Hey there! I know its an extremely late update, but my summer holidays are coming to an end :'(
I'd like to make a shout out to Bleachfans101! She contacted me via DeviantArt and asked me permission to draw my characters! Of course, I was over the moon and accepted immediately, and she has drawn many art works of Hood, even some featured A and Kay! One even had Beyond in it! She has drawn Brae and Nalia, as well! ^^ You should check out her DA account; Bleachfangurl
Oh, I guess from now on, I might as well tell everyone the songs I'm listening to at the top and bottom author's notes. At the moment, its 'Down In A Hole' by 'Alice 'n' Chains'! They are an awesome band from the 90's!
Disclaimer: Disclaiming Death Note and The LA BB Murder Cases ;) LOL JKS I don't have to, coz I'm Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata and Nisio Isin, genetically mutated into one! MWAHAHAHAH
Chapter 18: Why The Eyes?
The book left a slight, grave feeling in the pit of her stomach. She twined her fingers together by her belly, unsure of what to do, whether it be to satisfy her curiosity or just leave before she is caught. She couldn't remove her eyes from it, not even for a second. It was so... so mysterious that if even she moved her sight from it, it could move! But, that theory was absolutely ridiculous.
... Would it be ok just to touch it? Just one little touch to satisfy her curiosity... Would Beyond notice? That's the question... This book. This book emitted this strange, heavy feeling that just wouldn't leave her at all; she had to touch it... That's all she needed. Just one little tap.
Quickly, Hood checked the doorway again, only to find the entrance empty. She eyed the book once more. She bit her lip just as her hand began to edge towards it, and right before her fingers lightly grazed upon the cover, her chest began to tighten with a new want... Hood wanted to open this book. She wanted to see what was hidden on these pages, she wanted to know why Beyond owned such a mysterious object.
Her fingers pried underneath the cover, and carefully she began to lift it. A thick, musty smell of age burst upon the opening of the book. It clogged her throat with dust and a bittersweet scent. She tried to clear it by swallowing. The first page was thin and yellowed; not to mention dog-eared from use. In thick calligraphy writing was a contents page written in another language; one that she could not recognise at all (Not that she knew many words away from English).
.-.-.
Beyond broke apart from A, wiping away from his purpled lips blood and remnants of saliva. A's face was stained with tears, his mouth was completely swollen, and throbbing harshly with his heart beat. He was too afraid to speak, so he watched as Beyond crawled off him in silence and head towards the door. He was barely even wearing his signature smirk.
The brunette felt a wave of nausea hit him like a bomb being dropped upon his head. His body soon became numb after only just a few seconds. Groggily, he shut his eyes and collapsed upon his mattress.
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Curiosity engulfing more than just her mind, the blonde couldn't help but pick the giant, heavy book up. She stifled a groan as the weight of the book was passed on from the bed to her small arms, by pressing her lips together tightly. She felt drops of sweat begin to form upon her forehead and on the palms of her hands, making them feel rubbery, and making it harder for her to have a steady grip on the heavy book. Carefully, she turned each page, trying her hardest to not let the papers rub upon each other to make a noise.
Inside the book, were detailed illustrations of hideous creatures, with talons as long as an arm, and teeth as thick as brick and some with wings as buildings . There were red ink splashes on and around each, individual creature to represent blood adorning the creatures claws, teeth, and scales, feathers and fur.
Hood's fingers crept to the side of the book and dug her fingers into a section into the middle. She pulled the book open from that point and studied the page. The illustrations were just as hideous and as detailed as before. The red ink splashes were still included, but, for some reason... The ink quite obviously did not represent blood.
The eyes of this creature were carefully inked in red.
Why the eyes? What made them so special?
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Beyond ducked his head low in an attempt to hide his mouth, despite the fact that his mouth was completely swollen. He'd already made a trip to the bathroom to wash the blood that stained his porcelain skin away from his chin. He'd replaced the make-up, applying a new layer over the purpled skin and fixed up his eye make-up along with it.
Now, his next stop was his room. He wondered if Hood had recovered much from the skulls.
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The blonde hadn't at once learned that the sky was darkening or realised that curfew was coming extremely soon. She was fascinated by this book. Despite the fact that she could not understand the language at all, she decided to scan through the paragraphs that was on this creature. She wanted to see if there were any links, or any connections to the reason as to why the ink splashes adorned the eyes, instead of the blood, like all of the other pictures.
