Chapter 38: Rock-a-bye-Baby
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Direk glanced past the alter and at the throne before gesturing towards it, "We want Notch to take his rightful spot as King back. Herobrine is nothing but a villainous devil and will only bring our world, our Minecraftia, into shambles. I will not live in world run by a despicable corrupt tyrant." Direk said as he glared back over at Herobrine.
"My Father has willfully stepped down and proclaimed me as King of Minecraftia. I have been justly and rightfully given my birthright."
Lassie and Direk glance at each other calmly with another insightful look at each other. They knew something that the rest of them didn't know. Herobrine could tell they were holding something back and it was aggravating him. "You think King Notch would actually let YOU have the throne." Direk said venomously towards Herobrine. Hero narrowed his white glowing eyes as Direk Aurich replied to him.
"Yes, he did." Herobrine responded darkly.
"My brother is not lying! I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own two ears what my Father said. This is utter madness Direk and Lassie. You better not harm Antares! That innocent baby should not be put into danger because of conflicting political views." Steve spoke up seriously. Direk and Lassie both glanced over at Steve blankly. Lassie scoffed and glared down at Antares, who was still whimpering and crying softly in her arms.
"This 'child' is not innocent. He is an heir to Herobrine's legacy. When he grows up he'll just be the same as his Father, a bloody tyrant. He even has the same wicked eyes." Lassie said while she stared down at the sobbing baby boy. Looking back up at the four, she shook her head. Her long golden blonde pigtails bouncing back and forth as she shook her head. "You might think I'm some kind of monster for threatening a helpless little baby, but I'm doing this for the better good of Minecraftia. Right Direk?" Lassie said and turned her dark blue eyes to look at Direk in expectancy. Direk looked at her from the side of his silvery blue eyes and nodded his head in agreement.
"Right, Lassie… Jeopardizing one child will save many more in the future to come. It is not something we take pleasure in doing, so don't think we like holding a helpless baby captive. We are the Rebellion of Minecraftia. The benevolent rebels that are leading a sound revolution to a safer and peaceful world. Sometimes, we must play dirty to get what will ultimately save Minecraftia and its people. Its just the way things work"
"Tch, I think it is nothing but cowardly of you to use my newborn son as your own shield to cower behind. You know very well you two would be lying dead in a pool of your own blood in front of me currently if you didn't have him in your clutches. As the King of Minecraftia, I strive for the betterment of it but unfortunately it is plagued with blind fools like you who cannot see the truth. You are the reason Minecraftia needs to be purged of pestilence like yourselves."
Red suddenly stood back up and pointed harshly at the two rebels furiously, "I don't give a fuck what political view you have! There is NO justification to put an innocent baby in danger! How is his life being taken going to save Minecraftia!? Huh!?"
Direk didn't even flinch at Red's loud assertion as he stood there with his frozen golden sword still out at his side. He calmly looked over at Red and replied, "With the child gone there will be no chances of future generations dealing with a possible dictator from Herobrine's bloodline. The Minecraftian lands will be much safer with a King who knows what he is doing like King Notch. Herobrine is corrupt and selfish, only caring about himself and his own nefarious desires. That is not what a King is or does. Notch has always kept Minecraftia held tightly in his iron fist. A perfect leader. He cares not for himself but for his people, they always came first. He is a true leader of our world."
"Absurd… Where is my Father? He would diffuse all this pitiful misunderstanding that you two have." Herobrine brought up as he glanced around the throne room's foyer searchingly. It wasn't when a sudden realization hit him with full force. Wait… Why was Notch not there in the first place? Wouldn't he would have wanted to watch the wedding? He knew Notch was suspicious of his rule, but he couldn't truly have held that much hatred to not have come view his own son's wedding?
"I-… I don't know." Steve said as he caught onto Herobrine's gaze. The two twin brothers shared a perturbed expression. Steve too seemed like he was catching on to the bizarre absence of their Father. Where was Notch? While they were looking around perplexed, Red grinds her teeth and walked over in front of Direk and Lassie with her sword, The Starless Gale, extended out at them threateningly. Direk took his own sword and lifted it up defensively as she approached them. Lassie backed off with Antares and held the knife's blade closer to his tiny neck.
