Sorries, took longer than I thought to update. Well, these next chappies kinda suck. So if I wasted your time, please tell me and feel free to skip them, but I warn you, you will miss out on some valuable info (I think?)for my future chapters. Okies, well, enjoy! (^_^)
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and company belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz and company.
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Crimson Dream...
A woman who many feared yet none knew of her true identity. Was Crimson Dream man or woman? Crimson Dream was a dream all right, one minute, you're basking in the glow of the sweetest of dreams, the next minute, she just hacked and slashed your lover to pieces, a true nightmare for those who believed in dreams. That's what I was to them all, why they all feared me, I was the only one who left them all in a state of disbelief, victim or no, they were all brought out of their dreams to reality.
Fools, was it a dream or no? To them, it was like a dream, did it happen or didn't it? Believe what you want, it is your choice whether you want to live in your world of fantasy or grasp onto reality... because that's what I live in everyday, in between the dreams of fantasy and the nightmares of reality...
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Chapter 15
Inuyasha no longer showed up for any more meetings. Like he would have cared these days...
I coughed. Sometime during the night, I had caught a cold and was still recovering. I would have liked to stay in bed, but the morning called for other plans.
"My lord, your son is missing again," said one of InuTaisho's advisors.
We were in Lord InuTaisho's study room again.
He sighed, "Yes, I know, but I can do nothing, he's too stubborn. He's gotten to that age you know."
My uncle chuckled, "Those were the days..."
"Oddly enough, I do wish to live through my teenage years once more," smiled the youkai lord.
Sesshoumaru scoffed and I looked at him. I still had to thank him for comforting me last night and for the time he saved me when the city was invaded (which was a few weeks ago, but I still didn't have the guts to thank him.)
"Shall we begin?" asked Crimson Blade.
"Begin what?" asked I.
"My story," spoke someone.
We all looked at the speaker, it was Crimson Moon.
"Let us hear it Rune," said my uncle.
She nodded and began...
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"My real name is Rune. I am the bastard child of a whore. I am now eighteen and became one of the most dangerous yet one of the best assassins in the whole world at the age of thirteen. I am known as Crimson Moon because when I kill, much blood is spilled, coating everything around in red.
People have said that when there are full moons, I leave more people dead than any other people who have died from illnesses and accidents combined from the full moon before. They say that the moon's reflection, from the blood of those I've slain, looks like it is red and sometimes even bleeding...
I was murderous... I was cold... I was lethal... At least, I thought I was until I met... a dragon knight named Shade. The man was deadly, just as I was, but he protected with a cause to do good and always got in my way, but I will tell you all that later...
I was raised in a small town out in the country, but it was not where I had been born. I didn't know where I was from in the first place. My foster mother had told me before she passed on into the after life that she found me on the bank of the river by her house. On my blanket was the word Rune and she decided to call me that.
Life was hard in that house though, my foster father hated me the minute my foster mother brought me home, but he allowed my foster mother to keep me. He was a rich man, but was greedy for money and had a mistress long before I was brought there. The mistress already had a son who was a few years older than me. What was even worse was that the mistress was treated with the best respect in the house and my foster mother was ignored. She treated my foster mother like trash and me, even worse.
Later, when I turned eight, my foster mother died, but before she did, she told me that I could have been the daughter of a whore. My dreams of my real parents perhaps being royalty or some great adventurers were ruined. I was the daughter of a whore, a bastard child. She died and I was left to the cruelty of my new stepmother and stepsiblings.
Then I met a traveler who my foster father had invited to our house. The man was kind to me and very wise. I was young, but I instantly fell in love with him. The man filled my head with hopes and dreams. He taught me many things while he stayed and he became my best friend, but... he soon left and I had enough of my family so I ran away in hopes of him allowing me to join him in his travels.
I got lost though and could not find him. Then an old man in his fifties came and found me. He took me in and taught me the rules of being an assassin and so on. His name was Midnight Gale, a Kaiser assassin. Yes, the Kaiser Assassins were the best assassins in the world, but they worked in secret so many did not know of them, but there was only one Kaiser each generation. The Kaiser was assumed to be immortal because each one possessed a skill similar to the last so it seemed that they never died and in actuality, it was probably true.
