DW: Sup, peeps! I'm back again and so is another great installment of Death Note!
On a serious note- my story At Your Service needs some more love guys. It's like really good! I updated on Wendsday so it's a fresh chapie in there. Hey, I'll make you a deal peeps, if I get one or more new reviewer who hasn't reviewed before than I'll update on the story of your choice this weekend. K? K!
Here we go....
Disclamer: nothing but the idea
Courtney gasped at the pale hand that clasped her wrist. "Gwen?" she asked. Gwen leaned in closer so Courtney could confirm that it was her. Courtney sighed and Gwen let go of her wrist. She fell back on the stone steps leading up the painting.
"You nearly gave me a heart attack" Courtney glared up at her. Gwen stared back down, "You know that would actually be funny because you know I kill people and then you'd be dead but you'd still be stuck down here!" Gwen chuckled to her own joke.
"How did you find me?" Courtney wanted to know.
Gwen sat down next to her on the steps. "Courtney, you are one very curious cat and one day your curiousness will get you seriously hurt or dead. I was coming to find you anyway, so I just followed your heart beats to here". Courtney looked around the small room again and asked,
"What is this place and who is the woman on the wall?" she pointed to all the paintings.
Gwen sighed and rubbed her head. "I don't know if I should be the one to tell you".
"Tell me what" Courtney scooted in closer.
"About, Felicia and what she meant to Duncan". Gwen gasped as Courtney griped into her arm, "You have to tell me!" she pleaded. "I have heard small bits and pieces but I don't know anything about her. If I'm going to marry this creep then I must know about his past romances". Gwen looked into Courtney's wide and curious eyes.
"Alright" she gave in, "But, you stay quiet and no interrupting my story" she warned and gave her a fierce look before starting.
"Up on the surface Duncan lived a normal rebel teen life. He had a nice house with good parents and brothers and sisters all around. But, when Duncan turned sixteen he found out that the people who he had come to know as his parents, weren't his parents but his Aunt and Uncle and their kids. That night Duncan's real father showed up and called him back to the underworld".
Gwen was no longer staring at Courtney but into the story. "His father is Adamous. A demonic demon with no soul. That's the only difference of Duncan and his father, Duncan actually cares about the people he kills, most of the time" she added smugly. "Adamous, taught his hatred and how to kill inoccent people without even taking a second look. Duncan was miserable".
"He had a girlfriend on the surface. Her name was Felicia Harris" Gwen pointed to the big painting in back of them. "That's her. Duncan was obsessed with her beauty and life. I'm sure if he could, he would have kept her locked away somewhere from the rest of the world. Better yet, he would have changed her himself into a immortal".
"How did she die?" Courtney asked. Gwen looked startled and then fustrated. "I told you not to interrupt!" she said harsly, "I'm getting there just be patient!" Courtney sighed but stayed quiet.
Gwen started again, "Adamous found out about his son's unconditional love for this human and he sought out her death. He tried everything, poison, hit man, gun shot, hit by a car, listening to birds chirp! But everytime Duncan went agaisnt his father and saved her. It was one day that he stood up for her and challenged his father for the rights and claims over the entire underworld".
"There was a epic battle and that really is how he and I met. I was fighting unwillingly on his father's side. Duncan won, of course, and vanished his father away forever to the ends of the Earth".
"But, how could he do that!?" Courtney questioned.
Gwen chuckled but allowed the question. "There is a portal that can take you to the ends of the Earth. One day when you're immortal, I'll take you there for a vacation. Anyway, Duncan got word back to Felicia that he was coming to get her soon so they could be married. She agreed and was scheduled to come down just three days before."
Gwen's eyes casted down. "But, she got a deadly virus in her system and it killed her slowly and painfully. When Duncan tried to get rid of it, it only hurt him more and it was like a poison. No spell I had could reverse it. So, we went to Life to help us save her. Life said there was nothing she could do but keep her soul safe until she crossed over".
"When she finally...died" Gwen almost had to choke the word out. "Duncan went on a search for her soul but it turns out it never crossed and got stuck somewhere from there to here. Duncan went mad. He refused to do anything but morn and weep. He built this shrine to remember her by and in some hopes of her ever crossing back".
Gwen glanced at Courtney and smirked, "Nothing to say, motormouth?" she asked.
Courtney shook her head. "Duncan, needs a child to care on the duties of the underworld when it's his time to go" Gwen told her.
"Go where?" Courtney asked.
Gwen shrugged, "The Big man upstairs decides. He could give Duncan back his old life and let him love above ground or condem him to the eternal flames." Courtney shivered, "And you?" she asked. Gwen shrugged, "I guess I'm going to be human and go above ground. Which is pointless, because you just die anyways and I'm right back here again".
