Alright Everybody! Here's me first chappy!! I hope ye like it as much as I do! This one kinda depressin, so I'm just warnin ya. PLEASE REV and READ!!
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Chapter 1
Iris lifted herself from her bed in the early morning as the light raise of the sun touched her pale face. She smoothed her short black hair and tucked strays behind her ears, as she got ready for her morning routine. Slowly slipping from her covers as to not awake her creator, or her Mother she liked to call her, as she crept to her bedroom door and gradually opened the door without making a sound and shut it with the same ease. Even though her mother slept down stairs, directly under Iris's room, the old woman that was 85 years old but looked no older than 65, was a light sleeper and always seemed to awake to the smallest sound. As Iris crept down the cold stone steps to the first floor with her bare feet, she listened carefully to any sounds that may appear. Her feet finally felt the soft carpet flooring of the first floor as she kept her gracefully silent pace. No sound reached her ears as she crept to her mother's room not far from the staircase. She soundlessly opened the door to the bedroom and crept to the old woman's side of the bed. She could hear the slow rhythmic breathing of her so it wasn't hard to find her position. Iris knelt down by the bed, very close to her mother face where Iris had analyzed where she was on the bed and grinned a mischievous grin as she slowly moved forward for the attack. Iris started to breath heavily purposely as she became inches from the old woman's face.
With the achieved distance, she practically screamed "MOTHER!!" Her mother's eyes seemed to bulge from their sockets as her eyelids flew open and let out a bloodcurdling scream. She bolted up right, almost falling off the bed in the process and her body shook with fear. Until she noticed her daughter laughing hysterically on the floor, holding her sides as if they hurt, as she laughed with know sign of stopping. Even though Iris didn't actually see the look on her mother's face, the scream alone and the fast movement of the bed indicated her triumph. For you see, Iris was not yet complete. Her eyes were yet to be placed within their sockets so all that they contained was pure darkness and emptiness.
Iris heard the slow of her mother's breathing, 'I'm in for it now.'
"Iris!" Irena, her mother, gasped angrily, with a hint of amusement.
"Sorry! I couldn't help my self!" Iris laughed, giving her mother a loving hug.
"Every morning," Irena mumbled flatly as she got up from her once warm bed.
"What are we doing today mum? Goin to town?" Iris asked, a question that always seemed to follow the 'routine attack'.
"Well, I did have a gift for you. Buuut! Since it would seem that the scare you gave me made me loose my memory, as old I am, I guess yer gonna have to wait!" her mother exclaimed sarcastically, while holding in the laugh that her daughter's face of shock made.
"WHAT? PLEASE! PLEASE! TELL ME!!" Iris pleaded, pulling herself from the ground and moving toward her.
"I don't know…" she taunted her daughter with pleasure from what Iris had just pulled on her not but five minutes ago. "PLEASE MOOOOOM!" she pleaded again, but this time with her pouting bottom lip quivering in false whimpers.
Irena couldn't help but give in at this action, 'Damn. Fine, fine I'll tell her I guess.' "Alright! Go on down stairs while I get dressed. I'll meet you in the lab. Ok?" she smiled lovingly and shook her head in mock sadness.
"YAY! I'll be waitin!" Iris jumped up and down excitedly and gave her a quick hug before leaving the room for her mother's privacy. 'I wonder what it is…' Iris thought excitedly, and then she mentally slapped her self as realization surfaced. 'OMG! It's my eyes!' she concluded as she entered the laboratory. The room was huge, making it the main room in the castle. It was the first room you enter when you first walk through the front door (this castle is the exact replica of Edward's castle, so that should give you an idea), giving the castle a Mad Scientist feel to it. Even with all the spider webs and piles upon piles of dust that seemed to cover everything with the exception of the 'always clean' equipment of the lab, it always felt like home.
"Here I come!" Irena announced happily as she came down the cold, stone steps in her warm, pink, fluffy house shoes. Iris couldn't help but giggle, partly for her anticipation and partly for her mother's ridiculously funny walk as she sauntered like a drunk toward her daughter with her hands behind her back. "I know it's not yet yer birthday, Iris, but I couldn't wait that long to see the look on yer beautiful face!" Irena laughed hardily as she moved her hands so that they were now in front of her. With one free hand, Irena took Iris's hands gently in hers and placed a round sphere in her pale cold hands. Iris face brightened with an always-present smile as she rolled and felt the object in her hands.
"They are ocean blue, just like mine but a deeper blue. Like the color of the night sky," her mother whispered warmly in her ear. Iris was about to say something, but couldn't find the words to describe how she felt. So instead rapped her arms around her in a tight squeeze. Iris started to cry of joy in her mother's nightgown, her body shaking of happiness. Irena returned the hug and ran her fingers through her daughter's short hair.
"I love you," Iris finally said between slight sobs.
"And I you, my beautiful daughter," Irena cooed, pulling gently out of the hug to see her face. But as she did so, a sharp pain shot through her, which started at her legs and made its way up through her body. Irena groaned with pain and almost collapsed to the floor if it wasn't for the strong arms around her waist.
"Mom? What's wrong mom?" Iris's excitement melting away and taking its place was deep concern. Her mother again groaned in pain, but louder, and started to shake uncontrollably. As her trembling became more violent, she became weak with pain and dropped the eyes, shattering as they hit the stone floor.
"MOM! WHAT'S WRONG?! I CAN'T SEE YOU! PLEASE TELL ME!" Iris screamed in anguish as she placed her mother's limp body on the floor in a sitting position against her chest.
"I…" Irena croaked before her lifeless body collapsed in the unfinished girl's arms.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!! MOM PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!!" Iris pleaded in vane. She rocked her mother in her arms, crying against her mother's now-lifeless body and repeated softly "Don't leave me alone…please don't leave me alone" with nonexistent tears rolling down her cheeks.
