Present time
Blank. Nothing appear in my mind after that. I tried my best to remember what happen after that. But nothing came out. The only thing I can feel is a strange present that seems to be stuck in my mind. A weird sensation that manage to make me shiver down to my spine. Its like an invisible wall, that was locked from the other side.. But I don't remember locking any of my memories. Desperate to remember what happens next, I try to unlock the wall with my magic. What comes after that was something that I wasn't expected at all. My head suddenly feel heavy, and my eyes were getting blur. It feels like theres something trying to suck my brain out. I put my hand on the side of my head, trying to endure the pain. Which fail, badly. It felt even worse than before. Unable to withstand the pain, I give up forcing my magic through the wall. In a matter of second, all the pressure in my head is gone. I collapse with my back against the grassy yet wet ground. I was sweating a lot, one because forcing too much magic to that unknown wall and another by mentally torturing myself in my own head. I closed my eye, trying to rest a bit.
"Weird... why can't my magic unlock that wall? Is the wall that strong until it manage to make me torture my own mind? This must be some kind of magic that seal memories away. Who ever seal it, the guy must be stronger than I thought.. No one ever manage to block my magic entirely like that."
I sigh. Thinking about that will only make my mind go nuts. I stare at the sky and see that the rain has stopped. I slowly lift my body up into a sitting position. I look at my small tiny fist.
"Those flashback still doesn't explain why I'm a human and not a cursed doll... Did something happen back then? If it is, what happen? I want to know... But as long as there's that wall, its impossible to find out. How can I erase it? I don't have any book about sealing magic."
I start to stand up and look around. Infront of me is a huge dark forest that seems like a huge maze. And from here, I can see a tall tower standing in the middle of the forest. Deciding to check the tower, I grab a black cloak I found lying on the ground and wear it to cover my white clothing. Then, I walk into the forest, knowing that there might be some monsters around. This forest is famous as the hide out for the glitter monsters. Those monsters usually strikes in groups, attacking anyone who pass in to the forest. Beside glitter monsters, some times there are other monsters like golems and gargoyles here. There is also this strange rumor... about how the monsters become aggresive when night comes and they become stronger when there was a full moon. They even become smarter than they suppose to.
I was halfway through the forest, after beating up some glitters and gargoyles. It was so dark in there, it almost like night time. I can't see a thing so I count on my senses to beat the monsters that get in my way. I keep walking while summoning a little fireball on my palm. Atleast I need something to make me know I'm going to the right direction to where the tower is. Who wants to camp in the middle of a dark creepy forest, filled with monsters and things that were unknown? Certainly not me.
After some meters of walking in silent, I realize that there was something wrong. There are no more monsters attacking or ambushing me. Its already a hour after the last glitters I fought, and this forest suppose to be the nest of glitters, golems and gargoyles. I look around me sharpening my senses. But theres nothing. I can't see or sense anyone or anything nearby. Silence.
" What the... Where all the monsters go? What happen to them? This is strange.. Its too silent... and I can't sense anyone or anything nearby.. Did someone slay them before I do? If there is.. There should be a pile of corpses here and there on the ground. But there is none.. "
I was thinking hard, while placing the hood of my black cloak on my head. I walk around, trying to find the cause of the missing demons while staying caution. After a hour pass, I decided to continue my path to the tower when suddenly, there was an earthquake. It lasted only for seconds, which is too short for a normal earthquake. I can even feel a burst of strong wind coming from my left side. After it stopped, I run to the direction where the wind come.
" That wind wasn't a normal wind.. It was probably caused by that little earthquake earlier. But one thing for sure, it wasn't nature's doing.. It's duration was too short to be an earthquake. And the wind I feel earlier.. It was strong enough to cut some scratch on a tree... Normal wind won't do that... So who did it?"
After five minutes of running, I can hear some noises up a head. I slowed down and when the noise got bigger, I stop and hide behind a tree. I don't summon my fireball because it might give my position away, and I don't even know who's near here. I can sense a strong demonic aura infront of me. I sharpen my ears, trying to figure out who or what is that noise. After some minutes, I hear swords clanging around. Still confuse of what happening infront of me, I teleport up to a tree to figure out what happen infront of me. I look around, and even from that height, I can only see some weird black dots on the ground, surrounding one black dot. I sharpened my eyes to black dots and in a matter of second, my eyes widen. What I see astound me. It was a whole army of glitter monsters, gargoyles and golems, all in one place. They are surrounding a girl with a long messy silver hair that shines when there is moonlight. Even from up here, I can see her golden eyes moving around, looking at her surroundings. Beside her is some floating black swords with many cracks. I can see something sparkling on her forehead. A big blue gem.
