Gateau's POV
Daylight streams through the window as I lay on my bed watching it stretch across the floor. I knew that when it finally hit my bed that I would have to go down for breakfast, and that was something I wasn't ready for. To see all their sad faces, to see their tears, and to hide my own just to stay strong. Marron, it's going to be so hard on him He have already lost a mother, but now he has to go through the lost of a brother as well "Éclair…" I spoke her name as I stare up at my ceiling," …could I survive your death?" These thoughts finally given voice made my skin crawl as I saw not one of my best friends in the coffin, but my own baby sister. Beside her instead of Marron, I was the one crying. I knew then what I would do, and I felt a huge pang in my gut that brought me to the brink of tears.
If that had been my sister I wouldn't be thinking about the funeral today, but how I would die the day after
"Oh god, Marron, how much longer will you stay with us." "Tira, Chocolat, you love him too." "DAMN YOU CARROT, you will probably take both Marron and the girls with you to the grave." "Then it will just be me again."
No that's not true a sly thought surface in my mind you will have your sister I broke down into tears. It just wasn't fair. It just wasn't fair first the loss of my parents and then my friends. No matter where I go death and unhappiness seems to eventually follow.
*KNOCK*
The sound broke me from my depression as I quickly wipe away my tears and rush to the door. There in nothing more than a nightgown is Tira. It should have been a dream come true, but her eyes were so big and puffy, that I didn't even have the heart to try and take advantage of the moment. Instead I hugged her gently and lead her to my bed. Here she rest her head on my shoulders and cries as she murmur to me in an almost dream like state. It was sickening listening to her confession as she proclaim that Carrot probably blamed her for his death, that if she hadn't beaten him so as the giant snake-serpent then he would still be here, and that she is the reason why he died. She then began to list all of the reasons why she had killed him, and it went on and on, until I couldn't take it any more as she continues to rave on as if mad. I shook her roughly.
"You're wrong, Tira, you're so wrong it's my fault." "Everyone that gets close to me dies," I confessed as tears rolled down my face. "I killed him."
Her trance than broke and a steely resolve came to her face. "Don't be stupid," she told me. "Your sister is still here."
"Only because I took her place at the altar." My voice had drop to nearly a whisper. "Zaha took pity on us, and that is why I'm still here."
"IS that what you think?" the look in her face was pure disgust. "Well if I remember right Zaha killed your parents and kidnapped your sister, not you." "If it wasn't for you no one would known that that crime ever existed, and your sister would have been dead now." "We would have killed her without another thought." "And if you haven't taken her place on the altar she would have been dead anyway." "Zaha didn't' bring back any of his other minions…no, only just you for her sake." "If Carrot could hear you now Gateau!" A tear rolls down her face," he would laugh and call you a big idiot, and say how stupid you're being right now." I quickly reach out and embrace her as she buries her face in my shoulder and starts to cry again. We stay like that until we fell asleep.
When I awoke, the sunlight rests on my face.
"Damn it," I swore loudly. We had missed breakfast completely, and it was now late in the afternoon. In my moment of excitement I almost forgot that Tira was still sleeping on my shoulder. Gently I woke her and she got up to go to her room, but before she left she told me something that had me scrambling to get dress. She suspected that Carrot might have been murdered. I had never put on my clothing so fast, and was downstairs in an instant. I found myself among a sea of Sorcerer Hunters, hunters from all over the world and of many shapes and sizes, speaking words of condolences for Carrot. Hallow words.
"Gateau," a man calls out to me. His voice was choked with pain as the sea of hunters parted as he tries to reach me. It was Carrot's dad, Onion. Soon he was standing face to face with me as tears stream openly down his face. "How--How did it happen?" he asked.
How I wanted to tell him what Tira had told me, but in the end I only told him what I knew. As the story came to an end I found myself apologizing. "I'm so sorry his heart just stop."
When I said that he just looks away from me and start to slowly walk. It was as if I had told him that his son is dead and not just how it had occurred. It hurt my heart to see him leave like that, but it pecks at my curiosity more. There was something else going on.
"Gateau," another voice yells and with dread I turn around. This time I am greet by the tear stain face of my sister.
"How did it happen?" she cries as she embraces me, and breathe a sigh of relief as tension seem to wash out of my body. I didn't even know until then, but I had secretly being praying and hoping not to find this as a nightmare come true. To find out that it indeed was my sister in the coffin and not Marron's brother. I hugged her back tightly, until she gasp for me to release, and then I once more told the story. I know I should have been ashamed for thinking in such a way, but the relief and the sight of my sister would not let such a thing bother my conscience.
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Great strength, big hands
A man among men
Tears I will never shed
Even when you're gone
At least that is what is said
Until I am all alone
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A new day came, and the nightmare still existed as Carrot now fully awake tests his restrains. One arm and then the other, neither moves an inch. Where was he? Where were the others? What was going on? These thoughts flew around his head as he blink once and then again. He was helpless, he couldn't even move his legs as he found them too numb to tell whether he was chained to the floor or this uncomfortable position had just drain the blood from his leg. He couldn't see which of the two was true for the mask that binds his face also hid his own legs from view. Trapped and alone there was nothing that he could do, but hope and pray for someone to save him. Marron, Tira, Chocolat, Gateau, please be safe and alive.
SLAM
In a one quick moment all his attention is focused on one spot and with that second his heart nearly stops. The person to enter the door is no other than Big Mama.
She will rescue me A smile crosses his face as she turns towards him and his heart races with the expectation of freedom. Slowly she walks towards him into the light and as it hit her face he saw darkness in Big Mama, a darkness that he never knew existed.
"Destruction God or Carrot, I care not which," she speaks coldly. Fear crosses his face as he realizes that whom he thought of as his savior might just be the object of his imprisonment. "The twin moons shadow the planet last night and the north-star still hangs in the sky." "Today was as it was before when you tried to destroy this world, but this time I know of the signs and you will not live to see the coming of the third." She then ran her fingers through his hair and all the darkness seem to seep from her very core. Once more pure and holy she pause and then spoke again with a voice full of sorrow, " Poor dear Carrot an innocent angel with an wrathful devil trap within if it is you to whom I speak please forgive me."
"Wait I don't understand," Carrot speaks without words. The mask it seems had a spell of silence woven into its very threads. This frustrates him to the point of tears as he starts to thrash about in his chains. It seems he might have been better off alone. "Tira, Chocolat, Marron, and Gateau, where are you?"
Big Mama then kneels before him. "My poor sweet Carrot this time it will surely be the end for this time when I destroy you; it will be both body and soul, so you will never have to fear you own powers again. She then places her hand on his forehead and the torture began as volts of pure electricity flows through his body, and impure thoughts attack his mind.
…TO BE CONTINUED!!!
