So soon a update I do bring! Hello Hello, Mononoke Neko with chapter 6, and the darkness of our tale returns! I decided to compensate for the long disappearance with longer chapters and more chapters more consistently. Here I bring chapter 6, R & R!
-Mononoke Neko
Italics- Flashbacks/Thoughts
Underline- Letters, Journal Logs, Time Settings
Bold- Emphasized words
Normal- Narration/talking, talking will have ""
Year XXXX. Day XX
I was expecting the hellish lands of the future so grim, but the hell of the mental horrors I endure... bring me back to a sweet and soft memory. The Institute had cursed me long back, when they first had nearly gotten hold of me after discovering their secret. They gave me visions of a terrible future, gave me hellish visions of my past. But why was this a memory so soft and sweet? Something I enjoy... the time when my mother, father, and I with my younger siblings were home, all together, smiling, laughing. But the memory, I knew this one. This memory was not sweet and soft. It was gruesome, and dark. Fear and misery all gripped me.
"Now Mononoke, you must be a good big sister for your brother and sister. You should lead by a good example." My mother purrs, and I nod and smile. A me so naive and pure, like the fresh snowfall... untouched, pure, clean. For like the new snow fall, my young self was pure, clean... welcomed.
"I will Momma! I'll be the best big sister ever! I'll teach them about all the stuff I learn in school!" The young me smiles... I do not smile. I do not have siblings to teach. I do not have a Mother and Father to make proud. I do not have a school to go to to learn. I am to old for the schools anyways. I am of Twenty and One. I have no need for it.
Please...let this stop. Are the words that run through my mind so repetivley like a broken record. Then the hell begins. A loud crash and bang, I scream and so do my siblings, my Father jumps to his feet, and my Mother jumps, and grabs us and hides us in different spots, keeping my younger siblings, Ismae, my sister, and Isaac, my brother, together. They are twins, and thye would try to find the other. I am hidden in the safest spot, Momma always said I was 'special'. That one day, a gift I had in my body would be hunted. That I must be safe. She bid me stay hidden, and I stayed in the place she hid me. I was hidden under the old wooden floor boards of the bedroom downstairs. My breathing ragged. I can peak and see Father standing off with the men. They say something, I cannot remember what, but then, I watch as they pin him, and this is wear the pure white snow became tainted. Tainted footprints, and the fall of pineneedles above, and red. So much red...
They pin Father, and he screams in agony as one man grabs a knife, and makes a long slit, a long deep slit and precious red liquid drips onto my nose. I cover my mouth to bite back a scream, and I watch... so helpless once more, as they rip my Father apart. I hear Momma screaming for them to stop. Somewhere off in the house. I cry. I cry again. I watch things from inside Father go flying. Things I know now as your intestines. The red mess litters the room. I hear my siblings scream, and that too, like father screams, disappear in the now ridged air, as with Momma's... what happened to them? I did not know this concept of 'death' when i was young, but I do now. Soon, it is over. I know now why they came to the house. They wanted me. They were Summoners. I did not know this then, but I do now. I am mad. I am angry. I want justice. I will get justice... the young me, the me I now view from, crawls from her hiding spot. Father...so still and lifeless, lays in a pool of his own blood. Why are Ismae's and Isaac's head so far from their bodies? Why is Momma hanging by her neck from the beams in the cieling? What was death to me? A nap. Just a nap. What is it to me now?
Justice.
Present Day
I wake screaming, flailing. A hand claps over my mouth, and strong arms pulls me into a hug, and I cry. I cry in the shoulder of the one holding me. I sob loudly. I did not have time to adsorb my surroundings, who it is who holds me close in their warm embrace. That is a mistake, one I let by. A familiar voice whispers softly, with a light echo signaling I am in the cave.
"It's okay Mononoke... just a bad dream, okay?" It's Talon's voice. I look up at him, my mask hides my face, I see Jinx is up, and looks confused, and mad.
