Who is The Man Behind The Mask? (a Cryaotic Love Story)

Chapter 2: "It's Been a Week..."

*Real world*

"Daddy!" I screamed shooting my eyes open only being greeted by the darkness of the night. I rub my burning eyes from crying all through the night, I don't think I can take much more of this. It's been a week since my Dad Mark vanished, leaving to help save a kingdom in another world that I never knew about. I looked at my clock adjusting my eyes as I read 3:10am. I sat up feeling every inch of me ache in sadness. "Dad, I'm scared" I said to the darkness imagining Mark sitting next to me with his arm around my shoulders 

"theirs nothing to be afraid of, just laugh and the fear will go away" Mark's voice echoed through my room, remembering his words when I told him I was afraid of thunder. 

"I'll never let you go" His voice echoed through my room again as another memory flooded my thoughts of my first day of school with my arms wrapped around Mark.

I held my hand up slightly noticing how badly I was trembling, I quickly stood up and ran into my bathroom splashing cold water on my face feeling as a jolt of life rushed back into me. "hang in there" I whispered to myself "you can do this"

I left the bathroom and entered the dark hallway noticing a faint blue light coming from down the hall. I followed it to the living room where the living room television read "No Signal" in white letters on a blue T.V screen. The couch across from the television was occupied by sleeping Uncle Wade and the recliner next to it was occupied by Uncle Bob whose glasses sat crooked on his nose suggesting he forgot to take them off before he fell asleep, again.

I noticed that they both were shivering in their sleep, guess they fell asleep before getting sleeping stuff ready. I walked to the hallway closet and pulled out two blankets. I walked back to my sleeping Uncle's and draped a blanket each over their bodies. "I swear Uncle Wade, Aunt Molly is gonna have a fit if your dumb ass didn't tell her you were crashing here" I whispered knowing his snoring ass wouldn't hear me. I smiled knowing no matter how much I wanted to, I could never be mad at Wade and kissed his forehead "sweet dreams you idiot" I whispered with a smile, I then tiptoed over to Bob kissing his forehead too "take good care of him when I'm in Victubia, Wade would'nt be the same without you" Bob adjusted in his sleep scaring the hell out of me "sweet dreams, Uncle Bob" I said with a smile then crept back towards my room.

I stopped in the middle of the hall noticing a small figure slipping into my room. It's too small to be human and too big to be a rat but too small to be a dog. I slowly walked up to my door opening it as if a bomb would go off if I had opened it normally. The little white figure stood on my bed searching for something. I recognized the little figure from when I was small, I had a stuffed animal that looked exactly like it.

"A sup guy, Aunt Minx used to tell me stories about them" I whispered catching the little guys attention. I opened the door slowly stepping in "I'm not going to hurt you" I said sweetly "I just want to know why your in my room"

"I was sent here by my master" the sup guys voice was a sweet serious voice that I recognized, someone I once knew sounded exactly like this Sup guy... I just couldn't put my finger on it...

"My master Lord Cryaotic told me that if anything were to ever happen to him, I were to come here and retrieve Lady Eleanor" 

"who the hell is Lord Cryaotic?" I asked

Suddenly a duck flew through my open window landing on the floor in front of me "Lord Pewdiepie sent me to retrieve you Lady Eleanor"

"good God" I huffed "did they send the whole damn kingdom to come get me?!"

the sup guy shook his head "I don't believe so Lady Eleanor, but we must hurry. Everyone you hold dear to you is in danger, only you can save them"

I quickly gulped down all my fears and took in a deep breath "alright, take me to them"

the Sup guy nodded "hold out your wrist Lady Eleanor" he ordered.

I followed his orders and held my wrist out, the bracelet Mark placed on me before he left glowed purple but quickly stopped 

"good, the bracelet is in working order" the sup guy said "please Lady Eleanor, while in Victubia or in any world you cannot loose this bracelet, it holds a little of the queen's power allowing you to have the same power as the queen" the sup guy jumped into my extended hand and held his foot on the bracelet "I'm going to need you to place your other hand on your bracelet, close your eyes, and think about your first love. If its the right amount of love we need then we'll be able to get to my master and everyone else"

I had to think about this. My whole life my dad has been the only man in my life that I've loved. but... I feel like their was someone else... someone I knew before all of this...

"are you thinking?" the sup guy asked "we really don't have all day mam, we really need to hurry"

"I'm trying!" I said irritated "I can't remember!"

the sup guy shook his head "fine, I'll help you" he closed his eyes and I did the same.

In the darkness I saw a man and a little girl sitting in the middle of a meadow,a huge castle in the distance. The guy had brown shaggy hair and wore a white mask similar to the sup guys face over his face. the little girl had never seen his face, but they were still best friends.

"cry, read me a story!" the little girl chimed as her blue eyes glowed in excitement. She could tell that through the mask he was smiling "alright... but just this once" he picked up a book and flipped it open, he cleared his throat and began to read "once upon a time, their was a beautiful princess and she loved a man very much... when she was small, she always loved to meet this man in her favourite meadow and listen to him read to her. She loved the sound of his voice and how she wished she could listen to it forever... but her father did not want them to be together, he wanted the princess to have a normal life outside of Victubia, a place where the man couldn't go... so the girls father had the man erase her memories of victubia so she could live a life in the real world... but the man was sad because he loved the girl as much as she had loved him.  the princess grew up thinking she was in an accident, and that her father had adopted her. But, one day the girl came back-"

"because their love couldn't keep them apart?" the little girl asked him.

he slowly nodded, he smiled behind his mask as tears ran down his face past his mask. he ran his fingers through the girls hair "yeah, because the man was willing to do anything in his power to make the girl happy. even if that meant she wouldn't remember him" he looked back down at the book "the man and everyone she cared about was in danger, the girl regained her memories... she went to victubia, saved the kingdom, and the girl who once sat in the meadow listening to a man who hid behind a mask... lived happily ever after..." he closed the book looking up at the little girl who was crying

"don't cry..." The man said softly, he ran his fingers through her hair

"I don't ever want to forget you Cry..." she whispered as her dad walked up grabbing his daughter

"what are you telling my daughter?!" he asked infuriated "you used magic to tell her about the future?! how dare you do such a thing to her!"

Cry could've said said many hateful things back to him, he could've pointed out that the girl's father was the one doing all of this or that she did need to know before all of this happened.

"Cry, please don't let your feelings for my daughter get in the way of her happiness. You got the spell ready?" her father asked.

Cry nodded "yeah... I'll... do it right now" he raised his hands to cast the spell but the little girl grabbed his hands stopping him.

He looked down as his eyes met hers. "I promise Cry, I'll will find you" 

The little girl closed her eyes listening to his voice that she loved so much lead her into the emptiness of the darkness 

"I love you, my Eleanor" he whispered as everything went dark.

I can feel it, a throbbing pain in my chest. The feeling of heart break, the emptiness returns as I regain every memory from that day and the many before. "My name is Eleanor" I said out loud into the darkness "I grew up in Victubia until I was six years old, the man I was in love with goes by the name Cryaotic... and I'm hopelessly in love with him"