Rating- PG-13

Genre- Romance/general

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"Village secrets"

Midnight Raven 666

Chapter 4

"Heed the warning bell"

Lucius continued to watch the woods very closely with a paranoid Ivy sitting next to him, wondering what was going on. Suddenly he spotted the red shadow once more, but this time got a good look at it, it was now exiting the woods and entering the village, the morning light reveling it to be a creature. Others had now spotted it and began to scream and run into their houses locking the doors behind them as the bell was sounded.

Lucius quickly took hold of her hand. "Come, we must get inside." He said as he took her hand and led her inside locking the door behind them.

"...Why are the elders doing this?! It is light outside. The creatures only appear at night..." Ivy questioned slightly shaken, sensing something was terribly wrong.

"I don't know. But at least we know we have nothing to fear..." He reassured her.

There came a pounding at their door and a faint whimpering, sounding like a child.

"Someone must be stuck outside. Why don't you let them in?" Ivy suggested as Lucius nodded and opened it. He jumped back as he saw what was outside the door and tried in vain to close it, but ended up being pushed away, Letting the creature enter.

Lucius, forgetting that there was no way it could be real, immediately stood in front of Ivy protectively, while shouting "Stay back!"

The creature sniffled, making painful sounds of sobbing as it asked in a familiar voice. "Ivy...?"

Lucius stared at it in bewilderment.

"W...what?!" Ivy jumped back startled, she recognized that voice.

The creature took a few steps forward. "Ivy, I sorry! I sorry, I do bad to Lucius!" it sobbed.

"Noah...?" Ivy asked shocked.

"...You forgive me? Please, you forgive me?" It pleaded as it removed it's hood-like mask.

Lucius stood there speechless as he looked upon Noah who appeared to be not in the best of health.

"It is you, isn't it? I thought you to be dead..." Ivy replied still in shock.

"I not dead, I wake up and had a bad headache, and then I eat berries and try to find way out of the woods. I got lost for many days...I lose count." Noah explained as he moved closer. "I miss you! Please, you forgive me?" He whined pathetically.

'I only knocked him out...' Ivy thought stunned. 'I did not kill him...' She extended her hand blindly and before she knew it Noah was almost in front of her.

Lucius stepped aside and watched them, very alert just in case. He didn't trust Noah, as he once did.

Noah took Ivy's extended hand in his false claws and smiled childishly at her then turned to Lucius. "Lucius forgives me?"

"...Yes Noah." Lucius nodded solemnly.

Ivy smiled and said "Why don't you take off that silly thing..."

"...Uh huh..." Noah nodded as he slipped out of it and threw it aside on the floor, reveling blood mixed with some other fluid soaking the front of his shirt.

"...What happened to you...?" Lucius questioned as he looked upon what now appeared to be bloody vomit.

"The berries I ate before I got back home, made me feel sick..." Noah explained.

Ivy could smell the stench of blood and vomit heavily in the air she turned to Lucius her sightless eyes piercing him, worriedly.

"...Noah, What color were they?" Lucius asked seriously.

"...The bad color. I could not find no other berries." Noah said as he gave a slight cough.

"...they are poison..." Ivy whispered to herself, fear in her blue eyes.

"Was this the first time you ate them...?" Lucius questioned.

"...mm hmm." Noah answered. "I still feel sick. You help me?" There was a strange almost crazy look in his eyes; Lucius feared he would do something irrational. Lucius moved closer to Ivy, he held her hand tightly in his as she moved a bit nearer to him as well.

Noah looked at them both as his eyes began to tear up again. "Ivy loves Lucius more then me!" He sobbed as he pulled out a knife, the same knife he had used to stab Lucius."

Lucius' eyes widened, he had no time to react. Noah had quickly slashed Ivy's side. She whimpered in pain as she fell to her knees and held her heavily bleeding side. Lucius quickly knelt down next to her. "Oh God! Ivy are you alright?! Stay with me! You'll be alright!" He said frantically as he took his coat off and pressed it against her wound, trying to stop the bleeding.

Noah looked down at his blood covered knife, now realizing what he had done. He looked up misty eyed and chocked out. "Ivy...." as he sobbed uncontrollably.

Edward had been talking with the other elders, trying to find out why a creature had been sighted at this time of day. He entered the Hunt's house through the half opened door, where the creature had been sighted entering. "...Noah!?" he asked in surprise, then he spotted his daughter who was kneeling in a small puddle of her own blood.

Noah turned to the elder and looked at him weakly with the bloody knife in hand as he then collapsed on the floor and lay there lifelessly.

"...Ivy, I sorr..." He choked out as he then passed quite abruptly.

Edward ran toward Lucius and Ivy. "What happened!?" Some of the other elders now appeared at the door.

"He stabbed her....He... He stabbed her...." Lucius broke into tears as he held the now limp Ivy closer.

Alice, Robert and Vivian gasped as they laid eyes on the two seemingly lifeless people.

"Ivy wake up... Please wake up..." Lucius sobbed as Edward quickly examined her.

Edward stayed silent for a moment as he checked for her pulse.

"Tell me?! Tell me Ivy is not dead... Please!" Lucius cried out hysterically as Edward stopped taking her pulse and looked at him.

I like to leave people hanging. But I think I am really beginning to suck at writing this story... Perhaps I will just quit writing it, although if I still keep getting these positive reviews I will finish it. So please tell me if you think I am still doing a good job at this.

Midnight Raven 666