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Chapter Three: Sister's past
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Blood Manor (Home of Heero, Duo, and Trowa)
Silver chandeliers with glowing lights grazed the white marble ceiling of the old manor. Shining walls made of glass lined the hallways and rooms. Bright wood floors creaked as they walked down the halls. Paintings of beautiful people filled the hallways, their cunning eyes seemed to follow the group as they traveled. The illusion of beauty was so strong that even Trowa could forget the hidden darkness of the manor. Even the fact that the people in the pictures that dated back to centuries before he was born weren't exactly dead. Glancing at one of the paintings he hissed when the figure reached out and tried to grab the priestess's hair.
Looking back Trowa noticed that the girls were almost totally obvious to the tainted feeling the manor released into the air. A glance at the priestess told him that she wasn't totally at ease with the place. Her noticing that anything was wrong was a compliment to whoever had taught her the arts of a priestess. Since, quite frankly, he could remember paladins being brought through the entire house without suspecting a thing. It was foolish of them of course, since the house is eternally damned. Even he and his brothers of the night didn't sleep easy here. Speaking of that…
Trowa quickly caught up to where the others were waiting. He raised an eyebrow at Heero when he noticed that green door in front of them was his bedroom door. Heero just gave a nod towards the door. Trowa rolled his eyes as he muttered something and the door came swinging open. Inside his room had a forest green carpet, a dark chestnut bed and dresser, and two dark green couches. Heero walked in first with the rest following him and Trowa bringing up the rear. Shutting the door behind him Trowa sat on the bed next to Aki, while Duo and Rei shared a couch, and Heero sat by himself on the other one.
"Thanks for helping us." Heero stated.
Trowa watched as the older girl bowed her head, while Aki smiled.
"You two can stay here, in the manor, for awhile for you head off again. If you follow me I'll lead you to a room that you two can share."
Both of the girls nodded to Duo and himself as they followed Heero out the door. Sighing Trowa laid down on his back and began to study the cracked ceiling. Slowly as the girls traveled further away from his room the illusion that covered this part of the manor began to fade. Both he and Duo watched as the walls made of glass faded to a dull stone with dried blood encrusted on its many stones. The fuzzy carpet receded into the walls as black dirt and bones took its place. Quickly Trowa hopped off of the bed as the maggots and tattered sheets became visible. A shattered mirror by the barred windows glowed as a set of angry red eyes flashed before they disappeared.
"Maybe we should have gone with them, eh?" Duo stated.
Trowa shrugged as he deliberately began to step on the worms and maggots.
"Do you think Heero will leave them alone?"
Trowa stopped his bloody march as he sweep his gaze around the room before he turned to look at Duo.
"I don't think so. The master of the manor seems a bit upset tonight." Trowa muttered.
"Why?"
"Duo, he's evil incarnated. Does he really need a reason to be pissed off?"
Duo laughed as he walked over to stand by the stained window.
"Is it me or is it cold in here?"
Once again Trowa stopped terrorizing the pest as he slowly looked into the slightly fearful face of Duo. Before either of them could make a sound a loud roaring wind rushed through the hallway outside. Turning Trowa faced the door as a mass of what looked like an enormous red cloud burst threw the door.
"Aw, shit." Duo mumbled
Trowa didn't have a chance to respond as the swirling red cloud dragged him and the still cursing Duo down through the dirt floor of his bedroom.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRei looked around the gold and sliver room that she and her sister would be staying in for the next few days. A bright crystal chandelier hung in the middle of the floor. A gold carpet with red designs running through it looked like it had just been made. Two beds with sliver headboards and red and black sheets lined either side of the sliver door. A pretty marble fireplace stood next to a gold bookcase that had weird objects on it. Long and heavy looking red and black drapes covered the windows completely and two small sliver and gold doors suggested closets. All in all she guessed that it was a nice room though the evil that was constantly being emanated form the house told her otherwise.
"You can use anything you want, though I don't recommend becoming attached to anything in the room. Bathroom is across the hall. I suggest that when you need to use the bathroom that you take your sister with you. Other than using the bathroom you should stay in the room, unpleasant things sometimes lurk about. Dinner has already passed so you'll have to wait until morning for food. Questions?"
Rei shook her head. She watched as Heero nodded and walked out the door. Usually she would have a problem with someone who didn't look that much older than her telling her want to do, yet the tone in his voice told her that she definitely wanted to follow the rules. Shuddering she walked over and looked out one of the heavily covered windows. After all following any rules was better than being outside with the dead roaming around. Hurriedly she backed away from the window when one of the creatures turned its sagging head towards her.
"Hey Rei?"
Rei turned and walked over to her sister who was currently unstrapping the various belts that she wore. Sitting next to her sister she began to do the same.
"Yeah?"
"Tell me of your past. I want to know what you were like before I met you."
Rei nodded as she curiously watched as her sister snuggled under the covers and looked at her like a child would look at a parent while they were waiting for their bedtime story. Standing up Rei walked across the room and slipped into her bed. She smiled as she recalled the various times in her life when she had felt this peaceful, sadly there wasn't many.
"The first thing that comes to my mind is our mother. My grandfather was always saying that I looked just like her. I suppose that the resemblance between her and me is the reason why my father and I never got along. My grandfather had told me that after I was born Mother had started to act weird. Instead of praying day and night at the temple she had spent long periods of time away. My father hadn't paid it any mind since he was a paladin, which meant that he was also gone most of the time. However my grandfather, who had always been there for me, had noticed the change in Mother. The change made him concerned especially when he saw Mother take daily trips to the less holy parts of town. I can remember that after three months of her weird behavior I didn't see her at all. My grandfather says that it's a wonder that I still remember all of this, than again holy children usually are gifted in mysterious ways. Anyway, after ten months Mother came back home though she wasn't acting like herself at all. After year things around our temple began to return to normal, Father was home and Mother was smiling again. And that's when the fighting started. Father wanted me to begin my training as a paladin and Mother, of course, wanted me to be a priestess. You would think that two people who had dedicated their lives to the Temple would be more peaceful…or at least non- violent. I'll never forget the day that grandfather and I came home form the morning Temple services to see my mother stretched out across the floor with my father's holy sword sticking out of her stomach. Thankfully she lived, though the surgery took her legs from her. I was angry with my father after that, so angry. He didn't even have to atone for what he did since paladins look after their own. Why would I want to be like him? I decided myself that I would train to become a priestess and since I was five Father couldn't do anything to stop me, though he did disown me."
Rei stopped her story to listen to the soft rain that had begun to beat against the windows. The heavens were crying…
"Three years later I woke up to find fire swirling around my home. Mother's grave turned out to be next to a dying cherry tree, while grandfather met his end by my father's sword. I don't remember why Father killed my grandfather though I do remember that after I saw my grandfather's body crumple at my father's feet…I lost it. I remember screaming as holy rage, or what I hope was holy rage, swept through my body. A bright gold hue surrounded me a second before the gold light shot from my body to my father's. I passed out afterwards though I don't think that I killed my father since when I woke up his sword was beside me. The Shinsei Chi, the Holy Blood, is my father's sword. I still have it…" Rei allowed her words to trail off when she heard the soft snoring of her sister.
"Good night."
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIt's short, but I'm sick and I have to take my braids out, which is no walk in the park.