" Whoa... She's really beautiful.. And that gem on her forehead.. Isn't that the sign of the nasod? I thought that race has been extinct by now.. So someone actually survived the extinction beside Apple and Proto.. Interesting"
A smirk come out. The inner me say that I better watch and see, so I did. And then in a few seconds, the silver haired girl quickly rush to one side and start battling again.
" Queen's Throne"
Her black swords start to recover from the damage and it looks sharper than before. Some little black sword appear from her back. And from that minute, she starts to kill many monsters around. My eyes can't watch clearly, her speed exceeded my ability to process what happening. All I can see now is monster getting slaughtered one by one in a second by a black shadow. The girl manage to kill half of the monsters, but more and more are coming. After 25 minutes, I see her slowing down, little by little. And I can see that her blades looks even more damaged, those little black sword on her back have dissapeared. She stop for a minute to rest, but that is enough to make one of the Glitter monster to stab her from behind. The spear manage to went through the silver girl's body by the stomach. And then she fall. My eyes widen at this sight. The monsters that were surrounding her is getting closer to her every second, and she seems to be unconcious. I immediately teleport to the girl's place. I lift her slowly, seeing that the bleeding is worse than I imagine. I immediately cut some of my black robe and bandage her. I was so busy to safe the girl, I forgot about the army of monster around us. After I finished bandaging her, I look around and examine the place.I thought I was crazy for a second, because even I know that I can't handle this many monsters by myself. And weird enough, those monsters didn't attack me or the girl. They just stare at us blankly, while some of them look at my right.
" What's wrong with this monsters? Why aren't they attacking?"
BOOM!
Suddenly, there was this big explosion at a few meters to my right. This manage to catch my attention. The monsters are now running to my right side. Curious, I look at my right and sharpened my senses again. You'll never know who's your enemy or ally in this kind of forest, so better be caution. More explosions were heard at my right side. I start to walk at that direction, to the direction where the monsters running to. My curiosity start to take over me. I almost run to where the monsters are going but I remember that silver haired girl who was injured. My eyes snapped open, and start to walk back to where the girl was.
" Her wounds are pretty deep... If she didn't get an immediate treatment.. She will die! I can't let that happen! "
I lift her body by the waist. My body is pretty small for my age, so I'm having a hard time to lift her. I cast a gravity spell on the girl's body, trying to lift some weight off so I can carry her easily. I start to walk while carrying her to somewhere safe where I can treat her. I ignore the explosions I heard from behind me and was readying to run. I didn't want the monsters or whoever make the explosions notice us. I didn't like to meet strangers, especially if its a human. And for now, my first priority is to safe this girl's life –whoever she is. So, I start to use a camoflauge skill to make me and the nasod girl can escape safely. Unfortunately, it seems that I have to try harder not to get seen.
" There she is! Over there! "
I heard footsteps, rushing towards my direction. From the moment I hear many footsteps coming, I start to run as fast I can while holding the silver girl tightly. After I was a few meter from the first place, I dared myself to take a look behind. What I saw is four people, three boys and one girl. They were hot on my trails with a blonde boy holding two guns, pointing it at me while glaring daggers. He is a few meters away from me. When my eye meet his blue cerulean eyes, his grip tightened.
" Drop the girl you're holding and I might spare your life! " He said, loud enough for me to hear.
I ignored him, and fastening my run. No way I'm handing this girl over to that suspicious pikachu guy! What kind of people asking a favor to someone while pointing a gun at the guy's head? I keep running for a few minutes, I don't know why but I didn't feel tired at all. Usually running is my weakness, I can't stand to run over 30 minutes. But I can feel that I've been running for an hour now. I look at my back and I can still see that pikachu boy with his companions. I start to jump over tree to hide my presence and shake them off. I really need to treat this girl quickly, before she dies. I can feel some blood coming out from the cloth I use to bandage her. I ran, overcrossing my legs limit to run. I start to jump over branches like a ninja – now I feel like one. I look at my back again after a few minutes. They are still behind me. The difference now is that the pikachu boy started to emiting a dark killer aura, and he seems to be reloading his gun. I can hear some noise, seems like they are discussing something. They keep discussing until I hear the pikachu boy yell.
" That's it! I had it! I don't care about what you guys think about! I'm going to take Eve back, even if it means killing this jerk!" And at a second, he was right infront of me.