My master taught me everything, from assassination to math to literature. Even the Kaisers needed to know how to read and act among the common folk. He tested me almost everyday to see if I had improved or not, it was hard, but it was worth it... We practiced fighting everyday and he would always beat me down. I swore that I would defeat him one day, but what I didn't know was that he was secretly testing me, awaiting for the day that I would defeat him and pass his test that every Kaiser Assassin before had given to the next one.
The day I defeated my master was the day he died, along with all emotions of kindheartedness and others that could distract me from my work. I killed my master. I had no intentions that I wanted him dead. I just wanted to defeat him, just once, but that just once meant that I would have to kill him and become the next Kaiser Assassin. Of course, if I didn't pass his test, he'd kill me and find another student. He gave me his weapon, which had been given to the Kaiser before by their masters and told me it had belonged to the first Kaiser. I had become the new owner the moment I gave my master the finishing stroke.
I left and traveled for many days until I could find a job. I traveled as a messenger boy so as to not raise any suspicions. I found jobs later though. They were simple things, like killing people for their money, land, women, all those things for my employers. I told my employers that I was a Kaiser Assassin, but they assumed that I was exaggerating, and those, that did not send me away, sent me on suicidal jobs. A vague attempt to get myself killed and end my pathetic life.
Well, they started to believe me and soon, I was sought by many afterwards to kill people or to be killed. I was up to my knees with work for assassinating political figures, large rivaling families or companies, even jobs that were not associated with assassinating, such as being a bodyguard, fighting in an army and so on...
By day, I was Rune, a traveler on a pilgrimage but by night, I became your bogeyman. Would I come after you? Would I slaughter your children in front of your eyes in the midst of the night? Would I gut out your insides and feed it to the wolves while you still lived? Yes. I would if my employer wished it of me and had a fine bonus to go with it. Of course, if anyone, who was not my target, saw me doing my job, they would not live to see the sun rise the next morning.
A rule of the Kaiser is to never let anyone see you kill. If you were to stab a man to death in public when the sun was out in front of millions of people, you had to kill them all. I had to do that because I was sloppy when I first started. I had to assassinate a warlord during the night, but I was careless and his soldiers (probably a million of them, I don't remember) suddenly came after me with a vengeance. It took me all night to eliminate all of them. The work was hell, but the pay was good. I got better and became perfect, no mistakes... at least, I was perfect...
I had gotten a job under a foolish weakling who cared more about his money than his own life, but he agreed to give me half the money of my target once he was dead. I went out and killed the man. Suddenly, just as I was about to leave, a man appeared and I readied to kill him, but he stopped me. He looked almost identical to the man that I had been searching for! He offered me a job and if I was interested, I would go to him at an arranged place. If I did not want to accept, I could go there and kill him.
I returned to my current employer and he turned his back on me and sent his lackeys at me. I slew all of them. The man tried to kill me, but I evaded him and warned him not to come after me. If he did, I would kill him slowly. I left the fool alone and decided to take up the mysterious man's offer.
He accepted me as easily as I came into the meeting place. He knew of me and wanted me as his personal assistant, bodyguard and assassin. For a long time, I worked under this man and was seduced by kindness and his promise of a better tomorrow for the both of us. I followed him closely and did his every command. I began to love this man, he looked like the man I had loved when I was eight, but he was not.
During one of my assignments, I came across Crimson Blade, whose name was just as popular as mine was. She was protecting my target and we dueled out until late in the morning. Seeing that our attempt to defeat the other was futile, we called it a draw and left. My mission had failed and I returned back to my master, but not once did he scold me or hit me. He simply smiled and told me it was okay. Yes, he was a good man even though he had bad intentions for the rest of the world; he was precious to me because he gave me nothing but kindness. He treated me like a woman... I loved that man... until Shade came along.
He was a dragon knight and a very popular one among my targets. He was a bodyguard with undying devotion to the man he was employed under. I could not get past him at all on all the missions that were to deal with my target that was guarded by him. My master soon started to see me distracted by this man and also by a man named Case. You could say that he got jealous, maybe even possessive of me.
He started to be forceful with me. Our nights together were rougher and aggressive that left me with bruises and with a painful heart. Case was my only comfort. I met the man as Rune. He was clumsy, charming and fun to be with, but when push came to shove, he would be serious, but that was rare. The man became the light in my life, but... I knew it that he wasn't all that he seemed. Our meet-ups were not mere coincidences and all the assignments I took, he always somehow ended up where I was... As did Shade to Crimson Moon.
