Hey guys! Sorry for not uploading for a while I've been really busy with school work and stuff. But, since school is canceled tomorrow (yay! :3) I'll have a free day for me to write, and sleep, and probably be lazy...who knows...
Anyways, here is Ch. 6 I hope you guys enjoy! :)
Chapter 6 – All I Ask of You
Blood…
The oozing pain of death falling to the floor.
Screams of terror filling the surface.
Blue eyes screaming of pain and sorrow as tears fell from its owner's face.
"No…no more…"
Whack.
"Please…stop…"
Whack. Scream.
"You'll learn to listen either through pain or death."
Whack. Scream.
Ezra ran through the corridors of the Opera House. Fear was lingering in his mind as he ran towards the roof; not caring if he ran over someone or not. The image of seeing Agent Kallus hanging from the balcony of the stage continued to stay in his mind. He knew it wasn't an accident as Derik had called out to inform the people in the audience. Sure Kallus was a drunken, perverted man sometimes but he wasn't stupid enough to get himself killed by hanging from a rope. No. Someone must've attacked him and did the job for him, and Ezra knew just who that culprit was...the Inquisitor.
Ezra could still remember the hatred and darkness that covered the man's face when he had blown up in front of him that one time. Ezra was so scared that he thought the man was going to hit him instead of the poor lamps and candles placed around the room.
He thought he was going to die…actually…
Suddenly, a hand grabbed onto his arm, making him stop in his tracks. Fear crawled into the teen's skin as he slowly turned around. But his fear was soon relieved when he saw that it was only Kanan who had stopped him.
"Ezra, what's wrong? You're acting as if you saw a ghost or something." Kanan asked as worry shown in his eyes.
Ezra gave a shaky breath as he adverted his eyes away from his friend. He couldn't think straight without worrying that the Inquisitor was probably looking over his shoulder, ready to attack and take him away again.
"Kanan, we can't stay here. It's too dangerous." Ezra exclaimed as he pulled his arm away from the man's grip and started to make his way towards the roof again.
"W-wait! Ezra, what are you talking about?" Kanan yelled as he chased after the slightly frightened boy. He could see that the teen was heading towards the rooftop as he rounded corridor after corridor, apologizing every minute whenever he bumped into someone. What could have scared the boy so bad that with just one touch he would start hyperventilating with fear?
Kanan watched as the teen started to climb up the stairs to the roof. He about had enough of this little chasing game as he finally decided to confront the teen.
"Why have you brought me here?"
"We can't go back there!"
"We must return!"
"He'll kill you! His eyes will find us there!"
"Ezra, don't say that."
"Those eyes that burn!"
"Don't even think it."
"And if he has to kill a thousand men."
"Forget this waking nightmare."
"The Phantom of the Opera will kill…"
"The phantom is a fable, believe me."
"…and kill again!"
"There is no Phantom of the Opera."
Ezra wasn't even listening to what Kanan had to say anymore. Why couldn't he just believe that he was in danger just like everyone else around him? The Phantom was real and he wasn't going to stop at nothing until he got what he wanted.
Ezra ran up the spiral staircase as he started to speak what was in his mind; Kanan not too far behind him.
"My God, who is this man…"
"My God, who is this man…"
"…who hunts to kill?"
"…this mask of death?"
"I can't escape form him…"
"Who is this voice you hear…"
"…I never will!"
"…with every breath?"
"And in this labyrinth, where light is blind, the Phantom of the Opera if here/there inside your/my mind."
Snow fell from the sky as the two human males made their way outside. Kanan quickly turned his body around as he watched the raven with pity in his eyes. The teen was anything but ok as he continued to look around his surroundings as if he knew something was there. His hands clutching tightly over a red rose that the older man realized he held.
Fear and uncertainty covered over Ezra's blue eyes as he tried to control his emotions. After seeing Kallus hanging from above the stage, memories of old and dark history started to flowed his mind again. Memories of old that had once been forgotten had now come back to haunt him. Blood and pain swirled through his body as he tried to blank and cloud out the horrid image in his head, but to only have his wishes rejected.
Even if he did try to forget, the memories would still live forever inside of him.
Ezra was so caught up in his own mind that he barely heard the words that left Kanan's mouth.
"Ezra, there is no Phantom of the Opera. I can promise you that." Kanan spoke as started to make his way over towards the teen.
