Black Rose

The Awakening

Heavy breaths. Foot steps pounding onto the forest floor. All of this heavy in the early morning air. Alice and Heri jump over a log at the same time, vaulting over it like they're at the Olympics, and they continue their mad dash for the main road. Neither of the same anything. They move in sync and understand each other with the slightest change of body movement. It's the morning after they were taken and drugged to sleep. Somehow, they were able to wake up before Ronnie and took that chance to leave the house. Stupidly, Ronnie thought the drug would keep them asleep long into evening and let himself sleep in. Foolish thinking, considering the two's background. 

After about thirty minutes of running, they enter into the dirt streets, stopping minutely to catch their breath. "Where from here?" Alice asks, frowning slightly. "Didn't we come from there?" Heriel asks, pointing to the right of the road. "the windows were dark. Couldn't see. Wait a minute...This...this is fake. There's no road here. I..We went in a bloody circle." Alice responds. 

"What do you mean?"

"This is the exact same tree we passed a couple of minutes ago. I don't know how, but we're back to where we started." she explains, pointing to a tree that is slightly red at the bark. "And it's a good ting too. I was worried sick about you two. Who said you could run off?" Ronnie says, appearing out of nowhere and grabbing Alice and Heri by the back of their collars. The two children jump but don't get time to do much else as they are dragged back to the house. "Get yourselves upstairs and bathe. You will be punished after breakfast."Ron says, pushing the two towards the stairs. Heriel turns around and scowls; he's gotten bolder in his time spent with Alice and her family, plus his parents. "Thought you weren't like Dr. Elkins. Seems you two are just the same. Kidnapping children to get your rocks off."he says, sneering. That earns him a slap to the face and Alice quickly draws him away from Ronnie. "You don't speak to your daddy like that boy.And don't you ever compare me to that low life, human scum, you hear? Now get goin' and do as I say." the man growls out. 

Alice frowns at him but pulls herself and Heri away from the man and walks upstairs, deciding to follow what the man says and see where it leads them. "You do realize we can't trust his food right? I mean, he drugged us last time." Her says as they brush their teeth."Duh. But today I'll be more careful in watching the food. Come on. let's go." Alice says, them finishing off brushing their teeth, quickly changing out of their pj's and into some shorts and a tank top, and going back downstairs. They walk in on Ronnie, just as he's finished laying down the materials for breakfast and he looks at them, frowning. "You didn't bathe like I told you..."

"Considering last time, we don't particularly trust you to actually make food that's not drugged for us."Alice quickly replies. Ron huffs but nods and goes about making egg, bacon, and grits, the children watching him the whole time. Once the food is ready, they eat silently, Ron staring at the two children with an analytical look. After the food, he ushers them into the loving room and makes them kneel in front of the couch, sitting himself down on the couch in front of them. "Now then, for you two to try and run away from Daddy was not very nice. You gave me a heart attack and if I din't do that road marking, you two would've been lost in the forest. Then who knows what would've happened to you." he starts off, his tone soft. The children stare at him. And he stares right back. After a full minute, he sighs and stands, removing his belt. "Heri, since you're older,you'll be going first. Stand up and bend over the arm of the couch." the man says, walking to stay by said place and looking to the boy. Heri blinks, opening his mouth to say something but he closes it and does as told.

It comes as an unexpected suspected note that Ron reaches over and yanks the boy's pants down and lays on a heavy swipe of the belt. Alice and Heri both flinch at the sound. He has no time to recover as the next one hits in quick succession. And the next. And the next. The pain is almost unbearable. Close to that of what Elkins gave him but way far off into the distance. Heriel gets 20 strokes, and by the end of it, his butt is a fiery red. Alice is next, but hers is 15. After all that is said and done, Ron looks at them, the two kneeling in front of him again. "Don't run off again, cause the next time, I won't be so nice or generous. Now leave my sight, I have work to do. You can play in the back garden, and do not leave the premise. I will know if you do and I will be much worse than now."he says, standing before them with a glare on his face. Alice and Heri run off to the back garden, not wanting to be in the same place as Ronnie. 

"The asshole. Who the hell does he think he is, calling himself our daddy. Where the hell are our parents anyway?" Heriel says as soon as the door closes, kicking some bushes a few steps away. Alice sighs and shrugs, going to sit by the fountain a few ways away from him. "Just calm yourself. At least he did'n't touch us. I think that loosing Link was what drove him off the deep end. He just wants a family. No matter how he can get it." she says, closing her eyes and leaning back onto the lip of the fountain. Heri huffs, starting to walk around and explore the place."Yeah well. Still. I don't like it. We should do something."

"We can find a way to send an SOS. But we'll have to gain his trust somehow for him to allow us more leverage in walking around the house and not drugging our food at night. Even if he did it once, I feel like he'll do it again today. For now, we conform. Later, we rebel." Alice says, standing and starting to walk around too. Heri makes a noise of agreement and starts to play with a little bug he found on the floor as Alice moves around behind him. She walks into another part of the garden, blinking when she sees a stone fountain, encrusted with leaves and moss with a blue crystal stone at the top of it. Walking closer, Alice sees some ruins etched into the bowl and the stone around it and she blinks at them, something deep within her stirring. 'What the hell?' she thinks to herself. 

"No. Not hell. Your awakening, and my liberty." a voice within her answers.

~~Into the realm again~~

The woman watches the crystal ball as it shows her Alice and what she's doing. "She's close now. It's time. Zula. Awaken her spirit, and let Saturnia rise." someone says, the voice a thousand whispers. The woman now dubbed as Zula smirks, kneeling. "Yes, master." she says. then her face straightens as she removes her hood and starts to speak in native tongue. 

"Vanul, geno• gola num vela. Dru-anap geno• vanna, urs geno• tradon• pa orah. Fa-hur, Fusun-unu. Fa-hur ge geno• vammar url unu-har nan fanoni.(1)" she says, and immediate after, the crystal shines bright enough to throw the whole room into a blinding blue light.

~~Back to Alice and Heri~~

Heri dashes to Alice's side when he hears her cry out and he sees her slumped to the floor, marking on her skin glowing a piercing blue."Alice, what? What's happening?" he whispers fiercely, trying not to draw Ronnie out. Alice gasps,"I don't know. It hurts. God, it hurts." she groans out, tears prickling her eyes and her sobbing softly. In another second, the tears are gone and her face is emotionless. She stares straight into Heri's eyes and snarls,

"Gas u-ono•• orel ta, gen• on-ri-an mod!(2)"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(1) Child, your time has come. Release your chains, let your memory be free. Speak, Saturnia. Speak to your vessel and awaken her spirit.

(2) Get away from me, you filthy pig!

Sigh. Translating is so hard. Y'all don't know this but know this now, I'm not stringing a bunch of random letters together, somewhat, and calling it....whatever name I'll be calling it. I am taking letters and turning into those words. And man, that ish is hard! gotta find which letters sound least weird to put with each other. Honestly. I didn't plan this, but here my brain goes again. And can I just say... TWO UPDATES in ONE day? For me? Looks like I'll be updating more now that i's the end o the school year. YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY. HUZAAAAAAAA. Make sure to cote and comment if you please. Tank you, and goodnight.