-sniffles- This chapter's so sad...but, I love it! hehe, Ember-baka has a pretyped note for you all, tho it's from a few weeks ago...
Omigosh, can you believe it? With These Broken Wings is officially one year old. I say we throw it a bonfire party. Oh yeah, whoot! Anyways, this chapter is Bellator Wings past!!! How shocking! You get to learn everything that happened, whoot! How fun. Now let's begin this chapter shall we?
"As you know… I lived in Ishbala. It was just me, my mother, and my brother, Aubrey. My dad… left to fight in the war when I was two, so I barely remember him."
A small girl with light brown hair and big dark red eyes was sprawled out on the floor with a large book in her hands titled, "The History and Science of Medicine" (haha.. XD)
"Bella?" someone asked. The girl looked up curiously at a boy, around twelve, her brother. He had the same features as her, dark red eyes, messy light brown hair and lightly tanned skin. He leaned down to the five-year old and smiled at her amusingly.
"That's an adult book," he said, "There's no pictures in it."
"I know…" Bella said, "But I wanna be a doctor like you and mom, Aubrey"
Aubrey smiled at his younger sister and patted her on the head.
Just then a woman stepped out of the door behind them. She looked about twenty-eight, with dark, wavy brown hair, darkly tanned skin, and like the children, dark red eyes.
She looked tired from work and slumped down against the door.
"Momma!" Bella said, excitement in her voice as she jumped up and hugged the woman.
"Hey Bella," her mother smiled at her, hugging her back.
"Are you done with all the patients now? Can you play with me and Aubrey? Have you heard anything from dad? Is he coming home?" Bella asked.
Her mother smiled sadly. "No, I can't Bella," she said, avoiding the last two questions. "Why don't you and Aubrey go play outside and I'll catch up with you later?"
"Ok!" Bella grabbed her brothers' hand and dragged him towards the door.
As Aubrey looked back while closing the door, he looked sadly at his mother as she began to cry.
One Year Later
6 year old Bella and 13 year old Aubrey were out playing around in some abandoned meadow.
"Aubrey and I were very close siblings, even if we were seven years apart. We didn't go anywhere without each other, partially because of the war. But… there was one time when we did get separated….."
Bella waited on a rock, swinging her legs back and forth. Her left leg had a huge gash in it from falling on some glass. Aubrey had told her to stay there while he went and got their mom. He would have carried her, but the wooden board over the river that they crossed couldn't handle so much weight at once.
Bella stared at the sky, bored, hoping her brother would return soon. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a strange kitten. She turned her head and looked at the cat. The cat was black with a white face, belly and paws. What was strange about the kitten was its ghostly aura and eyes. Its eyes were a soft shade of blue, but no pupil; it looked soulless.
She blinked as the kitten meowed at her, as if telling her something. The kitten ran off but stopped after a few feet and stared back curiously at Bella.
Bella got down from the rock, wincing from the pain in her leg, and limped over to the kitten.
She followed the ghostly kitten to a burnt mansion. Although the mansion was badly burnt, it was still standing. The kitten ran inside the mansion leaving Bella outside. Then, it started to rain extremely hard. Terrified it might turn into a lightning storm, she ran inside after the kitten.
Her white dress soaked in blood was now also soaked in rain. The blood had stopped bleeding in her leg, but the wound was still fresh.
She wrapped her arms around herself, shivering as she walked inside the dark, gloomy mansion. It was dark and Bella had to strain her eyes to see where she was going, but unfortunately, she ran into a wall.
"Ow…" she moaned, rubbing the spot on her cheek that had been hit. A meow came from behind her and she turned around to see the small kitten. It meowed again and rubbed up next to the wall. But it wasn't a wall. It was a large black door with lots of chains wrapped around it and a giant lock was placed in the middle of the door at about the height of Bella's head.
"You want me to open it?" Bella questioned the kitten. She turned and pressed against the door, but it wouldn't budge.
I guess I have to use alchemy…. She thought, looking around in the dark for something to draw an alchemy circle with, but nothing could be found.
Out of desperation, she bit the tip of her finger and placed it against he door to draw a transmutation circle with her blood. She placed her hands on the bloody circle and a light blue alchemy light flashed. When the light disappeared, the lock was broken.
Bella gently pressed the door and it swung open. She let out a scream and jumped back. There was nothing there. Cautiously, she crept forward and examined the room inside.
It was totally pitch black from burns inside, except for a single light.. The light was swaying back and forth slowly as it flickered on and off. It was almost dead.
Under the light was a small girl, around Bella's age, curled up in a ball. Her back was faced to Bella, so she couldn't see her face. She had long floor length blonde hair with brown streaks flowing all around her and she wore a black tube top with a black trench coat and black baggy pants.
"Hello?" Bella asked quietly, though her voice echoed throughout the room. The girl slowly turned around so Bella could see her face.
The girl had blue-green eyes…. Eye, because her left eye had a bandage over it.
"Anata…. Wa…?" the girl asked, looking hatefully at the intruder.
