This is the Second chapter to the edited version of chapter one.
Irene Greves
Chapter two: Lullaby From the Grave
So then I was correct. Alexander was in love with me. How unfortunate... I stared soundlessly at the coblestone, saddened but dissapointed in Alexander.
"Is there not an entrance to the Labyrinth somewhere around here?" Alexander sensed my pity. I quickly hid it, changing my emotion to curiosity.
"Why do you want to know...?" I asked, looking him directly in the eye. He quickly avoided my choice of view. Is it not pitiful at how much Alexander appeared to have fallen for me? There was a small problem. I did, in fact, have feelings for him, but I could never love him. Not ever love him as much as he did me. That was what saddened me...
"For reasons unknown... please, Miss Irene, just tell me..." he slowed his pace. The Labyrinth was only as few feet away, when i stopped. Looking around carefully, I saw none, and continued. "Why did you stop?" he asked. As he had, I stopped again, dropping my arm to my side. I ran my fingers along the crack in the stone wall, feeling for the lock. I found it, and inserted my finger into the narrow, unseeable hole. The door opened, causing a loud scraping noise against the coblestone. Alexander jumped at it, nonexpecting the disturbing noise.
From within the Labyrinth, I heard singing. It sounded familiar. "Why are you singing...?" Alexander asked.
"I am not. It is not me..." As I said my words, the singing stoped, in odds enough, it continued as soon as I paused my speach. I knew the song. I had sung it before actually. When walking through the Labyrinth, I sung this song alot. It was the song mother used to sing to me as a child.
Spiders, Roaches, Lullabies,
Sing for them and all.
Mosters in the blackest night,
Following you and I.
Within it's walls,
The eye, it sees.
It watches over me.
Darkest Black,
Midest Night,
Day time kills them all.
Avoid the night,
They will come,
To take you back with them,
....to the castle raising beyond the sky...
Coming, they are...
Here they are...
Join them, you will see...
Within it's walls,
The eye, it sees.
It watches over me.
Darkest Black,
Midest Night,
Day time kills them all.
Spiders, Roaches, Lullabies,
Sing for them and all.
Mosters in the blackest night,
Following you and I.
Darkest Black,
Midest Night,
Day time kills them all.
I loved that song. Mother never sung it anymore. Not since I was the age of nine. It had been seven years ago. Almost half my life. That was a long while. I sighed, getting another pause of the song.
"You do have a very beautiful voce, Irene, but now is not the best of time to be singing..." He entered the labyrinth, me following. I knew that it was not I who was singing. But Alexander refused to believe it. We argued for a while about it, but I just did not say anything after he told me I was not sane. Far from being it if I did not think I was not the one singing. He said I was even moving my mouth with the words. "Irene, I did not mean it...!" he whined, trying to get me to speak. I refused, of course by ignoreing him, or at least appearing to. But that did not last very long.
"Why did you want to come to the Labyrinth?" I aked. We finally made it to the actual Labyrinth now. Thus meaning, there was a half-an-hour walk in a long hall-like way. I was suprised none had discovered it's presence. The wall was literally indestructable by human force. I was unsure of a vampire's. Maybe Nathaniel was able to tear the wall down.
"I just did not want to have to go to my Estate without being able to talk to you. I remeber hearing English voices when I had gotten lost yesterday. So i had assumed that The Labyrith must have been near..." He said unsure. Alexander was right, so I did not know what he was unsure about. i answered with an 'oh', and left it at that. You could not blame him for not liking home. I did not live there, but I surely did not like it very much. I would probably hate it if it was not for Joanna and Alexander. I had not really met many maids there, so I could not say much for them.
"Within it's walls...The eyes, it sees...It watches over me..." I followed the voice. I knew where it was leading me, but I followed anyways. The voice grew louder. The clouds darkened to a black. Nothing could be seen, but I held Alexander's hand, guiding him through my special, forgotten joy. Night was my favorite time to go through here. Morer as so when it is a new moon. "Coming they are...Here they are...Join them you will see...." I continued to follow. It was my voice. I was taken aback by it, now completely certain it was my own. I was, in fact, singing, but I certainly did not realize it. But in odds enough, I still followed for what seemed to be another being singing. The voice grew slightly distant, and continued to fade until I was at the one place I had not dared venture to go to since I was seven years old.
"Spiders, Roaches, Lullabies...Sing for them and all...Monsters in the blackest night...following you and I..." I started singing, hoping it would help me.
"I....rene...." The hand I was holding felt very bony all of a sudden. I looked back, there finally being a little light. What i saw shocked me more than terrifyied me. I jumped back, realizing that I was holding the had of a skeleton. "I am....so...." the skeleton spoke. A glowing red light eminated form the eyes, so I could tell where those were. I stared speachlessly at the thing that had Alexander's voice. "I am...dead? I think.....? I... I am... still walking....Is this hell or somehting...? Is the Labyrinth the enterance to hell...?"
"No, Alexander. Half-breeds are certianly not allowed here. Humans are, and Vampires... but not so as much you...." Nathaniel. His voice. But not his human formed voice. The voice he had in the form of that creature...
SHORT CHAPTER, I KNOW. BUT DEAL WITH IT, THAT IS, IF YOU LIKE IT.
WELL, OBVIOUSLY, TO BE CONTINUED...
IN CHAPTER THREE...
