Embers

Location (pt. 1)

"Hey Proton, you there? You kind of drifted off a bit there......... am I that boring to you?" Said a voice of what sounded like a small girl, "H-huh?" I say looking around and all is white, then my body finally bleed through the whiteness and I look at my smaller and fatter then normal sized hands and I look up and see a girl with no face or definitive features on her but her bright red dress, with yellow and green flowers on it with feathers on the sleeves, and it looks really expensive. I look down the dress and it lays on top of a blanket that is a dark blue with lighter colored blue swirls on it, "If you have something on your mind just tell me Proton we can talk about it if you want." She says and I shake my head, "N-no its nothing really I was jus.............." I attempt to say as I hear someone say my voice and I look around and see some human outlines run up to me. "Hey proton the Loe gang is screwing with us, lets go teach them a lesson before they get away!" One boy says and they all run off to the eat and over a hill and the girl sighed, "You guys are always fighting them, I hope one day you guys can settle your difference one day and be one big gang again." She says and she looks down and I lean forward to grab her hand but then all goes white again.

I hear a gunshot then something slipping and falls with a splat and my vision starts to go back to normal and I see a black outline laying on the ground with a red bullet hole in there back and there's another black outline crying over them. I look around trying to find the shooter and notice a gun in my hand and my eyes widen as I realize it was me who shot them, "H-hey.......... c-calm down theirs n-no need to k-kill us......." Someone says behind me and I look at them and sees a young man with short dirty blonde hair and a skinny face and he looks like hes unfed and homeless since all his clothes look like they was ran over by a car. I look him up and down over and over getting more and more irritated each time and I shoot him in the gut and he coughs up blood and slumps over I turn back around and walk to a counter. I see a huge safe behind the black outline of what looks like a man and I come to the conclusion that I am in bank, I feel something pulling on my pants leg and I look down and see the guy I shot before pulling on it and I lean down and look at him. "Boy for someone who looked before you sure have lot of fight in you don't you."

I say as I point the gun at his head and he grabs it with his shakey hands and tries to pull away from me but cant, "S-stop this, p-p-please if you do............ i-i-i-ill help y-you escape." He weakly says as blood drips from his mouth. I smirk and I look in his blurry eyes and I see that I have a white blank mask on that has some blood on it, "So you think you can help me escape do you? Well what is your name then young man?" I ask him as he weakly smiles and holds up a limp hand "N-n-names Bruno Schutz," I gasp and then all goes white again then it goes black and I hear a heart thump that gets louder and louder by the second. I jolt awake and roll a bit and land face down on a pillow and moans as sharp pain shoots through my body, after the pain subsides I rethink about my dream and start to remember all the old thoughts. I remember all the friends I had, Jace Rakins, Mark Kin, Alice Onets, Axel Fisks and of course that girl I cant remember at all I wonder what she did for us but I do remember her being my first love and the smell of a flower garden. I then thought about all the fun we had when we older and how we all joined the army and the only one who came back from the war was that girl, but who was she?

I couldn't think much as I heard footsteps and I look around and see the room is dark except for a circular light in the middle of the room, and under it is a circular table with hooded figures sitting around it barley breathing and not moving or talking with there eyes shut and are sitting in a sleeping manner. And in walks another hooded figure and they sit on the edge of my bed, "well I see you are awake, how does your chest and stomach feel, if I may ask that is." The voice says and it sounds hollow and mechanical, "............. Kind of shit actually, who are you and how long have I been out?"  I ask sternly, the person stands up and bows and I notice the robe is a slightly brown shade then completely black like I thought it was. "If you must know I am Xian and I am a leader of this.......... establishment known as Ridner Ocoult, the true owner of the group is known as Rinder but as for this part of it, im the leader of it." Xian said to me and I slowly nod and then looked back at the people sitting at the table, "What about them, are they like followers of Ridner?" I asked and Xian shakes there hand and puts there hand on of there shoulder, "These are the elders who used to be the leader of us at one time, most are actually dead but are keep alive as long as they can using there own special powers."

They exclaims as I raise my eye brows and say, "Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, so anyways do you know what happened to Bruno, or even know who I am talking about?" Xian shakes there head and taps the table with its hand lightly and walks to the door, "No but by all the blood we found at the scene that didn't match anything at the general scene of the crime............ well you can put the rest together right?" They walks out the door and around the corner and I can hear there footsteps slowing fading out of my ears and I take a deep sigh and rolls over slowly and thinks of Bruno. I think of what might of happened to him while I was out cold, whats happening to him, if hes even alive anymore and his general location.