The human race has always split on how to deal with difference. Some sane individuals can simply recognize it, ignore it, and move on with life. Other more radical folks will either embrace the difference, or despise it's very existence. For a while, there was a period of serious racism, prejudice of the genders, and hatred for those who were not heterosexual. These differences are far more accepted now compared to days of strong religious influence, where disease, abnormalities and deformities were seen as bad omens.
While most first world countries are more acceptable of differences, there are always individuals who are ignorant in how to treat others with unique traits. Some folks who become parents of a young one with serious abnormalities will either care dearly for their child, or toss them. A young girl named Lucy was one of these 'tossed' children. Her only apparent abnormality at birth was very thick red hair. At two years old, Lucy started to grow a pair of ivories on her head. Her family saw it as a sign of serious disease, and dropped her off at a random orphanage.
After some time, she ended up homeless, having to live like a parasite. She hid in people's closets, crawl spaces, etcetera, so she could steal food. One man found her in his attic, and thought she was a demon. He grabbed out a knife, trying to kill her. The man barely cut her multiple times before he grabbed Lucy by the neck. He held Lucy against the wall, getting ready to kill her.
"I'm sending you back to hell, you damn demon!" the man told Lucy with a country accent.
It was at this moment that Lucy felt that she was going to die. She couldn't breath with his hand around her throat. Her heart was pumping really fast, as she saw the blade pull away, before it would be shoved towards her gut. Before it came close to her gut, her eyes changed from light brown, to a dark red color.
"You first!" the young girl said to him.
After she said that, two thuds on the floor could be heard. The man felt strangely light, like someone was lifting him up. The girl landed on her behind, no longer being held against the wall. The man looked at his shoulders, and found both of his arms were completely chopped off. Blood was pouring down from his sides, from the bottom of his ribs, up to his shoulders.
"Oh… my… g…" the man barely said, before dropping backwards to the attic floor.
Young Lucy got to her feet, and told the crazy man, "Next time you want to play with me, know that I play ruff.", before walking away from him.
She climbed down a ladder that lead to the second floor of the house. It was a rather roomy place for one person to live in, but now no one was living in it. Lucy found herself in the kitchen, looking for anything appetizing. To her luck, the man had just brought home some take out. Katsu served on rice, with a side of veggies. She grabbed the take out box, and shoveled the food into her mouth using her hand.
It was half way through the food that she realized, "I… I killed… someone… How?". The girl dropped the food before backing up a few steps. She felt like there was a breeze hitting her shoulder blades. Lucy quickly reached to cover the spot on her back that felt cold. On her back, there was a hole in her shirt. She ran into a bathroom, and turned her back towards the mirror so she could see what happened to the shirt. On her back she found two sliced holes in her shirt. Lucy reached inside her shirt to feel her bare back, but there was nothing different about it. She began to panic, and ran outside to the backyard. She hopped a few fences before finally making it to a street's sidewalk.
Here, she decided to sit down by the fence behind her. It was a cold night, but nothing she couldn't handle sleeping through again. As Lucy tried getting comfortable, she heard someone walk towards her direction. She figured that they wouldn't pay her any mind, and just walk by like so many others have. Only this time, the individual stopped right in front of her, and turned to face her. She looked up at the person, seeing a black man in a dark blue suit with a black tie.
The looked her in the eyes, and said, "Interesting what you did back there, little demon girl.", with an American accent.
Lucy turned her head away, not sure how to react to this stalker. "Go away." she told him.
"Oh, I'll go away, assuming you don't kill like that again. Otherwise, I may have to kill you myself." After saying such a kind thing, he just walked away from Lucy.
She watched him as he left into the darkness of night. After that, Lucy was left in confusion, with a little fear in her head. The night just got more and more strange, and terrifying as it went on. At least now though, the coast was clear, and she was able to leave and find another spot to rest.
