The Phantom of the Abbey
This is it, guys. This is THE chapter. The chapter that sparked off this whole story… man, I'm excited. I wonder how many of you will flame me for this… I guess it could be called an anticlimax lol.
Anyway, here it is…
The Phantom of the Abbey; Chapter VII: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
"Seriously? I'd like to know how come you know I know Indonesian, when I didn't know myself until about thirty minutes ago." Seth composed himself.
"I was in love with your mother."
"What?" Kai staggered backwards in horror. "My mother is dead!"
"Don't you think I already know that?" In his white half mask, the masochistic look had reappeared on Seth's face.
"Voltaire killed my mother!"
"No Kai. I did." Seth's eye was glimmering sadistically.
"Voltaire Hiwatari killed my mother!" Kai screamed and leapt at the older man. Seth retaliated masochistically, only lightly. Kai felt arms encircling him, pulling him up from the sea of bloodlust. The entire room was watching them now.
"Going to kill me?" The man was mad. Completely and utterly insane. His thin chest heaved and his eye sparkled.
"Bryoni…" Kai breathed.
"What?" The colour drained from Seth's face.
"That was her name…" Kai watched Seth's features, for the slightest flicker, of guilt, of remorse.
"Indeed. Bryoni Giry." Seth chuckled uneasily. Kai felt fire consuming him and he broke free of the hands that held him back. Only to be met with cold, burning pain.
"No! Call her back!" Kasi screamed. The pain was like nothing Kai had ever felt before. Like fire… but ice to the touch.
"He needs to be taught." Seth said harshly. "He needs to remember."
The bubbling laughter of a young girl.
Fire.
The hallowed singing of a youngster.
Ice.
The crackling of a woodfire.
Pain.
The cry of pain… The sound of burning… The acrid smell of burning flesh… Blinding pain… scream… Andscreamandscreamandscreamandscream…
"No!" Kai let out a sobbing breath. "NO!"
You were once my one companion…
"She was very pretty, wasn't she Kai?"
You were all that mattered…
"NO!" Kai fell to his knees. "Grandfather, tell me it's not true!"
You were once both friend and father…
"I am Seth Dimitri Hiwatari."
Then my world was shattered…
"Your father."
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"Daddy?" Kai gripped the bars of his cot.
"Shh… Kai, I'm here." His father turned towards him. But it wasn't his father's face. It was a monster, with one dead eye.
"You aren't my daddy!" Kai screamed. "You're a monster!"
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Kai now knew what was behind the mask.
Ok, how many people saw that coming? Did you like it? Please tell me!
Is it the most intense chapter, or was it a complete anticlimax? Tell me if you guessed! I really want to know!