There will be some violence later in this fic, 'some violence' meaning a lot. I don't own Zelda, just Michael and Shihio, as well as her family. R&R, or you may 'mysteriously' disappear…
Chapter 5
The town was bustling. People were everywhere, and the sun was out. On that day, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Shihio was just glad to be off the boat.
She and her family, including her best friend, Aryll, blended into the crowd. However, the man standing next to them did not. He wore a hood that covered his eyes, and his silence was particularly unnerving this time of day. Everyone who passed by couldn't help but stare at the strange figure. Shihio learned to ignore this behavior, he told her he hated bright sunlight, and he figured that the sunglasses he was also wearing made him look handsome. Self-indulgent bastard.
Michael had snuck off as soon as they hit shore. He said he had 'shopping' to do. Of course he was, and hell was deemed the coldest place on earth. He was actually downloading the latest album of Coldplay off his laptop, but you don't care about that, now do you?
"It's cold." Mumbled the slightly eccentric housekeeper.
"It's ninety-eight fucking degrees out." Moaned Shihio, "It's burning."
"Where I came from, burning was common."
"You lived in the frickin desert, dumbass."
But by then, he had shuffled off. Apparently interested in something else.
She remembered how she had caught him in her closet. She read his diary, and when he came in, he had to explain everything to her. He told her that she was the "Child of Destiny" who would determine the fate of all three races (Gods, Mortals, and Demons) and he told her that he was a Demon himself. Him of course being in his true form, just had to drink the blood of the cow he had killed while stalking around her neighborhood right in front of her. She didn't mind the blood; it was just the way he drank it that made her dry-heave.
According to him, the Gods had cursed him with an eternal hunger, which nothing could satisfy as punishment for his deeds. When he couldn't feed off of negative emotions in his human form, he had to have flesh and/or blood. He just HAD to describe the way he killed his victims while doing this…
Also, he was appointed to protect her, because not only Gods would be after her immense power, but greedy Mortals as well. He would teach her how to control her strength and defend herself, which wasn't so hard because apparently she was a Demon as well.
She still couldn't believe what she had heard, but she wasn't the 'see it to believe it' type, either. She decided to go window-shopping with Aryll.
"Oh, wow! This hairclip would look so pretty in your hair. Don't you think so, Shihio?"
Being polite, she smiled and nodded.
"Its so pretty…"
Nodding along to her rambling, her mind was elsewhere. She then noticed a group of people was talking to her mother.
"I know, I think she knows about…"
Interested, she shifted toward the crowd, trying as she went to not attract attention.
"That does not matter. We must have her power, whether she likes it or not."
"But what about your daughter, Marin? She seems to obsess about her safety."
"She doesn't like her, anyways. Besides, she doesn't know about the measures I've been taking with the girl."
"Are you sure beating her is the only way to make her generate energy?"
"Positive. That's why I got rid of Nicholas."
Nicholas. That was her father's name. Suddenly, images of her on the floor, seemingly floating in a sea of broken glass came into her head. Cuts and scrapes all over her body, she struggled to reach her father.
"What are you doing? Come to Mommy."
"You aren't her mother you bitch! She's with Us. I won't let you hurt her!"
That image was still fresh in her mind, even after someone knocked her unconscious from behind.
When she came to, she was in a padded room. Someone was beside her. It was Ganon.
She resisted the urge to scream. He was apparently dead, for his body was torn apart. In front of her, her mother stood. The artificial light was reflecting off her blonde hair and blue eyes. Her chiseled supermodel figure, much like Nana's, was covered in blood.
"Give me your power."
"What?"
"All I need is a little bit of your power. Now cooperate or you will end up like your friend over there."
"YOU DID THAT?!"
Of course she did. Don't restate the obvious, you imbecile.
"YOU SHUT UP!"
I honestly don't have time for this…
The same people she saw in the square were behind her.
"Do as she says. No one can save you now."
"Give US your power, and we will let you live."
"Join US or die."
"I…like tacos."
Everyone stared at the person who made that random remark.
"What?"
"Do us all a favor, and don't talk again, okay?"
"Sorry…"
Apparently someone became impatient, and gashed Shihio's arm with a knife. The blood splattered all over the dead housekeeper's face.
"Give US your power, or WE will do much worse than that to you."
She was going to die. Even if she told them she had no idea how to use her power, they probably wouldn't believe her.
"Enough of this, kill her NOW."
As the man with the knife stepped forward, she closed her eyes. This was the end. A noise like something tearing open followed, followed by startled gasps and slurping noises. She felt no pain, something had happened.
She slowly opened her eyelids, and a gruesome sight awaited her. Somehow her dead companion had managed to reassemble himself, and was licking the now dead knife man's blood off the floor. The man was torn open, leaving his 'friends' gaping and screaming.
"I-impossible! We cut him apart, just like we were told!"
"He isn't a normal Demon! He's one of the Converted!"
"Run for it, RU-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"
Everyone was suddenly disemboweled, decapitated, and everything else violent that starts with a 'd' by the non-human. After pausing to drink the blood coming out of a severed head, he turned to the obviously disturbed girl.
"Get up."
Obediently, she stood up. She now knew he wasn't kidding about not being human.
"Don't worry. I didn't kill your so-called 'mother.' She's just in shock."
Lo and behold, her mother, covered in blood, was lying catatonic on the floor.
"This place isn't safe anymore. Come on, I'll take you to my place."
"You mean the tower?"
"What else were you expecting? A government laboratory?"
"Something like that. You know, a training facility sort of like that one in Hellsing."
He was now ignoring her again. Stepping over the bodies, he made his way to the door.
"He never listens." Shihio muttered to herself.
Okay. That's it for Chapter 5. I was remotely inspired for this because I had just read the manga for Hellsing, the whole scene with meeting Alucard and everything was interesting. Stop staring and do something else. Really. The chapter's over. Go home.