Weeks had passed, but the thought of the man threatening her kept popping up in her head. She tried to behave, keep from doing what she did to the man. Since then, she had made friends with a young boy her age. He did all kinds of things for her. The boy gave her a hat to cover her horns, shared some candy with her, and even brought her to a zoo. Ultimately, even for how well the two got along, their relationship wasn't going to last very long. Lucy became obsessed with the boy, being the only friend she had. The boy was unable to hang around her as much, with his family always dragging him around town. One member of his family in particular caught her eye. His cousin, who was almost like a sister to the boy. Lucy spied on them hanging out with each other, wishing that that was her next to him. As her obsession grew, so did something else inside her. Feeling unable to vent out her stress, not able to really talk to anyone about her problems, pain was building because of it. So it was only a matter of time before she went berserk.
A bomb scare accrued at a festival in Kamakura, with multiple bodies being found in many pieces. The issue though, it was not a bomb, and the bodies appeared to be sliced into pieces. Everyone was running in panic, not sure who or what caused the devastating attack. Barely paying attention to her surroundings, Lucy started walking very slowly towards her target. The young boy, his parents, and his little sister got onto a train, getting out of the city to avoid any of the chaos. The girl followed them onto the train, and got ready to strike at the family. She got into the same area boy was sitting, right before he recognized her.
"Oh hey, it's you. I was wondering if I was going to see you at the station." the boy said.
His family all looked at the girl with two spikes coming out of her head. The parents thought they were fake, while the sister was scared of the horns.
"Who's your friend, Rin? And why haven't we met her?" his mother asked him.
"Oh she's someone I met here. I wasn't sure if I could bring her around to play though."
"No one said you couldn't, son. It's not like we hate it when you bring friends around. But a better question is… why is she here now?" the father questioned Rin.
"To fuck around and kill!" said a tall man in a trench coat.
Standing only a few feet behind Lucy, he pulled a gun on the young gal. She turned around to see the barrel of the gun pointing at her face. This sent a slight chill down her spine.
"Oh my god!" a man shouted.
"HE'S GOT A GUN!" a woman screamed.
As people started moving away, the boy's father stood up, and told the tall man, "Hey, we don't need this to happen.".
"If you were me, you'd understand why I'm doing this, dumbass." the tall man said back.
"Look, just… please, don't…" the father said before he was shot twice in the head.
"NOOOOO!" the mother cried out before grabbing his face.
"Daddy! Daddy….?" the sister said before she started crying.
Lucy quickly turned around to see she the sorrow. A family that looked nice and happy, now lost someone dear right before their eyes. That's when she finally realized what she was doing on the train. She was going to kill, and cause this kind of sorrow. The man then pointed the gun towards Lucy, getting ready to put her down. As he the man pulled the trigger, he felt a strong pain in his arm. The bullet that fired went into the sealing, making a slight breeze come inside.
Lucy quickly turned back around to notice that the man had lost his right arm, from the hand to the elbow. With blood dripping everywhere, the tall man was in a weakened state. She took this opportunity to strike, running at him in anger. But before she could get a grip on him, he ran to her side, pulled out a dagger, and proceeded to stab her in the gut. The man, even with his bleeding arm, got close to stabbing the girl in the neck.
"STOP IT!" the little boy cried before he threw a mason jar at the man.
The jar hit his head before breaking on the floor. It gave Lucy the opportunity to attack. She grabbed a hold of the man's torso with her arms and legs, then somehow pushed the two of them outside one of the windows. They went flying down a mountain side, hitting tree tops along the way. Eventually, Lucy let go of the man, and kicked off from his belly to get away from him. With the man tossing down the mountain side, she somehow pulled her body back, and set herself down to the ground very lightly. Lucy started to take a look at the things that saved her, the strange body parts with strong capabilities. Six long, tendrils-like arms, each having a big hand at the end. It wasn't before long that she realized she should get moving, otherwise that strangely durable man might come back for her.
