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Title: Song of the Melodie
Author: Ivory Core
Chapter 6: Two souls forever linked by love
"Come stop your crying, it will be alright
Just take my hand, hold it tight
I will protect you from all around you
I will be here, don't you cry…
…My arms will hold you, keep you safe and warm.
This bond between us can't be broken
I will be here, don't you cry.
Cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
now and forever more"
Phil Collins – You'll be in my heart
On the way to the bathroom, Eliora could clearly hear the crying of the baby below. It pulled at her heart to hear the baby crying.
But that was not the only thing that was pulling. Her heart was hurting and aching so much that Eliora had to grip her chest just to stop the pain. It also felt like her very soul was pulling her towards the stairs leading down the floor below.
But Eliora stopped herself and forcibly directed herself towards the bathroom. After she had brushed her teeth and changed into her nightgown, it was then that she left the bathroom and towards the girls dormitory.
But when Eliora left the bathroom, there was a loud thunder clap that seemed to shake the floor underneath.
"It must be the storm." Eliora said to herself as she walked towards the room.
The crying of the baby was getting louder and louder. Not even the heavy clapping of thunder could block the sound of the baby's crying.
When Eliora entered the room, she found all the girls grumbling and complaining about the babies screaming.
Some of the girls even had their heads underneath the pillows while trying to block the noise of both the thunder and the baby.
"Can't they shut that baby up!" One of the girls yelled out.
Just then a flash of lighting crossed the night sky and illuminated the room in a flash of white and yellow light.
All the girls quickly ducked into their covers or underneath their pillows as the lighting scared them.
And that's when the rain came. It pounded against the glass doors leading to the balcony like it was threatening to come in. The wind howled like a furious monster was outside. The lightening flashed, and the thunder clapped.
With all of this happening around her, Eliora suddenly had the sudden feeling of incredible fear gripping her chest and mind.
It was so sudden that Eliora had to kneel down on the carpet as she wrapped her arms around her and rocked herself back and forth.
The sudden fear was alien to Eliora, because she was never afraid of the lighting or the thunder. Actually, it calmed her when she was in the hospital. The rain too helped her to relax.
So this feeling of fear did not come from Eliora. It came from the baby boy.
We're connected. I can feel his emotions…his fear. That's why I can sense and hear him.
And so it clicked on Eliora. Somehow, this baby boy and she were connected. Like a telepathic love connection.
With that, Eliora made up her mind. She was going to find the nursery and comfort the baby boy.
She got up, and after placing her uniform on top of her bed (while Tal was still sleeping inside the pocket), turned towards the doors and walked out.
"Where is she going?" A girl asks as she watches Eliora leave the room.
Once Eliora was outside of the door, the thought struck her that she had no idea how to get to the nursery.
Eliora closed her eyes and tried to remember the way that Mrs. Stone had taken in bringing Eliora up to the sixth floor.
Iron staircase…
Eliora snapped her eyes open as she remembered the iron stair case that when all the way down to the hallway that would lead her to the grand staircase.
"From there, all I have to do is cross the platform and walk up the steps towards the boys side of the orphanage." Eliora said to herself as she made her way towards the iron stair case.
As she walked, Eliora could barely see anything in front of her since it was pitch black the hallway. Only the sudden flash of lighting from the large window at the far end of the hall illuminated the way to the iron staircase for only a minute.
Eliora never left the side of the hallway. She kept her hand on the wall as she slowly walked down the hallway, making sure that she didn't loose her footing or fall over something.
Soon enough, she made it to the railing of the iron staircase. While making sure that she held on to the railing, Eliora slowly made her way down the stairs. She made sure that she was to side of the staircase and slowly stepping down each step so that she won't tumble over.
Five floors later, Eliora made it to the classroom hallway. It was pitch black as Eliora walked down the hall. She would occasionally look behind her or around in fear that something was going to jump her.
The closer she came to the grand staircase, the louder she heard the crying of the baby.
