Deadly Magic
Chapter 7: Escape to Freedom
If there were any moment in Rin's life she would keep forever, it would be this one so far. 2 arms embraced her comfortably, ensuring her everything would be alright. Rin looked up to her savior and saw the same woman she had seen a few days ago. The woman was smiling and let go of her. Had it been a miracle that she had finally been saved by someone else? Rin watched the woman comfort the other children. People in masks of all kind stood over the unconscious body on the floor.
"You're alright now." One of the masked people came up to her and gave an assuring nod. He had a mask of a dog and strangely, white hair. Oh well, I have seen weirder things. She mentally shrugged it off as she saw about three men rounding up her former Mistress when she stirred. How did this happen?? One minute she was cornered, the next people were coming and handcuffing her torturer!
"Let's go Rin." Wait a minute, how did she know my name? Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the woman being hauled out along with Marcie who was protesting quite loudly to their dismay. Rin stared silently around her and absorbed what had transpired.
"Rin, we have to go." Rin nodded to whoever was speaking to her. She understood that they had to deal with those… bitches. The orphan children surrounded Rin and embraced her lightly. "You must come too."
All of Heaven soon turned into darkness as her world came crashing down onto her shoulders. "I can't. I won't. I'm not going." Rin shook her head furiously at the thought of leaving the children behind. They were almost like her very own siblings, almost a replacement of what was cruelly taken from her in one innocent night. Just the thought of it felt like the very blade that both slaughtered her parents and her adored brother had also sliced through her.
A mixture of both sadness for the thought of leaving and anger in being forced to go resulted in two sharp stabs towards the area where her neck and shoulder connected. Deep within her flesh, it seemed that a wild fire erupted and burned her alive. The fiery pain coursed through her and used her skeleton as fuel lines. Rin gasped and squeezed her eyes shut, inwardly screaming and praying that the pain will stop. Drops of blood saturated with salty drops of tears land themselves on the ground clearly drawing attention from unwanted watchers. The burning sensation and quickly reached her heart and constricted it her lungs tightly, nearly cutting off her air supply.
"Rin, what are you doing?" The male voice of the silver haired man cut off all sensation from the pain she had felt. Her legs acted on their own accord and let her drop her like a sack of potatoes. Hyperventilating like crazy, Rin's body struggled to keep her up from slipping into unconsciousness.
"Rin what's wrong?" Talking was clearly not the answer when she was in so much pain. As much she wanted to tell the person that she was fine even though her first thought was to say shut up, she couldn't do that since she could hardly keep up breathing. The spot where the fiery pain had originated from pulsed. A course of new energy flowed through and made her breathe evenly.
"Rin, what's wrong?!" The sudden command vibrated through the still air tainted with a hint of blood.
"Nothing." Rin stood abruptly, surprised she had enough energy to do it since the past few moments took a bit out of her. Rin's response was shocking for everyone because she was lying on the ground. It was not 'nothing' as so she claimed. If it was nothing, how come there is blood on the ground?
The children were beyond shocked, they were half scared. Eyes were on the blood stains on the floor. Rin's eyes were directed towards the blood stain and merely shrugged it off for now. She was surely not living here anymore. Rin took a careful view of the whole scene. Most of the people who are in animal masks with weird features painted on it were indirectly staring at the girl who coughed up blood.
The two nearest people who were around Rin seemed kind of… troubled to say at the least. When one coughs up blood, they are not meant to stand up all of a sudden. Rin looked at the woman's eyes as if telling her to drop the subject about her and surprisingly she got the idea.
"Okay, let's go…" Rin's stare hardened, "and take the children with you." Satisfied with the woman's answer she gathered her wards and led them out of the door. The breeze of cool air cascaded through the trees and into Rin's face. Smiling knowingly, she knew that the future was going to be perfect.
"Okay… let's go to the house to discuss this. Inutaisho, where's the porkey?" The dark haired woman asked, face turning towards the man with silver man. Inutaisho…? What kind of name is that? But I guess I shouldn't judge the book by its cover…
"Over there," he indicated, pointing at the old boot on the side walk.
"Umm… excuse me, but isn't that just an old boot?" Rin asked timidly. I think the proper name should be a boot… not a porkey. A strange picture crossed her mind which involved with a fat pig and a key. Rin inwardly mused herself and imagined the pig eating the key despite the situation.
The silver haired man known as Inutaisho chuckled lightly. "No my dear, it is not an old boot. You see, magic can make all the differences in the world."
"Honey! Don't tell her yet!"
"Sorry! Didn't mean to tell you, I thought you knew already." The man walked away and helped the other masked people with the screaming Marcie.
"What do you mean by 'you knew already knew?' " Rin piped up curiously.
"Now, now, I'll explain but first off 6 of you touch that boot, a finger will do."
"I don't want to touch it," Sophie whined. "It's dirty!"
"Well, I'll have to fix that!" She reached into her jacket pocket and miraculously pulled out a huge red lollipop. Rin's eyes widened at the sudden gesture. How on Earth can she do that?!
"Well here you go! You can have this if you touch it!" Sophie nodded happily and touched the boot. Everyone followed suit except for Rin who needed some more encouragement. Finally when she did what she was told, a blizzard of white, blue and many more blurry colors surrounded Rin in a beautiful dream of freedom.
I'm sorry about the delay but school work is dragging me down terribly! I'm going to try and update more but sorry for this delay! For now, enjoy!