"Stay back, you! I'm warning you!" Lassie hissed as she kept backing away from Red.
"Give me back my baby." Red growled viciously. "Or I'll kill the both of you myself." Red threatened murderously, which only made Lassie snort mockingly back at her for even suggesting such a thing.
"You don't get it do you? Take ONE more step and I WILL do it!" Antares was now sobbing loudly and it made Little Red's heart painfully ache for him. She just wanted to scoop up her poor baby boy and sweetly whisper to him that everything would be alright as she hugged and kissed him all over. Yet, she was stuck in between a rock and a hard place. She could attempt to use her black magic to save Antares, but it could possibly touch and kill her child, which was out of the question. Plus, if she tried to attack, Lassie might actually use that knife and do her dirty deed to Antares. She felt though if Antares was in her arms much longer, she might just do it, anyway.
"What are you expecting us to do!?" Red shouted in frustration. Direk answered this time as he kept his chilled icy golden sword's tip pointed straight at Red at the ready.
"Herobrine must step down to us as prisoner and be imprisoned. Same with you. Now you can both feel what my older brother Wolfgang felt like left trapped in Herobrine's torture chambers by himself with Ruth. You showed him no mercy, even in death, and I will show you none either. Do this and we will leave the baby alone, unscathed" Direk inquired as he stared Little Red down with narrowed silvery eyes. Red's black opal sword lowered as she glanced over at Herobrine searchingly for how to proceed. Herobrine looked back at her and frowned sadly. They knew what they had to do. Trying to fight back would only possibly put Antares in intimate danger.
"And what are you going to to us?" Blue asked with a glare of her own at the black-haired German accented messenger boy.
"You are nothing but traitors to King Notch for letting this happen. You should be banished forever!" Lassie proclaimed harshly but Direk shook his head in disagreement to her brazen notion.
"No, that would be too forgiving for them. They will also be imprisoned, Sapphire and Steve. At least, until they come to their senses to who really belongs on the throne." Direk said and then gestured for his remaining black assassins to go forward and get ready to take them as prisoners. "You will accept to back down, right?" Direk and Lassie waited for a reply.
The room was thick with intense heavy silence before Herobrine sighed and spoke up, "If it will save my son… then I will." Herobrine replied lowly as he lowered his gaze down to the ground shamefully. He despised looking so weak and defeated, but he just couldn't take the chance of Antares being murdered by these two insane rebels. He knew he could use his magic that was at his disposal, but it was highly risky and he just couldn't afford for even one ill-advised finger to be lifted against his newborn son.
Direk smiled at this submission and nodded, "Good choice, for once… Take them away."
"What are you going to do with my baby!" Red snapped loudly as two black cladded assassins came over and grabbed onto each of her shoulders from both sides. She glanced at them both with a deep glare, but didn't make the very tempting action to assault them with all the power she had.
"Oh, don't worry, we'll take very gooood care of him." Lassie smiled and cuddled screaming Antares to her face. "He might even consider me his mommy after awhile. What do you think?" Lassie snorted a taunting giggle as she traced her pointer finger across his soft cheek. Antares cringed away from her touch and whined helplessly with a tremble. Red clenched her teeth roughly and tried to rip out of the hold the rebel ninja assassins had on her. They held her firmly back before she could go charging at Lassie to punch that bitch in the face. What nerve she had to mock a grieving mother in front of her face!
Red doubled over in the men's grip and began crying and screaming loud profanities as the assassins began yanking her away. Herobrine death-glared the other approaching men that were coming near him, he made it very clear he would kill them if he was even touched once. So instead of grabbing onto him, they let him came willing. Blue and Steve were also apprehended but with their hands tied behind their back as they were beginning to be led towards the dank dungeons of the massive castle. Lassie took her sharp silvery knife away from Antares' neck and sheathed it back on her hip, while she watched as Red, Blue, Steve, and Herobrine were driven away towards the dungeons. Direk followed after them as Lassie lingered behind, holding Antares, who was still fussing noisily within her arms.