Any time that she even thought about red itself, an image of Beyond's began to float into her mind.
His dark, blood coloured eyes were hidden behind his mess of black hair. His pupils glowed vibrantly just as a sickening grin, filled with malice, began to overtake the entire width of his face. He brought his hand to his mouth; his fingers coated with oozing, ruby tinted liquid; otherwise known as blood. He poked his tongue out, and ran the entire length of his finger across it, collecting the blood with it.
"Beyond." She mumbled, barely thinking as she did so. Immediately, her heart stopped just after she had said this, as a loud scraping sound began to echo down the hallway. The sound was long and whiny, as if fingernails were running down a chalkboard; only worse. The sound was growing louder and louder each second. It was reaching volumes of a horrid, sickening peak. Hood quickly snapped her head to the doorway, eyes wide, heart beating wildly, blood pumping manically.
The sound continued, only growing horribly louder. Hood gritted her teeth harshly and tightly, to the point where it was begging to hurt, and she smashed her palms against her temples as this large, heavy and extremely painful throbbing feeling began to swell her brain. As she had done this, she dropped the book and with a loud thud, it smacked to the floor. She dared not make a move to pick it up; she was frozen to the spot.
The sound quickly grew to what she wished was top volume. The pain from inside of her head, which was only getting worse and the fact that she was gripping her teeth so hard, they felt like they were going to drop out caused her eyes to well up with tears.
The latch to Beyond's window was begging to shake violently, to the point to where the windows were threatening to burst out and explode. Shaking, Hood began to watch with wide eyes. Her mind was racing quickly: she couldn't even think, it was going that fast! Her jaw was slowly dropping, and suddenly the latch gave way and broke. The windows burst open and began shuttering aggressively against the window panels... There was no wind...
The screeching soon developed into what sounded like blood curdling screaming! It was running chills down her spine, prickling her skin and making her shake out of fear.
The blonde tried to move, but her feet felt like they were glued to the floorboards beneath her beaten up trainers. Her hands felt like they were adorned with lead weights, and each one of her fingers had no tendons to pull to even twitch them.
Hood swore that this screaming was going to burst her ear drums and melt her brain, but she wouldn't dare remove her eyes from the doorway. The noise were growing even louder, and all of a sudden, Hood could recognise what was being screamed. The word 'no.'. The second she realised this, everything went quiet, and the windows stopped rattling.
All she could hear was her heart beat, violently whacking against her chest. She was sweating out adrenaline, and everything in her body began to shake from fear. Her eyes felt like they were going to pop out. She tried to take deep breathes to calm herself down.
Everything in the room was completely still. Nothing creaked. At all.
Her mind was still racing to the point where she still could not think.
Carefully, her body began to relax, but she still could not move much. Her breathing was completely shallow and it was hurting her lungs. She let out a whimper of shock, and tried to take a step backward, but just before her foot connected with the floor, she was flung across the room by a force with great power.
She hit Beyond's desk, and the corner lodged itself into her exposed skin and tore it. She fell to the ground, grabbing onto the wound which just so happened to be on her belly. Blood was beginning to pump out of it. Hood still had not realised this, but before she could see what this hot liquid on her hand was, she could feel cold fingers weave into her hair and before she could even make a noise, it smashed her head onto the floor boards, and drag her across the room.
Hood screamed, and tried to reach her arm up to where this hand was and try and pry it off, but... There was nothing there; she was grabbing air!
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" She screamed, and the tugging on her hair stopped. She attempted to crawl and try and get back onto her feet, but as soon as she got on her hands and knees, something heavy smashed her to the ground. She grunted, and she felt dead cold hands twine around the middle of her throat. These hands were colder than ice, light as a feather, yet they were heavy as a brick.
The hands began to strangle her from behind. Hood tried to struggle, but could not move at all. The fingers dug deeper into her throat, and she began to choke. The fingers continued to dig into her. Finally, she was beginning to choke, and even feel dizzy. Suddenly, a large blunt object hit her on the back of her head, and everything went black.
HALLO! Now, I know that this isn't my best work, (In fact I hate it) but I have re-written this chapter like 4 or 5 times, and this was the best one! I'm not writing it again. Lol.
The song I'm listening to now, is... Chemical Heart, by Grinspoon! I love those guys XD
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