Soft Wind and Death Tales...Chapter 10
Edith sped home as fast she could in the rain; she hope it wasn't too late to see her sister Margo.
She burst through the door of the house, everything was dark. The entrance to the lab was still open. She took the elevator down into the lab and as soon as she got there, everyone was gone.
Gru Agnes and Margo were nowhere to be found, even the minions.
"HELLO! IS ANYONE HERE?" She called out desperately.
"HHEEELLOOO! IS ANYONE HERE?" Edith called again, but no answer.
Her eyes began to fill with tears, her family no where. She slumped to her knees and began to cry.
"Edith? EDITH?" A familiar European accent called to her. "GRU?"
"I'm here Edith! Follow the sound of my voice!" His voice sounded weak but Edith was still able to follow it.
She opened a door and found Gru inside with Agnes. "Where's Margo?" He asked desperately.
"I don't know! She wasn't upstairs." "Edith, Nefario took the minions to a secret hiding place, go look for your seestor, use everything I taught you!"
"I promise…" Edith took a long look at her small family. She bolted upstairs to the sisters' room.
A note was found on Margo's bed.
Dear Gru, Edith and Agnes,
For the next few hours, I will be at the park, if it rains, I have an umbrella. I just need time to think.
Love,
Margo.
"Oh no…" Edith Muttered
She grabbed her spy gear from the secret compartment in her bed and dressed.
A few minutes later she was out of the house and back on her board, heading to the park.
She hoped it wasn't too late.
She had just entered the park with Margo nowhere to be found. Then something hit her in the back of the head and she fell off the board.
Moments later, she woke in the same place with her hands tied to a pole. The board roped to it as well.
Her eyesight was focusing from blurry to clear; her spy goggles were laying a few feet away.
Her hair fell in her face and through a few strands, she could see an orange figure.
Vector..
Then he picked up another figure, but this time it was Edith's sister.
Margo…no
Vector unsheathed a glowing sword.
"no, no no. NO! VECTOR DON'T NO!" Edith screamed as Margo had the blade stuck through her abdomen, then sliced across it again.
Edith bawled at the sight and Vector threw Margo into the grass like a discarded object; her lifeless body not moving an inch.
Vector then walked to Edith and took out a similar looking weapon, only knife sized. He sliced it across her right rib and through her left leg. Edith violently grunted, and the knife was left in her left thigh.
Her and her sister was left to die there.
Edith struggled to break free from the restraints. Circulation being caught by the rope. As soon as she had, she fell into the grass, pulling her wounds and thrusting the knife in even farther. She grunted loudly as it got pushed in farther. Edith turned onto her back and grabbed the handle, pulling it out with as much force as possible.
"Gah! Grrr, MMMMmm!" She groaned in pain.
Throwing the knife, she crawled forward.
The grass was soaking wet. Edith struggled to crawl forward. Thunder exploded in the background and everything in the vicinity was dark until the lightning ignited the sky with blue streaks of electricity. Her clothes stained a dark red, torn and drenched in water.
Agony undermined her bones as she attempted to clamber forward on the soaking wet ground. Water frequently immersing itself into the suit. She was exhausted and hurt; her small body could not handle the paroxysm of pain and sudden movement. Edith sought to grab the ground, to pull her forward, but pain continued to rage in her arms. She dug her hands into the wet muddy grass and pulled herself ever so slightly...
As Edith continued in the wet grass, the lightning illuminated the area and Edith saw briefly, the outline of her older sister.
Her eyes began to let out tears as she feared the worst. Margo was lifelessly lying in the aqueous grass. Edith stood up; she held her side and limped towards her sister. Her legs felt shattered in the calves.
Edith shook her sister again and again but no response. She began to cry, "Margo! Margo!"
She held up her head and Margo weakly opened her eyes to look at Edith; her eyes shining with the lightning. Margo breathed heavily as her heart rate decreased. She was dying, and Edith knew it. Margo put a hand on Edith's chest and felt her heart.
"You have a strong heart Edith" She said softly. Margo's clothes ripped right below her chest, plasma scoring had been the cause when the sword went through her. Blood dripping from the open, burned wound. Edith looked at her laceration on Margo's stomach. The white shirt covering Margo's abdomen had become a dark red, Edith had never seen this much blood.
"Edith...I- I love you, P-lease take care of Agnes for me.. And tell Gru, I love him too. And it wasn't his fault..."
She said softly. A tear ran down Edith's face and Margo touched her cheek. Her bloody hands left marks of her fingerprints.
Edith grabbed Margo's arm and felt her pulse decrease slowly.
"Do not worry my young sister, Everything will be ok, We'll see each other again one day, I promise you.." Edith's face drenched in tears and rain as her sister died while Edith held her for one last time.
Edith heard the echoes of Margo's voice as her arms fell to her sides, "Edith...Strong heart...Some day...Again...I Promise you...remember me"
Edith slumped down on her knees and bawled, she screamed along with the thunder and her hands became tenser as she howled at the sky.
"IT'S YOUR FAULT GRU!" Anger filled her body as she jumped onto the board, put her spy goggles on and flew to Gru's house.
She burst through the door and was greeted by Gru.
Gru brought her in for a hug but before it was locked, Edith shoved him away.
"Don't touch me!" She yelled.
"Did you find- m"
"She's dead! Alright? MARGO'S GONE! LYING IN THE PARK GRASS! SHE. IS. GONE!"
Tears ran from Edith and Gru's eyes.
"No, she can't be!"
"She is!" Edith folded the hover board and shoved it into Gru's chest.
"Here take it, I don't want this anymore."
Edith went to the lab and grabbed the foot jets. She put them on and headed out the door. Edith slipped on the oxygen mask.
"Edith, please, don't leave! Agnes needs you!"
And with that, Edith engaged the jet boots and took off into the sky. Gru watched as she disappeared into the clouds…
Epilogue…
This is Edith, my sister has passed and I have run away from home once again. Nothing is true anymore. I have learned that no matter how much you try, everything will get worse before they get better. I have left my adoptive father's home and I will use the skills he taught me to go into hiding for the next 11 years.
I will become the villain. And use everything I know to be the best at it. I am flying through the clouds and looking for a place to hide. I will never go back to my father's home, and I will never talk to him again. I will miss you little Agnes, be safe.
This is Edith, signing off…
If I got on my knees
And I pleaded with you
Not to go but to stay in my arms
….
Would you walk out the door?
Like you did once before
This time is different
….
Please stay, don't go….
If I call out your name like a prayer
Would you leave me alone, with my tears?
Knowing I need you, would you still go?
….