Chapter 4- Mireille's Melodie.
Mireille wandered along the Paris streets with a shopping bag in hand, she figured since Madeline had come to stay with her and Kirika they would need some more food around. It was late and Mireille was getting sleepy but a tune floating out into the cool night air caught her attention. A violin playing a tune so familiar…Mireille's thoughts drifted to the moment when she'd thrown her father's pocket watch at Altena's manor. A violin nearby was now playing the same tune as that dreaded pocket watch. Mireille looked around to try and find a source. Café? No. Not from there…it can't be the same tune. One of the houses? Maybe. She looked up at one of the penthouses. From there. It has to be.
Mireille memorized the location and tore herself away from the haunting tune.
Later on when she was home Kirika noticed Mireille seemed uneasy, Madeline noticed as well and moved first "Mireille my dear cousin, is something ailing you?" she watched Mireille closely. Mireille didn't answer and then if she'd just heard the words looked up "Hm?" she blinked. "Mireiyu?" Kirika inquired. Madeline kept watching for something, some sort of sign in Mireille's face that would give her a clue as to what was happening.
Mireille looked down again. I have to confront this person who was playing it. But what am I supposed to say? 'Hi, You don't know me but my name is Mireille and I'm assassin and you were playing a tune from a pocket watch that my father used to have because he was part of a secret society that wanted me to be a soulless killing machine.'? Like that would go over real well. She got up "Kirika come with me on a walk. Madeline you stay here." Madeline narrowed her eyes for a moment and then spoke up "Oh no Mireille, I insist on coming I haven't gotten to see much of the Paris scenery yet." Mireille looked agitated "Fine, I have a grocery list over on the pool table why don't you walk to the nearest store and buy some things for me? After that we can go on a night walk together." Madeline narrowed her eyes again and begrudgingly took the list. Kirika got up and followed Mireille out the door.
They went down to the park to be alone. Mireille made sure there was no one around and then told Kirika about the previous night "Kirika I needed to talk to you about something. When you regressed back at the manor and I threw my father's pocket watch into the air and you snapped out of it I didn't retrieve the watch. I think someone has it now, near us. I was walking back from getting dinner last night and I heard someone playing that tune on a violin." Kirika silently listened to Mireille then spoke up "If someone does then how did they come across it? How did they come to have it in their possession?" Mireille shook her head "Honestly, I have no idea. I couldn't say anything around Madeline, she's too suspicious, you understand, right?" Kirika nodded "Mireiyu, we have to confront this person sooner or later. We should act tonight before something happens." Mireille quietly added, "I agree. We should take our guns with us." Kirika already had hers and she held it up.
Bali and Adelirose had pulled on their cloaks and gotten their weapons. Now they were on their way to kill head elder Bernai. His home was at the council of elders and both trees knew this building well. They snuck in past the door with the carved image of the ancient Noir and they quietly infiltrated his living quarters. It was dark so they would not be spotted easily. Bernai knew they were coming, He smiled to himself as the dark figures slipped into his room without a sound. Within a moment the two of them were on either side of his bed. Bali with her bow and arrow and Adelirose with her Sword, they chanted together "Noir, The name of destiny that has been ordained in the past. Two maidens who reign over death. The Dark Spirit, please guide the lost child. Lead the child back from the edge." Adelirose plunged her sword into his chest and Bali shot him with an arrow.
He did not die immediately he suffered and watched his two assailants
"You are my death and yet you are my life. You may have killed me but my blood is now on your hands and thus I live because you killed me. I will live in memory. You, the maidens whose robes are stained with blood become my life. I will live on because you killed me." Bali and Adelirose payed no attention to the dying man's words.
"France will never be free from Soldats as long as there is Noir." Bernai mumbled as he slipped away from life at the hands of Bali and Adelirose. Bali looked down disgracefully at the cadaver of the former head elder of Soldats "Le nom du destin." Adelirose was cleaning the blood off her sword but when she heard Bali speak those words she looked up and narrowed her eyes. Bali turned away and Adelirose did not take long to follow.
Madeline did not go to the grocery store as Mireille had told her to do she had followed Mireille and Kirika to the park she sat there silently as Kirika and Mireille discussed the melody of the pocket watch. She turned away right before Mireille decided to turn back to the apartment and get her gun. She went back to the apartment first and donned her cloak, took out her sword that she had hidden, and went to the home of the man who was playing the melody on his violin. "Aldowin." Madeline spoke as she entered the home of the man with ease. He turned around "Who's there? Are you a spirit?" Madeline drew her sword and sliced a lamp in two with it "This is a warning, get rid of that pocket watch or feel the wrath of Noir." His eyes widened "You are Noir?" Madeline did not answer, opened a window, and jumped out onto the street below. The night made it easy for her to escape.
