I'm back again with another chapter in Eternal Winter! Can you believe we only have three more chapters till the last chapter! (That is the next two days plus today.) I'm going to start with the disclaimer then see you at the end!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-gi-oh I only own Winter and the Eternal Family.
Father has lost it finally, today he just tore up the master bed room. I had witnessed it all, him throwing things around and against the wall. He even broke one of the windows in the master bed room that threw him further into a rage. Why are things happening like this? In the mean time I moved the location of this diaries hiding spot from my room to the back of the library father or anyone but me refuses to go. I see this as the safest place other than the lake.
Ryou awoke early for some odd reason and ended up on the fifth floor of the manor, it was still night from what he could tell and he was lying at the foot of the stairs to the roof. Sitting up Ryou looked around him and found that on the steps there was blood that looked like it had been dragged across the floor and up the steps. Backing up Ryou looked about and screamed loudly as a body fell from the steps. The body looked familiar to Ryou as his breathing became heavy the closer he got to it. It was Celia. "Oh god!" Ryou screamed as he ended up tripping over his own two feet. There were a pair of feet walking slowly down the stairs as Ryou started hyperventilating. The sound of blood dripping off something echoed down the steps as a shadowy figure walked towards Celia's body and dragged it away by the hand until the figure reached the stairs then the figure held something in the air and muttered something he could not hear before Celia's head rolled towards him. Ryou screamed even louder as the figure began walking towards him, the object in their hand was a knife and in the other bloodied hand was a revolver. Ryou screamed as the knife started coming down.
Ryou sat up gasping in fear, he was still alive. What was that dream about? Who murdered Celia? Who murdered the family? Who tried to murder him? Questions piled up in his mind as Ryou's throat felt dry, he had been screaming throughout his nightmare. Standing up Ryou looked out the window past the manor at the direction of the lake. Something told him to go there. Walking down the steps towards the door Ryou looked out the window and saw that there was a simple tent set up next to the house. Were Malik and the others still asleep? Did they hear him screaming? Again questions kept filling Ryou's mind as he slid on his converse and took his jacket. Putting it on Ryou stepped out into the midnight air using only his eyes until he was past the manor to turn on the flash light he took with him.
Walking to the lake proved easy for Ryou as he had memorized the path from before, once he was at the lake however Ryou began feeling the presence of someone watching him again. As Ryou edged towards the water as far as he dared he noticed in the dense fog that a boat was docked in the grass surrounding the lake as if it was waiting for him. Stepping towards the boat Ryou looked behind him at the way he came and pushed the boat out into the icy water before stepping into the boat. An oar had been placed conveniently in the boat as Ryou picked it up and used it to paddle across the lake towards the small island at the center of the lake.
The trip proved to take only minutes as he rowed through water that was deeper than he originally thought, soon though Ryou felt the boat come to a stop as it hit land. Stepping out Ryou found that a rope had been on the island tied to a tree and used that to tie the boat to shore. Looking up Ryou saw the moon and the stars, stunningly beautiful. Why hadn't he noticed how clear the sky was compared to the one he saw at Domino? Was it because the manor prevented him from viewing it? Shaking his head Ryou began walking up a small hill towards the small shack on the lake, there was a rusted pad lock on the door as Ryou put his hands in his pockets from the cold, his hand hit something metal in his pocket as he pulled it out. A key matching the lock on the door! Using the key on the pad lock Ryou turned the rusted handle and stepped inside, using his flashlight to see the interior. The walls had words written and carved into them. All the same question "Why?" Ryou read aloud when his eyes traveled to a sentence, a full sentence. Written in blood by a hand much different than the one that wrote why. This sentence had Ryou ask himself what does it mean when he read it aloud "God have Mercy on the girl?" Ryou asked as the wind from the outside came through the broken window and open door. Panning his flashlight across the small shack Ryou found that there was a desk with a leather bound book, a bloody stain and a revolver that looked exactly like the one in his dream. Ryou turned to leave when something fell out of his pocket, turning to pick it up Ryou's eyes wandered to under the desk and found the skellington of a girl in the same exact outfit Winter wore. He let out a blood curtailing scream as he ran dropped his flashlight and got into the boat, paddling across the lake and running back to the cabin, back into bed.
