The Sorrows from Within
Authors Note
Thankz everyone who helped me reach my previous goal of 100 reviews!!!!!
Im letting everyone know that my new goal is 150 reviews.... and im at a immense 120 reviews... well please R&R and let me know what you think and I love the idea's/suggestion good or bad so keep it coming. I hope ya'll like my story, I've been working on it for a while and I Hope I can finish it and let ya'll know what happens.
OH and also Im going to be taking ideas from my other story since im dis-continuing it.. apologies to those who like The Anger of Untouched Water... but it was just not going anywhere. UNLESS.. and this is a big unless.. some one can give me some ideas to continue it....
And this chapter is a little longer than the others.. well I hope ya'll enjoy.
Review from last chapter
Millerna was lying awake in her bed, eyes dry and burning, and exhaustion pulled her body into the warm covers of her massive bed.
' I wonder what happened. I just can't seem to piece together what was going on,' her thoughts roamed free. ' and there's no explanation on what has taken place here tonight.'
As she felt that sleep could not come over her she got up and left her room. Her feet seemed to lead the way, and felt that there was something she had to find before her soul would let her rest. Chills ran up her spine as her feet touched the cold marble floors. When she finally stopped her eyes were facing the large red oak doors of the great Library. " What could be here?" And at that second there was a loud smash, she turned around and that's when she seen a large shadow.
"Who's there?" But before she got an answer she was hit in the back of the head and carried away....
New Chapter
Chapter 29: Darkness consumes the light
Yuri and Van stood in the darkness until their thoughts settled and their hearts cleared..
"So, M'lord, where did we leave off?" Yuri asked, trying to remember what she had shown him last.
" The last I recall was that Hope was uttering those quotes that seem to be so close to me." Van Still wondered what they had meant, and why they were so familiar to him.
"Oh yes, well then , I guess that's where we shall begin our journey." She raised her her hand slowly into the air, her fingers curled and eyes shut, and they started to drop.
Emergency
Guards around the castle raced through the corridors of the kingdom, hoping that everything was in place, and they were just over reacting. Every thought that went through the minds of those guards were that they didn't fail to protect that blonde princess and that her absence was just a joke.
" You, you, and you, search the west wing. You three search the east, John, Alex and myself will take the north and the rest of you search the south wing" The captain pointed and yelled while he panicked inside himself.
The captain of the guard bolted around corners until he got to the Blonde's quarters, and what he saw drained his face of all the color. There hung a letter by the edge of a black blade, written in a crimson ink that sent chills down the guard's spine.
Dear King,
I have something that you hold dear,
yet you have something of mine.
How about a trade?
Meet at the dragons nest in the next
rotation, come alone or the princess will not be able
to take another breath easily.
Death to come...
Van
Van opened his eyes and he stood again in the large home of the broken family, the one with so much sorrow that the walls would cry if they could shed tears.
" So what made Hope think of all these quotes?" Van sent his attention to the long silver haired woman.
" Many things could have contributed to the creation of these peculiar sayings, but I think it came to her in a dream," Her icy blue eyes seemed to bore into his body while she talked, giving him his answer in a frigid tone to match her eyes at that moment.
Silence over came the scene and Van felt that it served a purpose at the time, and he wouldn't question her judgment.
" Van you may look around, we wont see Hope for a little while " Yuri said while disappearing to make with her own search.
Van made his way up the stairs to look at Hope's room, to see what part of her reflected off her surroundings. When he got to the top of the staircase there were a series of doors along the dark hallway. The young king let his mind guide him, for he didn't want to go through all the rooms, just in case there was no time. His brown eyes closed and he pictured the hallway, and with concentration he focused on which one was Hope's. One by one doors evaporated out of the picture, and left one door at the end of what seemed like a tunnel. Sound drained from the world around him and all he could hear was the slow, steady clicking of his boots against the hardwood floor. Van reached his hand up and rested his fingers on the cold steel doorknob,and just stood there, waiting for the urge to walk through the small wooden door.
His fingers encircled the round knob and let the stale air out of the young girls room. The curious eyes scanned the room and seen what he wasn't expecting. Usually when some one loses something so close to them as Hope did they would cut themselves off from the thoughts and pain of those things. However this was not the case. Pictures, dozens of them, everywhere, on the walls and on shelves all in fancy frames. Smiles shone from each picture of the whole family, they each held their own happiness and naïve to the evil of the world. But as the family photos diminished the happiness faded, until it was only Hope left in the small colored frame that trapped her in time. Each image of her, each curve held a bit of sadness, and a shadow of mystery. She looked so sad, so heartbroken, letting the sadness break through the stone mask that she seemed to have created. His fingers glazed over her dresser, finding one picture in particular. It was hope standing with the same goddess he loved so much. Tears cascaded down his light features, as feelings flooded back.
His eyes traced over the rest of the room, but felt a slight confined grasp on the room so he slowly made his way out the door. Van's thoughts couldn't stay straight as his desire to see his beloved again soared far above the safety of his world. The trails of salt water glistened off his face as he used the wall to balance himself, not even bothering to close the door. As he walked he was hit with mental images of his previous ventures, and his last life.