I began to suspect, but hoped not, that Case was indeed Shade. I tried to ignore it and did not tell my master, but... Case had been thinking the same thing, was Rune the same person as Crimson Moon?
He tried several efforts to see if I was indeed Crimson Moon. He cut off a bit of my hair as Shade and asked me as Case how my hair got cut. I lied, but he did not believe me. He finally gave me a ring as Case. I was an idiot and promised him that I would never take it off and as Crimson Moon, I still had the ring on. Shade and Crimson Moon met up and he diverted my attention again. We had always been in a fight to protect or kill our targets, but sometimes, we just met up and ended up talking and not fighting as if we were two best friends. He noticed the ring and knew it then that I was Rune.
I didn't know what to do, I had to kill him and so I tried, but he showed me who he was. I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill him. To unveil the mask of the Kaiser Assassin was the ultimate risk and meant your death... I could not kill the man who I had fallen in love with. Through carelessness, many people discovered both of our true identities and sent many to kill us and so did my master.
Luckily, Case knew of a safe and remote place, a village that was located deep in the mountains. The people welcomed Case, but were skeptical of me, but they soon grew fond of me. They were the Magik Clan, a clan of ancient magic users who knew of the oldest spells that were forbidden and unknown to the outside world. Despite their knowledge of great and powerful magic, they were nice, peaceful people. It was then that I wanted to stop being an assassin and just be a woman by Case's side, but fate would not allow me to do as I wished...
My master found the both of us and slaughtered the whole village. We barely escaped and found temporary sanctuary in the place that had banished Case, his home village in the Valley of the Dragons. It turns out that in his early teens, he had attempted a daring and suicidal mission to the stars on the back of his dragon. He almost died, but survived, but his dragon died, risking its own life to save his. To lose one's dragon was to lose one's membership in the Dragon Clan. They banished him the day his dragon died.
Without his dragon, he could not become a full dragon knight and achieve the highest ranks above being a Dragon Knight: a Dragon Champion and the hardest one of all, a Dragon Master.
Dragon Champions could fuse with their dragons but only for a short time and knew of a few of the Dragon spells. For a Dragon Master though, they could fuse at will for long periods of time and had mastered all the Dragon spells. A Dragon is needed for this, but for the few that needed the use of the dragon magic without the dragon were given a chance. If they could pass a test that was given by the dragon people's ancestors, then the power would become theirs. This was Case's decision...
He told me of the technique, the ability to fuse without a dragon, but the test was difficult. He went on with the test but after he left, my former master attacked us. The Dragon Clan Warriors and Knights with their partner/guardian dragons and I fought with all our might to protect the village, but... The whole village was decimated and even a child who I had befriended was killed. I was caught and was to be punished, he wanted me to suffer for betraying him. Then out came Case.
He had passed the test and had perfected the dragon fusion technique in a matter of minutes. He had surpassed Dragon Champion to Dragon Master with the help of the spirit of his dead dragon. He disposed of most of the soldiers, but we fled again afterwards.
I finally had it and didn't want to flee anymore or be Crimson Moon either. I left Case in the middle of the night and took my own journey back home to where my troubles had began, back to the step-family and foster father that did not love me.
They gave me no indication of welcoming me back home or wanting me there. My foster father was sick. He would not let me see him nor would my step-mother. They kicked me out as easily as I came in. Well, it seemed that they didn't know that I was Crimson Moon despite the fact that my identity had been revealed. I would regret having ever going there though. My step-brother was gone, but he was working for my former master and there were spies even at my foster father's house.
I went to the place where my mother had found me. My mother had marked it so I found it quite easily. Nothing too interesting, but I could tell how I got there. The river ran downstream so I went upstream in hopes of finding a clue as to who I really was even if I was the product of a one-night stand.
I then came across an old peddler woman who was blind. She could not find her walking stick so I helped her find it. She thanked me, but strangely enough, she asked if she could touch my face. Well, I allowed her to. Her hands were warm and gentle. Who was she? Did she know who I was? The woman felt my face. Every feature that she found remarkable about me, she smiled until her hands dropped and she was laughing out of happiness. I asked her why she was laughing.
What she told me, paralyzed me (from what kind of emotion I don't really know) but those words must have ran through my mind a hundred times until I could understand or hoped to.
She told me that I was her daughter, which could only mean that...
She was my mother...