"Oh shut up, ya' brat." Lassie murmured once the four were out of view. She stared down at Antares, who she swore was glaring her back with those white glowing voids that were his eyes. "You have some creepy eyes, kid." Lassie scoffed and felt strangely unnerved by the intense stare Antares was suddenly giving her. She tried to brush if off, but she really wished the infant could stop giving her that look. His eyes were painfully identical to his Father's and Lassie was terrified of Herobrine, though she would never admit it aloud. Lassie prodded her pointer finger back at Antares' face playfully and was pleasantly surprised when he abruptly bit her finger. The kid apparently had some pretty sharp baby teeth on him because she yelped in pain.
"OW, you little snot nose brat!" Lassie gasped and then deeply glared Antares down as he began to revert into a fit of cute giggles at her pain.
In the dimly lit dungeons, Herobrine and Red were placed in adjacent cells across from each other. Steve and Blue were put next to them on the other cells next to their own. Direk smirked as he admired the delightful scene in front of him. It was so refreshing to him to see Herobrine finally put behind bars, and to think Direk was only a messenger boy, not even a soldier, and was able to carry out such a daring feat. Looks like all it took was a well-thought out plan to catch Herobrine at his weakest. Direk stared with cruel eyes at Little Red as she was kneeled down in her small cramped and cold cell room by herself. Herobrine watched from the other side with an ominous glare as Direk crouched in front of her cell and began talking to her. "Now you know how my brother felt."
"I didn't kill your brother on purpose, asshole." Red replied snappishly in a low growl. Direk shook his head disbelievingly with much spite and scoffed at her crude answer to him.
"You killed my dear big brother in cold-blood. It was your murderous bloodied hands that were the cause of his demise. You even killed poor Ruth alongside that devil of a man."
"For one thing get your facts straight! I was under Herobrine's influence to kill Wolfgang but you know what. He probably deserved it, just like you do too." Red hissed and spat at him which made him cringe back quickly in disgust. Red continued to silently glare at him as he backed off and brushed off the saliva that landed on his cheek.
"You disgusting filthy whore! I hope you enjoy rotting away in there for the rest of your miserable life!" Direk shouted and stormed away from her, catching the deadly look emanating from Herobrine's glowing menacing white eyes in the darkness of his prison cell. They were like two glowing white orbs of light that shined in through the dark of the shadows like twinkling burning stars of the galaxy.
Red brought her shaking hands to her face as she began crying. She was still dressed in her white wedding gown as she let her heated blurry tears fall down her face. Herobrine stood up from where he was sitting in the darkness of his cell and grabbed onto the iron bars as he stared at his mourning wife. "Red…" Herobrine spoke up softly to get her attention. Red didn't hear him at first, it wasn't until he spoke her name again when she finally looked up at him. Rubbing at her tearful light brown eyes, she stared over at him with a sad expression.
"Hero…" She whimpered out his name and crawled over to the front of the bars, to hold onto them as she gazed through the gapes.
"Its going to be okay, dear heart. We will get out of this." Herobrine attempted to reassure her dwindling confidence of escaping out of this dilemma.
"He's right, lil' Red! We'll get out of this in a jiffy! Just uh… Hold on tight while I think of something!" Red heard Steve yell out confidently as usual from his cell that was beside Herobrine's cell. She could very faintly see him, trying to stick his head out of the bars to catch her gaze. It was slightly awkward looking but she could see him ever so slightly. Blue was the only one Red couldn't see at all since her cell was next to her own and large dirty cobblestone walls separated them from view.
"What are they going to do to Antares? I can't stand the thought of that blonde bitch holding my baby." Red said as she thought painfully on Lassie and her cruel words to her.
Herobrine shook his head with a faint frown. "I do not know but don't panic, Scarlett. They said they wouldn't harm him as long as we came willingly." Herobrine tried calming down Scarlett, but it wasn't working that well. She was still extremely sick to her stomach in fear for her defenseless baby fending for himself with that terrible dreadful woman.
Blue listened to what they were saying and decided to speak up herself as something crossed her mind, "Where is Notch in all of this? I have yet to see him." Blue exclaimed thoughtfully, bringing up the very questionable thoughts that had been on Herobrine and Steve's mind for awhile during this.