The young girl with tentacles started moving fast, jumped from rooftop to rooftop to avoid being in the sight of anyone. After a while, she ended up Northeast of her hometown, and found herself in Chiba. Lucy became exhausted, and very hungry after her travel. With that being the case, she decided to settle down on top of an apartment building. The area was quiet, so it was ideal for a little R n' R. While it felt nice to have some peace, those few seconds of zen were met with a strange voice.
"What are you doing up here?" the voice said with an American accent.
Lucy looked around to see where the voice came from. Through a few seconds of looking, there was a girl that caught her eye. A pale girl in a dirty red dress, about her age. This girl's eyes were a grayish blue, and her face seemed almost expressionless.
"I could ask you the same, foreigner." Lucy said back.
"You're not after me, then?"
"Why would I want to get you? You look creepy."
"And you're the one who looks freaky."
"Ok, that's it!" Lucy said in irritation before running towards Alma.
She tried striking with two of her extra arms, but only managed to strike through the roof. The girl somehow appeared right in front of Lucy, and grabbed her head.
All of the sudden, the girl disappeared, along with everything surrounding the two. The area around Lucy was dark, feeling cold and wet. For a second, she couldn't hear anything, but then came the whispers. She could hear a couple talking about their infant child.
"My god. These growths. Has she got cancer or something?" a woman said.
"I told you we should've just gotten an abortion. We could barely get by before this child. Now we're likely to get a big ass medical bill." a man said back.
"Maybe we could find a way to pay off…"
"My father was in the Navy, and he couldn't pay off a bill for one hospital visit! I'm not going through that bullshit."
"Well,... What should we do?
"Let's get rid of the damn thing!"
After those whispers, more followed. There were voices of children coming in. Saying awful things about the girl.
"Freak."
"Hey look, it's the demon child."
"It's the monsters."
"Ew! Look at those horns."
The voices became rather repetitive, and sounded darker each time they were said. A few more seconds of this mental torture was enough to push her a bit over the edge. Instead of six, a total of eight invisible arms came out of her back. Each of them swung in multiple directions around here. The darkness was no longer surrounding her, and she could see the roof top again.
Looking straight in front of her, Lucy saw the other girl, with a long cut on her face. Lucy laughed before saying, "That's what you get. Does that cut feel good?".
"I can't feel anything on me." the other girl said.
A dark red aura surrounded the girl in the red dress, and the cut on her face healed.
Lucy asked, "What? How did you…?".
The girl replied with, "My abilities allow me to heal quickly.".
"Well that sounds interesting." another individual said in a maniacal voice.
The two youngsters looked towards an edge of the building, and saw a rather short, crazy looking man. His face appeared to be torn up, and falling apart. He gave the girls a big smile, then started walking towards them. As he got closer, they could see that the man was wearing some casual attire, and appeared to be armed with a pistol.
"You're after me, aren't you?" Lucy asked.
"You? This one is obviously American. If anything, he's come for me." the other girl said to Lucy.
The man stopped about ten feet from the two young girls. He dropped the maniacal smile, and put on a more serious face. "I don't care who's looking to grab you two. The reason I'm here on this roof top was to take a break. Since you two specially gifted children are here, why don't you answer me a question: Why the hell are you two up here, making enough noise to attract the attention of local law enforcement?"
Both of the children looked at him in confusion, before a number of sirens could be heard coming their way. It would seem that trouble follows these two no matter where they go. This very maniac they met will now be the key to their fate. His attitude suggests that they are in for a crazy night, that could include a higher death count.
[Author Notes]
Yay, another chapter done. Here's something random: I like how in the fetish filled Elfin Lied, they try to pass boney cat ears for horns. Oh, and if you thought the original Lucy had a horrible backstory, wait 'til you see what I put the poor girl through. Two psycho kids down. Next time, we'll have a look at the one who has, (or had), a life not too horrifying. In the meantime, remember that this is an SYOC story, and you can send a character in based on the information in my Bio/Profile. Please leave a review as well, I like to hear some criticism, (while it's still legal on the Internet). PEACE!
[P.S.]
Everyone was speaking Japanese in this chapter. Wasn't sure how to set that up, but that's why I put American accent.