Born Again

"It's so dark, so lonely. Why…? Why did he have to go? I-I can't take it any more" The young boy's thoughts echoed throughout his mind over and over again. He began to weep, crying onto the arm of the chair, blonde hair splayed over his shoulders. He looked up to see his tutor standing on the other side of the room.

"E-Eclipse, is that you? Eclipse…!"He yelled, running about half way there only to discover he was never really there. His blue eyes began to fill with tears again when he heard laughter coming from behind him. He spun around but no one was there. Only a memory….

"And you call yourself a demon lord?"

"You're bawling like a baby. It's almost cute. Cmere and give your big sis Eru a hug and tell me what's wrong, huh?" That sing-song voice belonged to a sword master named Erutis.

He broke down right there in the middle of the floor.

"Why won't you leave me alone! Go away !" He sobbed into the ground. "You're dead! Go away!"

The last thing she remembered was opening the brown package and then smoke. She looked around at her surroundings and discovered she was in a small hut like thing and in corner number one sat the man in black and silver who had given her the package. She noticed she was lying on a very firm bed with her arms tied ever so nicely in front of her.

" Could they have made it any easier for me?" She thought to herself as she swung her feet over the side of the bed . She gently tip- toed over to her sleeping captor and drew his sword. She placed the hilt between her knees and cut the ropes which bound her.

She slipped out of the hut undetected and thought to her self " This was too easy."

No sooner had she thought that when someone came up behind her and pulled her backwards. She landed on her butt with a thud. She quickly got up and turned around to find a pair of piercing honey brown eyes staring into her own deep violet eyes. She couldn't move. Those eyes were keeping her locked in place. She finally willed her self to move and stated running as fast as she could kicking off her heels as she did so.

After what seemed liked a half an hour or so of running she sat down under a tree for shelter and to collect her thoughts.

"O.K. so I've been kidnapped by a bunch of freaks who probably want some sort of ransom or something." She heard the faint sound of hooves and began to panic. She felt so open. She quickly looked around for a place to go and noticed a castle not to far off.

"If I can stay hidden long enough," she thought, "I could probably reach that castle in less than a day." So she quickly hid herself in some bushes and watched as a black and white spotted horse raced passed her. When she was sure that the horse and its rider were long gone she stated northwards.

After about 8 hours of traveling she finally made it to the castle. Her cloths by then were ripped and torn and she had cuts and bruises on her cuts and bruises. She reached the big double doors and collapsed on it.

"Lord Reanef are you up yet?" Shouted a very angry Eclipse nearly blowing his top.

Reanef awoke with a start when he heard his tutor's voice. For the past 8 hours he has heard nothing but Eclipse's voice. His eyes filled with tears again as he remembered every detail of his life with Eclipse. Right down to the last moment together when Eclipse lay dying in front of him. There was blood everywhere and Reanef was powerless at the sight of a wounded Eclipse.

"No," thought Reanef, "I wasn't helpless. I was just too scared to do anything and now it's my fault that Eclipse is dead." The tears began to fall as he remember Eclipse trying to tell him something before the castle was attacked.

She came to sometime later in the evening. She guessed it was somewhere around midnight. She looked for about the 50th time at the wide double doors wondering who could possibly live there.

"Well," she thought out loud, "only one way to find out." and knocked on the door.

When no one came to answer the door she guessed it was safe to walk inside. She struggled to open the door and only managed to open it enough so that she could slip in.

She wondered around the castle and ended up in what she figured was the throne room. She looked around and noticed portraits of people that looked like they owned this castle in the past because they all had the same brilliant blue eyes. Her eyes wondered over to the throne where a young boy sat sleeping. She walked over to the boys sleeping form not making a single noise and on impulse reached out her hand to brush away a few bits of hair that got in his eyes. She had just barely touched his face when his eyes flew open and was faced with a very frightened looking young boy.

"E-Eclipse…" he sputtered out touching the spot on his face she had touched. "Is-is that really you?" All the color seemed to leave his face when he noticed the dried blood on her dress.

"Eclipse?" she asked voice slightly shaky. Surly he couldn't mean the Eclipse. The one rumored for his ferocity in battle or stoic demeanor that could send chills down the spines of the gods themselves. "I'm not Eclipse." She said with little confidence. "My name is Draven."