Caretaker
Decision
"Monster. . ."
"Poor child. . ."
"What are those?"
I'm not the monster, you are.
No matter how long she walks in the street, our golden-haired fellow strives to keep going. She's afraid of sleeping, for she never knows what will happen when she does. What will happen? Where will she be? Will she be all right? The questions repeat themselves inside the five-year-old's mind, and she can't stop them. The teenaged girl assures her that nothing will happen if she falls asleep.
But she doesn't understand.
There are people out there who want to hurt her. So much, has Alli heard that people would want to destroy her for not being worthy of God. These arms are something only the devil himself would place upon his minions. How will she be able to sleep knowing that people would want to murder her whilst she rests?
The orphanages have rejected poor Alli's requests. They believe that she'll scare the children with her arms, or they'll beat her as she sleeps. But she knows they're afraid of her as well, why else would they reject her so quickly? It's not everyday that foster care doesn't accept children such as herself.
That's when she showed up.
She promised to take care of her, told her nice things. She called her "Allison", and said that her name was Shadow. Alli grew to like this girl, she always talked in her head. She's known the girl for two years now, and has grown to like her. She's almost like the big sister she never had, or the mother she never knew.
It's not fair, how Alli is discriminated against. Her arms aren't anything bad, they won't harm humans. At least, that's what Shadow said. She calls them innocence, though Alli doesn't know what that means. Shadow said that people from a place called "The Black Order" would come and explain most of what they are, or someone named "The Millennium Earl" would find her before them and take her as a family member. Shadow never told her who she is, or how she's able to transport herself into Alli's mind.
"I feel them here," Shadow says randomly. Alli is confused as to what she just said.
"Who's here, Shadow?" she asks whilst stopping. They appear to be by a beach, where a dock and seagulls reside.
"The akuma, they can feel your innocence!" A sudden explosion occurs and Alli is suddenly blown back from the blast. She hits her head against something, and she sees no more.
She wakes on the sandy beach.
She feels something slide down her leg, and she suddenly slaps it on instinct. Alli yelps in pain as she realizes her mistake. There's blood pouring down in it as a twig from the coast sticks through the whole leg. Laughing is heard as Alli whips her head in the direction she heard it from. Two strange looking creatures stare in her direction. One of them is suddenly lifting her unharmed leg in the air. She screams whilst trying to punch the hand off her leg. Her wrists start to heat up massively.
"Double the innocence, this will be good," the creature says sadistically.
"Alli, this is an akuma. You must destroy it or say you're a Noah. It has to understand that you're in control, not it," Shadow informs quickly.
"Let me go!" Alli shouts angrily. It does nothing, which upsets her. "Akuma, I command you to let me go."
"You don't control me, exorcist!" it snaps at her. She struggles to pry the hand off her leg. It just shakes her to stop. Her wrists start to heat more and more. She blinks her eyes, and she now finds herself standing in a pool of blood. The akuma are dead around her as she checks the surroundings. She glances down below to find two large swords in her hands. Blood slides down the blades and drops into the blood pool. She starts to panic.
"Calm down, you just need to-" Shadows voice then fades as she slowly disappears in the midst.
"Shadow? Shadow!" Alli exclaims as her only friend disperses into nothing. She glances down at her wrists. They're not red anymore. Instead, two blood red crosses are engraved where the gems were. Alli drops the swords from the shock. When they fall, red particles form from them and they become red bracelets around her wrists. She collapses on the ground. Blood splashes all around her and onto her dress. Caretaker appears next to her with widened eyes. Road does as well.
"You knew Shadow when you were little. She was so nice," she says whilst staring hollow-eyed towards Caretaker's small self. Caretaker stares at her five-year-old self with emptiness.
"You can stop it now," she says with no emotion. Road turns to her in surprise.
"Did you really think you could forget your past? Caretaker, this is what I mean. Shadow was there for you when no one was not. A Noah was there, instead of that innocence. The innocence is what made you be hated by people," she says as she points towards the scene. Caretaker stares into space. She understands that road has her points, but what does that make of her? She can't just switch, it's not that simple. She suddenly punches Road in the face. She flies across the room and hits the wall drastically. She lays there in surprise.
"That was the past, and now it's the present. No matter what happens, I'll still be who I am. I've seen the monsters and fought the demons, but nothing is compared to the real monster that's out there. Ourselves," Caretaker says. She turns around and is suddenly confronted by Matt Kamelot.
"You are wise, but that doesn't mean you can hurt my family," he says. He suddenly punches her and she flies across the room. She hits the wall with loud boom. She lays there staring at him in surprise.
"You saw? How long- never mind. You need to forget everything, including you two," she says whilst looking over to the two exorcists. They stare back in surprise. "I don't know how or why, but I don't want anything like that to affect your perspective on me. Forget it, forget it all, and don't ever bring it up again."
"Think. . . about it," Road says as she suddenly lifts herself upward. She suddenly starts to fall, and Matt immediately catches her.
"Are you on the side you want?" he asks as he turns to her. An ark gate appears behind him, and he steps back into it. The dimension then disintegrates and the trio find themselves standing in the town of Brussels.
What do you think Caretaker will choose? Exorcist, or Noah? Read the next chapter to find out! Review please!
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