He start to shoot bullets at me. I tried my best not to get myself and the girl to get hit. I start to run zig-zag. Even so, some of his bullets manage to scratch my dark robe and hood, leaving holes in it. The only good thing is that I manage to get this girl unharmed. I just keep running away, trying my best to hold my inner self to fight back. After a few minutes, I feel a bullet manage to hit my leg. I immediately lose balance and fall off the tree. Unfortunately for me, the tree that I stepped on before falling is the highest tree in this forest. Falling from a tree that have a height of a mansion, I'll be dead for sure. I can feel myself falling at a fast speed, with the silver haired girl in my grasp. I closed my eyes.
" Am I going to die?"
I think this is finally the end for me. I look at the nasod maiden. I hug her and hope that my fragile little body can absorb the later impact on the ground. If I die, atleast this girl is safe. The fall feels like days, I look infront of me. I can see ground with rocks there, meaning only a few minutes until impact. I felt a smirk on my face. Between happy to almost be dead and sad for not knowing the truth of her past.
" Too bad... I dont know what actually happen that day.. What happen to her – my owner- and myself to be cursed like this.."
Suddenly, I heard some buzzing noise inside my head. The sound gets louder and louder... Until it manage to hurt my mental self. It manage to make me feel sick. I can hear someone's voice between those noises.
" Look what we have here.. A little doll who lost its master.. "
After that, the noise become even louder, and this time... there was a very loud screech inside my head. I feel like I heard it before. But when it stops, I feel like dying mentally. I bit my lip until it bleed. I close my eyes tightly, hoping it will stop.
" Please... stop it... it hurts.. it hurts.." I keep repeating it in my head, begging the unknown voice to stop the pain and noise.
" It will never stop.. No matter how much you try... This is what you deserve..This is what you get when you uphold the title as the cursed doll"
" I never want to be one from the start!I never done anything wrong! " I cried in my mind
" Your existence in this world is a sin from the very beginning.. Your presence in this world will only bring disaster to other.."
" NO! That can't be right.. NONONO-" My sentence has been cut off. I felt some of my bones had been broken. After a second, I just realize that I've crashed down on the ground, with the silver hair maiden safely landed on top of me. My black robe have been torned apart, some of the part have some blood on it. My whole body felt numb and some parts of it bleeds heavily. My eyes went blur. The last thing I see is some thing red, green, blonde and black, all of them surrounding me. I slowly close my eyes, trying to get some rest. Eventhough I knew that when I woke up, I might be in hell or something. I fell into a deep slumber as one sentence echoed through my mind.
" You're just a useless broken doll... You will never find happiness.."
-Author's Note-
I finally finish it after... O_O 3 weeks? I'm so very very sorry guys! Ever since school starts, I never have the time to continue this story.. I make this chapter longer to make up for not updating.. I know it's not good enough, since I bet there are many errors in grammar and spelling ( I'm still learning English XD ) I write this with out anyone checking it because: 1. I don't want to be troublesome for other people, 2. I want to try to improve my grammar and spelling.
Sorry for the crappy chapter ending... It sounds like it's ending already XD This is NOT the last chapter XD I might not update for a while.. maybe I'll update every 2 weeks ( that is the fastest.. I think? ) My school starts to have daily exams, so I got to study hard..
Anyway, here are my replies to my reviewers :
The Cynical Asian : XD Yes.. maybe that is the reason why I like to write tragedies ^^ Her father is a mad father, seeing that he is also a mad scientist XD
Sugarlatte : XD I want to do that too, but I wasn't strong enough to lift my laptop downstairs O_O I also write this when I was left alone in the house XD Yes, my school did start at 15 July.. XD Maybe he did..
xSnowflakesx : ^^ The owners will be revealed in chapter 4 or 5, depends on my mood XD Yes.. I think I just make Aisha a little OOC.. Really? I hope so, since I kind of like tragedies :D And congratulations Snow! Eternal Soulmate manage to get over 1,000 reviews! * gives chocolate cake* you deserve a reward for your hard work ^^
RubyCrucifix : Nice new nickname Ruby ^^ Thanks for the compliments :) But I've seen more talented writers here, Including you ^^ I want to list them but... I have too many favourite writers XD Yeah.. I check that in YouTube ^^ Their song is awesome! But I like Kokoro no Kiseki more XD
supergirl156 : Thanks for reading ^^ I'll try my best to update faster
Infinitespada : Yes XD I have to agree with you ^^
Guest : Thanks for reading ^^ Well, I have several endings in my mind.. most of them is sad endings XD But if I manage to go that far ( I hope I will ), I will let my reviewers to decide between happy or sad ending ^^ Cry all you want, I always cry when I'm writing or reading sad stories XD
Thanks for reading !
