The small alleyway of grey stone was dyed the red of blood, mangled remains of a child's body, a once beautiful girl twisted by evil promises and her bloody and violent murder. Next to her, her chain, still alive, sank into the depths of the abyss, screaming all the way. The girl followed a second after and Fornax smiled as he heard Alice giggle although he had yet to open his eyes and see why she was so happy. Fornax opened his eyes and shot up, barely holding back a whimper as he saw the blood, organs and even two bones which had been pulled from the girls stomach and lay side by side and soaked red with blood. Fornax shook, looking down at his hands and noticed that the white of his skin was completely blotched out by the dried blood that caked him.
Fornax lifted his hand shakily to touch his neck feeling something slippery there, obviously it was part of the girls innards, trying not to smell, Fornax, pulled it from his neck and threw it, closing his eyes as he shuddered, moving over to the wall and curling in on himself, shaking violently. Beside him, his chain appeared in a humanoid form, the boy looked at him, silvery wings moving lightly in the breeze. The boy knelt, placing a pale hand on Fornax's forehead and speaking softly.
"Master, I will help you, Alice wishes it." The chain murmured softly, his hand glowing bright silver. Fornax felt his body go lax and the chain lay him lightly on his stomach, the chain, Roc, put both clawed hands on his shoulder blades and Fornax shook as something pushed as the skin in his shoulder blades, splitting it and sending pain arching across his system as wings broke through, stretching out though they were bathed in blood, one wing was as black as ebony with a slight smattering of silver while the other was a deep silver the tips slightly black as if dipped in paint. Roc's eyes darkened and he bit his lip quietly.
"Master, the wings colour.. It reflects your soul, the black is what happens when you use your powers. The reason they aren't white are because only children will have white souls and as they grow older, they will turn silver, nobody is really innocent." Roc lightly touched the blood spattered black wing, his eyes dark with worry. "This is not a good sign." Roc murmured worriedly.
"W-what did you do?" Fornax growled, forcefully standing up against the spell on his body.
"T-that spell was a spell that paralysed the part of your brain that controlled movement, if you move against it you could seriously harm yourself! You must stop!" Roc said worriedly, loosing control of his appearance as his features shifted slightly, feathers beginning to cover him and his shadow beginning to lengthen and grow.
"Then I suggest.." Fornax gritted out, teeth clenched tightly. "you lift the spell. Now." Roc, with no choice left, lifted the spell and disappeared, only causing Fornax more problems in the end. Fornax, wrapped the wings around himself and shuddered, his eyes trying to avoid the bloody sight next to him. He lost track of how long he lay there, shuddering lightly even as he warmed himself with his wings, hearing Alice laughing in the depths of the abyss.
"Oh dear, what's this then?" A voice said softly, lightly parting his wings and peering at him with one eye.
"W-who…?" Fornax said quietly, looking up with dead green eyes. Above him a man with white hair and red eyes, staring down at him with something akin to sorrow even as he smiled brightly.
"Xerxes Break, its an honour to meet you, Fornax Vessalius." He purred softly, crouching down and grasping Fornax's bloody hand and pulling him up. "Lets get you cleaned up, young one." Break murmured softly, tugging a black cloak from his shoulders and wrapping it around Fornax's body, the back misshapen from his wings. Break opened the door to his carriage which was waiting outside and a hand gently caught Fornax's, helping him into the van with care. Break followed a second after, sitting on the opposite side of the black haired man who looked suspiciously like Gilbert, the young boy whom Jack had as a servant.
"You are.. Gilbert." Fornax murmured, his voice hollow.
The black haired man nodded, holding out a hand. "Yes, Gilbert Nightray, pleased to meet you." His eyes somewhat different to the Gilbert Fornax remembered, it was not the age factor it was the general aura, he seemed older, wiser and happier even if he didn't show it.
"..it's a pleasure to meet you also." Fornax said nothing of his previous relation to the young Gilbert, this.. This man was not Gilbert in the slightest, he was someone with the same face but an entirely different life. "Fornax Vessalius, at your service."
Fornax's eyebrows rose as Gilbert jerked back slightly. "V-Vessalius? You're last name.. who are you to that family?" Fornax didn't know the history beyond his time but he knew enough to make something up.
"I am nobody important, a distant relative of Oz Vessalius." It wasn't exactly a lie, he was a distant relative, a very distant one but a relative nonetheless. "Your master, correct?"
"Y-yes, that's right. He's back at the manor with Shalon." Gilbert murmured softly, yellow eyes bright with confusion and the ride continued on in an uneasy silence, Fornax's wings shuddering softly.
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Alice laughed softly, her white hair dancing as she span, cupped like a fragile flower in her hands was the soul of the little girl Fornax had killed, she giggled, spinning and spinning and spinning until the room danced long after she stopped moving. The chains sang with her, happy and cheerful in strange forms much like toys. Alice stopped, squeezing the struggling soul as she looked up, her soft face parting into a wide grin that covered most of her face. Quickly she tightened her fists on the soul, the black of the abyss swimming to collect up the glass-like fragments and soon a small chain appeared, a small white rabbit which flew to her immediately, she hugged it to her chest and shook violently.
"F-Fornax.." She said as she trembled. "HE'S AWAKE FORNAX!" She screamed, the whole of the abyss shaking in her torment and far above in earth, a small country shook violently. She fell to the floor and curled her hands into fists, absolutely petrified for the first time in her life. Nobody scared her, nobody but one man, one man who scared the heavens themselves. A man who had been asleep for a long, long time. A man Glen Baskerville wanted to meet.
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Fornax tilted his head from high above, hearing Alice inside his mind hearing her words and shaking. Memories flickered across his vision, one eye the colour of blood, the other a deep black pit of shadow, hair as white as snow and a scar in the shape of a lightning bolt on his throat. Fornax clutched his head as laughter echoed in his mind, shaking his head rapidly as his pulse sped up.
"No.. no! Nonono that's not possible!" Fornax cried, utterly petrified, ignoring the worried eyes from the other passengers.
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In an abandoned manor on the fringes of nowhere, He awoke, dressed as if he was a noble he called out to a beast like dog sitting half in the shadows, huge droplets of red blood streaming from his mouth as he shook lightly on a huge stag as if it was a rag doll. The hellhound's eyes glimmered a deep red and he dropped the stag, black fur shimmering as it walked over to its master, making a happy rumble in its chest as He scraped his knuckles over his fur. Heavy paws thudded on the floor as they set out of the manor, thousands of red eyes gleaming from every shadow, every scrap of darkness, he was there.
A mouth parted and he muttered. "I'm coming for you, Harry Potter.. Or is it Fornax Vessalius now? I hope you're done playing house, because I can't wait to destroy you!" This was purred out as He disappeared a splash of blood, appearing in the presence of a certain group of people, the Baskervilles.
"W-who are you?" Lotti stuttered, her voice trying to sound strong even as she shook.
"I have a proposition for you, Glen Baskerville's subordinates."
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Authors note:
PHEW! I had funn! =D This is for mah Ritsu-chan who spurred me on in writing this! Next one should be up soon-ish. I have a story idea planned and I want to finally get round to introducing Oz! =D REVIEW DAHLINGS!!