Steve frowned as he looked over at Blue and replied, "I don't know, Blue. I haven't seen him the entire day now that I think of it. Has anyone else?"
"No, I have a feeling like something is off." Herobrine replied to his younger brother.
"I didn't see him at all at the wedding. Why would he not show up for it? Wouldn't that be something a father would never pass up?" Red questioned, leaving everyone silent in thought for a long moment of time.
Blue was the first one to speak up after a couple minutes of deafening silence. "I think I was the last one to see Notch. I was talking to him yesterday about the wedding preparations and he seemed really flighty about it for some reason. He didn't even look me in the eyes at all, he was nervous." Blue exclaimed as she thought back on her odd discussion with the bearded ex-king.
"Why would my Father act that way?" Steve wondered out loud as he began rubbing his chin in pondering. Herobrine and Red also thought about it until something in Red threw up a lit up light bulb in her mind's eye. She wasn't so sure it was correct information and she hoped it wasn't. "Do you think that maybe Notch is still not okay with Herobrine being King?" Red inquired with a troubled frown on her red lips.
"What would that have to do with anything?" Blue asked in confusion, but Herobrine cut in before she could say anything else.
"A lot, actually. I should've expected some kind of rebellion to be formed against me after being anointed king of Minecraftia. But I think I know where Red is going with this, as it has also been on my mind. Notch has been acting strangely, Blue only confirms this by her discussion with him yesterday. It seems highly suspicious that those two out there would be fighting for Notch to be king, if they already know Notch has purposely given me the throne. There was something about them that wasn't quite telling of the full truth of the situation. I believe my Father might be much more involved in this than I first anticipated." Herobrine spoke with a scowl tugging down on his lips as he thought intently on it.
Steve was the first to speak up in alarm right after Herobrine, "Are you saying that you think Father is against us?"
"Against me." Herobrine corrected.
Blue's icy eyes widen as she finally realizes what Herobrine was alluding on. She stands up from where she was sitting on the floor and looks out through the gapes of the iron bars to try and catch a glimpse of Herobrine from the diagonal positioning they were both in. "Notch must have betrayed us!" She shouts a little more loudly than necessary.
"Whoa, hold on, Blue! Let's not get too ahead of ourselves! We can't be sure of that." Steve quickly butted in to defend his Father's integrity. Though part of himself wasn't so sure of his own father's intention anymore. Where was he during all of this chaos? It all seemed too unorthodox to be coincidental.
"But it would make absolute sense! He obviously didn't want Herobrine to be king of Minecraftia in the first place. He must be using this whole ordeal as some kind of gimmick to actually getting rid of Herobrine all together. Maybe, Notch is the one behind this pulling the strings. What if he wanted Direk and Lassie to gather a group of assassins and do the dirty work themselves? It would quietly get rid of all of us without making Notch look bad. Nobody would suspect him. And with Herobrine 'quietly' out of the picture, he could take his place back as king." Blue explained her carefully thought out belief of the situation that they were dealing with. The dungeon got eerily silent again as everyone processed what Blue had said in their minds. It was certainly something to mull over.
"It makes sense but we can't be certain." Steve replied a bit solemnly. He really didn't like the thought of his Father betraying them all. Red sighed heavily and ran her hand through the locks of her short fiery red hair.
"That bastard probably threw us under the bus. Why can't he just accept Herobrine as king, already? Why would he try to have both of his only sons killed? It seriously pisses me off." Red grumbled from her cell. "Way to ruin my wedding day…"
Herobrine frowned and leaned against the sturdy bars to stare over at Red, who was sitting there with one hand held on to the iron bars. She had her eyes lowered in anguish, her bangs falling in her face. "Whether my Father has betrayed me or not. It still is not getting us out of this predicament we're in." Herobrine said as he watched Little Red nod her head and finally look up into his eyes from afar.
"You're right. But how are we going to get out of here?"
The imprisoned group fell into pure silence as they all went back to pondering. This time for a way to escape and get Antares back from the rebels Direk and Lassie.
