Black Rose

It Has Begun

Alice grabs Heri and pulls him to the floor with her, a bullet grazing her shoulder and embedding itself in one of the reporter's stomach. The security shoots Ronnie in the arm, making him drop one of his guns and he roars in anger. The rest of the security goes to tackle him but he shoots one of them and then falls to the floor, rolling and running towards the two families, who are being ushered towards the fortified building. Some other reporters are reporting the scene, smiling, and others are chasing after the family, looking for refuge and a story. Before the families can enter the building, Ronnie reaches them, reaching out and grabbing someone, pulling them to himself. Chelsea screams in terror as she is yanked back and thrown to the floor, only to be picked up and held against Ronnie. "Stay back! Stay back or I swears to God I'm ganna fucking kill her." he yells out.

Everyone pauses, waiting in baited breath. "What do you want?" Mike asks, stepping forward slightly. Ronnie shoves the barrel of the gun under Chels' chin and growls,"Stay. All I want is those two little kids right there." he says gruffly. Mike frowns but it's Raphael who answers,"We can't do that sir. Please, just give us the child." he says softly. Ron yells and shouts,"Give them to me!!" he yells, cocking the gun. Before anyone can do anything, Alice steps forward, walking quickly to Ronnie's side and staring up at him, Heri following a split second after her. The man smirks, throwing Chelsea to her family and grabbing the other two. "NO! STOP HIM!" Ralph and Mike yell at the same time. Ron yells and throws down a random smoke bomb and they disappear into the air, a car speeding off a few seconds later. "What the hell are you guys waiting for?! Follow them!!" Mike yells. In another second, the place descends into movement and everyone starts to move. A minute later, a reporter walks up to Ralph and Mike, the camera behind her getting a close up. "Sirs, will you two please tell the viewers how you feel about getting your children back, only to have them snatched away at a second's notice again?" she asks, holding the mic out to them. The two sneer at her and walk away, walking into their building to join the rest of their family.

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"You two really shouldn't be alive. Why do you get to live but all those others were killed, or their childhood stolen from them and they're already in adulthood." Ronnie mumbles out as he hightails it out of the area. They get on the freeway and start driving, the car silent between the three people. they travel like that for a long while, no one really talking and Ronnie on;y letting them out of the car to use the restroom, him giving them food and water in the car and nothing else. During that time, Heri and Alice silently communicate, them having earned to do so while they were with the Dr. They converse on the irony of the whole situation. The one person they were going to know being killed in front of them and their father meeting up with them a few weeks later. How amusing it is indeed. 

On the third night of traveling, Ronnie stops at a remote cabin in the mountains and lets them inside. "You don't have to worry. I'm not like that sicko bastard who used kids for his enjoyment. I wont touch you two in any wrong way of nothin'." he says after a while of watching the two children survey the place. The both turn to him,"Then what do you plan to do with us? Kill? beat us?" Alice asks. Ronnie closes the door stiffly, walking further in and gesturing for the children to follow. Once he's inside the living room and he's sitting on the couch, the two children standing in front of him, he leans back, smiling. "I was thinking of doing that, yeah. Take you away from your parent's just like Link was taken from me. But then I though, 'What a waste.' And so now, you two are now my children. I'm your daddy now. Sorry to say you don't have a mommy, Link's mom died in child birth, it was always just me and him. But now that he's gone, guess it'll just be us three." he says, smiling at the two.

Heri and Alice blink,"But I don't want you as my dad. I like the one I have just fine." Heri says. Ronnie's smile falls and he leans forward, grabbing Heri's arm and pulling him to stand between his legs. "Listen boy, the family you know now is only this one. You, me, and your sister. That's the only thing that matters, nothing else. You hear me?" he growls out low. Heri gulps and nods, stepping back and holding Alice's hand when he's released. Ron nods, sitting back and smiling again,"Good. Now you two go and play. Don't leave the house though, and I'll call you guys when it's time for dinner." he says, smiling at his two children. The two nod at him and walk away, walking up the stairs and entering a room. "Don't enter the room that's at the end of the hallway. That's Daddy's room." Ron calls out after them, right before movement is heard downstairs. Heri and Alice go into a random room, closing the door behind them. When that's done, Alice bursts out laughing, shocking Heriel. "What's funny?" he asks.

