Assassination of Memories
Chapter XIII- Their Guardians
Standing above the blazing house the figure turned wondering if everything had gone as planned. Noble Master Ari had told him what to do, that one person was supposed to be left alive. He turned then stopped as the child disappeared. With dark skin and dark brown hair he thought it might have been one of the kids of the house yet her dark grey fogged over eyes were completely different from the faded brown and faded grey of the family of the house that was burning to the ground. She had disappeared the instance he saw her, vanishing into thin air. Taking to the sky he ignored it, flying back to the Organization.
A woman pushed a fallen beam off of herself, eyes darting around the flaming room. She and her family weren't supposed to be here, they should have stayed home. "Adam!" She cried get up and jumping back when another beam, this one blazing orange, fell in her path. She went around it running to the door and out of it, screaming for her husband over and over. Soon smoke too thick the woman started coughing when she heard a voice. "Mum over here! Papa's not waking up!" The woman ran to the voice of the child, out of the smoke the little girl and her father appeared. "Mercede!" the woman said hugging the girl with short hair the colour of the flames around them and eyes the colour of grass. The woman didn't see the man that stood beside the girl rubbing the eight year old's back and the older woman by the man that laid unconscious on the ground. The two older adults that could not be seen looked at each other nodding. They disappeared their work done as the woman took her husband and her child running out of the flaming house. Others weren't so fortune, only the three people survived the fire.
A few days later Mercede was playing in the backyard of their new home in Arizona playing with her new friend Ella. The black haired girl giggled as Mercede jumped onto the fence to get away from the little pug that had chased after Mercede. "Ella you know I don't like dogs it's not funny!" Mercede cried trying to get farther away from the dog. A sky blue bandana pulled her hair out of her face, underneath the bandana her hair spiked out. Grabbing a stick Mercede tried to fend the dog off remembering how many times she had to run away from dogs when she was little. "Ella get her away from me!" Mercede was close to tears. "Sorry, Cede come on Magnolia." Ella called the dog. The pug turned, then affrightedly barked and ran off into the forest. "Magnolia!" Ella cried running after the dog Mercede eased off the fence. She turned smiling, "Thanks Silas." She said to the man standing there. He had saved her from the burning house before, looking like her uncle from pictures that her Mum had. Silas smiled sadly before he turned disappearing. That night Ella came crying to Mercede that Magnolia had run away. Despite the fact Mercede didn't like dogs she comforted Ella until the girl went back home.
Silas sat down with a sigh, Carter glanced up setting his cowboy hat on the table beside the couch he was on. "You okay Silas? You're looking more and more upset every day." Carter said to the man. "Why can't we speak to them? I want to tell her what actually happened to her parents but I can't. Mercede doesn't deserve to be left in the dark like that." Silas sighed. Carter closed his eyes nodding, "But it was brave of Anita to take the girl in, even though she couldn't find her real child." Silas looked at the boy as the navy blue eyes opened. "How could someone mistake a stroller, don't you look in it before you walk away? Adam was taken that way, and that's how Mercede lost her mother. She thinks her mother hated her but that wasn't the truth." Silas was close to punching something. Carter looked the man over. The man's dirt blond hair untrimmed when past his jaw, his faded ocean blue eyes looked miserable, Silas' tanned hands were clenched at his sides. Carter walked over putting a hand on the man's shoulder.
"Guardians are supposed to be there in case we can change things. Being allowed to be seen by our Protected and to talk to them is too much to ask Silas. At least Cede can see you, that's all that should matter." Carter said. Silas nodded, "I guess you're right."
Mercede, Carter, Silas and the two adults were originally planned out, Hunter wasn't. I've gotten a couple reviews saying certain characters seem newly explored as if I didn't know who they were. Mercede was planned out long before Hunter, Hunter came up just before I wrote the chapter he comes into the story at.