Bella cocked her head tot eh side with a confused look on her face. She didn't understand a word the girl had spoken.
The girl stood up and reached for the sheath at her belt and swung out her hand like she had drawn a sword, but there was no sword and the girl looked at her hand surprised.
Bella giggled and said, "You're funny." She smiled at the girl and held out her hand politely. "I'm Bella," She said.
The girl looked at Bella like she was an idiot
"So what's your name? How old are you? Is this your mansion? Where are your parents? Do you have any siblings?" Bella's questions were as fast as the speed of light.
The girl ignored the hyper Ishbalan and turned to leave.
"Wait!" Bella said, grabbing the girls' arm, but the girl turned around and slapped her hand away.
Bella gave the girl a hurt look as she rubbed the spot where the girl had slapped her and looked down at the ground ashamed. The girl just glared hatefully at her.
Suddenly, lightning flashed in the window in front of them, thunder crashed loudly. Bella's pupils shrunk in fear and she let out an ear-splitting scream. The girl slapped her hands over her ears as the scream continued.
Bella started to shake in fear and dropped to the floor. She curled up, hiding her head in her knees and started to cry.
The girl was alarmed by Bella's reaction and kneeled down next to her, shushing her quietly, trying to calm the frightened girl down. The girl leaned down to Bella's ear and began singing ever so softly. So quietly, you couldn't make out the words, it was like a soothing sound.
Bella's cries toned down to soft whimpers as she calmed down and the lightning disappeared.
"T….thank you…." Bella sniffled as she stood up, wiping tears away.
The ghostly cat from before ran into the room, meowing wildly. The girl glanced at the kitten and smiled, petting the kitten on the head. The kitten leapt and jumped onto the girls' shoulder.
"Is that your cat?" Bella asked quietly.
The girls' smile faded and she nodded sadly.
"Can you talk at all?"
The girl glared as Bella asked her question.
"Well, can I at least know your name?"
The girl turned to leave, but heard someone shouting something from outside.
"BELLA!!!"
Bella's eyes went wide in shock.
"Aubrey!" she exclaimed worriedly. She raced towards the entrance of the mansion. Curious, the girl followed her.
Bella raced across the grass and jumped into her brothers' arms. He hugged her tightly, then put her back down on the ground.
"Bella?! Where have you been?! I told you not to leave the rock!" he shouted harshly.
Bella's face turned all cute and apologetic as she said "Sowwy…" in her child-like voice. Aubrey's face softened and he ruffled her hair.
"Just don't do it again, ok?" he said. Bella jumped up and hugged him saying "ok!"
The girl stood by the door, staring at the two siblings and looked at them sadly, missing her family.
One Year Later
Bella (age 7) and Aubrey (age 14) were walking back from their visit to their grandparent's house. Their mother would had come, if her family hadn't disowned her for getting pregnant at age 16 with Aubrey. Their grandparents were still bitter about that, but allowed for their grandkids to visit.
Bella was on Aubrey's shoulders, squealing with delight cause she was up so high. As they reached their house, they saw it engulfed in flames and Amesterian soldiers surrounding the house.
Aubrey's grip from Bella's legs left and she went tumbling off his shoulders and onto a soft patch of grass.
"Ow…..Aubrey!" she complained, but he ignored her. He saw something horrifying that would scar him for the rest of his life, the bloody corpse of his mother lying by the Furher of Amestria.
Screaming, he charged at the man with the eye patch, leaving Bella behind. The soldiers lunged at him, grabbing him and pulled his arms behind his back so he couldn't move, and held their guns to his head. The man with the eye patch's face remained emotionless.
"How could you kill her?! She helped your fucking people!!!" Aubrey roared at the man, fighting back tears, "You killed her because she's Ishbalan?! How pathetic is that!!! You fucking bastard! You left my sister motherless!!!"
"Aubrey…?" Aubrey looked back and saw his frightened sister behind him.
"Bella! Get out of her-" he shouted, but one of the soldiers grabbed her, restraining her as she thrashed around and covered her mouth with his hand so she couldn't scream.
"Let her go!!" Aubrey screamed in the man's face. The man drew out his sword, and Aubrey's eyes widened in fear, but slightly relaxed when the man just held it up to examine it.
"I don't particularly like killing children, but…." He said, glaring at Aubrey, "If you do not get out of here now, I will have no mercy and give you and your sister the same fate as your mother."
The men restraining Aubrey threw him to the ground, as well as Bella. Aubrey scrambled to his feet and grabbed his sister quickly, running away from the running house. Bella had her face pressed against his chest, sobbing uncontrollably. She had seen her dead mother.
aww, poor Bella...now let's all pity her at once, on the count of three - one, two, three - haha!! jk -sweatdrops-
ne ways, Ember-baka's about to kill me with a plastic spoon cause she hasn't gotten a death threat yet, so PLEASE, someone send her one! -sweatdrops- i'm not joking - she wants one, for w/e reason...