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God, took me soooooooooooooooo long to put this up. Had trouble editing it and I still don't like it. I hope I didn't waste your time cause the other half is in the next chapter, so continue on please.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and company belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz and company.
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Crimson Dream...
A woman who many feared yet none knew of her true identity. Was Crimson Dream man or woman? Crimson Dream was a dream all right, one minute, you're basking in the glow of the sweetest of dreams, the next minute, she just hacked and slashed your lover to pieces, a true nightmare for those who believed in dreams. That's what I was to them all, why they all feared me, I was the only one who left them all in a state of disbelief, victim or no, they were all brought out of their dreams to reality.
Fools, was it a dream or no? To them, it was like a dream, did it happen or didn't it? Believe what you want, it is your choice whether you want to live in your world of fantasy or grasp onto reality... because that's what I live in everyday, in between the dreams of fantasy and the nightmares of reality...
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Chapter 15
Inuyasha no longer showed up for any more meetings. Like he would have cared these days...
I coughed. Sometime during the night, I had caught a cold and was still recovering. I would have liked to stay in bed, but the morning called for other plans.
"My lord, your son is missing again," said one of InuTaisho's advisors.
We were in Lord InuTaisho's study room again.
He sighed, "Yes, I know, but I can do nothing, he's too stubborn. He's gotten to that age you know."
My uncle chuckled, "Those were the days..."
"Oddly enough, I do wish to live through my teenage years once more," smiled the youkai lord.
Sesshoumaru scoffed and I looked at him. I still had to thank him for comforting me last night and for the time he saved me when the city was invaded (which was a few weeks ago, but I still didn't have the guts to thank him.)
"Shall we begin?" asked Crimson Blade.
"Begin what?" asked I.
"My story," spoke someone.
We all looked at the speaker, it was Crimson Moon.
"Let us hear it Rune," said my uncle.
She nodded and began...
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"My real name is Rune. I am the bastard child of a whore. I am now eighteen and became one of the most dangerous yet one of the best assassins in the whole world at the age of thirteen. I am known as Crimson Moon because when I kill, much blood is spilled, coating everything around in red.
People have said that when there are full moons, I leave more people dead than any other people who have died from illnesses and accidents combined from the full moon before. They say that the moon's reflection, from the blood of those I've slain, looks like it is red and sometimes even bleeding...
I was murderous... I was cold... I was lethal... At least, I thought I was until I met... a dragon knight named Shade. The man was deadly, just as I was, but he protected with a cause to do good and always got in my way, but I will tell you all that later...
I was raised in a small town out in the country, but it was not where I had been born. I didn't know where I was from in the first place. My foster mother had told me before she passed on into the after life that she found me on the bank of the river by her house. On my blanket was the word Rune and she decided to call me that.
Life was hard in that house though, my foster father hated me the minute my foster mother brought me home, but he allowed my foster mother to keep me. He was a rich man, but was greedy for money and had a mistress long before I was brought there. The mistress already had a son who was a few years older than me. What was even worse was that the mistress was treated with the best respect in the house and my foster mother was ignored. She treated my foster mother like trash and me, even worse.
Later, when I turned eight, my foster mother died, but before she did, she told me that I could have been the daughter of a whore. My dreams of my real parents perhaps being royalty or some great adventurers were ruined. I was the daughter of a whore, a bastard child. She died and I was left to the cruelty of my new stepmother and stepsiblings.
Then I met a traveler who my foster father had invited to our house. The man was kind to me and very wise. I was young, but I instantly fell in love with him. The man filled my head with hopes and dreams. He taught me many things while he stayed and he became my best friend, but... he soon left and I had enough of my family so I ran away in hopes of him allowing me to join him in his travels.
I got lost though and could not find him. Then an old man in his fifties came and found me. He took me in and taught me the rules of being an assassin and so on. His name was Midnight Gale, a Kaiser assassin. Yes, the Kaiser Assassins were the best assassins in the world, but they worked in secret so many did not know of them, but there was only one Kaiser each generation. The Kaiser was assumed to be immortal because each one possessed a skill similar to the last so it seemed that they never died and in actuality, it was probably true.
My master taught me everything, from assassination to math to literature. Even the Kaisers needed to know how to read and act among the common folk. He tested me almost everyday to see if I had improved or not, it was hard, but it was worth it... We practiced fighting everyday and he would always beat me down. I swore that I would defeat him one day, but what I didn't know was that he was secretly testing me, awaiting for the day that I would defeat him and pass his test that every Kaiser Assassin before had given to the next one.