Mireille grabbed her gun quickly from the apartment and ran back out to the hall where Kirika was waiting. They went together to the apartment of Aldowin who was still shaking from his encounter with the woman in black. Mireille tucked her gun in her handbag and rang his doorbell. The frightened man came to the door "Who is it?" he asked cautiously. Mireille made something up "My name is Lorianna. I live not too far from you…I heard you playing the most beautiful melody on your violin the other night so I decided to come over and ask about it. Is it alright if I come in?" Aldowin opened the door "Yes, yes, of course, come in." Mireille and Kirika walked in and sat down. Aldowin closed the door behind them "That's not really what you're here for, is it?" he asked. Mireille looked to Kirika then back to Aldowin "The tune you were playing comes from a pocket watch my father used to own. Before he died." She said slowly leaving out several things.
Aldowin nodded "I see. Would you two like some tea?" Mireille nodded "Thank you." Aldowin went to the kitchen and Kirika looked around the living room of his spacious penthouse. The walls were painted a burgundy red color and many paintings were hung up on the walls, there was a fireplace with a decent mantle above where he had many things placed. Kirika noticed the broken lamp and open window "Mireiyu, they've been here." Mireille looked over at the sliced lamp "Hmm so they have." Aldowin returned with two cups of tea. He sat down across from the couch where Mireille and Kirika were seated.
Aldowin sighed and thought about the woman in black. "Mister…what was your name? I didn't catch it." "Aldowin." "Ah, yes Mr. Aldowin could you please tell me how you came across my father's pocket watch?" Aldowin got up from his seat and walked over to the fireplace where he picked the watch up off of it. "A friend of mine who runs an antique shop was hiking in the ruins of a large manor house that has been abandoned and came across it lying on the ground, they picked it up and found that it still worked though it was in bad shape. She brought it back with her and had a clock worker fix it so that she may sell it. It caught my eye so I persuaded her into letting me buy it. I brought it back to my apartment and became so enchanted by the tune it played that I learned to play it on my violin." If only you knew what that damn pocket watch has put me through Aldowin…Mireille thought bitterly. He continued "But now I think this watch may have a curse on it." Mireille snapped out of it "A curse?" she echoed.
Aldowin nodded "Yes, many odd things have happened since I bought it. Including a spirit that will not let me be, It is of a petite woman in a cloak she mentions a force called Noir." Mireille's eyes widened and she whispered to herself "Madeline…"
Mireille wandered along the Paris streets with a shopping bag in hand, she figured since Madeline had come to stay with her and Kirika they would need some more food around. It was late and Mireille was getting sleepy but a tune floating out into the cool night air caught her attention. A violin playing a tune so familiar…Mireille's thoughts drifted to the moment when she'd thrown her father's pocket watch at Altena's manor. A violin nearby was now playing the same tune as that dreaded pocket watch. Mireille looked around to try and find a source. Café? No. Not from there…it can't be the same tune. One of the houses? Maybe. She looked up at one of the penthouses. From there. It has to be.
Mireille memorized the location and tore herself away from the haunting tune.
Later on when she was home Kirika noticed Mireille seemed uneasy, Madeline noticed as well and moved first "Mireille my dear cousin, is something ailing you?" she watched Mireille closely. Mireille didn't answer and then if she'd just heard the words looked up "Hm?" she blinked. "Mireiyu?" Kirika inquired. Madeline kept watching for something, some sort of sign in Mireille's face that would give her a clue as to what was happening.
Mireille looked down again. I have to confront this person who was playing it. But what am I supposed to say? 'Hi, You don't know me but my name is Mireille and I'm assassin and you were playing a tune from a pocket watch that my father used to have because he was part of a secret society that wanted me to be a soulless killing machine.'? Like that would go over real well. She got up "Kirika come with me on a walk. Madeline you stay here." Madeline narrowed her eyes for a moment and then spoke up "Oh no Mireille, I insist on coming I haven't gotten to see much of the Paris scenery yet." Mireille looked agitated "Fine, I have a grocery list over on the pool table why don't you walk to the nearest store and buy some things for me? After that we can go on a night walk together." Madeline narrowed her eyes again and begrudgingly took the list. Kirika got up and followed Mireille out the door.
They went down to the park to be alone. Mireille made sure there was no one around and then told Kirika about the previous night "Kirika I needed to talk to you about something. When you regressed back at the manor and I threw my father's pocket watch into the air and you snapped out of it I didn't retrieve the watch. I think someone has it now, near us. I was walking back from getting dinner last night and I heard someone playing that tune on a violin." Kirika silently listened to Mireille then spoke up "If someone does then how did they come across it? How did they come to have it in their possession?" Mireille shook her head "Honestly, I have no idea. I couldn't say anything around Madeline, she's too suspicious, you understand, right?" Kirika nodded "Mireiyu, we have to confront this person sooner or later. We should act tonight before something happens." Mireille quietly added, "I agree. We should take our guns with us." Kirika already had hers and she held it up.
