The Lucky Ones

Chapter Nineteen: Side-Effect.

"Hello, Father..." I said, becoming nervous and a little frightened. Sans walked over to me and put an arm around my shoulders. He looked at the man and said "I swear to God, Ciano, if you try anything funny, I'll kill you faster than you can blink." Ciano snickered. "We'll see about that. But now that you're here, Salanta, let's get down to business.

He walked inside the Palace, and both me and Sans followed. I looked at the walls, recognizing the horrid place I remembered from my childhood. I made so many bad memories here, and rarely any good ones. Ciano walked up to a woman with almond-brown hair and pretty brown eyes.

Ciano said "Vikala, Salanta's here."

The woman turned out to be my mother.

She ran towards me and put her arms around me, embracing me in a tight hug. I only stood around awkwardly, waiting for the terrible hug to end. She let go of me, and looked at my eyes. I looked back at hers. She teared up and said "Salanta... You're home..! I... I-I've missed you so much! We have so much to catch up on, so much to talk about."

I examined her face. She hasn't aged a bit. She still looks twenty-four."

But that was natural for me. Kinishans stopped aging at twenty-four.

Vikala asked me "Is everything alright? You look a little... pale..." I shook my head and looked around. "I'm uh... fine.." I was SO uncomfortable talking to the people that hated me in the past, and most likely still do.

I glanced at Sans to find him glaring at Ciano with a look that seemed like he was going to murder him. I thought "Great. Father and Son-in-law problems. Considering this is their first time meeting."

I honestly wanted to go home. I didn't want to be here long, mainly because I didn't want to remember the past. I stared at a window at the end of the hall, and the sun was shining through it. That was one of the windows I used to look out of all the time when I was a little girl.

I then saw Vikala and Sans talking to me, standing right in front of my face. But they were blurry. Their talking was muffled. I couldn't hear a thing they were saying. I felt someone grab my shoulders, but just barely. Sans started shouting, but I still couldn't understand him.

Was this a side-effect of pregnancy? Was it the bad memories of Kinisha coming back to me? Was it some sort of gas that made me feel dizzy? I didn't know what was going on, but I couldn't get myself out of it. I tried to speak, but my lips didn't even twitch. My eyes started to close by themselves, and they eventually closed completely.

I felt Sans shaking me violently to make me snap out of it. But it didn't work. I could sense his face close to mine. He must have been kissing me.

But I couldn't kiss back. I couldn't do anything except breathe. And even doing that was hard. My steady breathing turned into wheezing. Sans was yelling louder now, and I could barely make out the words he was saying.

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HER?!"

Someone replied, too quiet for me to understand.

"YOU'RE FUCKING LYING!! SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY FINE BEFORE SHE CAME HERE!!"

Again, another muffled reply.

"OH, SHUT UP, CIANO!! THIS IS WHY I DIDN'T WANT HER TO COME HERE!! I KNEW YOU'D TRY TO DO SOMETHING TO HER!!"

The debate kept going back and forth, while I only heard half of it. Both Sans and Ciano started to yell loudly, so I could hear what they were saying.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR GOD DAMNED PROBLEM, CIANO?! I KNOW  YOU DID THIS!! DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING LIE TO ME, OR ELSE I'LL RIP YOUR HEART OUT AND FEED IT TO VIKALA!!"

"I DID NOT DO ANYTHING, SANS!! NO ONE DID!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH HER!! STOP CRITICIZING ME AND VIKALA! BECAUSE WE DID NOTHING!"

I wanted to stop them. But I couldn't. Sadly, but like usual, my mother joined into the fight. "ENOUGH!! BOTH OF YOU!! THIS FIGHTING IS GETTING YOU NO WHERE!!!" And I heard Sans scream at her, saying "OH SHUT THE FUCK UP, VIKALA!! YOU'RE PROBABLY PART OF THIS!!!"

That's what got my father to snap. I just barely opened my eyes, to see Ciano charging straight at Sans with a battle-cry. He rammed into Sans, shoving him back. He screamed "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COME  INTO OUR HOME AND ACCUSE US OF SOMETHING WE DIDN'T DO!!"

I started to see the glow of bright gold in Ciano's hands. But I couldn't see anything clearly. Not even close to clear.

And then I saw four white large beings appear behind Sans, each having two spots glowing neon blue on their foreheads. Gaster-blasters. I tried to move, but I still couldn't. I had to stop the feud, but how? I was completely useless.

Their screams drowned out, and it went back to muffles. My vision went back to black, and something else started.

I felt like I was being kicked in the stomach multiple times, and I actually thought it was either Sans, Vikala, or Ciano.

Trying to stop the pain any way I could, I could still hear the muffled screams, and see bright flashes through the blackness my eyes showed me. My mother was still holding me up, while trying to stop the men from killing each other.

The pain continued, along with the screaming and bright flashes. The flashes were either neon blue or gold. I assumed the neon blue flashes came from Sans and his gaster-blasters, and the gold flashes came from Ciano. How could I stop them? Try screaming? Try moving?

Sans was in a rage, and no one knew I was in pain. But the screaming and flashing stopped. I got the feeling that I was being watched by everyone in the room. I didn't exactly know, but I could feel something wet in between my thighs.

Extreme bleeding.

I felt sweat trickle down my forehead, and Sans picking me up. He rushed somewhere, and set me down on what I thought was a bed. It was soft and comfortable, probably the most comfortable bed I've felt in my entire life.

Someone was caressing my head, wiping away the sweat. The pains continued, and I couldn't hear a single sound, or feel a single feeling. All I felt now was the pain in my stomach.

And just like that, I felt like I was going into a sleep where I would never wake up.