"I wish I could see where I was going." Eliora whispered to herself as she slowly walked forward.
Suddenly her medallion sprang to life. It shined brightly in a purple glow that completely surrounded Eliora and then just shafted itself so that it only shined a couple inches away from Eliora.
"Wow." Eliora said as she walked more confidently down the hallway.
After a few more minutes, she finally reached the grand staircase. She was just about to walk down the steps to the platform, when suddenly Mrs. Stone walked out of a room in the main floor.
Not knowing how she did it, Eliora waved her hand over her medallion. Immediately the purple glow vanished, leaving Eliora in utter darkness and out of sight from Mrs. Stone.
Eliora crept back into the hallway and crouched down on her hands and knees as she silently watched Mrs. Stone hurriedly walk up the stairs to the platform.
"Damn baby! How will I get my sleep with that child crying into all hours of the night!" Mrs. Stone angrily stated to herself as stood on the platform.
Eliora thought that Mrs. Stone was going to head to the boys side of the orphanage. That would bring good and bad news to Eliora.
Good in the sense that Eliora could follow Mrs. Stone to the nursery. The bad part of this would be that Mrs. Stone would most definitely spot her.
But Eliora was wrong, because Mrs. Stone turned away from the staircase leading to the boy's side and started going up the stairs leading to the girls side!
Elioras eyes widened in horror as she watched Mrs. Stone aim straight for her. Eliora had moved to the wall, but still Mrs. Stone would see her because she was shining a flashlight down the hallway.
Eliora closed her eyes tightly and waited for the shrill voice of Mrs. Stone yelling at her. But the moment passed with not even a sound from Mrs. Stone.
Mrs. Stone passed the flashlight down the hallway, sometimes going to the walls just in case an animal…or child (though Mrs. Stone didn't know the different between the two) was hiding.
But none of the above was lurking in the shadows. Just a slight shimmer of light, that was beside the wall, which the flashlight had passed over it.
Thinking that it was the flashlight itself, Mrs. Stone smacked the flashlight so that batteries can spark up. After that she continued on her way to monitor the rooms and making sure that all the children were sleeping in their beds.
As Mrs. Stone disappeared up the iron staircase, Eliora was still in the exact same spot that she was in before.
The only difference was that she was shaking from head too toe in fear of being discovered. Oh, and she was the shimmering invisible figure.
When Eliora had calmed down, the shimmer light vanished and she reappeared. None the wiser on what she had just done.
"Gosh, she must be half blind if she didn't see me." Eliora said to herself as she shakily got up. "But I don't mind."
When Eliora had gained control over her shaking legs, she slowly walked down the steps and up the staircase to the boy's side of the orphanage.
When she made it up the staircase, she noticed that the classrooms hallway was exactly the same as the girl's side.
This made it easier in the fact that Eliora could find her way around because it would be like moving down the floors on her side.
Once again though, it was pitch black down the hallway. Eliora wondered if the same way she 'turned off' the light from her medallion, she could turn in back on again.
Eliora right hand over the medallion, since that's the hand she used before, but much to her disappointment nothing happened.
Eliora dropped her hand and tried to remember exactly what she done before to make her medallion glow like that.
After a few minutes, Eliora wondered if she were to use her left hand instead of her right hand to turn it on again.
Eliora then lifted her left hand and passed it over the medallion. Instantly the glow returned, shining the hallway in a beautiful and bright purple light.
"Neat! Right to turn off, left to turn on again. I can remember that." Eliora said to herself as she understood.
With that, she started walking towards the end of the hallway. The closer she got to the iron staircase, the clearer she could hear the baby's screaming.
When she reached the staircase, Eliora started to climb the stairs to the highest floor she could get to. She knew that there were six floors in the entire orphanage, and that the sixth floor was the dormitories for the girls.