"YOU TRIED TO KILL ME!" But Braum puts a hand on her shoulder and chuckles.
"Please, Jinx. Not now, we have serious affairs at hand, and Mononoke will gladly explain why she did what she did, okay?" He smiles warmyl down at her, he loves her. Jinx, so crazy, but herself, even has love in her life. While I, someone so... freaky, shall never find this thing known as love. I cry silently, a frame so weak and small shaking.
What have I ever done to deserve this? What did I do wrong? Why... These hateful thoughts make me cry harder. A hand rubs my back, and a curl closer to the source of warmth, for the heat in my body leaves me. I am cold as ice. I am scared. I am sad. I want my Mother, I want my Father and siblings. They are gone. I do not have family. I am alone. I am all alone. I have no one I can ever tell my deepest, darkest secrets to. I try so hard to collect myself, to stop the tears from falling down my face, but it is a challenge. The images flash again, Father being cut open, his organs being flung about the bed room. I feel bile rise in my throat, and I get up from Talon's embrace, and move the part of my mask covering my mouth and vomit in the woods outside the cave, and I lean against the tree, gaze fixed down. I look up over the lake through the tree line. I cry, and I whipe anything left on my mouth with my gauntlet, and I spit into the brush to remove anything else. My mask slowly moved back to place, and I sigh. I turn to them, and I shake my head. The social queue I wish not to speak of the dream. I sigh deeply, and soon the tears stop. In a weeks time, I will be a leader. I will need to be strong. I will need faith. I will need hope. I see Ashe walk over, and she looks worried.
"What happened? Are you okay? We saw Talon bring you back..." Her tone is laced with concern, and I just smile under my mask reassuringly.
"Oh... I just blacked out. I am sorry for worrying you, Queen Ashe." In the manner I shoulder, I bow. She nods, and returns to the cave above our own. The area we were in was littered with caves. The Institute will be here soon, knowing we'd refuge here. I turn and call to them, so all can hear.
"Pack your things, we must flee this area. They'll know we are here, so we must make haste and leave." There is a groan of protest from a tired Luxanna Crownguard, and in an hour and thirty later, we are moving out. We leave the refuge of the caves behind.
"We'll be wanted in every city-state. I will take us somewhere I know we are welcome. To the Voodoo lands where Mr. and Mrs. Hastur reside. I sent Annie there already. She should be making good haste, given she is with Anivia. Anivia is also aiding us in our endevours, but she cannot offer much help, for she to must soon hide. Lissandra and Veigar surely will be rivals now, for what the Instiute plans will benefit them in their cuases of world domination." I speak loudly enough for the group with me to hear, and none else. Our trek is silent, eerily so. Braum is with Jinx, both whispering. Jinx giggles, and Braum chuckles. They love so sweetly so. I wonder what the feeling is like, but I know it well. For the one I do to love, loved another who has died. It was my fault she is dead. Cassiopeia will want me dead. She will demand she get the right to kill me herself. I sigh.
"You know.. you don't have to deal with your problems alone." It is Talon, he is next to me. I sigh.
"It is my problem, not yours. Once you trust... you get hurt for it." Which was true. All the times I had trusted, I ended being back stabbed, and had to flee in cold blood. The blood of friends. Branches snap, dogs growl, and a voice chuckles. We are not ready. We cannot fight. This was not good. This is not good.
"Mononoke... it is good of you to show yourself. You have something we...need." That voice. It cannot be. I stammer. Why is he here. He should be gone. He cannot be here.
"F...father?!"
And that's Chapter Six! Hope you enjoyed yet another cliff hanger, hehe. R & R, and totes mcgoats give me your opinions. Got a solid character you want me to include? PM Me with all the details! HEre's a format!
Name:
Age:
Reason why they are there:
Affiliation(Institute/Rebellion):
Why are they sided to that side?:
Hair:
Eye:
Age:
Attire:
Residence:
Any Ship Pref:
What are the current ships?
Braum x Jinx
Talon x Mononoke