Alice shakes her head and sits on the floor,"It's just funny how he wanted to kill us and now he's trying to be our father. How does that even work?" she says, giggling. Heriel smiles and shakes his head, then frowns. "I know we met i a bad situation but...I'm glad I met you" he says, smiling again. Alice nods,"The same to you. Friend." she says. The rest of the time is spent as they quietly converse on how they plan to leave. At exactly 6:00, Ronnie walks in, smiling," Dinner's ready. Go wash up and come down to the dinning room." he says, leaving the door open and walking away. The two follow his directions, coming down a few minutes later and finding the dining room next to the kitchen and they enter. They see spaghetti and meatballs on a long four sitter table, with Ronnie sitting one end of the table. "Sit. If Link were alive he would've been here too. Now let's eat."he says, smiling as the children sit and start to eat. The dinner is quiet, and soon, Heri and Alice notice something is off. "What did you put in this?" Alice asks, pushing the food away from her. 

Ronnie smiles,"Nothing. Just a little something to make sure you two won't be getting the idea to leave tonight. We'll be staying here for the time being, no one knows where this place is and won't be able to find it unless you knew it existed before. We'll be together from now on, and I'll even home school you when the time comes. For now, you two just relax and enjoy yourselves." Heri and Alice slump in their chairs a moment after, Ronnie smiling at the two children. He then gets up and picks each of them up, one in each arm, and walks up the stairs, taking them to a room filled with plushies and painted purples. "This is your room Alice, ain't it nice? Your momma and I had always planned on having another child after link and we planned a little too ahead but now, we finally have use for it." he says, laying Alice down onto the soft bed. After he tucks her in, he takes Heri to another bedroom, one across from Alice's and lays him in bed, smiling down at the boy and tucking him in also. After that, he walks to the end of the hallway, entering the room and closing the door softly behind himself.

"Don't worry babes. We'll have a great time together. You'll see." the man says to himself before drifting off to sleep.

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~Somewhere in a distant realm~

"Ready the people. We'll be taking the child soon." a woman's voice says. "Yes Mistress." another says, this one softer and higher pitched. The owner of the first voice shifts, walking into the light of the torch lit room, revealing a woman with Gothic type clothes, her lips shinning a deep, dark wine red. Her eyes shine in the light, a mythical reddish yellow and her pupils slit like a cat instead of a normal circle. She looks into a big crystal ball that resides at the center of the room, it being the master piece of the whole room. A scene plays within the ball, and the seer smiles at the scene. "Rest child. You have much work ahead o you. You, are our liberator."

With that, the woman leaves the room, walking down a long hallway that has gold and diamonds engraved within the walls and the floors. Turing a corner, she comes upon guard soldiers dressed in white and gold, lower level. Each, upon noticing her presence stiffen up and stand at alert, watching her from the corner of their eyes without looking directly at her. Smiling, the woman walks down the row, having a secret agenda but that has business elsewhere. Like clockwork, as she passes, each of the guards hit their left fist to their right chest and kneel, bowing their head low. Nodding in approval, she walks passed them and enters a room through double doors, coming out of the building on a balcony. People stand before her on the lower ground, all looking up to her as she clears her throat to speak.

"My people. The time for our liberation draws near. The child of Saturnia will be reaching her prime years in just a few days from now. We must prepare for both her retrieval, and for the war that awaits her once she arrives. now, my people, this is what we have been waiting for, for over a millennia. Let us rejoice and thank Oracle's Knight for the prophecy." she says, and the people bow in a wave, a murmur going through the crowd as they speak in their native tongue. The woman bows down too, and smiles in victory, closing her eyes.

 "Mora-una geno-frur, vanul. Gar gun mo u-on-earoxd gonom daun."(1) she whispers out.

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(1) "Prepare  yourself, child. The day of awakening draws near."

So this is most likely not a real language, and as you may see, I am now introducing other worldly characters, since what Alice has is other worldly. Ta-da, the plot thickens. This language will be called...I'll figure that out and write it in the next chapter. Hazza, this is finally going somewhere again. HA HA HA HA.