Ch5: A Long Kept Secret and an old Photo
A week later, I was still weak and tired from that fight, possibly caused by all the blood I had lost. In my room, I was reading a book on Europe that night after I recieved a blood transfusion when Shuuichi came home, looking worried.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"The Toguro Brothers want everyone who can fight enter the Dark Martial Arts Tournament, and that, for some reason, includes you and a friend of yours," he replied, still worried. My eyes were wide ( Sorta.) with terror and panic.
"I know who the Toguro Brothers are...because they killed my mom..." I whispered sadly, sitting on the edge of the bed. He sat next to me. Even though he was six years younger than me, he seemed smarter than his fifteen years of age,and not only that, he always gave comfort ( Not the kind you're thinking!) to anyone who needed it, even when they were older than he was.
"Serenity, can you tell me what happened?" he asked, his emerald green eyes staring into my green-brown eyes.
"I'll try, but it's really hard for me to talk about..."
Flashback ( You know, the kind that sorta fade into the past?)
I was hiding in my small bedroom closet, as my mother had told me to, and all I could hear were two men's voices and my mother's firm tone as she said,
"You will NOT take my daughter to Tarukane. Her tears form nothing but crystal flowers-"
"And those flowers have healing powers beyond even someone's wildest belief," said one man. To me, he sounded like that guy that played the Terminator in thosemovies. ( I can't spell his last name!cries softly)
"I refuse to give her up. She is only six years old-" Just then, I heard an ear-splitting, bloodcurdling scream, then there was silence. The bedroom door burst open, and two men came in, one very tall, one really short. The tall man opened the closet door and saw me. He even looked like the guy I mentioned earlier! I was frozen with fear, but the tall man said that he wouldn't take me to Tarukane, since I really was as young as my mother had said. The two men left, while I tried to find my mom. I found her, half-dead, on the living-room floor. When I asked who had hurt her, she only said that I should find a new family to live with. As she passed, she tried to say who had attacked her, but it was too late. She was gone. All I heard was "The." In the meantime, I was sent to live with my father, who was working overseas. Soon, I discovered that my half-uncle, a wolf demon named Jecht, ( you know, from Final Fantasy X) had disappeared back to Makai.
End of Flashback. ( Happy? Good.)
"I've been afraid of them ever since," I finished.
"What did your parents look like?" asked Shuuichi, standing up. I walked over to the bookcase and took a photo out of an old family album.
"Here's what they looked like," I said, handing him the photo. The photo had four people in it. A beautiful young woman with light red hair and blue-gray eyes, about nineteen years old, a man with dark hair and dark eyes who looked to be in his early twenties, a man withblack hair and dark colored clothes with a black wolf's ears and tail, and a little girl. Me. He looked up, his green eyes full of concern. I felt a single tear slowly fall down from my left eye, but I wiped it away.
"Serenity..." he said, shaking his head. "Was your father Jack Makio?"
"How'd you know?"
"You're stubborn like him. I met him on a field trip to a science museum when I was just a child."
To my first ever reviewer, HellBoundChild, for reviewing this fanfic. Thanx/throws confetti everywhere/ Sorry. I'ma little hyper.
