"NEW ORDER"
"TRUTH PREVAILS"
Byron
"B-Byron Sa-Salvatore?" I stutter and my mind puzzles. "I don't get this."
"Your parent's names are Alphateo and Eugenia Swain, when they were living in the City, but their original last name is Salvatore, when they were in Sorceria, the kingdom of sorcerers and sorceresses." Then, a huge picture of my parents is shown on front of me. They were wearing some kind of magical clothes like living beings in a fantasy and imaginary world.
"Does that mean both of my parents were sorcerers?"
"Including you, of course." it says.
"M-me? A sorcerer?"
"The Salvatore Family is well known throughout the kingdoms for being the wisest and the strongest sorcerers, so you should be. They were symbolized by their 'S' pendant."
My eyes widen. I pull out my 'S' pendant, that is glowing in the dark.
"'S' refers to Sorcerer Salvatore," it says. Then the picture changes to the exact same pendant, that I have now.
Then the picture changes a horrifying event in the past. It shows my parents dead in our home. "What a pity, your parents died when you were so young," the orb continues "and you doubt your sister and the Allgoods about telling you the truth about your parent's deaths."
I bend my head down and grit my teeth. "It can't be. It's Impossible!"
"Yes, Byron, the New Order murdered your parents."
"No! It can't be!" I cry and doubt.
Then my surroundings changed, the black and blank space turns into my old home again. I witness my young self leaving with my sister, Matilda to my aunt and uncle's house. After they left my father and mother talked.
"Why am I here?" I ask the orb.
"This is the event when you left your home, remember, the last time you saw your parents alive." The orb says. "You are a ghost as you witness these events. This means, these people can't see you nor hear you. You can't touch them nor can't you touch anything."
I see dad writing on a piece of paper. He places the letter in the closet, reaches into his pocket and places the 'S' pendant on it. I realize, that it was his last letter he gave to me, together with the 'S' pendant
"Alphateo," My mom calls dad "will they be alright?"
"Yes, they will." Dad says "The New Order will not hunt them down because our last name is Swain, remember? -"
"But if my friends found out that they are Salvatores?"
"No they won't. Even our own children never knew, even the existence of magic."
Eugenia nods, leaves him and walks into the kitchen.
"'Friends' that Eugenia was referring to, was your aunt and uncle." The orb says.
"What?!" I exclaim and freak out, "You mean, they weren't my biological aunt and uncle."
"Yes," the orb says "after your parent's escape to the City, they make friends to this couple. Soon, Eugenia claims your aunt, her sister and your uncle, his brother."
"So that's why…" I understand and mutter quietly.
Then events change quickly but still in the same old home; specifically, the basement. The basement is very different of that I saw; it became a Science laboratory. The cabinets are filled with vials, test tubes, beakers and glassware. I see Dad and Mom also inside, working on an experimental project.
"So that's why dad told me not to enter the basement…" I say to myself. "But how did they hide these things when I'm around in the garage?"
"They hide the lab behind the dusty boxes and cartons." the orb says. "This next event happened five days later…"
Dad holds a vial to the rays of the sun and examines the blue element in it, while Mom writes her observations on a notebook and observes another vial that has a red element; the vial is standing on the test tube rack. Dad pours the blue element in a flask bottle and presses the cork on the bottle's mouth, and places it inside a mouse hole.
"I'm going upstairs," he says "Let's continue the experiment later on."
"Ok" Mom replies not looking at him; still busy writing on her notebook.
A few seconds later, after he walks up the stairs, an explosion occurs above; the small particles of debris fall off the ceiling. Mom quickly pours the red element in a beaker bottle; she twists the cover, tightens it and inserts the beaker in the same place where dad hid his flask bottle. She cast a spell on the hole and the wall suddenly extends downward and completely covers the hole. She then runs upstairs; I also and followed her.
"I've a bad feeling about this…" I remembered my parent's dead bodies on the floor.
Mom gasps as she founds dad on front of a group of soldiers, who are aiming their guns at them.
"Who are you?!" Dad shouts, "Get out of our property!"
"Don't you recognize us?" says their leader. He's face is unseen, because of the shadow from his cap, blocks it, "Sorcerer…"
Dad and mom's faces turn into terror and horror. "It can't be…."
"Thanks to your friend, Veronica, she told us the truth behind your mask."
"She-" Dad cuts when guns fire and bullets fly into the both of them.
"No. No! NO!" tears flow down and I watch in horror as the soldiers fire their guns continuously. Their blood spreads around the room. Mom falls down on the floor, splashing her head down on her blood; dead. Dad, still standing, vomits blood out of his mouth.
"Goodbye," the leader says "Salvatore."
Bullets start firing again and this time dad falls out dead on the ground. I fell on my knees and my body I was here in the happening, I would have killed them all.
"Good thing we killed them first before they did," says one of the soldiers "if they did, we'll be good as dead meat!"
"Check the entire house," commands the leader "Make sure we can cleanse this house now. Not a single of magic can be found here."
"Yes sir!" the soldiers salute and scatter themselves in the rooms.
"Finally, the Salvatores have been eliminated." The leader says "Are you sure they don't have sons or daughters?"
"I am positively sure sir." One of his aid replies.
The leader nods and smirks "Now the Salvatore gone, we can now create a modern and new era for the City. The Neone Ordaseille is of the past…" he removes his cap and I can clearly see his face. This time I became more shocking and my mouth shivers for horror; it is the young adult version of the One Who is The One
"…and the New Order is of the future." He smirks.