"Oi, this baby won't shut up! It just keeps crying and crying its eyes out! Its so freaking annoying!" Lassie whined grouchily as she held out Antares in her extended arms in front of her in disgust. Direk was back with her as the two were about to meet up with someone.
"Then make it quiet down. Don't you have any maternal qualities in you?" Direk replied in annoyance while rolling his eyes as Lassie shot him a defensive glare.
"Of course, I do but the kid isn't gonna' shut up. Not without its actual mom." Lassie said snidely back. Direk shook his head and resisted to eye roll again at his golden blonde pony-tailed comrade.
"It'll tire out sooner or later." Direk waved carelessly at Lassie who continued to glare at him as she tried to calm down Antares. It wasn't until a wooden door opened up into the throne room's foyer when Notch stepped out into view. He looked over at Direk and Lassie who stood up painfully straight when they caught view of the respected man.
"Sir!" They both said at the same time as Notch stood in front of them. He smiled warmly towards them and shook his head.
"There is not need for the formalities but thank you." Notch replied with his friendly demeanor. The two looked at each other briefly but neither one ever backed down to standing up straight in front of him. "So it looks like you have the baby. How did it go?" Notch asked as he glanced down to look at Antares. He had seen the baby before since it had been born and it had still frightened him to see the infant's eyes look so indistinguishably like his oldest son's own bright wispy eyes.
"It went off without a hitch, sir. I mean- Notch." Direk replied with a respectful bow of his head to his leader. Notch stroked his black beard and nodded with a dangerous overtone glinting in his deep brown eyes.
"Indeed, this is very good news. Where are they now?"
"In the dungeons. We have them locked away, they came willingly to keep the child safe." Direk explained while Lassie nodded alongside him as he spoke. Notch took a step forward and looked down at Antares. The baby boy caught his gaze and Notch sensed something indistinguishably menacing about the child at that very moment. The young baby was glaring up at him hatefully with those bright glowing white eyes. It was like the child knew of what was going on and he seemed very unhappy by it. "What will you want to do with them?"
Notch looked up from Antares and at Direk calmly, "You should know what I want you to do with them. We already explained this."
Direk looked down and nodded shamefully, "Yes, I apologize, King Notch. But doing this would go against the agreement we had made with them."
Notch scoffs and then makes an eerie smile towards Direk and Lassie, "And how would this matter? They would never agree to be slaughtered. No one in their right mind would." Notch shook his head with a frustrated sigh and began pacing back and forth. Lassie and Direk gulped anxiously as Notch summoned out his powerful sword magically into his right hand. "What I want is very simple. Kill Herobrine and Scarlett. They have caused enough complications for Minecraftia and it's innocence. If I must do away with my oldest son for the betterment of the land and Minecraftia's citizens, I will make such a large sacrifice." Notch said as he stared at this diamond sword that glinted prettily in the light of the room.
Lassie rocked Antares back and forth as he kept whimpering like a kicked puppy in her arms. Staring at Notch, she spoke up unsurely, "Why give up your throne in the first place, King Notch? Couldn't have you killed Herobrine and Scarlett when they first arrived here to kill Sorcerer Nicholas?"
Notch staring at his sword still, he shook his head, "No… I could have but its much simpler this way. Giving up my throne lulled Herobrine into a false sense of security. He thought nothing could go wrong, that he had everything good given to him on a sliver platter. But not anymore, Herobrine is not ever fit to be a King. He is a murderer of my people, of innocent life. I only agreed to let Herobrine have the throne in the first place so this could all play out. Patience wins the race and I have paid my debts in full. Herobrine must be eradicated along side the Otherworldly woman, Scarlett." Notch told them as he finally looked up from his heavily enchanted sword to look back over at Lassie and Direk.
Direk nodded quietly to Notch with a confident look in his blue eyes, "What about Sapphire and Steve?"
Notch lowered his eyes and frowned sadly, "It pains me to think I would ever have to get rid of both of my boys. I just don't know if I have it in me to let you do off with Steve. He is the only son who stuck around for me, however, his ways unfortunately have wavered over to Herobrine's behalf now." Notch took a deep breath before closing his eyes tightly and speaking with a hoarse voice, he said, "Kill them all."
