The Years Before
Chapter 8 : Happy Birthday
Harry looked around the table at his birthday party. He was 8 years old today. He, Chris and Erutis had decided to have the party at Chris' house. With his adoptive father, Hejem. He was an old Priest, who was out at his temple, with Chris, more than anything else.
Erutis herself had grown a bit more kind hearted instead of the heartless person she was. Though, she and Chris bickered way too often.
And Eclipse, reduced to a cat, suffered it all, more or less in silence. The others still didn't know he was a demon. He and Chris were in second grade now. Erutis was still 15, she would be 16 soon. She had signed this contract that Eclipse had told Harry to make. Adding a drop of blood onto the paper from both of them, and Erutis was his servant till he saw fit to destroy the contract.
Hejem was the one to light the candles on the birthday cake. Not trusting any of the children to do it. As Hejem did the lighting of the candles, Chris started up the traditional song. Erutis joining in. "Happy birthday to you..."
In Harry's mind, a flash of memory passed through. A feeling of complete emotional pain as he cried in his little cupboard under the stairs as the Dursleys celebrated Dudley's birthday.
"Happy birthday to you.."
An image of Eclipse, violet eyes betraying his deep concern as he tried to comfort Harry and his crying. Teaching him a lesson about the other demon lords.
"Happy birthday dear Harryyyyy..." Erutis hit a high note at the end. And Eclipse, looking up at Harry from next to his chair at the low, round table said "happy birthday.."
And a grin stretched across Harry's face. He knew what he wanted, above all else. He took a deep breath, a blew all of the candles out. Erutis and Chris cheered and Hejem said "wonderful job, Harry." Harry nodded as he was handed the plastic knife, and Hejem helped him cut the cake into pieces.
Hejem passed out the cake pieces. He had gotten permission from the Dursleys to have Harry spend the night over at his house. Harry laughed lightly when Erutis and Chris had a fight over which present Harry got to open first. Till Hejem handed Harry his own. And Erutis and Chris stared daggers at the oldest man... human man in the house.
Harry opened the present with a large grin. And his eyes widened he saw it was a large sketch book that he could doodle in, crayons included. Harry cheered and said "thank you Hejem, sir!" Hejem smiled, patting Harry on the head, before moving out of the way when Chris plopped his present into Harry's lap, before moving back to his slice of white frosting cake.
Harry blinked as he set the coloring book and crayons off to the side. And he opened the poorly wrapped gift. Harry grinned when he opened the box inside the gift wrapping and found a small staff. Like the one Chris waved around like a giant stick. His was all white, with a little red emblem of Raised. Harry grinned and Eclipse glared daggers at the Cleric's feet. Poisoning his charge's mind.
Erutis handed over her present. "Saved the best for last!" She said with a grin. Harry just nodded, so she wouldn't hit him on the head again. Harry opened his present. And found a white shirt, like the greenish one Erutis wore. A high neck, no sleeves and it reached his knees. Harry grinned widely to them and said softly "thank you.. so much.."
"You're our friend, nothing bad will happen to ya when Raised is on our side!" Shouted Chris. "For I am the-!" He was cut off when Erutis slapped him on the side of his head. "Shut up you deprived midget!" Shouted Erutis.
"I'M NOT DEPRIVED!" Shouted.
"You are! You never eat your vegetables! You'll be short forever!" Erutis said right back.
"How would you KNOW? And I'm not short! Harry is!" Chris said, insulting Harry.
"I live here, DWEEB! And don't insult the birthday boy!" Said Erutis, defending Harry and insulting Chris.
Eclipse sighed. And Hejem looked out the window. It was night. Hejem looked back to them and took a deep breath, and shouted "ALL OF YOU! UP TO BED AND BRUSH YOUR TEETH!"
It caused.. a deep silence. Harry nodded, grabbing his things and hurrying up the stairs near the back of Chris' house. Eclipse, Erutis and Chris following after.
Harry set his stuff on the large bed he was occupying. It had white sheets and rose wood bed posts. And the room had a few chairs with dark green cushions. With a dark green carpet and white walls. A few pictures of oceans and forests on the walls.
Harry took his tooth brush and paste and walked to the connecting bathroom as Eclipse walked around the room. Harry quickly brushed his teeth and left the supplied there. Before running back to the room and changing out of his jeans and t-shirt into a white night dress with white shorts. He had a tan sash wrapped around his waist and a wide, open neck to the shirt.
Eclipse was curled up in one of the chairs and Harry crawled under the blankets, snuggling to the pillows and falling asleep.
Hejem came into the room a few minutes later, and left, when he was Harry was asleep. And went to check in on Chris to see if he was asleep yet.
And as Harry slept.. he dreamed.. :
Harry looked around himself. He was surrounded by forest and fog. The trees bare of anything. No leaves. Only the dark, twisted branches. Harry had on white pants and a long, white shirt that reached his knees, and split at the waist with a black sash around his waist and black gloves on his arms (his shirt is sleeveless.) And he had black, knee high boots.
Harry looked around, picking out a direction and walking that way. The trees eventually started to thin into nothing. And his eyes took in the almost tree-less surroundings.
There was a castle there. Large, huge. Harry had to lean back all the way to see the top. He frowned. Walking on to the castle. It was larger up close, and the large, black marble doors were wide open. Harry stepped inside. And walked down the halls. It felt like someone was pulling him on.. and on.. and on.
Until he walked into a large study, where someone was standing, his back to Harry. He had curly.. extremely curly, orange-gold/blond hair that reached his mid back, with bangs going into his narrow gray eyes. His skin had a nice tan, and his hands were long. He wore a dark orange trench coat with orange pants and shirt underneath it and black boots. And he had a long, cream colored cape/cloak that was fastened by a silver button.
The man also had two little yellow stays under his left eye. The man smiled widely.. mockingly at Harry, and said "ah.. so you are the new Demon Lord Raenef.." He trailed off as Harry said "what of it?"
The man walked foreword and circled Harry. Inspecting him. Harry blinked while the man groaned. "You even more pathetic than the last one! and he was a child!" He said, before walking over to his desk and flopping down behind it, into the dark red leather chair.
Harry walked over to the desk, standing on his tip toes to look over the desk. "Who are you..?" The man looked over to Harry, and his lips twitched. Before he burst out laughed.
The laughter ended just as it started.
"I am the great Demon Lord Krayon of Egae.." Said Krayon, folding his arms across his chest and smirking.
Harry said then "man.. you have to be.. what, four thousand years old by now? You're ancient!" Krayon sputtered, standing up with a flush across his face. Before he closed his eyes, calming himself before saying crossly "well, you're not one to talk about, midget."
"Curly-haired little fop of a demon." Replied Harry.
Krayon snarled and said "You're here to prove your worth, you little.. Augh!" He gave up, trying to find a word to describe the annoying little person in front of himself.
Harry smirked, but his face fell slightly, "prove myself...?"
Krayon nodded and said "that's right, that's right. I'm here to see if this Demon Lord Raenef is worthy of the Servant Eclipse. I still have my offer to him, though.." Krayon trailed off.
Harry face faulted and said "what! Eclipse is my best friend, he isn't a servant!"
Krayon looked down at Harry and said "it doesn't matter what you think, if you don't pass my tests. You'll never wake up
Yay-ness, another cliffy. Sort of.. >> Anyway, READ AND REVIEW! I love reviews, if you haven't noticed.I was really shocked. I only had 27 reviews on monday.. and by yesterday, I had 37.. I had this face : O.o ... And, I hope you like how I portrayed Krayon. Will all love the curly haired fop of a demon..