Sakura's Journey Chapter 15 Family is Forever
The doorbell rang. I nonchallantly walked towards the entrance of the house, knowing my long brown hair was uncombed. I didn't have the will to do so...Poor Sakura, she couldn't even comb her hair at the moment. My, it would have so many knots in it when she gets back. A tear slid down my cheek as I thought of her. I opened the door and was greeted by my parents. My mom's brown hair, which I had inherited, was starting to show more and more grey. It actually looked like she had cried too. My dad had a sorrowfull look on his face. We might have been standing in the doorway for 10 seconds as easily as 20 minutes before I rushed towards them and was embraced in a warm hug. I let all the tears out, it felt good to do so. A mind reached me from in the house. "Sarah, please don't cry...and don't stand in the doorway like that, you could catch a cold." I did my best to hide my little communication from my parents. They weren't too comfortable with me being with a slender. "I don't care if I do. Kura might be sick right now, I'd want to share her pain." I began to walk back into the house, followed by my parents. "I don't want to see an other member of my family in distress..." The love I felt from him made me smile a little.
Angie and Tom walked into the dining room pretty much at the same time as we did. Angie was starting to show...either that, or she had eaten way too much icecream. Tom's eyes were tinted red, showing he had cried. He was one of the few men out there who wasn't affraid to admit that men cried too. He, once again, placed a hand on his neck. His distant gaze, seemingly drained of life showed just how depressed he was. Twice in the past 4 days he hadn't gone to work at the clinic. I took his hand in mine and he looked up to me slowly, smiling a bit when our eyes met. He wrapped a tendrill around my arm, binding us together for as long as he wanted. I don't think most people could even come close to understanding how strong those things are...
I didn't need to be a slender to feel the increase in tension in the room when he did this. My parents had never gotten used to him being slender. My mom was the first to speak, breaking the tension a little. "I'm terribly sorry for what happened..." Maybe it was the depression that affected my mood, but I snapped at her. "Why do you care? You only saw her, what, twice in your life?" The tendrill around my arm coiled tighter and I felt static fill me, calming me a bit, but also warning me to keep calm. My parents both gasped slightly. My mom put a hand on my shoulder..."I'm sorry..I know I should have been here more." We spoke a bit more, Tom never, not even for an instant, letting my arm go. He seemed so anxious around my parents...it's understandable. My father turned his attention to Angie, who was drawing some type of dead animal. She was really talented. "So, I understand you're pregnant?" She looked up to him, her normally green eyes red and puffy. Placing a hand on her stomach, she answered. "Yes, sir...makes me even more determined to find Daemon." She gave a brave smile. I trusted that Johnny would find the kids, no matter how clumsy and admittedly cowardly he was.
One thing led to an other, and somehow Sakura's powers were brought up. "She had just...changed...the day before they were taken. It's most likely because of that." I saw a slight tension on my parents' faces, but not when I spoke of her being taken...When I mentioned her change... My mom's eyes were glued to the shadowy tendrill still wrapped around my arm, her gaze meeting Tom's. He kept his stare on her, those eerie sky blue eyes giving him an air of power. He did so until she looked away. I'm not even sure if he realized when he did that. He did it a lot. I felt a slight air of amusment coming from him, but his depression returned as he spoke up. "They most likely took her because she was fully capable of using her powers, but not able to teleport away from them. Daemon was a witness, so they had to take him too. They also took the squirrel..." "Kura screamed at them to let her keep him. She broke through those things they were wearing to protect their minds. They gave him to her because she scared them. Really impressive kid." Angie finished for him. I noticed my parents' raised brows. I knew they accepted my little family, but they still very clearly felt stressed about this. As I led my parents back to the door as it was time to leave, I hugged them both once again. My dad whispered in my ear. "Family is forever." They both got in their respective cars and drove off.
(Johnny's P.O.V.)
I'd been walking for a long time, slowly getting used to the dark, electrifying presence that followed me around. He was generally silent, not speaking much. He'd sometimes mumble to himself in French, but I never understood what he was saying. I'd have to start trying to learn French when I get home... My feet hurt and I decided to sit down on a boulder to take a break. The slender besides me sniffed the air in a very animal like way. He stood at his tallest, black tentacles wavering about. I knew he was probably reaching out with his aura, searching for any signs of life. I saw his swirling appendadges twitch. His facial expression, even with most features gone, clearly showed excitement. "Laurianne... I feel her. She is this way! Come, human! I feel her..."
I stood up and slowly walked towards the tall being who took long and graceful strides. He was much faster than me and I had to jog to keep up. "Hey! Wait for me!" That's when I realized we weren't heading towards Pinemount anymore. We were heading at a certain angle to the mountain. I felt my heart rate increase. The kids aren't in the mountain. But what if the kidnappers hadn't taken them to the mountain, but to a facility near by? Then why would they say Pinemount? The mountain was several miles to my left. No, the kids were out of the mountain if he was right. I trusted him. Don't argue with a supernatural faceless monster with tentacles sprouting from their back...they have a tendency to be right about stuff. I wanted my son back...I wanted to go home to see my wife. I wanted my dog back! Our adventure might end soon.
AN: Hey...ya I put up 2 chapters tonight...I felt inspired...I am planning a minimum of 4 more chapters to this fic plus an epilogue... I might do much more though... Hey, I wanted to say something I find funny...how is it that I have 7 reviews on this fic...and all of them are from the same person? XD Come on, where'd the rest of you go? Did Shadow Blood take you all away too? Where are my Slovakians at? I swear, that'll become a thing...ya...so here's a chapter without a P.O.V. By Sakura :O Anyway, thank you all my readers... my invisible readers... My silent readers... T'ill next time!