Bali and Adelirose had pulled on their cloaks and gotten their weapons. Now they were on their way to kill head elder Bernai. His home was at the council of elders and both trees knew this building well. They snuck in past the door with the carved image of the ancient Noir and they quietly infiltrated his living quarters. It was dark so they would not be spotted easily. Bernai knew they were coming, He smiled to himself as the dark figures slipped into his room without a sound. Within a moment the two of them were on either side of his bed. Bali with her bow and arrow and Adelirose with her Sword, they chanted together "Noir, The name of destiny that has been ordained in the past. Two maidens who reign over death. The Dark Spirit, please guide the lost child. Lead the child back from the edge." Adelirose plunged her sword into his chest and Bali shot him with an arrow.
He did not die immediately he suffered and watched his two assailants
"You are my death and yet you are my life. You may have killed me but my blood is now on your hands and thus I live because you killed me. I will live in memory. You, the maidens whose robes are stained with blood become my life. I will live on because you killed me." Bali and Adelirose payed no attention to the dying man's words.
"France will never be free from Soldats as long as there is Noir." Bernai mumbled as he slipped away from life at the hands of Bali and Adelirose. Bali looked down disgracefully at the cadaver of the former head elder of Soldats "Le nom du destin." Adelirose was cleaning the blood off her sword but when she heard Bali speak those words she looked up and narrowed her eyes. Bali turned away and Adelirose did not take long to follow.
Madeline did not go to the grocery store as Mireille had told her to do she had followed Mireille and Kirika to the park she sat there silently as Kirika and Mireille discussed the melody of the pocket watch. She turned away right before Mireille decided to turn back to the apartment and get her gun. She went back to the apartment first and donned her cloak, took out her sword that she had hidden, and went to the home of the man who was playing the melody on his violin. "Aldowin." Madeline spoke as she entered the home of the man with ease. He turned around "Who's there? Are you a spirit?" Madeline drew her sword and sliced a lamp in two with it "This is a warning, get rid of that pocket watch or feel the wrath of Noir." His eyes widened "You are Noir?" Madeline did not answer, opened a window, and jumped out onto the street below. The night made it easy for her to escape.
Mireille grabbed her gun quickly from the apartment and ran back out to the hall where Kirika was waiting. They went together to the apartment of Aldowin who was still shaking from his encounter with the woman in black. Mireille tucked her gun in her handbag and rang his doorbell. The frightened man came to the door "Who is it?" he asked cautiously. Mireille made something up "My name is Lorianna. I live not too far from you…I heard you playing the most beautiful melody on your violin the other night so I decided to come over and ask about it. Is it alright if I come in?" Aldowin opened the door "Yes, yes, of course, come in." Mireille and Kirika walked in and sat down. Aldowin closed the door behind them "That's not really what you're here for, is it?" he asked. Mireille looked to Kirika then back to Aldowin "The tune you were playing comes from a pocket watch my father used to own. Before he died." She said slowly leaving out several things.
Aldowin nodded "I see. Would you two like some tea?" Mireille nodded "Thank you." Aldowin went to the kitchen and Kirika looked around the living room of his spacious penthouse. The walls were painted a burgundy red color and many paintings were hung up on the walls, there was a fireplace with a decent mantle above where he had many things placed. Kirika noticed the broken lamp and open window "Mireiyu, they've been here." Mireille looked over at the sliced lamp "Hmm so they have." Aldowin returned with two cups of tea. He sat down across from the couch where Mireille and Kirika were seated.
Aldowin sighed and thought about the woman in black. "Mister…what was your name? I didn't catch it." "Aldowin." "Ah, yes Mr. Aldowin could you please tell me how you came across my father's pocket watch?" Aldowin got up from his seat and walked over to the fireplace where he picked the watch up off of it. "A friend of mine who runs an antique shop was hiking in the ruins of a large manor house that has been abandoned and came across it lying on the ground, they picked it up and found that it still worked though it was in bad shape. She brought it back with her and had a clock worker fix it so that she may sell it. It caught my eye so I persuaded her into letting me buy it. I brought it back to my apartment and became so enchanted by the tune it played that I learned to play it on my violin." If only you knew what that damn pocket watch has put me through Aldowin…Mireille thought bitterly. He continued "But now I think this watch may have a curse on it." Mireille snapped out of it "A curse?" she echoed.
Aldowin nodded "Yes, many odd things have happened since I bought it. Including a spirit that will not let me be, It is of a petite woman in a cloak she mentions a force called Noir." Mireille's eyes widened and she whispered to herself "Madeline…"