Courtney felt her flat stomach and gulped. "Is it going to be painful?" she asked.
"I don't know I've never had a child!" Gwen exclaimed. "But, the child will be have immortal and half human so...". Courtney didn't like the idea of something growing inside her that wasn't human. Gwen stood up and grabbed Courtney's arm to help her up.
"Enough being in the dark, let's go back to the main areas" Gwen walked out and pulled Courtney behind her and closed the door. She was walking ahead of Courtney who remember to ask Gwen about the pictures. "Hey, Gwen, can you tell me about these pictures?" she asked pointing to the ones that really caught her attention.
Gwen gazed at the one Courtney was refering to and chuckled lightly. "Duncan and I put these up when we moved in. God, I love this paintings".
This painting was the one with the skeletons piling the dead bodies into carts.
"You were a girl once, right?" she asked, turing her attention to Courtney.
"Yeah...I guess" Courtney said a little uneasy.
"Well, a silly little song girls used to sing is what this picture came from. How does it go?" Gwen closed her eyes and tried to remember the words.
"Ring around the rosies, a pocket full of poises. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down". Gwen opened her blue eyes back up and informed Courtney about the picture. "This picture is about the black plague that ran all the way around Europe, a long time ago. Men would go around with carts and collect the dead bodies from thier house".
Gwen stepped to the next picture, the one with the skeletons burning the bodies. "To keep the plague from spreading they would burn the bodies and that's where the last line came in. Ashes, ashes we all fall down. Because the bodies would burn and the people would die".
Courtney shuddered, "Terrible".
Gwen laughed, "Actually business was booming. There was a lot of people that needed to cross over to down here". Gwen moved onto another relative picture. "This one, about the doctors is another part of the rhyme. You see, when people got the plague some got these big black pus balls all over their bodies and sometimes they would grow inside their bodies" Gwen was enjoying this but it made Courtney sick to her stomach.
"Doctors tried to solve the problem but truly failed. When they popped open the puss balls the smell was gag worthy. So, to make the room smell better they would pick posies which are flowers and stuffed them into those paper cones they have on their faces. Is this upsetting you?" she asked, slightly concerned.
Courtney was about the throw up but choked it down. "Yes, very!"
Gwen smirked, "Good. You need some scarying". Gwen continued on and stopped at the other painting Courtney probably wanted to know about. It was the Edgar Allen Poe one. "This is personally one of my favorites" she said.
"Edgar was such a misunderstood person" Gwen said sadly. "He drank his life away. You know there's a legend that he was found dead in the street from drinking so much. They buried his body somewhere, I forget. But, on his tombstone, someone puts a bottle of rum and a red rose on his tombstone. No one knows who it is".
"You must really love his work" Courtney said.
"I do. Anyway this particular painting is of the Red Death a short story written by Mr. Poe. When the black plague was going on thise rich man locked he and other rich people in his large castle together. And in each room was a different color that represented a different thing. When they got to this room, which was red. The Red Death showed up and the rich man and Death had a battle. Death won, as always".
Gwen turned to Courtney, "I bet you didn't know that Duncan was the Death. Yeah, he and I go waaaay back."
Courtney frowned, "I should really be disgusted dating such an old person, I mean...it's gross". Gwen laughed, "Every hundred years we lose a life but gain a completely new one and our souls are restored". Gwen walked on through the path Courtney had previously came. There was just one more question that Courtney was dying to know.
"Um, Gwen?"
She didn't turn around but kept walking. "Yes?"
"Why does Duncan kiss you so much, even though you're just friends" Courtney questioned.
"Best Friends acutally. My powers sometime deplet and Duncan can restore energy. Without my powers, I couldn't do my job". She kept walking and brought her back to the main areas. Souls were walking around, doing their daily business. Gwen led Courtney back to the river base where Danielle was taking a bath in the water.
Gwen looked on with disapproval. "Dani, how many times do I always tell you not to take a bath in the river!" Danielle smiled sheepishly and hopped out, shaking her wet fur all over. "Sorry master Gwen. Is there anything I can do for you?"
Gwen walked up the stairs. "Yes, go find Duncan and get Life to come back down here".
Courtney sat down on the rock ledge of the river. "What for?"
Gwen smirked, "Your transformation".
DW: Okay, that's all for now. Maybe another chapter of this IF I get one or more new reviewers. I'll update on any story they choose, but it has to be in the writing process already. Death Note At Your Service Bridezillas Review! please, I would love you forever and ever! Oh and review on At Your Service, and then I will love you so much more!
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