at last the very elusive chapter 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chapter Six: Valkyn
The music of the violin filled the crisp morning air...
Musical sheets, riding the wind on the shores of Okinawa...
he had no need of notes to remind him of the sorrow that he felt...
he carried it in his heart...
each vibrating sound echoed with his burning sadness...
but he shed no tears...for he had none left...
his emerald eyes gazed over the sea,and at the red sun setting into an orange sky...
The violinist continued to play his sad tune, and through the painful notes he fell deep into his past. A past which was no
more than a slowly fading memory...
Dans la memoire d'Ambre...
In memory of Ambre...
Flash Back
"One, Two, Three! Ready or not here I come!"
a little boy scampered through the garden...
his mouse-brown hair loosely tied by a plain white ribbon...
his jade-color eyes searched mischevously for his friend...
"hehehehe"
the boy looked towards the direction of an old cypres tree...
he slowly crept towards it, and there behind the tree was a little girl with long, straight black hair curled up into a ball...
"Booo! I found you Ambre!!!!"
The little girl shrieked, her curious brown eyes glowed red in the light of the sun
"Contessa! Contessa!"
The little girl and boy looked at the direction of a chatea...
A worried looking maid soon apeared
"Dame Ambre, we've been looking for you! The count and countess been so worried..."
The little girl tilted her head, "why?"
The maid looked outraged,
" I was with my chevalier all day long, wasn't I Valkyn?"
she looked at the boy beside her,
he felt the blood rush to his face, and he prayed that she wouldn't see
"Uh-y-yes, indeed I was with her madam..."
The maid sighed
"Your father is also looking for you young man..."
both children looked at each other and immediately ran back to the chateau...
"Where have you been fille?We were worried sick..." the countess wrapped her arms around her daughter
"Mm...stop it mama you're embarassing me..."
"Nevertheless Your mother and I deserve an apology don't you think?" came her father's deep voice
The little girl shuffled her feet...
"Ambre?" demanded her father
"sorry..."
Her father gave her a gentle smile, and ruffled her hair
the young boy bowed his head and smiled to himself
'And what's your explanation young man?'
The boy looked up at his father's eyes
"You know what kind of trouble you've gotten into?"
The boy scratched his head
his father sighed
"un tel fauteur de troubles!" such a trouble maker
Chevalier de la Fere was a respected man, and head of the musketeers as well, he could not afford to have a son to tarnish his reputation...
"Now hold on Rene..."
The chevalier looked at the young girls father
"There is no need to go so far as to call your son a trouble maker, after all, he did bring our daughter home safely"
"Edmond..."
the count waved his friends apology off
The count gazed at Valkyn,
"Now, young chevalier, do you promise to keep my daughter safe for as long as you live?"
Valkyn looked at his father, his father gave him an encouraging smile
"y-yes of course Count..."
The count patted him on the back
"bon..." good
End of Flashback
The music stopped at once
and the violinist held in his heart the memory of his beloved's death...
"keep my daughter safe..."
The words haunted him, like a shadow it followed him around even though he deperatley tried to run from it...
'we can't run from the past'... he thought to himself
he picked the musical sheets one by one, and he held them close to his heart...
" let me here your song again Valkyn...and I promise that this time I will sing with you..."
He clenched his fist and grinded his teeth as the memory tugged at his mind...
"I am sorry Ambre..."