Mrs. Stone had said that the boy's dormitories were below them. So she decided to go to the fifth floor and see if she could find the nursery. Where ever that was…
The storm was still raging outside. Lighting brightened the staircase whenever it flashed across the sky. There was a window high above the staircase as it spiraled upwards.
Eliora could see the rain pound the window above as well as hear the thunder clapped.
She had finally reached the fifth floor, which was the only place she could go to since the stairs ending there.
As Eliora stood at the end of the hallway, she could clearly hear the babies crying. There was just one problem, which door was it.
The hallway seemed to be made out of doors. Only a thin line of wall was seen between doors.
The lamps, hanging from the ceiling, were on. It gave off a ghostly light down upon the floor, but it still lighted Elioras way so that she didn't need her medallion.
Eliora waved her right hand over the medallion and it instantly winked out. After that, Eliora started to slowly walk down the hall while making sure that she was near to the wall as she walked.
As she walked, Eliora grinned from ear to ear of the sounds coming from the rooms. The sounds within definitely confirmed to Eliora that she was in the boys dormitory hallway.
An occasional grunt, many snores (some louder then expected), and few rude noises that wiped the grin from Elioras face as it turned into a frown.
As Eliora walked, she found that the hallway was large and must I say it longer then the girl's dormitories.
I guess they have more boy orphans then girls. Eliora thinks to herself.
The crying was considerably on bearable the closer Eliora walked towards the middle of the hallway.
There was also another problem, which door was the nursery. Eliora couldn't open each door of the hallway to see if it was the nursery and that would take all night.
Suddenly the crying was combined with a loud piercing scream that sounded like someone was terrified beyond imaginable.
Suddenly one of the doors behind Eliora swung open as a young woman ran out. She was screaming at the top of her lungs as she ran down the hallway.
"HE'S A DEMON CHILD! A DEMON!" She kept on screaming out as she ran down the stairs like a ghost was after her.
When she ran out of the room, Eliora had feared that she was spotted. But now she watched in a stupor of shock as the girl ran down the stairs screaming all the way.
Eliora shook herself out of it and slowly inched forwards towards the door. When she was next to it, she peaked inside.
Her mouth instantly dropped at the sight before her.
It was definitely the same nursery that she had somehow transported herself to earlier. The rocking chair was beside the window, a changing table next to the wall, and a few cribs around the room.
None of them were occupied, except for one. This one crib held the baby that Eliora had been pulled to. But getting to the baby was going to be a challenge at the moment.
The reason is because things were flying around the nursery like…well like magic was levitating them.
Some of the items flouting around were teddy bears, bottles, pacifiers and small baby toys. But others were dangerous.
Eliora wondered how a steak knife got into the room, but that vanished out of her head as the very knife came zooming straight for her.
Eliora ducked as the knife went sailing past her. It imbedded itself deep into the wall.
That was the last straw. Eliora took a deep breath and marched right into the lions den.
The baby was crying louder and louder. Eliora noticed that the more he cried, the more items would just appear above or crash down to the floor.
When Eliora, safely, made it to the crib; she looked down at the baby. If he wasn't crying so much, he would have been quite cute at the moment.
He was a one year old baby with thick light brown hair. It came down to the back of his neck and from the front it stopped a bit above his eyes.
His eyes were tightly shut as he cried, his facing turning blue.
At first Eliora didn't know what do to. She wondered why he was crying so much, and the urge to stroke him was quite strong.
So with a slightly shaky hand, Eliora brought her hand down and with her finger, gently stroked the boys left cheek.
Like a jolt of lighting, Eliora closed her eyes and somehow entered the babies mind. It was there that she discovered why he was crying.
His parents had died in a house fire. Since that time he had been calling for his mother and father. They were his only family and the only ones that he had ever loved.
When Eliora opened her eyes again, she found herself staring into the deep dark brown eyes of the baby boy who was looking up at her.
He was no longer crying, and all the things that were zooming around the room had fallen to the floor.
The baby looked up at Eliora with such curiosity that Eliora had to smile down at him.
