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Chapter 5
Black thats all there was. Am I in a room or what? I look around trying to figure out where I am. Off in the distance I can see a light coming from what looks like a door. I make my way to it, its the only thing here anyways. I get to the door and its already slightly open so I push the door open slightly until the door creaks open. When I look inside there is a round table with an empty chair facing me. I guess it's meant for me. I sit down a turn towards the table. That's when I see a figure directly across from me, whoever it is seems to be shuffling cards.
"Who are you?" I don't know why, but I feel like this person is very important.
"Thats not important right now." The figure leans forward. I can now see that it's a boy. He continues to shuffle the deck.
"Then what is?" I don't know what he is talking about. I need to know what's going on.
"You must play your cards right, or else." He immediately spread out the deck, they were just regular cards but they were all red.
"Why?" Who the hell is this kid? What is going on?
"Just choose." He completely ignored me. I look down at the table in front of me. I reached for the one just to my left, it felt like this card was going to change my life.
"It's just the King of Hearts." There wasn't anything special about it. I didn't understand what I was supposed to do.
"Turn it over." He talked so calm. I didn't know what was going on, so I turned it over. On the back there was three words in bold black letters. Let Madness Control.
"What does this mean?" I looked back up but he was gone. Everything around me changed into glass. It was like I was in a mirror maze, but I wasn't sure how to find my way out.
The mirrors changed and images projected on them. It was Dominic, he was staring at me directly but wouldn't say a word. Then half of the mirrors changed and they became Jett. Why am I seeing both of them? Finally the silence was shattered as Dominic spoke.
"I wasn't looking for you until I found out." His reflection kept staring at me. He was showing no emotion and it was making me feel uncomfortable.
"Until you found out what?" I finally had the courage to speak. I had to get answers now before questions with no answers overwhelmed me.
"Jett is the answer to your question." That's when everything went black.
I woke up screaming. It was just a dream, hopefully. I look around to check. It all seems real. I pinch my arm. Yeah I'm awake this is real. What did it all mean though? Thats when Evans ran in as fast as I had ever seen him run.
"What happened?! Are you okay? What's going on!" He was looking around every corner of the room. He looked like he had seen a ghost.
"Evans, calm down. It was just a bad dream." He was so protective. I giggled to myself.
"Oh, okay. Well I guess I'll go get ready for school then." I could tell he was embarrassed.
I met up with Jett at the front of the academy. Evans really did hurt him badly. He had cuts and bruises all over his body. I felt terrible because I felt like I could have done so much more to protect him. He looked weak. I felt more and more worse about myself the longer I looked at him. He looked down at me.
"Its not your fault." I know it wasn't, but I still felt like I could have done more.
"Let's just not talk about last night. I wanted to tell you about these dreams I'm hav-." I stopped talking mid sentence because I saw him. The card dealer from my dream.
"Ivory, what is it?'
"Its just that-" I look back over to familiar guy. "How long has he been here at the academy?"
"That guy? He's been here as long as I can remember." Why have I never noticed him?"
"Lets just go to class." I quickly grab Jett's arm after a while. I just couldn't take it when the guy looked up at me and made eye contact. Please just be a coincidence.
In class I couldn't focus. Everything that was said all sounded like a blur. I don't feel like trying to figure out what they're all saying. I feel light headed and somehow I make it out of the classroom and walk through the hall. I wasn't really paying attention as to where I was going and ended up running into someone. I looked up to see who it was, and when I saw their face it looked so familiar. Where have I seen them before? Wait, this is the same guy from this morning! The same one from my dream! Who is this kid?!
"I-I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." I didn't want to look into his eyes so I just stared at my feet.
"Don't worry about it, you couldn't hurt me with a little bump like that. You're gonna just have to try harder next time!" He lifted up my chin and I was forced to look into his red eyes. "That was a joke, you were supposed to laugh." He's acting so casual with a stranger he just met.
"Oh I'm sorry, I'm just a little distracted today." I don't want to sound too freaked out or else he'll think I'm insane.
"I could tell. Why don't you meet me today in the courtyard and I'll help you clear your mind." He smirked at me and I let out a small giggle.
"Okay, but I just have one question for you." I just needed to know his name that's all I wanted.
"Do you want to know my name?" How did he know that?
"Yes, actually." I was still a little shaken at the fact he knew exactly what I wanted to know.
"Obsidian. Now you tell me yours." Obsidian. This was the person that haunted my dreams last night.
"I'm Ivory." I flashed a fake smile so he wouldn't be suspicious.