Ezra narrowed his eyes as he snapped his head around. Shocking Kanan as the raven started to walk closer to the stunned man instead.
"Kanan, I've been there, to his world of unending night. To a world where the daylight dissolves into darkness, darkness. Kanan, I've seen him! Can I ever forget that sight? Can I ever escape from that face, so distorted, deformed, it was hardly a face, in the darkness, darkness."
Ezra could still remember the Inquisitor's face when he first saw him. To be honest, he did look like a man that the teen had never seen before. His gray colored skin was smooth and slightly rough when he had touched his face. His teeth were like razors, sharp and pointy as his sickly amber colored eyes glowed dangerously yet warmly as if the rising sun on a hot day.
Even if he did look a little monstrous in the face that still didn't faze Ezra as much as his anger. He was nothing but a man who looked as if he had been through enough pain to last him a lifetime, and that, Ezra could understand for he was once under the same circumstances as the Inquisitor.
Ezra moved his fingers around the red rose he held in his hands. The only symbol and proof that he had that the Phantom…no that the Inquisitor was real and not just his imagination. His bright blue eyes gazed up and down the beautiful flower as he slowly started to walk away from Kanan, who was slowly trying to take in the newly forward news.
"But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound. In that night there was music in my mind. And through music my soul began to soar! And I heard as I'd never heard before."
"What you heard was a dream and nothing more."
"Yet in his eyes, all the sadness of the world. Those pleading eyes, that both threaten and adore."
"Ezra, Ezra."
Kanan's soothing voice flowed through Ezra's ears as he slightly looked over at the man behind him. The only other presence he felt was from his friend, so then why did he feel that he was being watched? The sound of snow crunching under moving feet continued to come closer as the raven waited for the man to reach him. He was slowly starting to calm himself down, saying that nothing was going to happen, that it was all in his head until –
"Ezra…"
Ezra's heart almost stopped as the familiar ghost chilled voice rang through the cold wind of winter. The teen's breath started to hitch and grow rasp as he wildly moved his head around. He knew the Inquisitor was near. Now he had found him and he was going to take him away before –
Arms embraced the teen's shaken form. Kanan could feel Ezra's tense form start to slowly relax as he tightened his hold around the teen; pulling him closer. After everything that the boy had told him, he wanted nothing more than to just hold the teen in his arms. He could tell Ezra was scared and all he wanted to do was make the teen forget about it all.
His fear. His pain.
Slowly, he took hold of Ezra's hand and started to lead the teen closer to the center of the roof. The rose that was in the teen's hand now was nothing but forgotten as the flower fell to the ground in a clump.
Ezra gazed his eyes up at Kanan as he let the man's calming words wash over him.
"No more talk of darkness. Forget these wide-eyed fears. I'm here, nothing can harm you, my words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom. Let daylight dry your tears. I'm here, with you, beside you, to guard you and to guide you."
Kanan lifted one of his hands as he touched Ezra's cheek gently. Blue eyes met green instantly as a small smile slowly started to form on the younglings face.
"Say you'll love me every waking moment. Turn my head with talk of summertime. Say you need me with you now and always. Promise me that all you say is true. That's all I ask of you."
Ezra swiftly wrapped his arms around Kanan as he felt the man run his fingers through his hair. The action helped calm the boy's embarrassment as he just realized he had confessed his love to his friend. He couldn't help it, it just sorta came out. Plus, he felt safe with Kanan unlike the Inquisitor who proved his point when he had frightened him so. Even though the masked man messed around with his body and made him feel things that he never thought he would ever feel in years, he knew that the feeling he felt towards the Inquisitor was lust instead of love. Which was something he didn't want. He wanted to fall in love and have the other person fall in love with him as well.
And Kanan fit the profile very well.
"Let me be your shelter. Let me be your light. You're safe, no one will find you, your fears are far behind you."
Kanan was stunned at first by the teen's sudden confession, but he knew it was going to happen sooner or later. He had had a crush on the teen ever since they little and he knew Ezra felt the same way about him. A smile started to form on his lips as he gently pulled the teen back a little in order to show that he accepted the boy's feelings in return.
Ezra couldn't help but blush when he saw the look on Kanan's face. He quickly adverted his eyes away from the man embarrassed as he made his way over to the other side of the man in order to think to himself.
"All I want is freedom, a world with no more night. And you, always beside me, to hold me and to hide me."