Lassie and Direk glanced at each other in surprise but nodded nevertheless to their king, "If this is what you wish, King Notch. It shall be done." Direk replied and bowed again in respect. Lassie made a low curtsy and soon began walking away together with Direk. Notch stared back at his sword's reflection of his self with troubled pained eyes.
"It must be done…" He murmured lowly while closing his dark eyes again. He was left in deafening silence within the throne room foyer as he stood there all alone to himself to think of what he had just ordered upon his two and only sons. Death.
A whole full day went by and Herobrine, Steve, Red, and Blue were still locked up in their cells by themselves. Direk went in to check them a couple times to make sure they weren't doing anything suspicious. Lassie kept taking care of Antares but the longer she was with the child, the more strange things she would encounter. She was feeling highly paranoid as she cleaned up Antares and put him in a new clean diaper. "Wonderful! I get to play mommy dearest while that twit Direk keeps stalling this process to kill your stupid parents. I better not get stuck with you after they die. I'm so not babysitting for free." Lassie spoke to Antares as she finished up changing him to much of her distaste. Antares was staring at her and not crying this time but just giving her that intense glare that he gives. It kinda creeped her out.
Placing Antares in his white crib from within Red and Herobrine's room in the Overworld castle. She stared at Antares and surely enough he was staring back at her with that same look. "Stop looking at me like that." Lassie bristled and went over to get a baby bottle from under a cupboard. "If I give you a stinkin' bottle with you stop staring at me like that?" Lassie kept talking aloud to Antares as she bend over to grab a bottle for the kid. The second she leaned in and reached inside the cupboard, the door to it suddenly moved on its own and slammed roughly right into the side of her head. She saw twinkling stars as her vision almost blackened out. She howled out in pain and quickly yanked herself away from the cupboard that slammed on its own on her. "What the bloody hell!?" She yelped, quickly sending a look over at Antares who laid there in the crib and continuing to watch her with his much calmer white glowing eyes. He giggled from her painful screech and that send her over the edge. "You dirty little brat hardly deserve a damn bottle! Did you do that? …Rrrr, No, you couldn't. What am I saying… You're just a baby." Lassie trailed off and sighed heavily as she held the side of her aching head, while holding the bottle in her other free hand.
"Here's your damn milk, kid." Lassie stuck the bottle into Antares' mouth. The baby took the baby bottle and began drinking from it but never once did he stop watching Lassie. She growled at this and was wishing she could put a blindfold over the kid to get him to stop staring at her.
"Can't you just go to sleep? I have so much better things to be doing then babysitting creepy children." Lassie whined as she watched Antares continue to suck on his bottle. Lassie rubbed the side of her now bruised head and went to sit down on a rocking chair in the room. Taking a deep breath, she sat down and the moment she put her weight onto the wooden chair. It broke into pieces. She screamed out loud as she fell down with the debris from the wooden chair. Antares watched and smirked as he kept drinking from his bottle. Lassie now had a aching bruised head and a pained bruised bum on top of it. Either, she had the worst luck in the world suddenly or something weird was going on. Ever since she had this kid in her possession, unexplainable things have been taking place.
Embarrassed by all that was happening to her, she stood up and began rubbing her behind with a whiny groan. "What is going on around here- OWWW!" She squealed again as Antares finished his bottle and threw it over at Lassie. Hitting her directly on the side of the head that was already hurting from the cupboard. "WHY YOU LITTLE SHIT!" Lassie stormed over to Antares and glared hatefully down at him. He giggled at her furious face which made her lose her mind. "You know what!? Who cares if you die or not!? Its not like you'e gonna have a mommy and daddy anymore real soon, brat! I'm done with this shit! Direk can take care of you! I'm done!" Lassie shoved the crib, making it sway back and forth harshly. Antares whined from this action but Lassie didn't care as she was storming straight for the door's exit.