The day I defeated my master was the day he died, along with all emotions of kindheartedness and others that could distract me from my work. I killed my master. I had no intentions that I wanted him dead. I just wanted to defeat him, just once, but that just once meant that I would have to kill him and become the next Kaiser Assassin. Of course, if I didn't pass his test, he'd kill me and find another student. He gave me his weapon, which had been given to the Kaiser before by their masters and told me it had belonged to the first Kaiser. I had become the new owner the moment I gave my master the finishing stroke.
I left and traveled for many days until I could find a job. I traveled as a messenger boy so as to not raise any suspicions. I found jobs later though. They were simple things, like killing people for their money, land, women, all those things for my employers. I told my employers that I was a Kaiser Assassin, but they assumed that I was exaggerating, and those, that did not send me away, sent me on suicidal jobs. A vague attempt to get myself killed and end my pathetic life.
Well, they started to believe me and soon, I was sought by many afterwards to kill people or to be killed. I was up to my knees with work for assassinating political figures, large rivaling families or companies, even jobs that were not associated with assassinating, such as being a bodyguard, fighting in an army and so on...
By day, I was Rune, a traveler on a pilgrimage but by night, I became your bogeyman. Would I come after you? Would I slaughter your children in front of your eyes in the midst of the night? Would I gut out your insides and feed it to the wolves while you still lived? Yes. I would if my employer wished it of me and had a fine bonus to go with it. Of course, if anyone, who was not my target, saw me doing my job, they would not live to see the sun rise the next morning.
A rule of the Kaiser is to never let anyone see you kill. If you were to stab a man to death in public when the sun was out in front of millions of people, you had to kill them all. I had to do that because I was sloppy when I first started. I had to assassinate a warlord during the night, but I was careless and his soldiers (probably a million of them, I don't remember) suddenly came after me with a vengeance. It took me all night to eliminate all of them. The work was hell, but the pay was good. I got better and became perfect, no mistakes... at least, I was perfect...
I had gotten a job under a foolish weakling who cared more about his money than his own life, but he agreed to give me half the money of my target once he was dead. I went out and killed the man. Suddenly, just as I was about to leave, a man appeared and I readied to kill him, but he stopped me. He looked almost identical to the man that I had been searching for! He offered me a job and if I was interested, I would go to him at an arranged place. If I did not want to accept, I could go there and kill him.
I returned to my current employer and he turned his back on me and sent his lackeys at me. I slew all of them. The man tried to kill me, but I evaded him and warned him not to come after me. If he did, I would kill him slowly. I left the fool alone and decided to take up the mysterious man's offer.
He accepted me as easily as I came into the meeting place. He knew of me and wanted me as his personal assistant, bodyguard and assassin. For a long time, I worked under this man and was seduced by kindness and his promise of a better tomorrow for the both of us. I followed him closely and did his every command. I began to love this man, he looked like the man I had loved when I was eight, but he was not.
During one of my assignments, I came across Crimson Blade, whose name was just as popular as mine was. She was protecting my target and we dueled out until late in the morning. Seeing that our attempt to defeat the other was futile, we called it a draw and left. My mission had failed and I returned back to my master, but not once did he scold me or hit me. He simply smiled and told me it was okay. Yes, he was a good man even though he had bad intentions for the rest of the world; he was precious to me because he gave me nothing but kindness. He treated me like a woman... I loved that man... until Shade came along.
He was a dragon knight and a very popular one among my targets. He was a bodyguard with undying devotion to the man he was employed under. I could not get past him at all on all the missions that were to deal with my target that was guarded by him. My master soon started to see me distracted by this man and also by a man named Case. You could say that he got jealous, maybe even possessive of me.
He started to be forceful with me. Our nights together were rougher and aggressive that left me with bruises and with a painful heart. Case was my only comfort. I met the man as Rune. He was clumsy, charming and fun to be with, but when push came to shove, he would be serious, but that was rare. The man became the light in my life, but... I knew it that he wasn't all that he seemed. Our meet-ups were not mere coincidences and all the assignments I took, he always somehow ended up where I was... As did Shade to Crimson Moon.
I began to suspect, but hoped not, that Case was indeed Shade. I tried to ignore it and did not tell my master, but... Case had been thinking the same thing, was Rune the same person as Crimson Moon?