"Hi." Eliora whispered down towards the baby.
The baby blinked up at Eliora before grinning from ear to ear. He then brought his tiny hands up, like he was reaching towards Eliora.
Eliora brought both of her hands down and placed them on either side of the baby's side. When she was sure that she could pick him up, she slowly did.
The baby hadn't made one sound as he was being lifted up into the air and towards Elioras chest.
When the baby was in Elioras arms, he started to snuggle up to Eliora. His tiny hands closed around Elioras nightgown and held it tightly.
Eliora secured the babies head on her arm and with her other hand underneath his small body.
As Eliora held the baby in her arms, she silently watched as he yawned softly before cuddling closer to Eliora.
The baby was wearing a type of baby long johns that had sailboats all across it. It was the color blue and seemed to be a good color for the baby.
"I wonder what your name is." Eliora pondered as she started to walk around the room with the baby in her arms.
Not a second had gone by when a name entered Elioras mind.
Charlie…Charlie Springdale.
"Charlie." Eliora whispered out the name. At the mention of the baby's name, the baby opened his eyes and looked up at Eliora.
"Your name is Charlie." Eliora said as she looked down at the baby.
Charlie gave her a big grin and giggled. Eliora smiled too and started to walk towards the rocking chair.
No sooner when Eliora sat down on the chair, that lighting flashed and thunder rolled.
Instantly, Charlie started to cry again. His grip on Elioras nightgown tightened as he tried to bury his head deep into Elioras chest.
"Shhh. It's ok Charlie. You're safe. Shhh." Eliora softly spoke as the baby shook in his crying.
Eliora didn't know what do to. The baby was easily scared by anything, not that she could blame him with the thunder and all.
Just when Charlie was about to open up his mouth to start screaming again, Eliora began to sing.
She sang softly and slowly, her voice carrying out like the soft music of a robin. With every note she sang, it was like the dark gloom from outside slowly vanished.
"Come stop your crying, it will be alright
Just take my hand, hold it tight
I will protect you from all around you
I will be here, don't you cry…"
As the words flowed out of Eliora lips, she began to sing louder as the music flowed out of her and over everyone in the orphanage.
Charlie had stopped all together in thinking about crying. All he did now was look up into Elioras amethyst eyes as she sang softly to him a song that held more meaning to the two then anything else.
He held unto Eliora, his two hands holding on to her finger in comfort.
Eliora voice didn't echo all over the orphanage, it flowed over it like a warm blanket. Everyone heard it as clear as if Eliora was singing right in front of them.
Even Mrs. Stone and the staff stopped to admire and seep in the music of Eliora. This was Elioras music, the voice of a Melodie…
As Eliora held Charlie close to her as she sang softly, the rain outside stopped. The lighting ceased and the clouds rolled away.
But Eliora didn't notice, nor did Charlie. All that matter right now was the two children, two souls that will be forever licked by love for each other. This is a love of family…a pure undivided love of brother and sister hood.
Even if no one would ever know, to Eliora and Charlie they were already sisters and brothers long before they entered this world.
As Eliora sang into the night with her new brother sleeping peacefully in her arms, she thought to herself that good things do come in small packages.
From that day on, Eliora would sing for Charlie every night.
Mrs. Stone, after threatening Eliora that if she ever did anything like that again she would lock her up in sweat box for a week, granted her the permission to care for Charlie.
So Eliora would feed Charlie, read to him, educate him, care for him and most importantly she would love him. And Charlie returned that love ever so brightly.
Eliora and Charlie, two souls that will be forever linked by the power of family love.
HAHA! I DID IT!
I have introduced Charlie! Now all I need is two or three chapter more for the orphanage and I will start on the goods.
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Me – See? I made it up to you. I gave you a baby brother.
Eliora - (seen playing with baby Charlie on her lap)
Me – (smiles) Well, since she's busy. I'll just go off to write the next chapter.
(Waves goodbye to Readers as I walk out of the story to my computer)