Darkness of the Past

Part III

Christmas Day

She stared at her dead mother, fearfully. Her eyes then searched around the blankets and bed where her newborn baby brother supposed to have been laying. Small, frail, adorable, but also have powerful and dark cosmos. Though she can slightly feel the baby's cosmos, it was certain that Hades was not in the dark castle. "Hades-sama? My dear brother?" Pandora whispered in the darkness.

"Pandora-sama," one of the servants in the castle came up behind her, "We'll find Hades-sama, no matter..." Wondering why the servant didn't continued, Pandora turn to face her. She turned just in time for when the servant's blood spurted everywhere. The corpse dropped to the velvet black carpet, lifelessly.

Pandora clasped her hands over her mouth to keep her from screaming. The young girl ran out of the dreary room to get away from the dead, away from the darkness that tried to swallow her. She dashed into the halls to find all the servants dead. Blood and darkness surrounded her from all directions. She let out a yelp. There was only one place to go. The only place where she feels safe is in her fathers study room.

She ran towards the room and creaked the door opened. She notice that the room was unusually gloomy and swung opened the door. She saw a dark figure hunched over the desk. No, she thought. Please don't let that be... She strode towards the desk to get a better look at the figure. Because the room was very dark, she use her hands to search for the candles and lit them. She shown her light upon the body. She eyes widened. Her father was also dead.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!" Pandora stumbled a few steps back before she fell to her knees. Why? Why? Why did this have to happen? Why is everyone dead? She buried her face in her hands. She wanted someone to hug her, to comfort her, and tell her that everything will be alright. But there is no one here to do those things, they are all dead. Partita's not here. Partita's not here to comfort her in this situation. She's all alone. Everyone is dead.

" Because Hades-sama is missing," a voice whispered.

" Because Hades-sama is stolen by that maid of yours. She betrayed you," another raspy voice muttered.

Pandora stood up when she heard familiar voices. "Who are you? What do you want?" she called out.

" We are the twin gods, Hypnos and Thanatos. Deities that serve Hades-sama. The spirits that you have unsealed from the holy box in the glassed house beside this mansion."

Realized who she is speaking with, Pandora bow down to her knees, "Hypnos-sama, Thanatos-sama, I beg for your forgiveness because of my rudeness." she apologized and hung her head down.

"You are forgiven. As you know, we have been sealed by Athena every Holy War. Because you are Hades-sama's sister, and set us free from the holy box, we shall help you search for Hades-sama." Hypnos began.

" Then Hades-sama's shall crush Athena and her Saints. Starting with Partita and her son." Thanatos finished.

Pandora's head snapped up, "Why Partita?"

"Because she give birth to an Athena Saint, thus considered her as a traitor." Hypnos explained.

"Partita would never betray me!" Pandora shouted.

"Go find out your-self , she did betray you! If she left, she must have took Hades-sama and the Athena Saint with her." Thanatos then summoned hundreds of skeleton pirates in front of Pandora. " They and the rest of Hades-sama's army will be in your hands. Find the traitor and kill her along with her son."

Pandora did not want to believe that Partita would do such thing. She pleaded silently that Partita is not a traitor like the twin gods told her. She really did not want kill her closest friend, but she did not dare to disobey the twin gods. Without a choice , she left for the cottage where Partita and Tenma lived.

Please Partita, please tell me that you didn't betray me, Pandora thought as tears rolled down her face.

sorry that I haven't been updating for a while. I had to take a TAKS Math and Reading, and next week I have to take the science(hard!) and history(easy!) so I have to work my butt off this month, ugh...

quick warning: I might not update for the rest of the month until beginning may, or maybe the end of this month.

well, I hoped you liked the story. If it's confusing, I am sorry because my grammar is not good. Heck, I'm a very, very young teen. I suck in my english class.

review?