The Animation of Life

Chapter 1: Animated

Whenever I look at myself in the mirror I am always reminded of who I was. My life, my attitude, and my being. I am always reminded ... that I ... am the Hero of the world. That I am a man of great conviction. Brought up by meager folks yet trained in the way of the sword for the sake of glory. I will never falter! Courage will always be on my side. I yelled in my head as I slowly lifted my head from the mirror of my shield. Then I saw it.

I stood in front of the path of the beast. A large wolf like monster, with wings and three heads. It is dubbed as the Cerberus Ventus. The winged wolf of death. The akin son of the great beast Fenrir, The destroyer. I slowly eyed the beast as I reared myself for impact. I drew my blade from its sheath. The holy sword glowed in radiant beauty stunning me momentarily. I slowly steadied the sword on my right hand recovering from the momentary blunder I made. I felt my muscle flexing against the weight of the Holy sword. I reared myself ready for charge.

The Beast roared with great violence topling trees and mountains as it whipped its mighty tail against the earth. I swallowed hard. I was nervous yet strangely willing to fight this monstrous being. Suddenly I was filled with dread when the beast spotted me. It's eyes were like blood and its snout's denouted an anteaters'. I flexed my feet and ran towards the beast. Its head spewing poison and miasma all around it. It's teeth looked as sharp as tampered steel but I was ready, I was brave or so I say.

The ground shuddered as the beasts' claw and the blade of my sword made contact. The blade slicing through the beast, flesh, bone, and all. Everything was going well for me. Until everything turned to red. Blood was slowly dripping down on my face as I faced the beast and shuddered as my sister punched the daylights out of me.

"GRUGHLE ? FRUGHLE? WHAT?" I yelped. I violently scrambled from my bed, forcing myself to stand up-right at the sudden change of scenery. "Where was the monster? The Horizon? The Countryside? My blood?!?! " I panicked to myself. I grew weary of what was happening, my mind now in an endless loop of confusion.

"Shut up Syfu." A feminine yet demanding voice called out from behind me. Shocked by the sudden noise, I lurched forward and fell to the ground. My face taking the blunt of the fall.

"Ouch..." I said while I slowly collected myself. A heard a loud sigh at my back, Plutia. I remembered, My twin-sister, well ...older twin-sister if you count the fact that she got sired 10 mins earlier than me.

"Pluty, what was that? You half-scared me to death!" I said facing my sister. Irritated by the fact that she invaded the privacy of my room."Argh! Also didn't I tell you not to barge inside my room uninvited!" I continued.

"Syfu, shut up. Mom told me to come and get you. So get the hell up already and go downstairs... you have a visitor." 

She replied coldly. Ahh same old Plutia, as cold and as pretty as ever. If only you weren't my sister...

"I would've made love with you and make you bear my children!"

"A tough declaration for the twin brother, don't you agree Syfu?" A voice called up in front my door.

"WhaWha? No... Umm I was chanting a movie line ... uhh." I managed to reply at the voice. I was scared that it was Plutia since she can mimic voices so well. I was seriously considering running since whoever heard would use it against me.

"Yea we both know what you said was your desire, you just don't have the balls to do it." The voice replied as the speaker emerged from the doorway.

It was John, my bestfriend from University. He wore a simple red shirt with shorts making him look like a grandfather. He smirked at me and continued inside my room shutting the door behind him. I was so dumbstruck of what happened that I just stared at him for 30 seconds before finally snapping myself back to reality.

He was sitting on my bed cross legged as he examined a book from my shelf. The Island of Calpyso* a book that a certain Author wrote. It received a lot of criticism but in the end it's still one great book that would explain many things about dreams and realities, or so that's what I've read. I prompted myself next to him plopping myself on my bed. He just stared at me like he was waiting for something, which surprised and bewildered me since he came uninvited. Finally he broke the silence when my 7 o'clock alarm went off.

"Heh, you are one hell of a movie lover. So what did you call me for?" He said to me coldly. I sighed, thats why people call him Chaos**, its because he just does what he wants. Nothing tugged at my mind though. I didn't contact him nor anything like that so he must be getting delusional.

"Seriously why are you here?" I said not looking up and just shoved my face deeper on my pillow. A long cold sigh came from his direction. I looked at him wondering what kind of expression he would show on his face.

"Fine, have it your way... Ciao then." he said to me. My head was still shove inside my pillow but I managed to reply something. I was supposed to say "Adios ! Good Riddance." but it come out as "Aviyosh. good red ants." I heard a soft laughter from him.

"Fine then. See you in the university." He managed before I heard the doors of my room shut close with a soft bang. "Darn what is his deal anyway? That guy seriously has some issues..." I said to myself slowly closing my eyes so I could catch up with my sleep. Yeesh, stress really is something noteworthy. I was slowly drifting to sleep when another voice came from outside my door.

"Brother? Is he still there." Plutia, my sister, asking for John? Wow John must have done something serious to get... my sister's wrath... 

"No, he left 5 minutes ago." I replied irritated that someone is disturbing my sleep. I could still feel here outside that door standing, probably mad or something. Finally I heard her footsteps , leaving my door and me in peace.

*Chapter End*