Ezra smiled as he slowly turned around to only see that Kanan was smiling as well. The man held his hand towards the teen as an invitation for him to follow him. Shyly, Ezra took hold of Kanan's hand as he let the man lead him around the snow covered field.
"Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Let me lead you from your solitude. Say you need me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go let me go too. Ezra, that's all I ask of you."
"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Say the word and I will follow you."
"Share each day with me, each night, each morning." Both males said as Kanan pulled Ezra closer towards him in order to wrap his arms around him. Ezra placed his hands on the man's chest as he looked up at his Kanan's warm and welcoming face.
"Say you love me…"
"You know I do."
"Love me, that's all I ask of you."
Kanan placed a hand on the back of Ezra's neck as he slowly moved closer to the boy's face. With a gasp, blue eyes flashed open wide when his lips met with warm, soft ones. Ezra couldn't help but smile as he allowed his eyes to slip shut and wrapped his arms around Kanan's neck as he opened his mouth slightly. He'd never really kissed many people, but he was happy that he at least seemed to know some things.
Kanan moved his hand from Ezra's neck to mess around with his hair as he slid his tongue into the younger teen's mouth making Ezra moan slightly as he tightened his hold on his friend. With a sigh, the teen pulled back from the man as he looked up at the man with slight glazed eyes. A smile formed on Kanan's face as placed his forehead on the other's as they both gazed into each other eyes with passion.
"Anywhere you go let me go too. Love me, that's all I ask of you…"
Kanan kissed Ezra again only this time it was a soft peck as they both pulled back again to gaze at each other. Everything was perfect. Not even once did Ezra think about the Inquisitor or his past haunting memories that irrupted his mind tonight. His mind was only set on the man before him and only him. It was just the thing that the teen needed in order to go along with his life without any worry.
He wished this moment could last forever, but he knew it couldn't
With a sigh, Ezra closed his eyes as he moved away from Kanan.
"I should go. They're probably wondering where I am."He said as he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.
Kanan couldn't help but smile at the boy's shy actions towards him. "I'll come with you if you want?" he asked as he placed a hand on one the teen's shoulders.
Ezra smiled as he looked up at the man. "Thanks Kanan."
Kanan gave a smile in return as he lead the teen back into the Opera House where they would be safe for another night.
The rose that was left by Ezra's forgotten hands still laid alone on the cold snow covered ground. Its dark bloody red petals showing the only vivid color in the cold dark night as snow danced around its figure. The sound of feet crunching under the snow started to fill the air as the mysterious person picked up the rose with sorrowful eyes.
"I gave you my music, made your song take wing. And now, how you've repaid me, denied me, and betrayed me. He was bound to love you when he heard you sing. Ezra…"
Amber eyes closed shut tightly as the Inquisitor gripped onto the rose with a burning passion. He was the one who made Ezra the way he was. If it wasn't for him then this other man wouldn't have even come into the picture between him and the teen's relationship.
Pain and hurt clung onto his now breaking heart as he tried his best to his tears in check. He there when the two males were singing and confessing their love for each other. He had heard everything and could hardly even breathe when he saw the two kiss with so much passion that the moan that left Ezra's lips was enough to send the man over the age.
It should've been him who made Ezra feel that way. That this some new guy who just all of a sudden popped up out of nowhere. It should be his hands, lips, and feelings that swirled through Ezra's mind whenever he feels alone or wants to be loved by someone. Not this other man. Not him. Not anyone.
The Inquisitor's sadness and pain slowly started to change as his grip on the rose was more of a wild animal ready to tare about its food. Red petals fell to the ground as rage and anger started to fill the man's now stone heart. With a snarl, he throws the rest of the now dead flower to the ground as he runs over to the edge of the roof and screams out his rage and furry for the one person who broke him.
"You will curse the day you did not do all that the Phantom asked of you!"
If he wasn't allowed to have Ezra for his own, then one was.
Dun dun dun! Uh oh, stuff going down, and I mean HARD! Lol! Ok, anyways, please remember to review or PM me if you guys want more of this or if you simply just have a question for me about the story. I'm not sure when I'll be able to upload the next chapter. I would like to say it'll be up tomorrow but there might be a slight chance that it won't so who knows when it'll be up. All I can say is to just be looking and it'll pop one day I promise! :) :D
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Until next time!
Neow~ :3