A-alright, just be careful." Hana smiled, almost sadly.
"Of course darling…"
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"Bowie, how big is the forest?" Silvia pouted, Bowie paused and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Uh, I don't know…"
"You don't know!?"
"…I… only went to Midnight Castle once…"
"So were lost?!"
"No! We're just… misplaced… in the forest…"
"Oh my gosh! Bowie!!!"
"Well… why are you even going to Midnight Castle?"
"Mommy and daddy seem so much happier with Elisabeth…" she sighed "They don't notice me… so I'll go somewhere where I am noticed and loved…"
"Silvia that's stupid, they do notice you…." she huffed and turned around, Bowie reached out and pulled her back. "I mean it they do. When I was at home, your mother visited and she would stop talking about you…"
"…Really?"
"Yeah… Let's go home…"
"But… where home?"
"Donno, but I'll get you home! You are my queen after all!"
"And you're my king…" the two laughed lightly, Bowie took Silvia's hand and they walked off together. Timidly she clung to Bowie, he stopped causing her to bump into him.
"Huh? Bowie? Why'd you stop?"
"There's a girl here…." she looked over his shoulder, there indeed was a girl, one around their age. Blond hair a curly ponytail and stay strands tucked behind her ears, that were decorated with amethyst pearls. She had a blue dress, a lighter sash tied around her waist, white gloves accompanied with white socks and cute dress shoes, and a purple cape. But what stood out the most was her red eyes, haunting and eerie.
"Are you lost?" the girl asked kindly. The eerie feeling left for a moment.
"Yeah…"
"Would you like to see a trick?" Silvia blinked, she slowly nodded, not knowing quite why. The girl smiled, and pulled out three cards from seemingly no where. She held them out to Silvia with an innocent smile. "Pick a card… any card…" Silvia suddenly felt threatened, but she did it none the less. She pulled the second card, a red ace.
"Congratulations… you pulled the fire card…" the card busted into flames, burning Silvia's hands, the young girl cried out in pain. Growing increasingly out off control the fire jumped from Silvia's hand onto the forest ground as well setting Silvia's hair a flame. The blond girl giggled, she grabbed a knife from the sash of he clothes. Swiftly she cut Silvia's hair below her ears, the flamed strands fell to the ground.
"W-what are you doing…?" Bowie stuttered, the girl grinned cutely.
"Nothing…"
"You're pointing a knife at Silvia! That's not nothing!"
"Oh silly little boy… you wouldn't understand…" the two friends, fearing their lives ran away, the blond grinned, she paused, on the ground was a pink ribbon and she pocketed it.
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Serenity paused in mid-step, something wasn't right, something was burning.
"Oh no! Bowie!!"
"Silvia!" her parent gasped, quickly, they ran deeper into the burning forest. Willing to risk everything to find their children. Heels and boots smacked against the forest ground with grate force, deeper and deeper into the fire. Their was no sign, or so they thought.
"Are you lost?" it was a young blond girl, she smiled innocently.
"No…" a chill ran up Serenity's spine. "We aren't…" who the hell was this child and this eerie feeling coming from her. Death, she could feel it oozing from the young girl, this couldn't be good.
"Well… I think you are lost…." the girl grinned, "On your way to hell…" she reached into her sash and pulled out a strange device, she pointed it at the woman of white hair. "Bye bye…"
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It was loud, it echoed, a sharp crackling bang, Hisoka could hear it form Hope Ranch, startling Elisabeth awake, the Villagers of Lilight looked to the forest, as for those of Midnight Castle even heard the loud bang.
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Bowie perked up at the loud sound, it was surely a foreign one. Never once did he ever hear that… As he tried to walk to it, a whimpering Silvia pulled him back. She dint let go of his arm, Bowie sat back town next to her and hugged her tightly.
"We're almost out…" Silvia only wheezed in return, a look of fear crossed him, Bowie remembered Silvia said she had asthma. With this fire… she might die! Which path?! Which one?! Left or right, he lifted Silvia onto his back and turned to the left path, softly came a meow. Bowie turned to the right path, a black cat. It's yellow eyes stared at him, they weren't threading by this cat as they were by the girl, could the cat of no luck be a good sign? Shakily Silvia pointed to the cat.
"Follow it?" she weakly nodded, he trusted Silvia, so he chased after the cat. Soon the path became familiar. Slightly, he brightened.
"C'mon… Silvia were close, I remember this path were almost at Midnight Castle!"
She only wheezed in return, grip on reality slowly slipping. As scared as she was, she could fully trust Bowie would help her. Slowly, a gentle rain pored from the open clouds on such a terrible night.
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With the fire out villagers from both Lilight and Midnight rush to the scene, it was a bloody massacre, limp, bloodless, and slaughtered was the three parents, on the dirt ground of the forest a small child's name was written in the victim's blood.
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Silvia awoke late in the afternoon, she dint want to open her eyes, but their was something on her face, covering her mouth and nose. Slowly her eyes slid open, to be greeted with a lovely bleach white ceiling. Weakly she turned to her left, much to her surprised there was a girl. Judging by the pale skin, fangs, bright red eyes and pointed ears, she too was a vampire. Dressed in a black dress with silver frills, black hair tied in two cute ponytails with red ribbons, in her arms was a stuffed black cat.
"Hello!"
"Bowie…?"
"No, no!" the girl chimed "I'm Harmony… Princess of the vampire kingdom!"
"Bowie…" Silvia repeated.
"Bowie… who's Bowie…?" Harmony frowned "Was he the boy you appeared with?"
Suddenly the door clicked and the two turned, a man in a white coat and a clipboard in hand, behind him was another pale person, dressed in elaborate black, silver and red robes, and behind him was Bowie, a few Band-Aids covering him.
"Ah, your awake…"
"Where are we…?"
"Midnight Castle, now how do you feel?"
"Tired…"
"Understandable, I advise you to rest a tab bit longer, in the afternoon."
"Let us go Harmony…" the robed man took one of the girl's hands, she pouted.
"But papa…."
"Harmony…"
"Yes papa…" pouting she and her father left the room along with the doctor, Bowie sat in the chair at Silvia's side. He just sat there, she just laid there, both in silences and Silvia from there she fell a sleep.