He tried several efforts to see if I was indeed Crimson Moon. He cut off a bit of my hair as Shade and asked me as Case how my hair got cut. I lied, but he did not believe me. He finally gave me a ring as Case. I was an idiot and promised him that I would never take it off and as Crimson Moon, I still had the ring on. Shade and Crimson Moon met up and he diverted my attention again. We had always been in a fight to protect or kill our targets, but sometimes, we just met up and ended up talking and not fighting as if we were two best friends. He noticed the ring and knew it then that I was Rune.
I didn't know what to do, I had to kill him and so I tried, but he showed me who he was. I couldn't do it. I couldn't kill him. To unveil the mask of the Kaiser Assassin was the ultimate risk and meant your death... I could not kill the man who I had fallen in love with. Through carelessness, many people discovered both of our true identities and sent many to kill us and so did my master.
Luckily, Case knew of a safe and remote place, a village that was located deep in the mountains. The people welcomed Case, but were skeptical of me, but they soon grew fond of me. They were the Magik Clan, a clan of ancient magic users who knew of the oldest spells that were forbidden and unknown to the outside world. Despite their knowledge of great and powerful magic, they were nice, peaceful people. It was then that I wanted to stop being an assassin and just be a woman by Case's side, but fate would not allow me to do as I wished...
My master found the both of us and slaughtered the whole village. We barely escaped and found temporary sanctuary in the place that had banished Case, his home village in the Valley of the Dragons. It turns out that in his early teens, he had attempted a daring and suicidal mission to the stars on the back of his dragon. He almost died, but survived, but his dragon died, risking its own life to save his. To lose one's dragon was to lose one's membership in the Dragon Clan. They banished him the day his dragon died.
Without his dragon, he could not become a full dragon knight and achieve the highest ranks above being a Dragon Knight: a Dragon Champion and the hardest one of all, a Dragon Master.
Dragon Champions could fuse with their dragons but only for a short time and knew of a few of the Dragon spells. For a Dragon Master though, they could fuse at will for long periods of time and had mastered all the Dragon spells. A Dragon is needed for this, but for the few that needed the use of the dragon magic without the dragon were given a chance. If they could pass a test that was given by the dragon people's ancestors, then the power would become theirs. This was Case's decision...
He told me of the technique, the ability to fuse without a dragon, but the test was difficult. He went on with the test but after he left, my former master attacked us. The Dragon Clan Warriors and Knights with their partner/guardian dragons and I fought with all our might to protect the village, but... The whole village was decimated and even a child who I had befriended was killed. I was caught and was to be punished, he wanted me to suffer for betraying him. Then out came Case.
He had passed the test and had perfected the dragon fusion technique in a matter of minutes. He had surpassed Dragon Champion to Dragon Master with the help of the spirit of his dead dragon. He disposed of most of the soldiers, but we fled again afterwards.
I finally had it and didn't want to flee anymore or be Crimson Moon either. I left Case in the middle of the night and took my own journey back home to where my troubles had began, back to the step-family and foster father that did not love me.
They gave me no indication of welcoming me back home or wanting me there. My foster father was sick. He would not let me see him nor would my step-mother. They kicked me out as easily as I came in. Well, it seemed that they didn't know that I was Crimson Moon despite the fact that my identity had been revealed. I would regret having ever going there though. My step-brother was gone, but he was working for my former master and there were spies even at my foster father's house.
I went to the place where my mother had found me. My mother had marked it so I found it quite easily. Nothing too interesting, but I could tell how I got there. The river ran downstream so I went upstream in hopes of finding a clue as to who I really was even if I was the product of a one-night stand.
I then came across an old peddler woman who was blind. She could not find her walking stick so I helped her find it. She thanked me, but strangely enough, she asked if she could touch my face. Well, I allowed her to. Her hands were warm and gentle. Who was she? Did she know who I was? The woman felt my face. Every feature that she found remarkable about me, she smiled until her hands dropped and she was laughing out of happiness. I asked her why she was laughing.
What she told me, paralyzed me (from what kind of emotion I don't really know) but those words must have ran through my mind a hundred times until I could understand or hoped to.
She told me that I was her daughter, which could only mean that...
She was my mother...
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God, took me soooooooooooooooo long to put this up. Had trouble editing it and I still don't like it. I hope I didn't waste your time cause the other half is in the next chapter, so continue on please.