That was Winter's body. Of course it had to be, right? Ryou asked himself this as he recalled that in the articles he found of the murder at the manor, both Winter and her father's bodies were never found and that only two people at the manor survived, the Groundskeeper and Celia's Fiance. Well he found hers and when he did the memories that didn't belong to him started coming.
I was dazed when the man lifted my head from the water and dragged me into a boat rowing across the lake, towards the shack. He dragged me onto the cold and wet grass until I reached dry dirt. Then a screaming pain came into my neck as I watched my own blood spill across the dirt floor, a pair of fingers writing something onto the wall then taking their clothes off, then mine, as they raped my dying body. I wanted to scream but, I found that I couldn't. I wanted to cry but, found that I had no tears to shed. I wanted to kick, to punch, to defend myself from this man who killed me. I found that I couldn't even move, I found that I was a ghost. Found that I was dead. That I was dead and was watching the man that murdered me, rape me a sick sick man, rape a dead girl for pleasure. Sick sick sick! There was a revolver on the ground as I summoned enough strength to pick it up and shoot the man in the skull, his blood splattering across my bodies face. I smiled as I dragged him into the middle of the lake and waited for his body to disappear from view before pushing my body into the corner and covering it in flowers. I did get my wish of salvation but, I didn't die the way I wanted to die. I died the way he wanted me to die. I let him in and let him destroy me. I let him kill me. The monster.
Ryou gasped as he fell to the floor and looked up, it was mid morning and the sun had risen halfway across the sky. There was Winter's diary on the table along with his laptop, the urge to write caught his fingers as Ryou, still in his pajamas, sat down in front of the computer and opened both it and Winter's Diary up. He began typing away when a writing document had been pulled up, starting with the title of "The true story of Eternal Manor". He erased it and typed "The story of Eternal Manor" Again he erased this and typed "Winter's story". No matter what he tried the name he wrote down wouldn't fit the story. That's when Winter was behind him, her face was over his shoulders as she whispered to him Eternal Winter Ryou looked at her as his fingers went over the keys gracefully. "Eternal Winter?" He asked as Winter nodded. For some reason the name stuck in his mind. Winter was about to leave when Ryou grabbed her hand, well tried to, and succeeded. For some reason now he could feel her as a human, was it because he saw her body at the lake? Turning her around he wrapped his arms around her and whispered "I know what they did to you." As Winter stepped back in shock she gasped. You know? She sounded so unsure, so afraid. Then out of nowhere, Ryou was on the ground and Winter was on top of him with her lips against his. Thank you for understanding. She whispered as she vanished into thin air.
He stood off the floor and brushed any dirt from him. Ryou couldn't believe what Winter had just done. What he had just felt. He never really felt this way about a person before, why was he feeling this way for a dead girl? Why did he love Winter? Ryou blushed at the thought of him with her in bed like the first night they…. kissed…. That's why! Ryou realized, The reason he could feel her was because he made her feel alive, because he loved her! His heart racing Ryou sat down and started writing feverishly, turning page after page of Winter's Diary. Writing things down word for word. Soon the Diary was done and Ryou ended up renaming the story to "Eternal Winter: Diary of the Dead" It stuck like that in his mind as Ryou sent the story to the publisher in Domino and almost right away after an hour a message appeared in his inbox. The publishers wanted to publish the book and would have it done in a day or so. A smile spread across his face as Ryou closed the laptop and pulled out the list of things he needed to complete. Writing her story was complete, Ryou crossed that out but now, he needed to find the real murderer. That meant he had to force Winter to tell him. Now matter what, Winter had to tell him who the real killer was.
Yawning Ryou changed into a new set of pajamas and fell into a deeper sleep then he had ever before, this time, there were no dreams or feelings. Just the peaceful sleep Ryou wanted and had been starved of for the last few days.
Well that's the end of this chapter. I hope you liked it. Who is the killer though, was it the GroundsKeeper, Celia's Fiance, the Father, or was it her brother, Maybe it was even Winter herself, or even was it a random psychopath set on revenge for the men that were lost in a grave robbing incident the week before? Only the writer knows but, you can take a guess at who it is. The answer will be out in the next chapters. Till then ~ Nisa-cha