Vengeance Full of Love

CHAPTER 1 "The Terrible Dream"

Jasper’s perspective

“You’re not safe here anymore son. So run now until there’s still such time!!!” my mother Bennett Anderson said gasping for air. She had been running to reach my place just to tell me that I am not safe here at our OWN house anymore. How could that be???

“But Mom! How about you and Cindy and Daddy Park?! I mean what on earth is happening?!” she just sat there besides me giving me that full-of-omen look. She is about to say something but a very loud explosion came out from nowhere. She reluctantly stands up from the floor we are sitting in and dragged me to our bushy backyard. From the hold she is giving me, I reckon that she is quavering because of anticipation, I guess.

We stop in the mini gate of our backyard that serves as a substitute for the main entrance to our house every time she forgets her key. It also helps me together with my little sister Cindy to get out subconsciously every time we want to hang out outside but our parents reprimand us. It makes everything clear as crystal now. Why would my mother shoo me away from them and from this house?!

I wriggled away from her grip and faced her with a questioning look knowing that she did not yet answer my question a minute a go. “Mom, you haven’t yet answered my question a while a back? What is happening?” but then again, like what she did earlier, she just stood there facing me with a blank grim. Man, I could not even predict what she is thinking!

“Mom…” I was stopped in saying the next words upon hearing another explosion. This time it’s not just loud, but very loud. I saw how the poker face of my mother changed into something…worried. I cannot quite understand how those explosions affect my mother’s feeling. But I am quite sure in one positive yet negative thing, something is drastic here. And I am neither going anywhere nor scampering out just because it scared the hell out of me, unless I learn the cause.

“There is no time left Jasper Pete Anderson! You must go or you will be punish until you…diminish!” she said as if she did read my mind. I shook my head for disagreement. “No I am not going anywhere! I will not let you be toasted from those bombs, I do not know if they are really bombs, explosion! You need me so I will stay!” I mumbled back with a higher degree of pitch that shows how serious I am when I said that. She, again, shook her head and gripped my hands again. This time it is tighter.

We simultaneously ran outside with air ravishing our hairs. Upon stepping my feet into the outside ground, I immediately recognized how destructed our city was. What really is happening?! This morning I was just eating my breakfast but after how many hours, just for how many hours for Zeus’s sake, it all happened fast. The last time I checked the park, it was still perfect. But now, it became ‘imperfectly imperfect’ because nothing, as in nothing, left. Not even the seesaw which I used yesterday. Perfect, we’re really doomed!

My mother came into a halt as if she smells something…horrible. I, too, smell that and it is disgustingly nausea tic. It makes me want to puke. But after a second or two, that smell gone. So my mother pulled me again without me knowing the rendezvous. After a very fast running, thank God we’re he… God, what is this?!

I was pulled a back when I saw where we were. Well, we are just now standing in an oval-shaped lake with images in its water. There are many images in there and most of them are blurry because probably the water is heaving. I put my sight to my mother who is now saying something obscure. It is like as if she is putting a spell. I came near her just to hear the words she is saying. “…Avelo reduncio, Portalejo” she, then, clasped her hand into a tight fist then opened it after with a splashing color blue light in between her hands. She threw it into the water then a portal-like mirror suddenly appeared. The direction of that mirror was focused on me.

“What kind of sizzle bugle is this?! Am I dreaming?!” I asked while looking at the mirror then to my mother. She smiled to me and ravished my hair. No, it cannot be! Why would she ravish my hair?! Whenever she does that, every time she wants to say goodbye and I do not want to leave her, and Cindy and Daddy Park, not yet!

I was about to put down her hands when she immediately place it into my eyes and closed it unexpectedly. I want to open it but to my dismay, it can’t. Is this really my mother? Or she was just some kind of cult? Of course, my mother wouldn’t be like this. Not now or tomorrow or not even the last years of her life. I would gladly appreciate the GRO’s but not this one.

“Mom!!!!” I shouted her name from the top of my lungs but then she heaved an air to my nose making me quiet and tranquil. After how many minutes she finally said, “Do not hate us Jasper. We are just helping you for you will be the one to save our world. I know you are bewildered by what you saw and I know it kills your curiosity…” she stopped as if perceiving danger then she continued, “I won’t make it farther now. Just believe in your heart for it will settle every grievance you are encountering right now. Be sure to thank Adulla for she makes your life longer. Be back, okay? We are all waiting for you.” And then after that, she kissed me in the forehead.

“Someday in the right time, together with the right persons, you will surely know everything…” she lastly said before blowing me into the mirror of cascades.

As the darkness lengthens, my heartbeats became more rapid as if I am traveling into something I do not know where. The city I grew up with became smaller, and smaller, and smaller from my sight until it was all gone.