"Well Ivory, I'll see you after class." He returned a smile but this one was genuine. After that, he walked away, leaving me to replay what had just happened over and over again in my head. I'm still not sure what this guy wants. What is he up to? I want to know what is going on with him. Maybe it wasn't a dream and he could answer my questions. I have to at least try. I turn around making up my mind, but he wasn't there. He wasn't anywhere.
I started to make my way back to class but decided against it. Class was almost over anyways. I need to think about what I'm gonna ask Obsidian. What if it was all just a dream and he knows nothing. Then again what if it wasn't and he has all the answers I need? Ivory you need to get yourself together. I don't have that much time to think about this before I see him again. Dammit! I look around and remember that I'm at the academy. While I'm here nothing can really happen. Anyone can come by and hear. I look around once again. I'm still the only one out right now, thats good. I need to think. I start towards the roof, there I can think in peace even when class gets let out it will still be quiet.
For a while the only thing I did was lay there hoping to have a clear mind and just taking in the time up here to enjoy not having to worry, but thats all I could do. After a little longer I sit up and start to think. Now with a better understanding with what I really want to know. I want to know what the madness has to do with me. Mainly how does it deal with Jett? The more and more I think about it how would Obsidian know that. Should I go get Jett? I'm not really sure what I'm getting myself into but if it gets me some type of answer I'm gonna risk it. I stand up and with confidence I walk to the courtyard.
I take a deep breath and walk to the center of the main courtyard. I look everywhere and I can't seem to find Obsidian. Where is he?! This was his idea! I finally spot him over to the side showing some students a card trick. I wait until he finishes before I approach him.
"Obsidian. Hey." I fake a smile as I sit next to him. I feel so awkward but I need answers. "Hey can you do that trick again. I saw you showing the other kids it and I just wanna see it for myself."
"You're into card tricks? Well I can't deny an audience." He started shuffling the deck and then spread them all out in front of me. "Now choose a card but choose carefully."
"Okay then." I pick up the card slightly to my left and it is the king of hearts. "Now what do I do?"
"Turn it over." I flip the card over and on the back it says 'Ivory' in bold black letters.
"Thats an amazing trick, you should teach me how to do it later." I knew I was just making small talk and avoiding the subject. The only problem was how do I bring it up? We sit in an awkward silence until I finally get enough courage to see if I'm just losing my mind or if there is a real reason this is all happening to me. "Um Obsidian? Do you-" I tried to get the words out but I couldn't. Luckily I was cut off by someone calling my name. It was Jett. I had never been so happy to see him before. "I'm sorry Obsidian but my partner is calling me. I guess I'll talk to you later, bye." Just like that I ran over to Jett and hugged him. The awkwardness was finally over and I had him to thank.
We started to head back home and until we left school grounds I kept looking back at Obsidian. There has to be a reason for all of this. I have a feeling that I'm going to run into Dominic again. I'm not sure where, when, why or even how but I have a feeling its going to happen. What am I going to do? I look up at Jett as we walk then I look straight to my feet. What about Jett? How is he involved in this?
"Ivory!" Not to long after I lost sight of Obsidian and we were still making it down the stairs Scarlet comes running to me.
"Yeah?" I'm not really sure what to think right now. If she's looking for Evans I'm not even sure where he is.
"Ivory. Evans was looking for you. He said that he found a way to see your files. He said that the two of you were trying to figure it out for a while now and he finally figured it out."
"Did he really?!" Oh my gosh if he really did that it would be perfect. The two of us have always wanted to see our files. We heard that some of the teachers would graffiti on some of the files of students and we wanted to see if that was true, and if we were 'victims' of this. It was just a joke but it was an excuse to get people off our backs about wanting to see into our files. We really wanted to know just how much the school knows about us. "Oh my gosh Scarlet this is awesome! Thank you!" I go over to Scarlet and give her a huge hug. I was so beyond excited. I start to walk off and look over my shoulder to tell Jett bye and that I'll see him later with an enormous smile on my face right before I took off running in the direction Scarlet came.
I run as fast as I can. I eventually find Evans in the files room and he looks like he just heard the worst news in his life. I immediately lost the smile on my face and became very worried.
"Evans?" I walk slowly over to his side. "Evans? What is it? What does it say?" I just want to figure this all out. I have never seen Evans this way before.