It wasn't until she grabbed onto the door handle when the shit hit the fan. The door was locked. It wasn't locked before! Lassie kept rattling the silver door knob but it wouldn't budge. "What the hell is going on now!?" She shouted and kicked the door out of angry. Hissing a little from pain from doing something so stupid, she turned around and looked back over at Antares who was seconds from crying as he was currently sniffling. The golden blonde maid furrowed her brows and shuddered when she felt a chill go down her spine. There was a ominous dark presence emitting from the infant child. She couldn't explain it but she was suddenly afraid to go near him. "What… What are you?" She shuddered and backed away into the door.
Antares's glowing eyes were beginning to darken from their white color. His veins were also darkening and turning a pitch black color, just like his mother. The baby sniffled some more before abruptly wailing out a ear-piercing scream at the top of his tiny lungs. Lassie held her hands to her ears as Antares screamed like a banshee. The windows in the room suddenly cracked and exploded out shattering of glass into the room. Lassie screamed in terror as Antares's eyes had turned a pitch black color that made him look almost demonic from having no irises. His veins were also black as night. Lassie shuddered as the wind picked up from outside and was blasting into the room wickedly, making the violet curtains flap wildly with the breeze. A darkness was appearing from the corner Antares was in. He kept crying, seemingly louder and louder until Lassie could see a black inky like substance pour from the walls like some kind of horror movie. "W-w-what the h-hell!?" Lassie turned and began panicking as she rattled the door knob desperately. "SOMEONE HELP ME!" She screamed fearfully but no one came.
She screamed even louder when she saw the black substance was now dripping from the door knob's handle, her hand burnt from touching it. Lassie backed away and turned to look at Antares, "STOP DOING THIS, YOU EVIL DEVIL CHILD!"
The baby only kept crying and the wind kept bustling in and running through her long blonde pigtails wildly. She ran over and put her hands on his neck to choke the child to death, "JUST DIE YOU EVIL PIECE OF SHIT!" Right as she put pressure on Antares' neck, the baby snapped open his black glowing eyes from having his eyes closed and crying. Lassie's breath hitched in her throat as she stared down at the deep hollow black eyes of Antares. She felt something severely burning her hands. Looking down at them she saw that the same black substance was now dripping from her hands. She immediately let go of Antares and began clumsily stumbling backwards and screaming from the sizzling pain the black substance on her hands was distributing to her.
"WHAT IS THIS!? UGRRK!" Lassie fell down to her knees as she watched the black substance begin to go up her arms. The pain only got worse until she felt suddenly a pain like no other rack through her. Falling down to her side, she started to convulse with foam gradually drooling out from her mouth. Antares cried as she shook violently up and down on the ground. Her dark blue eyes were fully wide, snapped open with dilated pupils. Antares watched as Lassie was tormented to death on the ground until she suddenly stopped moving completely. Her body fell limp and her strained eyes remained open as her last shallow breath was taken. The black forbidden magic had corrupted her insides.
Antares babbled fearfully as the wind stopped blowing through the windows and there was nothing but pure silence left, other than the sound coming from little Antares. The baby whimpered fearfully and wanted nothing more than to see his mother or father's face again. Antares remained there alone in the crib with the now deceased Lassie lying on the broken glass covered floor. He was scared. He just wanted his mommy and daddy back. Antares' eyes began to fade back to a calm glowing white, while his veins went back to their normal original color. Antares stuck a hand in his mouth as he stared up at the baby crib mobile that spun around slowly in circles and chimed a soft lullaby.
He was all alone. When would his mommy or daddy come back for him? Antares whimpered uncomfortably and did the only thing he knew how to do in such a terrible situation. He cried.
A/N: I was intending to make this a little longer than usual, but I'm content with the way this chapter concluded. So sorry, if it is short to you. I usually end my chapters around in the 4000-5000 word count range. (This one is 6,447 words, if you're curious) Sometimes, I'll make it to 6000-7000 words when I'm on a lucky roll, but that doesn't always happens. Anyway, thanks for reading! See you next chapter, which will be chapter 39. I'm almost at chapter 40! *genuinely shocked by that*
*Waves goodbye and blows you a kiss* Bye for now, friend! (P.s.: I'm always looking for fresh ideas! *winks/nudges you*)