Yuri walked into the large kitchen, slowly viewing the way it looked, the way it smelt, the way she remembered it. Her mind went blank as she tried to shed a tear, her body wouldn't let her, not yet. Her form glided over the black tiled floor towards the small island in the center of the kitchen. Gentle fingers grazed the cold marble top stopping her nail in a small groove at the edge. A small smile came over her sad stricken face, remembering a moment of the past. Reflections ran past her eyes as easy as the sun rose in the west, and she willed it freely.
The vision was before Hope's brother Shenjii was killed, by the tall man in the black car. Hope and Shenjii were horsing around the kitchen while eating breakfast one morning, happiness was so thick that it would stop you in your tracks. In the image Yuri had made her way towards the kitchen to check on the two she had left. Shenjii was dangling Hope's favorite necklace above her head, taunting her, getting a rise where a big brother would. As Hope swung for her necklace with pitiful attempts, her arms in the air, her footing slipped and started to fall. Her brother tried to catch her as she fell but was unsuccessful, and at last Hope struck an object. The back of her head had it the edge of the marble table taking a piece of it with her, leaving the small groove. Hope sat there, tears rising to her eyes with a puffy redness showing.
" Hope, I am so sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you" Shenjii looked so hurt that he had done this, knowing he had made his sister fall.
" It wasn't your fault, I slipped, but you did take dad's necklace." Hope held her head with her small fingers, letting her tears dry up.
" here, I wasn't meaning anything by taking it, i just wanted to have some fun with you." He unclasped the clip and slipped it around her neck, and just as he did it up she wrapped her arms around him.
" thanks Shenjii," She buried her head into his shoulder, and that is the view Yuri loved most.
Her concentration was interrupted by the approaching footsteps, and the receding sobs of heart ache. As the light taps of leather boots came near the black haired boy came around the corner.
"M'lord, done looking have you?" She asked, seeing the sign of gloom on his face.
" Yes, and may I ask another question?" His brown eyes rose to meet her blue ones, trying to see into her soul.
" Yes you may," She turned her head, not wanting to let Van see the emptiness that had over come her essence.
" How did Hope come into contact with Hitomi?" Van's eyes went watery just mentioning her name, hearing it on the air.
" That is a question that the answer will only come in time, when your ready." Yuri knew that meeting Hitomi played a big role in Hope's life, and they should focus on the part of the past they were at, then to move on.
" But I am ready, I've been ready to know what had happened to her since she left me," Van was desperate, and his heart was crying for answers.
" M'lord, I hate to disappoint you, but your not. From what I've seen this new information could alter the way the outcome of your world will commence," As the words passed her lips Van's eyes fell to the floor.
Again silence..........
Suddenly the lock on the door started to turn, with the small clicking sound echoing through the empty house. Yuri and Van turned towards the large front door and watched as the sad stricken Hope walked through the door. Her face showed no emotion until her door closed fully, and that's when she let her stone mask fall. She through her large back pack down onto the floor and let her shoes fly off her small feet. Hope was glad that Alex's mom wasn't there, she didn't need the sympathy she shoveled out.
Alex was Hope's best friend, and since Hope lost her mom Alex and her family has been taking care of her. Hope enjoyed having Alex around some times, it help chase away the darkness, but sometimes she just needed to be alone. Her hands quickly locked the door behind her as she didn't want any uninvited guests to come barging into her house, although if the men that had ruined her life came through that door to take her too, she would allow it willingly.
Millerna's trouble
It was still late into the night as the blonde royal was being carried into the disturbed darkness, and unconsciousness still hung low above her body.
" I can't believe we took this one, we should have taken some one more worthy," The large unknown person said in a husky voice while carrying Millerna over his shoulder.
" Nonsense, she is plenty worthy, she is a princess, and a close friend of the kings," Another voice entered the conversation, but his voice wasn't hardly as course as the man before him.
" Well we better get what we want, or master shall have our heads," And that was where Millerna has gains a slight amount of consciousness.
" We will, we will, just wait and see. What use is that weak girl does the king have when he doesn't know the secret behind her." That's when the two men revealed what their plan was.
' Oh no, Hope, they must mean Hope. I'm going to be the end of that young girl.' Millerna let her thoughts run as she drifted into a unsettled sleep.
BIG NOTICE
I'm having the biggest problem coming up with ideas to lead up to the end... cuz I have the end planned out but I need some extras... so if any of you have some suggestions please... PLEASE let me know.. and I can tie them into the story.....
To BE Continued...
And don't forget Im going to be making a entrance of a new character soon... so keep reading..... And here's a teaser... the character isn't human......
Authors Note
Thanz for reading another chapter of my Esca. Fic. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, it was a little more interesting, and I hope that I can write more in the future. Please R&R and help me reach my new goal of 150 reviews. You guys were such a big help of reaching my previous goal and I appreciate it very much.... Thank you all for reading....
Later days