"Jus- just look at this Ivory." He doesn't look at me he just hands me a file. I look down at it and on the very first page, was a scrap of paper with someone's handwriting. He shows me a random students file and flips it open to the first page. "Do you see this? They have their birth certificate here, and so do they!" He starts to go through random files to prove his point. "Now look back at yours and mine." He hands me his file. "Why don't we have one? But thats not it, read it." I look down at the files and try to read it. I don't understand any of the words on the page.
'Evans, I don't get it what's the big deal about it?" I truthfully don't understand why hes making such a big deal about what this says. Then again I'm not sure exactly as to what its says.
"Ivory." He looks straight into my eyes. "If we don't have a birth certificate, then we weren't born in a hospital or taken to a hospital after we were born."
"Alrighty. Then why did you want me to read this page? Maybe we were just born at home or something."
"You don't get it do you?"
"Get what?" I have a bad feeling about this. What is he going to tell me know?
"Ivory? This basically is saying we weren't born at all. Do you even remember having a mom or a dad?" I tried hard to remember. But I couldn't recall ever calling someone mom or dad, I've always just had Evans. Was he right? Of course he is it's written right here in front of me in black and white. So what does this mean? If we weren't born then how are we even here?
"Evans, you're not making any sense. How could we not be born?" I was confused. What was he trying to tell me? That my life is a lie?
"Ivory. Its right here." He points to the page in front of me. "Everything is written right there. What it means is that we're-" He tried to get himself together, like it was difficult to get the news across to me. "Ivory we're experiments! We are here because someone decided to create us in a test tube!" I went blank faced. This can't be true, but it is. I just don't want it to be true.
"Do you know who at least?" I couldn't think of anything else to say. Everything I thought I knew about myself, anything either one of us thought we knew was a lie.
"It was Lord Death's son."
"Does it say why?"
"I don't know I could read it from there. The page is ripped and the last word wasn't even fully completely written. All I do know was that Lord Death's son took animal, weapon, and human DNA and attempted to create the perfect human. There were many failed attempts before us but we were the first successful trial."
"Does it say how many attempts were taken before us?" My voice was trembling. How could this be happening?
"There were seven trials before us, we were the eighth trial."
"So in other words we're not even really meant to be here, and that you're not even really my brother?" None of this can be true. It just can't.
"I'm technically still your brother. The same DNA strands were used for both of us, but we were created in separate test tubes. They were trying to create the perfect boy and girl pairing, so thats why they created two of us."
"I guess that makes sense." I look to my feet still in shock that this is real. That this is actually happening to us. "So what do we do now? What are we going to do?"
"I guess we have to tell Jett and Scarlet, but we're only telling them because they are our partners. We aren't going to tell anyone else, not until we get all of this cleared up."
"Got it." I nod my head. "I don't think I want anyone else to know." I laugh a bit trying to cheer myself up a bit. "How are we gonna tell them?" I try to be serious enough to the point Evans understands but I'm also trying to keep myself from crying. "Is there anything else in those files that we need to know?"
"I don't think that we can avoid the subject, we just have to tell them straight up. The files also tell us whose DNA was used. Do you want to know who our biological parents are?"
"I guess so. It'll give me at least some idea that I have parents." I could let go of the act that what we thought was just a joke is real. Evans and I are experiments! I can't get that out of my head no matter how hard I try. "Do you think its the best thing to know?" Whatever it was going through my head I could figure out just how I wanted to feel about all of this. Should we know? I mean like it'll be good to have someone to talk to, but should we?
"We've come this far. I guess, if we want to know the one thing that makes our lives seem normal."
"You're right. Well then lets find out who our parents are." I fake a smile.
"Well the DNA used was from former students of the academy. It seemed to be a girl named Tsubaki who could transform into multiple forms and Death the Kid himself. We're related to Lord Death."
"Should we tell Lord Death that we know?"
"Ivory I think that if you want to talk to Lord Death about this then we might want to tell Jett and Scarlet about it first."
"Right." I look at the time. "We should tell them now."
"NOW? Are you insane?"
"Evans its not too late to tell them if we wait we're gonna act different, they figure something is wrong and one way or another they'll find out. I'm not sure about you but I want to talk to Lord Death about it and maybe, just maybe we'll be able to talk to our father."
"I guess you're right. Let's go find them." We both made sure the file room looked like we had never been there. That's when we both went outside, ready to face our partners.
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYONE 2015! Is anyone else gonna have a hard time tomorrow when writing the date? I will. well Im sorry that I only got to post one chap today and I probably wont be able to post for awhile because I dont want to run out of chapters to post Im working on finishing chapter 11 rn but I will try to keep this updated every now and then so the wait for the next chapter shoudnt be to long maybe only a few days.
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